{"id":1191,"date":"2010-06-09T07:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2010-06-09T07:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:58:56","slug":"farewell-helen-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/farewell-helen-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Helen Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always admired Helen Thomas, even though I vehemently disagree with most of her politics.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked her style, a mix of brash feistiness and a take-no-prisoners attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Most reporters in the White House Press room are mild little sheep that are very, very careful not to piss off the powers-that-be.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s understandable \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no one wants to lose an easy, cushy job.<\/p>\n<p>Helen, OTH, didn&#8217;t care about that.\u00c2\u00a0 She ruthlessly grilled presidents of both parties for decades, and refused to be snowed by BS answers and evasions.<\/p>\n<p>I also admire anyone who goes to work every day at age 89.<\/p>\n<p>Her recent statements about Israel were flat out ridiculous and wrong on every level.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But. . . I like her, respect her, and will miss her.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s was one of the last few gutsy journalists in the WH press room, and until someone else decides to follow her example, we&#8217;re all poorer for her forced retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always admired Helen Thomas, even though I vehemently disagree with most of her politics.\u00c2\u00a0 I liked her style, a mix of brash feistiness and a take-no-prisoners attitude. Most reporters in the White House Press room are mild little sheep that are very, very careful not to piss off the powers-that-be.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s understandable \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}