Olbermann Slams Anti-Helen Thomas Rabbi in ‘Worst Person’ Segment, But Not Helen Thomas

NewsBusters ^ | 06/10/2010 | Brad Wilmouth

[Rational Thought]

On Wednesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann included Rabbi David Nessenoff – famous for exposing Helen Thomas’s anti-Semitic beliefs in a video of her posted on his Web site – for inclusion in his "Worst Person in the World" segment because Rabbi Nessenoff’s site also includes a video which the MSNBC host viewed as being racist toward Mexicans.

Olbermann also misstated the severity of Thomas’s declaration that Israeli Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine," as many in the pro-Palestinian movement consider all of Israel to be part of "Palestine." But Olbermann suggested that she was only referring to Israeli Jews who live in settlements in the Palestinian territories: "Runner up, Rabbi David Nessenoff. He is the man who precipitated the end of Helen Thomas’s career, got the video of her saying Israelis in settlements in Palestine should go home to Poland and Germany and the U.S. It was sad. It was narrow minded. I can`t defend it. On the other hand, Rabbi Nessenoff doesn`t exactly have clean hands."

[Rational Thought]

Olbermann finally admitting He's an Anti-Semite?

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Its the jooos, the jooos did this to Helen. What a total clymer.

[Republic of Texas]

Did anyone expect anything different?

[SuzyQue]

Jews should “go home to Poland and Germany” is not only a “get out of Palestine” statement, but I think she meant to a place where most of the WWII camps were. She could have named a number of other places worldwide that have had a large Jewish presence historically, but she choose to say Germany and Poland. Why those two only?

[Sans-Culotte]

What a disingenuous idiot. If she'd meant the settlements, she would have said "they should go home to Israel proper, and leave the settlements". By saying Poland and Germany, she obviously meant they should leave Israel entirely.

I hope this moment, and Herr Olbemann's defense of Thomas might open the eyes of liberal Jews in this country.

[Bitsy]

Oglemann is a joke anyway. He only impresses his one viewer with his tirades.

[FrdmLvr]

It was “get the HELL out of Palestine”.

[mikelets456]

Freedom of speech exposes these F-Ing communists and their agenda. I really am fed up with these nut jobs taking over our great nation....

[allmendream]

There is a map on the Hamas flag that shows what they, and Helen Thomas, mean when they say “Palestine”.

They mean all of Israel.

Uberdouch lies when he says that Thomas’ statement only implied that Jewish people in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem need to “go home” to Poland and Germany.

Also inherent in that statement is that Thomas doesn't see Israel as home for the Jewish people. Nope. She sees it as “Palestine”.

[SuzyQue]

You’re right. I stand corrected.

[CHEE]

Oglemann is a joke anyway. He only impresses his one viewer with his tirades.
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I hate to disagree with you, but MENTAL ILLNESS is not a JOKE. If it were PC for me to use the word retard then I would suggest it be included in your statement.

[roaddog727]

Keith who?

[Retired Greyhound]

If Newsbusters stopped watching Olbermann his ratings would plummet.

[Rational Thought]

That’s a valid point.

[KarlInOhio]

Nessenoff was only a runner up? Who was the worst person that day? Was it Robert Jackson, the chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, for unfairly (in Keith's twisted world view) hassling the Germans?

[hosepipe]

Olbermann is the Wiley E. Coyote of the talk show genre..

[andy58-in-nh]

Rabbi 1: You know why Olbermann was never circumcised?
Rabbi 2: Because there's no end to that prick?
Rabbi 1: Good one, Moishe. I owe you a shot of Schnapps.

[LeonardFMason]

Der Olbermann would not have been a Nazi. He would have been part of the SA headed by the raging homosexual Ernst Rohm. A jew hating Brown Shirt.

[Mr Inviso]

Nice armband there, Olbersturmfuhrer!

[four more in O 4]

The man (KO) has no decency. He is a elitist moron. period.