Times Square Gossip

**** THE CHICAGO GOSSIP KATHY POSNER ON THE WICKED WITCH **** Helen Thomas On January 11, 2011, I posted a blog, “Some Claimed to be Anti-Semitic,” about veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas being hired by the Virginia-based Falls Church News Press as a columnist. In that posting I chronicled month by month the downfall of Thomas, starting with her remark on May 27, 2010 when she said in an interview with Rabbi David Nesenoff, “The Jews should get the hell out of Israel,” until her hiring by the newspaper last month. When announcing his newest employee, owner-editor Nicholas Benton said, “She is progressive, and following my more than eight hours of direct, one-on-one talks with her since the events of last June, I remain firmly convinced that she is neither bigoted, nor racist, nor anti-Semitic." Benton made that statement on January 10, 2011; I wonder if he would still make it today? On February 16th, Thomas appeared on The Joy Behar Show on HLN and angrily defended what s...

**** THE CHICAGO GOSSIP **** Helen Thomas Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas was hired last week by the Virginia-based Falls Church News Press as its latest columnist. In a story on the front page of the paper and its web site, owner-editor Nicholas Benton said, “She is progressive, and following my more than eight hours of direct, one-on-one talks with her since the events of last June, I remain firmly convinced that she is neither bigoted, nor racist, nor anti-Semitic." That might seem to be a reasonable statement had not earlier in the story the newspaper not shown its obvious prejudice by this description of Thomas: “Now age 90, Thomas began her journalistic career in 1942 and has covered every U.S. president on a day-to-day basis as a White House correspondent since 1960. She declared her retirement abruptly on June 8, 2010 following a firestorm of criticism that arose from spontaneous taped comments she made the day before that some claimed to be anti-Semitic.” Claime...

**** THE WOODWARD REPORT WITH BRIAN WOODWARD **** Helen Thomas White House Reporter Helen Thomas Retires After Telling the Jews to “Get the Hell Out of Palestine” Helen Thomas, the 89 year old veteran of the White House Press Corps announced Monday that she would be retiring effective immediately. The retirement comes on the heels of comments made about Israel in which she exclaimed, “tell them to get the hell out of Palestine .” She went on to state that the Palestinians are occupied people and that the Jews should “go home”. When asked where home was she said “Poland, Germany, and America”. U.S. Will be Like Greece in ‘Seven to 10 Years,’ Say Congressmen, Experts Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), various other Congressmen, and additional leading financial experts are warning that the United States is in danger of succumbing to the same fate as Greece, national bankruptcy , in seven to 10 years unless the federal government substantially reduces spending. “If we continue to spend m...

Helen Thomas Famed White House icon Helen Thomas attended the book signing for her Children's Book THE GREAT WHITE HOUSE BREAKOUT at the Museum of American History in Washington DC. Hey Helen, any White House secrets in book? Photo By: Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.