Bill O’Reilly Calls Helen Thomas a ‘Pinhead’

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By Noel Sheppard | December 4, 2007 - 20:28 ET

As NewsBusters reported over the weekend, liberal antagonist Helen Thomas was deliciously smacked down during last Friday's press briefing by White House press secretary Dana Perino.

Fox News's Bill O'Reilly must have heard about this wonderful event, for on Monday's "O'Reilly Factor," the conservative host played some of the encounter for his viewers, and then offered his own opinion.

What follows is a partial transcript of this segment (video available here):

BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Time now for "Pinheads & Patriots."

[...]

On the pinhead front, far-left Washington correspondent Helen Thomas put forth that the American military is targeting civilians in Iraq and got scolded for it.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DANA PERINO, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I find it really unfortunate that you use your front-row position bestowed upon you by your colleagues to make such statements. It is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing rooms suggest that we at the United States are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive.

HELEN THOMAS, JOURNALIST: Do you know how many we have at the start of this war?

PERINO: How many -- we are going after the enemy, Helen. To the extent that any innocent Iraqis have been killed. We have expressed regret for it.

THOMAS: Regret? That doesn't bring back a life.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: Pinhead label for Helen Thomas. I think so.

I don't think you're alone, Bill.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

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Pinhead is too polite!

Helen Thomas can no longer claim to be a journalist.  She's merely a bitter, old curmudgeon who ought to be ignored -- if not booted from the WH Press Room.

Speaking of bitter, old curmudgeons ...

I think she needs to go on the road with Andy Rooney.

Also, Bush needs to help Ann Coulter fulfill her life goal and let her be his press secretary for the last 6 months of his adminstration. Then we'll see Helen get her come uppance.

PRICELESS!!

Ann Coulter as Press Secretary? THAT would be priceless!!!!!

No RINOs in '08 - Mike Huckabee is the best choice 

Ann Coulter for Press Secretary?

There is NO one in the GOP with that kind of courage although it would make those dreary briefings entertaining!!

Ann Coulter as pressie

I would love it for a month or even a day.

[ROTFLMAO just dreaming about it.]

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

This segment of O'Reilly is

This segment of O'Reilly is usually right on target. I just don't know if the title "pinhead" describes the absolute stupidity and hatefulness of some of the recipients.

In Helen's case...

... I think "fathead" is more appropriate.

Only because "gargoyle-scaring, seditious sack of scabs-head" is too long.

O'Reilly's Opinion

I find O'Reilly to be somewhat of a religious zealot. You either agree with him or you're a pinhead.

CDG

No, that would be...

"You are either smart and not a partisan, old-school (and I mean OLD) hack of a "journalist" like that unsightly thing, or you're a pinhead."

 

"I still love NewsBusters." - Mr. Shy

Poor woman..

I will gladly spend all week-end baking her retirement cake! Pinhead is too kind.

Helen Thomas uses her age

Helen Thomas uses her age and her longevity in the news business as a weapon. She knows that most folks are going to let her have her say, out of respect for her age mostly, and she uses that "privilege" to behave, let's say "inappropriately" most of the time.

I'm sure she thinks she is "speaking truth to power." In reality she is just saying the most outrageous thing she can think of on that day.

All I can say is "Way to go, Dana!" And I'm really glad she slipped in that line about Helen's front row seat being "bestowed" upon her by her colleagues.

Pig w/ Lipstick

You're so right! It's outrageous.... she has cart blanche to sit there and bark out any question she wants.

Also, she's sooooo old now, that this phony "reverence" that the journalistic community (and the WH is sort of forced to go along with it) has toward her, pretty much secures that seat until she literally croaks.


BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Time now for "Pigs-with-Lipstick & Patriots."

 

"I still love NewsBusters." - Mr. Shy

Dana

I agree... Way to go Dana!  I think Tony Snow's no backing down approch will have an impact on press secs from now on.  At least I hope and pray it does.

Agreed

Another proof that liberals don't engage in argument. Instead, they look for "untouchable" spokes-people (the Jersey girls, Cindy Sheehan, etc.) to spout their position, and then exploit our politeness. We aren't supposed to contradict the "untouchables," and we're accused of being rude, and then told we're questioning their patriotism when we simply disagree with them.

Helen Thomas exploits her "experience" that doesn't seem to have bestowed wisdom.

   Thank You , Thank You,

   Thank You , Thank You, Dana.   Someone has finally put this pinhead idiot in her place !

  And therein lies one of

 

And therein lies one of the things I dislike about all pundits from Olbermann to Rush and back again: This "telling it like it is" that resorts to name-calling and mockery, which helps drive both sides of the aisle further apart.

Bal - I'm no fan of

Bal - I'm no fan of O'Reilly but you've got to give him this one.

It's Helen Thomas. You can make an exeption for her, right? And surely you can make one more exception for that idiot Michael Savage?

bal

Do you not agree that Helen Thomas..... is way, way, way past her prime?

And did you watch the video of the exchange between her and Dana? She was asking Dana utterly irrelevant questions, purely to frame the Iraq war in the worst light possible, that was IT.

Or she's so senile and thinks it's still 2005 or 2006... which is also quite likely.

