Thursday 14 October 2010

HELEN THOMAS CRIES, DENIES, ANTI-SEMITISM, CALLS OBAMA "REPREHENSIBLE"



MARION, Ohio 

In a radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were "exactly what I thought," even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job.

 
The expected media reaction ~ discredit and insults.

"I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive," Thomas told Ohio station WMRN-AM in a sometimes emotional 35-minute interview that aired Tuesday. It was recorded a week earlier by WMRN reporter Scott Spears at Thomas' Washington, D.C., condominium.

Thomas, 90, stepped down from her job as a columnist for Hearst News Service in June after a rabbi and independent filmmaker videotaped her outside the White House calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine." She gave up her front row seat in the White House press room, where she had aimed often pointed questions at 10 presidents, going back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.


She has kept a low profile since then.

In the below clip (via Mediaite), Thomas can be heard crying after learning that President Obama condemned her remarks about Israel on the "Today" show, calling them "offensive and out of line."
 
You go girl! Keep those strikes coming!

"I think he was very unfair, and I return the compliment on his remarks," Thomas said. "Reprehensible."

"(It was) very hard for the first two weeks. After that, I came out of my coma," Thomas said.

Rabbi David Nesenoff, who runs the website rabbilive.com, said he approached Thomas after he'd been at the White House for Jewish Heritage Day on May 27. He asked whether she had any comments on Israel.

"Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine," she replied.

"Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not Germany, it's not Poland," she continued. 

Asked where they should go, she answered, "They should go home."

"Where's home?" Nesenoff asked.

"Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else," Thomas replied.

"I told him exactly what I thought," she told Spears.

Spears said during the interview that some accounts left off her reference to America and gave the wrong impression that Thomas was referring to World War II.

"I was not talking about Auschwitz or anything else," she said.

"They distorted my remarks, which they obviously have to do for their own propaganda purposes, otherwise people might wonder why they continue to take Palestinian land," said Thomas, a daughter of Lebanese immigrants who over the years did little to hide her pro-Arab views. There was no explanation of whom "they" referred to.

When she soon began getting calls about her remark, "I said this is the end of my job."
She issued an apology, she told the radio interviewer, because people were upset and she thought she had hurt people. "At the same time, I had the same feelings about Israel's aggression and brutality," Thomas said.

Asked whether she's anti-Semitic, she responded "Baloney!" She said she wants to be remembered for "integrity and my honesty and my belief in good journalism" and would like to work again.

Spears said Thomas granted him the interview because the two had developed a friendship during previous interviews she had done with the station in Marion, 42 miles north of Columbus in central Ohio.

Their discussion also touched on current politics, particularly on women.

Thomas described Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a hawk." "I thought women in politics would have more compassion, be more liberal," Thomas said.

As for Sarah Palin, Thomas said she believed the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate was ambitious enough to run for president.

"That would be a tragedy, a national tragedy," she said, describing Palin as "very conservative, reactionary, unbelievable."
The sad reaction to the truth from Helen.

Asked about tea party-backed Republican Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, Thomas responded with one word: "Frightening."

4 comments:

  1. she has bollocks ! Elle a des couilles.
    At first, I thought she was jewish, too...

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  2. Hey Noor,...What an ambush that rabbi stunt was, the tribe are shameless and have no respect for anyone or anything, that woman is a National Treasure, if she were japanese Thomas would be made a National Treasure, literally; not in the JuSA; Thomas gets vilified and insulted for championing the truth in the Whitehouse, sad times we're living in.

    veritas

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  3. I imagine she feels freer than ever she did when toeing the line. I can only wonder what firing her was supposed to distract us from seeing. As for being a national treasure, to be that you must be of the tribe at least. Oh and plug the tribe's wonderful accomplishments non stop.

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  4. More on Obama

    According to Wayne Madsen

    Wasn't this mentioned by Cliff along the lines of the president having to leave office in November?

    "In the case of President Obama, the senior firings are not happening during a single nght but the recent involuntary sudden departures of the White House chief of staff and national security adviser, along with what WMR can confirm from multiple sources is a president who is suffering from Nixonian levels of paranoia, depression, and schizophrenia, has some top-level administration officials considering the first-ever invocation of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment — the involuntary removal of the president from office. The White House meltdown has the Washington political circuit buzzing under the surface."

    White House Insider On Obama: The President Is Losing It Sep. 7

    White House Insider Part 2: The President needs to grow up. Sep. 15

    White House Insider: What The Hell Have We Done? Sep. 18

    White House Insider: The Clintons Are Going For It. Sep. 21

    White House Insider: Pelosi and Obama at War Oct. 7

    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/216/574/Wayne_Madsen:_White_

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