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Helen Thomas receiving lifetime achievement award from CAIR
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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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; helenthomas; judeophobe; judeophobia; judeophobic; thomas
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Garbage...........
1 posted on 09/18/2010 5:20:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Is it the “Hating Jews” award?


2 posted on 09/18/2010 5:22:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Of course they did. :^((


3 posted on 09/18/2010 5:23:25 PM PDT by ColdOne (November and Beyond! Do not vote for Obama Republicans! Rove who?)
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To: Sub-Driver
Is this from The Onion?
4 posted on 09/18/2010 5:23:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Sub-Driver

Not so surprising. CAIR loves anti-Semites.


5 posted on 09/18/2010 5:23:50 PM PDT by mort56
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To: Sub-Driver

No this is good! Mooselimbs finally starting to give women respect. /s


6 posted on 09/18/2010 5:24:27 PM PDT by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now, there’s a woman who should be forced to wear a burqua.


7 posted on 09/18/2010 5:24:52 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Bring Our Troops Home - Send The Democrats)
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To: 23 Everest

Is a burka in the future for Helen?


8 posted on 09/18/2010 5:26:01 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: Blood of Tyrants
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9 posted on 09/18/2010 5:26:35 PM PDT by VU4G10
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To: Sub-Driver
"Helen Thomas receiving lifetime achievement award from CAIR"

Please tell me this means her lifetime is over. Please

10 posted on 09/18/2010 5:28:49 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Announcer: 'Accepting tonight's award for Ms Thomas is Mr. Phil Fondacaro...'


11 posted on 09/18/2010 5:29:25 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sub-Driver

should it not be called the Anti-Israel Award?


12 posted on 09/18/2010 5:32:02 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

13 posted on 09/18/2010 5:32:40 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: Sub-Driver
This is not a compliment ...             ...and very fitting. She deserves it.
14 posted on 09/18/2010 5:33:21 PM PDT by Jemian (Battle lines: One side is Rats and Rinos. On the other, the Tea Party (us). ~~LAZ)
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"Helen Thomas receiving lifetime achievement award from CAIR"

And she deserves it.

15 posted on 09/18/2010 5:33:47 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: ColdOne
They know a fellow Jew hating hag when they see one. Helen shows us she is as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside. Pure bile flows whenever she opens that big mouth.
16 posted on 09/18/2010 5:33:46 PM PDT by peeps36 (Obama, The Worst President In American History, By Far)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sorry, I’m having trouble putting a face to the name.


17 posted on 09/18/2010 5:33:54 PM PDT by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: skeeter

Aw, even that doesn’t compare with Helen’s loveliness...


18 posted on 09/18/2010 5:34:36 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Avinu Malkeinu Chotmeinu B'Sefer HaChayim)
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To: Sub-Driver

I thought she was dead?


19 posted on 09/18/2010 5:38:19 PM PDT by politicalmerc (I can see November from my house; can you?)
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To: Lexington Green

Now, there’s a woman who should be forced to wear a burqua.

The purpose of the burqua is to minimize the possibility that a woman’s natural sexuality would lead a man ‘astray’.
In Helen’s case, even the muzzies know that this is not necessary...


20 posted on 09/18/2010 5:39:55 PM PDT by Paisan
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