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White House press icon Helen Thomas apologizes for saying Jews should 'get out of Palestine'
NY Daily News ^ | 6/5/10 | Leo Standora

Posted on 06/05/2010 5:04:31 AM PDT by jimbo123

Helen Thomas might do better to just ask questions.

The grande dame of the Washington press corps put her foot in her mouth with an answer at the White House last week, suggesting Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else."

The jaw-dropping words from the 89-year-old Hearst Newspapers columnist hit the Internet on YouTube Friday and sparked a firestorm of controversy.

Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, sharply rebuked her. "Shame on Helen Thomas. She is certainly old enough to remember the Holocaust and the Second World War. She owes an apology to all victims of the Nazis," Steinberg said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antisemite; helenthomas
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1 posted on 06/05/2010 5:04:31 AM PDT by jimbo123
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bttt


2 posted on 06/05/2010 5:06:12 AM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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Contact Helen’s employers at Hearst and tell them she must be fired:

FBennack@hearst.com

lbagley@hearst.com


3 posted on 06/05/2010 5:06:30 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Hey Helen - Never Again.


4 posted on 06/05/2010 5:06:51 AM PDT by Enterprise (So tell me libs, if there had been blow out at ANWR, could it ever have matched BP's?)
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Sounds like she should get her anti-Semitic butt back over to Lebanon!


5 posted on 06/05/2010 5:08:00 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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Helen is an Arab-American - ne c’est pas?


6 posted on 06/05/2010 5:08:03 AM PDT by chickadee
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Warning - picture at the link is NSFY (not safe for you).


7 posted on 06/05/2010 5:08:43 AM PDT by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked." BHO)
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Lets all thank Obambi for setting the stage for the Anti-Semites to come out of the brush. His antipathy and pressure on Israel and everything “Western” is not a good thing


8 posted on 06/05/2010 5:08:43 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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Washington Post doesn't have anything either.

Guess the fact the main Leftwingtards in WarshDC are flaming anti-semites is NOT NEWS to them eh!

Yeltsin told the Jews in Russia that if they ever wanted to "get out, now is the time. You can't count on this forever". Same for the Jews in the Democrat party. If they want to "get out" now is the time.

9 posted on 06/05/2010 5:09:19 AM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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Contact Clark Hoyt the Public Editor at the NY Times and ask him why there is a Helen Thomas news blackout at his newspaper.

Clark Hoyt
E-mail: public@nytimes.com
Phone: (212) 556-7652
Address: Public Editor
The New York Times
620 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018


10 posted on 06/05/2010 5:10:16 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Helen is an Arab-American - ne c’est pas?

She looks like a cross between Yassir Arafat and the devil.

11 posted on 06/05/2010 5:11:12 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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Apology not accepted. Go home, Helen!


12 posted on 06/05/2010 5:11:22 AM PDT by MomofMarine
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Helen Thomas is a racist?! But . . . but . . . but, she's a liberal. Liberals say that liberals can't be racist 'cuz only conservatives are racists!!
13 posted on 06/05/2010 5:11:50 AM PDT by jeffc (One Big A$$ Mistake America)
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"Shame on Helen Thomas. She is certainly old enough to remember the Holocaust and the Second World War. She owes an apology to all victims of the Nazis," Steinberg said.

She should also be old enough and intelligent enough to know that the Jews have been that area for tens of thousands of years even before Islam came into being. It is time for her to retire; she's been retired on the job for too many years, IMO.

14 posted on 06/05/2010 5:12:10 AM PDT by olezip
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To: muawiyah; All

Contact the Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander and ask him about their Helen Thomas news blackout:

ombudsman@washpost.com


15 posted on 06/05/2010 5:12:27 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Helen Thomas apologizes for saying Jews should 'get out of Palestine'

Hey Hell:

Get the hell out of the US.

16 posted on 06/05/2010 5:12:50 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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17 posted on 06/05/2010 5:13:34 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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She is certainly old enough to remember the Holocaust...

At 89, she is also old enough to remember nothing. Judging from her writing, that's pretty much what she's learned during her long and disagreeable life.

18 posted on 06/05/2010 5:14:44 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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She is certainly old enough to remember the Holocaust and the Second World War

...and most likely the Civil War.

19 posted on 06/05/2010 5:15:29 AM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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LOL - you said what I was thinking. She could win a Yassir Arafat look alike contest any day of the week.

I believe that the queen of bold, Ann Coulter, referred to Helen Thomas in one of her columns as “that old Arab, Helen Thomas”.


20 posted on 06/05/2010 5:17:11 AM PDT by chickadee
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