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.
I always thought she was a natural to be Grandpa Munster's understudy, thus...
Mr. niteowl77
perfect........
Abe Foxman of the ADL has said NOTHING that I’ve heard! NOTHING!! If this had been a Republican that said this, ADL would be DEMANDING she be FIRED and NEVER allowed in the WH Press Room again!! ABe, you are a HYPOCRITE!!
Like every other crook, Helen Thomas isnt sorry for the crime, and the fact she hates Jews, she is sorry she is stupid enough to have admitted it and got caught.
Give it a week and it will be forgotten.
I don’t want to see any more “joke” pictures of her on FR any more.
Ain’t funny now.
Please pretty please NO PICTURES.
...her declaring that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to Germany and Poland...
...her declaring that Mexican should “get the hell out of Arizona” and go back to Mexico and South America
...her declaring that Muslims should “get the hell out of America” and go back to Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.
This is unconscionable!
She’s just cutting loose with leftist shoptalk in public, inadvertantly.
I’ve been told to go back to Europe by such sorts myself, and I’m about as American as they come, going on four centuries of it, ancestry from all the British Isles, most of northern and western Europe and more than just a little native blood.
Where would I go? It’s not as if I was born with British citizenship like Obama or anything.
“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.”
No.
I won't.
And you can't make me.
No reporting by the Mainstream press on This.Way to solve that, say Major Garrett from Fox News Said it ,That will Fix the Problem
I miss Ari, he was a solid guy and did a great job under horribly difficult circustances, such as being assaulted by the whole of the radical left, IMHO.
Did you know he played in a baseball league in D.C. when he was the White House spokeman? Pretty cool!
LOL
This is unconscionable!
I totally agree.
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LOL ...... see post # 8.
Helen Thomas MUST be fired. If Hearst Corporation allows her to remain employed, they are advocating her views on ethnic cleansing.
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