Helen Thomas Tells The Jews To Get Out Of Palestine And Go Home

[Dino Velvet]

I don't know what's uglier, her face or her words.

YouTube- Helen Thomas tells Jews to go back to Germany (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14)

[serial138]

Who's Helen Thomas?

[notdrunk]

Who's Helen Thomas?

"Queen" of the White House press corps.

[flabbybody]

she definitely looks like an old witch in that vid but I think she got confused and was goaded into saying that Jews should go back to Germany.

What strikes me is how any hint of an anti Israeli position on the subject of Jewish settlements is not tolerated in the American press. There really needs to be a meaningful and honest debate about this issue

[russtafa]

leave all the sand people [jews,arabs] to the sand and we can all get back to our lives without worrying about whos god is right

[bte]

The company that she works announced her retirement effective immediately, which means she got fired over her comments.

[Ben]

Helen Thomas and “Objective Journalism”

By Ken Silverstein (http://harpers.org/subjects/KenSilverstein)
Granted, Helen Thomas’ remarks (http://www.denverpost.com/ci_15248230) were vile and disgusting, but it’s been hard to stomach much of the media commentary about her. For example, CBS correspondent Mark Knoller is quoted (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060701493.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR) in today’s Washington Post as saying, “She asked questions no hard-news reporter would ask, that carried an agenda and reflected her point of view, and there were some reporters who felt that was inappropriate. As a columnist she felt totally unbound from any of the normal policies of objectivity that every other reporter in the room felt compelled to abide by, and sometimes her questions were embarrassing to other reporters.”
Yes, questions other reporters found too embarrassing to ask (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/opinion/24krugman.html), like, President Bush, are you sure there are WMDs in Iraq?
As for the tough questions asked by “objective” reporters more recently, highlights from the presidential campaign of 2008 include, “Oooh, Mr. Obama, how’d you get such big muscles? Can I touch it?” Or just this past weekend, “Vice President Biden, can I borrow your super-soaker? (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/the-biden-beach-party/57765/)
And keep me posted on when Martin Peretz (http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/meaning-of-marty-peretz.html) (among others) is admonished by journalists for his racist comments, going back at least a quarter-century, about Arabs.

[Ben]

The Meaning of Marty Peretz:

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/meaning-of-marty-peretz.html

[Ben]

The Meaning of Marty Peretz:

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/meaning-of-marty-peretz.html

More of Glenn Greenwald:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/

[Ben]

A good site for libertarians:

http://reason.com/blog