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NO NOSE FOR NEWS: THE HELEN THOMAS STORY
1-27-02 | Mia T

Posted on 01/27/2002 5:23:23 AM PST by Mia T

She said the press corps followed a "golden rule that if it didn't affect the running of the country, they didn't need to report on it. We weren't protecting anybody."
 
As President Bill Clinton reached his last days in office, Thomas asked him what White House possession he would like to take with him.
 
His reply: the rock Neal Armstrong brought back from the moon. Whenever tension filled the Oval Office, Clinton said, he would point to the rock and tell those present to "chill out." The rock was 3.6 billion years old, he said; they needed perspective.
 
"I think the rock is still there, but I'm not sure," Thomas said.
 

Helen Thomas: Bush a Work in Progress

 

Q ERTY6 helen thomas syndrome REALITY CHECK!

NO NOSE FOR NEWS: THE HELEN THOMAS STORY

by Mia T, 1.27.02
 
A reliable-source friend of mine has a better nose for new, so it seems, than perennial press-corps prop, Helen Thomas.

 

This friend warned me years ago, when Oval-Office occupation by the clintons was in its mere incipiency, that the wife already had designs on the White House furnishing, that she had quickly acquired the nasty habit of pilfering from the White House drapery fund.

 

Nonetheless, when I created the following metaphoric musing on January 1, 2000, more than a year before the clintons -- uh -- "moved," I never imagined that she would -- that they would -- in real life -- in real time -- actually swipe the sofa.
 
Smaller objects neatly tuck-able in nuncupative deals & unnumbered Swiss accounts, without question...

BUT THE SOFA??

"I think the rock is still there, but I'm not sure," Helen quipped. Her punch line to clinton's response to her question about a -- (only in Helen's mind) -- 'fantasy' -- clinton kleptocracy, was in fact 4th-estate CYA-ing disguised as a joke.

Unbeknownst to the always clueless Helen, however, the one-liner she was delivering was indeed a joke; it was the butt of the joke that was her misreport...

In the end,
if clinton's arrogant, ruthless, reckless nature is restored to him,
it seems the joke will be on all of us,
for it will be a victory for infinite victimhood and irresponsibility,
for seduction, for violence, for nihilism, for anarchy.
 
We will have set apart clinton as the hero
by making his victims less human than he;
we will have allowed clinton to carefully estrange us from his victims
so that we can enjoy the rapes and the beatings
as much as clinton himself does.

Mia T, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

 

Jan. 1, 2000
 
hillary's "interior" design scheme
(an animated how-to)

 

The White House Booty
 
Letters .. thanked Lee and Joy Ficks for their 1993 donation of a
kitchen set to the White House. Joy Ficks said she was surprised to
hear the Clintons are keeping the kitchen set as a personal gift.

White House Gifts List

 
 
 
• $19,900 two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman from Steve Mittman,
New York.
 
• $3,650 kitchen table and four chairs from Lee Ficks, Cincinnati.
 
• $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe, High Point, N.C.
 
• $1,170 lamps from Stuart Schiller, Hialeah, Fla.
 
• $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous, Little Rock.
 
Following are gifts the Clintons received in 2000 and are paying for:
 
• $9,433 china cabinet, chandelier and a copy of President Lincoln's
Cooper Union speech from Walter and Selma Kaye, New York.
 
• $7,375 two coffee tables and two chairs from Denise Rich, New York.
 
• $7,000 dining room table, server and golf club from Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Dozoretz, Washington.
 
• $6,282 two carpets from Glen Eden Carpets, Calhoun, Ga.
 
• $5,000 rug from Martin Patrick Evans, Chicago.
 
• $5,000 china from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brandt, Winnetka, Ill.
 
• $4,994 flatware from Ghada Irani, Los Angeles.
 
• $4,992 china from Iris Cantor, New York.
 
• $4,967 flatware, Edith Wasserman, Beverly Hills, Calif.
 
• $4,967 flatware, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pynoos, Beverly Hills, Calif.
 
• $4,787 china from Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, Los Angeles.
 
• $4,920 china from Mr. and Mrs. Steven Spielberg, Universal City,
Calif.
 
• $3,000 painting from Joan Tumpson, Miami.
 
• $2,993 televisions and DVD player from Paul Goldenberg, La Habra,
Calif.
 
• $2,400 dining room chairs from Arthur Athis, Los Angeles.
 
• $2,110 china and jacket from Jill and Ken Iscol, Pound Ridge, N.Y.
 
