Helen Thomas goes nuclear on White House again: “What the hell do they think we are, puppets?”
posted at 8:14 pm on July 1, 2009 by Allahpundit
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I know any and all criticism of The One from the left is to be welcomed with Strange New Respect, but … I just can’t muster it, guys. Not for Aunt Bethany.
It’s okay. Leave me behind and go on without me.
“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try.
“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”
Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran.
“When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said.
“I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well–for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”
As I understand it, HuffPo was told that they’d be called on for a question from Iran but weren’t asked in advance what the question would be. In which case, what’s her problem? Wasn’t she, in fact, traditionally the first reporter called on at the daily briefing until fairly recently? Now the AP’s the first to be called on, as Gibbs himself noted earlier today. What’s the difference between HuffPo knowing the night before that they’ll get to ask a question and Helen Thomas or the AP knowing?
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The answer is yes. Self-awareness is a marvel, isn’t it, Helen? She definitely puts the Hell in Helen.
Carolina Kat on July 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Mount McKinley ?
William Amos on July 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Obama’s town hall just as much of a sham as expected. He staged a hug w/ a campaign volunteer during the event. Unreal.
More here
nickj116 on July 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM
So,now…
coldwarrior on July 1,2009 at 9:13PM.
coldwarrior: Tee-Hee,now thats being mean!haha*
*(Blatantblue,sorry,I’m laughing with-you!)
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 9:17 PM
page 2 just disappeared!
Bicyea on July 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Very possible.
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM
With all this stage craft going on, one might think that Obama is some kind of megalomaniac…you know, like all those wonderful narcissistic dictators we’ve had to suffer over the past century.
Nah…couldn’t happen here. Never mind.
coldwarrior on July 1, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Bicyea on July 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM
It’s kind of like 1/20/09. History has been erased.
(Remember all the Obama “firsts” that have been done before?)
cs89 on July 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM
What? You mean you’re not???
uncivilized on July 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM
If you can find an e-mail.
Katy on July 1,2009 at 9:13PM.
Katy: Since we have rain,in the Twin Soo’s,are Canada Day
fireworks have be cancelled,in which,will free me up
some time,to go on an Intel mission,for said e-mail!
—:)
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I’m sick of this blog and I’m not even a real conservative.
To paraphrase something I heard Greg Guttfeld say in an interview recently:
“I became a conservative by being around liberals and I became a libertarian by being around conservatives.”
He has more stamina than I do. I’m just going to give the hell up before I get to the libertarians.
Jaynie59 on July 1, 2009 at 9:21 PM
When you’ve lost Helen Thomas, you’ve lost Hezbollah.
sulla on July 1, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Now, that’s just crazy talk.
Next question, please.
uncivilized on July 1, 2009 at 9:22 PM
hahaha. Such a “smart” reporter…treated like a mere puppet. Didn’t anyone tell her that all journalists have an expiration date, hello? Your usefulness ran out and you’ve been replaced by another useful idiot. Get over it. Go play with the “so-called” terrorists, lady.
scalleywag on July 1, 2009 at 9:23 PM
!!!!!ATTENTION H/A Crew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For some perplexing,and inexplicable SNAFU,
me thinks,the U.S.S.H/A,is traveling through
some kind of Bermuda Triangle of the net!
Keep a sharp lookout,and ever vigil!
Back to commenting!(Snark).
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 9:25 PM
snort!
scalleywag on July 1, 2009 at 9:25 PM
HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!
thomasaur on July 1, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Obama’s town hall just as much of a sham as expected. He staged a hug w/ a campaign volunteer during the event. Unreal.
More here
nickj116 on July 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Mark Levin was talking about this tonight. The entire Bozo administration is a sham.
txag92 on July 1, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Maybe,Hillary has a super-secret gizmo,
like the ‘Reset-Button’,and she set it,
back to Time Zero,and thats why the pages,
are awol!!haha.
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Grassy a$$!
Headed for the Ft. Lauderdale tea party Saturday.
Federal Building, Broward Blvd. and N.E.3rd St.
Any catchy sign ideas including Helen?
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Not able to go back in time! Apparently anything before Carolina Kat stated “She definitely puts the Hell in Helen.” on July 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM no longer exists.
