dang! love the eye candy!
sometimes the Mod, would dis-allow the pic. i posted (eyewash :)
Posted on 03/18/2011 11:38:53 PM PDT by seanmerc
Helen Thomas is not sorry, nor were the comments that ended her career accidental.
“I knew exactly what I was doing – I was going for broke,” she told Playboy in the magazine’s April interview. “I had reached the point of no return. You finally get fed up … I finally wanted to speak the truth.”
Thomas, of course, left her perch as the dean of the White House press corps last year after telling a rabbi and blogger that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to “Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else.” Her family is Lebanese and she grew up in the Detroit area, home to one of the country’s densest populations of Arab Americans.
She spoke to Playboy at length about the situation in Palestine, her feelings on American support of Israel, and her take on Jews.
But her most controversial comments echoed ones she’s made before about the influence of Jews in American life, which have contributed to her name being stripped from journalism awards.
"[The Jews are] using their power, and they have power in every direction,” she told Playboy. “Power over the White House, power over Congress … Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies, which are funded by wealthy supporters, including those from Hollywood. Same thing with the financial markets. There's total control … It isn't the 2 percent. It's real power when you own the White House, when you own these other places in terms of your political persuasion. Of course they have power. [To the interviewer] You don't deny that. You're Jewish, aren't you?"
She also had some controversial views about memorializing the Holocaust.
"There's nothing wrong with remembering it, but why do we have to constantly remember?" she said. "We're not at fault. I mean, if they're going to put a Holocaust museum in every city in Germany, that's fine with me. But we didn't do this to the Jews. Why do we have to keep paying the price and why do they keep oppressing the Palestinians? Do the Jews ever look at themselves? Why are they always right? Because they have been oppressed throughout history, I know. And they have this persecution. That's true, but they shouldn't use that to dominate."
“Israeli lobbies, which are funded by wealthy supporters, including those from Hollywood.”
In case she hasn’t noticed, pretty much all of the Hollywood Lefties are pro-Palestinian, pro-Muslim these days.
“It’s real power when you own the White House”
And she SURELY hasn’t noticed that the White House is pro-Palestinian, pro-Muslim.
“Of course they have power. [To the interviewer] You don’t deny that. You’re Jewish, aren’t you?”
What a crass b****.
And her comments about the Holocaust? Absolutely unbelievable.
Is she senile or just more of a hateful, vile human being than ever?
“Why would a magazine such as Playboy talk to her?”
Early April Fool’s joke???
“I suppose if you can recall what it was like without an Israel, you’re more comfortable with the concept of not having one at all.”
I’m not buyin’ it. She’s also plenty old enough to remember WWII, and look at her hateful comments about the Holocaust.
She’s “comfortable” with the concept of not having an Israel at all, the way Ahmedinejad’s comfortable with it.
“A really serious Zionist would probably realize that Israel needs to stand on its own two feet and cannot continue as a client state of Washington.”
They’re a valuable ally (the only true one) in the Middle East. Their Intel is often better than ours and has been a great help to us many times over the years.
“Helen,Do they own the press?”
She’d probably say yes, that’s why she was pushed out. LOL
“and yet this witch and Jimmy Carter are both healthy and able to go around and spew their anti-Semitic BS.”
And the Ayatollah Khomeini and Albert Speers both lived to old age as well.
Now I understand the old saying “too mean to die”.
“If the Jews really owned the White House, do you think they’d have let the current occupant anywhere near it?”
Well, an overwhelming number of them voted for him. Check out the author’s commentary below, from the book. If you get a chance, search cspan2/book tv for a talk (with q & a) that he gave on it - very good.
Norman Podhoretz, “Why Are Jews Liberals?”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574402591116901498.html
I know, it seems like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.
Eh, they lived to 86 and 76 respectively. Average lifespans that set no great longevity record.
Michael Savage has talked about this a lot. How 90% of American Jews are clueless sheeple who would gladly go into the gas chamber without any resistance.
“Eh, they lived to 86 and 76 respectively.”
I agree on the second, maybe it was another Nazi I was thinking of. ‘Course, Speer got to appear on talk shows and plug his best-sellers, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau, after he was released from prison. Klaus Barbie (the Butcher of Lyon) died in a French prison at 77 which wasn’t that old either. I remember 60 Minutes doing a story on another one who lived in a French prison and he was the only person there! Seemed like he was pretty old, but I can’t remember who. Khomeini, on the other hand, lived beyond what was average for men then, 3 months short of 87. Having been personally affected by his takeover, I still think he lived far too long after that mess. Many, many evil people live pretty long lives, especially compared to the lives of all those they cut short.
Freepmail a link and let the jury decide...
You’re probably thinking of Rudolph Hess, who died in Spandau Prison at the age of 93, found with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck. The circumstances of Hess’s death are very strange, because by all accounts he was quite frail by the end (requiring daily nursing care) and didn’t have the mobility to string a cord up and hang himself.
Some sources claim that British secret service agents did him in, although it would seem rather senseless to kill a frail old man who was probably going to die soon anyway. Unless of course they had it in for Hess to the point where they weren’t going to allow him a natural death under any circumstances.
“You’re probably thinking of Rudolph Hess”
Yes, exactly! That’s whom I was trying to remember. It was a mystery about his death, I remember that as well.
*sigh* ...I deleted 'em months ago......
...so we'll just use yours for "the eyewash".
I gots mohh!
They need to boost their subscription.
And exactly how would an interview with Helen Thomas do that? Sheesh, and you guys tell ME not to post any pictures. :-)
WOW!!!!
I bet she’s a fantastic swimmer!
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