Helen Thomas: If only you got to pick the rumors about you

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Helen Thomas: If only you got to pick the rumors about you

Longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas is miffed at Garry Trudeau after he portrayed her as one tough broad in his Doonesbury cartoon strip last week.

But it’s not because he depicted the dean of the White House press corps telling self-important TV correspondent Roland Hedley to “Get the hell out of my face” when he brought two visitors to meet her in the White House briefing room.

No, it was because Hedley told the visitors the “legendary UPI reporter been here since the Truman administration! Some say she was Truman’s lover.”

Truman’s lover? Puh-lease. Thomas likes to think she could do better than that.

“I wish he’d said I was Jack Kennedy’s lover,” said Thomas, who began covering the White House when President Kennedy took office in January, 1961.

Thomas, who will celebrate her 87th birthday next month, left UPI in 2000 and now writes a syndicated column for Hearst Newspapers.

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1. LOL! I'd be miffed too!

I've been a fan since Watergate.

BTW, happy birthday, great lady. She will be 87 this Saturday and is still kickin' ass and taking names!

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2. ha, great comeback Helen

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3. Heehee

I knew she'd spank Trudeau for that Truman bit. I suspect Trudeau put it in there to illustrate the way FAUX news goons pull facts out of their asses.