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.
Could be! ;-)
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.
I hear you.
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.”
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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.
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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)
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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.
I’m trying to be kind .....
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If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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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.
I miss Ari. He was the best.
Thanks for the ping. This is a very sad time in our country’s history.
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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?
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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.
I wish I did. :)
Obama will probably make her his next Middle East policy czar, since she so completely reflects his views toward Israel.
Ninety year old dear Helen is ... he better hurry up.
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