Posted on 07/20/2013 6:53:44 AM PDT by markomalley
Helen Thomas, whose career covering the White House dated back to the Kennedy administration, died on Saturday at the age of 92, the Gridiron Club announced in an email to members on Saturday.
Thomas was the the first woman to join the White House Correspondents' Association, and the first woman to serve as its president. She was also the first female member of the Gridiron Club, Washington's historic press group.
Present at the press briefings of ten consecutive presidential administrations, Thomas's career in journalism ended in 2010 after controversial remarks she made about Israeli Jews were caught on camera.
"Former Gridiron Club president Helen Thomas, our first female member, died Saturday morning at her Washington apartment after a long illness," Gridiron's Susan L. Hahn wrote in an email to members. "She would have been 93 next month."
Love her or not, she was such a fixture as part of the White House press corps that everyone is going to miss her.
That’s the truth.
She’ll be missed.
Lets cut her in half and count her rings
Here is another nightmarish scenario. Now that she has assumed room temperature, there is the possibility that the postal service may put her picture on a postage stamp. Then we would be forced to look at her ugly face everyday.
She live this long
I thought she was in her 80s
Some Freeper told the forum once that she knew Moses and Moses dump her
The face that launched a thousand quips. What’ll the White House Press Corpse do, prop her up in the corner?
She made a joke enough of journalism, so I guess that’s trail blazing.
It’s in the hands of the Prophet now.
August 4, 1920-July 20, 2013.
She was a couple months older than my grandma. I sure miss Grandma.
I cannot say anything about Helen Thomas.
My old flag is fading, so I’ll buy a new flag today to honor our nation. It will fly at half-mast only for those who served our nation, or it won’t fly at all.
Especially here on FR.......the "I'd Hit It" threads will never be the same.
How's this one?
RIP Helen Thomas
In the end, you get the face you deserve.
Post #49 LOL
Godless Liberals, when facing their Maker, must have a huge shock when they’re atoning for the sins they committed against their fellow man and their country, ya think?
That means that there will be two more.
This hag deserves our contempt even in death.
One thing for sure critics talk about us
We handle the libs with class in death
We keep doing those photoshop especially Twilight Zone one
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