Phew… and here I was worried the left would lose something (in this case Thomas), and not have anyone to attack for it.

It seems that the left has more or less made the post-mortem kamikaze attack a constant. IOW, if you take down someone for the left (or in some way attack the left), be prepared to have YOUR face plastered all over everything too. Think Joe The Plumber after his Obama question… Glenn Beck after Van Jones… The ACORN videos… anytime you see a negative story about Planned Parenthood… and so on.

I guess the real message is, if you plan on criticizing someone on the left, and by chance your attack makes it through the static… well, your hands better be 100% squeaky clean.

Ah, no.

The real lesson here is that if you’re going to criticize another individual for something they’ve said or done, then you too better be open for criticism for your poor actions/choice of words.

Shawn Soya says:
June 7, 2010 at 10:18 pm

You don’t see a difference between some guy with a flip camera… and a long standing member of the WH Press Corps?

The effort to slime Helen Thomas was nothing more than anti-Arab bigotry in action and a way for Israel’s fanboys to distract attention from Gaza, so I’m not terribly surprised that the stooge who hawked the video is himself a racist fucktard.

Here’s a hint: Most Mexicans don’t sound like Cheech Marin. Even fewer sound like a racist fucktard doing a very bad impression of Cheech Marin.

Fox gave this guy a platform for the Rabbi to call out the President and invite him to go to Israel with him.

It is nice to know who this guy really is before we take him serious on anything.

All he is is a guy with a camera who happened to be at the right place at the right time. When he goes on TV and acts like he is some kind of hero or a advocate for peace, he becomes free game. He did his damage, now he should move on unless he wants to feel what it really means to be in the spot light. If he’s not smart, FOX will use him up and spit him out like they did with Plumber Joe, “Pimp” Okeefe, and Drop out Palin.

I wanted so hard to laff at this but my higher then pre school intellect held me back….

Jelperman says:
June 7, 2010 at 10:44 pm

Just an observation, but you know, anyone that has to use the word “fucktard” as a part of a debate, is not equipped for the debate.

Only a fucktard cares more about style than substance.

Oh that’s going to leave a mark….LOL

tickleddragon says:
June 7, 2010 at 11:06 pm

Jelp is someone not even worth talking to. Really really crazy stuff.

“To be clear, there is no comparison to the following failed attempt at comedy and the comments made by Helen Thomas”

Wait, I’m sorry, but that’s wrong. The whole point of the immigration debate is that immigrants are using American tax dollars to pay for education, health care, etc. I have not once heard Mediaite bring up how much American tax payers spend on the Israeli military.

Gimme a break.

Am I the only one wondering wtf a Rabbi is doing associating himself with anything like this? Imagine if it was a catholic priest, people would be calling for his head on a stick.

Or maybe his head on a schtick…

I was born an Americian Jewish Mohawk (Schmohawk) in 1949 and….I really do not understand why what Helen Thomas said about Israel is not just an opinion? And potentiall somewhat of a valid opinion since nothing has changed since 1949 over there!

I think the Israelis should stop the apartheid and go back to where they came from if they won’t!. She did not say what is being reported today that she said! She did not say they should “go back to the Holocaust”! Which is what is being reported on CNN!!! She is 89 years old and she is still not entitled to her opinion however it may offend ANY community!!!??? Maybe at 89 she is tired of the constant bull crap Isreal is perpetrating on the rest of the middle east trying to justify a poor choice that was made by the international community to get Jews out of harms way but they did not intend for Isreal to turn into a monsterous bully terrorizing the entire middle East! There are many Isrealis and others in the world and in the area who want peace! But not the US THE ISREALI GOVERNMENT OR THE OIL COMPANIES! Without Isreal to “defend” the west would have no frickin excuse to be over there at all!

I am sorry I do not agree that the Jewish holocaust was the only holocaust and the ones that have gone on since have been diminished by the demand of those who lived through the one of the 1940′s is the only time we as a species have behaved so badly. We also murdered most of the 500, 000, 000 first nations people here and I don’t see any governments anywhere standing up and saying to the US and Canada to stop decimating those populations! WHy Isreal????

What Israel has been doing since is apartheid and that can shortly amount to a holocaust. Just because a person was assaulted and their family was murdered does not mean that they are the only persons who have ever suffered and that we must all regard that suffering as only theirs and the only suffering!

The second world war and the murder of many many Jews and Gypsies and Ukrainians and many other people was a bad deal for the planets people. We should never do that again but Helen Thomas having the opinion that Israel is out of control and the oppressor is not out of line They should get out of Palestine and stop making war on their neighbors. If they are serious about remembering then they need to remember what happened to them and do not do that to others!

AND we can all apparently say any terrible thing we want about women and no one get fired or forced to retire!

All of these calls for “they should go back to where they came from!” If everyone went back to where they came from wouldn’t we all be living in the Great Rift Valley in Africa?

As to your call for Isreal to stop making war on their neighbors, how many times did those neighbors attack Isreal, since and including 1948, with the express purpose of wipping Isleal off the map. How do you negotiate with an enemy when you want to be left alone and they want to kill you. Do you offer to let them critically wound you as a compromise?

EXACTLY! See what I mean there are so many realities!!!! How can there be any?

We have no idea what to do None of us anywhere so dumping on some old woman who had an opion that isn’t even real or sensible only really opens another conversation not another rift…..We are supposed to be going forward…….sometimes that means all kids of ideas need to foment to the surface so they can be discoursed!

