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.
It's not anti-semitism when liberals do it.
HELEN THOMAS
is a Human?
and a woman?
Who’d a thunk!
She must have gotten along real well with Leni Riefenstahl.
My dog—who prefers to be called a Canine-American—is deeply offended.
Actually, my mother and aunt were like this for as long as I can remember, nothing to do with being elderly.
AGREE — they are 90% of the problem.
I rest my case. There is no one more harmful o the Jewish people than their “leaders”.
He was Christian — went to house, holy paintings everywhere.
Don’t know what Helen’s family was.
I wonder why the writer changed it from the actual quote "get the hell out of Palestine"? Completely different meaning.
Her fathers birth name was George Antonious . . . .
It was a Christian Arab with that same name who, in the early 1920s, wrote “The Arab Awakening,” an early ‘textbook’ of pan-Arab nationalism.
Wonder if it’s her father. If so, it would explain a great deal . . . . .
Her father changed his name.
Oh, I forgot, it’s simply speaking truth to power, or something.
The report quotes her as saying Jews should get out of Gaza. She didnt say that. She didnt even say Jews should get out of the West Bank. By the way there are no longer Jews in Gaza.
She said Jews should get out of Palestine. And when she referred to Palestine she included the entire State of Israel. If she meant only the territories where Arabs live she would have said Jews get out and go to Tel Aviv.
Did wasnt simply a pro-Palestinian- two States solution- position.
This was a call for genocide and the destruction of Israel. Period.
Bears repeating. Good call out on the error.
She’s a liberal. Liberals can say or do as they please. Rules, laws, and standards sre for us. Pure Saul Alinsky.
scum bag
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