Interesting. Today, she says that her remarks represented “exactly what I thought.” But she told a different story shortly after the event. When she was still trying to hold on to her job, she issued a statement saying she “deeply regrets” what she said and her remarks “not not reflect” her “heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance.”

So much for “mutual respect and tolerance.” And so much for intellectual honesty, character, and having the courage of your convictions.

Helen Thomas is now and for a long, long time has been nothing more than a poorly-informed mouthpiece for the Anti-Isreal Left. The fact that she was allowed to masquerade as a “journalist” for so long is a disgrace to the profession. She is to journalism what Dr. Kevorkian is to medicine.

She makes a fair point, and this also goes for all other minority/ supposed oppressed sub-cultures.

If you criticize Obama, well you are now a racist.

If you believe that the federal government should enforce our laws at the border, well you are not a xenophobe or a “nativist.”

If you question Islam, well you are a Islamaphobe.

If you support DADT, well you are a homophobe.

If you question the amount of money the SU government sends Israel, well you are an anti-semite.

If you believe that people should get into college/jobs on their own merit – thus not supporting Affirmative Action, well you are a racist.

Thomas a trailblazer? LOL. Jack the Ripper was a trailblazer too.

Here is a real story you should cover.

OBAMA GOT MONEY FROM CHINA IN 2008

By Woodrow Wilcox

Obama and his allies have suggested that some of the money spent on campaign ads by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce might be coming from foreign sources. But, in 2008, Obama’s campaign was getting some money from sources inside China .
A video report about “An ACORN China Obama Connection” is on YOUTUBE (www.youtube.com, search “an acorn china obama connection”). Here is a direct link to the video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBNCpE5-2lU
Cy Huerter, a retired U.S. Naval Officer from northwest Indiana was interviewed in the video clip. In the video clip, Cy Huerter explains how an American business owner from China traveled to the U.S. to pass out “VOTE FOR OBAMA” tickets at an election polling site in Gary , Indiana .
The American business owner from China is identified in the video by display of the business card that he gave to Cy Huerter. The business owner said that he was an attorney who used to work for A.C.O.R.N., the group that supported Obama and with which Obama worked in the past.
“If a businessman makes money in China and then comes to the U.S. to campaign for Obama, you know he is bringing money with him from China even if it is just for his living and travel expenses while here in the U.S. ,” Huerter stated. “Using his China based credit cards and China based bank account, he could have easily brought more money from China to the U.S. to help the Obama campaign. If his business does deals with the government in China , then the ultimate source of the funds is the Chinese government. How many other foreign government connected people were helping Obama?” Huerter asked.

Wow, the hate that spews out of this woman! What a despicable human being. And what a terrifying mug.

gordonbloyershow said:
Thomas a trailblazer? LOL. Jack the Ripper was a trailblazer too.

Yes, she was a trailblazer. She broke the journalistic glass ceiling for women all over this country. What she said was reprehensible, but that does not change the fact that she improved the environment for female journalists.

I’m not sure how Jack the Ripper was a trail blazer. People have been murdering prostitutes since… well, since prehistory.

People who claim that Freedom of Speech is one of our highest values will still foam at the mouth when someone criticizes Israel. Helen Thomas’ reputation should not suffer one tiny blemish for what she said; if only we had several dozen more reporters like her in Washington.

JHoughton1 said:
People who claim that Freedom of Speech is one of our highest values will still foam at the mouth when someone criticizes Israel. Helen Thomas’ reputation should not suffer one tiny blemish for what she said; if only we had several dozen more reporters like her in Washington.

She could have been much more artful with her words.

Stephen Hogan said:
I’m not sure how Jack the Ripper was a trail blazer. People have been murdering prostitutes since… well, since prehistory.

LOL. He gave serial killers some much needed glam and pr–Hollywood is still making movies about that dude.

Helen Thomas was ostracized for speaking the truth, what else is new.

Azarkhan said:
LOL. He gave serial killers some much needed glam and pr–Hollywood is still making movies about that dude.

Serial killers have never needed help getting ‘glam’. A public fascination almost always develops around them. Historically, that has almost always been the case.

I think the allure of Jack the Ripper comes from three sources: 1) he or she was never caught or identified, 2) the progressive brutality of the murders, and 3) the fact that these murders occurred during Victorian England.

Those points aside, I wouldn’t call Jack a ‘trail blazer’. He really didn’t do anything that had not been done before. However, he is certainly the most internationally famous serial killer.

Stephen Hogan said:
I think the allure of Jack the Ripper comes from three sources

I think there is a fourth source: the possibility that the murderer was upper class “gentleman”. I’m not too up on Mr. Ripper, but I think that was one hypothesis.

I always get Helen and Rachel Maddow mixed up,
They could be brothers.
LEAN FORWARD!!!!!!

