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Helen Thomas receiving lifetime achievement award from CAIR
The Hill ^

Posted on 09/18/2010 5:20:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Helen Thomas receiving lifetime achievement award from CAIR By Bridget Johnson - 09/18/10 05:33 PM ET

The longtime White House correspondent who resigned from Hearst newspaper in June in the wake of comments she made about Israel will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR is honoring Thomas, who is of Lebanese descent and now 90 years old, at its Leadership Conference and 16th Annual Fundraising Banquet on Oct. 9 in Arlington, Va.

Speakers will also include Oxford Islamic studies scholar Tariq Ramadan.

Thomas started at the White House as a reporter during the Kennedy administration. In a video interview captured at a White House Jewish heritage event for RabbiLIVE.com that spread quickly across the Internet, Thomas advised Israeli Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Poland, Germany, America and "everywhere else."

The White House Correspondents Association and the White House rebuked Thomas, and President Obama said she made the right call in stepping down for the "offensive" remarks.

Thomas later apologized, saying: "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; helenthomas; judeophobe; judeophobia; judeophobic; thomas
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To: Sub-Driver

41 posted on 09/18/2010 6:31:27 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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42 posted on 09/18/2010 6:32:59 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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To: skeeter

43 posted on 09/18/2010 6:33:50 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Birds of a feather...


44 posted on 09/18/2010 6:34:25 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

45 posted on 09/18/2010 6:34:51 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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To: Bean Counter

That would be hysterical if it wasn’t so tragic.

She has no idea what she is empowering with what she says.


46 posted on 09/18/2010 6:37:09 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: VU4G10
Yikes! I gotta readjust my eyes after that pic.


47 posted on 09/18/2010 6:38:23 PM PDT by RedMDer
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To: Sub-Driver
There's just no telling what might
next come from helen's mouth.


48 posted on 09/18/2010 6:41:00 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Sub-Driver

Well isn’t that special


49 posted on 09/18/2010 6:45:23 PM PDT by Katnandu
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey CAIR!
Why is it that when Christians or Jews point out the violence of the islamists we are intolerant. When the islamist jihadis cut off heads, rape and commit mass murder that somehow that is off-limits.


50 posted on 09/18/2010 6:46:57 PM PDT by RedMDer
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Isn’t she yassar arafat’s sister?


51 posted on 09/18/2010 6:50:55 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Sub-Driver

Maybe it’s an honorary beheading?


52 posted on 09/18/2010 6:51:28 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (Liberals are drooling buffoons backed by satanic goons.)
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To: Sub-Driver
something_ugly_this_way_comes
53 posted on 09/18/2010 7:10:53 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Sub-Driver

As Stephen Kruiser says, not enough eye bleach in the world!! Yikes!


54 posted on 09/18/2010 7:13:36 PM PDT by pillut48 (Whenever O says, "Let me be clear," you know what is to follow is a bunch of nuanced BS!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Damn, she’s ugly enough.


55 posted on 09/18/2010 7:17:16 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Helen Thomas is the reason the muslims came up with the idea of a burka


56 posted on 09/18/2010 7:34:44 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Isn’t she yassar arafat’s sister?

Great-grandmother.

57 posted on 09/18/2010 8:16:48 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (We'll remember in November!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m sure it’s well-earned

after all her kneepad services on behalf of CAIR a lil’ lifetime servility award is the least they could do for Helen


58 posted on 09/18/2010 8:30:10 PM PDT by Enchante ("The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -- George Orwell --)
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


59 posted on 09/18/2010 9:04:58 PM PDT by VOA
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To: seanmerc
She's Back.

60 posted on 09/18/2010 9:26:21 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my only Plan...So just die (quicky), please & save $$$$ :^)
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