Helen Thomas in 2007. (Ron Edmonds/AP) Why, at age 90, and after a devastating departure from her last job, is Helen Thomas returning to the battlefield of punditry?"It's my life, and I want to die with my boots on," the liberal firebrand� told us. "There's never a day without news, and I want to be on top of it. I covered 10 presidents, and I don't want to stop."We spoke to Thomas on Friday, a day after she emerged from seven months of unwilling retirement with a new column in the weekly Falls Church News-Press. While she initially agreed to speak only about her new gig, Thomas was the one to bring up the circumstances that led to her downfall -- her videotaped comments that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine." She told us her words were "distorted": "I didn't tell the Zionists to get out of
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