Is There No Place For Aging Propagandists To Go?
by Jeffrey JenaI watched the Presidential news conference last night and perhaps the most striking thing I learned was that there is apparently some sort of assisted-care shortage in America. I figured that out when I saw Helen Thomas there in the front row. I used to think she was always in the front row as some sort of odd show of respect. It occurred to me last night that she might never leave her seat. I have come to believe that Helen has been in that seat since sometime in the Carter administration.
I noticed Helen doze off a time or two during the Presidential presser. She seemed to have this attitude that this whole thing was interrupting her evening. I am willing to kick in a few extra bucks myself to find her a place in a managed care facility. Isn’t there some sort of liberal social safety net for their aging propagandists?
That Helen Thomas is still employed is amazing given the fact that she appears to have passed away several years ago. Employed and dead! This feat had previously only been accomplished by city employees in Chicago’s garbage removal department.
I am not exactly sure what rag employs Ms. Thomas. This is what really amazes me. Somewhere out there is an editor who one day said, “The world needs a ninety year olds’ view of the news. Why just hear about the last depression when we can have somebody who lived through it?” Perhaps this attitude explains the downward spiral of the dinosaur press.
Oh yeah, the President also said something about spending trillions to get the economy moving. I could have sworn I heard him say that his plan was to grow the economy by raising taxes on the rich and charities, and expanding government control of business and health care. I think I also heard him say by omission that if Congress didn’t give the middle class the tax break he promised it wouldn’t be a deal breaker. Do those girls have a puppy yet?
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No one employs Helen Thomas, she lives there. No one has the heart to throw her out.
Don't knock old people, scooter. We have nearly a century's worth of experience in getting even.
She did lose her original gig, and Streisand only pays scale. And Barbra is her mom !
I could see Helen Thomas working for Mossad. Put a checkered tablecloth on her head while wearing a filthy robe and you have a dead ringer to Arafat. Surround her with 72 hairy legged Code Pink feminists and have her preach that this murderer in the name of martyrdom is not what it’s advertised to be. Although Arafat died of aids not martyrdom the message will still be clear. At the very least the hamas cockroaches will have a different vision of what awaits them.
Jeff,
Just looking at the pic of Helen sitting in the front row, all by herself, and the other so-called members of the "fifth estate", laughing, joking and keeping to them selves, makes me think that the old gal really doesn't have very many friends among her peers. (it looks like they're trying to avoid her). And, your right, who does employ the useless, “I’ve always been a liberal”, anyway.
Not Over.
she distracted us too. thought if she sneezed she'd disappear in a POOF! of dust.
Mr Jena is incoreect in his assertion that Helen Thomas has been in her seat since the Carter presidency- it was actually James Monroe… she was the first one to support the Barbary pirates and hasn't stopped since!
She is in a managed care facility what are you talking about. It sounds like she was able to stay awake during that snoozer easier than I was! Picking on the elderly like this. At least she was not able to ask a question.
Sorry, I can't pick on someone because of their age. Political agenda, attitude, snack choices yes, but not age.
"I think I also heard him say by omission that if Congress didn’t give the middle class the tax break he promised it wouldn’t be a deal breaker."
Epic quote win. Well said, sir!
Is it just me… I've never noticed that a regular old press conference became (dah da da daah!) The Presidential Press Conference. Wasn't it just Wonderful!
There was this rumor she had a fling with Martin Van Buren…
Has she asked Obama or Gibbs why our troops are out murdering people, or is that one going back in the ol' notebook for the next Republican administration, assuming Thomas is on the same dietary and chemical diet as Keith Richards.
That goes along with the Office of the President-Elect that I never noticed before either. He called the people he was going to call on ahead of time to let them know, so it is no long a regular old press conference.
Did everyone notice that he didn't us TOTUS? Poor TOTUS! Obama has graduated to a jumbotron – JOTUS
Helen hasn't been wrapped too tight since the 60's. Her villification of GW and Tony Snow, and all those stupid questions, shows how much they had to put up with, and did. Now, all it takes is obamadrone to put her in a deep sleep, like a troll, after a successful invasion of a web site. We've got some fine examples right here.
What a tacky, classless move – attacking Helen Thomas for her age.