 

"I still love NewsBusters." - Mr. Shy

HELEN THOMAS...

 Past her prime? Good God, this woman must started out in the news buisiness at the time of the telegraph. She should retire, move to "The Villages" down in Florida, & get an STD like everyone else there.

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

She's definitely a stick in

She's definitely a stick in the mud. 

Helen. What about war criminal Bill Clinton??

Helen. What about war criminal Bill Clinton??

And let's not forget. NATO here, is Bill Clinton. The Kosovo action by NATO was Bill Clinton's baby. And, he had little in the way of UN support for his military campaign - in fact failed to get the resolution he lobbied for.

The question on the table here, for Helen Thomas, is: "What did you have to say then, Helen, about your favorite president, next to JFK, that is?"

Belgrade sentences Nato leaders - BBC, Thursday, 21 September, 2000

A court in Belgrade has sentenced 14 Nato leaders to 20 years in prison each for war crimes allegedly committed during last year's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.

The presiding judge said an arrest warrant had been issued for the convicted leaders, who include US President Bill Clinton, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac.

 And a few other quotes, from the folks the MSM loves to quote, when they are speaking out against Republicans. Any bets that not a single network news outlet put these up on screen?

-- Jimmy Carter – On Kosovo, New York Times, May 27, 1999

"[Our attack] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal... The American-led force has expanded targets to inhabited areas and resorted to the use of anti-personnel cluster bombs. The result has been damage to hospitals, offices and residences of a half-dozen ambassadors, and the killing of innocent civilians... [Our] insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit to our nation."

 Nelson Mandela............"I also condemn NATO for taking action outside of the United Nations and doing precisely what Milosevic is doing. Killing civilians, destroying the infrastructures of the country. Destroying bridges and all of the structures, which are important for the development of the country. I pointed out to President Boris Yeltsin that we must strongly condemn any country or group of countries that take action of this nature outside of the United Nations." President Nelson Mandela, at a press conference in Budapest on May 3, 1999

 

GaryH....Whooaaaa, I think this post just scared ProfTruth off

I think your post just eliminated this particular NB Topic from any visist by Proferssor Truth.  But some Trolls keep  showing up for more beatings.

Excellant details....and post......and if you substitute Bush for Clinton within the Text and send to PT, you will make the Prof have an orgasm.......IT's exactly the information he's been looking for on "Criminal" Bush. 

 

JayTee

ProfTruth has a new name, btw. It's a bit long, and requires a "TM" at the end, as I do plan on registering a trademark for it:

Talking Points & Cheetos (TM)

( someone made a joke about him sitting at his computer, hammering away at the keys and scarfing down Cheetos... so..)

And those are great finds by Gary, yeah....

 

"I still love NewsBusters." - Mr. Shy

new tag Shy?

me too!

"everytime you take a shower you are a mass murder"  -- the Profff

-

Oh good.  An excuse not to shower.  (It's a pain in the neck ...)

botg

Love it! :)

Yeah, what a completely insane quote from that completely insane Cheetos-muncher.

Can you link me to the thread, so I can read the context of why he said it?

 

"I still love NewsBusters." - Mr. Shy

Shy

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2007/12/03/cbs-s-pelley-american-barbarians-have-driven-out-iraqi-christians#comments

 

This is the thread where Prof asserts your old skin cells on your arms are akin to a growing baby.

thanks candance

and Shy that stuff starts here

"everytime you take a shower you are a mass murder"  -- the Profff

I bask in the glow of your genuis

I still have yet to figure out rich text or prompt a link to start at a certain post.

I read the "more information" section below but that was like reading something in Russian for my non-technical brain.

candance it's not

that genius

if you click on the 'header' (in this case 'candance it's not') Matts program will set it on your browser.  If you have enabled rich text (red letters below the comment box when you comment) then you can highlight text (ctrl "C") and hit B for bold I for italic or after you highlight the little chain or infinity symbol will allow you link by copying (ctrl "C") the browser you want to go to and pasting (ctrl "V") in the link box that appears when you hit the chain 

"everytime you take a shower you are a mass murder"  -- the Profff

lemme try

See if this links where I want it to go

OMG OMG!!!

I did it! I am so cool!

Yay me!!!!!!

Thanks bot.

candace

With great power comes great responsibility.

Use these powers only for good

LOL cool

Thanks for the laugh

every day I learn

I thought I had a sharp mind 'til I started hangin' around with you guys!

Can you smell that...I can.

Can you smell that...I can. Shhsh.

Scaring the Proff off.

jayT-It's going to take a lot more than that to scare proffessor off.

I've already pointed out the same thing to the proff. I call it Clintons NATO Folly.

No Genocide-No Justification For War

I also pointed out that Clinton armed bosnian muslims w/ arms through Iran, and kicked open the last stronghold in Europe fending off for centuries a militant Islamic state.

The Hague Tribunal, the Clinton Administration and the Serbs.

