{"id":19374,"date":"2010-06-07T13:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19374"},"modified":"2010-06-07T13:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:11:54","slug":"helen-thomas-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19374","title":{"rendered":"Helen Thomas retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2010\/06\/in-the-crosshairs-helen-thomas-the-ugly-truth.html\">Jimbo<\/a> beat up on Helen Thomas pretty good. I guess she couldn&#8217;t stand the heat from Blackfive because she announced her retirement today (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/americanpowerblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/helen-thomas-announces-retirement.html\">American Power blog <\/a>for sending us the links).<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/ondeadline\/post\/2010\/06\/veteran-white-house-reporter-helen-thomas-retires-following-controversial-remarks\/1\">USAToday<\/a>, she didn&#8217;t retire as much as she got fired;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The controversy prompted Thomas to be dropped by her speaker&#8217;s bureau. She also agreed not to deliver a commencement speech at Walt Whitman High School in suburban Bethesda, Md., the Associated Press reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually had a very decent conversation once with the hag&#8230;well, it was before Bush Derangement Syndrome ate her (gag) brain cells. Oh, and she&#8217;d just come from the eye doctor and had some of those mongo-shades that covered most (but not enough) of her face.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but it was time for the little troll to find a new bridge to haunt. Telling the Jews to go back to Poland and Germany is pretty hateful and thoughtless no matter how you look at it. I read on Democratic Underground where some numbnuts said she&#8217;d been misquoted &#8211; in a video? Of her (gag) face saying the words? <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile over here on the Right, if we say the Mexicans should walk the same thirty feet they walked yesterday and go back to Mexico, we&#8217;re racists and xenophobes.<\/p>\n<p>Much <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/07\/white-house-blasts-absent-thomas-in-todays-briefing\/\">more Helen Thomas news from the friendlier part of our sworn enemy Hot Air<\/a>, Ed Morrissey.<\/p>\n<p>Who else can I piss off today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Jimbo beat up on Helen Thomas pretty good. I guess she couldn&#8217;t stand the heat &hellip; <a title=\"Helen Thomas retires\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19374\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Helen Thomas retires<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}