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Helen Thomas Moving Back After 46 Years Down Front
The Politico ^ | 2/20/07 | Mike Allen

Posted on 02/21/2007 6:32:21 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: diealready; fugly; helenthomas; hotnewsbabe; jihad; lebanon; oldbattleaxe
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To: ErnBatavia
See 34...she is definitely squeezing one off.

I haven't trusted a fart since I was 40 years old. I'm not sure I would want to sit in that seat!!!

41 posted on 02/21/2007 7:58:54 AM PST by IamConservative (Any man who agrees with you on everything, will lie to anyone.)
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To: IamConservative; SortaBichy; Allegra

Worried it's gonna go "Shart" on ya, eh?


42 posted on 02/21/2007 8:00:57 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: ErnBatavia
Worried it's gonna go "Shart" on ya, eh?

Exactly. Two rules to live by for middle aged men.

1) Never trust a fart.

2) Never pass up a chance to take a leak.

43 posted on 02/21/2007 8:05:11 AM PST by IamConservative (Any man who agrees with you on everything, will lie to anyone.)
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To: redstates4ever

Why isn't she retired? That's what I want to know.


44 posted on 02/21/2007 8:06:45 AM PST by RockinRight (When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night, he checks under the bed for Jack Bauer.)
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To: texas_mrs

The simple definition of ugly: HELEN THOMAS


45 posted on 02/21/2007 8:15:54 AM PST by hdstmf
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To: redstates4ever

Wonder what she looked like 46 years ago? Can anyone dig up a photo?


46 posted on 02/21/2007 8:17:43 AM PST by Pure Country
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

She is very hard to look at but INSIDE she is much, much worse!


47 posted on 02/21/2007 8:20:29 AM PST by PISANO
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To: ErnBatavia; Beckwith

That is one of the most frightening pictures I've ever seen. Deadlier than mustard gas, no doubt.


48 posted on 02/21/2007 8:25:40 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
You should know what Socrates drank, Helen. You were there.

ROFL!

49 posted on 02/21/2007 8:30:14 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Whatever she drank it sure didnt help her looks or demeanor


50 posted on 02/21/2007 8:44:32 AM PST by woofie
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To: woofie
Whatever she drank it sure didn't help her looks or demeanor

De more she drinks, demeanor she looks.

51 posted on 02/21/2007 8:53:01 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: neodad

It probably is, or they would have mentioned the name of the network. That's the way the MSM works.


52 posted on 02/21/2007 8:53:32 AM PST by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

LOL


53 posted on 02/21/2007 8:58:08 AM PST by woofie
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To: Pure Country
"Wonder what she looked like 46 years ago? Can anyone dig up a photo?" It was actually young once. Still had the same nose, though.
54 posted on 02/21/2007 9:01:35 AM PST by redstates4ever
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

55 posted on 02/21/2007 9:03:07 AM PST by redstates4ever
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I don't know if describing Helen's recent changes as being "no longer down in front" is exactly correct .....


Seems like lots of her (recent changes) are definitely even more "down in front" than they ever were ...
56 posted on 02/21/2007 9:06:17 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Helen of UPI. Is this the face that launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium?

Please. Please. Please. Some restraint here.

DO NOT, udder any circumstances, EVER use the words "Helen Thomas" and "topless" in the same sentence.
57 posted on 02/21/2007 9:09:08 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Beckwith

Couldn't be. If HT was passing gas, there would most likely be fatalities involved.


58 posted on 02/21/2007 11:09:32 AM PST by seanmerc
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To: sure_fine

Lunch, in this time zone...


59 posted on 02/21/2007 11:11:25 AM PST by seanmerc
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To: frogjerk

A reflection of its author?


60 posted on 02/21/2007 11:12:24 AM PST by seanmerc
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