Posted on 09/18/2010 5:20:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Helen Thomas receiving lifetime achievement award from CAIR By Bridget Johnson - 09/18/10 05:33 PM ET
The longtime White House correspondent who resigned from Hearst newspaper in June in the wake of comments she made about Israel will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CAIR is honoring Thomas, who is of Lebanese descent and now 90 years old, at its Leadership Conference and 16th Annual Fundraising Banquet on Oct. 9 in Arlington, Va.
Speakers will also include Oxford Islamic studies scholar Tariq Ramadan.
Thomas started at the White House as a reporter during the Kennedy administration. In a video interview captured at a White House Jewish heritage event for RabbiLIVE.com that spread quickly across the Internet, Thomas advised Israeli Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Poland, Germany, America and "everywhere else."
The White House Correspondents Association and the White House rebuked Thomas, and President Obama said she made the right call in stepping down for the "offensive" remarks.
Thomas later apologized, saying: "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”
Birds of a feather...
That would be hysterical if it wasn’t so tragic.
She has no idea what she is empowering with what she says.
Well isn’t that special
Hey CAIR!
Why is it that when Christians or Jews point out the violence of the islamists we are intolerant. When the islamist jihadis cut off heads, rape and commit mass murder that somehow that is off-limits.
Isn’t she yassar arafat’s sister?
Maybe it’s an honorary beheading?
As Stephen Kruiser says, not enough eye bleach in the world!! Yikes!
Damn, she’s ugly enough.
Helen Thomas is the reason the muslims came up with the idea of a burka
Great-grandmother.
I’m sure it’s well-earned
after all her kneepad services on behalf of CAIR a lil’ lifetime servility award is the least they could do for Helen
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