Yes the outside has been attacking the inside and the inside has been attacking the outside! Yes we would all have to go back to Africa! And for sure someone had to get those people out of Europe and they had to go somewhere….And by the time the got there they were in such deep shock and fear that we are still feeling the panic and anxiety that is caused when we take any Post tramautic stress survivor out into the world but we have to help them to come to some newness over there and if there is an opinion now and then that sounds radically backward I say then people around us are feeling frustrated and frightended and pressured by an untenable situation so we should all chillax and try to get along and figure it out. This is 2010 and our neighbours problems are our. It is not like back in the day when you got the news the war was on and that people were being sent to concentration camps in the paper and on the radio or by word of mouth or in some distant way. I am seeing the death and destruction and it is in my world everyday and opinions bring me tons of information about how people are thinking. I woud far rather hear that idea and chose to dismiss it then to never realize people are thinking along those lines.

And again I have to say Women are the most oppressed people on the planet historically and today and yet we have no problem accepting any type of sexist slur in all of our media and I say hate crime laws and ideals should apply accross the board. CNN did a recent study with little kids to see if racism still exists. I will not discuss the flaws in that study but to be sure they did not ask little kids who should be driving when Daddy and Mommy are in the car and whose job are the dishes and the laundry? It would be shameful that’s why and it would show the men and women of today to be completely unequal in the eyes of our children but we will not fire the people who perpetuate those lies!

Actually I am wrong Children are and always have been the most oppressed people on this planet and always have been and they should be the ones we care most about and for. If we focused our energy on making a better planet for them together we could never allow the oppression of their parents anywhere.

Redistribution of wealth is the only way to even things out. The rich have way too much power and I can prove it because I live in downtown Toronto and the rich are coming to my town and you can feel the fear!

Seems that Gnome Alice is deranged.

Jelperman says:
June 7, 2010 at 10:44 pm

The effort to slime Helen Thomas”

She did that quite well herself.

Joshua Stears says:
June 8, 2010 at 2:09 am

Am I the only one wondering wtf a Rabbi is doing associating himself with anything like this? Imagine if it was a catholic priest, people would be calling for his head on a stick.”

Oh, really. What about that dbag priest in Chicago who is a great fried of Rev. Wright?

lo, won’t be able to play the anti-Semite card here.

This would mess the gig up for fox. They want the next video on Helen, and hoping he would bring it to them first. Now lets see how that plays out.

Yeah, well, the world is only now really voicing a negative attitude to Israel and its behavior after the attack on the Gaza relief efforts. Originally, the whole decision to place Israel in another country’s sovereign territory was a mistake, but the Brits were leaving the middle East as Imperialists and this was their final indignity to the Palestinians.

So the issue of righteous Palestinian anger, and proper compensation, has never been addressed, and if only it could have been done with more sensitivity in the first place, it might have been OK. Over the years, the divisions have intensified, not healed. But the Brits have a history of displacing people, and the world bears the consequences long-term.

The Irish issues are a result of exactly the same behavior: the British displaced Irish people frome their land, and gave it to Scottish settlers. The settlers were Protestant, the Irish were Catholic, but the real deal there is about displacement and land ownership. In Ireland, we see today continuing terrorist behavior, and until there is a recipe to resolve this feuding mentality, the problems will continue.

Helen Thomas was expressing grandmotherly impatience at Israeli behavior and disrespect towards Palestine. I don’t think Palestine is blameless, but for Israel to deny them medical supplies and essentials is really going too far, and only deepens the hatred.

Rabbi Nesenoff wears priest’s clothing to stereotypically mock Mexicans, identifying himself as Father Julio Ramirez in the video. Will he apologize to the ethnic and religious groups that he offends?

@ JAO: Thanks! You beat me to this comment. Just finished watching/;listening to the the video and I was going to ask if I was the only one who caught that he calls himself “Father” and is wearing a priest’s collar, thus adding another level to his mockery. But, he’s even more of an equal-opportunity offender than that: Listen carefully—I think he sometimes breaks into intonations/pronunciations that sound exaggeratedly African-American. He is a piece of work, isn’t he? And, no, it’s not the least bit funny.

I think the Rabbi’s a douche. And that he “should be kicked in the balls”…

What do you guys think about this article…

http://www.entertainmedaily.com/2010/06/helen-thomas-deserves-a-punch-in-the-face-but-rabbi-david-nesenoff-should-be-kicked-in-the-balls/

It’s hilarious, yet surprisingly accurate.

Colby, I can’t wait for your humiliating viral video moment. Believe me, it will come unless you and your kind stop playing this gotcha game. We all know how debauched you media types are.

David Shuster went after Joe the Plumber and James O’Keefe and has since destroyed his career. How much time does your reputation have left? Tick Tock.

I am missing something.

Helen Thomas delivers a moronic, hate-filled, anti-semitic rant.

The fact that the Rabbi may have done something wrong lets Helen off the hook…? Why? How?

I seems like whatever the Rabbi may have done, Helen is still a hate-filled hag. The Rabbi’s spoof affects Helen’s words not at all.

“Hate filled bag”? What do you call imposing a blocade on the Palestinian people of soda and breakfast cereal? Not to mention a concrete and barbed wire fence encroaching on land not captured in the 1967 War that the US funded and supplied to the European Jews transported to the middle east which is in Asia. The Gaza strip residents are not permitted to fish in the Mediterrean because they are prevented by the Israeli Navy, can’t rebuild the airport because cement is prohibited, and can’t rebuild the port because wood is forbidden to be imported. God bless Helen Thomas for speaking the truth.

Hi Alice:
You sound like a self hating Jew.I have three questions for you:
 Please explain why you hate your heritage and the Jewish people.Why are you trying to identify with the enemies of your people? 
What do you think your Jewish grandparents would have said about your anti Semitic views?