I love the defenses of Thomas. There’s the, “That’s not what she meant,” defense… even when it’s clear, yes, that’s what she meant. There’s the complete deflection to something else (like whether or not Semite and anti-Semite mean what people think they mean… or in this case, the irrelevant “Palin is dumb” comments).

But the best defense is the, “Let’s give her a pass because she was really rude to President Bush for 8 years.” That one is my favorite. It seems to say, “Yeah, we know what she said was really bigoted… but she did something we liked before, so let’s just ignore it now.” HA!

Let’s see how many excuses we get. Here we go…

As the saying goes, “Only a born Jew knows how to be a real anti-Semite.”

But that saying can now be “Only a liberal knows how to be a real anti-Semite.”

What Helen really meant to say was “go back to Auschwitz and Dachau”.

ImNotBlue says:
June 6, 2010 at 12:05 pm

There’s also the full blown BS reporting:

Sam Stein at Huffington Post tries to justify her comments, apparently, writing:

Thomas would apologize in a written statement, saying she deeply regretted the comments — which were offered in response to the killing of pro-Palestinian activists by Israel forces and came, ironically, during the White House’s Jewish Heritage Celebration.

That is not true. The Israeli flotilla incident occurred on May 30/31. The Jewish Heritage Celebration Day was on May 27.

He has since changed it, but not before I left comments and tweets about it, and grabbed a screen cap. He pulled that fake cover story completely out of the air. The flotilla incident had nothing to do with her remarks.

“Thomas made headlines the other day after she told Rabbi David Nessenoff of Rabbilive.com that she thought the Jews should ‘go home,’ and then further defined ‘home’ as Germany and Poland”

“Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. These people are occupied. It’s not their home.” to be more accurate….

Remember Michael Richards (Seinfeld’s Kramer) making a racist rant in his comedy act? Richards apologized too (probably more sincerely than Thomas did). Yet he has disappeared from public view.

It is time for Helen Thomas to follow his path.

Sarah Palin is dumb ass. Does anyone really think she could win any election? How come she’s not out there with her drill baby drill bullshit?

Ollie says:
June 6, 2010 at 12:29 pm

Remember Michael Richards”

His down fall was that he didn’t say his rant was “part of my act.”

He could have used the lib non-apology apology: “If some were offended by my act, I apologize. That was not my intent.”

But he did do the obligatory apology call to the racebaiters Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton .

Why hasn’t Palin responded to all of the clips of her speeches where she’s calling for deep water drilling after claiming she did no such thing? I guess Jake Tapper has his answer though on whether Palin has the gnads to come on his show? This ignorant, pathetic, harpy is too scared to go one on one with any real news org. She basically throws rocks from facebook and twitter and the press has not challenged her thus far. Instead, they keep reporting and printing her stupidity. Let’s see if that changes. She’s been calling them the lamestream media, which is very sophmoric but, so is she. While Thomas has apologized, I can’t wait to see if the press takes the bait and starts trashing Thomas or call Palin out for what she really is.

Eric says:
June 6, 2010 at 12:31 pm

Sarah Palin is dumb ass. Does anyone really think she could win any election? ”

Tell me, dumb ass, just which office is she currently running for, Einstein?

Eric says:
June 6, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Sarah Palin is dumb ass. Does anyone really think she could win any election?

How do you think she became mayor and governor?

roxsteady says:
June 6, 2010 at 12:35 pm

Why hasn’t Palin responded to all of the clips of her speeches where she’s calling for deep water drilling after claiming she did no such thing? ”

Hey, roxy, all off-shore drilling is deep water because fools like you won’t allow drilling on land or in shallow waters where it would be easier to stop spills like this.

Sarah Palin is in a bad state of delusion. Most of America just doesn’t give a rat’s ass what she thinks or says. Bet most of Alaskans are embarrassed that she was ever their governor, and grateful she decided to leave that office.

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 12:43 pm

Sarah Palin is in a bad state of delusion. Most of America just doesn’t give a rat’s ass what she thinks or says.”

Not so. Mediaite , Maher, KO, RM, HP, and Media Matters are obsessed with her.

Tyler, why don’t you get your facts straight. Drilling on land is as stupid as drilling 5,000 feet. If we only have 4% of the WORLD’S oil and we’re using 25%, it makes better sense to look for alternative energy. Stupid ass people on the right including a lot of the dumb asses in Louisiana who still want drilling are getting exactly what you’d expect. If the people of Louisana want to help with the clean up they can start by ridding themselves of that idiot Bobby Jindal and Mary Landrieu who are both oil company whores and apologists.

