HELEN THOMAS To Fox Tea Party Promoter: 'I Am A Liberal-Indeed-I'm As Far Left As You Can Go' [View All]

Fox Tea Party promoter probes Helen Thomas on ‘liberal bias’

By David Edwards
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010 -- 1:26 pm

Fox Tea Party promoter probes Helen Thomas on liberal bias. Liberal isn't a dirty word and Helen Thomas went on the Fox Business Network to prove it.

Host Stuart Varney tried to trap Thomas by asking if she was "far left," a term that Bill O'Reilly often uses to imply some liberals are nuts. Without pause, Thomas proudly admitted that she was "as far as you can go" to the left.

VARNEY: Some of the critics say that you are a liberal and you let your politics show, very very clearly, and that maybe you should not let your politics show when you’re a White House correspondent.

THOMAS: Why not? I’m a columnist; I’m an opinion columnist, and I have the right to show my opinion, and I am a liberal, indeed.

VARNEY: Would you say you’re on the far left?
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THOMAS: I would say I’m as far as you can go

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