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Five Minutes With: Helen Thomas [every time Rumsfeld briefs, it’s baloney!....]
Campus Progress ^
Posted on 03/01/2006 1:44:57 PM PST by 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 didnt 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?
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moonbat...
To: Sub-Driver; All
Attention there is no picture rule.
Repeat: There is no picture rule
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:48:35 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
To: Sub-Driver
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."
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:49:21 PM PST
by
OldPossum
To: Sub-Driver
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!
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:49:22 PM PST
by
danbo
To: Sub-Driver
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?
To: Sub-Driver
Q to Helen Thomas:What do you want to be remembered for? A:As a fair reporter Sorry Helen. No dice.
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:50:29 PM PST
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: Sub-Driver
Wasn't she there when Linclon announced he'd run for a second term?
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:51:59 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: Sub-Driver
Wasn't she there when Lincoln announced he'd run for a second term?
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:52:20 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: Gay State Conservative
Man...that's just wrong. Now I am going to have to wash my mind out from that terrible visual.
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:52:24 PM PST
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
To: danbo
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.
To: SkyDancer
Dude, Helen was the chick that gave Brutus the knife...forget Cassius.
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:53:41 PM PST
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
To: in hoc signo vinces
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! ;-)
To: Gay State Conservative
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.
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:54:48 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
To: Sub-Driver
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?)
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:56:39 PM PST
by
Lekker 1
("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
To: Sub-Driver
Iconic Face? That is what it is called?
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:57:38 PM PST
by
msnimje
(SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
To: HEY4QDEMS
oops.
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:58:12 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
To: danbo
"Good Grief. That must've been some fur coat!"
It was actually made from a Wooly Mammoth.
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:58:40 PM PST
by
mothball
To: Sub-Driver
"I think that theres 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.
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:59:22 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
To: Sub-Driver
... 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
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:59:28 PM PST
by
lpeterboyd
(nemo me impune lacessit)
To: mothball
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posted on
03/01/2006 1:59:59 PM PST
by
danbo
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