HELEN THOMAS To Fox Tea Party Promoter: 'I Am A Liberal-Indeed-I'm As Far Left As You Can Go'

[kpete]

Fox Tea Party promoter probes Helen Thomas on ‘liberal bias’

By David Edwards
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 -- 1:26 pm

Fox Tea Party promoter probes Helen Thomas on liberal bias. Liberal isn't a dirty word and Helen Thomas went on the Fox Business Network to prove it.

Host Stuart Varney tried to trap Thomas by asking if she was "far left," a term that Bill O'Reilly often uses to imply some liberals are nuts. Without pause, Thomas proudly admitted that she was "as far as you can go" to the left.

VARNEY: Some of the critics say that you are a liberal and you let your politics show, very very clearly, and that maybe you should not let your politics show when you’re a White House correspondent.

THOMAS: Why not? I’m a columnist; I’m an opinion columnist, and I have the right to show my opinion, and I am a liberal, indeed.

VARNEY: Would you say you’re on the far left?
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THOMAS: I would say I’m as far as you can go

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[DainBramaged]

1. Stuy Varmet can suck my ass in Macy's window

fucking wingnut. She should have come right back at him and asked him is he is far right.....

[RagAss]

14. LOL !...on Thanksgiving Day during the parade !!!!

[DainBramaged]

15. You bet perfect time

:fistbump:

[peace13]

2. Oh Helen you are great!

You are far left and I want to be standing right next to you girl!

[malaise]

3. I love you Helen Thomas

:yourock:

[rurallib]

4. Helen should have asked if he was a radical right winger.

[gratuitous]

5. "I'm an opinion columnist"

Innit strange that when someone points out the obvious bias at Fox, we're lectured on how all their commentators are really opinion folks, and they're supposed to have a point of view? Of course, the bleed over from commentator to newsreader gets pretty blurred, and there's really no distinguishing between Fox "news" personalities and their stable of "opinion" personalities. But now Mr. Varney seems all confused on how an opinion columnist injects an opinion into her columns. You can almost hear the "harrumph" in the transcript.

[Echo In Light]

6. this should anger those who insist there's a vast chasm of difference between libs/lefties

;)

[SalviaBlue]

7. Tell it, Helen!!

[denverbill]

8. I think Helen doesn't know far left, personally.

I have a feeling she's not a communist, or even a big time socialist. Of course, wanting progressive taxation, wanting to help the poor, and wanting regulation of business makes a person 'far-left' in America today, but it's hardly as far left as one can go.

The right-wing, otoh, is about as right-wing as you can go, short of maybe restoring a monarchy.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. IOW, she is as far left as an American liberal can go, not as far left

as left can go.

[TheKentuckian]

11. Oh, you mean somewhere around center?

There is no far left in America but the Reich goes on and on and if they run out of room then they invent more territory to the right and the Democrats stay within easy eyeshot.

[lolly]

21. The effect was important

Generally, anyone who is "accused" of being "leftist" on teevee has to immediately deny it, and scramble to produce some evidence of their "open-mindedness."

See, looky, I supported all these anti-immigrant bills, or wrote editorials against giving poor women access to to contraceptives, etc etc! So please please don't call me a leftist!

She refused to feed into that crap.

[denverbill]

29. Sad, but true.

Hell, they can't even admit to being somewhat liberal for the most part.

I think it's a sad commentary on how badly the left has been beaten the last 30 years.

I guess that's what happens when TV and radio no longer have to abide by the Fairness Doctrine.

The CATO Institute used to be a bunch of far-right loonies. Now, they are mainstream Republicans.

In the 1970's, Republicans favored National Health Care. Now, that's just to left-wing for Congressional Democrats.

[Carter Hayes]

25. McCarthyism is alive and well sadly

but there's really nothing so terrible about "socialism". It's not full-fledged communism, but they would have you think that. In fact, socialism has co-existed well with and helped put checks and balances on capitalism, I wonder how many of them have even been to Europe or a socialist country.

[wizstars]

26. or a Nazi....

...police state.

my favorite cartoon from the Raygun era showed two guys talking over a drink, and one said, "I wasn't always a conservative either--I used to be a Nazi."

[DFW]

9. Varney, like Cavuto, is recycled media waste

Both are failed financial commentators for various European financial networks.

Fox Noise was their last stop before being discarded completely as unrecyclable media trash.

[Stevenmarc]

12. Stu, Stu, Stu, Helen's been in this game long before you were pre-born

[whathehell]

13. She's terrific...Honest and gutsy! n/t

[MadMaddie]

16. That's right Helen "say it loud and say it proud"!

It is time to stop running from the term Liberal. I tell my Repug co-workers I am a proud liberal and I am not ashamed to say it.

[Smashcut]

17. HEL-EN!!! HEL-EN!!! HEL-EN!!!

Could she be anymore awesome?

:loveya:

[fishwax]

18. excellent! -- k/r

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

19. I love that Helen!

:loveya: Helen! :yourock:

[dccrossman]

20. Helen Rox!

K&R

[ooglymoogly]

22. KR. Always a big kick for Helen.

Aren't all good, thinking folks liberals? And as an astute poster above said, she should have asked stupid Stuey if he was a batshit crazy tea bagging righty.

[fascisthunter]

23. What did they expect her to do, be afraid of admitting who she is???

Just because you bunch of phony losers(FOX?Fascist News) who work for a greedy upper class have poisoned American politics with lies and half-truths about liberals in general isn't going to shame us on the left. S0rry, but we have always been against the status quo which actually takes bigger nads than to lie like a sniveling coward as do those who suck on the current economic tit(pacifier).

The more you lie about us, the more power we have in the end to prove what kind of people you really are. The truth always comes out... enjoy righties!

[asdjrocky]

24. Thank God for Helen Thomas.

[Enthusiast]

27. She is awesome! nt

[louis-t]

28. I will always treasure the email response she sent me.

[JerseygirlCT]

30. God love her. nt

[KansDem]

31. Business created prosperity? I would say also the unions...

No mention of unions in crediting the nation's prosperity.

[heliarc]

32. I LOVE HELEN THOMAS!

I would love to give her a big fat kiss right now.