Comments on: Helen Thomas: Bad journalism is bloggers’ fault

By: Michelle Malkin » Dan Rather, the Captain Ahab of journalism

Michelle Malkin » Dan Rather, the Captain Ahab of journalism — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:40:35 +0000

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By: sfcmac

sfcmac — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:36:33 +0000

The old bag is obnoxious and delusional. Her “ethics” and “standards”??? That’s the LAST thing the main stream media possess or practice. Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Eason Jordon, Mary Mapes, Dan Rather, William Arkin, Keith Olbermann, Helen Thomas….what a collection of moonbats.

Those self-appointed foreign policy “mavens” are a laugh a minute.

They want all of the rights of free press but none of the consequences.

They fear the general public’s ability to access and utilize the internet as a forum to counter their half-truths and confront them on their belief that they and only they can define the facts and how they’re presented.
It doesn’t take a degree in journalism to discuss issues, dissect the blatant leftwing advocacy, fill in the parts they convieniently omit, or point out all the distortions they pass off as “news stories”.
Thomas should just consider bloggers as a force that ’speaks truth to power’.

By: dakine

dakine — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:30:25 +0000

SHoward, you’re kidding right? Take off your Michelle colored goggles for a minute. Michelle regularly uses the worst pictures ever taken of those individuals with whom she disagrees (or otherwise has a problem) on this site. I gotta believe there are somewhat better pictures of Helen Thomas available. Having said that, however, this site is about entertainment as well, and that picture made me chuckle a little. Interestingly enough, that picture of Helen looks a bit like soap would if he was an 80 year old female.

By: SHoward

SHoward — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:09:46 +0000

Dakine, Salt’s point is that any picture of ol’ Dame Thomas was likely to not be very appealing.

We can’t halp it that she might actually be what a female troll looks like.

Remeber, Michelle has too much class to place that picture so we can hurl………jabs at it.

By: dakine

dakine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:38:44 +0000

I hear ya Salt, but c’mon. There’s no way that Michelle picked that particular photo without thinking that folks around here were going to go to town on it.

By: Salt

Salt — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:17:03 +0000

dakine said:

The photo of good ‘ole Helen was intended to result in silly/personal comments about her physical appearance…

You might have inferred that, dakine. Put “Helen Thomas” into the google image search and it’s the first photo. Take a look through other photos of Helen. I don’t think the intent of the photo was quite what you thought it was. She’s just not photogenic.

By: dakine

dakine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:58:35 +0000

Touche you clever wordsmith you. Last word goes to soap.

By: mojo

mojo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:57:35 +0000

What, she can be an ugly old harridan mostly famous for interviewing William T. Sherman and I’m not supposed to mention it?

Where’s the fun in that?

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:37:46 +0000

And you stand in my shadow – troll.

By: dakine

dakine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:33:32 +0000

You’re a funny little man soap.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:44:47 +0000

You stand alone. In the furure, leave me out of your comments.

By: dakine

dakine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:29:23 +0000

The photo of good ‘ole Helen was intended to result in silly/personal comments about her physical appearance, so your point as it relates to that portion of my post is off base. However, I will admit that the second portion of my post was a bit out of line, so I apologize for that. I stand by what I had to say in my last post though.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:19:57 +0000

You mean engage in intelligent dialogue like:

On January 6th, 2008 at 12:08 am, dakine said:
Is that a real picture? If so, that may be the ugliest photo of a human being that I’ve ever seen.

OT: Soap, when are you going to have something interesting and/or original to say? “LOL” at your own weak material is lame bra.

I see what you mean. So what part of your intelligent dialogue did I miss?

no ability to appreciate another point of view

Depends on the person. I loved BuckI when he posted and we did not agree on much. lgm has little to offer and you have less at times (such as now).

You came on this thread and made a deliberate attempt to attack me for no reason so, I can’t even give you “intelligent dialogue”.

Your attempts belittle me are sad and pathetic.

By: dakine

dakine — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:07:19 +0000

aj, tool or not, I think soap can take care of himself.

soap, your “LOL” at yourself stuff was in another thread. I’m a traditional/old school conservative (think Goldwater and Reagan (w/o the religious right nonsense)) with a libertarian streak, but I do enjoy listening to and reading other points of view. As a result, I’m not afraid to visit sites such as DKOS. It’s not a very good site though IMO, so I don’t visit very often. The format sucks and most of the posters are mirror images of guys like you…extreme, irrational and no ability to appreciate another point of view and engage in intelligent dialogue.

By: Lanzman

Lanzman — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:01:16 +0000

Gee, lots of digs at Thomas’ age and looks. How mature of you all.

On the substance of the story, she’s dead wrong, of course . . . the “new media” (aka blogs) is rising strong precisely because the “old media” represented by Helen Thomas and her peers have failed so completely to live up to their obligations as journalists.