Those of you on the left, take your medicine like a grown-up. Helen Thomas tee’d it up and Palin hit it hard down the fairway. Your side gets it bone-ass wrong quite a bit, also. Point: Palin.

@Tyler
She’s pretending that she might run for president so all the morons in the USA like you will follow her every word. The truth is – she will never run for office because she’s a dumb ass that cannot even answer a question about what she reads.

Rox, I see you don’t want to address the topic at hand. Why is that?

This is example #42,453 of why Sarah Palin is not qualified for national office. Instead of trying to calm things down she’s using this controversy for her own personal gain.

Sure she has the right to comment on it. But she’s not interested in shedding light on the matter; she’s interested in generating more heat for her own career.

No, she’s not an evil monster as many on the left want to view her. But neither is she some sort of American Margaret Thatcher ready to lead.

She is what she is.

Oh, and Palin might be better served staying home and watching out for her children and stay away from real journalists who have more than a communications degree. It’s just so obvious that this woman is nothing but a coward. She quit her job to whore herself and her family for money and has the nerve to take shots at others? Yet, refuses to actually sit down and air her views with the same journalists that she trashes? This could only make sense to idiots who are impressed with her. When people say that she’s just like them, they aren’t kidding. She is just like them. Stupid, incompetent and shrill. At least you all have that in common.

Everyone knows Thomas f-ed up. 89 y/o will do that. Palin didn’t point out anything that any person with some brain cells that work know that. Are there really *that* many people defending Thomas?! Please give me the number of people who are? Vast majority? Hight doubt it.

Helen has been semi-out to lunch for years. She has been tolerated because she is old and somewhat of an institution. We tend to forgive old people when they still embrace antiquated or discriminatory notions. But how sad to see the usual suspects here turning that into the usual rants about liberals.

Helen began working for United Press International in 1943. Then in 2000, after UPI was purchased by Sun Myung Moon, the self appointed messiah of mankind, she refused to continue working for UPI and quit after 47 years. On the other hand, conservatives have continued to embrace the Moon organization’s Washington Times not withstanding the fact that Reverend Moon teaches that Jews suffered the holocaust because they killed Jesus 2000 years ago. Talk about hypocrisy, eh Tyler?

roxsteady calls others “shrill”. Now that’s hilarious. Thanks for the laugh!

Palin plays it safe. Doesn’t allow interviews that will legitimately challenge her. She hides behind FB, Twitter and Fox. She hides behind her high school banter of “lamestream” media name calling. Look at her behavior. Compare it to a teen in high school. They aren’t much different. She is a chicken and won’t dare to go into the realm of where grown-ups have real and substantive debates over the issues. She figuratively sticks her tongue out and hurls insults.
She can’t handle the big leagues.
If and when she ever finds the backbone to face challenges and questions from what she childishly has deemed the “lamestream media” I’ll watch. Until then, she just seems like an immature woman looking for attention, oh yea, and money.

I have to go now but, I want to know why Palin hasn’t trashed Glen Beck for pushing a book by a known Anti -Semite and Nazi sympathizer?

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006050001

How do you get around this one Sarah? Keep throwing rocks from facebook and twitter. It’s perfect for someone with the debating skills of a 2rd grader!

Exactly, valkyrie101. Helen Thomas should have been gone years ago, as well as Larry King.

Still, Rox won’t address the topic. What other conclusion can we draw than you agree with Helen.

ric says:
June 6, 2010 at 12:55 pm

@Tyler
She’s pretending that she might run for president so all the morons in the USA like you will follow her every word.”

Hey Eric, you are a loser. Go back to KO, you ahole!

She has been tolerated because she is old and somewhat of an institution. ”

No, she needs to be in an institution.

Hey rox..jealous much? you seem like a trashy ho-bagger. Can you see the Ghetto from your house?

Great Twitter post from Gorgeous Gov. Palin. The White House press corps is the most useless & ridiculous group of clowns in existence.

You’re all clearly flustered because as usual you don’t have the facts. There was nothing in my statement that said I agreed with what Thomas said. I simply stated the fact which was that Thomas apologized. As for where I live, it’s not in one of the teabagger states. In fact, I live in New Jersey, and what I see when I look out of my window is the World Financial Center. It used to be the World Trade Center. Got that yokels? I’m heading for brunch now but, like Palin, feel free to throw rocks at me instead of facts. It’s what you bumpkins do best.