JimBob said:
I always get Helen and Rachel Maddow mixed up,They could be brothers.LEAN FORWARD!!!!!!

You are so RUDE. I am sure you could care less but I just hd to say it.

ronke a said:
Wow, the hate that spews out of this woman! What a despicable human being. And what a terrifying mug.

I want to see you when your 90. You may not even live that long!!! LOL

RabbiLive.com? Slanted news, anyone?

Yes, there were Jews in Palestine before Israel was created, about 10% of the population, and the Balfour agreement paved the way for a Jewish state along with the Zionist movement in France during the Dreyfus affair.

“Thomas wants to be remembered for “my integrity and my honesty and my belief in good journalism,”

Good journalism is truth and fact, delivered straight up. Helen has never been a straight journalist, she has always been an opinionator. To wit:

“The interview also covered other topics, such as Thomas’s thoughts on Christine O’Donnell (“Frightening”) and Sarah Palin (whose hypothetical presidency would be “a tragedy, a national tragedy”).”

Bwahahahaha

Helen is gone and will be remembered for the anti-semite she is.

Azarkhan said:
I think there is a fourth source: the possibility that the murderer was upper class “gentleman”. I’m not too up on Mr. Ripper, but I think that was one hypothesis.

Actually, that is one of the theories. One major theory (perpetuated by ‘From Hell’) involved Ripper being Her Majesty’s personal surgeon and physician.

The ONLY problem I have with Republicans is that they want to keep this country in the dark ages. I am “old” maybe older than most that post here. I want this country to move on. I want my grandchildren to live in a progressive country. Regardless who takes us there it is important to move on and accept people for who they are. Helen did much for women in this country and for women. If for nothing else she deserves credit for that fact.

Has anyone confirmed whether Helen will be appearing at the Stewart/Colbert moderation rallies? I heard that after Cindy Sheehan’s keynote address that Helen was going to do a tasteful goosestepping dance routine in Nazi re-enactment garb (good thing she isn’t running for Congress!). I mean, this woman is the definition of moderation. The Huffington Post said so, and since they are providing buses for this event, they must be authorities on the subject.

BlackWidow said:
I want this country to move on. I want my grandchildren to live in a progressive country.

Awww, poor thing. BTW, have you asked your grandchildren what country they want to live in? Or are you just being the typical arrogant progressive and making decisions for future generations?

The funny thing is, I totally agree with the first part of her statement and I totally reject the second part. Israel should and must get out of Palestine. They have no right to invade and occupy another country and turn the people there either into refugees or second class citizens. ‘Security’ does not justify these actions. But in a like way, the Palestinians or other neighbors of Israel have to right to evict Israelis from their own country. As such, the claim they should go ‘home’ ignoring the fact that most were born in Israel I find to be totally reprehensible. The statement does seem at least on the surface to be bigotry.

I know, at one time, all of the lands belonged to the Palestinians and therefore all the lands should go to them. But we can play this game of past history ad infinitum (should Israeli and Palestinian lands be given to the Greeks or Italians, after all these lands once belonged to Alexander the Great and Caesar). Perhaps I’m being arbitrary but while I do not begrudge the Israeli’s the original lands granted by the UN in 1947, I do begrudge them the lands they have conquered since then.

BlackWidow said:
The ONLY problem I have with Republicans is that they want to keep this country in the dark ages. I am “old” maybe older than most that post here. I want this country to move on. I want my grandchildren to live in a progressive country.

Well in a way your grandchildren are getting a neocon-lite/ Progressive future via $38,000 in his/her share of federal debt. The instant they are born, this is their share. Welcome to progressive land.

Christopher Hitchens said almost exactly the same thing a couple of years ago and said that the Zionist were delusionsal to think that they were entitled to land or anything, and of course nothing happened, see he was a big war cheerleader.

Helen Thomas says something far less abrasive and 100 percent TRUE!!! And gets trashed for it. The Professional Right had it out for her for 40 years and they got their scalp. So what.

Aw , geez . Make it to 90 and you get a pass .
What the heck . – Vague enough ?

I think you can criticize Israel and NOT be antisemitic. You can criticize the the seat of any religion if you criticize the government and not the religion. This is America and we tolerate such things…. for everything except the meat industry. Just ask Oprah.

Bravo Helen…she has the courage to speak her mind…..why are people branded as anti-semites if they criticize Israel? What “Baloney”! I will always respect Helen Thomas no matter how much people try to blacken her name. She has always been the most honest and outspoken journalist in that snake-pit called the White House.
Yeah….this is America and I beleive we still have a little freedom of speech left and not just if it’s politically correct!! I’m tired of the media branding people as Nazis or anti-semites if they dare say anything even mildly critical of Israel….I’d like someone to answer this question.