Obama wants one of these machines in every home!
highhopes on July 1, 2009 at 9:31 PM
What, no Captain Louis Renault award for press people surprised when socialists want to control the media? I guess that’s Ed’s shtick.
Kafir on July 1, 2009 at 9:31 PM
hey im back
helens out getting more lotion
blatantblue on July 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Fellow Floridian here- go kick some a**
bazil9 on July 1, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, is what I was taught. Be thankful that the liberal left is starting to open their eyes to what is going on. The elites have been playing us against each other for long enough. Maybe she will even join us at the Tea Party on July 4th… (Chuckle)
DL13 on July 1, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Even Helen Thomas smells the sh*t
Upstater85 on July 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Helen’s lotion might not be your kind of lotion, man…
Upstater85 on July 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
maybe, just maybe the press is getting as pizzed as the rest of us over this fairy-tail BULLSH*T that goes on daily at 1600 penna ave…
SHARPTOOTH on July 1, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Obama better take Helen out for a burger or somthin.
Bicyea on July 1, 2009 at 9:40 PM
After all these years, you think Helen would know,…..”You get in bed with the devil, you get screwed“!… MSM slept fine through the campaign..own the screw!!
christene on July 1, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Join us! There were around 2500 people there on tax day.Not a bad turn-out for a county with 12 conservatives(including me and the Dawg). Broward police directed traffic with waves and smiles. Eerie!
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Helen Thomas looks like a marionette from a French Revolution Era puppet show.
Tough wires, them.
profitsbeard on July 1, 2009 at 9:42 PM
helens out getting more lotion
blatantblue on July 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM
That is just plain wrong. :)
txag92 on July 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I hope you have a lot of bleach.
HornetSting on July 1, 2009 at 9:44 PM
ROTFLMAO…. Thats sooo mean….. lol…lol…lol… You go girl…. ;)
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 9:45 PM
+100!
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Any catchy sign ideas
Katy on July 1,2009 at 9:30PM.
Katy:
Free Helen’s Puppet
Take you dam dirty filthy paws off me,I’m
not a puppet,(Planet of the Apes reference).
Hope and Change,means that the Puppets need to
be free!
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I think you’re all missing her point. Exactly how does this guy know these email questions were from Iran and that Iranians sent them? Astroturfing?
bloggless on July 1, 2009 at 9:46 PM
BB, Helen got the Lotion… She’s ready to go.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n7RltmTdk-g/ScGOvQSju8I/AAAAAAAAIck/iaGueWPbTDo/s200/Helen+Thomas.jpg
Upstater85 on July 1, 2009 at 9:47 PM
I hope you have a lot of bleach.
HornetSting on July 1, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I don’t think there’s enough bleach in the world to erase that from my mind. Looks like it’s going to be a rough night of dreams. UGH!
txag92 on July 1, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Well, if HuffPo and Pitney say so… And if Obama’s people call Pitney the night before… and…
Upstater85 on July 1, 2009 at 9:48 PM
guess i like this thread better
as opposed to the delusionals in the citizenship thread.
blatantblue on July 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Somebody should bribe AP into changing BB nic to BrainBleach…
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Huh?
Upstater85 on July 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Happy
thomasaur on July 1,2009 at 9:27PM.
thomasaur: Thank-You!:) Were actually waiting for the 4th,
Soo,Michigan`s fireworks,are twice
as big,and twice as long!:)
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Dont ask, you really dont want to know…
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Dont ask, you really dont want to know…
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 9:51 PM
I do….
txag92 on July 1, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Work it, Helen.
http://uglydemocrats.com/democrats/United-States/Helen-Thomas/Helen-Thomas-Bill-Clinton.jpg
Upstater85 on July 1, 2009 at 9:54 PM
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I would, thank you. I am a few hours from ya. I am going to the Jax party tomorrow.
bazil9 on July 1, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Blatantblue………..
……….. that’s not lotion.
Seven Percent Solution on July 1, 2009 at 9:57 PM
It’s a birth certificate thread. BB is getting pounded for taking a “you guys are stupid for asking” stance.
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Like I said elsewhere, this isn’t outrage against the principle. This is outrage that THEY weren’t the ones who got a special favor from the White House.