“Helen Thomas does not speak for me, and she does not represent the White House press corps,” said McClatchy’s Steve Thomma. “It was an offensive comment. She was right to apologize for it.”

“Helen has been a columnist for about a decade now and her strong beliefs on the Middle East are well known,” said ABC News’ Ann Compton. “I think I saw that she regretted these remarks and realized they were hurtful and inappropriate. Ari Fleischer is a private citizen and certainly free to express his opinion that this was a firing offense even for an opinion columnist. I would agree with you that Helen enjoys a rather special status as the White House. But I think her employer will have to decide whether the comments went over the line.”

“This is disgusting stuff,” said one White House correspondent who knows both Thomas and Fleischer. “If anyone else said it, they would probably be fired. Ari has every right to be mad.”

Hearst, however, does not yet seem ready to part ways with Thomas. A spokesperson told POLITICO, “”We deeply regret Helen Thomas’ remarks, which in no way reflect the views of Hearst Newspapers or its employees. Helen has expressed her own profound regret over the incident.”

“Ms. Thomas’ comments were repugnant,” siad Ori Nir, a spokesperson for Americans for Peace told POLITICO. “She did the right thing by apologizing for making them. Whether she should end her relationship with Hearst over these comments is up to her and Hearst.”

As SarahInItaly points out below in the comments,”

Congrats Sarah!

Thanks ho-bagger…but brunch is a late breakfast or early lunch, hence the name, twit. Hope you choke on that mellon seed. Like I said, you can see the ghetto from your house. I live on the coast in Maine, not exactly a red state.

A lifetime of good work can be eradicate by one stupid statement. History is full of such examples. One such example is Geneal MacArthur. Like General MacArthur, Ms. Thomas needs to summon the good grace to fade away.

I’m sure Helen’s comments reflected quite accurately the feelings of Progressives and libs.

I’m still waiting for someone to point out who is “condoning” Thomas’ remarks as Palin suggested in her tweet? From what I see, Palin has it wrong. No one is “condoning” anything.

I think you are right Tyler, which is why you see people like Rox totally changing the subject.

“You’re all clearly flustered because as usual you don’t have the facts. There was nothing in my statement that said I agreed with what Thomas said. I simply stated the fact which was that Thomas apologized. As for where I live, it’s not in one of the teabagger states. In fact, I live in New Jersey, and what I see when I look out of my window is the World Financial Center. ” A sentence that demonstrates that the toxic waste dump west of the Hudson constantly derided on SNL produces brain death. Gov. Christie is a teabagger governor, Roxinthehead, and you are a fossil raving about fossil fuels.

“Tyler, why don’t you get your facts straight. Drilling on land is as stupid as drilling 5,000 feet. If we only have 4% of the WORLD’S oil and we’re using 25%, it makes better sense to look for alternative energy.” Looks like Roxinthehead is choosing its own facts, since where BP is drilling is the massive salt dome areas under the G. of Mexico that may contain up to 10% of the world’s recoverable crude, albeit at depths requiring high tech beyond Roxinthehead’s ability to understand.

I do tend to agree that the White House Press Corps is ridiculous. It late W skate for eight (8) long years, and it seems to be letting President Obama get by too easily. A perfect example of the silliness is the Press Corps dinner. You’ll recall the utter fool W made of himself over the WMD sketch, and he fool Rove made of himself. I can’t say that anything much has changed. We need a more adversarial nature.

Tyler, show me where anyone is condoning Thomas’ remarks. Palin used the word “condone”. I want facts, not assumptions.

And, the proof you offer, Tyler and Michelle is what? Yet another shrill screed?

Being hideously ugly AND a bigot is quite an accomplishment. No wonder DRUDGE is trumpeting that photo of Thomas and Obama together in a warm embrace. Thomas may have just uttered her words 48 hours ago, but they’ve been inside her for a lifetime. Nature will thankfully do its job and before long someone else will be sitting in ‘her’ cherished seat. And looking up at someone else at the podium, too.

Facts suck for the liberals.
Back in the 30′s and 40′s the main media had a love affair with Hitler and pushed his agenda in Germany.
The Nazis back then were the big government party that wanted to take over private business and get citizens dependent on government.
The Nazi Party embraced the Arabs and Persians (Iran) but hated the Jews.
They criticized free speech and any group that didn’t agree with there movement.

Sounds like History is repeating itself!
Helen is just saying it out loud!

Tyler:”I’m sure Helen’s comments reflected quite accurately the feelings of Progressives and libs.”
MichelleF: “I think you are right Tyler, which is why you see people like Rox totally changing the subject.”

