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.”
agree, pure crap.
Get a real award, get one from Brigitte Gabriel, a Lady who CARES and KNOWS what is REALLY GOING ON!
An award for a supporter of the enemy within.
I saw the headline and thought it was a satire.
Speakers will also include Oxford Islamic studies scholar Tariq Ramadan.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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OMG... if the shoe fits.
Never mind that. Hating Jews is an entrance requirement for CAIR. What I want to know is, will they finally put a burkha on her ugly puss, and make it safe to look up when she’s in the room?
Congrats Helen. . .you so deserve it.
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