Posted on 06/05/2010 11:55:18 PM PDT by ICAB9USA
Longtime White House scribe Helen Thomas caused more than a few eyebrows to perk up when video surfaced on Friday of her declaring that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Germany and Poland. Captured by Rabbi David Nesenoff of RabbiLive.com, the footage made the rounds on mostly conservative and neoconservative sites, with some private complaints that her comments weren't getting wider play.
Thomas would apologize in a written statement, saying she deeply regretted the comments -- which were offered in response to the killing of pro-Palestinian activists by Israel forces and came, ironically, during the White House's Jewish Heritage Celebration.
But even as she was trying to walk back the remarks, calls for her firing mounted. Among the more vocal was former Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who claimed to have a close relationship with Thomas when he was manning the daily briefings.
"She should lose her job over this," Fleischer said in an email. "As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling."
"She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs."
A longtime fixture of the White House press room, Thomas hasn't exactly hid her politics on the Middle East conflict. The day after Israeli Defense Forces stormed the flotilla, she pressed spokesman Robert Gibbs as to how the administration could stand by the blockade of Gaza and the broader treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government. A good faction of political and foreign policy observers found the line of inquiry refreshing.
Looks like the situation is turning ugly.
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Yes, sir.
If the old hag had said all African Americans should get back to Africa ....... would she still be working?
She seems to be the pogrom leader of the old MSM.
“It” has been ugly for many, many years.
ouchie ! Good one. Gonna need some ice for that one !
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Helen Thomas of the Washington Press Corps has a face and voice that only a mother could truly love. Provided said mother happened to be a blind and deaf liberal, that is.
Thomas has been haunting presidential press conferences for nearly 50 years. In the 50 years prior to that, she was Herman Munster on The Munsters, a role for which she was uniquely qualified because she required absolutely no make up.
As the oldest living "journalist" to be on the payroll of both the DNC and UPI at the same time, one can see years of wear and tear played out on Thomas' haggard face.
However, those who thought that Helen Thomas was just another ugly face were shocked to learn that besides all those hideous wrinkles, pox marks, scars and other flaws that one would normally find on the remains of a successful suicide bomber, there is a truly ugly spirit.
(my bold)
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Yes.
NO PICTURES ...... PLEASE.
Well, I believe God disagrees with the ugly old hag - seeing as how He gave the children of Israel this land.
Besides, there is no such land as Palestine.
I think she’s an Arab chauvinist as well.
Right on.
August Biebel (not Jewish btw) said anti-Semitism is the Socialism of the fools. If August Biebel were alive today and saw Helen Thomas, he would say that anti-Semitism is the Socialism of the hideous.
Interesting article.
Even more interesting comments. I was surprised to find the link pointing to Ron Paul’s web site. I was not surprised to read the comments.
Actually, she might be. Her Family immigrated from Lebanon.
imagine.....Ms Thomas , nude , bound by some thick leather forearms shackles , suspended over a large vat of some
dark , gooey ,viscous, liquid , slowly being lowered in to the warm brew . Then pulled up and dropped into a huge pile of goose feathers and rolled like tempura . After that placed on a wooden cart and driven by mule out of the city .....
She may also be on the payroll of some Arab oil sheik. She’s either an ideologue or being bribed.
LOL ...... and so true.
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Surprises are for birthdays ...... or, for "perfect game pitchers".
I’m imagining.......
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..... or just plain ignorant.
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