Tyler uses “I’m sure”; Michelle uses “I think”.
Show me factual evidence that back up “I’m sure” and “I think” that Thomas’ “press pals” are condoning her remarks.

Why are either of you ignoring this part of the debate? You claim “Rox” is changing the subject. Looks lik you two are by focusing on Rox instead of the issue at hand. Who is condoning Thomas’ remarks as suggested by Palin’s tweet?

Angel, if you can’t bring yourself to condemn it, I have no choice but to make my own assumptions. I don’t really care if you don’t like it.

Rox, you should have learned by now no one cares what you say. Come to think of it, you and Helen Thomas are a lot alike.

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 1:48 pm

I’m still waiting for someone to point out who is “condoning” Thomas’ remarks as Palin suggested in her tweet? From what I see, Palin has it wrong. No one is “condoning” anything.”

Go to HP: You hang out of progressives and liberals!

“Helen I am with you! Too bad you had to apologize for having said what probably most of us in this web page believe. Israel has caused nothing but trouble ever since they became an estate. ”

“I am glad she said it. It shows that we are sickened and tired of this Mid East situation and had enough of Israel’s bullish behaviour. ”

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with Helen Thomas or what she said. The people and defenders of Israel are over the top in accusing anyone who so much as criticizes it in any way Jew haters…despite how deserved the criticism is.”

” helen thomas!! a true patriot – sez it like it is!! ”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/ari-fleischer-fire-helen-thomas_n_601565.html

trrk..just look at coverage the “floatilla” incident has gotten in the world press. Where is the outrage over the sinking of the Korean ship? That’s what she means by condone! You know that, like anyone is going to come out and actually speak the words. It’s like the chears inside the U.N. when the towers went down, they approve of what she said but they don’t have the balls to say it….liberalism defined

Palin was wrong in her tweet. No one condoned it. You can assume anything you like of course, as can Palin. But she was wrong. No one condoned it. No one.

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:01 pm

Palin was wrong in her tweet. No one condoned it. You can assume anything you like of course, as can Palin. But she was wrong. No one condoned it. No one.”

I just proved your progressive friends at HP are CONDONING IT as we speak.

Oil is messy. Let’s look for an alternative. And people living before 1903 said that horses were messy. Let’s look for an alternative. So someone living in 1800, for example, would’ve been in for a long wait. The left seems to argue that since oil is messy, then looking for more of it anywhere, whether out to sea or on land, is evil. We should just wait till something cleaner comes along. Unless you’re riding a horse or a bicycle to work tomorrow, you’re being a hypocrite.

Tyler I apologize. I was referring to Palin’s tweet that was referring to her comment about Thomas’ “press pals” condoning her racist remarks.

Point me to evidence that Palin’s tweet is factually accurate. That Thomas’ “press pals” were “condoning” her racist remarks.

Let’s not change the subject from Palin’s tweet. Let’s stay on topic. Palin’s tweet. Thanks

This is stupid. You have the biggest dumbest bimbo ever to appear in politics that keeps making comments about people and tries to stir up hatred everyday, calling out a journalist who has covered Presidents for over 60 years. Look in the fucking mirror bitch. Yes Sarah Im talking to you. You are not qualified to say anything about anyone let alone a reporter that has more smarts then anyone reporting today. Instead of attacking Helen, ask her exactly what she meant and the reason for the comment. I have no doubt she will answer the questions. You people here have zero respect for people who are a very big part of history. Are you people in 3rd grade or something?? How old are you idiots?? You all sound like kids. Use your heads morons. Israel is not a saint. The government there is no different then any other government. Sometimes you get war criminals like Bush/Cheney running the show and sometimes you get good honest people running the show. BiBi Jackoffyahoo is a war monger. He is the problem right now. So, Sarah, (Kate Goslin) shut the fuck up!!

Tyler. I’m a progressive? You sure? If you are that quick to react and make a false assumption, (Im not, not by a long shot, BTW).

Why the quick knee-jerk reactions? Isn’t wiser to gather factual information and then make a conclusion.
Palin’s tweet was wrong. Thomas’ “press pals” were not condoning her remarks. You can see that, can’t you?

AngelPeters,

Definitions of condone on the Web:

excuse: excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; “excuse someone’s behavior”; “She condoned her husband’s occasional infidelities”
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Using the lefts own favorite tactic when chastising conservatives, If you don’t denounce it, that automatically means you condone it.

