Helen Thomas Moving Back After 46 Years Down Front

The Politico ^ | 2/20/07 | Mike Allen

[redstates4ever]

Every theater-style seat in the White House briefing room, now closed for renovation, had a brass plaque inscribed with the name of a news organization. Only one, in the middle of the front row, had a name: “HELEN THOMAS,” it said. The unique assigned seat between the chairs for CBS News and ABC News was reserved for the legendary United Press International correspondent who is now a columnist for Hearst Newspapers. The press corps is scheduled to move from temporary facilities back into the spiffed-up, rewired briefing room in May or June. Thomas, who has been questioning presidents and press secretaries for 46 years, plans to be there. But her front-row seat won’t be. Plans call for her to be moved to the second row to make room for a cable news channel – a sign of Washington’s changing pecking order, and of the new ways that Americans get their news.

“I didn’t think I had a monopoly on that seat,” Thomas, 86, said in a telephone interview. “Since my peers have decided that I don’t belong there, I’ll bow to their – I’ll drink the – What did Socrates drink?” Hemlock? “I’ll drink it,” she said.

[redstates4ever]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

“Since my peers have decided that I don’t belong there, I’ll bow to their – I’ll drink the – What did Socrates drink?” Hemlock?

You should know what Socrates drank, Helen. You were there.

[sure_fine]

well, there went breakfast

[camle]

they probably just wanted Tony Snow to be able to keep his lunch down, not having that staring at him all the time...

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL!

[Tribune7]

ouch!

LOL

[mainepatsfan]

She was probably the reason he didn't mind drinking it.

[frogjerk]

“I didn’t think I had a monopoly on that seat,” Thomas, 86, said in a telephone interview

What an ugly lie.

[neodad]

Plans call for her to be moved to the second row to make room for a cable news channel

Please be Fox. That would be an insult.

[Veggie Todd]

When I opening this link, I was praying there were no pictures. My scream woke the whole house.

[coloradan]

Aw, c'mon. You knew there would be a picture.

[redstates4ever]

"When I opening this link, I was praying there were no pictures. My scream woke the whole house."

LOL, sorry! :-)

[DogBarkTree]

Hey Helen, put your false teeth in backwards and bite yourself to death.

[frogjerk]

I pointed out that there is a school of thought that questions are worth asking even if the president won’t answer them. “At least the public’ll know you’re doing your job,” she said. “Questions should be out there, because the American people have seen us become so compliant and complicit. You were there for the run-up to the war. Where were the questions? Who asked why, what, what do you mean? We drop bombs and we accuse the enemy of meddling? We attack a country that did nothing on us? We dropped bombs on innocent people and started this war. You were there. Nobody said why.” When she paused and I filled the silence with “fascinating,” she continued: “It isn’t fascinating. It’s rid– it’s, it’s sad.”

Please give me a break!

Where is the BARF ALERT for this sickening navel gazing story?

[ShawTaylor]

"“I didn’t think I had a monopoly on that seat,” Thomas, 86, said in a telephone interview. “Since my peers have decided that I don’t belong there, I’ll bow to their – I’ll drink the – What did Socrates drink?” Hemlock? “I’ll drink it,” she said."

If you don't think you have a monopoly on that seat, how come you think being moved from that seat is like drinking poison then? Sounds like you think you own that seat to me.
How about spinning us another tale loser?
Real question, why this ancient ruin is still stinking up the White House.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Even in making a trivial comment, liberals cannot bring themselves to tell the truth.

It's usually the small things that reveal one's character.

[Rick.Donaldson]

All I can think of when seeing that picture is...


"I'll get you, me pretty... and your little DOG TOO!"

[ErnBatavia]

She's got that "come hither" look about her...complete with flashing a little leg.

[COUNTrecount]

Why so many empty seats around Helen?