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Helen the Hack

By on 6.9.10 @ 6:08AM

Another Washington success story gets the royal treatment.

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I’m joking of course. Hardly anybody read these pieces of drivel. And for good reason. They are awful. Even taking into account that Thomas is in her 80s, it is amazing that somebody could spend a lifetime as a writer and have such a poor grasp of writing.

Not to mention politics, economics or any other issue. Her final column was titled, “Save Social Security.” It includes this gem: “Social Security is not a charity. It is a trust fund created by contributions paid by workers and their employers, designed to assure a future livelihood, first for the elderly, then orphans, then the disabled. It’s a retirement savings plan — not a handout.”

Err, no. Social Security is a welfare program that transfers wealth from the young to the old. The trust fund is a fiction. Saying otherwise is spreading misinformation. As her comment that the “Jews should get the hell out of Palestine” showed, she wasn’t much better on foreign policy either.

In his column the Post’s Dana Milbank noted that if she had only retired a week ago, she would have ended her career as one of the most revered reporters in Washington history. He meant that as praise for Thomas, but it was more of an indictment of Washington.

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (80) |

Ret. Marine| 6.9.10 @ 7:13AM

News flash for any who think this was a reporter, she was not, she opoined about what others considered talk and that's all it was talk, talk, talk. If only she had not said what she considered the truth about her opinion a week ago, she might still have her job. Yup that there's news reporting alright, good riddence.

Alan Brooks| 6.9.10 @ 7:50PM

She was chosen for her LOOKS.

isn't that "lookism"? we'll have to file a lawsuit...

Jim O'Brien| 6.9.10 @ 7:26AM

There is not much unusual about Helen Thomas. She is a typical journalist ---- biased, pig-headed, arrogant, ugly, and stupid.

Eric Cartman| 6.9.10 @ 12:41PM

Ugly?! Why she is as beautiful inside as she is outside! She is a blinding light of gorgeousness that the Left can take pride in. She beams adorableness of the Left, the publishing pulchritude of political perplexity. She is the perfect Liberal.

Alan Brooks| 6.9.10 @ 7:52PM

If you're drunk enough in a bar, she starts to look a little better.

GavInTucson| 6.10.10 @ 3:33AM

If I'm in a bar where she's the only thing on which to focus my attention, I'd say it's time for me to find a new bar.

Occam's Tool| 11.18.11 @ 4:47PM

Isn't that the name of an ugly whore?

Melvin| 6.9.10 @ 7:27AM

Helen Thomas only said what many in the White House Press Corps wanted to say. Including the President and his current Administration.

Petronius| 6.9.10 @ 11:52AM

Mel
The object of the exercise was to prove she could say it with impunity. The real statement she was making was that the White House press room is hers. not the President's.

martin j smith| 6.9.10 @ 7:49AM

Was Helen Thomas a trial balloon ? Well that is quite an image indeed and yet I cannot help but think that there are " No coincidences" in politics.
I am keenly aware that the LEFT including those in the MSM revere her still. But in the nation overall I suspect that in a poll, a vast majority would condemn her remarks that led to her retirement. She retired in shame--and that is as it should be. She will probably limit her social appearances to those who still support her and avoid any appearances where unpleasant things might come out.

Vaemar| 6.9.10 @ 7:52AM

She missed her true calling. Physically, she was a natural for Snow White's witch.

NavyBrat | 6.9.10 @ 11:02AM

Or maybe she was one of Hitler's secret misstresses?

Cpm| 6.9.10 @ 2:50PM

Maybe Danny DeVito's Penguin from "Batman Returns"? They could have saved so much money on makeup.

Chairman Obomba| 6.9.10 @ 3:48PM

We could use her to make death mask for the old lefty Walter Kronkidite. May God forgive them both.

Kelly Staples| 6.9.10 @ 8:15AM

Barry Hussein Soetoro has lost a good, good friend. Not to worry though, he still has loads of pals in the Washighton press corps. Unfortunately for him, and them, the brush apes in fly-over country are catching on.

Stephanie| 6.9.10 @ 8:25AM

Will Major Garrette get that front row seat?

The Army Aviator| 6.9.10 @ 8:54AM

Helen Thomas has been an embarassment to our country for decades! Always anti-American, pro-enemy, she never asked objective questions, nor wrote objective columns. She has always been a Liberal Socialist, Washington elitist. I'm glad she's gone from the WH Press Room. Now, we will be spared her sneering, snarky commentary! Why she was put-up with for so long, is beyond me. That's one OLD BAG that this old pilot will never miss! Good riddance to a national enemy.

Doctor Right| 6.9.10 @ 9:25AM

Helen Thomas is a hideously ugly, old woman...And I'm NOT talking about her looks.