• $1,588 flatware from Myra Greenspun, Green Valley, Nev.
 
• $595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco.
 
• $524 golf driver and golf balls from Richard Helmstetter, Carlsbad,
Calif.
 
• $500 antique book on George Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Yorkin, Los
Angeles.
 
• $499 golf driver from Ely Callaway, Carlsbad, Calif.
 
• $450 leather jacket from Vin Gupta, Omaha.
 
• $350 golf driver, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills, Calif.
 
• $350 framed tapestry, Mr. and Mrs. Vo Viet Thanh, Vietnam.
 
• $340 two sweaters from Robin Carnahan and Nina Canci, St. Louis.
 
• $300 flatware from Colette D'Etremont, New Brunswick, Canada.
 
• $300 painting of Buddy, Brian B. Ready, Chappaqua, N.Y.

 

Chair Lift
 

Among the gifts that former president Bill Clinton says he is keeping as
personal presents he accepted last year are $28,000 worth of furnishings
that documents and interviews indicate were given to the National Park
Service in 1993 as part of the permanent White House collection...
 
Two of the furniture makers whose donations Clinton took with him on
leaving the White House last month say they gave them to the White House
as part of a widely publicized, $396,000 redecoration of the executive
mansion and not to Clinton personally.
 
"When we've been asked to donate, it was always hyphenated with the
words, " 'White House,' " New York manufacturer Steve Mittman said of
his family-owned business, which gave two sofas, an easy chair and an
ottoman, worth $19,900 and listed by Clinton as part of the gifts he
took with him. "To us, it was not a donation to a particular person."

Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons, Some Donors Say

Sen. Clinton made another assertion - one that is equally misleading.

She contends she was not obliged to report the first Leiber bag she received "because it was received before the Clintons entered the White House."

But this bag, valued at $3,500, was received after the election and during the transition and therefore obviously was related to the Clinton presidency.

HILLARY'S STORY ON HER WHITE HOUSE GIFTS IS FULL OF (LOOP)HOLES, Dick Morris

 

 
But he said the Socks purse was given to Clinton during the transition in late 1992, before her husband took office...
--HILLARY: I RETURNED GIFTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE

TRANSLATION: An earlier example of the clinton post-election/pre-swearing-in klepto-bribery scheme...

 

MORE: HILLARY: I RETURNED GIFTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE [SOCKS BAGS BAG]


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Q ERTY1 helen thomas syndrome REALITY CHECK!

She said the press corps followed a "golden rule that if it didn't affect the running of the country, they didn't need to report on it. We weren't protecting anybody."

Helen Thomas: Bush a Work in Progress

 


1 posted on 01/27/2002 5:23:23 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Gail Wynand; looscannon; Lonesome in Massachussets; river rat; Freedom'sWorthIt; IVote2; Slyfox...
Q ERTY3 helen thomas syndrome REALITY CHECK ping!

2 posted on 01/27/2002 5:28:11 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
$4,992 flatware from Ghada Irani. I believe that G. Irani is the wife of Ray Irani, CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Oxy was the preferred "big oil" company during the Clinton years, and what with stays in the Lincoln Bedroom and lunches spent millions on the Clintons -- and Al Gore. Oxy is, you will recall, the real brainchild of Armand Hammer, the courier for the American Communist Party, and friend to Marxists everywhere. No one really bothered to look at Al Gore's involvement with Irani during the Clinton years; if he attempts a comeback he couldn't stand a true anal examination.
3 posted on 01/27/2002 5:36:33 AM PST by gaspar
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To: Mia T


4 posted on 01/27/2002 5:37:35 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
Q ERTY6 clinton-was-an- utter-failure REALITY-CHECK ping!
5 posted on 01/27/2002 5:51:33 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
All I can think of seeing her is:

Where's the beef?


6 posted on 01/27/2002 5:52:11 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff
That's actually the most flattering picture I've seen of her...what, NO BARRETTES????? ;-)
7 posted on 01/27/2002 6:02:34 AM PST by DJ88
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To: McGruff

She not only no longer serves as a reporter, but her columns and statements expose her as a President-Clinton-loving, welfare-state-supporting leftist. On Oct. 9, 2001, before the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, Helen Thomas introduced former President Bill Clinton at a gathering of worshipful supporters. Shedding any doubt of where her politics lie, Thomas gushed, "He is the man from Hope, and that is what he has given us, hope ... He [has] also brought unprecedented prosperity to our nation, and because of that, President [Bush] can use the surplus Mr. Clinton left behind to pay for many of the nation's needs in this time of crisis." And to tie it up in a nice big bow, Thomas ended the coronation with, "We miss him."