Tyler, why don’t you get your facts straight. Drilling on land is as stupid as drilling 5,000 feet. ”

No way. They could have drilled in ANWAR years ago and it would be on line by now. And solar and wind? When and at what cost?

U.S. Department of Interior – 1987. The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), in its April, 1987 report on the oil and gas potential of the Coastal Plain, estimated that there are billions of barrels of oil to be discovered in the ANWAR area. DOI estimates that “in-place resources” range from 4.8 billion to 29.4 billion barrels of oil. Recoverable oil estimates ranges from 600 million barrels at the low end to 9.2 billion barrels at the high end. They also reported identifying 26 separate oil and gas prospects in the Coastal Plain that could each contain “super giant” fields (500 million barrels or more).”

And clean up on land is as hard as it is 5000 ft under the ocean? You got to get into reality.

And Ethanol? What a joke that was.

Please. The mainstream media isn’t ignoring this as part of some nefarious left wing plot, it just reflects the reality that what Helen Thomas says just isn’t that important or newsworthy (beyond hack sites like this one). Now she should lose her prime White House spot and fade into complete obscurity where she belongs.

I should have noted that the oil topic was in response to rox saying we should look for alternative energy. As for Helen’s remarks, it doesn’t matter if her fellow press members condoned her remarks or not. Her ‘question’ was more of a statement, automatically assigning blame before all the facts were in. Not a good journalistic practice.

It’s unfortunate that unsophisticated news consumers like Real Royal King don’t understand that much of the vital new gathering process is one that takes place outside the sturm-und-drang type give-and-take between the White House press corps and the President’s spokesman or woman. As we know and as history shows, very few (if any) major news or news stories are broken covering the White House.

Helen Thomas has never broken any major or even minor stories in her career. That’s because she was situated within the eye of the storm and was incapable (or unwilling) to go outside that center and develop sources throughout the government. The major stories that have been broken occur when reporters go outside of the inner sanctum of the President’s office.

As long as unsophisticated news consumers like Real Royal King exist, we just won’t have the type of press corps that we need.

Perhaps with the firing of Ms. Thomas, the Real Royal King types will go as well.

I love that the mere mention of her name send the leftists into a tizzy. Love her or hate her, she couldnt have been any worse than what we got. Hope and change……….

Helen should have left long ago, IMO. I do fault her “press pals” and others for allowing her continue on as long as she has. Somtimes it’s the adult children who have to take away the keys from Mom and Dad when Mom and Dad shouldn’t be driving anymore.

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:10 pm

Tyler. I’m a progressive? You sure? If you are that quick to react and make a false assumption, (Im not, not by a long shot, BTW). ”

I just love how libs refuse to admit they are libs. Face the Nation was talking about this today. The legal correspondent was outraged that the BHO administration was denying Kagan was a liberal. The correspondent said the WH should proudly say she is a liberal.

Never heard of a moderate? Really? It would be really unfortunate if you see life in Red Vs Blue. There is plenty of us Purple out there. Are you aware of this reality?

I am as pro-Israel as anyone posting here or in this nation. I think Israel is a great nation, and I praise Judaism and I hate anti-Semitism with a passion. I’m reading a book about the Holocaust right now, actually, and note the parallels of then with now with great trepidation. That said – Sarah Palin criticizes Helen Thomas? History repeats, but I don’t recall Goebbels criticizing Streicher. Palin is stupid without equal.

So Tyler, back to the topic at hand. Palin’s tweet. That Thomas’ “press pals” are condoning her racist remarks.

BTW, Angel, why, oh why, doesn’t Media Matters or the Dailykos have a post on Helen? Their silence sounds like they are condoning Helen’s remarks.

And the lie HP posted that sarah found?

Side note: As SarahInItaly points out below in the comments, Thomas made these remarks while attending the American Jewish Heritage Celebration Day at the White House, which took place on May 27. The flotilla incident, meanwhile, occurred on May 31. Meaning, Thomas’ remarks were a stand-alone statement (at a Jewish festivity at the White House, no less) and not a response to the flotilla incident.

But the HP said this:

Sam Stein at Huffington Post tries to justify her comments, apparently, writing:

Thomas would apologize in a written statement, saying she deeply regretted the comments — which were offered in response to the killing of pro-Palestinian activists by Israel forces and came, ironically, during the White House’s Jewish Heritage Celebration.”

Nice excuse for Helen, eh?

DailyKos did.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/5/873175/-Helen-Thomas-issues-apology

You are right, there is nothing on Media Matters as far as I can find.

