Helen Thomas Loses Front Seat At WH Press Room. Drinks A Glass Of Hemlock To Celebrate
Via Ian, comes this link from The Politico:
The press corps is scheduled to move from temporary facilities back into the spiffed-up, rewired briefing room in May or June. Thomas, who has been questioning presidents and press secretaries for 46 years, plans to be there. But her front-row seat won’t be. Plans call for her to be moved to the second row to make room for a cable news channel – a sign of Washington’s changing pecking order, and of the new ways that Americans get their news.
“I didn’t think I had a monopoly on that seat,” Thomas, 86, said in a telephone interview. “Since my peers have decided that I don’t belong there, I’ll bow to their – I’ll drink the – What did Socrates drink?”
Hemlock?
“I’ll drink it,” she said. “You have to submit to the will of the people, and apparently this is the will of my peers. It’s OK with me. I’ve had a good run in the front seat.”
In all seriousness, after i did the happy dance, cause we all know how little I care for her, the decision is sound. She doesn’t do a daily column, and it isn’t like she has a readership depending on her.
Cold Fury has Cry me a river, hag
February 22, 2007 - 01:38 AM on February 22nd, 2007
That’s a very interesting historical reference, the hemlock thing. Like Socrates, Helen Thomas has evolved into an annoying curmudgeon. Unlike Socrates, she has nothing of value to offer. And also, unfortunately, her drinking “the hemlock” is only metaphorical. They’ll still have to deal with her barking out her blather at press conferences.
I would have moved her seat out of the room entirely.