I think I liked the teleprompters being placed to the sides better. When Obama was reading the jumboprompter right next to the camera, not quite looking into the camera, he reminded me of the robot Yul Brynner played in West World. You sure can see him concentrate on what the prompter is telling him to say. No wonder he stumbles and bumbles without it. Hail to the TOTUS. I imagine poor Helen missed most of that however.
He did use TOTUS. He was just plugged in to a 54" plama at the back of the room..
I see her as the Crypt Keeper, old coot needs to head to The Villages (in FL) and contemplate the next chapter. She hasn’t had a cogent thought in 10yrs. for Gods sake. As an aside has everybody seen South Park, awesome?
Snackist bigot!
Her looks would be a much better target.
Yeah, I read TOTUS' blog after I posted and that's what he said. Darn, I thought The One kicked the habit. He just went "turbo".
Wouldn't have been easier for all the reporters to just turn around and read the jumboprompter?
FYI – I loved West World.
Wouldn't have been easier for all the reporters to just turn around and read the jumboprompter?
FYI – I loved West World.
Libs attack old people all the time. And fat people. If I had a wooden nickel for every time libs bagged on Charlton Heston for being old (when he was alive) or Rush Limbaugh for being fat, I'd have more than enough wooden nickels to play pocket pool with myself for 10 years. To the progressive set, It's okay to be old if you are a moonbat liberal like Helen Thomas, just as its okay to be a fat bastard if you are a master of the documentary like Michael Moore.
Helen Thomas is that cool old liberal lady that is beloved only because she wagged her finger at Bush for 8 years. And Betty White is a dirty old lady who likes to talk about her crusty vaj and gay buttsex (although thats a story for another day)
SP this season is off to a bad start….but I'll watch tonight and hope it doesnt suck
Healthy snackers are the worst. Flavor-impaired snack fascists.
I wondered that too. Why don't they just scroll it at the bottom of our tv screen – follow the bouncing ball…..
I wondered that too. Why don't they just scroll it at the bottom of our tv screen – follow the bouncing ball…..
Yawn. . . stretch. . . did somebody say "snack"?
How cool would that be?! His pressers can become sing-a-longs!
Sorry, I've got to call BS on this. Wikipedia says during George W. Bush she was moved to the back row. Since Obama must reverse everything Evil Bush did, she was moved back to the front row.
Those were quite impressive operations too, involving two forklifts and cargo straps.
[ .... the snack fairy is circling your head... calling your name........... ".... Andrew..... Andrew ......" ]
Now why would you badmouth cockroaches by comparing them to Hamas- what did those poor insects ever do to you to deserve such harsh treatment?
Also, are you sure that Arafat died of the aids "disease"? I'm pretty sure he died from lugging around sacks stuffed with the billions of dollars and euros in humanitarian "aid" he looted from his subjects over the years.
Most folks probably get confused about this point because both words are spelled the same…
No need to circle. I've built a landing pad and I validate parking!
Let's just call them (reporters) the "choir"
DING DONG!
Ok, this nightmare is coming together well. I can see it now, from Hike of the Taxes, in D minor:
O: "Iiiiiiiiiii must raise your taaaaaaaaxes!"
MSM: "Taxes…! taxes…..! our taxes he must raise!"
O: "And I will take your freeeeeeeeeeedoms!"
MS: "We are with you all the way!"
MS: "Freedoms, our freedoms, take them all way."
My teeth hurt!
Jeez, how on earth can you get stuff like "fat bastard", "crusty vag", and "gay buttsex" past the moderator when I often have trouble with singularly INoffensive (one would think) posts?!
Color me suitably envious!
P.S. In a moment I'll try re-posting my reply to The Great Satan which, for no apparent reason (!!), was stopped by the mod-filter (and 9 out of 10 times means that it's then lost forever…).
If Helen Thomas married Dinesh D'Souza she would be Helen D'Snooza D'Souza.
I'm crying..LOL!
isn't there some sort of old age home for communists in santa monica?
Ya Im no fan of the old Dowager Thomas but give the bag lady a break! Thats waht happens when you sleep with the lunatic left , They use , then they toss you to the gutter ie: The Dixie Chicks & Senator McCain! Give some Obama Karma bucks they are as valuable as your imagination !
At least I take my naps while you guys aren't looking. I always thought Helen Thomas was Rodney Dangerfield in drag. Did you ever see the two of them together?
I thought it was the other way around
I think the moderation filter went into overdrive. I just got moderated for using the word that describes gold and silver items with or without gemstones that you wear around your neck or on your fingers. I was only half-joking about the word that got moderated.
And mothballs.
Frankly, I was surprised to see her sitting there alone. I thought she and David Gregory were joined at the hip.
I just got the email "heads up" about your "don't feel bad" remark, but it seems that YOUR comment was ALSO banished to "robo-moderation" for using that (perceived!) J-word.
Shades of the Twilight Zone…!
I find this all very frustrating, and lord knows we all have more than enough frustration on our plates since the Demi-godling-O has ascended to the throne…: – (
P.S. I really didn't use ANY offensive words or phrases in my "moderated" post. I used the same name of the terrorist org and their former leader that TGS did, and juxtaposed the words "aid" and aids" to make a point…!
Maybe I can hire a "robo-lawyer" to sue the "robo-moderator" for harassment?
Helen Thomas goes back WAY farther than the Carter administration. She's covered every president since Kennedy! She's a decade older than my mother, for crying out loud, and she's been doing the same job, basically, since I was an infant. Pretty amazing, actually, but she is very far past her expiration date.
"Employed and dead!"
The model Obama voter wouldn't you say?
Re: the girls and their puppy – don't be surprised if they never get one. It would offend Muslims.
What's that thing she's reading?
LOL….I attribute my ability to use such colorful words to the luck o the (half) Irish…
I think I once had some material temporarily halted on here in reference to the name of a South Park episode (um the one about Guitar Hero….with hero rhyming with….hero)…otherwise they (Big Hollywood mods) have let me go ape on the reservation! (for now)
I like beef jerky, preferably wrapped with bacon and dipped in some hot melted jalapeno cheese.
Yes I am being serious too.
Saul, for both our sakes just skip right over my favorite snack as posted below. The last thing I need is my girlfriend finding out and using it as blackmail material to force me to go see yet another mind imploding chick flick.
Me too, and of course it was the one time I broke my vow about drinking while reading here since I put the vow into effect.
So I can honestly say, I laughed so hard it hurt. Now I need to go get another Shamwow.
I kind of like how mothballs smell. Yeah that was random.
Dead yeah, the employed part they're not as keen on.
Saul: I guess you could so long as the robo lawyer isn't, well, you know what. They have a lot of robo doctors, too. Some of my best friends are robos.
How could you expect me to skip over bacon and cheese? YUM…!
My wife (card-carrying nutritionist- yikes!) and your girlfriend would surely get along famously with no shortage of subjects to compare complaints about…
I hear that a lot of robos also used to be comedians in a place called the "borscht belt" in upstate N.Y…: – )
Some say that robos have total control of the media, world banking, and that the robo lobby runs America.
Just who the heck do these robos think they are- a chosen people?!
Who ARE these robos
So does that mean we've settled on robo as the new steath codeword to get past the moderation? Or does that word not mean what I think it means? Great now I went and confused myself all over again.
EDIT: Saul you were posting when I was, okay gotcha. Which is good because I'm not allowed to confuse myself, that's my better's half's usual job and she'd be right put out if I took that away from her. LOL
Hmm. Looks like a dinosaur holding a dinosaur.
Since we cleared up the codeword confusion, it's not that mine is all that nutritionally strict, she's just a Robocop when it comes to food, ya know? Well at least when it comes to my snack habits when left to my own devices.
Thanks for the mental image of Helen Thomas sleeping with Obama. Now you die.
Baseless accusations, I have it on good authority it was Franklin. He always did have a thing for the older women…
That's just a temporary thing every now and then, when she draws on his youthful vibrant energies to maintain the semblance of life.
So she's a curious mix between the space folk in Lifeforce crossed with Benjamin Button?
What's scary is that actually makes a lot of sense.
Just to clear up any remaining confusion: I am a robo even though I love bacon, so I guess you could call me a non-observant robo. My wife, on the other hand, is NOT roboish. Which means that my daughter, even though she's an M.D. is only HALF roboish. My daughter also married a non-robo, which means that my 4 year-old granddaughter is only one-quarter roboish.
