Posted on 07/22/2013 7:06:25 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
An eerie silence descended on American journalism's attic Saturday morning. Elsewhere the house was loud with cries of mourning for 92-year-old Helen Thomas and of celebration for her life.
This columnist was anything but an admirer of Thomas, and normally we'd give the subject a rest out of respect for the recently departed. But the over-the-top encomiums demand a critical examination because they exemplify a moral and intellectual rot within the journalistic profession
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May she rest in peace. Her final judgment is not in our hands.
Helen Thomas is to be buried in Detroit? What poetic justice: a failed liberal journalist returns to a failed liberal city in Chapter 9 Bankruptcy. Call it Karma.
I think she’s going to be one of 76 virgins set aside for a muzzie.
“Probably in a log cabin.”
LOL, why not? Daniel Boone’s fort is there, and it inspired a few log cabin buildings in the neighborhood.
“Maybe Winchester will dedicate a memorial urinal?”
I’ll go with that, especially if it’s next to the factory where they make Ale-Eight-One, a very light ginger ale that’s popular in central Kentucky.
I was thinking more like the Kremlin. She'd look right at home under glass next to Stalin, Lenin and other Communist leaders.
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