RIP Helen Thomas

[LongTimeListener]

Now that is pretty ****ing 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.

 

[YankeeFan]

Now that is pretty ****ing 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

 

[LongTimeListener]

Now that is pretty ****ing 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.

 

[YankeeFan]

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

 

[LongTimeListener]

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

All right, that was a good one. Got a big laugh out of me.

 

[93Devil]

Well, YF can make another notch for a thread he **** on.

Silence is approval, journalists.

 

[YankeeFan]

“She asked questions no hard-news reporter would ask, that carried an agenda and reflected her point of view and there were some reporters who felt that was inappropriate,” CBS correspondent Mark Knoller was quoted as saying. “Sometimes her questions were embarrassing to others.”

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/07/21/standing-up-for-helen-thomas/


In recent years, she has begun collecting awards at a breathtaking pace: More than 30 honorary degrees, the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award from the White House Correspondents' Association, the International Women's Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Press Foundation Kiplinger Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award, and the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, among many others.

The odd thing about her awards and citations is that they almost never mention any specific contributions she has made to journalism save for being female and, well, old.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/75340/thomas-pain?page=0,0

 

[LongTimeListener]

Boy, I guess we know what the GOP memo on talking points was about Monday morning!

 

[YankeeFan]

Boy, I guess we know what the GOP memo on talking points was about Monday morning!

Is any of this a secret? Who needs talking points.

Look, forget the anti-Semitism for a minute. What is she known for other than being the first woman WH correspondent, and staying in the job a long time.

If Jackie Robinson had been a ****ty baseball player, he wouldn't be celebrated the same way, right?

Helen may have been first, but she was never great.

 

[YankeeFan]

Helen Thomas, surrounded by her friends and admirers:

 

[AtticusFinch]

RIP to a pioneer.

 

[Drip]

A pioneer and a pro who always got the first question in. RIP.

 

[Boom_70]

Boy, I guess we know what the GOP memo on talking points was about Monday morning!

Is any of this a secret? Who needs talking points.

Look, forget the anti-Semitism for a minute. What is she known for other than being the first woman WH correspondent, and staying in the job a long time.

If Jackie Robinson had been a ****ty baseball player, he wouldn't be celebrated the same way, right?

Helen may have been first, but she was never great.

Helen was the Mark Belanger of White House reporters. Steady but never great.

 

[Boom_70]

Helen still speaking from the grave:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/helen-thomas-from-the-grave-lapdog-press-needs-to-be-more-liberal/article/2533472

"no such thing anymore as Liberal reporters."

"White House reporters are spineless lap dogs.