For what it's worth, we ALL love bacon…; – )
Well they were short of spheroidal objects for her to be rolled over during the last move. No one in the current White House has steel balls.
I figured it was something like that and I LOVE bacon too, but wasn't raised in a strictly observant roboish household, the girlfriend on the other hand was, which means she can be pretty strict on roboish matters when she sets her mind to it. The Army made her a little less uptight about things though, usually. It all depends on her mood, and how much I seem to be enjoying myself.
Funny, you don't look roboish. That's the thing about you guys. Eating bacon to fool us into thinking you're one of us. Next thing, you'll be telling us you invented the Bible.
I'm not so sure, they couldn't move any slower nor do less work than lots of government employees. Think of the savings in health care. Besides, we already knew it'd take some serious black magic to create (or save) those millions of jobs, why not use necromancy? They've become quite good at summoning the ghost of the Bush administration.
Pelosi is dead?
No, but she did ask Obama about the "so-called terrorists".
I'd completely forgotten about that one. Then again I sometimes tune out so-called journalists too.
No, but it's an easy mistake to make what with all the botox and all.
If it were one of my friends I would offer her some gum to chew. That would give me an excuse to nudge her into waking up, and the gum would help her stay awake.
But there are several obstacles to this. One, she's not anybody's friend, let alone mine. Two, She dried up years ago so can't generate enough saliva to soften the gum. Three, her dentures would fall out on to the floor, interrupting the news conference.
Then again maybe her dentures clamoring across the floor would make this news conference into something newsworthy.
Actually I heard the beginning of an interview of HT on Air America 2 days ago (keeping up with info on the enemy). The first question to her was "what has changed with the Obama press conferences?". Her immediate response was "with Bush they didn't have the TV cameras showing the press people, but now they do". How vain!
Yeah, in six months she'll be dead a year.
This could make an interesting Bones episode (since they work out of DC)–The Skeleton at the Presser. Everyone comes into the press room after Obama's month-long summer vacation in Hawaii to discover that HT now looks kind of like ET (not a big leap, actually) and struggles to find a good reason to wonder why she died…
I've heard she refuses to leave until she gets to give Bill Clinton a blow job. Somehow she was the only one in the room that missed out back in the '90s
If you accumulate that many wooden nickels, Barney Fwank want's your name.
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Maybe she's on the Soros pay plan, I see he's making a good buck.
Or even that Jesus was roboish.
I wouldn't put it past us LawhawkSF- some of us robos have a lot of chutzpah!
P.S. Some of MY best friends are NON-robos…; – )
She's in the Army? I will gladly give you a year's supply of bacon if you can have her get me one of those "one shot two kills" T-shirts (XL)…!!
NOW they even let you get away with being able to say ape (need I remind you of the outrage over the chimp cartoon?) and reservation (which will surely offend injuns!)
Color me green with envy..!
As a friend of mine said about Madeline Albright, "she makes me believe in trolls".
"Kum-ba-ya, My One! Kum-Ba-Ya!"… now we just need smores and campfires
"go APE on the RESERVATION"…?!
They let you get away with EVERYTHING! ; – )
Slip her some nicotine gum, see if that makes her look slightly less dead. If that fails we can always try a cattle prod. Although I suspect way back with Howard Dean she was wired up so they can shock her into lifelike movements and say derogatory questions and statements by the speaker implanted in her throat. Dean's a doctor after all, although he's such a good doctor he became a politician.
Does the "drop of blood" rule apply to robos? Because the way genes are passed around we're all robos, although I don't know you from Adam even though I know you're from Adam.
So-called journalists and so-called terrorists. I'm not sure which one does the most damage anymore.
bravo, maestro.
That's awfully close to "Gorillas in the mist"
Is There No Place For Aging Propagandists To Go? Yes! They are going to be Cadre in the new Obama-corps.
She's a columnist for Hearst. This is a great outlet for her to channel her rage against the machine or whatever, especially since she doesn't get called on like she used to.
I took a call from her once, when I was a spokesman (though one of several) at a cabinet-level agency. I have to admit she was civil enough, but she probably thought I was a Democrat.
Are they goylfriends?
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