Helen Thomas - Jews, go back to Germany!

[applecorped]

Her agency has dropped her.

 

[Arrow]

Ugly - I'm all for free speech, but at the same time there can be consequences for what is said.

 

[joobz]

her apology rings hollow. She meant what she said, and it displays a complete selective version of history.

 

[Meadmaker]

her apology rings hollow. She meant what she said, and it displays a complete selective version of history.

That's what I thought as well. I might be able to forgive such a stupid statement as what she said if she had come back and said something along the lines of, "I apologize. I had been drinking..." followed by a real explanation of what she meant. I can see somebody saying those words in an off the record conversation, without actually meaning what it sounded like she meant. However, the "apology", made it sound like she pretty much meant what she said.

Of course, now that her career is over, she'll probably blame the Jews that control the media.

 

[Pardalis]

Her agency has dropped her.

I hope she didn't break her hip.

 

[FreshHat]

the jews should have gone to texas. The americans love them, they could have built a nice shiny new jerusalem in some nice dry corner of the desert and made that bloom using water taken from mexico and then all the young jews could go to university, join frat clubs, get drunk and not do 3 years military service.

Everybody would have been a winner

. . .

 

[Skeptic]

Of course, now that her career is over, she'll probably blame the Jews that control the media.

I must revise my informal assessment that she was treated lightly because it was "only" about Jews.

Anyway, she won't blame "the Jews", she'll blame "conservative media bias". You know, 50 years of loony liberal political hackery and next thing you know, the conservatives will terminate your career just because of disgusting antisemitic statement you made. It's a conspiracy.

 

[Noztradamus]

That's what I thought as well. I might be able to forgive such a stupid statement as what she said if she had come back and said something along the lines of, "I apologize. I had been drinking..." followed by a real explanation of what she meant. I can see somebody saying those words in an off the record conversation, without actually meaning what it sounded like she meant. However, the "apology", made it sound like she pretty much meant what she said.

Yeah, but the next morning, Mel Gibson was sober.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

An open letter to Helen Thomas
By YORAM DORI

Dear Ms. Thomas, I read on numerous Web sites the remarks attributed to you (and I did not see any denial) that we, the Jews must “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to Germany or Poland. I am convinced that you are aware of the events which took place during the years 1939-1945 but, to be certain, I think it appropriate to tell you a little about my parents and their families.

My mother was sent to Palestine from Germany in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis to power by her farseeing parents. The British blockade, which prevented Jews fleeing the Nazi horrors from entering, made it difficult for her and only the pretext of coming on a tourist visit enabled her to enter and remain alive. Her older sister, Sarah, her husband and three children aged 12, 10 and seven did not succeed in finding a way of coming to Palestine and were sent by the Nazis to Poland and from there, their journey to the Auschwitz gas chambers, was short. I understand that it is there that you wish to send me.

Ouch! That's gotta hurt!

 

[dafydd]

She looks like Kissinger in drags.

In drag,dear boy,in drag.

 

[Beerina]

I think it's time to put her out to pasture.

 

[Skeptic]

Judging by her photographs, she isn't quite as nice as she looks.

Anyway, yet another "liberal" "activist" journalist who is "just an anti-zionist" turns out to be a Jew-hater.

Surprise, surprise.

 

[Skeptic]

Jay Nordlinger's take (using quote from a much longer piece since I can't directly link to it):

With the hard-core anti-Israel crowd, the problem is not “occupation,” not the addition of in-law suites in Jerusalem: The problem is Israel itself. The very right of that state to exist. People like Helen Thomas are way to the “left,” if that’s the term, of the official position of the PLO. They are in line with Hamas and Hezbollah — and their patron in Iran.

The PLO-niks — Saeb Erekat, Hanan Ashrawi — are now the Uncle Toms of the anti-Israel community. Helen Thomas and the flotilla people are in the cool, fashionable forefront.

One of the things that encourage Israel’s enemies is the idea that the Jewish state is only temporary: that it is just a passing problem, not here to stay. The existence of Israel is conditional at best: Maybe if they behave themselves, we’ll let them stick around for a few more years, until demographics overwhelm them . . .

It would be helpful to peace in the Middle East if Israel’s enemies could be absolutely sure that Israel is not going anywhere: that it is here to stay. Remember the old gay slogan? “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”? Israel’s enemies need to know something like that about Israel. But as long as they have the feeling that the world — you know: “the world,” as in the New York Times, the U.N., and Bono — is not really committed to the existence of Israel, they will push for Israel’s destruction.

I'm not so sure about Nordlinger's views here -- the Arabs had not the slightest problem trying to genocide the Jews in Israel the minute the state was born, regardless of what "the world" thought about it; and the PLO's official position is still the "staged plan" for Israel's annihilation -- but he has a point.

 

[Gangularis]

All of mankind should go back to Africa, I guess.

No, all of mankind should go to designated homelands, and forcefully purge the existing residents.

Also, the title of this thread is pretty sick in it's spin. She said they should "go back to Poland, Germany, America, and everywhere else". What a god awful thing for her to suggest, that jewish people integrate into society like the majority of most ethnicities. She's obviously a firm supporter of ethnic cleansing of the jews.

 

[BenBurch]

Helen Thomas just announced her retirement.

 

[drkitten]

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[Emet]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/whit...elen-thomas-tells-jews-to-go-back-to-germany/

"Well this isn’t likely to turn out well for White House Press Corps legend Helen Thomas The senior correspondent to Hearst newspapers was interviewed on camera by Rabbi David Nessenoff of Rabbilive.com (during the Jewish Heritage reception at the White House)
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According to slate (2003),

...she is no longer the Helen Thomas of yesteryear, a deadline artist writing news for tens of millions of UPI readers. She left the waning wire in silent protest, after convicted felon Rev. Sun Myung Moon's News World Communications rescued it from collapse in 2000, and took a job at the Hearst News Service. There, Helen Thomas the Pundit writes a sharply partisan syndicated White House column about what she thinks—as opposed to Helen Thomas the Reporter, who wrote about what she'd learned. How bad is the column? Only a couple of Hearst papers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Houston Chronicle, publish her pieces with any regularity.

She may still have her White House press chair, but her marbles... not so much.

 

[Cleon]

The press pool's answer to Marge Schott is retiring effective immediately.

IOW, fired, albeit with a small shred of dignity left.

 

[This is The End]

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Wow, aren't you supposed to put "Fixed" or something when you edit a quote in such a conflicting way?

For that matter, editing quotes doesn't ever look good.

 

[Ziggurat]

The press pool's answer to Marge Schott is retiring effective immediately.

IOW, fired, albeit with a small shred of dignity left.

A testament to the power of citizen media, enabled by the internet and cheap video cameras.

I'm glad she's retiring, but she should have been kicked to the curb years ago. No wonder newspapers can't turn a profit.

Edit: Oh, and I suspect the fact that there's more to come probably had something to do with her decision to retire. This technique of successive releases of damning video (which I first noticed from the Mona Lisa Project, but gained more exposure with the ACORN scandal) is here to stay too.