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[[Hezbollah]], the Lebanese Islamist political and paramilitary organization, applauded her remarks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3902922,00.html |title=Hezbollah lauds Helen Thomas |publisher=Ynetnews |date=June 20, 1995 |accessdate=June 17, 2010}}</ref> |
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On June 7, Thomas tendered her immediate resignation from Hearst Newspapers, and retired.<ref name="foxnews1">{{cite web|author=Reuters |url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/10/groups-consider-renaming-helen-thomas-awards-controversy/?test=latestnews |title=Groups Consider Renaming 'Helen Thomas' Awards |publisher=FOX News.|date=April 7, 2010 |accessdate=June 17, 2010}}</ref><ref name="hillretirement">{{cite news |title=Helen Thomas quits after Israel remarks|author=Sam Youngman |author2=Emily Goodin |newspaper=The Hill |date=June 7, 2010 |url=http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/101731-helen-thomas-announces-retirement|archivedate=June 11, 2010|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5qPIVDRlZ}}</ref><ref name="bbcretirement" /><ref name="spyretirement">{{cite news | title = US: Veteran reporter resigns over 'indefensible' remarks | work = The Spy Report | publisher = Media Spy | date =June 8, 2010 | url = http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/06/08/us-veteran-reporter-resigns-over-indefensible-remarks/|author=Cyril Washbrook | accessdate = June 12, 2010 }}</ref> |
On June 7, Thomas tendered her immediate resignation from Hearst Newspapers, and retired.<ref name="foxnews1">{{cite web|author=Reuters |url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/10/groups-consider-renaming-helen-thomas-awards-controversy/?test=latestnews |title=Groups Consider Renaming 'Helen Thomas' Awards |publisher=FOX News.|date=April 7, 2010 |accessdate=June 17, 2010}}</ref><ref name="hillretirement">{{cite news |title=Helen Thomas quits after Israel remarks|author=Sam Youngman |author2=Emily Goodin |newspaper=The Hill |date=June 7, 2010 |url=http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/101731-helen-thomas-announces-retirement|archivedate=June 11, 2010|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5qPIVDRlZ}}</ref><ref name="bbcretirement" /><ref name="spyretirement">{{cite news | title = US: Veteran reporter resigns over 'indefensible' remarks | work = The Spy Report | publisher = Media Spy | date =June 8, 2010 | url = http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/06/08/us-veteran-reporter-resigns-over-indefensible-remarks/|author=Cyril Washbrook | accessdate = June 12, 2010 }}</ref> |
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Born | Helen Thomas August 4, 1920 Winchester, Kentucky, USA |
Nationality | American |
Education | Wayne University |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, White House Press Correspondent (retired) |
Years active | 1943–2010 |
Spouse | Douglas B. Cornell (1971–82) |
Website | http://www.helenthomas.org/ |
Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American author and a former news service reporter, Hearst Newspapers columnist,[1] and member of the White House Press Corps. She served for 57 years as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas covered every president of the United States from the last years of the Eisenhower administration until the second year of the Obama administration.
She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, and the first female member of the Gridiron Club. She has written five books; her latest with co-author Craig Crawford is Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do.
Thomas retired on June 7, 2010, following negative reaction to comments she had made that Israel should "get the hell out of Palestine" and Jews should go back to "Poland. Germany.... and America and everywhere else."[2][3][1][4][5][6]
Early life and career
Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky.[7]
Her parents, George Thomas and Mary (née Rowady), immigrated to the U.S. from Tripoli, which was then Syria (in the 1890s), but is now part of Lebanon.[8][9][10][11] Her parents could neither read nor write.[8] Her father's surname had originally been "Antonious", before being anglicized to Thomas at Ellis Island.[9]
Thomas said "I was very lucky to be born in America.... [My family was] never hyphenated as Arab-Americans. We were American, and I have always rejected the hyphen and I believe all assimilated immigrants should not be designated ethnically."[12]
Thomas was raised as a Christian in the Greek Orthodox Church.[9] She was the seventh of nine children and grew up in Detroit, Michigan.
