Helen Thomas has been a hero of mine since I first heard her say: Thank you Mr. President to end the press conference.
She has been asking the hard questions for 46 years now. Her seat in the front row has been earned. Now it seems they want to move her out of the front row. Silly infighting with the sheep that call themselves journalists from the cable networks I hear.
Excuse me.
Helen Thomas is 86 years old and she still can give Tony Snow a whuppin.
That seat should be her’s for life. In fact when she dies — it being left open as a tribute is a darn good idea.
From Philly Inquirer interview
(http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/15930375.htm):
Thomas: I’m a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal till the day I die. That has nothing to do with whether or not this administration is telling the truth. Nor does it have anything to do with the way I presented my stories when I was a news reporter. When I was reporting news, as a person I never bowed out of the human race — I felt my feelings and had my opinions about things, just as anyone does — but it never got into my copy. I was never accused of slanting my copy. Now that I’m a columnist, well, I go for broke. But there’s a difference between straight reporting and opinion writing. When I was a reporter, I wrote a straight story. You park your views in a blind trust and tell the straightest story you can. In fact, you tell the dullest story possible, because you don’t want one word, one verb or noun, to stray into it to let your feelings show. I think the American people really do get a straight shot on the front pages of the newspapers of this country.”
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