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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

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Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
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Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
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We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.
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I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.
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We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.
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