Comments on: Helen Speaks http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/ She drinks, you know. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:38:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NWW http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2866 NWW Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:03:28 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2866 Helen Thomas: Here's an interview clip with HT that ran Sunday June 29-09 on CBC Newsworld http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2009/01/011809_3.html Enjoy! NWW Helen Thomas:

Here’s an interview clip with HT that ran Sunday June 29-09 on CBC Newsworld

http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/2009/01/011809_3.html

Enjoy!
NWW

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2824 cocktailhag Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:44:50 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2824 Last time she told me, in just a sentence or two, about the hate mail she had received for challenging Bush. It was right about the time her book "Watchdogs of the Press? came out. It must be very disheartening to have a new administration behave the same way. Last time she told me, in just a sentence or two, about the hate mail she had received for challenging Bush. It was right about the time her book “Watchdogs of the Press? came out. It must be very disheartening to have a new administration behave the same way.

]]> By: dirigo http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2823 dirigo Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:33:56 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2823 Sorry, hag, about my harsh tone. It's not directed at you. It sounds pie in the sky I suppose, but there may be more gentle cultivation of Helen that you can do. As I say, she's been around too long to play the game other "reporters" play. She's dead straight, and so, again, while there's caution in her responses to people who write to her, there may be more in her responses to you. She sounds very heartfelt; and why wouldn't she? Interesting. Sorry, hag, about my harsh tone. It’s not directed at you.

It sounds pie in the sky I suppose, but there may be more gentle cultivation of Helen that you can do.

As I say, she’s been around too long to play the game other “reporters” play. She’s dead straight, and so, again, while there’s caution in her responses to people who write to her, there may be more in her responses to you. She sounds very heartfelt; and why wouldn’t she?

Interesting.

]]> By: dirigo http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2822 dirigo Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:51:31 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2822 Bullshit with "quaint." An example of the problem is the play given to the Jackson/Fawcett deaths on OS, compared to the substantive post offered by ktm. The entire front page of OS has been given over to this maudlin coverage, on a day recognizing the international problem of torture. Give me a fucking break. It's impossible that Thomas can be guileful in responding to you as she has. Her response can, rightly, be interpreted as a cry for help, or, at least, an appeal for affirmation. Think clearly; and, act. Bullshit with “quaint.”

An example of the problem is the play given to the Jackson/Fawcett deaths on OS, compared to the substantive post offered by ktm.

The entire front page of OS has been given over to this maudlin coverage, on a day recognizing the international problem of torture.

Give me a fucking break.

It’s impossible that Thomas can be guileful in responding to you as she has. Her response can, rightly, be interpreted as a cry for help, or, at least, an appeal for affirmation.

Think clearly; and, act.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2821 cocktailhag Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:07:13 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2821 Exactly. It's a debate we can't have by not having. Thomas just wants to have that debat, in her "quaint" way. Exactly. It’s a debate we can’t have by not having. Thomas just wants to have that debat, in her “quaint” way.

]]> By: Steven Rockford http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2820 Steven Rockford Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:58:29 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2820 Sorry Hag. I didn't mean anything personal. We're obviously on different sides of this issue. You've made some important points. The real problem is the M$M's avoidance on this one. I think we'd both agree on that. Sorry Hag. I didn’t mean anything personal. We’re obviously on different sides of this issue. You’ve made some important points. The real problem is the M$M’s avoidance on this one. I think we’d both agree on that.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2819 cocktailhag Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:27:05 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2819 Ah, yes, we could only hope..... She'd just make the rest of us look like chopped liver, though. Ah, yes, we could only hope….. She’d just make the rest of us look like chopped liver, though.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2818 cocktailhag Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:23:10 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2818 Well, yes. Call me crazy, but I find it kind of significant that we're basically admitting to, and worse, announcing our intention to cover up, the fact that we now torture, something only attributed to our scariest enemies in the pretty recent past. Fer or agin, it's kind of a big deal, and I'm just old-fashioned enough that the President ought to explain such a thing. You are entitled to feel differently, but do you think that Freedom would benefit if 0/100, instead of 99/100 reporters thought that Farrah was more important? It's fine if you do, of course. I just beg to differ. Well, yes. Call me crazy, but I find it kind of significant that we’re basically admitting to, and worse, announcing our intention to cover up, the fact that we now torture, something only attributed to our scariest enemies in the pretty recent past. Fer or agin, it’s kind of a big deal, and I’m just old-fashioned enough that the President ought to explain such a thing.
You are entitled to feel differently, but do you think that Freedom would benefit if 0/100, instead of 99/100 reporters thought that Farrah was more important? It’s fine if you do, of course.
I just beg to differ.

]]> By: dirigo http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2817 dirigo Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:14:05 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2817 There's the chance of an alliance with Helen, but it requires care and discretion. No shit, Shakespeare! There’s the chance of an alliance with Helen, but it requires care and discretion. No shit, Shakespeare!

]]> By: Steven Rockford http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/news-network/helen-speaks/comment-page-1/#comment-2816 Steven Rockford Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:10:43 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=1223#comment-2816 A crush on Helen Thomas because she says "What about the torture pictures"?? Simple minds. Simple pleasures. A crush on Helen Thomas because she says “What about the torture pictures”??

Simple minds. Simple pleasures.

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