JimBob said:
I always get Helen and Rachel Maddow mixed up,They could be brothers.LEAN FORWARD!!!!!!

Helen: “Let’s be frank with one another.”

Madcow: “OK, you be Frank tonight, and I’ll be Frank tomorrow night.”

Actually, the appearance-challenged Helen Thomas was NEVER about objective journalism; her work ALWAYS had a liberal slant. She even went so far as to say she thought ALL reporters should be liberals. This is why I never liked the woman.

Face it, she’s right.

JimBob said:
I always get Helen and Rachel Maddow mixed up,
They could be brothers.
LEAN FORWARD!!!!!!

“Jim Bob.” What class. I love when some asshole wants to use some hillbilly name out of irony, but the irony gets lost when he turns out to be a real hillbilly.

Trailblazer? Are people so ignorant they don’t know there were women reporters before 1961? Ever hear of Nellie Bly or Ida Tarbell?
Btt ,If Helen Thomas wiped her butt with the US Constitution, she would’ve been showered with Pulitzers and accolades. One (personal) word against Israel and she’s gone. You tell me whos’s running things?

Alric_IV said:
“Jim Bob.” What class. I love when some asshole wants to use some hillbilly name out of irony, but the irony gets lost when he turns out to be a real hillbilly.

: )

TfT said:
To wit: “The interview also covered other topics, such as Thomas’s thoughts on Christine O’Donnell (“Frightening”) and Sarah Palin (whose hypothetical presidency would be “a tragedy, a national tragedy”).”

Good for Thomas.. She nailed that right on. The sooner those nutcases get voted out for good, the better.

Helen is correct. If you have an informed opinion that is not lock-step with the pro-Israel tsunami in this country you are accused as anti-semetic. It is okay to bash catholics I have noticed. The Jewish block dominates politically and economically.

Helen is right. Israel “claims” to be a “democracy”, Israel is a country. Israel has a government. When Israel makes errors it is our responsibility to shout it out ! Helen said nothing about Jews. Israel the government is causing death and destruction and should be shouted out our !.

Either you people who are defending Thomas’ remarks havan’t actually listened to them or you’re simply too stupid to understand them. She didn’t merely critcize Israel, she was telling the Jews to go back to Poland & Germany – where 8 million of them were tortured & ultimately exterminated. Truly, the depth of your aggregate stupidity is beyond the pale. I would guess the total IQ of you all doesn’t exceed 50.

oh flipalka, is Poland and Germany a dangerous place for Jews now?

sasha said:
Bravo Helen…she has the courage to speak her mind…..why are people branded as anti-semites if they criticize Israel?

Same reason people are banded racist for criticizing Obama.

All anti-Semites have an explanation or a justification. Now they also include in their hate package the Israelis: there is no proof that they killed Jesus but they are torturing the poor and helpless Arab Muslims a.k.a. “Palestinians”.

The fact that anti-Semitism is a Christian illness is understandable, mainly because Jews refused to follow Jesus, the pious and observant Jew, and insisted in preserving their ancestors’ faith. Thanks Allah for Muslims providing some well deserved relief to their Christian brethren in the area of anti-Semitism, all the while killing Christian wherever they can and with plenty of gusto.

As far as Helen Thomas is concerned – please excuse her. Just looking at her face is more than enough to make one feel nauseated. Her ideas don’t come across much better either. I think that not even a gallon of Botox will improve the picture, so sorry. So let’s forget her.

Hey lady, Jews didn’t come from Europa, if you want to send them back somewhere pick the right place. Egypt, where they escaped from?

Helen Thomas is one of the most professional journalist in America.  Ms. Thomas used her First Amendment freedoms to express her honest opinion, one shared by many.  Any insidious ingrate in this country who is too fragile for our cherished First Amendment freedoms for which many brave people, including mine, excluding Jews, fought, sacrificed and died, should find another country.  Bon Voyage.

Helen Thomas is in good company.  Shakespeare, Dickens, T.S. Eliot and many more great people are called anti-Semitic. Europeans killed Jews and were responsible for the Holocaust, not the Palestinians! European Jewish refugees went to Palestine, took homes and land that belong to the Palestinians making the Palestinians refugees.  Jews are to the Palestinians what Hitler was to them? Are Jews any less evil? Jews owned 7% of Palestine at this time. The oppressed have now become the oppressor!Following the exploits of Rupert Murdoch makes us acutely aware that America needs good journalist like Helen Thomas.  ’Lazy journalism’  has become the norm.I am thinking about starting my own blog and if I do, Helen Thomas will be my first choice as a journalist.  My blog would only contain cerebral, factual, informed thoughts and opinions and Helen Thomas’ wisdom would be an asset!