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Have a great week, seanmerc!
Posted on 11/21/2010 3:06:16 PM PST by presidio9
Helen Thomas is a hero. For more than 57 years, she has stood up to all forms of discrimination. First as a woman journalist in a man's world. Second as a fiercely objective journalist who questioned every President From Eisenhower to Obama with the same principles of justice, objectivity and balance. And Third, she is a hero because she has stood up to the onslaught of ugly name-calling from extremists in the American Jewish Community who are not happy kicking Palestinians out of Palestine, they want to kick them out of America, too.
Tonight (Thursday Nov. 18) in Washington DC, Thomas will receive among many honors the Dr. M.T. Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award from the National Arab American Journalists Association and ADC (the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee). The award was established in 1999 to honor the work of journalists who have stood up to hatred, fear mongering, defamation and slander because of their work. It is presented to journalists who have shown courage in speaking and writing the truth in the face of overwhelming public anger.
It is so easy for many mainstream American journalists to remain silent, rather than to expose the hypocrisies in American society, especially after the terrorism of Sept. 11, 2001. It is easy because the hatred and racism against Arabs and Muslims in America has reached an unprecedented height. Arabs and Muslims are easy prey for racists and bigots because the American public is so uneducated about truth and accuracy and they are fed a constant stream of lies from the mainstream American media.
And those Arabs and Muslims who dare to challenge the lies in the coverage of the rights of the Palestinian people are even easier to target because on top of the bigots and racists who attack Arabs and Muslims, American Jews often also join in the assaults against morality and ethics.
You can read the blog called Elder of Ziyon, an often racistly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate site to see this hypocrisy at work. (Click here to read their most recent hateful post.)
On the one hand, the writer argues that Helen Thomas did not say that Jews should get out of the occupied territory, making the precision of the words their strongest case. And then they hypocritically violate principle, morality and even truth, arguing that Helen Thomas said that Jews should get out of Israel. The fact is Helen Thomas NEVER used the word "Jews." She was asked by a racist rabbi what Israelis should do and she said "Get the hell out of Palestine."
The most outrageous example of bigotry and racist hate comes from Morton Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of America. His history of racism and bigotry is shameful. Klein could care less about the truth. He is more concerned with protecting a foreign country rather than defending Americans from bigotry and racism. Klein prefers to defend Israel and he hates Helen Thomas for the very reason she deserves to be honored tonight by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC, www.ADC.org)and the National Arab American Journalists Association (www.NAAJA-US.com).
More than any other journalist, Helen Thomas was not afraid to challenge the hypocrisies and lies about Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims. She often asked the tough questions of Presidents exposing the hypocrisies of American Foreign policy that sacrificed truth and ethics for political bias towards one foreign country called Israel. And her colleagues, who rarely reported on her courageous challenges, shouted her down with their ugly silence and unprofessional and unjournalistic conduct.
NAAJA salutes Helen Thomas and American Arabs who refuse to be shouted down by bigots, demagogues and hatemongers like Morton Klein and others all because they have DARED to challenge the political polices of a foreign government, Israel.
Not surprised. Obama say a lot of things in public you and I know he doesn’t believe.
Exactly.
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Now, for months after she disgraced herself (three if you are a half-muslim president of the United states who couldn't care less about what Isreal thinks -possibly approved of by Major Garett) it is impossible to find a news story about this woman anywhere -with the possible exception of reliable standbys like National Review. Case in point: Helen Tomas (former feminst icon to people like Barbara Walters just won an even more major award than Ralphie in "A Christmas non-dominational Holiday Story" and the only place it gets gets a mention are icons of fair and balanced reporting like Palestine Note and Detroit Free Press.
After Barry gets his ass handed to him and starts house hunting in Bill Ayers neighborhood two years from now perhaps he will enlist HT for some pointers on his future lifetime spent "getting the message out." Rule number one: telling the Jews to go back to Germany where they belong won't win many hearts and minds. Even hard core liberal will pretend to get turned off by that sort of logic. Respeck.
‘...as a fiercely objective journalist who questioned every President From Eisenhower to Obama with the same principles of justice, objectivity and balance.’
This is a gag post, right?
We should take pride in her ties to the mitten, right?
Oh, absolutely!
(Ok, /sarc)
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Have a great week, seanmerc!
As long as everyone understands she’s the idiot string.
Courtesy ping for the Helen Thomas ping list. Thanks for the tip, Maggie!
You are welcome. It’s a busy day for the HT ping list.
And judging from the the tone of the posted piece here, Ray Hanania - who fancies himself as a New Age Arab-American comedian, though his piece here is about as humorous as Helen Thomas' face - is in the same category.
excellent graphic
thanks for posting
“Helen Thomas is a hero. For more than 57 years, she has stood up to all forms of discrimination. First as a woman journalist in a man’s world. Second as a fiercely objective journalist who questioned every President From Eisenhower to Obama with the same principles of justice, objectivity and balance. And Third, she is a hero because she has stood up to the onslaught of ugly name-calling from extremists in the American Jewish Community who are not happy kicking Palestinians out of Palestine, they want to kick them out of America, too. “
This says it all. Why not also give her the Nobel Piece Prize while you’re at it, and give this bozo the Ezra Pound Award for Bigotry in Incoherent Blather into the bargain.
“Sorry, it’s tradition...”
And without our traditions, we’d be as shaky as...as...as a fiddler on the-—Hey! He fell off the roof! Call 911. Must have looked at a Helen Thomas picture.
Let the misbegooten Hanina and his fiends look at Helen thomas, the face that sank a thousand ships..
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