Here is the reply:(actually stated he pretty much agreed with me)"We have exactly the opposite results to what we wanted in the region.
Yes, aggressive wars against stable areas like socialist Yugoslavia and
the middle east and southeast Asia open up lots of unintended problems. A war criminal is anyone who
commits aggressive war , which makes just about all US presidents since
FDR a war criminal. The problem is when you don't prosecute these guys,
future presidents are free to commit more war crimes. Any American who
thinks these presidents were acting in the best interests of
Americans(not including FDR who REACTED to an attack) have their heads
up their arses. But, generally I agree with you."

Lawsuits against NATO, UN docs etc.

Why should we be surprised?

After all prof, is the one who equated American soldiers with murderers.

candance

Hey you must be a fast link learner. How do you link to a comment? I haven't got that one down yet.

comment linking

When you click on the comment title, it brings it up to the top of your page and actually shows a new web address. Each comment has its own link that way.

So click on a comment header, copy the new web address, and do a link like always.

alright let's see

Thanks!

I think I got it.

Iran/Bosnian Islamists

In case anyone wants a link to info on the iran/clinton/bosnia arms I was referring to. btw-No Larry Craig jokes please. don't derail.

so let's see

Bill Clinton defied the UN and threw American troops in harm's way to win a war that was none of our business. He misled the American people into thinking it was an emergency to fit his own political agenda.

In other words...

Clinton lied, people died!

Funny how international law did not exist until Bush won the White House.

Too sedate

Until now, name calling has been in the purview of the liberal media.

Now, however, O’Reilly, with his nightly Patriots and Pinheads segment, has brought it into the conservative media.

I say it’s about time - but me thinks it’s too sedate.

Avoid name calling....

... just tell the truth. She's ugly. And obnoxous. And rude. See? No name-calling involved at all.

___________________________________ 

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Tnt... Tsk tsk...That is

Tnt...

Tsk tsk...That is really well put about Helen...

I still like Jack's below...short, to the point, says it all.

ROFL!

Isn't the hag more like a

Isn't the hag more like a Pinface?

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

I've said it once, and I'll

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, she has a catcher's mitt for a face.

Restless...

With a streak of lipstick on it :p

 

"I still love NewsBusters." - Mr. Shy

}}---> Helen Thomas

I'm more reminded of a ravaged pinata.

But I've seen that same face adorn the spires of beautiful cathedrals, too.

what the hell is wrong with bill o reilly

since when is he trying to suck up to helen thomas, sweet talkin her and such, next thing you know tapes will come out with him talking to his sweet babboo pinhead in a graphically sexual way.

lunaticcringeradio

ps on helen thomas

she so damn ugly, she has a face mike tyson wouldn't punch.

in mike tysons squeaky voice, "i can'ts recall eva hittins dat, buts it does looks like my handywork."

lunaticcringeradio

she looks like a extra on

...The Simpsons

Helen like that drunk uncle in the corner

Helen is like that embarrassing and irritating drunken uncle we all have in our family.  You know the one I am talking about.  He sits in the corner at any family gathering sucking down scotch and spouting off random, fragmented, nonsensical statements or holding one sided conversations that if you pay close enough attention are the same ones he has been having for years. 

What are you doing spying

What are you doing spying on me at my family functions. BTW, all of my "... random, fragmented, nonsencical statements..." seem very pertinent and germane at the time. ;>)

Signed, Uncle Restless 1 

 

What a waste of time...

She has nothing to say of any substance and needs to return to whatever planet she flew in from.

Yeah, Bill! I love it.

Yeah, Bill! I love it. Although next time use some adjectives, like "retarded pinhead," "ugly pinhead," "evil pinhead," or "dimhead." But I still agree with you 100%. Helen Thomas is a pinhead, plain and simple. Still don't know why she gets a front row seat at press conferences when she's ugly as sin.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

}}---> Barf bag alert

Imagine what it must've been like for Tony Snow every time Helen did the Sharon Stone maneuver during a briefing.

I warned ya!

Let's face it! She could

Let's face it! She could say just about any outrageous thing she wants and get away with it. She knows people have a difficult time getting past the cold hard fact that her throat looks like a vagina, and she works it to her advantage.... if there was one to be found.... in her situation.... that is.

 

Life can be a real b*tch... so why vote for one?

AAAGH! Now I'm gonna have to

AAAGH!

Now I'm gonna have to slaughter me a pig to get that out of my head.

(apologies to Jeff Foxworthy)

 "Pinhead" is too nice and

 "Pinhead" is too nice and an insult to pinheads everywhere.

  Did you see all the dumbass Leftie comments on the Youtube site?

Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar. 

Pinhead

PIN HEAD PIN HEAD............JACK ASS!! 

A PROUD AMERICAN

You mean you dont like the

You mean you dont like the linguine spine of Scott McClellan?

Noel...Delicious!!!

"...liberal antagonist Helen Thomas was deliciously smacked down..."

Kudos, Noel. You really know how to turn a phrase. I love it.

btw, when is it going to retire? Can't Cheney just pretend like he is going to run?

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

Good news and bad news for

Good news and bad news for the murdering jihadists:

Good News: When you martyr yourself, you go to heaven and get 72 virgins.

Bad News: They will all look like Helen Thomas.

 

He who hesitaties is last.

Like Helen Thomas

A PROUD AMERICAN

(SCREEMING) ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh