Posted on 06/05/2010 8:28:00 AM PDT by jazminerose
Everybody has onean elderly relative who has lost all sense of tact and decorum. The peerless Estelle Getty was the archetype of the embarrassing nutty older relative when she played Bea Arthurs mom on the Golden Girls
Getty popped off with whatever happened to be on her mind at the moment. Her excuse was that in old age, the part of her brain that knew to keep certain thoughts to herself no longer functioned. When the talented Getty did it, we found it hilarious.
When Helen Thomas does it, we find it horrifying. Thomas, who has a history of criticizing Israel for its dogged insistence in its right to exist, has told the Jews to get the hell out of Gaza and go back to Germany and Poland.
The grand dame of left wing journalism is still employed.
Unlike Bea Arthurs character on the Golden Girls, nobody in Thomas orbit has rushed forth to apologize and attempt to explain her outburst.
If appropriate meds dont do the trick, its long past time for Thomas to head for Shady Pines.
Danny Thomas (no relation. Not his real name) also had Lebanese parents, and he was a good guy.
Exactly right, and my guess is that she’s always felt this way. She just never said it so bluntly before.
I believe it.
If she were anyone else, like say Mel Gibson, Hollywood especially would scorn her and she would be fired or worse.
One would think they should be getting a clue by now who their friends really are.
Oh great. A Nazi anchor baby.
An old saying: Beauty may be only skin-deep, but ugliness is to the core.
Truly, her outward appearance doth belie her inward nature.
Beauty may be only skin deep, but UGLY goes to the bone.
I pray she actually changed her name as opposed to her getting married.
Her family should demand that she be given a total neuro-workup ASAP, as obviously her employer & co-workers are OBLIVIOUS to this obvious senility.
Funny, but Abe Foxman of the ADL has said NOTHING as far as I’ve seen!!! HYPOCRITE ABE.....you big ass HYPOCRITE!! If this had been a Republican you would DEMAND that she be FIRED and out of the WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS as the DEMOCRAT PET REPORTER!!!
The really revolting thing is that when the mind is removed of its restraints, it speaks what was in mind all those years.
Moving back to Germany and Poland is no slip, I think. Those are the locations of the worst concentration camps, the worst of the Holocaust.
But, the anti-Semites are out in force: Pat Buchanen, Helen Thomas, Akmadinejad, and B. Hussein Obama joined arm in arm.
Who would have thought we’d see it again in our lifetime?
If you insult the Jews, everybody in the media blows it off.
Insult a muslim, your head gets detached from your body/.
Thomas was born Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yakhoob
To compare Sophia on Golden Girls to Helen Thomas is an insult to Sophia. Yes, she spouted off and said whatever she wanted, but usually she was right and she had a lot of common sense and good Sicillian wisdom. Helen Thomas is a moron and rarely says anything approaching wise. Plus she’s damn ugly and hard to look at. Sophia was a doll.
Thomas should retire and get the hell out of America. Go live in Palestine.
Helen Thomas is an empty vessel,shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
The Evil One is speaking through her in these End Times.Shabbat Shalom !
“Helen is exhibiting all the classic inappropriate hostile aggressiveness associated with DEMENTIA.”
Well then lucky for her that such an affliction does not disqualify one from journalism and media.
If it did, Keith Olbermann in particular, and MSNBC in general, would not be on the air.
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