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		<title>Helen Speaks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I do in my free time, besides write this blog and drink to excess, is write the occasional love letter to Helen Thomas.  Now, I don&#8217;t like to bother her.  I only do it when she says something so typically transcendent and BS-cutting that I just can&#8217;t resist&#8230;.  Like she did [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things I do in my free time, besides write this blog and drink to excess, is write the occasional love letter to Helen Thomas.  Now, I don&#8217;t like to bother her.  I only do it when she says something so typically transcendent and BS-cutting that I just can&#8217;t resist&#8230;.  Like she did the other day when she totally discombobulated the Obama press conference that became a minor media scandal because some &#8220;blogger&#8221; got to ask a question, by asking, loudly and out of turn, (and I paraphrase)  &#8221;What about the torture photos?!?&#8221;</p>
<p>Naturally, if you read the MSM or watched TV, you&#8217;d have missed this priceless moment, which I have to say, in my unprejudiced opinion, was first time I saw President Obama pretty much be an arrogant asshole. Helen, with her uncomfortable truth, cracked the code, and while I suddenly liked my President, whom I supported and continue to support, albeit intermittently these days, a lot less, my crush on Helen only got worse.  So I typed.</p>
<p>Behold the following, which may be slightly better written than Gov. Sanford&#8217;s work, but is essentially the same thing.</p>
<p>Dear Ms. Thomas,</p>
<p>Amid the maelstrom over the deeply compromised folks over at the WaPoo and Politico whining about how uppity &#8220;bloggers&#8221; were taking over the Obama press conferences, it brought a smile to my face that you so ably disrupted the scripted operetta with your question about the torture photos.</p>
<p>As usual, and I don&#8217;t mean to insinuate that you do it deliberately, you made your &#8220;colleagues&#8221; look like the motley peanut gallery of fawning, social-climbing nincompoops that they are.</p>
<p>Thanks again, for reviving for me the fading memory of what journalism was intended to be.</p>
<p>Glad to see you back at your game.</p>
<p>Cocktailhag</p>
<p>Her response?</p>
<p>Kind words- We are being treated like trained seals. helent</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s the day.  We should all stand with Helen against torture.  Some seals can&#8217;t be trained.</p>
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