Tommy Christopher (yes, seriously) asked Helen Thomas today about her oft-repeated phrase “so-called terrorists”. Here’s what she had to say:
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“Their tactics are horrible, but so are ours.”
What is there to add to that? Helen’s own words I guess.
“I’m a liberal, I was born a liberal, I’ll be one ’til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?”
Yep, that fits. (UPDATE below the fold.)
Update - Ed Morrissey at Hot Air adds:
Caleb Howe, a conservative at Red State who partners with Tommy on projects and events, chalks this up to Thomas’ liberalism, but I think that lets her off the hook. Plenty of liberals don’t buy into the nutty moral equivalency of terrorists who target civilians for political purposes and the people who fight the terrorists hiding among the civilians. Mostly that comes from the lunatic Left, the International ANSWER and World Can’t Wait quasi-Stalinists and terrorist apologists. I’d include Michael Moore, who argued that al-Qaeda in Iraq were the modern-day equivalents to the Minutemen of the American Revolution, who also made their argument by blowing up carriages with huge bombs buried in the streets and beheaded civilian engineers that they kidnapped from the British … at least according to Moore.
Update II from Jeff Emanuel:
Also, Thomas’ permanent front row seat in the WH briefing room legitimizes that loony left Ed refers to as both acceptable and “mainstream.”
Somebody check the expiration date on Helen
EagleWatcher Friday, February 20th at 2:54PM EST (link)I think I smell something.
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You'd have to get pretty close to Helen to check that
janis Friday, February 20th at 3:14PM EST (link)expiration date, you know. And I’m pretty sure that most of us don’t have hazmat gear. Well, Caleb might, since he went to the RNC this past summer, so maybe he’s the one who gets to see Helen close up and personal.
That’s why you get the big bucks, Caleb.
She reminds me of a Skeksis,
Uma Richie Friday, February 20th at 3:32PM EST (link)and this would be her evening beauty ritual:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPaKNafdJ18
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“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” -Lech Walesa
Where are the robots?
Erick Brockway Friday, February 20th at 4:32PM EST (link)I thought MST3K had robots!
Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”
Ronald Reagan
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Whoa, how old are you?
Uma Richie Friday, February 20th at 5:34PM EST (link)I take it you’re not from the era of watching the same movie on HBO five times because it was only going to be shown for one month, not everyone had a VHS yet, and there weren’t 149 other channels to choose from. (And we walked to school in the freezing cold uphill both ways.)
(Sigh!) And MST3K is not an option for me again until my house quiets down enough to watch a movie without closed captioning/subtitles.
But if robots are what you want, I refer you to my second diary ever.
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“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” -Lech Walesa
Got rabbit ears?
Erick Brockway Friday, February 20th at 8:49PM EST (link)Remember when our parents thought wadding up Ding Dong tinfoil and wrapping it around the antenna would make everything better?
Whoah! I just got a headrush!
Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”
Ronald Reagan
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Darn it Caleb. Are you TRYING to get me banned? nt
mbecker908 Friday, February 20th at 2:56PM EST (link)Who, exactly, other then Hellen Thomas, is calling AQ freedom fighters??...
Attack Mode Friday, February 20th at 2:59PM EST (link)And those who are actually engaged in warfare against us don’t count…sorry, thems the rules Helen.
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
When Oh When...
Snake45 Friday, February 20th at 3:03PM EST (link)…will a house fall on this awful, awful woman?
Memo to Helen:
NeoKong Friday, February 20th at 3:50PM EST (link)Terrorists do not fight to free people.They fight to enslave them.
The opinion of a wise whitino male.
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Jeff Emanuel Friday, February 20th at 4:35PM EST (link)JE
Is it a violation of the RedStated TOS to say that she is a blithering idiot?
barry915barry Friday, February 20th at 4:04PM EST (link)Inquiring minds want to know.
Only if the statement is untrue
civil_truth Friday, February 20th at 5:02PM EST (link)Therefore, you’re safe.