Larry Elders, Helen Thomas' Grandmother Clause

FrontPageMagazine.com | January 11, 2002

 

Helen Thomas Syndrome: THE SYMPTOMS

Mia T, January 3, 2002

 

The complex of symptoms associated with Helen Thomas Syndrome, (also known as 'habituated doyenne-iosis'), includes the following:

  • delusions of importance
  • tunnel vision -field of vision is so severely constricted that evidence of Pulitzer-quality stories are invariably missed...evidence like:
    • an absurd reason ("to get a book of poetry") for a Thanksgiving trip from Camp David to DC and back by a corrupt president under subpoena
    • a dead body: a Ron-Brown-posthumous, Ron-Brown-related, Thanksgiving-Day corpse in the Commerce offices
    • the deposition of Sonya Stewart, which tells us that "the trade mission issues were "only the tip of the iceberg -- that the really big money went towards Presidential access." Mr. Grafeld indicated to me that he believes that Ms. Moss was asking for political contributions in exchange for seats on Commerce Department trade missions, likely at the direction of Hillary Rodham Clinton, but that documents showing this illegal activity had "left the building."
    • "a huge box" hauled back to Camp David by said corrupt president under subpoena.
    • the Gestalt--the synthesis of the evidence -- the absurd reason for the president's Thanksgiving-Day Camp David-DC-Camp David trip; the Ron-Brown-posthumous, Ron-Brown-related, Thanksgiving-Day corpse; the Sonya Stewart deposition informing us that evidence of illegal Commerce activity had "left the building;" and "a huge box" hauled back to Camp David by said corrupt president under subpoena.
  • left-lateral curvature of the spine -combines synergistically with tunnel vision and delusional tendencies to result in a grotesque, dysfunctional reverence for the cowardly, inept, narcissistic, seditious, corrupt rapist-pig proximate cause of 9/11.
A (sporadically-Camp-David)
clinton Thanksgiving --1996

Turkey Prez a D.C. Gofer?
(Have you connected the dots yet, Helen?)

Clinton reviewing inaugural plans

by Helen Thomas, 29-NOV-1996 14:29

The president, still suffering from a raspy voice, and ordered by his doctor to rest his vocal chords, carried a briefcase as he strolled to the waiting helicopter to return to Camp David. He wore a leather jacket and was followed by an aide carrying a huge box of inaugural papers.

CASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- President Clinton briefly interrupted his Thanksgiving holiday weekend at Camp David Friday with a quick trip to the White House to gather data he wants to study in planning his second inauguration and then returned to the mountaintop retreat.

The president returned to the Executive Mansion with his wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea, 16. Along with him was Hollywood producer Harry Thomasson, who with his wife Linda Bloodworth Thomasson, a prominent sitcom writer, spent Thanksgiving Day with the Clinton clan at the mountaintop retreat.

Clinton conferred with Thomasson in the Oval Office on his return and discussed preliminary plans for the inaugural on Jan. 20, including choosing a poem he will have read at his second swearing in as president.

The Thomassons played a prominent role in writing the script for his first inauguration in 1993.

The president, still suffering from a raspy voice, and ordered by his doctor to rest his vocal chords, carried a briefcase as he strolled to the waiting helicopter to return to Camp David. He wore a leather jacket and was followed by an aide carrying a huge box of inaugural papers.

But before plunging into further study, Clinton arranged to take time out to play golf with Hillary's brothers at a course near Camp David.

The first lady and Chelsea did not return to the presidential hideaway with him. Mrs. Clinton had the Christmas decoration of the White House to supervise as it got underway Friday and Chelsea had to attend a rehearsal for her performance in the Washington Ballet's annual Christmas performance of "The Nutcracker Suite."

In addition, an aide said Mrs. Clinton had to prepare for her trip to Bolivia Monday afternoon where she will attend the annual meeting of the first ladies of the Americas. Before she departs, she will host a press preview of the White House Christmas decorations.

The president arranged to deliver his weekly Saturday radio address from Camp David. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the subject would be: "Thanksgiving."

Clinton plans to return to the White House on Sunday, and will face a busy week ahead as he makes important decisions on the make up of his next national security team.

