Hoorah! Bravo! Thank God Helen Thomas is
back at work, and Helen please give Phony
Messiah Barack The Wealth Spreader Hussein
Obama all kinds of Hell about everything
that Liberalm Loser Obama Puts!

Ah Sherry Kay - I hope you won't be dissappointed that the age of spin at press conferences will be dead, and perhaps phony has never been the correct word to describe Senator Obama - carry on in your delusion though, you guys tickle me pink

Sherrykay, hold on. Help is on the way.
2016. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Helen Thomas,

The only reporter in Washington that has the guts to ask the tough questions that american needs to know. Glad your back, Helen!

Sorry, but Helen is an old bat, graceless and harsh. I realize the Bush administration specializes in media combat, but Ms. Thomas does little these days except blurt out hostile questions that always beget a typical, uninformative response. And her current affiliation should not merit a front-row seat, regardless of her impressive tenure in the WH press corps.

She is one grand lady. Gutsy, smart and not afraid to ask legitimate hard questions that have meaning. Long live Helen.

I recall listening to an interview with Helen Thomas which took place shortly after W's inauguration in 2001. She was asked what she thought W would do during his tenure as President. As I recall, her response was "He will run the country into the ground, just like he did with his companies". How prescient.....
She has had a long and illustrious career--Thank you, Ms. Journalist.

Posted by sherrykay2008: Thank God Helen Thomas is back at work, and Helen please give Phony Messiah Barack The Wealth Spreader Hussein Obama all kinds of Hell about everything that Liberalm Loser Obama Puts!

Is the above what they call "speaking in tongues"? Or maybe it's "typing by primates."
We need more Helen Thomases.

Welcome back, Helen!

Hey you want to bet that Helen Thomas isn't
going to be like the WAPO Obama Shills and
fall all over the Fake Messsiah His Total
Arrogance Barack The Wealth Spreader Obama?
This BS like that senile old former NBC
TV News Anchor Tom Brokaw idiotic asking
Obama, "Which Puppy Did You Like?"....And
Loser in Chief Obama,"Er! That Depends"
will soon be over with Helen Thomas back
in the White House Press Room and no more
WAPO's "Obama Bowls" nonsense either! As.
this is exactly what the newsmedia pulled
with Liar in Chief George W Bush,and even
to asking dumb dog questions about Barney
and Miss Beasely of Liar Bush! Shape Up
Newsmedia or go broke! CAN THE BS NEWS!
And Follow Helen Thomas Example!

bdunn1 commenting on Sherry Kay2008

"Is the above what they call "speaking in tongues"? Or maybe it's "typing by primates."
We need more Helen Thomases."

That is just so funny and couldn't be more spot on.

Helen is a star, and so bright. Couldn't she teach many a thing or two? She IS the real journalist.

Helen Thomas is to the WH pressroom that hot dogs and apple pie are to baseball.

I am from the Metro Detroit area, and I want to thank Helen Thomas for her "reminder" to everyone what Detroit has meant to this country. We live and die by the auto industry here...right now, we are dying and need help desperately. The vast majority of people here earn their living in businesses that are somehow tied to the auto industry. Thank you once again Ms. Thomas and God bless you !!!

Helen Thomas is a national treasure. She's one of the best and the brightest. I'm glad she's back and I'm sure that she's going to be a thorn in Obama's side, just as she has been to his distinguished (and not so distinguished) predecessors.

She's an obnoxious gasbag who is repulsive even on her best behavior. BUT she's revered by the drive-by media because she's anti-Bush. Were she anti-Barack she would have been tarred and feathered, still in hospital.

Amen and welcome back to the grand dame of the U.S. press corps! Many healthy years to you, Ms. Thomas, showing the younger generations what it means to be a fearless reporter.

JohnDinHouston: "The age of spin at press conferences will be dead" under Obama? You've got to be kidding us, right? Sure, most of us are happy about our president-elect, but let's not be that naive.

"...she's revered by the drive-by media because she's anti-Bush."

Seventy percent of this country has been anti-Bush, for years. No, Helen is revered because she was always there to sharpen up whomever was in power at the time, Democrats and Republicans alike. She's the woman with her hand on the elephant in the room, and that's been her trade for decades during which the rest of the White House press corps turned into a pack of quislings doing the bidding of the imperial presidency.