Thomas attended Wayne University (now Wayne State University), graduating with a bachelor's degree in English in 1942.[13]
Her first job in journalism was as a copygirl for the now-defunct Washington Daily News, but shortly after she was promoted to cub reporter, she was laid off as part of massive cutbacks at the paper. Thomas joined United Press International in 1943 and reported on women's topics for its radio wire service, earning $24 ($423 in current dollar terms) a week.[14] Later in the decade, and in the early fifties, she wrote UPI's "Names in the News" column, for which she interviewed numerous Washington celebrities.[15] After 1955, she covered federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Thomas served as president of the Women's National Press Club from 1959–60. In 1959, Thomas and a few of her fellow female journalists forced the National Press Club, then barred to women, to allow them to attend an address by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Presidential correspondent
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In November 1960, Thomas began covering then President-elect John F. Kennedy, following him to the White House in January 1961 as a UPI correspondent. Thomas became known as the "Sitting Buddha." It was during Kennedy's administration that she ended all presidential press conferences with a signature "Thank you, Mr. President",[16] a tradition started by UPI’s Merriman Smith during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[17]
Throughout her career as a correspondent, Thomas earned a reputation for being relentless and demanding.[18] In an interview with Fidel Castro, USA Today founder Al Neuharth asked the Cuban leader what the difference was between democracy in Cuba and democracy in the United States. Castro replied, "I don't have to answer questions from Helen Thomas."[19]
Thomas was the only female print journalist to travel to China with President Richard Nixon during his historic trip in 1972.[20] (Barbara Walters was a member of the NBC News team that went to the People's Republic of China to cover the visits of President Richard Nixon in 1972.) She traveled around the world several times with all US Presidents since Richard Nixon, and covered every Economic Summit since 1975, working up to the position of UPI's White House Bureau Chief, a post she would hold for over 25 years. While serving as White House Bureau Chief, she authored a regular column for UPI, "Backstairs at the White House",[21] a column begun by Merriman Smith.[22] The column provided an insider's view of various presidential administrations.
Thomas was the only member of the White House Press Corps to have her own seat in the White House Briefing Room. All other seats are assigned to media outlets.
Departure from UPI
On May 17, 2000, after 57 years with the organization, Thomas resigned from UPI the day after the announcement of its acquisition by News World Communications Inc., a company founded and controlled by Unification Church leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon.[23] She later described the change in ownership as "a bridge too far".[24][23] Less than two months later, she joined Hearst Newspapers as an opinion columnist, writing on national affairs and the White House.[25]
After leaving her job as a reporter at the UPI, Thomas became more likely to air her personal negative views. In a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she quipped, "I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, ‘Who do I hate today?’"[26]
Clinton administration
During the Clinton administration, Thomas – who Ari Fleischer opined holds strong views on the Middle East – reacted to Fleisher's statements to the press about arms shipments to the terrorists by saying to Fleischer: "Where do the Israelis get their arms?" He responded "There's a difference Helen, and that is --". "What is the difference?", she asked. He responded: "The targeting of innocents through the use of terror, which is a common enemy for Yasir Arafat and for the people of Israel, as well as --". She interrupted him, saying: "Palestinian people are fighting for their land." He responded: "I think that the killing of innocents is a category entirely different. Justifying killing of innocents for land is an argument in support of terrorism."[27]
George W. Bush administration
Thomas publicly expressed her opinion about President George W. Bush; after a speech at a Society of Professional Journalists banquet, she told an autograph-seeker, who asked why she was sad, "I'm covering the worst president in American history." The autograph-seeker was a sports writer for The Daily Breeze and her comments were published. After that she was not called upon, during a press conference, for the first time in over four decades. She wrote to the president to apologize.[28] She also told The Hill, "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."[29]
Traditionally, Thomas sat in the front row and asked the first question during White House press conferences. However, according to Thomas in a 2006 Daily Show interview, this ended because she no longer represented a wire service. During the Bush administration, Thomas was moved to the back row during press conferences; she still sat in the front row during press briefings. She was called upon at briefings on a daily basis but no longer ended Presidential news conferences saying, "Thank you, Mr. President." When asked why she was seated in the back row, she said, "they didn’t like me...I ask too mean questions."[30]
On March 21, 2006, Thomas was called upon directly by President Bush for the first time in three years. Thomas asked Bush about the War in Iraq:
I'd like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is: Why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your Cabinet...your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth...what was your real reason? You have said it wasn't oil...quest for oil, it hasn't been Israel, or anything else. What was it?
Bush responded by discussing the War on Terror, and stated as a reason for the invasion that Saddam Hussein chose to deny inspectors and not to disclose required information.[31] Thomas was criticized by some commentators for her exchange with Bush.[32]
At the July 18, 2006, White House press briefing, Thomas remarked, "The United States is not that helpless. It could have stopped the bombardment of Lebanon. We have that much control with the Israelis... we have gone for collective punishment against all of Lebanon and Palestine." Press Secretary Tony Snow responded, "Thank you for the Hezbollah view."[33] Other members of the press weighed in. According to Washington Post television critic Tom Shales, questions like the one above have sounded more like "tirades" and "anti-Israeli rhetoric."[34][35]
In a press conference on November 30, 2007, Thomas questioned White House Press Secretary Dana Perino as to why Americans should depend on General David Petraeus in determining when to re-deploy U.S troops from Iraq. Perino began to answer when Thomas interjected with "You mean how many more people we kill?" Perino immediately took offense, responding,
Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a...it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.[36]
A December 4, 2007, CNN report by Jeanne Moos showed video of a seating chart of reporters covering a press conference given by President Bush concerning reports of Iran not having pursued nuclear weapons since 2003. The spot for Thomas was crossed out with an X and she was never called upon.[37][dead link]
Obama administration
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On February 9, 2009, Thomas was present in the front row for newly elected President Obama's news conference regarding the federal bailout bill. President Obama called on her with the statement "Helen. I'm excited, this is my inaugural moment."[39] This was seemingly a reference to her long-term presence in the White House Press Corps.[40] Thomas asked the new president if any Middle Eastern country possessed nuclear weapons. This was an obvious reference to Israel's speculated nuclear weapons arsenal, which both the Israeli and the U.S. governments have refused to acknowledge. Continuing this policy, Obama replied that he didn't want to "speculate" on the matter.
