You know, being that I am a lady of certain age, and since I will freely admit - that in the full bloom of youth I was really nothing to launch a thousand ships over, and being presently quite grateful for any kindly camera angle and trick of fortunate lighting which does not make me look like my Dad in drag - I really have felt kinda queasy about making fun of Helen Thomas, the doyenne and senior-most reporter of that bit of preciousosity known as the White House Press Corps. Age has not been kind to her - it has been quite brutally and infamously unkind, but I really never felt a need to add to the mockery … well, until now.
Ma’am, I am given to say now that this video clip shows as ugly an interior as an exterior - and that is an exterior which resembles Jabba the Hut with lipstick. From now on I live in hope that this performance will see you exiled from the White House Press Room … but I really am not holding my breath. Have a nice day … you ugly, ugly bigot.
That clip set back YouTube 10 months (20 years in internet time).
As for me, I think I just went through puberty backwards.
Comment by Bob Hawkins — 20100605 @ 1443
Ya know, there was a line in the movie “Tootsie” when they started filming “her” on the soap opera. The director said “Can you pull back?” and the camera man asked “How far?” The answer was “How about Cleveland?”
There should be a rule that we NEVER get closeups of this woman. It made my eyes bleed.
Comment by AProudVeteran — 20100606 @ 0848
She’s retired now
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/07/helen-thomas-retire-effective-immediately/
Comment by AProudVeteran — 20100607 @ 1807
Yes, Helen is “retired” (read as “fired”) now — THANK GOD! She is truly uglier on the inside than the outside. God put one of those small, personal cameras in her path. Do carry ‘em at all events, you don’t know who’s next!
By the way, Sgt Mom was pretty cute…
http://static.open.salon.com/files/rsz/crop_342×485//files/sgtmom19781243616647.jpg
Comment by Ranten N. Raven — 20100607 @ 2117
I thought it was a gimmick at first. A look-a-like or something. Couldn’t believe that ANYONE could be that completely clueless. I mean, of all the countries to pick, Germany and Poland? Really?
Well, if nothing else, she’s taken the pressure off of Mel Gibson for being the most notorious anti-Semite in the media.
Comment by Timmer — 20100610 @ 1534