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| Helen Thomas kicked out of the front row |
| 2007-02-23 |
| Every theater-style seat in the White House briefing room, now closed for renovation, had a brass plaque inscribed with the name of a news organization. Only one, in the middle of the front row, had a name: “HELEN THOMAS,” it said. The unique assigned seat between the chairs for CBS News and ABC News was reserved for The press corps is scheduled to move from temporary facilities back into the spiffed-up, rewired briefing room in May or June. Thomas, who has been questioning presidents and press secretaries for 46 years, plans to be there. But her front-row seat won’t be. Plans call for her to be moved to the second row to make room for a cable news channel – a sign of Washington’s changing pecking order, and of the new ways that Americans get their news. I hope it's Fox moving in to her old seat. That would be delicious. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #12 Why are we catering to the very people that misconstrue the words of the Administration? A vacant room and folding chairs would do quite nicely. Why spend the money on these liars? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-02-23 22:52 |
| #11 She reminds me of the guy they found dead in his easy chair. He had been dead for a year and nobody knew it. I think they moved Helen because she has been dead for a long time--maybe most of her life. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-02-23 13:27 |
| #10 “I didn’t think I had a monopoly on that seat,” Thomas, 86, said in a telephone interview. “Since my peers have decided that I don’t belong there, I’ll bow to their – I’ll drink the – What did Socrates drink?” Hemlock? “I’ll drink it,” she said. “You have to submit to the will of the people, and apparently this is the will of my peers. It’s OK with me. I’ve had a good run in the front seat.” Don't make promises you have no intention of keeping, Helen. It just makes you a tease. Besides, there are much more faster acting products on the market these days... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-23 13:06 |
| #9 "If Helen Thomas doesn't get her seat back, then the terrorists will have won!" /MSM |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-02-23 12:54 |
| #8 I could care less if she was Jesus' daughter. She is still a howling moron. And a ugly one at that. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-02-23 11:19 |
| #7 Tony UK. Late Palaeolithic... Naw, she is the last surviving dinosaur, taken in and fostered by lemurs when the meteor struck the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2007-02-23 11:18 |
| #6 Mr Ricardo, that is cruel. Remember, she is someones daughter (ok, someone from the late Paleolithic), but a daughter nevertheless. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2007-02-23 09:36 |
| #5 Explain to me why, with the internet for the WH to communicate directly with the people and no need to have their words |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-02-23 09:10 |
| #4 When dealing with that face, the extra ten feet probably helps... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-23 09:08 |
| #3 1 A major victory in the GWOT. LOL! |
| Posted by: occasional observer 2007-02-23 09:07 |
| #2 As far as I'm concerned, it won't be a real victory until she's returned to her REAL rightful place, squatting on a ledge at the National Cathedral. With the rest of the gargoyles. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-02-23 09:01 |
| #1 A major victory in the GWOT. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-02-23 07:15 |