Blast from the past: Helen Thomas’s Almost Burrito Lunch

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When the shrine to journalism known as the Newseum finally re-opens later this year, we hear that several items of clothing from active journalists will be on display, including the fuzzy pink slippers of Ana Marie Cox and the grandma sweaters of Helen Thomas. The bloody vest worn by ABC’s Bob Woodruff when he was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006 will be on display as well. And you thought Dorothy’s ruby reds at the Smithsonian were the only old clothes worth leaving the house for!

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The media vixen that is Helen Thomas asked a really long question to President Bush yesterday. And then, as illustrated by this E & P transcript, she kept burping up little fragments of sentences while he responded:

HT: Everything –

HT: — everything I’ve heard –

HT: I’m talking about Iraq –

HT: — go to war –

HT: — have a debate.

Maybe she had a burrito beforehand?

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Do Wonkette’s new editors really know the metropolis they’re covering? In an ongoing effort, they’re on the hunt for “celebrity sightings” in DC. Readers have recently shared that they’ve seen Sandra Day O’Connor swinging the 2000 election pumping her own tank around town. We think that’s about as important as Helen Thomas almost eating a burrito, so who are we to make fun? Really, we think you should send your real celebrity sightings to Big Head Rob.

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UPI’s Helen Thomas is a hard person to feel sorry for. Between talking smack and smacking talk at Presidential press briefings, she’s always been sly like a fox. But today, the aging journalist began to show her spots, as she was seen wondering around M Street, obviously lost.

“Immediately when I looked up I knew it was her, but why on Earth, I thought, would she be heading into Chipotle?” an observer tells Big Head DC. “It’s a cheap Mexican chain restaurant that I often frequent — I mean, that’s no place for Helen Thomas! She looked like she’d seen a ghost when she finally realized where she was.”

Hel, we assure you, has not grown any new affinities for guac and chips. She actually intended to make an entrance at the much more upscale Malaysian Penang restaurant (which happens to be up a flight of stairs from Chipotle).

A Penang waitress confirms that the wayward writer finally found her way to a meeting with colleagues. Just in the chip of time!

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