The Hill: Fox News to Move to Helen Thomas' Front-Row Briefing Room Seat

[flpoljunkie]

(Not exactly, if you read their article.)

Fox News to move to Thomas' front-row briefing room seat

By Elise Viebeck - 08/01/10 04:50 PM ET

The White House Correspondents Association voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing room.

The seating change was prompted by the resignation of veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas.

According to Ed Henry, the senior White House correspondent for CNN and member of the WHCA board, the Associated Press will move to the front-row middle seat formerly occupied by Thomas.

Fox News will replace the AP in its former seat, also in the front row, and NPR, which lobbied for Thomas' seat along with Fox and Bloomberg News, will take Fox's former seat in the second row.

The 2010-2011 WHCA board includes representatives from USA Today, Reuters, C-SPAN, the New York Times, Politico, Time Magazine, NPR and the DC Examiner.

Thomas, a longtime critic of Israeli foreign policy, had resigned in late May after a video clip in which she said that Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" -- to Europe, the United States and other places -- surfaced on the internet.

Liberal groups had lobbied for NPR's placement in the front row over Fox, which one petition called a "right-wing propaganda outlet."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/112079-fox-news-to-move-to-front-row-briefing-room-seat

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. you are joking

[bbinacan]

2. Wrong. The AP is getting the seat. n/t

[flpoljunkie]

4. That is correct. The Hill writes the headline wrong, but gets the seat placement right

Unless Ed Henry is wrong, of course.

[ThatPoetGuy]

6. Fox News is moving to the front row, because Helen Thomas' seat is vacant.

The headline oversimplified, but your response is a greater disservice to the truth.

[bbinacan]

8. Oh Bullshit

The headline is wrong. Period!

[ThatPoetGuy]

9. The headline is wrong. But you didn't say that.

You said "wrong," as though the article was wrong. And then you stated what the article said. Except you left out the most important part.

It was your choice to engage in deliberate deception. You can own up to it; you can state the facts, instead of saying "bullshit." But the most egregious bullshit in this thread was your post, which was both false and misleading.

So, will you admit that Fox News was given a front-row seat due to Helen Thomas' departure? Or will you continue misrepresenting the truth by responding only to the headline rather than the substance? You've omitted the truth completely so far.

[bbinacan]

10. Are you serious?

:eyes: :rofl:

And welcome to DU. I think.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. A unanimous vote...

:banghead:

[msongs]

5. musical chairs for sure but Fox is in the front row having hoodwinked the obama crowd successfully n

[jefferson_dem]

7. What is this "obama crowd" that you refer to?

:shrug:

[vaberella]

11. You did not read the article posted did you. You had to throw in a side Obama bash.

AP is getting the seat---read on these things before comment. I learned the hard way myself.

[Phx_Dem]

12. Unanimously? WTF were those morons thinking.

This just confirms that the MSM are not much better than Fox in not recognizing Fox as the extreme rightwing propoganda machine that it is. Those clowns don't deserve to be in the briefing room at all, let alone the front row.

I wonder when the blame Obama DU crowd is going to start blaming Obama.

:puke:

[denimgirly]

13. WH still experiencing Stockholm syndrome

Poor things.

[AtomicKitten]

17. Didn't read the article, did you?

According to Ed Henry, the senior White House correspondent for CNN and member of the WHCA board, the Associated Press will move to the front-row middle seat formerly occupied by Thomas.

Fox News will replace the AP in its former seat, also in the front row, and NPR, which lobbied for Thomas's seat along with Fox and Bloomberg News, will take Fox's former seat in the second row.

Kneejerk away.

[Raine1967]

14. This is for the comprehension impaired. The OP, Simplified:

The Associated Press will move to the front-row middle seat formerly occupied by Thomas.

Fox News will replace the AP in its former seat. NPR will take Fox's former seat in the second row.
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Math is hard.

[WI_DEM]

15. the usual suspects will blame Obama, but where they sit isn't up to the White House

but to the correspondents association.

[freebrew]

16. So, let me get this straight.

Fox is getting Helen's seat!!!!?


HAH! Just kidding, couldn't help it.