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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

We go now from this place, some to their homes, others to drink hemlock, and wise men cannot say for sooth which is better.

Helen of UPI. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?

[Teacher317]

“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

Classier response than I expected. Good for her.

[BluH2o]

Please be Fox. That would be an insult.

A plush chair on the front row, where Helen's chair use to be, with Brit Hulme's name on a brass nameplate.

[AmericaUnited]

The ugliness on the inside far exceeds the ugliness on the outside.

[Gorzaloon]

Why so many empty seats around Helen?

Everyone ran home because they suddenly remembered the cat litterbox needs changing.

[texas_mrs]

ug·ly [ úgglee ] (comparative ug·li·er, superlative
ug·li·est)


adjective
Definition:
1.

2. unattractive: lacking appealing physical features, especially facial ones
one of the ugliest cities in Europe
He was an exceedingly ugly man, and the painter didn't attempt to disguise the fact.

3. potentially violent: having the potential to result in violence or hostility an ugly mood

4. unpleasant: generally unpleasant or objectionable, or morally repulsive
a dull ugly afternoon
Ugly rumors have been circulating about her private life.

5. Southern U.S. ill-mannered: discourteous or rude

[13th century. >Old Norse uggligr "frightful" < uggr "fear"]
ug·li·ly adverb
ug·li·ness noun

[Suzy Quzy]

The others VOTED on it???? LOL!! That HAD to hurt, poor Hellie!!

[Carl LaFong]

Dat woman so ugly--she went to a haunted house and came out with an application.

[SMM48]

Helen of UPI. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?

A face that could stop a freight train!

Why the second row? Why not in the SRO section?

[b4its2late]

I'm sure those in the second row will be happy to have her... cough, cough....

[b4its2late]

A face that could stop a freight train!

Or at least make it take a dirt road.

[the OlLine Rebel]

(I'm waiting for this to be 1 of the scariest threads ever....)

[vox humana]

A face that could stop a freight train!

A face that is a train wreck.

[reagan_fanatic]

Just die already, you fossilized, hateful old windbag.

[machogirl]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Redleg Duke]

Hell, she mixed it up for him!

[Beckwith]

Why so many empty seats around Helen?

Flatulence!

[ErnBatavia]

See 34...she is definitely squeezing one off.

[AndyTheBear]

Yes it seems she is more interested in pushing her conclusions then asking questions. Least of all does she show interest in objectively pursuing truth.

[IamConservative]

If I recall correctly, didn't the administration move her to the second row very early in the first term? She made a big fuss and some time later they returned her to her "throne" as it were..