May the beloved Helen Thomas continue to put the Washington press corps in order. Indeed, may she keep the incoming president up to his promises--and marshal the return to good governance.

Dana,

What an excellent piece. Helen Thomas is great. Interesting comment about Detroit retooling over a long week end. She is what journalists are supposed to be. Bush is a loser, and Barky Obama won't change much more than the guard.

Someone ought to ask Barky whether he is willing to go to the buildings where every telephone in Amedica is being tapped, and whether he is willing to show up with a fire ax, a set of phillips screw drivers and some giant magnets to, by Executive Order, signed at the door, take the place down.

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Lovely to know Helen Thomas is still at work. Let's hope the new President has the good sense to use her knowledge and experience as an advisor in these next difficult months and years.

HT was a good reporter. Now she's a rambling crank. The time came long ago to put her out to pasture (and the rest of us out of our misery).

Milbank, stop being such an easily recruited sycophant.

Thanks Dana --- like you, many (millions) of us revere the old firebrand 4th estater ---- Go get 'em, Ms. Thomas --- we've got your back.

What a waste of space, Dana, just as Helen has wasted precious space in the front row of the White House press room for so many years, refining her tiresome schtick. She personifies the worse in the American media -- arrogant, self-righteous, obnoxious, wanting to make the news, rather than report it.

I, for one, wish she would have retired long ago.

And yeah, Detroit is hurting. But most of its wounds are self-inflicted. Pouring in billions of tax dollars now will only forestall the day of reckoning that was long in coming. If Helen and others cared so much for the U.S. manufacturing sector, they should have spoken up when Washington was strangling ours with saturation regulation and high rates of taxation. How many heavy industries have been drive overseas, or under, in this country, without a peep from people like Helen Thomas? Now that the damage has been done, they want the taxpayers to come to the rescue. What cluelessness.

This sort of myopia and stupidity isn't to be revered, even when it comes in the form of some horrible old bat badgering the presidents press person, but reviled. The Washington press corps is as clueless about the real sources of this country's problems, and as insulated from real-world America, as all the other disconnected Washingtonians are.

Spare us the journalistic circle-jerks, Dana. Get back to real reporting.

Helen Thomas is the last person in America who can call herself a journalist. The rest form that part of the entertainment industry that pretends to be news. I hope she continues to bring her kind of scrutiny to the white house. There is a crisis of truth and intelligence in America which threatens to engulf it - just look at the simplistic platitudes needed to elect a president - and it portends demise.

Some here have rashly predicted the end of spin now that Obama is taking office. Would it were so. Spin is a fact of all politics everywhere. The only known neutralizer of spin/lies/propaganda is a politically sophisticated, literate population for whom skepticism and inquiry are second nature. This is why the prognosis is not looking good for America.

Way to go , Helen! We wish you well and hope you are well recovered. Keep 'em honest!

Yes Detroit and Michigan are very important to our economy along with Ohio, Indiana, and the other automotive industry states. However, the 'big three' deserve a stout kick in the chins as well as some loans to get them focused on the real problem. We do not have less dependence on oil because they refuse to produce more fuel efficient vehicles. There is no reason Ford, GM an Chrysler should not be building hybrid versions of their full-size vehicles other than the lack of desire to do so.

The technology is not new and it does not require further research and development. They just need to do it! No, they would rather keep pushing for exclusive technology to maximize profits. They need to stop catering to the business interests of the oil companies and cater to the best interests of America.

Way to go , Helen! We wish you well and hope you are well recovered. Keep 'em honest!

Yes Detroit and Michigan are very important to our economy along with Ohio, Indiana, and the other automotive industry states. However, the 'big three' deserve a stout kick in the chins as well as some loans to get them focused on the real problem. We do not have less dependence on oil because they refuse to produce more fuel efficient vehicles. There is no reason Ford, GM an Chrysler should not be building hybrid versions of their full-size vehicles other than the lack of desire to do so.

The technology is not new and it does not require further research and development. They just need to do it! No, they would rather keep pushing for exclusive technology to maximize profits. They need to stop catering to the business interests of the oil companies and cater to the best interests of America.

Glad Helen is feeling well. Good. Now retire. Twenty years too late. There is not a dearth of young people to take the positions of all the old timers in the press and the government who should retire.