Any other “press pals” you want to talk about? How about the WH press corps as was the title of this thread.

Angel,
Can you point me to where any of the libs in the mainsteam media have reprimanded her for her statements? I’ve searched and can’t find anything of the sort.

The mainstream media isn’t ignoring this as part of some nefarious left wing plot, it just reflects the reality that what Helen Thomas says just isn’t that important or newsworthy (beyond hack sites like this one).”

A national WH correspondent saying Jews should go back to Germany and Poland where they were slaughtered 60 years ago is not as important as Don Imus calling some women “nappy headed hoes?

Really Dan Abrams? Really?

Wasn’t Bill Adkins comment odd? He starts out saying how he hates anti-semitism, then goes on to defend Thomas and slam Palin. Bill, are you even aware of the topic?

I dedicate this song to Helen Thomas. Spread it around. LOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg

Feel free to check out some of Helen’s greatest hits.

Funny how only now, when she’s started embarrassing the Obama whitehouse that libs think she should be put out to pasture.

Long List of Liberal Eruptions from Media’s Mount St. Helen

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2010/06/06/long-list-liberal-eruptions-medias-mount-st-helen#ixzz0q6DGJ8pM

ps: For Shared Birthday, Obama Brings Cupcakes to Helen Thomas

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/08/04/obama_visits_white_house_press.html

> Now she should lose her prime White House spot and fade into complete obscurity where she belongs.

Awfully harsh, Dan. Is there anything you know about her that we don’t? She’s the the most senior White House reporter. I think she deserves a front row seat, regardless of her opinion.

TylerDurden says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:31 pm
The mainstream media isn’t ignoring this as part of some nefarious left wing plot, it just reflects the reality that what Helen Thomas says just isn’t that important or newsworthy (beyond hack sites like this one).”

A national WH correspondent saying Jews should go back to Germany and Poland where they were slaughtered 60 years ago is not as important as Don Imus calling some women “nappy headed hoes?

Really Dan Abrams? Really?

Tyler,
Dan only thinks it’s newsworthy if a conservative says something stupid, no matter how insignificant they are.

Sure can,Michelle. Hang on. :)

My hunch is that if Ms. Thomas was known for having conservative views that Mr. Abram’s colleagues at MSNBC would be giving this hot and heavy coverage. Olbermann? Maddow? Schultz? Anyone care to disagree?

Sure, it’s not a major story and I don’t see any conspiracy here. It’s more like the press protecting one of their own more than any sympathy towards her views.

@tylerdurden you seem to confuse what they said with who said it. I am saying that whatever she says, no matter how horrible, is not particularly newsworthy for the mainstream media. For better or worse,, a lot more people care what Don imus says than Helen Thomas. He has a huge following she has. . well. . . a few people like us who follow what she says. This story was covered in the places you would expect Howard Kurtz’s CNN show, this site mediabistro and other places that cover about the media but not so much the mainstream media because she is not of great interest to most Americans.

Oh, Angel, here is how the Dailykos ended its article on Helen’s comments.

“That being said, I believe all of us have made statements we have later, upon reflection, come to regret. I believe we should be charitable towards people, generally, when they say things that are ridiculous. Especially when they are elderly folk. It was how I was raised. After you’ve put in a lifetime of work and family rearing, I think it’s okay to become shall we say… blunt about your opinions.”

You see, it was her age that caused her outburst.

Maybe it’s like at the Oscars. At her age, they’re giving Helen a pass for still being alive.

Joe Klien
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06/06/helen-thomas-go-to-the-back-of-the-room/

Exactly Steve. Everything Rush, Palin, or Beck says is scrutinized, but their counterparts Schultz, Mike Malloy, etc. have said some of the most hateful, outrageous things, but they don’t find those “newsworthy”. Go figure.

is that it, Angel? Anything from Couric, Williams, or the other bigwigs int he industry?

“writer says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Wasn’t Bill Adkins comment odd? He starts out saying how he hates anti-semitism, then goes on to defend Thomas and slam Palin. Bill, are you even aware of the topic?”

Your reading comprehension skills are on display, writer. How sad. Let me show you again. “I am as pro-Israel as anyone posting here or in this nation. I think Israel is a great nation, and I praise Judaism and I hate anti-Semitism with a passion. I’m reading a book about the Holocaust right now, actually, and note the parallels of then with now with great trepidation. That said – Sarah Palin criticizes Helen Thomas? History repeats, but I don’t recall Goebbels criticizing Streicher. Palin is stupid without equal.” Note the ‘Goebbels criticizing Streicher” reference — that’s Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, and Julius Streicher, publisher/editor of ‘Der Sturmer,’ a party propaganda outlet from the early days forward. Now, if you could comprehend, I was comparing Thomas and Palin to Goebbels and Streicher – not defending Thomas, but noting Palin’s shortcomings as well. A mind is a terrible thing to waste – but no danger here, you’ve nothing to squander.