Daggett on July 1, 2009 at 9:58 PM
IT’S GRAVY…………. ;O
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 9:58 PM
no
it’s a “saying he hasn’t showed us” doesn’t make an argument stance.
blatantblue on July 1, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Hey… It’s yours, wash it as fast as you want to… ;p
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:00 PM
no
it’s a “saying he hasn’t showed us” doesn’t make an argument stance.
blatantblue on July 1, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Guess I wasn’t invited to the party. Darn it.
txag92 on July 1, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Dont feel sorry… You would need a fully body condom to participate. ;O
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Helen gives me almost giddy hope.
I keep saying that if Mr. Obama keeps talking and talking his motives will be revealed loud and clear. If Helen can see it I bet a lot more people than we think see it too.
Miss Molly on July 1, 2009 at 10:04 PM
All Helen can see is someone else getting the preeminence that she believes is her due.
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:05 PM
This is hardly dissension, or a moment of clarity on Helen’s part. It’s a simple case of ego vs. ego.
Cody Baker on July 1, 2009 at 10:07 PM
+1,000,000
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Anyone naive enough to believe that will believe anything.
Basilsbest on July 1, 2009 at 10:09 PM
If you find the email.
Katy on July 1,2009 at 9:27PM.
Katy: I hope it works!
Helen Thomas e-mail.
helent@hearstdc.com
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Thanks dorian. Same to you at 10:05.
Cody Baker on July 1, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Come on, we all like to watch press on press action. And I mean that in a pugilistic way.
Cindy Munford on July 1, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Thank you for qualifying that statement.
Cody Baker on July 1, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Oops at 9:30PM.
Katy,sorry!:) I should of directed my comment to,
Katy the mean old lady!!`:)
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Helen’s got her mad on and it ain’t pretty. Tomorrow’s daily press conference ought to be a riot!! Bet Obama shows up to rub lotion on Helen and get her back in line.
LOL
ihasurnominashun on July 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM
If memory serves me correctly doesnt “in a pugilistic way” refer to hitting each other with big sticks? Isn’t that kind of like having to look at and listen to Helen Thomas???
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:20 PM
ROTFLMAO… No kidding, that press on press had an almost Allahpundit red meat sexual suggestion to it…
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:22 PM
I did mean arguing as oppose to actual hitting (although…..)but I didn’t want it to be taken in a sexual way. Helen inspires that kind of talk, you know.
Cindy Munford on July 1, 2009 at 10:22 PM
I hope,Helen doesn`t get too pissed off with Gibbs!
I would hate to see her fire off a ballistic stiletto
heel,at high speed!
canopfor on July 1, 2009 at 10:25 PM
ROTFLMAO….. Yes, the very notion of Helen Thomas in any sexual implication does invoke a somebody please hit me in the head with a baseball bat kind of response… ;O
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Helen’s worried that the Huffpo guy will be considered a real journalist like her. Guess she’s thinking about her legacy.
Kissmygrits on July 1, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Oh please…. Stiletto hills weren’t invented when Helen was young enough to have worn them… He11 fire and the wheel weren’t invented yet then either…
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Good – I thought it was just me….I can’t get back to the earlier comments (pages 1 & 2)….
It’s been one of those days.
tru2tx on July 1, 2009 at 10:27 PM
It’s not just you… Department of Homeland Insecurity is using those pages to track IP addresses… ;O
doriangrey on July 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Jeez, Helen,
You cheerlead a Marxist, and then you’re shocked to discover he acts like a Marxist?
Well, DUH!
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on July 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I wondered why those black helicopters keep circling my backyard.
tru2tx on July 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM
No problema,the other Katy is nicer than I.
Thanks for the e-mail. I sent an “Atta girl” to Helen.
I’ll probably use UPSTATER’s slogan modified.
I have access to fresh horse manure so I think that,,
“Even Helen Thomas can smell it” with a smell-o-rama bag of
Pompano Park poop could do it.
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 10:44 PM
If she keeps speaking out like this, Obama’s going to declare her senile and have her removed from the press corp.
DrAllecon on July 1, 2009 at 10:53 PM
One component missing from the story:
The duche bag from HuffPo is the same bag of duche that thought it so clever to create a mosaic of a laughing McCain and Bush from the photos of all the KIA service members.
This guy (Nico) is a certifiable POS.
As for Helen, good for her.
