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."
She believed differently that we do, and we found that very hard to understand. I have laid into her a number of times over the years. I sometimes question if these people have a full grasp of what they are enabling with their actions. Here in the Obama years, they were advancing the same sorts of things advance in Germany in the formative years of Adolf Hitler.
We know that our nation became second to none under policies that these people now consider antiquated. We see what is happening to our economy under the implementation of their policies.
And still, they don’t get it.
Terrorist is the worst possible word they can think of, and when they think of it, they envision you and I.
Bill Ayers, Berandene Dorn..., they don’t have a problem with them at all. Black Panthers, Louis Faherkan (sp?), Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, these terrorists and blackmailers, are held in high esteem.
Helen reveled in being a fellow traveler with these and others of their ilk. I wouldn’t want to wake up and have to defend that.
she inspired my new tagger
That’s honorable and I agree. I just pinged you because you’re the keeper of the HT ping list.
She'll not find any from me.
She was a Leftist. That's all I need to know.
Let the corks pop.
She was an angry and venal woman. She would on rare occasion criticize a democrat, but her journalism was all about hating Bush and republicans before him.
Thanks and I was aware of that. No apologies for what I posted about her and others. Absolutely none.
Nor should you make any apologies.
everybody must get stoned
I appreciate your thoughtfulness. Thanks!
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