Posted on 06/06/2010 8:40:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
Helen Thomas, the Hearst Newspaper columnist under fire for her remarks last week urging Jews to "get the hell out of" Israel and "go back to Germany," headlined a fundraiser for the terrorist support group Code Pink in the Fall of 2006.
Photos posted by Code Pink show Thomas receiving the group's "Badge of Courage" at a fundraiser held at a Washington, D.C. restaurant on October 28, 2006.
Code Pink is a leader of the so-called Gaza Freedom Movement, the group behind the terror flotilla trying to break the blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Code Pink has led other efforts to weaken the blockade of the terrorist haven and has acted as a go-between from Hamas to Barack Obama.
Hamas guaranteed Code Pink's safety during the group's last trip to Gaza six months ago.
Contacted at the time of the Code Pink fundraiser, a spokesman for Hearst's D.C. bureau said that as a columnist Thomas was free to raise money for Code Pink. Hearst wasn't bothered that Code Pink had a history of supporting the terrorists in Iraq with cash and humanitarian aid.
"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."
Thomas knows that she could never say the blacks should go back to Africa or the Hispanics should go back to Mexico, she would ruin her over-celebrated reputation as the "dean" of the White House press corps
Interesting rendition of Dogs Playing Poker.
Badge of Courage? Ha... how much courage does it take for a leftist to spout off in a country where the universities, the media, and half the governmental officials agree with you, and there are no legal repercussions?
All good points and the enemedia isn’t in a hurry to report this incident.
I sometimes wish I owned about 50,000 acres & I could invite all those in Israel to come to my ranch & live there.
I wish Israel would get seriously aggressive. Muslims understand nothing but a total beatdown. Even the British used to say it: An Arab is either under your boot or at your throat.
Wouldn't work. The Israelis regard Jerusalem as their sacred city and they will NEVER give it up, even in trade for ten times as much land.
They walk among us...and they vote. Cuidado!
I refuse to read this thread due the fact that a picture of Helen Thomas may be pos....tttttt.....ed......
Oh God! I’m outa here.
I see Code Pink is now about ethnic cleansing, just like Hearst News. Good exposure there, Helen Thomas.
I agree with your article, kristinn and had no idea you’d posted it. LOL!
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Yeah rabbi friend that caught it said there moree according to Roger Friedman foremly of Fox news
http://www.showbiz411.com/2010/06/05/helen-thomas-self-destruction-rabbi-has-more-on-tape
Golem of WH need to go
The wielder of the ugly stick worked allot of overtime that day.
Maybe she can get a position on Die Sturm.....
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