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Thanks, Broadsheet, for again bringing to my attention something I'd never had read on my own.
To this former journalist and current patroitic liberal (NOT a contradiction in terms, thank you very much), Helen Thomas is someone I wish we could clone. I wish we could go to all those other news outlets (or former news outlets) and point to Helen and say, "Look you clowns, this is what a real journalist looks like, sounds like, asks questions like--IS."
I do find myself concurring, however, with Patricia Schwarz's comment about the WH press being lapdogs for longer than the Bush administration. I first spotted signs of it in the Reagan years, the dawn of the post-modern spinarama world in which we now live. It seems worst during Republican administrations. They'd tear into Clinton (as their corporate daddies told them to?) and then go back to their "I'm rolling over to show you my belly, please scratch it" mode.
You GO, Helen! You're nobody's lapdog and never have been!
