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Fire Helen Thompson & Be Done With It.

post #1 of 17
6/6/10 at 12:45pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14

White House Jewish Heritage Celebration - May 27th, 2010

Helen Thomas says the Jews should get the h*** out of Palestine and go back "home" to Germany and Poland.

Psssst Helen, they ARE home in Israel.

I don't care if she is old as dirt, she should be fired, IMO.


warning, Helen says the "H" word in the video.
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post #2 of 17
6/6/10 at 1:00pm
This is the same woman who asked the question at President Obama's first news conference:

"Mr. President, is Iran really the only country in the middle east with nuclear weapons?"

If you don't know why she asked that question, then you know nothing about the woman.

It makes me wonder if senility is bringing out her true political leanings that she hid so long from the civilized world.
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post #3 of 17
6/6/10 at 5:17pm
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post

It makes me wonder if senility is bringing out her true political leanings that she hid so long from the civilized world.
I think you hit the nail on the head with that statement.



http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedi...by_agency.html

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June 06, 2010
Categories:White House.Thomas gets dropped by agency
Nine Speakers, the agency that represents Helen Thomas, has dropped her as a client. This comes in the wake of controversial remarks on the Middle East.

The notice, obtained by POLITICO:

It is with a heavy heart that Nine Speakers, Inc. announces its resignation as the agent for Helen Thomas, Dean of the White House Press Corps.
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post #4 of 17
6/7/10 at 10:55am
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Helen Thomas Retires - Effective Immediately.

GOOD!
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post #5 of 17
6/7/10 at 11:47am
'Bout dang time! She should have retired with dignity at least 10 yrs ago at the start of the Bush admin.
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post #6 of 17
6/7/10 at 11:52am
Poor Helen. She could probably really use the extra free time to take a trip to Germany herself, but it would devastate her to learn that a lot has changed in 70 years.
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post #7 of 17
6/7/10 at 12:27pm
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Whoa! Keycube, that was a zinger if I ever heard one.
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post #8 of 17
6/7/10 at 2:15pm
Yeah...didn't they have some of fracas over there starting about 1938, and end up chasing out all the Jews who are now in....ISRAEL!!!!

Then they had a decades long pogrom in Russia, Poland, etc., where they chased out all to Jews to...guess where?
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post #9 of 17
6/7/10 at 4:09pm
I almost cheered when I saw that she stepped down.

Good for her that she's still able to function as well as she does at 90. Shame on her for not only keeping the old stereotypes and racism of long ago, but voicing it for the world to see her for what she really is.
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post #10 of 17
6/8/10 at 12:03pm
Now she can be one more nut in the Planters can that is political blogging. Or if she's smart, take her savings and spend a lot of time in assorted tropical places.
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post #11 of 17
6/8/10 at 1:27pm
One little wrinkle in all this is that she was born of Lebanese immigrants. In other words, she learned this prejudice at her mother's knee.
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post #12 of 17
6/8/10 at 1:43pm
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One little wrinkle in all this is that she was born of Lebanese immigrants. In other words, she learned this prejudice at her mother's knee.
So Lebanese Christians are anti-Semitic? Hmm, I'd not heard that one before.
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post #13 of 17
6/8/10 at 2:35pm
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So Lebanese Christians are anti-Semitic? Hmm, I'd not heard that one before.
The Lebanese are, in general, anti-Israel. You hadn't heard that? Don't remember the 70's and 80's very well?
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post #14 of 17
6/8/10 at 2:44pm
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The Lebanese are, in general, anti-Israel. You hadn't heard that? Don't remember the 70's and 80's very well?
Oh yes...I was there. I vividly remember walking through the puddles that used to be entire Muslim families that were slaughtered by the Lebanese Christians, while the IDF guarded the gates of the camps for them. I remember one of our Captains having to climb aboard an Israeli tank and stick a Beretta in it's commander's face to keep it from attacking unarmed Arabs.

I can also name you six young men who never came home, and a Chaplin who after he was dug out of the rubble, could never wear the uniform again.

I remember them quite well.
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post #15 of 17
6/8/10 at 9:04pm
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Oh yes...I was there. I vividly remember walking through the puddles that used to be entire Muslim families that were slaughtered by the Lebanese Christians, while the IDF guarded the gates of the camps for them. I remember one of our Captains having to climb aboard an Israeli tank and stick a Beretta in it's commander's face to keep it from attacking unarmed Arabs.

I can also name you six young men who never came home, and a Chaplin who after he was dug out of the rubble, could never wear the uniform again.

I remember them quite well.
Bad, bad stuff. The horrors of war never leave a person.

WWII grew closer to my father the older he got and as the Parkinson's dimentia worsened the night mares were every night and I honestly think he was living with one foot in 2008 and one foot in 1944.
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post #16 of 17
6/9/10 at 11:06am
My sincere apologies mrblance. I took that the wrong way and was too harsh in reply.

My point is that Lebanon is just as diverse a place as nearly everywhere else. The government is almost entirely Christian, though not necessarily Zionists. The population is as mixed as most anyone else's, and there is no collective "Lebanese think...".

The War in Lebanon was mainly due to Syrian troops and PLO factions in Beirut, and even Palestinians against each other in the War of the Camps.

Even in the 80's, it was sad to see. You could still tell that Beirut had once been a truly beautiful city, but it was shot to pieces. There was no gas, almost no running water. And old man there even showed me it was possible to cook a stew in a plastic trash bag. And those people didn't have the need to hate anyone, and were caught in the middle of a war they didn't want, or start, and with no where else to go.
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post #17 of 17
6/9/10 at 1:37pm
Lebanon was once the Switzerland of the Middle East. It had a diverse, tolerant populace, lots of business, lots of tourist business, colleges, universities, etc.

I've never been there, but I had a professor in France who had had to be evacuated from Lebanon. His heart was clearly broken in speaking of the desolation of a beautiful land.

The Druze militia had a cooperation with Israel for their convenience, but it wasn't a happy relationship and is almost entirely gone now.

Sad, sad, sad.
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