Posted on 02/18/2011 6:18:39 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Disgusted Helen Thomas: I Automatically Assumed Obama Was Black, Therefore He's Liberal By Tim Graham Created 02/18/2011 - 8:27am
By Tim Graham | February 18, 2011 | 08:27 Tim Graham's picture
Jeff Poor at the Daily Caller isolated the latest rant from former UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas. On Wednesday night's Joy Behar show on CNN Headline News, Thomas said Obama is a coward, not a liberal, which was disappointing, since she thought "because he was black, I thought he would automatically be" liberal, or in other words, have an "empathy for all the blacks."
BEHAR: Things have changed. And President Obama, do you like him? Do you think he is doing a good job? We started out the conversation before about it a little bit.
THOMAS: I think he lacks courage.
BEHAR: He lacks courage?
THOMAS: And he is not a liberal. I had hoped he was. I suppose I thought he was, because he was black, I thought he would automatically be–
BEHAR: Well, that was your mistake.
THOMAS: That was my mistake. I thought he would be a liberal.
BEHAR: Can’t judge a person by the color.
THOMAS: Absolutely. You are so right. But I really thought that he would have an empathy for all the blacks, what they had gone through in life.
BEHAR: Well, I think he does have empathy, but he is up against a Republican machine, and he has to get reelected. You know, I mean, he’s in a tough spot. Doesn’t he have to get re-elected? He needs the middle, doesn’t he?
THOMAS: You take a stand on something in your life. You should have principles and stick to them.
Earlier in the interview, Thomas slammed Obama for failing to get out of Iraq faster:
BEHAR: But -- I have to tell you that, you know, I admired you, many -- I admire you even now, for the many things that you did in those press conferences, how you stood up to presidents, how you spoke out, particularly on the Iraq war, which I was vehemently against myself. And one of the reasons that I liked Obama was that he was against the Iraq war.
THOMAS: Almost.
BEHAR: Well, he was against it. I mean, I think that he ran on that.
THOMAS: Well, you know, let's see it fulfilled.
BEHAR: Well, you know, I think he was handed something, too. So let's -- I always expect the best from him.
THOMAS: I never have sympathy for presidents. They aren't handed -- he could have walked out the day after he took the oath.
BEHAR: Well, I guess so, but I don`t know if -- you know, what happened to if you break it, you have to fix it, you know?
THOMAS: It was broken.
BEHAR: It was broken. So we had an obligation to stay there, no?
THOMAS: No, you just get out. How did he go in?
BEHAR: Well, he didn`t go in. It was George Bush who went in.
THOMAS: Yes, he is, but he -- he didn`t have to stay there.
Don't buy it when Helen says I "never have sympathy for presidents." She certainly has in the past, when they're named Carter, Clinton, and Kennedy.
Wow. I feel like a student at a Wisconsin school.
Wow...there are no words...
Hats off to Jeff Poor. I couldn’t have listened to that long enough to transcribe it.
Oh, the dreaded Republican Machine!
Actually, those two are made for each other ... Helen and Joy. A silly conversation.
or Truman or FDR or Wilson.................
Empathy? How? Why? He was raised in a completely different way than blacks in the inner cities.
Shows how completely bereft of intelligence Thomas is.
lmfao
twice
Classic.
helen thomas assumes that because he is black that he automatically is a liberal. Kind of funny how joyless tried to change the subject real fast over that one. Even she knew that was racist as hell.
And she thought he wasn’t a liberal? win the future?
obama laments that the constitution limits what the feds can DO TO American citizens and he is not a liberal?
Please Please Please, no photos on this thread!!!!
DisgustED or disgustING Helen Thomas?
I had no idea she even had a sense of disgust.
THOMAS: Absolutely. You are so right. But I really thought that he would have an empathy for all the blacks, what they had gone through in life.
BEHAR: Well, I think he does have empathy, but he is up against a Republican machine, and he has to get reelected. You know, I mean, he’s in a tough spot. Doesn’t he have to get re-elected? He needs the middle, doesn’t he?
Brought to you by the same type people that brought you South Africa, Zimbabwe, Detroit, E St Louis and coming to more cities and towns...The destruction of viable communities at the illusion of victimhood &'equality'.
Helen Thomas IS extremely UGLY, not because of her looks though.
Her whole mind-set is rooted in foundation of Racism.
You are BLACK - therefore you MUST be Liberal, and preferably radically Liberal, hopefully Socialist or worse.
Nothing is more ugly that the thoughts of a Racist perspective, nothing.
Disgusted Helen Thomas: I Automatically Assumed Obama Was
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Jeff Poor at the Daily Caller isolated the latest rant from former UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas. On Wednesday night’s Joy Behar show on CNN Headline News, Thomas said Obama is a coward, not a liberal, which was disappointing, since she thought “because he was black, I thought he would automatically be” liberal, or in other words, have an “empathy for all the blacks.”
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Wow. Like so many other FReepers are saying in response to this - Just Wow.
Thomas may be retired, but thank God she is still a viable spokes-idiot for liberal racist lunatics.
So, because she thought Obama was black, that meant he likes fried chicken and waterme... er I mean he must be a liberal.
Talk about racial stereotyping!
And how could he feel empathy for (American) blacks? He spent half his growing up life in Indonesia - the other half in a condo in Hawaii. As an adult - he has lead a life of education and wealth. Not exactly the typical black experience, now is it?
Ahhhh Helen Thomas. Bless her “Jew-hatin’ - all blacks are liberal” heart.
“those two are made for each other”....
absolutely agree-they are both from the same planet, and the same pod..
Heard a Black comedian a couple of days ago saying basically the same stuff.
What dis Obama doing!?
Where my reparations at?
I though by now I’d have White slaves in my house!
‘haha ha’ yeah right...very funny
The are many who voted for Obama because they wanted outright revolution and a complete overthrow of the entire American system.
You can see this clearly by how many Leftists have openly said that they wish Obama was in fact a full blown dictator.
Helen want the troops out of Iraq so that they can be used against Americans in the installation of the New World Order.
It is cute to watch the Left fight itself. The rabid delusional fanatics fighting the naive useful idiots. Popcorn anyone?
Helen Thomas—
as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside.
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