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Helen Thomas to Retire 'Effective Immediately' Following Uproar Over 'Palestine' Comments

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas announces her retirement Monday following an uproar over comments she made last month about Jews in Israel.
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Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced her retirement Monday following an uproar over comments she made last month about Jews in Israel.

Hearst Corporation, which employed Thomas as a columnist, put out a brief story via Hearst News Service announcing the retirement "effective immediately."

The announcement came after the White House Correspondents Association decried her remarks as "indefensible" and began to consider whether Thomas should continue to have the privilege of a front-row seat in the briefing room. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called her remarks "offensive and reprehensible" on Monday, as other former White House spokesmen called for Thomas to be fired. ..........................................>>>>...................>>>>...................http://www.foxnews.com/politics/index.html

Maybe she can now take over for horrible Robert Gibbs?

Come on Benny.  Gibbs isn't so bad.  He's a lot better than Dana Perrino or whatever her name was.  And Ari Fleisher --nebbish.

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Maybe she can now take over for horrible Robert Gibbs?

Gibbs is an embarrassing joke!!

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Fox gets front-row seat in White House press room
ANDREW VANACORE, AP Business Writer
Published: 06:17 p.m., Sunday, August 1, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel has been granted a much-coveted front-row seat in the White House briefing room.

The White House Correspondents Association said Sunday that The Associated Press' reporter has been moved to the front-row center seat previously occupied by Helen Thomas. Fox's correspondent will take the AP's former front-row seat, and National Public Radio's correspondent will move up one row to Fox's old second-row seat.

The center seat was long held by Thomas, a United Press International and Hearst News Service writer. The 89-year-old columnist resigned abruptly in June amid controversy over videotaped remarks she made calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine." Fox, Bloomberg News (also seated in the second row) and NPR had lobbied for Thomas' seat.................>>>>..................>>>>.........................http://www.timesunion.com/ente.....ress-room-598819.php[b][/b]