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2013-07-20 -Obits-

Helen Thomas, whose career covering the White House dated back to the Kennedy administration, died on Saturday at the age of 92, the Gridiron Club announced in an email to members on Saturday.

Thomas was the first woman to join the White House Correspondents' Association, and the first woman to serve as its president. She was also the first female member of the Gridiron Club, Washington's historic press group. She served for 57 years at United Press International, first as a correspondent then as a White House bureau chief, before becoming a columnist for Hearst Papers.

Posted by Raj 2013-07-20 10:31|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

Posted by gorb 2013-07-20 10:47|| 2013-07-20 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Goodbye,Lying Witch.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-20 10:50|| 2013-07-20 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Speaking ill of the dead does little positive. But I will sit idle and listen to people sing her praises.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-07-20 10:56|| 2013-07-20 10:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Mama always said if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all.

~~I guess "It's nice she's gone, at long last" wouldn't pass Mama's muster.~~

So I'll shut up.

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-20 10:59|| 2013-07-20 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 My mom said the same to me Barb. That why I mostly sit in silence!

Posted by 49 Pan 2013-07-20 11:06|| 2013-07-20 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 I think gorb said it best.

If I were to slop the news into one bowl, Helen Thomas died on the anniversary of a white hispanic mossad agent gunning down a theatre of black peoples watching a film about growing tomatoes and cursive is racist.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-07-20 11:19|| 2013-07-20 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I do believe I'll do the worst insult to Thomas possible(in her mind). Ignore her.

Posted by Charles 2013-07-20 12:03|| 2013-07-20 12:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Does she get 72 virgins?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2013-07-20 12:53|| 2013-07-20 12:53|| Front Page Top

#9 the world is a better place today

Posted by Frank G 2013-07-20 13:03|| 2013-07-20 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 "Does she get 72 virgins?"

That's a mis-tranlation, Al. It's really 72 Virginians - starting with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

So I sincerely hope so. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-20 13:23|| 2013-07-20 13:23|| Front Page Top

#11 As H. L. Mencken once said, "I have never wished a man dead, but I have read many an obituary with pleasure."

Posted by Steve White 2013-07-20 13:24|| 2013-07-20 13:24|| Front Page Top

#12 The local Chevra Kadisha stopped just short of issuing a nihum ah-vay-leem [comforting of mourners] statement.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-20 13:38|| 2013-07-20 13:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Ding Dong the witch is dead, Fits so nicely.

I CAN say ill of the dead, It's safer.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-20 13:57|| 2013-07-20 13:57|| Front Page Top

#14 The grim reaper took her so soon.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-07-20 14:43|| 2013-07-20 14:43|| Front Page Top

#15

Posted by OldSpook 2013-07-20 15:08|| 2013-07-20 15:08|| Front Page Top

#16 JQC, that depends on where he took her.

Posted by AlanC 2013-07-20 15:17|| 2013-07-20 15:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Isn't that kind of harsh on the woman OldSpook - Associating Thomas with the Wicked Witch?

After all what did the Wicked Witch do to you to deserve such treatment?

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-07-20 15:41|| 2013-07-20 15:41|| Front Page Top

#18 Hugo Chavez's real hell just showed up. Devil get your popcorn.

Posted by airandee 2013-07-20 16:30|| 2013-07-20 16:30|| Front Page Top

#19 Besoeker, once again you impressed me. :-)

May those who love her be comforted by their memories, grateful that she did not long live outcast from the news world she had so loved.

I believe she counted herself among those Lebanese of a Christian faith, not a Muslim one, so the number and posdibility of virgins, Virginians, or white raisins is immaterial.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-07-20 17:14|| 2013-07-20 17:14|| Front Page Top

#20 Sturgeons. She earned em

Posted by Frank G 2013-07-20 18:25|| 2013-07-20 18:25|| Front Page Top

#21 I believe she counted herself among those Lebanese of a Christian faith

Right, no raisins for her then. She'll get judgment. I can live with that.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-07-20 19:22|| 2013-07-20 19:22|| Front Page Top

#22 Remembered with disgust.

Posted by Hellfish 2013-07-20 20:15|| 2013-07-20 20:15|| Front Page Top

#23 I'll ask the important question. Who's The Ugliest Woman Alive now?

Posted by tu3031 2013-07-20 22:17|| 2013-07-20 22:17|| Front Page Top

#24 And we have a winner!

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-20 22:19|| 2013-07-20 22:19|| Front Page Top

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