RIP Helen Thomas

+1.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowan_barrett/322081679/

 

Exactly what I was thinking . . . two days ago.

There was more discussion on Lisa Olson getting some award a few weeks ago.

Hope Lisa doesn't say something controversial when she's 90, lest all her accomplishments be ignored.

 

Well put.

 

Is that lust I see in Jimmy's eye?

 

Jonah Goldberg's take:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354216/real-helen-thomas-jonah-goldberg

 

Now that is pretty fucking funny that Jonah Goldberg of all people asks what someone else's real journalistic accomplishments were.

She got a job without her mom's coattails, for one.

 

Here's Jonathan Tobin instead:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/07/22/helen-thomas-and-bias-in-the-press-anti-semtis/#more-829561

 

So what are you trying to point out -- that Helen Thomas never really did anything (as Goldberg writes) or that she was hostile to Israel and Jews (as Tobin writes)? Those are two entirely different premises. Tobin's is fine, coming as it does from someone who appears to have written exclusively for the Jewish press in his career. But Goldberg's is just more douchiness from the King of Douches, who has never done anything on his own.

 

I was just looking to help Devil out, and make the thread longer.