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Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas 'She Is Advocating Religious Cleansing'
dailypaul.com ^ | 6/5/10 | unknown

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitic; antisemitism; hearstantisemitism; helenthomas; israel; jewhater; media; msmantisemitism; religion; thomas; thomasantisemitism
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To: beckysueb
Was there a pun intended there?

Could be! ;-)

61 posted on 06/06/2010 8:17:22 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: ICAB9USA

Someone needs to do Helen a favor and politely push her into retirement. She has been a thorn for a long time and now it appears she is getting senile also.


62 posted on 06/06/2010 8:25:05 AM PDT by devane617 (VOTE THEM OUT! ALL OF THEM!)
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To: rosettasister

I hear you.


63 posted on 06/06/2010 11:51:31 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: Illuminatas
re: Here is my wish:

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.”

_________

LOL. Jim Quinn (warroom.com) says it nearly every week. This guy is the greatest talk show host in the country. Check him out.

Rush Limbaugh/Jeff Christie came up under Jim Quinn in Pittsburgh back around 40 years ago.

64 posted on 06/06/2010 11:55:48 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
re: Every time I see this photo on Drudge I think it's Helen Thomas.

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ROFL!!!!

I swear to God that I was thinking about the same thing the first time I saw that picture on Drudge. Paul looks like a senile old woman (not to smear senile old women)

;-)

65 posted on 06/06/2010 11:58:58 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: KeyLargo
re: "Barak, see what you can do about all of those Jews." Helen

LOL. It's funny yet it's not.

The Pencil-necked Kenyan Muslim, African Colonialist Obama hates whitey, capitalism, and hates the Jewish people. He's just a general drag on humanity.

The boy needed spanked as a child.

66 posted on 06/06/2010 12:05:24 PM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: nomad

I’m trying to be kind .....

;^)


67 posted on 06/06/2010 1:01:19 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: ICAB9USA

The Hearst Corporation contact is lbagley@hearst.com.

I just emailed my sentiments. Please join in.


68 posted on 06/06/2010 1:41:53 PM PDT by aimhigh
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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69 posted on 06/06/2010 1:57:27 PM PDT by SJackson (Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Every time I see this photo on Drudge I think it's Helen Thomas. Good Call!!!! Similar!! Real similar!LOL!
70 posted on 06/06/2010 2:26:48 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ICAB9USA

To all Free Republic readers—can someone post a list of Hearst Corporation-owned media and other companies? I would like to start a boycott of Hearst Corporation until Helen Thomas is fired.


71 posted on 06/06/2010 2:35:12 PM PDT by GadsdenGal
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To: ICAB9USA

I miss Ari. He was the best.


72 posted on 06/06/2010 3:24:31 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SJackson

Thanks for the ping. This is a very sad time in our country’s history.


73 posted on 06/06/2010 3:26:41 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: All; GadsdenGal

..........ping to


74 posted on 06/07/2010 1:35:39 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: aimhigh

..... excellent


75 posted on 06/07/2010 1:36:11 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: trisham
Yes he was. That grear winning, understanding smile was beautiful. All the "journalists" liked and respected him.

This Gibbs guy was a loser.

p.s. Do you happen to remember poor Ron Zeigler who worked for Nixon. Remember when Nixon was caught shoving Ron from behind?

;-)

76 posted on 06/07/2010 1:39:20 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: trisham; SJackson; aimhigh; GadsdenGal; WilliamofCarmichael; dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; ...
re: This is a very sad time in our country’s history.

___

May I add that I think .......

..... it is a devastating and terribly destructive time for this country ..... IF the media does not morph somehow and locate a spine and a soul.

77 posted on 06/07/2010 1:45:01 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: ICAB9USA
No.

I wish I did. :)

78 posted on 06/07/2010 4:35:04 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ICAB9USA

Obama will probably make her his next Middle East policy czar, since she so completely reflects his views toward Israel.


79 posted on 06/07/2010 11:16:56 AM PDT by GadsdenGal
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To: GadsdenGal
I hear you.

Ninety year old dear Helen is ... he better hurry up.

;-)

80 posted on 06/07/2010 12:49:03 PM PDT by ICAB9USA (I lost part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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