Dan Abrams says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:41 pm

I think it is very newsworthy that the most senior WH correspondent makes such a statement in light of other statements she has made , like the “so called terrorists in Afghanistan” comment she made at BHO’s first press conference.

Yes, Dan is right. This was covered on Howie’s show “Reliable Sources”. Panel discussion, to boot. Not a one condoned her. There is great wisdom in reading and watching a variety of outlets to get a bigger and more accurate picture of any story.

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:43 pm

Joe Klien
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06/06/helen-thomas-go-to-the-back-of-the-room/”

Sorry Angel- He is not in the WH press corp.

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:50 pm

Yes, Dan is right. This was covered on Howie’s show “Reliable Sources”. Panel discussion, to boot. Not a one condoned her. There is great wisdom in reading and watching a variety of outlets to get a bigger and more accurate picture of any story.”

Were any in the WH press corp?

Bill, could you please explain how you linked Palin to the Nazis, when it was Thomas who made the remark questioning Israel’s methods? I know you get all hyper and just like to throw insults, but just once could you address the question before you get to that part? Thanks.

Round up the Jews and ship them out…Now, really, isn’t that kind of Hitler-ish?

Where is the outrage from those who scream “racist fascist Nazi’s” at conservatives for wanting to enforce the law, control the border and verify legal status in Arizona?

Instead of outrage towards Helen, we find excuses, cover-up, agreement or attacks on Palin….or all of the above.

I don’t care how old she is, or how many years she has served, hate is hate. She holds a coveted position that she doesn’t deserve. She has been injecting her anti-Israeli comments for years and they finally came to a head. “get the hell out!”

But yet… she remains. Go figure.

And Angel, I find it so funny that you are ashamed of being a lib. But you are not the first!

Oh common on, Michelle. Certainly you know that if Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, and Katie Couric are doing their journalistic jobs correctly, they shouldn’t be making any comments, should they?
What do you understand to be the job of a journalist, anyway. Not a columnist like Thomas, but a journalist.
Would it be proper? No. No more proper than if they were to condone it, either.
Journalists *should* report the facts. They should neither *condone* (as Palin suggested) or condemn (as other have).
Again, I’m of the Purple variety. Not the Blue or Red. ;)

Is’nt it time for a house to fall on Helen?

“Helen press pals condone racist rant?”

Note the question mark.

What does that mean? It means Palin is asking if, by their silence, they are condoning her remarks. Sounds like a perfectly legitimate question.

Confronting Racism: If You Don’t Speak Up, You’re Part of the Problem!

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:50 pm

Yes, Dan is right. This was covered on Howie’s show “Reliable Sources”. Panel discussion, to boot. Not a one condoned her. There is great wisdom in reading and watching a variety of outlets to get a bigger and more accurate picture of any story.”

It is great wisdom when asking others to name WH press corps members who condoned Helen’s remarks to cite WH press corps members who rejected them and not CNN talking heads.

AngelPeters says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Oh common on, Michelle. Certainly you know that if Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, and Katie Couric are doing their journalistic jobs correctly, they shouldn’t be making any comments, should they? Journalists *should* report the facts.

Are the reporting on Helen’s comments?

” writer says:
June 6, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Bill, could you please explain how you linked Palin to the Nazis, when it was Thomas who made the remark questioning Israel’s methods? I know you get all hyper and just like to throw insults, but just once could you address the question before you get to that part? Thanks.”

Any number of ways to link Palin and Thomas in their racism, writer. I could start with this: “Nixon aide Fred Malek’s role as what Democrats call a “Jew counter” for the disgraced President was already well known, and he has spent decades apologizing for activities that later cost him a Republican National Committee job in the 1980s.” Not surprisingly, “…he remains a prominent GOP powerbroker.” Then there’s this http://current.com/news-and-politics/89266118_palins-church-jews-deserve-terrorist-attacks.htm and this http://gawker.com/5441576/why-do-the-jews-hate-sarah-palin-so-much

But what I find about Palin that emulates the tactics of Nazis is her anti-immigrant stance http://www.google.com/search?q=palin+immigrants&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&rlz=1I7ADSA_en

I don’t expect you to follow all this, writer, I know your limitations. Mine is a historian’s perspective and comparisons to then and now. Santayana was right and I think with people like you around history is bound to repeat.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/04/2010-06-04_sarah_palin_aide_fred_malek_helped_former_president_richard_nixon_dump_jews_from.html

I’d just like to send my congrats to Jake Tapper and Ed Henry. Yesterday, while Mr. Henry was covering the VP event, Mr Tapper was busy responding to several on Twitter on this subject and how it’s his job to cover the White House and then at some point in the afternoon, Mr. Henry took up the gauntlet.

