Helen Thomas the 'Highlight' of Virginia Democratic Fundraiser

Published: October 1, 2007, 1:04 pm

Tags: media bias debate, helen thomas, media business, virginia, blogs

White House correspondent and Hearst columnist Helen Thomas was apparently the "highlight" of a September 30 fundraiser for Democratic Virginia State Senate candidate George Barker. [She's really burning up the D.C.-area rubber chicken circuit of late. I noted her early September pep talk to University of Maryland Democrats here.] Wrote contributor snolan of the liberal Virginia politics blog Raising Kaine: Last night my good friend Kate took me to a Democratic fundraiser for George Barker who is running for State Senate in the 39th district. Becky and David Campbell hosted this event, and the highlight was a visit from Helen Thomas! Helen spoke briefly, and I think I heard her quoting Dick Goodwin (one of the best public policy writers ever), though I may have mis-heard her (the room and house were packed). What, no quotes from Helen's girlhood friend Karl Marx? Well before becoming an opinion columnist for Hearst, Thomas racked up a record of biased coverage of

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