To paraphrase LBJ, I’d rather have her inside the tent peeing out than outside the tent peeing in…..but in Helen’s case she simply soaks the depends. But you get the gist of it….
R Square on July 1, 2009 at 11:14 PM
It has got to be bad if Helen is miffed at this behavior
workingforpigs on July 1, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Not to start a drinking thread, but, I’ll raise my glass of Scotch to Helen for this one. If for no other reason than, I’ve never had any other reason. Not her biggest fan. But wouldn’t it be a Hoot if Helen Thomas turns into the only White House reporter “to grow a pair” and start ripping these liars a new one. Stranger things have happened.
ronnyraygun on July 1, 2009 at 11:48 PM
How do you explain this moment of lucidity from her without referencing a temporary perfect balance of her meds?
csdeven on July 1, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Dear Helen Thomas: Thanks for sticking up for a free and independent press. Please look at all the ways the Obama administration has attempted to manipulate you and your colleagues. Their behavior is not isolated, but systematic. This event is simply mor blatant.
If you feel angry about the White Houses treatment of you, I understand. Please try to understand that this is how I feel on a routine basis regarding this administration, the news and entertainment media, and academia. I feel manipulated and pushed aside because my views and interests and questions do not conform with the dominant culture of those sectors of society. I don’t want to be manipulated, controlled, rationalized away, spiked or buried by people with opposing views who are in control of our government.
Please do not be a sock puppet. Stand up and fight. We won’t agree on many things, but I am very proud of you at this moment. You go, girl! Git’em!
Loxodonta on July 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Hold still there Helen. It appears that a couple of your strings have gotten unattached somehow. We will have you all attached back up again like the others in just a jiff.
MB4 on July 2, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Well, A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
brennan251 on July 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM
If that’s the case then they will have a field day with BlatantBlue.
FontanaConservative on July 2, 2009 at 12:52 AM
When the o’ stalwart horse is right, she’s right.
who’d ever thunk it?
Hopefully, she’ll inspire the young turks to grow some Malkins.
TheSitRep on July 2, 2009 at 1:31 AM
Helen you better watch it. I bet her social security check is a week late this month, after that blast.
Kjeil on July 2, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Gee, Quasimodo, I can’t IMAGINE where Big 0 could have POSSIBLY got that idea…really, NO IDEA…think it might have been somewhere around the time you jackasses fawned over him at his first dozen monthly pressers or maybe when you fawned over him and schilled for him down the home stretch, serving as defacto hatcheteers in the big assault to try and discredit Sarah Palin (still ongoing) or when you tools started crying and applauding his “Triumph Of The Wills” convention speach or at some point before that while you folks were doing yer damndest to get him elected? Maybe?
[/sarc
SuperCool on July 2, 2009 at 4:11 AM
“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said.
Schlock puppets,
Presstitutes,
etc.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on July 2, 2009 at 4:22 AM
President George W. Bush would call on Helen Thomas first, and he could always count on her being confrontational.
President Barack Obama calls on some tame member of the media first for a planted question certain to make him look good.
That contrast tells you pretty much all you need to know about the integrity of Presidents Bush and Obama.
gridlock2 on July 2, 2009 at 5:57 AM
She’s been there since McKinley!
katy the mean old lady on July 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Mount McKinley ?
William Amos on July 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM
One story has her, as being a Republican hater for given “them folks” the idea they could be in office,actually collaborating with Leon Czolgosz in the assassination, by
diverting McKinley attention by showing a bit too much ankle, prior to the shot.
Jeff from WI on July 2, 2009 at 6:15 AM
HuffPo, you get to ask a question about Iran
Washington Post, tomorrow you can ask about healthcare
LA Times, you can ask about energy policy
…oh, but as Allahpundit pointed out, they’re not told exactly what questions to ask.
Just exactly how much contempt do you Conservatives have for Democracy and freedom? It seems to be more than I thought.
greggish on July 2, 2009 at 6:28 AM
LOL…it’s amazing, she actually looks alive. That computer generated graphics stuff is amazing.
Jeff from WI on July 2, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Helen often keeps younger reporters enthralled with her stories how beautiful the capitol looked at night under the gas lamp lighting.
Jeff from WI on July 2, 2009 at 6:53 AM
There’s no room at the top of the hill for narcisists.
shick on July 2, 2009 at 6:56 AM
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