Helen Thomas: RIP

Helen Thomas died today.

Some of you young’ins might not know who she was, but Helen was quite the figure at every White House press conference, and she was a force to be reckoned with! She made life pretty miserable for almost every President for several decades…not afraid to ask the difficult questions, often over and over and over again.

In what has been (and still is, for the most part) a boys club of journalists in the White House Press Corp, Helen paved the way for more female journalists to join the club.

The definition of the word “feisty”:

feist·y
/ˈfīstē/
Adjective

Having or showing exuberance and strong determination.
Touchy and aggressive.

Synonyms
cantankerous

And yeah, that could be a short definition of Helen Thomas…I will miss her presence in the front row of those press conferences. Never a dull moment when she was there!

That’s a shock; I wasn’t aware that she was ill. One of the last actual journalists.

I don’t mean to threadshit but on behalf of Jews everywhere she can go back to hell where she was clearly from.

Her remarks about Jews.

I don’t consider that a threadshit…as mentioned, cantankerous would be an apt description of her as well. She had her share of enemies, and many of them were Presidents.

Also not meaning to thread excrete, but am I the only person who thought she had already crossed the Shining River? I suppose it was just her retirement.

I thought she had died 25 years ago and they’d just propped her up at news conferences with a random phrase generator running behind her.

Cantankerous old person speaking her mind. Can’t get excited about it.

“Mind” is being generous. More like venting her spleen.

If she had told African-Americans they should go back to Africa would that have been merely cantankerous?

Good riddance.

Did she have a history of that kind of crap or was this a one of a kind thing?
I’m not saying that makes it any better but my folks are getting on and they say stuff that’s pretty bizarre. The doctors say they’re slowly losing it and this kind of thing will continue.

Probably. Old, sick people say a lot of things they don’t mean. My brother is a prime example.