And Rightly So!
Has She Ever Been Capable of Speaking the Truth?
papalee Friday, February 20th at 4:34PM EST (link)I don’t think so and I have been around almost as long as she has.
GOD ALMIGHTY!
thesavage1 Friday, February 20th at 4:37PM EST (link)How much longer do we have to listen to this old wind bag? She is such a FREAKING BEATING!
One of the few honest ones.
NightTwister Friday, February 20th at 4:37PM EST (link)At least she admits she’s biased.
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Name That Hag Contest
farstar99 Friday, February 20th at 4:37PM EST (link)Trollkin
Hagatha
The Talking Mushroom
Wart Woman
Pumpkinhead
Scurvy B. Saggylobes
FatUglyRatBagHag
Helen Thomas is just so sad
phxg Friday, February 20th at 4:46PM EST (link)I’m still amazed that with all her statements of bias, that she is still able to be allowed to submit reports.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle
Helen was "born a liberal" and...
6eorge Jetson Friday, February 20th at 4:48PM EST (link)lacking bowel control. At least she progressed in one of those two cognitive functions (I assume).
Please refrain from posting pictures of Helen anytime near mealtime.. nt
olsmithie Friday, February 20th at 5:47PM EST (link)When Helen Retires...
chrisie Friday, February 20th at 5:12PM EST (link)She can rake in the money at Halloween working her cauldron.
There's another
Wayne Saturday, February 21st at 9:26PM EST (link)one waiting in the wings. Helen has niece, who works for the local NBC affiliate in Grand Rapids, Mi. She bears an unholy resemblance to the old hag, and sounds like her too. WOODTV doesn’t seem to post pics of their anchors, maybe with good reason?
“Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal, and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain’t s–t”. Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly, USMC, Deputy CG, First MEF
Helen's is a self exclusionary comment.
johnt Friday, February 20th at 5:33PM EST (link)Rather like the ritualistic “America is a racist society” tripe.
It is a given that the speaker does not include herself in such condemnation, their hate is projected out to their country and countrymen. There ain’t no “we”.
But you never know, maybe Helen really fears some wild American is planning to saw hear head off, or fly an airplane into a muslim building. How else does this ugly ape justify such bile?
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Gravity and Time...
DONTREADONME Friday, February 20th at 6:24PM EST (link)have not been kind to Ms Thomas. Now who is going to argue with gravity and time…
I bet you all thought I was going to talk about Einstein. Nope, I am talking about the troll up there with an IQ less than her age. Yes, I dislike that woman that much.
“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth
She looks like Keith Richards' mother.
Tbone Friday, February 20th at 7:50PM EST (link)And who said the dead don’t talk.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
His mother? Heck, she looks like Keith Richards
Jack_Savage Friday, February 20th at 7:57PM EST (link)On a really, really bad day.
I was thinking an evil Angela Lansbury myself... nt
Xasteius Friday, February 20th at 8:23PM EST (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
When I grow up, I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be Art Chance.
~Aaron Gardner
I was thinking an evil Angela Lansbury myself... nt
Xasteius Friday, February 20th at 8:25PM EST (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
When I grow up, I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be Art Chance.
~Aaron Gardner
Access
ss396 Friday, February 20th at 8:18PM EST (link)She didn’t say “access to the truth”; she said “axes to the truth.” I hope they correct the transcription in later editions.
If you pay people to sit on their duffs, you cannot be surprised when they do.
Let her keep sounding off and making the Left look bad
icbm Saturday, February 21st at 3:06PM EST (link)And let other reporters who agree with her make their views public, too.
And then let’s have Obama, true to his own beliefs, say something equivocal about it rather than condemning it outright.
And then let’s have Pres. Jindal sworn in on Jan. 20, 2013.
I thought that still shot of Helen Thomas was the reason...
DONTREADONME Saturday, February 21st at 9:23PM EST (link)for the redstate updates yesterday. I just figured that mug melted the circuits at the server.
“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth