Video: Fox & Friends talk about kicking out Helen Thomas, taking her seat
posted at 2:01 pm on February 15, 2007 by Ian
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It’s safe to say that columnist Helen Thomas is not a favorite figure in the White House pressroom as far as conservatives are concerned. On Wednesday morning, the “Fox & Friends” crew discussed the revelation that the Fox News Channel has asked for a better seat during gaggles and pressers in the newly renovated pressroom once it’s completed, one in the front row in fact.
Hmm. Left wing hack or number one cable news network? We report, you decide!
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Not much to say, just wanted my name under her picture.
Ugly on February 15, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Its not nice to make fun of the dead.
Number 2 on February 15, 2007 at 2:08 PM
Thomas is the face of American journalism.
mymanpotsandpans on February 15, 2007 at 2:09 PM
Doesn’t thomas just write opinion pieces anyways? Didn’t she give up actual reporting a few years ago? Why is she even there.
lorien1973 on February 15, 2007 at 2:10 PM
True. On soooo many different levels.
lorien1973 on February 15, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Why stop at the WH pressroom. Can we kick her out of the country?
World B. Free on February 15, 2007 at 2:11 PM
Please post one picture of Helen Thomas each day right around lunchtime, and I’ll never break my diet.
hindmost on February 15, 2007 at 2:18 PM
It sounds like a good ideal but don’t you need a court order to remove a dead body from it’s resting place?
Gwillie on February 15, 2007 at 2:18 PM
So…was that a picture of helen…or is that a picture of murthascum’s butt…never mind…don’t care…
areseaoh on February 15, 2007 at 2:24 PM
Can someone talented please photoshop Helen with one of those ‘London Fashion Week’ pieces?
Entelechy on February 15, 2007 at 2:27 PM
Especially the person who sits behind her when she has a bad case of “the wind”……
PinkyBigglesworth on February 15, 2007 at 2:29 PM
I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!
Kini on February 15, 2007 at 2:29 PM
I think Carl Cameron could wrestle her from the seat.
Valiant on February 15, 2007 at 2:29 PM
They’re right, she isn’t really a reporter anymore, she just likes to hear herself gripe. Frankly, I don’t know why they let her in the room, much less the front row. I say kick her out of the WH altogether.
CP on February 15, 2007 at 2:31 PM
Instead of wandering around saying “Brains” she wanders around muttering “Hate Bush”.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on February 15, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Blocked!
Theworldisnotenough on February 15, 2007 at 2:38 PM
Just don’t tell her the new room’s complete! She’ll never notice!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on February 15, 2007 at 2:41 PM
Can you imagine the outcry if her front row seat is reassigned?
Good grief, the MSM will make a martyr out of her. Whether she still deserves to sit there or not will be irrelevent. The story will be how brutal and harsh the Bush administration is for taking away the seat of someone who has covered the White House for 125 freakin’ years.
Fox may get a front row seat, but it won’t be Helen’s.
BacaDog on February 15, 2007 at 2:43 PM
I watched this episode of Fox and Friends, part of it anyway.
What caught my eye: tall blonde guy was reporting in that “ah shucks” manner he has: biiiigggg problem: some people who have Hispanic nannies (fully documented no doubt) are finding their children are becoming (sit down for this) bi-lingual!!!
To her credit the woman pointed out to him that most people would consider this a good thing. To which this cretin replied that he had friends whose child spoke only Spanish til she was 5 because of that being the nanny’s native tongue.
Oblivous to the what this said about the parenting skills of these friends. Oy.
So Fox people don’t care for Helen Thomas huh? Well shut my mouth….
honora on February 15, 2007 at 2:43 PM
If it were me, both Helen Thomas and Gregory would of been given the boot. After all, I feel the President has the right to decide who has, and who doesn’t have, access to the press conferences and what not.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on February 15, 2007 at 2:46 PM
Excuse me???
honora on February 15, 2007 at 2:49 PM
“Her” seat? Since when does she own it? I agree. The President has the right to decide who has access and who does not. From my viewpoint, there should have be a “cleanin’” some time ago.
On the other hand, having her visible puts liberal insanity on display for all to see. Not like there’s a lack of it, though.
IrishEyes on February 15, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Gargantuan task - and, also, not desired. At least, not shut your mind and keyboard :)
Entelechy on February 15, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Yes, honora, she should lose her seat and someone more
honest, civil and truly tough should take Gregory’s.
It is impossible to listen to these two because you know
every single word that comes out of their mouth or pen is
structured so that it is almost as negative as Marcotte and McEwen.
You may have a right to be in there, but if all you are doing is playing to the tinfoil hatted leftist loons, you are not
doing anybody any good. I say ENOUGH!!!!
sharinlite on February 15, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Send it over to China’s Google and see if they’ll censor it, too.
Kokonut on February 15, 2007 at 3:04 PM
“some people who have Hispanic nannies (fully documented no doubt) are finding their children are becoming (sit down for this) bi-lingual!!!”
Honora … learning a different language is great, but not when you learn it because English is being replaced by that language. Whether you refuse to accept it or not, catering to the hispanic population by not stressing our own language, english, and resigning everything in dual languages not only hurts them, but slowly erodes our own language, cultures and traditions.
If you wish to enjoy mexican dialects, cultures and traditions, Jet Blue as an immediate available flight.
darwin on February 15, 2007 at 3:04 PM
Well, drat. I guess that puts the kibosh on my Cinco de Mayo party.
Slublog on February 15, 2007 at 3:06 PM
To the victor goes the spoils… should work for Dems as well as Reps. Rank has it’s privilege.
Why not be able to kick out reporters? Just the the media outlet they work for to either send someone else, or to not bother showing up.
As I understand it, Helen Thomas doesn’t even work for a press outlet any more, just freelances her drivel.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on February 15, 2007 at 3:11 PM
I think the White House ought to clean out the “Press Corps.” The “press corps” is a CONVENIENCE to the news media; it fills NO constitutional requirement. There is NO mention of a “press corps” in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. All the 1st says about the press is that Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of the Press.
It says NOTHING about the Executive Branch (1) providing a spokesman to answer their questions, (2) providing the SPACE in the White House for them to gather at, or (3) putting up with hostile, vile questions and reporters on a daily basis.
I am not against a “press corps” per say, because I know that it’s existence is USED by the White House to convey information from the President to the people.
The White House is with their rights to CHOSE which reporters will have access to the White House for news gathering and reporting. The White House is perfectly within their rights to DENY ANY “reporter” access to the White House for any reason.
As certain “reporters” make puff up their resumes and their liberal credentials by being openly vicious and hostile to this president (as they weren’t to Clinton), I believe that the White House should cease using either seniority or the news organization’s “prominence” to determine who is or who is not allowed into WH press conferences.
IF I WERE PRESIDENT, I’d remove Helen Thomas because she is an opinion writer, not a reporter. I’d remove the New York Times and Washington Post reporters because their organizations routinely publish classified information in violation of federal law (the Espionage Act).
Law breaking SHOULD NOT BE REWARDED with a White House press pass.
I’d also remove David Gregory because he is an obnoxious ass who is neither polite, gracious, or respectful.
In addition, when different reporters repeat the same question, after it has been answered by the White House spokesman, those reporters should be place on notice that their future presence in the White House may be restricted.
And I’d add that any reporter deliberately MISREPORTING what the White House said, would be immediately banned from attending future events.
Look, the White House is the “People’s House,” this is true. But the purpose of communicating information from and about the government (specifically the Executive Branch) to the people (a key role of the press), is NOT SERVED when media representatives act boorishly, confrontational, or when their organizations OPENLY and WILLFULLY break the law and disclose secrets that aid the enemy. In those circumstances, it is perfectly proper that the White House refuse access to those individuals who place partisan politics and personal self-aggrandizement above reporting the news, or to those organizations who are willfully aiding and abetting the enemy.
georgej on February 15, 2007 at 3:15 PM
“just freelances her drivel”.
“Drivel” is way too kind.
darwin on February 15, 2007 at 3:15 PM
I believe the criterion is “working journalist”, which, as an opinion writer, Thomas no longer is. She’s just been great-grandmothered in. Even when she introduced Clinton at a speech with “Oh, Mr. President, we love you. We wish you were still President. George Bush is the worst President in the history of the United States…”, all she got was one day of second-row and no questions. The left went ballistic about silencing the nation’s most important Truth-to-Power warrior. Feh.
eeyore on February 15, 2007 at 3:15 PM
I think Thomas works for King Features Syndicate, so she is still a working member of the press. There’s a much easier solution to the problem of how to solve a problem like Helen. Stop calling on her.
Slublog on February 15, 2007 at 3:18 PM
I haven’t looked it up, Slu, but as I remember, a couple of years ago, a syndicated opinion writer got kicked out and told that his pass had been mis-issued and the passes were only for those on the news side of things. Test: Michelle? Bryan? AP? Apply for press pass?
eeyore on February 15, 2007 at 3:27 PM
Ha. I bet the readership of Hot Air is higher than Hellen’s.
Someone ought to send in a reporter to ask questions that take shots at the members of the “poser press corps”.
Jones Zemkophill on February 15, 2007 at 3:30 PM
Was that Jeff Gannon?
Slublog on February 15, 2007 at 3:31 PM
Aww… go ahead and let Helen and David come. I don’t understand why TS would ever, ever point to them though. Ignore them; talk over them; let them feel like they were allowed to crash the party, but be sure that they realize that they still aren’t cool enough to talk to anyone who was actually invited. Maybe they would get tired of being ignored.
Amen!
lan astaslem on February 15, 2007 at 3:44 PM
Can some one please guide Helen to the nearest tar-pit so we can end this debate.
x95b10 on February 15, 2007 at 3:44 PM
I whined about this on the other thread - can’t for the life of me understand why there is this “convention” that allows hacks to dominate the access to the White House and to the President. For all the time the egos (called “reporters”) hog in the press conferences, ya’d think the American citizens would get some useful news. They write propaganda that they’d settled on before anything the president has to say, so it seems a press conference with those do-nothings serves no purpose. I’ll volunteer for the next press conference. I have questions I want answered, like the administration’s vision of India-American strategic relations - that is, the presentation that president had wanted to make, and that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had traveled half-way around the globe to discuss, but our fabulous White House Press Corps, who probably can’t even pronounce Manmohan, ignored the stated subject and asked moron questions about Scooter Libby - and that was last year. It was pathetic. The expression of disbelief on Singh’s face as he gazed over the rabble of airheads was illuminative.
naliaka on February 15, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Of course, if Bush is just using the Press Corps as flypaper, then carry on.
naliaka on February 15, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Ain’t gonna happen. Dub-Yuh doesn’t have the balls.
Labamigo on February 15, 2007 at 3:58 PM
I say keep her there and continue to call on her to show all what the WH press corps is really there to do - agenda driven journalism.
Rick on February 15, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Gomez and Lily seem to have lost a relative.
Limerick on February 15, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Folks! Look at her! How much longer do you think she’ll be around?!??!
She’s pestered every President since Lincoln so she can’t have much time left.
Gregory on OTH…………..he needs a smack in the mouth.
Talon on February 15, 2007 at 4:20 PM
She’s not that old.
Garfield or Arthur, maybe.
Slublog on February 15, 2007 at 4:34 PM
Molly Henneberg
RedWinged Blackbird on February 15, 2007 at 4:49 PM
After checking up on Gannon, I’ll have to say maybe, but I’m not sure. I just remember the takeaway phrase from that time: “working journalist.”
eeyore on February 15, 2007 at 4:52 PM
I believe that was Gomez and Mortisha. sp? But I have to agree that HT looks a lot like Mortisha’s mother.
brtex on February 15, 2007 at 5:04 PM
you are right brtex……Lily was Herman’s.
Limerick on February 15, 2007 at 5:05 PM
They probably get a kick out of watching her impale herself on her own bias and obtuseness. They get to ridicule the left through Helen.
mesablue on February 15, 2007 at 5:08 PM
The sad thing is she really feeds off the attention. If they denied her this status she’d probably give up the ghost and croak.
darwin on February 15, 2007 at 6:25 PM
Do you suppose that Helen would be interested in modeling a burka for us at the London fashion shows?
(I am desperately trying to think of some possible use for this woman.)
CyberCipher on February 15, 2007 at 6:35 PM
Door stop…maybe?
SouthernGent on February 15, 2007 at 7:12 PM
I don’t know why this is, but Helen reminds me overmuch of emperor Palatine (of Star Wars fame)…
Natrium on February 15, 2007 at 9:13 PM
Helen Thomas? I thought that was a bad Jack Nicholson as the Joker impersonation.
oakpack on February 15, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Which end?
91Veteran on February 15, 2007 at 10:46 PM
Give her the seat in the bathroom! That’s where one goes to produce crap…..
sMack on February 15, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Personally I think they should kick her out as well as CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc…
When they come to the door quietly remind them that this is a PRESS conference. Al-Quaeda propaganda outlets are not welcome.
Hmm.. I can dream can’t I?
CrazyFool on February 15, 2007 at 11:37 PM
She just had a case of “the Wind”………
Tony Snow’w last Press Conference………
PinkyBigglesworth on February 16, 2007 at 1:08 AM
In all honesty, can’t those questions be asked of the entire MSM?
Anyway, my question is, how exactly does someone get to be that hideous? Maybe I’m mistaken, but I don’t see how looking like that could be natural. Maybe she was leaning over her cauldron and it exploded in her face?
Wolfman on February 16, 2007 at 4:23 AM
I thought that old witch was dead already.
Swear…if you had asked, I’d have said…yeah…she croaked during the first term….
Maybe its just because she LOOKS like a corpse.
seejanemom on February 16, 2007 at 7:47 AM
Helen Tomas used to perform a Lewinsky on Yasser Arafart.
Hilts on February 16, 2007 at 9:19 AM