It's about time that this disgusting creep was "outed", and it's divine justice that she was undone by her own hateful, spiteful words.

Good riddance, you useless hack!

(NOTE to American Jews: PLEASE wake the HELL UP! The Left HATES you! They always have. Hitler, Stalin, FDR, etc, it doesn't matter. They hate you. Now please, STOP reflexively pulling the lever for Democrats.)

NavyBrat | 6.9.10 @ 11:05AM

DR. Right. Don't worry Doc. THIS Jew has NEVER pulled that lever. And neither did my Dad while he was alive. We aren't all blind fellatious followers of this charlatan pied piper who would lead us off the cliff. Which is more than I can say for my liberal Jewish relatives in DC, but there's simply no reasoning with some people.

Sandra | 6.13.10 @ 8:02PM

I, too, have been amazed at the almost slavish devotion American Jews have to liberals. Please, please, wake up. Israel is at stake. Your very survival is at stake.

Occam's Tool| 10.14.11 @ 1:09PM

Guys, I agree. I note here the beginnings of two of the greatest commenters on this site: Dr Right and Con Chef.

Chalkdust| 6.9.10 @ 9:42AM

Helen Thomas, a hateful old hag, embodied the liberal media; anti-American and if she thought about them at all, she held the American people in contemp. She'll spend the rest of her life selling used broomsticks

Anthony| 6.9.10 @ 10:22AM

Proof once again that these leftist elites live in their own bubble world. Perception, as opposed to substance, is everything to these folks. I've often said to friends, if one distills the distinction between conservatives and leftists to its most basic formula it's this: with conservatives, seeing is believing, with leftists, believing is seeing.
Helen Thomas has been a vile, ugly ( in many forms) bully for many decades. She epitomizes the arrogance and supercilious attitude of the left.
Now that she has committed a "Dan Rather", if you will, she must be quietly removed from sight. However with the left, it is with the usual plaudits and approbations from her fellow clueless elites. Look for her to get her "Dan Rather" Peabody Award at some future award event, where she will once again be celebrated for the perception of her accomplishments, as opposed to the reality of her tendentious agitprop.

Thomas| 6.9.10 @ 10:41AM

Helen Thomas turns out to be a virulent, liberal, Jew despising, socialist loving elitist. Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!!!

Tim*| 6.9.10 @ 10:51AM

Inquiring readers wanna know , is Helen leaving The White House press corps because she's carryin' Obama's love child ?

Doctor Right| 6.9.10 @ 12:14PM

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwww!!!!!!!

(I'm shuddering...)

ojo grande| 6.9.10 @ 10:54AM

So, what this comes down to is that the media types in the White House always knew Thomas was a jew hater and covered for her.

I feel a little sorry for Helen, it must be hard to be an incredibly ugly woman all of your life.

PolishKnight| 6.9.10 @ 11:12AM

Agreed. Thomas probably had help hiding her anti-semitism.

The real problem, though, is that she didn't have to hide racist sentitlements against whites and misandry against men. Supreme court justices can refer to themselves as superior because of their race and get a free pass. Did a single republican senator get up and outright call Sotomayor racist? And where are the republicans with the seething misandry in modern culture where men who work long hours to support their families are considered "privileged" and to be discriminated against even as they're blamed for all the "deadbeat" men out there? Oh, wait, they're sending their daughters to blueblood universities.

J.P. Travis | 6.9.10 @ 11:04AM

Helen Thomas is the epitome of leftism. As such she was always useful as imagery, her physical ugliness a pefect match for her vain, delusional, mean-spirited inner ugliness. Who will take her place? Barbara Streisand? Randi Rhodes? And why are leftists so consistently homely, anyway? http://www.jpattitude.com/090718.php

Ret. Marine| 6.10.10 @ 8:12AM

It's because their fathers have all pissed in a flower-pot and raised blooming idiots, that's why. All flowers are perfect once, but as they grow to their usefullness, they all wither and die. See anything good coming out of it?

ojo grande| 6.9.10 @ 11:05AM

Anthony,
Good comments.
Yes the liberal media will give Helen a couple of more awards before and after she kicks off...They'll tell each other how brilliant they are at their Awards banquets as they reward each other with yet more awards....kind of like Hollywood with all their dozens of award shows giving awards to the most leftist among them instead of for talent.

NavyBrat | 6.9.10 @ 11:11AM

I'm not surprised at all by this ole harpy's comments. The left has been involved in Jew hating for AGES. Lest we forget that one of the greatest lies ever written by Communists was "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which is still lauded as fact by jihadis & anit Semite morons everywhere. Helen is a product of this very enviornment. While she has "retired," I doubt this will be the last we hear of her.

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."...Oscar Wilde

Its an understatement to say that there is much happiness amongst the normal people of this world at Helen's departure.

