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Helen Thomas Calls it Quits

June 8, 2010 by B. Daniel Blatt

Because I delayed my departure from Cincinnati (so I could have a few extra minute talking to my Dad and so I could watch my nephew’s Tae-kwon-do practice–he won the “floppy fish” exercise), I did not get any news today until I checked my text messages while dining with a reader just outside of Cleveland.

From him, I learned what the rest of the world already knew, “After 50 years of her left wing babbling, Helen Thomas is gone.”

Later, caught this on Instapundit:  

MARK STEY[N] ON HELEN THOMAS: “A guy with a flip camera just took out one of the most storied names in American journalism. Presumably US newspaper managements have been assured by Obama, Pelosi, Frank et al that that bailout’s a-comin’ any day now. The alternative is that they’re inept timeserving mediocrities too dullwitted even to know they’re going over the falls.”

And now that I’ve posted on this, albeit a tad perfunctorily, I trust our readers to chime in with commentary appropriate for the occasion.

Filed Under: Media Bias

Comments

  1. surveyguy84 says

    June 8, 2010 at 2:41 am - June 8, 2010

    Good riddance. Filthy old bag.

  2. Otter says

    June 8, 2010 at 4:30 am - June 8, 2010

    Is it too late to put her on the next ‘relief’ ship sailing for Gaza?

  3. Doug J says

    June 8, 2010 at 7:58 am - June 8, 2010

    Ding dong the wicked witch is dead!

  4. heliotrope says

    June 8, 2010 at 8:32 am - June 8, 2010

    Maybe Helen can get the gig as ambassador to Israel for the Obambi administration. A few weeks of study with Calypso Louie and the Reverend Wright and she should be up to speed.

    What a mask for Halloween.

  5. Peter Hughes says

    June 8, 2010 at 10:21 am - June 8, 2010

    #4 – Helio, I say that before a week has passed, ol’ Hezbollah Helen will be the newest correspondent for Al-Jazeera.

    Though I must say, her face is the perfect excuse for the creation of the burkha.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  6. John says

    June 8, 2010 at 11:15 am - June 8, 2010

    This is a forced retirement that is long overdue. I wish her well, whether in the “stolen” US or back in her native land of Lebanon.

  7. darkeyedresolve says

    June 8, 2010 at 12:32 pm - June 8, 2010

    I honestly feel bad for that her career so badly, I mean…you do all that work all of those decades and in one moment, its all done.

  8. Lori Heine says

    June 8, 2010 at 12:40 pm - June 8, 2010

    Man, the looksism is as thick as a blast of Raid. Even here, where the men have no earthly reason to care what the hell Helen Thomas looks like.

    We all know what Adonises the men in the White House press corps are, right?

    — “Wait, it doesn’t matter for them…”

  9. Peter Hughes says

    June 8, 2010 at 5:45 pm - June 8, 2010

    #8 – Lorie, you obviously don’t think that either Major Garrett or Bret Baier of Fox News are lookers, now do you? I’d let either one of them corner me for an interview. 😉

    Please. Helen Thomas’s looks aside, it was her attitude and her biases that made her more ugly.

    Name at least one attractive female straight MSM journalist. (Note that I said JOURNALIST, not correspondent. There is a difference.)

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  10. Peter Hughes says

    June 8, 2010 at 5:45 pm - June 8, 2010

    And for those of you who are interested:

    http://libertypundits.net/article/hot-men-2010-the-hottest-conservative-men/

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  11. Lori Heine says

    June 8, 2010 at 6:18 pm - June 8, 2010

    “Name at least one attractive female straight MSM journalist.”

    Actually, I think Greta Van Susteren is pretty hot. I’d have to think for a while about other possible straight ones.

    In the “family” corner, there’s always the incomparable Tammy Bruce — who I think is incomparable for a whole lot of reasons…

  12. The other Peter H says

    June 8, 2010 at 6:40 pm - June 8, 2010

    Maybe Helen now has time to visit a real hair dresser.

  13. Gene in Pennsylvania says

    June 8, 2010 at 8:10 pm - June 8, 2010

    My favorite picture was of Helen, Obama and the three cup cakes.
    All these years and only the liberals knew Helen Thomas was an anti semite. And Obama’s picture with Helen was precious…
    one Jew hater to another.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/obama-sings-happy-birthda_0_n_251088.html
    how sweet….

  14. Davep. says

    June 8, 2010 at 9:06 pm - June 8, 2010

    Lori, I’m straight. And Helen Thomas isn’t just ugly- most of us aren’t gonna be winning any beauty contests at her age- she’s the sort of ugly that can only come from the nastiness within making itself apparent on the surface. She’s bad-character ugly, and you don’t have to be straight to appreciate that.

    And, “lookism”? wow, that’s SO 1990’s.

  15. Lori Heine says

    June 9, 2010 at 1:13 am - June 9, 2010

    “And, “lookism”? wow, that’s SO 1990’s.”

    I would have been very happy to leave it in the 1990’s. Too bad so many other people aren’t. As long as it continues to be active as a concept, it will probably go on being active as a term in the vocabulary of those who notice its existence.

    No argument here about Helen Thomas being anybody’s idea of a beauty queen. But as far as bad-character ugly is concerned, she’s got nothing on some of the creeps in Congress.

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