MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
This just in today from the White House Correspondents' Association: Helen Thomas has requested that her seat in the briefing room be used by the in-town print pooler on the rare days when she is absent. And by a vote of 8 -to -0, the White House Correspondents' Association board yesterday agreed to the arrangement. It takes effect immediately. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best...
The Whig (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
From regretsy: Helen Back This whole Twilight craze has gone too far. Et tu , Helen?
Market Pipeline (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Posted in the Financial Times by Michael Mackenzie and Helen Thomas: Wall Street dealers are facing their worst fear as proposed new rules by Congress, designed to protect and bolster the financial system, could have unintended consequences upon a key area of financing for banks and leading financial institutions. Under a proposal within the Financial Stability Improvement Act, passed...
A Tiny Revolution (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Sam Husseini shows up at the news conferences after D.C. Sunday talk shows to ask forbidden questions, and then posts the results at Washington Stakeout . This week he spoke with Sen. Russ Feingold, and asked him about Afghanistan, single-payer health care, and...Israeli nuclear weapons: HUSSEINI: Helen Thomas asked Obama at his first news conference if he knew of any country in the...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | yesterday
... improvements . . . > Source : US mortgage delinquencies to fall in 2010 Francesco Guerrera and Helen Thomas FT, December 7 2009 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/183966d2-e366-11de-8d36-00144feab49a.html
Mystical Politics (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... calling. In 1975 the Gridiron Club voted to admit women. Fran [Frances Lewine] and UPI’s Helen Thomas were first female members. My grandfather loved the Gridiron Club (and that other bastion of Washington establishment journalism, the Washington Press Club , which only admitted women in 1971), and it's hard to imagine how his conservative and proper psyche would have reacted...
PA Pundits (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... and stuffed flounder? Neither of them smells too good. The highlight of that event is watching Helen Thomas – eventually – pop out of a cake. Not much fun. The average one-year old’s birthday party is far more exciting, and the highlight of that event is watching the birthday girl try to eat wrapping paper. Besides, that party has an additional bonus: No one has to listen to President...