Thunderbottom| 6.9.10 @ 11:46AM

One correction: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was a ham-handed forgery concocted by the Okhrana, the secret police force of the Tsarist Russian regime. However, the more extreme leftist "progressives" as well as many Islamists and neo-Nazis still regard this clumsy book of libel as fact.

Nick in Virginia| 6.9.10 @ 12:21PM

Seems to me that the MSM and the "political establishment" are treating her the same way (with forgiveness and respect for past performances) they treated Mel Gibson when he made his ill-advised statement regarding Jews - NOT!

TVK| 6.9.10 @ 12:22PM

“Err, no. Social Security is a welfare program that transfers wealth from the young to the old.”

So let me understand. For 45 years the government was extracting a mandatory retirement tax from both me and my employer, on my behalf. Now that I’m close to claiming SS I am to be considered a welfare recipient.

I was young when I started contributing, old now, so I guess you would agree I transferred the money to myself.

Le Cracquere| 6.10.10 @ 8:51AM

SS isn't a personal retirement fund that you're paying into--the money extracted from you throughout your career went immediately & directly to the upkeep of already-retired individuals. Similarly, the money you're about to start collecting is coming directly from the pockets of younger workers. There are two words to describe the amount of $$$ you've transferred to yourself, and the first is "Jack."

Ergo, you're about to graduate from being fleeced to fleecing others; however, the shifting ratio of the fleecer/fleecee pools has exposed the entire scam, and isn't far from rupturing it.

Gr0w1er| 6.9.10 @ 12:58PM

"Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough."

A great line by John Huston.

Dustoff| 6.9.10 @ 1:21PM

Guys and gals. Some how I think Thomas hasn't gone away just yet.
Let's see after 6 months.

Dennis| 6.9.10 @ 1:35PM

Actually I'm surprised she was fired or "resigned". There were people defending her by claiming "freedom of speech" or that we were too PC. BS! Tell that to George Allen, Trent Lott, abd assorted other conservatives who went down for far less inane comments...

Dusty| 6.9.10 @ 2:29PM

Not sure why, but one suspects Helen has a lot of cats back home that will enjoy her company in her new-found retirement years...

Margie| 6.9.10 @ 2:47PM

Pity the poor cats.

Debbie| 6.9.10 @ 2:54PM

I supposed the old hag will write her memoirs, with a dedication to Joseph Goebbels

MAJ Mike| 6.9.10 @ 3:33PM

This frees up Thomas to devote more time to her hobby of luring children into her gingerbread house.

Jasperfenton| 6.9.10 @ 3:51PM

What a perfect addition she'd be to the Obama cabinet! Or, as Obama's Ambassador to Israel.

Marcell| 6.9.10 @ 4:00PM

I will never forget this news story
On June 9th, 2010 BLACK CELL said:
SLLLLLAAAAAAP!!

Growing up behind the blockade in Gaza

June 8: Israel's blockade against Gaza is not only preventing goods from getting in, it's also preventing Palestinians from getting out--and with half the population comprised of children under 15, many Gazans are being denied a future. NBC's Tom Aspell reports.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30.....8#37581018

Dick Simmons| 6.9.10 @ 4:01PM

Look for the old anti-semite to show up on MSNBC.

Margie| 6.9.10 @ 6:55PM

Yes, it'll be the Anti-Semite Hour, hosted by Rachel MadCow and Keith Overfrite. Occasionally hosted by Chris-the-spine-thrilling-leg tingling-Matthews.

Tim*| 6.9.10 @ 4:46PM

Didn't Obama say he was gonna kick Helen's A$$, and put his boot on her neck ?

Or was that BP ?

Ron Holt| 6.9.10 @ 4:51PM

Orwell wrote that if one wished to understand the Left, all that was needed was to contemplate the ugliness of its women. Helen Thomas is perfect testimony to that insight-- both physically and intellectually revolting.

Evelyn| 6.9.10 @ 4:53PM

All I ask now is that we don't have any more of those dreaful close-ups of that old wax museum refugee. She looks like she's melting.

jrjr| 6.9.10 @ 4:54PM

All of you people piling criticism on the WH maiden of the press corspe (sp) had better watch your back. She (or it) may read your posts.

Margie| 6.9.10 @ 6:44PM

Be afraid, be VERY afraid.

Dan| 6.9.10 @ 4:55PM

She just landed a job haunting houses in Oct..

Tim*| 6.9.10 @ 5:17PM

She's pretty enough to get approved for The Supreme Court .

gearjammer| 6.9.10 @ 5:23PM

The question is how does one become so diseased of mind ? And, she is one of many thousands in the Washington orbit, be they politicians, media, career bureaucrats, socialites, enshrined personalities, lawyers , and whatever else that also are diseased of mind. And, they matter. They have power and influence and they have done much to damage our great country. When do we get to prosecute them ? How can we sue them ? Is there some way to kick their asses ? Vote Republican ? Sure they'll hate that. But, the Republicans never put a hurt on these people. Too polite, too much cowardly lion. Get rid of the elephant logo and replace it with old Bert Lahr as the cowardly lion. We need a party of raging bull elephants to into Washington and trample the establishment into oblivion. We need a Tarzan of a leader to give out the yell and the bulls need to charge.

John II| 6.9.10 @ 6:07PM

Whaddaya mean "ugly"? How churlish and shallow. Look beyond the preposterous face and into her soul: why, she looks exactly like . . . Barack Obama and his appointees!

Margie| 6.9.10 @ 6:42PM

And she also is the face of all Blame America Firsters as well.

John II| 6.9.10 @ 9:20PM

Whoa--I didn't think of that. Helen of Troy is referred to by Marlowe as "the face that launched a thousand ships." I guess Helen of Thomas is the face that sunk a thousand ships.

Margie| 6.10.10 @ 10:10AM

While we're on it~ The Face That Stopped a Thousand Clocks.
Which explains the saying, "Time marches on."

victor| 6.10.10 @ 10:39PM

John II:
"she looks exactly like . . . Barack Obama"

Exactly! Imagine that Barack was Dorian Gray, then Helen would be his "picture".

ojo grande| 6.9.10 @ 8:49PM

Comic Dennis Miller said on OReilly tonight that he's pretty sure that Helen Thomas didn't sleep her way to the top....Gosh, I wish I'd said that.

ConservativeNewYorker| 6.9.10 @ 9:07PM

Jackie Mason wrote in "Schmucks":

"It takes five minutes to commit adultery--maybe ten if you accidentally picture Helen Thomas..."
(page 41)

ojo grande| 6.9.10 @ 9:58PM

Tim,
You win the funny award.
I can picture Helen Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsberg cackling with glee while they cook a Conservative in their black cauldron....aw heck, maybe they'll throw in a Jew to sweeten the pot for Helen...

PCP Smoker| 6.9.10 @ 10:00PM

"when she made some comments so offensive that even her friends in the media could not defend her."
This statement is bullshit. The liberal media had heard those comments before, or at least similar comments, they were just not recorded for the world to view.

They hid her anti-semitism because she was a fine lib, and would have ignored this one if the old battle axe had not blabbed her gum on youtube.

Eat it bitch

quicksand| 6.10.10 @ 12:05AM

Vaemar ha obviously never seen Snow White. The with was svelte and beautiful in an evil John Adams way. Helen is a gargoyle. She was a practioner of ambush journalism. She used to pride herself on the fact that she would hide amongst the White House greenery only to leap out to confront the unwary. God, what a shock that must have been. It might just scare the truth of a few.

Who was the other doyenne of the Press Room? The one with the hat - Maude something or other - always skewering JFK. Ah, for the old days. Dan (What's the frequency, Ken?) Rather, Sam Donaldson insulting Presidnet Reagan. Reagan feigning deafness. . .

No more news hounds - just a box full of pound puppies. Except Fox News' Major -

quicksand| 6.10.10 @ 12:14AM

You need a decoder ring for above - -
ha = has
with = witch
practioner = practitioner
truth of a few = truth out of a few

hardly worth translating!

Maybe the "What's the frequency, Ken?" episode of Rather, found wandering aimlessly muttering that enigmatic phrase - explains his lunacy in later life.

GavInTucson| 6.10.10 @ 4:00AM

Well, if Disney Entertainment ever looks to do a non-animated remake of Snow White, I'm sure Helen will be on the short-list of people that fit a certain part for that movie.

Calvin Long| 6.10.10 @ 7:39AM

The benefit of having Helen Thomas around is that our own looks into the mirror aren't so unsettling.

Chance| 6.10.10 @ 7:46AM

Kennedy like her because she made his sister, Eunice look good.

Ledbaby| 6.10.10 @ 10:20AM

Here's a little known kernel of information regarding Helen. Look at her closely and you'll see she's actually the lovechild of the late Saudi King Faisal and one of his concubines!

quicksand| 6.10.10 @ 2:18PM

Judging from Helen's unfortunate features, it is difficult to nail down her ethnic background. It is not exactly the face that launched a thousand ships - more like sunk them - - but somewhere I read eons ago that she was Armenian or Turkish or something that would explain that ant eater's proboscis

Occam's Tool| 10.14.11 @ 1:12PM

Lebanese.

Vic| 6.12.10 @ 10:58AM

It would be nice if one could write off such vile utterance as mere senility, but she has said things just about as vile before.

She kind of shot holes in the bottom of the liberal boat of "tolerance and diversity" though didn't she?

jfdi| 7.1.10 @ 4:57AM

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