The Nixon Insult: Helen Thomas to Robert Gibbs

For those of us who have seen right through Obama's notion of transparency for quite some time now, it's a bit interesting to watch the proverbial "light" go on in the head of a staunch longtime liberal veteran like Helen Thomas while challenging Robert Gibbs about staged questions at Obama's town hall meeting.

The video of the tag-team exchange between Thomas, Chip Reid, and Robert Gibbs is one you'll find yourself watching more than once because the apoplexy on the faces of three different people for over three minutes is palpable.

However, the real zinger came from Helen Thomas AFTER the press briefing, when she actually gave Nixon some posthumous props while talking to CNSNews by saying the 37th president met a higher standard in the field of information control (Insert Dragnet music here)...


“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try. What the hell do they think we are, puppets?”

For some reason, reading that brought back a line from Bruce Willis in the movie, "Die Hard" when he finally got the traffic cop's attention...

"Welcome to the Party, Pal!"