I generally admire Helen Thomas and I grant her the right to be cantankerous. But she’s acting like a whiny-ass-titty-baby with her carrying on about Nico Pitney. Let me remind her of something. The White House didn’t call Pitney the night before the press conference and tell him to be prepared to ask a question about Iran the next day. They called him and asked him to ask a question on the behalf of Iranians. They did this because they were reading Nico’s streaming reporting of the goings on in Iran and they knew he had contacts on the ground in Tehran. They didn’t tell him what kind of question to ask or even tell him to ask his own question. They wanted a question from the Iranian reformers on the ground in Tehran who were being shot at and beaten with truncheons.
If Helen Thomas wants to ask a question, that’s fine. But did she have contacts on the ground in Tehran? Was she doing a stellar job of reporting on that conflict?
As much as I admire her, she needs to take a step back and get with the times.
