Bill O'Reilly Calls Helen Thomas "Wicked Witch Of The East," Does Impression (VIDEO)

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Huffington Post   |  Danny Shea   |   February 10, 2009 02:00 PM

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Bill O'Reilly called legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas the "wicked witch of the east" Monday night following President Obama's press conference.

"The White House press corps looked intimidated to me," O'Reilly said. "Except for that, what's her name? The old lady, Helen Thomas."

O'Reilly then squawked out a Helen Thomas impression.

"It's like the wicked witch of the east! If I were Obama I would've poured water on her, and she'd dissolve," he said.

"Bill, it's not nice to impersonate an old woman like that," Alan Colmes told him.

"Why can't my mom ask a question?" O'Reilly asked, trashing Thomas' question (about Taliban hiding in Pakistan).

"Helen Thomas' fifteen minutes were up during the Lincoln administration," Bernie Goldberg said later. "It's time for Helen to find something else to do during press conferences."

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Bill O'Reilly called legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas the "wicked witch of the east" Monday night following President Obama's press conference. "The White House press corps looked intimida...
Bill O'Reilly called legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas the "wicked witch of the east" Monday night following President Obama's press conference. "The White House press corps looked intimida...
 
 

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- reformedrep See Profile I'm a Fan of reformedrep permalink

Bill O'Reilly is a blatantly biased hate mongering curmudgeon who's only a short several years from adult diapers himself...

and as he only gets paid by creating sufficient controversy, I suggest we ignore his mindless and angry blatherings.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:09 AM on 02/13/2009
- Rivermont See Profile I'm a Fan of Rivermont permalink

As I will ignore yours!

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:37 PM on 02/14/2009
- ythanella See Profile I'm a Fan of ythanella permalink

Helen T should have been put out to grass years ago. Sadly her ugly mug could turn milk sour. Retire the old goat NOW.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:17 PM on 02/12/2009
- AndThenOneDay See Profile I'm a Fan of AndThenOneDay permalink

Were you raised by wolves? What's wrong with you?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:42 PM on 02/12/2009
- KatDawgATL See Profile I'm a Fan of KatDawgATL permalink

Bill-O, should know his PLACE.
Maybe it would have benefited Mr. O'Reilly to have learned that:

"It never stops raining on the head of one who keeps trying to SPIT that high".

-Shane

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:34 PM on 02/12/2009
- dutt See Profile I'm a Fan of dutt permalink

We can't really take O'Reilly's show seriously. He himself expects us to hold his show to the same journalistic and comedic standards that we hold Saturday Night Live. Even with such low expectations he fails miserably.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:10 PM on 02/12/2009
- NCRDIBULL See Profile I'm a Fan of NCRDIBULL permalink

no , he expected that the WMC fems hold themselves up to at least the SNL standards...They are the same feminist ilk that would let born alive children die or not be against live birth abortions in the name of women's health

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:53 PM on 02/12/2009
- AndThenOneDay See Profile I'm a Fan of AndThenOneDay permalink

So O'Reilly's horrid behavior is magically excused on your planet by some tie-in to abortion.

Time for a urine test, dude.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:44 PM on 02/12/2009
- matriarchialparticipant See Profile I'm a Fan of matriarchialparticipant permalink

Double Standards as always with the libs- when the liberals start treating people the way they want to be treated maybe things will change: I am with Dennis Miller-You are so beautiful to me, can't you see.....

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:40 AM on 02/12/2009
- 1will See Profile I'm a Fan of 1will permalink

You own one or two flying monkeys and Conservatives automaticaly call you a witch!!!!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:38 AM on 02/12/2009
- eva belle See Profile I'm a Fan of eva belle permalink

But what does that make you, Billo? Wicked witch of the West? Def not wizard.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:30 AM on 02/12/2009
- Thalia317 See Profile I'm a Fan of Thalia317 permalink

Well, the wizard turned out to be a powerless, blowhard buffoon, so I think the comparison is appropriate.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:29 AM on 02/12/2009
- PNOGUY See Profile I'm a Fan of PNOGUY permalink

I would take all of you more seriously if you had taken a stand against those who made fun of OTHER famous women, such as Condoleezza Rice or Sarah Palin. Where was your outrage against the racist and sexist comments directed against Ms. Rice? You're only singling this instance out because it involves one of those guys who makes you froth at the mouth, namely O'Reilly.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 PM on 02/11/2009
- iRob08 See Profile I'm a Fan of iRob08 permalink

You don't have a real argument, so you make accusations of sexism and racism to cloud the issue of inappropriate "journalism". Give us a break already. These women don't need you feigning outrage for them just so you can win an argument/score points/etc. They are grown adults. If they can't take it, they should get out of public.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:32 AM on 02/13/2009
- Matt Vannette See Profile I'm a Fan of Matt Vannette permalink

The issue is the 'attacks' on Ms. Rice and Mrs. Palin were done by Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and the like. These are programs that exist solely to make fun of our situation. O'Reilly claims to be a newsman. We report, you decide. Fair and balanced. No spin zone. You can't claim to be a serious news program and then go off poking fun at a person because of her age.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:09 AM on 02/12/2009
- 1will See Profile I'm a Fan of 1will permalink

Very true.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:31 AM on 02/12/2009
- perturbed07 See Profile I'm a Fan of perturbed07 permalink

I am amazed that no one has commented on O Reilly's claim that Ms. Thomas asked the president if there were terrorists in Pakistan. She asked the President if Pakistan was providing shelter to terrorists. I feel that he seriously misrepresented the facts regarding Ms. Thomas's question. Of course, he completely ignored her question about who has nuclear weapons in the middle east. That was the toughest question of the conference and Obama brushed it aside like a magician.

