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.
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See post # 3.
Yes.
If POTUS calls on her (assuming she’s there} then it will be one more shameful act by the muslim-in-chief.
Doubt it will happen. She's a leftist and therefore is held to low standards.
Helen, you are a sick puppy. In a reasonable world, you’d be kicked out of the WH “press corp” so fast it would make your little tiny head spin in great big circles.
“Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky. Her parents, Mary (née Rowady) and George Thomas, were Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon; her father’s surname had originally been “Antonious”. Thomas was brought up in Detroit, Michigan”
1: In about a month, that some (semi?)-prominent conservative commentator would say something along the lines of “Maybe we could solve terrorism by nuking Mecca, and if that doesn't work there is always the neutron bomb.”
2: Do this on a Friday so that it has time to hit the Sunday shows.
3: On Friday morning send out roughly 250 RESGISTERED letters to all members of the WH Press Corp(se),Washington news bureau's, New York HQ’s, major newspapers, and all talk shows. with the EXACT quote used on Friday. Also, say this is an experiment to see how you react to me vs HT. Time stamp is crucial. Registered because they are tracked and have to be signed for. Also, say how can you demand my firing and not Ht’s.
4: Prepare for all hell to break loose twice. Once, when the initial quote comes out. Second, when they find out it was a goof on them.
5: Hilarity ensues.
Micheal Savage and Andrew Wilkow please pick up the white courtesy phone.
He is saying that is she had said either of the other two she would be run out of the country by the bad press, but since Jews, and not mexicans or muslims, were the subject then she will get a pass.
How would Obama have reacted if Helen had said “all blacks should go back to Africa”?
Was there a pun intended there? LOL
I could live with that.
Look how stupid Barney Frank looks in that last picture. Looks like he don’t like the Bamster hugging The Grotesque One.
I’ve been saying for a very long time now (2002 — 2003)
that Anti-Semitism was at the core of anti-war movement and all of this Bush hatred and “neocon” nonsense.
So it doesn’t surprise me in the least that this Bush hater would be anti-Semitic.
Paul McCartney looks like a liberal woman in that picture. Maybe Janet Napalitano.
Unfortunately, while liberals will have no trouble demanding the heads of Buchanan and Paul (as do I), Helen Thomas will be given a pass because she is a liberal. That’s all that matters.
I bet her mother had to feed her with a slingshot when she was a kid. And tie a porkchop around her neck to get the dog to play with her.
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