Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/22/13

U.S. Marriage Rate Drops to New Low 

Jesse Ventura Lawsuit vs. Murdered Navy SEAL Can Move Forward

Chris Wallace Fights Democrat On ‘Staggering’ Black Crime Stats: Zimmerman ‘Diversion’ From ‘Real Threats’

Where Is Trayvon Martin’s Rolling Stone Cover?

Autos Troubles, Race At Root of Detroit Collapse

Lies, Damn Lies, and America’s Astonishingly Partisan, Corrupt Media

Why Pay the Clintons Top Dollar to Not Provide Answers About Jerusalem?

Jezebel: Down Syndrome Babies ‘Live Terrible Lives’

Tavis Smiley: Obama Leads Nation in Conversation on Gay Marriage But Not on Race

Bible Made Personal and Relevant Through New Series
 
Pioneering Front-Row Journalist Helen Thomas Dies at 92
 
Bill Cosby: George Zimmerman Acquittal Not About Race

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Donald Trump Takes On Mitt Romney

Half Of Households Pay No Income Tax

FEC Investigators Digging Into Obama's 2008 Campaign

Obama: Republicans Will Make U.S. 'Third World' Nation

The New Health Law: Bad For Doctors, Awful For Patients

MSNBC's UnCivil War On The Right

Gallup: 62 Percent Of Americans Support 2011 Budget Deal

Pro-lifer: Blacks 'Exterminating' Themselves

Helen Thomas To Offer Keynote Speech Protesting Netanyahu, Accept Code Pink Award

Keith Olbermann Dishonestly Explains His S.E. Cupp Planned Parenthood Tweet

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Blames iPad For American Unemployment

Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/26/10

New York Times Defends Publishing Leaked Military Records

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Hugo Chavez Threatens To Cut Off Oil To U.S.

Top Ten Most Left-Biased American Journalists - #1: Helen Thomas

The Blame Stream Media And The Sherrod Charade

HuffPo Gets Religion Wrong Again

John McCain Has The 'Big Mo' In Arizona Race

Liberals, Conservatives Agree: Re-Imposing The Death Tax Designed To Penalize Wealthy

Cases Where Race Spurred A Rush To Judgment

Evangelical Lutheran Pulpits Welcome Non-Celibate Gay Pastors

Oliver Stone: 'Jewish-Dominated Media' Prevents Hitler From Being Portrayed 'In Context'

FOX News Could Get Helen Thomas' Old Seat In White House Press Corps

WaPo.com:

It's not impossible! 

Here's why: Even before the controversy erupted over Helen Thomas' remarks, Fox was locked in a behind-the-scenes "death match" with Bloomberg News over who would next inherit her front-row seat in the White House press room, according to a source close to ongoing discussions over the seat.

Thomas's perch is enormously prestigious, at least for people in the media biz who care about this kind of thing. Fox and Bloomberg had previously made it known to the White House Correspondents Association that they coveted the seat upon Thomas's retirement.

While neither news org has lobbied for the seat today, out of respect for Thomas, her retirement is likely to re-ignite that "death match" between the two outlets, each of which have seats in the abysmally low class second row. 

The WHCA is set to meet later this week to decide the fate of Thomas's seat. Thomas has been frequently absent in recent months, and the WHCA had been turning the empty seat over to whichever reporter was designated that day's print pool reporter. It's very possible the WHCA could continue this policy for the near future.

But eventually, the seat is likely to be handed over to someone, likely either Fox or Bloomberg.

Like night follows day the loons aren't happy about this news. After all, clearly Barry should only have to answer questions with a strict liberal slant to them.

Rosie O'Donnell Agrees With Helen Thomas, Says Jews Should Get Out Of Palestine

Breitbart.com:

The Radio Equalizer:

[F]resh from declaring “communism” as the answer to dealing with corporate misconduct in America, O’Donnell actually appears to agree that Jews should depart Israel for Germany and Poland, especially since (GET THIS) THE OVENS ARE GONE!

Yup, the next Oprah:

Rosie O’Donnell has confirmed that she wants to return to daytime television with a new talk show in the fall of 2011. The timing is considered significant because that’s also the time The Oprah Winfrey Show is scheduled to end.

O’Donnell may have her sights on the Queen of Daytime TV’s throne, but she’ll have to compete with other major daytime hits like The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dr. Phil and Judge Judy.

Wow.

We Won't Have to Cringe At Helen Thomas' Mug Anymore

CNN.com:

Longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas has retired effective immediately, Hearst Corporation said Monday.

The media conglomerate had employed Thomas as a syndicated columnist for its newspaper chain. Her retirement comes amid a furor created last week by her controversial comments regarding Jewish people.

Thomas, 89, was considered the dean of the White House press corps, as she was the longest-serving White House journalist. She has been covering administrations since 1960, when she began covering then-President-elect John F. Kennedy and his family.

Thomas, had come under fire late last week when a YouTube video surfaced showing her saying that Israel should "get the hell out of Palestine," and that the Jewish people should go home to "Poland, Germany ... and America and everywhere else."

In a posting on her website last Friday, Thomas apologized for her remarks. "They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon," she wrote.

Don't mess with the Jews.

Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas For Anti-Jew Comments

HuffPo.com:

Longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas caused more than a few eyebrows to perk up when video surfaced on Friday of her declaring that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Germany and Poland. 

Captured by Rabbi David Nesenoff of RabbiLive.com, the footage made the rounds on mostly conservative and neoconservative sites, with some private complaints that her comments weren't getting wider play. 

Thomas on Friday apologized in a written statement, saying she deeply regretted the comments -- which were offered, ironically, during the White House's Jewish Heritage Celebration.

But even as she was trying to walk back the remarks, calls for her firing mounted. Among the more vocal was former Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who claimed to have a close relationship with Thomas when he was manning the daily briefings.

"She should lose her job over this," Fleischer said in an email. "As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling."

"She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs."

Helen Thomas should be fired, but she won't. That White House press position is literally her life and Barry doesn't have the guts to let her go.

Helen Thomas Pwnes Robert Gibbs

Woah! Helen Thomas may be an old relic who pissed many conservatives off with her vile treatment towards George W. Bush for 8 years, but as seen here, at least she plays fair. Robert Gibbs is an arrogant prick who long had this coming, leave it to Helen to do the job.

Newsbusters has more.

Helen Thomas: Insane Liberal of the Week

Age: 87

Birthplace: Winchester, Kentucky

Claim To Fame: news service reporter, Hearst Newspapers columnist and member of White House Press Corps

Why She’s the most Insane Liberal of the Week: for picking a fight with White House spokesperson Dana Perino this past week. In a press conference on Wednesday Thomas directly asked Perino about the “number of innocents killed in Iraq”—a tired line long used by liberals to paint our troops as nothing but mindless marauders. Mind you, Thomas, a journalist with over 50 years of experience in news, is the same woman who once said of President Bush: “I’m covering the worst president in American history.”

An obviously upset Perino took offense at Thomas’ line of questioning, apparently believing Thomas was suggesting that U.S. forces deliberately killed innocent Iraqis, a suggestion she called “absurd and very offensive.” Ms Perino acknowledged that “to the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed [by U.S. forces], we have expressed regret for it.” But that wasn’t good enough for Thomas as the old far-Left loon responded with “a regret doesn’t bring back a life.”

No class. No shame. No integrity. And how sad it is when someone who is supposed to report the news tries to create it, but what else should one expect from a liberal hack posing as a journalist?