O Reilly wins by keeping us from recognizing that Ms. Thomas asked two very important questions.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:29 PM on 02/11/2009
- New Principaldad See Profile I'm a Fan of Principaldad permalink

I commentented a couple of times on this thread about how O'Reilly misrepresented the question Thomas asked about Pakistan. Unfortunately, people didn't seem to interested that O'Reilly Iied. They prefer to be upset that he made fun of her.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:24 PM on 02/15/2009
- lmvd3 See Profile I'm a Fan of lmvd3 permalink

Helen Thomas was interviewing presidents before O'Reilly was born. He has no shame! Professional jealousy...he came straight from a t.v. gossip show, and she has been a White House journalist for many, many decades.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:16 PM on 02/11/2009
- tepperman See Profile I'm a Fan of tepperman permalink

She has no business being in the WH press corp. Question Saying "so called Terrorist" she is a far left columnist who despises all view points other then her own. Bill was right. Its ok to make fun of Palin but not a far left columnist who should have retired 100 years ago

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:46 PM on 02/11/2009
- dc2nm See Profile I'm a Fan of dc2nm permalink

Fox News is just too scary...and so are their viewers. Just visited that site and I'm dumb-founded by the ignorance of and pure hate from their bloggers. We really need better education in this country.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:44 PM on 02/11/2009
- 1will See Profile I'm a Fan of 1will permalink

I do not doubt your being dumb-founded.
Say what you want about FOX but there is one thing that is without doubt. They present both sides of the issues. If you watch FOX instead of just complaining about it with other Huffposters you will see one irrefutable fact. There are Liberals on FOX all day long. Even O'Reilly regularly brings Libs on the show to defend their opinions. Every show except possibly FOX And Friends will give Liberals time to present their views. You don't get that on a regular basis on CNN or MSNBC and you certainly won't see Olbermann giving the other side a chance to defend their views. This is probaly why 20% of FOXNEWS viewers are Dems.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:44 AM on 02/12/2009
- Rafalsays See Profile I'm a Fan of Rafalsays permalink

You are naive to think FOX present both sides of the issue, they usually have a "So called liberal" on the show that gives a weak representation of liberal issues so they can hammer them into the ground with their conservative talking points. O'Reilly has liberal guests but attacks and insults them on his show with nothing but lies and propaganda, not a real way to show both sides of an issue. They both usually end in a talking point that undermines the opinion of the guest on the show. And that is precisely what it is a... A SHOW.
The other networks are just coming off of the republican propaganda now and are being called liberal elite.lol. They were spewing the same propaganda as fox for the past 8 years and are now actually reporting objectively and are thus criticized for being pro Obama or liberal elite. It's called projection, accuse your opponent of doing what you are doing thus taking heat off yourself and politically making it harder to be accused of it yourself.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:04 AM on 02/12/2009
- steamboat See Profile I'm a Fan of steamboat permalink

Much ado about nothing....

At this moment Bill O'Reilly is ripping a women's group spokesman apart about this phony outrage v. him over his ALLEGED comment of Helen Thomas's voice, appearance, or whatever these 'lefties are making-up. And he brought up comparisons, what hypocrites all these critics of his, and what have you. O'Reilly at his best.........hey, why doesn't your hero Olbermann debate OReilly? Instead of making cracks at him at a distance. Actually having somebody sit across the desk from Olbermann who has another view........hey, Keith might not say, "take him in a room and have him beat-up like he said about Hillary." What do you think, folks?......and as a American citizen, a person who fought for this country, I ask this blog not to delete this comment. Thank you.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:19 PM on 02/11/2009
- Robgrut See Profile I'm a Fan of Robgrut permalink

Calling Helen Thomas a witch is an insult to witches. Even more disgusting than her appearance though, his her complete lack journalistic ability. She was never a journalist, just a propagandist.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:17 PM on 02/11/2009
- mmmd See Profile I'm a Fan of mmmd permalink

She must be doing something right to earn the hate of your ilk. Go, Helen! And don't forget to post a photo of yourself somewhere so we can comment on it

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:35 PM on 02/12/2009
- 1will See Profile I'm a Fan of 1will permalink

Correct.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:32 AM on 02/12/2009
- iRob08 See Profile I'm a Fan of iRob08 permalink

I'm certainly glad your ideological, subjective views, like O'Reilly's, are in the tiny insignificant minority!

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 PM on 02/11/2009
- steamboat See Profile I'm a Fan of steamboat permalink

You are correct.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 PM on 02/11/2009
- Artd3 See Profile I'm a Fan of Artd3 permalink

I feel that she does sound like a witch.
I agree with Bill.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:44 PM on 02/11/2009
- MountPanic See Profile I'm a Fan of MountPanic permalink

And Bill-O is the Wicked Itch of the Yeast.

It's just professional jealousy. Thomas HAS some professionalism, and Bill-O wishes he could pretend to have it.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:07 PM on 02/11/2009
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