Helen Thomas just told me she would do her best to aggressively cover DSM

[Barad Simith]

My email to her (Saturday morning):

This request is to ask you to please aggressively cover the Downing Street Memo. Those who have loved ones in harm's way in Iraq deserve to know the extent to which this administration has gone to deceive the media, Congress, and the American people into believing that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was a necessity.

Thank you,
Name and Location

Her reply, just a few minutes ago (yes, it has a glaring typo, but I like it because it shows she didn't send a form reply):

I'll so my best, helent

Her email address: [email protected]

[Bozita]

1. Helen Thomas is a living American treasure

Thanks for sharing.

[LightningFlash]

2. Her last name is Thomas...

Helen Thomas.

Let's see what her best looks like (that goes for all the corporate sellouts!!)

[IndyOp]

12. Corporate sellout? Get a grip! This woman has asked the tough

questions, been treated like shit, and has gone back in to represent us in that sewer called "White House Press Room".

Do you know that she has recently been attacked by the Neocon Idiots for being an "Old Arab" -- she is Lebanese, like Danny Thomas, so I guess she is an Old Arab. If the Press Room was filled with Old Arabs like her the reporters would shred McClellan into tiny ribbons day after day after day.

Helen Thomas speaks for me!

:kick:

[uppityperson]

19. I don't understand why you call attention to her last name.

Her first name is Helen. :shrug: Thanks.

[Quixote1818]

3. Kick

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Kick!

[Tsiyu]

5. Thank you, helent

Maybe she's a DUer, too?

[wryter2000]

6. Bless you Helen Thomas

:loveya: Helen Thomas

I imagine they'll turn off her mike.

[kittenpants]

18. that's hilarious that they do that on Faux

oh no! a dissenting opinion, facts! turn off their mike!

[GiovanniC]

23. They Did It at a Congressional Hearing Last Week, Too

A page right out of O'falafel's book:

A furor erupted last week after Sensenbrenner shut off the microphones during a hearing on the Patriot Act, accusing Democrats of raising issues unrelated to the Act such as treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

Nadler raised his voice as his microphone was switched off, AP said.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Democrat_introduces_fasttrack_resolution_to_rebuke_GOP_chairman_over_Patriot_Act_0614.html

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. She's a Treasure.

Here's to you, Helen! :toast:

[lady lib]

15. Yes, she's a treasure.

Here's another toast to a gutsy smart gal :toast:

[oldtime dfl_er]

8. Good for her!

Put her back in the front row!

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/665903

[confuddled]

9. She never left the front row ...

and never will, in my opinion.

[MelissaB]

10. Bless her!

:loveya:

[bpilgrim]

11. a tribute thread to Helen Thomas ---- ----- ----- > LINK

DU GD Thread

she truly is a national TREASURE - M$MWs take NOTE, please :hi:

peace

[Hissyspit]

13. Cool!

[suffragette]

14. good to hear it

And I look forward to her editorials - but then I always do.

[steve2470]

16. kick nt

[hlthe2b]

17. Helen always answsers her own...

Short replies, but clearly from her own "touch."
I love this woman!

[burrowowl]

20. Let's

nominate her for Discovery Channel's Greatest American!

[roguevalley]

21. she is a goddess. she needs flowers. anyone want to send some

I will help pay. say they are from DU

[cthrumatrix]

22. this is why TPTB will not allow he face time --- truth is not cherished

[blm]

24. The REAL investigative journalists in this country are its true treasures.

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