Dean of the White House press
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Helen Thomas, right, with President Ford, 1976.
While watching this afternoon’s White House briefing on CNN just now, I remembered that I wanted to post something about Helen Thomas after President Obama’s first press conference a couple of weeks ago.
Thomas, 88, has covered every president since JFK – since before Obama was BORN – working mostly for UPI and now as a columnist for Hearst newspapers.
As President Obama called on Thomas, he enthusiastically recognized their “inaugural moment,” but she skipped the pleasantries and asked a question about terrorists and nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
Obama barely responded and poignantly took his next question from a reporter from the Huffington Post, but he didn’t get much of an answer to his question either. Some things never change.
5 Comments
February 20th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I just noticed Helen Thoams at the White House briefing again today and wanted to give her a nod: http://is.gd/kh2M
February 20th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I just noticed Helen Thomas at the White House briefing again today and wanted to give her a nod: http://is.gd/kh2M
February 21st, 2009 at 5:36 am
RT @JimMacMillan: I just noticed Helen Thomas at the White House briefing again today and wanted to give her a nod: http://is.gd/kh2M
February 21st, 2009 at 9:20 am
Helen blew it when she referred to the “so called terrorists” in her wandering question.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
No, Helen Thomas didn’t really cover Alexander the Great but I did send her some love recently too: http://is.gd/kh2M @RealtorTed