Five Minutes With: Helen Thomas [every time Rumsfeld briefs, it’s baloney!....]

Campus Progress ^

[Sub-Driver]

Five Minutes With: Helen Thomas

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Helen Thomas has been an iconic face in the White House press room for decades. She covered an unprecedented nine presidential administrations while gaining a reputation as a thoughtful, tough reporter. While working for United Press International for 57 years, Thomas took on the boys’ club of political journalism, becoming the only female print journalist to travel with President Nixon to China and the first woman to hold posts in the White House Correspondents’ Association and the National Press Club. Though Thomas proudly sat in the front row of the press room for decades, she was moved to the back in 2003 by a Bush Administration that she frequently peppered with critical and challenging questions, and has been called on less and less frequently because, she speculates, “they didn’t like me … I ask too mean questions.” She is now a regular columnist for Hearst.

Helen Thomas visited our offices for a panel on civil rights, arriving in a fur coat that swallowed up her tiny frame. Campus Progress sat down with the “first lady of the press” over a cup of very black coffee to talk about women journalists, comparing wars, and undying curiosity.

Helen Thomas Do you have any advice for young journalists?

[Sub-Driver]

moonbat...

[HEY4QDEMS]

Attention there is no picture rule.

Repeat: There is no picture rule

[OldPossum]

Helen Thomas Do you have any advice for young journalists?

If she were at all introspective (and I doubt that), she would answer, "Yes, know when to quit."

[danbo]

Helen Thomas visited our offices for a panel on civil rights, arriving in a fur coat that swallowed up her tiny frame.

Good Grief. That must've been some fur coat!

[Gay State Conservative]

Campus Progress sat down with the “first lady of the press” over a cup of very black coffee to talk about women journalists...

Are we *certain* that Thomas is the First Lady of the Press? I mean,has anyone ever looked under that skirt?

[domenad]

Q to Helen Thomas:What do you want to be remembered for? A:As a fair reporter Sorry Helen. No dice.

[SkyDancer]

Wasn't she there when Linclon announced he'd run for a second term?

[SkyDancer]

Wasn't she there when Lincoln announced he'd run for a second term?

[in hoc signo vinces]

Man...that's just wrong. Now I am going to have to wash my mind out from that terrible visual.

[Gay State Conservative]

Helen Thomas visited our offices for a panel on civil rights, arriving in a fur coat that swallowed up her tiny frame.

And not a PETA protester in sight.I guess that in the eyes of PETA,some folks are more equal than others.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Dude, Helen was the chick that gave Brutus the knife...forget Cassius.

[Gay State Conservative]

Man...that's just wrong. Now I am going to have to wash my mind out from that terrible visual.

Hey,my job here is to ask the *tough* questions! ;-)

[HEY4QDEMS]

I guess that in the eyes of PETA,some folks are more equal than others

You betcha, notice how you never see them harassing bikers in leather.

[Lekker 1]

Helen Thomas, Do you have any advice for young journalists?

Yeah, get a real job. There is no future market for journalists (oops, did I say that outloud?)

[msnimje]

Iconic Face? That is what it is called?

[reagan_fanatic]

oops.

[mothball]

"Good Grief. That must've been some fur coat!"

It was actually made from a Wooly Mammoth.

[jazusamo]

"I think that there’s a real deterioration in journalism."

LMAO!

Thomas finally got something right. Journalists now only report on what they think is important and if they don't agree with an event they'll report on what they "think" happened.

[lpeterboyd]

... she was moved to the back in 2003 by a Bush Administration that she frequently peppered with critical and challenging questions

except that there's a chair in the front row of the briefing room with her name on it, permanently reserved for her

[danbo]

Good point.