The veteran White House correspondent, 89, is ending her column for the Hearst newspapers after video cameras caught her making a remark that Jews should leave Palestine and "go back to Germany"--she was reprimanded by WH press secretary Robert Gibbs and the White House Correspondents Association had threatened to rescind her long-time front row seat at press conferences:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/07/2010-06-07_helen_thomas_veteran_white_house_journalist_retires_after_controversial_israel_c.html Thomas had covered the WH for every President since JFK, mostly for UPI--when Pat Robertson took over the wire service (one of a long series of owners--he doesn't own it now), she left them and started her column for Hearst, where she had become more outstpoken in recent years. The fact that the teabagger blogs are celebrating will tell you where she fell on the political map. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
