Comments on: Have You Read Helen Thomas Lately? http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Neal5x5 http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137559 Neal5x5 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:11:59 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137559 <p>The great irony is that despite her advanced years and experience, the biases and attitudes that make her unreadable and untrustworthy are quite <i>juvenile</i>. Helen Thomas is proof that age doesn't automatically mean wisdom.</p> The great irony is that despite her advanced years and experience, the biases and attitudes that make her unreadable and untrustworthy are quite juvenile. Helen Thomas is proof that age doesn’t automatically mean wisdom.

]]> By: Floyd http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137558 Floyd Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:53:03 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137558 <p>That's not quite accurate. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer publishes her column from time to time; they might well be the only somewhat-major newspaper to do so. <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/363256_thomasonline16.html" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> a recent example of her prose stylings.</p> That’s not quite accurate. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer publishes her column from time to time; they might well be the only somewhat-major newspaper to do so. Here’s a recent example of her prose stylings.

]]> By: Dave Mastio http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137179 Dave Mastio Fri, 30 May 2008 15:28:25 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137179 <p>You know I met her a couple years back at a cocktail party. When she found out that I had once been a speechwriter for the Bush Administration she refused to talk to me any further. That's the kind of high-minded journalism she retails. Don't even bother talking to people you disagree with.</p> <p>Most of the left-leaning bloggers I know have more curious minds and a greater interest in understanding the other side (if only to rip it apart more expertly). Her closed mind is what has made her irrelevant.</p> You know I met her a couple years back at a cocktail party. When she found out that I had once been a speechwriter for the Bush Administration she refused to talk to me any further. That’s the kind of high-minded journalism she retails. Don’t even bother talking to people you disagree with.

Most of the left-leaning bloggers I know have more curious minds and a greater interest in understanding the other side (if only to rip it apart more expertly). Her closed mind is what has made her irrelevant.

]]> By: Marshall Manson http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137172 Marshall Manson Fri, 30 May 2008 11:49:08 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/have-you-read-helen-thomas-lately#comment-137172 <p>Great post, Bill. You just answered one of my longest held Beltway insider questions. And to answer yours -- no: I have never read a Helen Thomas column and would not, but for your research, have had the slightest idea where to look. Now, here's a further query: Given her evident lack of circulation, who do you think has more readers -- Mrs. Thomas or the bloggers she likes to rail against?</p> Great post, Bill. You just answered one of my longest held Beltway insider questions. And to answer yours — no: I have never read a Helen Thomas column and would not, but for your research, have had the slightest idea where to look. Now, here’s a further query: Given her evident lack of circulation, who do you think has more readers — Mrs. Thomas or the bloggers she likes to rail against?

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