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Was Hearst Right to Force Helen Thomas to Retire?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyFirst, let's get this out of the way: Helen Thomas' videotaped remarks cannot be condoned or excused. Even in this Internet-fueled Age of Vituperation, what she said was appalling. Send Jews "back" to Germany? Good Lord. Nearly every German Jew was exterminated by the Nazis. Return Jews to Poland? This is reminiscent of racists' calls from earlier generations to send blacks back to Africa – except it's worse because Auschwitz, Belzec, and Treblinka are the places in Poland seared into Jewish memory. These are the place names of the Holocaust. While I'm dispensing history lessons, the ...
Helen Thomas Retires After Controversial Comment on Palestine
By Mara Gay - Politics DailyHearst Newspapers announced Monday the immediate retirement of Helen Thomas in the midst of an uproar over her comments that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine." "Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on videotape and widely disseminated on the Internet," Hearst said in a statement. Earlier Monday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a broadside about Thomas' remarks during a nationally televised briefing with Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen over the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Asked by a reporter if he had ...
President Obama Shares Birthday Celebration With Helen Thomas
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTuesday, Aug. 4, is President Obama's 48th birthday. The White House isn't saying how the president will be celebrating, though he is meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus, which sounds like a party. In a move sure to receive cries of "socalism!" from his critics, Obama redistributed his birthday cupcakes. He shares a birthday with veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas, a columnist with Hearst Newspapers. During the morning briefing, Obama appeared with cupcakes and led the press corps in singing "Happy Birthday" to Thomas, who turns 89. Obama told her: "I will leave it up to you, ...
Hot Air and Redstate Denounce Bill O'Reilly
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMaybe bipartisanship isn't completely dead, but only mostly dead.Yesterday, I reported that Fox News television personality Bill O'Reilly had stolen my reporting on Helen Thomas' explanation of her "so-called terrorists" remark, and aired an uncredited, butchered version of my video clip.Since then, O'Reilly's actions have been denounced by both Redstate and Hot Air, two of the most influential conservative sites in the blogosphere. I appeared on Ed Morrissey's web TV show yesterday, where Ed described O'Reilly's actions as "small" and "unprofessional." To illustrate just how egregious ...
Bill O'Reilly Steals From Real Journalists
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn Friday, I posted a story in which Helen Thomas responded to Bill O'Reilly's cowardly attack on her, including some video that I shot at the White House. Several conservative blogs, like Redstate and Hot Air, picked up the story. While I wasn't ecstatic about their take on Helen's response, they made fair use of the material, featuring the clip in its entirety and crediting the source.Last night, though, Bill O'Reilly proved he was no journalistic match for the blogosphere, let alone Helen Thomas. On The O'Reilly Factor, he played a butchered version of the clip, and deliberately omitted the ...
Conservative Reaction to Helen Thomas' 'So-Called Terrorists' Predictable
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI posted a story Friday in which Helen Thomas responded to Bill O'Reilly's cowardly attack on her, and explained her use of the term "so-called terrorists." Since then, the video has made the rounds of conservative blogs, with predictable results. Both Caleb Howe at Redstate and Ed Morrissey at Hot Air took the familiar "Oh, so we're the terrorists" tack. They're both friends of mine, very smart guys, and I assure you, their outrage is genuine. They're not deliberately misunderstanding her, they just are misunderstanding her. I think Helen's explanation stands on its own, so I would suggest a ...
Exclusive: Helen Thomas on Bill O'Reilly and 'So-Called Terrorists'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyBefore today's press briefing, I had a chance to talk to Helen Thomas. I let her know that I gave Bill O'Reilly what for for bashing the legendary White House correspondent. Her comment?"Bill sent me flowers, and I sent him a note thanking him for the lovely flowers." she said.I also asked her a question that a lot of people, including Billdo, wanted to know. Here's Helen: Tommy on: Daily Dose I Digg! I Facebook I TwitterOrder The Audacity of Democracy Starring Tommy Christopher ...
Obama and Me: Our First Time - Updated: More Newness
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: I've posted additional commentary, video, and photos at Jay Allbritton's blog, Ice Station Tango. We will also dissect the press conference further, and talk about the rest of the week's news, on Unusable Signal tonight. The show starts at 11pm EDT. AOL has already gotten 8 wonky paragraphs out of me about last night's press conference. Now, it's my turn. This one is for me. You see, last night was historic for more than one person. I know, I know, Barack this, Obama that, but it was also my first prime time news conference. I'm sure President Obama would have liked to have kept our ...
Moron Bill O'Reilly Attacks Legend Helen Thomas
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMy old frenemy, Darragh Murphy, hit one out of the park today over at PUMAPAC with her "Daily Pig Award" (an honor which I have, thankfully, never won):"On last night's show (February 9th) O'Reilly compared Ms. Thomas to "the Wicked Witch of the East" along with disparaging remarks about her appearance and age. Guest Bernard Goldberg added his own insult, and even Alan Colmes, while attempting to defend her, seemed to be having too much fun. This kind of verbal degradation in the guise of humor is unacceptable, and as Media Matters has documented, it's part of an on-going pattern where he's ...
Helen Thomas Supports Hillary
By Ada Calhoun - Politics DailyOn Friday night, Helen Thomas gave a rousing keynote speech for the Women, Action and the Media conference at MIT. We were too far in the back to get good video or photos (we'll post those when we find some), but here are a few things she said that we jotted down: On media bias:"Hillary is getting a bad rap with the media. Obama is walking on water with the media . . . Being racist is more verboten than being anti-woman." On the nine presidents she's covered as a member of the press corps:JFK: "My favorite."LBJ: "Bigger than life."Nixon: "When he had two roads to go down, he always took the ...
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