Clinton took a binder of recommendations with him to Camp David on possible Cabinet appointments prepared by his transition team. Most of the interest centered on who he would pick to succeed Secretary of State Warren Christopher who is leaving the Cabinet.

The president wants to have his chief diplomatic and military advisers on deck before Christmas, and the entire new Cabinet selected by Inauguration Day.

On the social side, next week the President and Mrs. Clinton will begin a series of nightly Christmas parties leading up to the holiday. The Clintons, in keeping with tradition, will spend Christmas in the White House.


8 posted on 01/27/2002 6:03:50 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
Helen, honey, could you explain to me how the Bush daughters' clubbing affects the running of the country while Clintons' manifest venality does not? On second thought, please don't explain, Bernie Goldberg has done it far better than you could ever understand.
9 posted on 01/27/2002 6:15:25 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Mia T
How about giving Tim Russert some ice time? I just can't watch his show anymore. He's an arm of the DNC.
10 posted on 01/27/2002 6:26:45 AM PST by The Raven
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To: Mia T
Bump!!!!!!1
11 posted on 01/27/2002 6:35:33 AM PST by aculeus
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To: Mia T
Mia T, what truly offends me about most all "media types"- news or entertainment- is that they will not admit their biases.

In 1992, 89% of Washington Bureau Chiefs voted for clinton... in 1996, that changed to 92% of reporters nationwide.

That's 9 out of 10!

But they aren't prejudiced, and don't have agendas of their own... right?

12 posted on 01/27/2002 7:01:09 AM PST by backhoe
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To: Mia T
NO NOSE FOR NEWS: THE HELEN THOMAS STORY

Yeah.
She missed the scoop on this one too.....

:

13 posted on 01/27/2002 7:17:03 AM PST by ppaul
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To: Mia T; RLK
"This country has changed. What once would have been considered the ravings of a delusional psychotic, or the plot and visual imagery of a grotesquely surreal movie, is now reality. The president and his spokespersons such as James Carville and columnists such as Eleanor Clift mock us and say that we are crazy. But, we aren’t crazy: it’s real. The crazy part is that it is real and millions of people are defending it."

"Something very important has been lost in this that will affect the future stability of the country. The unthinkable has become reality. Henceforth in this country, what would formerly be dismissed as delusional can no longer be so easily dismissed. In the past the political stability of the country has been protected by an aura of the presidency and the belief that there was some sort of purification process that weeded out the extremely unfit or irresponsible. This had the secondary effect of diminishing the credibility or acceptance of erratic or delusional elements in the country critical of the government. There was a time when grotesque or paranoid speculation about presidential or governmental action would be dismissed by faith in a sane reality. It would be dismissed by saying Eisenhower, Truman, Reagan, or whoever was president could never do something like whatever it happened to be. With the Clintons we have reached the final point where that brake on political irrationality(link)---has been destroyed. A sense of stable reality has been lost. In a distorted condition of accusations or speculations and counter-accusations it has become much harder to decide which side should be dismissed as being nuts. This pertains not only to matters of personal behavior, but, having elected someone who went to Moscow to protest and undermine an American war effort as a left wing student, it pertains to deeper political issues and questions about justifiable doubts regarding the basic allegiance of the president and government to this country."

From one of the FR greats!

14 posted on 01/27/2002 8:57:39 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: Mia T
Once again you remind us of the unpleasant "Two for the Price of One Duo", lest we let all of this fade from memory

You do it so brilliantly with your wicked humor.

BTTT

15 posted on 01/27/2002 10:09:07 AM PST by IVote2
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To: Mia T
Good Show, Mia T!!!!:-) Outstanding Again!!!!
16 posted on 01/27/2002 10:41:23 AM PST by Defender2
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To: Mia T
Your posts are mesmerizing....Alamo Girl has captured all the Clinton skulduggery in prose, but your graphics, and quotes, etc. really bring the "flavor" of the legacy.

Is Helen Thomas Betty Frieden's sister?

17 posted on 01/27/2002 11:10:14 AM PST by Angelique
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To: Angelique
Interesting observation.

Separated at Birth?


18 posted on 01/27/2002 12:20:51 PM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
LOL you rule
19 posted on 01/27/2002 12:26:10 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: Mia T
I am laughing so hard, I just lost my voice...

I forgot to ask you, did the Clintons get their cleaning deposit back when the left the WH?

20 posted on 01/27/2002 12:39:22 PM PST by Angelique
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