Thomas' reporting of the Obama Administration was not without criticism. On July 1, 2009, Thomas commented regarding the Obama administration's handling of the press, "The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and you have controlled...".[41][42][43] She also said that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press as much as President Obama.[44]
On August 4, 2009, Thomas celebrated her 89th birthday. President Obama, who shares his birthday with Thomas, presented her with birthday cupcakes and sang Happy Birthday to her before the press conference took place that day.[45]
Controversy and resignation
Comments on Israel and Jews
On May 27, 2010, outside a Jewish Heritage Celebration Day event at the White House, the following exchange took place between Thomas and Rabbi David Nesenoff[5][46][47]
Nesenoff: Any comments on Israel? We're asking everybody today, any comments on Israel?
Thomas: Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.
Nesenoff: Oooh. Any better comments on Israel?
Thomas: Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not German, it's not Poland ...
Nesenoff: So where should they go, what should they do?
Thomas: They go home.
Nesenoff: Where's the home?
Thomas: Poland. Germany.
Nesenoff: So you're saying the Jews go back to Poland and Germany?
Thomas: And America and everywhere else. Why push people out of there who have lived there for centuries? See?
Thomas subsequently issued a statement on her personal web site:
I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.[48][49][50]
Repercussions
- Negative reactions
Thomas's agency, Nine Speakers, Inc., dropped her as a client because of her remarks.[51][52] Craig Crawford, who co-authored Listen up, Mr. President, said that he "will no longer be working with Helen on our book projects".[53] Her scheduled delivery of a commencement speech at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, was canceled by the school.[54]
Her comments garnered her a rebuke from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.[55] Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said her remarks were "outrageous, anti-Semitic, racist, indefensible" and told Thomas, "maybe it's time for you to go home."[56]
Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, noted that her "sick suggestions" contemplated "the departure of Israelis to the sites of the major death camps seven decades ago where six million Jews were gassed."[57]
The White House Correspondents' Association called her comments “indefensible.” [58][59] Journalist Michel Martin wrote in NPR, "You don't need to be a Holocaust scholar or survivor ... to be disgusted by her comments. You do need to know that millions of Jews were tortured, burned alive, experimented upon and otherwise destroyed in a genocidal campaign to rid those two countries of Jewish people."[60]
- Supportive and positive reactions
Others defended Thomas, or accused her critics of selective outrage.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamist political and paramilitary organization, applauded her remarks.[61]
- Resignation
On June 7, Thomas tendered her immediate resignation from Hearst Newspapers, and retired.[62][4][6][63]
- Negative reactions after resignation
On June 8, President Obama said her remarks were "offensive" and "out of line", called her retirement "the right decision", in an interview on NBC's Today Show. He said that it was a "shame" her celebrated career had to end in such controversy, and at the same time recognized her long service covering U.S. presidents, calling her "a real institution in Washington."[64]
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has not decided what to do with its Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement.[2] Its president, who said her comments were "offensive" and "inexcusable", indicated that board members would likely consider whether to strip her name from the award at their July meeting.[2] Her alma mater, Wayne State University, said it would keep the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media award, despite strongly condemning what it called her "wholly inappropriate comments."[2]
Awards
Thomas has received numerous awards and more than 30 honorary degrees. In 1976, Thomas was named one of the World Almanac's 25 Most Influential Women in America.[65]
In 1986 she received the William Allen White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit from the University of Kansas.[16] Thomas received an Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media from the Freedom Forum in 1991. The White House Correspondent's Association honored her in 1998 by establishing the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, her alma mater, Wayne State University, established an award for journalists in her honor, the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity award.[66] In 2007, Thomas received a Foremother Award from the National Research Center for Women & Families.
Bibliography
- Listen Up Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do. (with co-author Craig Crawford) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009) ISBN 1-4391-4815-5
- The Great White House Breakout. (with co-author and illustrator Chip Bok) (Penguin Group, 2008) ISBN 9780803733008 (children's book)
- Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006) ISBN 0-7432-6781-8
- Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President : Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003) ISBN 0-7432-0226-0
- Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times (Scribner, 2000) ISBN 0-684-86809-1
- Dateline: White House (Macmillan, 1975) ISBN 0-02-617620-3
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I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.
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External links
- Official website
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- "Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama", CNS News
- "Truth, Fear and War", speech by Thomas, September 13, 2003.
- "Calling Helen Thomas" in Saudi Aramco World (Vol. 57, No. 2); discusses Thomas impact on younger Arab-American journalists.
- John Palmer interview with Helen Thomas[dead link]
- Andrew Denton interview with Helen Thomas, July 7, 2008
- Veteran White House Reporter Helen Thomas Retires After Israel Remarks – video report by Democracy Now!
- Oral History Interview with Helen Thomas, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library