Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama

CNSNews.com ^ | July 01, 2009 | Penny Starr and Fred Lucas

[carenot]

She's part of the problem which elected these goons in the first place.

How did she help?
Oh, do you mean asking hard questions about what our government is doing?

That is what reporters are supposed to do.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Helen Thomas, the most liberal journalist EVER, the same idiot who called terrorists “Supposed terrorists” is turning on Obama..oh man this is sweet.

I guess when those media whores formerly known as "journalists" decided en mass to abandon all pretense of integrity to propagandize for the Democrat Party they forgot to include Helen in the loop.

[bgill]

Uh, do I dare say it but, “Helen, WTG, girl!”

[RetroSexual]

Just exactly what has she sowed that you object to? She has always asked hard questions.

Primarily, I think her attitude about the Iraq War lent credence to the "Bush lied, people died" mentality of the left. Statements like, "I'm covering the worst president in American history" and "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," were designed to sow the seeds of discontent, not to uncover facts.

When one is in a position that demands respect (as she certainly is after her long tenure in the press corps) one needs to understand the power of their words. The President saying that the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" means a lot more than when one of us here on FR says it. Likewise someone who makes their living reporting the supposed facts needs to understand the weight of their words.

Helen Thomas has spent the last several years indiscriminately throwing overblown language around to advance her political agenda. Now that the leftists have control she's got what she wanted.

[GVnana]

I don't admire her, but at least she's got it right this time.

Helen, I want you to know I have never -- never posted your picture. Go in peace.

[bannie]

When she voted for communism, she assumed that she'd be among the elite.

"Some pigs are more equal than others."

She thought she'd be "more equal," but now she's squealin' at her epiphany.

[RoseofTexas]

"Thomas has just been reported to"

BAWHAHAHHAHAHHAAAAA good job!!!!

[hinckley buzzard]

She doesn't always ask good questions. Some of her questions in the past have been ill-informed and borderline paranid psychotic. That's why Bush marginalized her. But it is refreshing to hear she is venting her considerable spleen on the 'rats for a change.

So you admire someone who has said "When I get up in the morning I decide who I am going to hate today." Interesting.

[carenot]

Even a broken bitch is right twice a day

Do you mean she is right when she asks questions you like? The kind that is embarrassing to Obama?

So all the other times she was wrong when she asked questions that President Bush's administration didn't want answered?

I don't have a different standard for Obama than I had for Bush.

[wolfcreek]

Courtesy of Laura Ingraham

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Sombody needs to rearrange this spokesturd’s face.

I mean, some generous plastic surgeon should offer his services, that’s all I meant.

;-)

[ridesthemiles]

Note to Helen: You and your media friends have totally been puppets in the hands of NObama.

Maybe now you are finally seeing the strings that are attached to NObama and might be wondering who controls Barry’s strings?

I have no sympathy for you, Helen. You and your cohorts worked overtime to put this imposter into the Oval Office.
Perhaps with your age, you are finally realizing that YOU will NOT be getting much under NObama’s “healthcare”???

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

He looks like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants.

Only without the personality and intellect.

[carenot]

During President Bush's press conferences she was called out for reciting al Queda's talking points!

I missed that. I haven't seen all the times she has been on.
Do you remember what she said? Who called her out?

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Could they have picked a stupider-looking shapeless blob of goo to be press secretary?

I think not, since Junior Samples is no longer with us.

[carenot]

the old crone finally wakes up and smells the coffee

"Old crone".........I sure hope I am able to get around as well as she does when I am 89.

Just imagine, she goes to work every day at that age, and then people talk about how ugly she is.

I wonder what I will look like when I am 89? Hmmm...I wonder if I will even make it to 89? I just have 10 years to go before I find out. Hahaaa! How many years do you have before you get there?

:)

[wolfcreek]

JS from HeeHaw? Man, that’s a memory and a half.

[carenot]

(Obama Barbie: Governing is hard.)

Did Obama say that?

[tanknetter]

My daughter, completely psyched at having pulled a 589 on her Virginia History SOL, asked me to take her to the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) yesterday.

Lo and behold, Helen Thomas was in the main lobby signing copies of her 'The Great White House Breakout' children's book.

There were no more than six or seven families in line. People were walking right past her either as if she didn't exist, or just throwing cursory glances her way. The lines to various exhibits, including The Star Spangled Banner, First Ladies Gowns, Lincoln "Americana" (Dorothy's slippers, Fonzies' jacket, etc) and even Julia Child's kitchen were much, MUCH longer.

Really warmed my heart to see how completely irrelevant she is to the general public (keep in mind that it's tourist season in DC).

[DPMD]

Go ahead and admire her. She’s one of the many fools trying to have it both ways. This old hag, and many others like her, are one very big reason why we have an obama in the White House. Now, suddenly, she wants to be taken for a serious journalist.

Too late. It’s on her, and those of her ilk. I don’t want her on the same side I’m on.