As they and others have said, it’s not their job to question, publicly condemn or condone for that matter, another reporter. Their union can certainly do it (the WHCA) and they can express their personal opinions, but a White House reporter’s beat is the White House and the President, not each other.

And before anyone tries to hit me because they may not feel such a separation should exist… I’m a voracious consumer of blogs and as a result, I was pretty well-versed in the whole ‘Jeff Gannon‘ matter and at no point, when Wonkette, Gawker and the other blogs were going at him and his credentials multiple times a day, do I recall any of the other White House correspondents being asked to weigh-in.

Billo, do you support the current Federal laws on illegal immigration?

I was pretty well-versed in the whole ‘Jeff Gannon‘ matter and at no point, when Wonkette, Gawker and the other blogs were going at him and his credentials multiple times a day, do I recall any of the other White House correspondents being asked to weigh-in.

Please. I’m sure you recognize the enormous difference between Jeff Gannon (whoever the heck he was) and the dean of the White House press corps?

My guess is that if you had asked the Press Corps about Jeff Gannon, they’d all say, “Who?”

Yeah, some critics of Ms. Thomas are going a bit overboard with this and these demands that reporters denounce her. But the comparison to a nobody like Gannon doesn’t hold much water.

If Mike Huckabee and other Biblical whacks want Jordan and Egypt to absorb the Palestinians, then certainly a counter position is that Germany should provide the land for a Jewish homeland, especially considering Germany is the reason why Israel exists today.

Bill Adkins:

http://current.com/news-and-politics/89266118_palins-church-jews-deserve-terrorist-attacks.htm ”

So having a “Jews for Jesus ” executive director speak is an attack on Jews?

There is nothing in her immigration beliefs that the majority of Americans disagree with.

And Malek? As the article says “recently released tapes “. How would she know what he did back in 1971?

Bill, in your diseased mind, being against people entering the country illegally equates with being anit-immigrant. They’re two separate things, but if you’re going to stay politically correct at all costs, then you must see it that way. I understand. As for bringing up Nixon, and blasting Palin when it was Thomas who made the anti-semitic remark, it’s just more of your left wing rambling.

@SteveMG: There was a huge controversy as to how he had gotten his credentials and whether he was a (Bush) White House plant put in place to lob softball questions, including one on a nationally televised, Presidential press conference.

At no point was anyone asked to condemn him, though I might recall Don Imus asking one of his guests about the subject, but it was well understood that a White House reporter’s job was to report about the White House and not each other.

Oh, and the matter was handled mostly through the WHCA and the “hack sites”, there may have been a few mentions on cable and Howie’s show, but it generally got the same treatment as the Helen Thomas comment, so if nothing else, I’d say that they’re consistent.

Oh, and Bill, did anyone in her church say this and did she stay in that church for 20 years?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5ixmT83JE

Truth?
$arah wouldn’t know TRUTH if it was water and she fell out of a boat.

@SteveMG: There was a huge controversy as to how he had gotten his credentials and whether he was a (Bush) White House plant put in place to lob softball questions, including one on a nationally televised, Presidential press conference.”

That’s funny. The WH press have been acting as plants since BHO ran for office and until just recently, they have been so now that he is in office.

Ding dong the witch is dead woohoo!

Working at Mediaite must be the easiest gig in the world. Just post round about a hundred words and let the wing nuts go at it. Abrams, or the webmaster here, is an absolute genius.

I’ve got an awesome ad-block program, but over a hundred comments on a Helen Thomas blurb is just pure awesomeness. I wonder how much the actual clicks for this pile of stink were.

To comment on the “topic”

Per a reality check, real politicos stay away from racism b/c, for example, any points liberals score they forfeit b/c they’re anti-Semite. Politically or otherwise, no one really wants to to know you support Hitler doctrine especially if you’re pretending to be (or have been brainwashed to believed) a democrat. Real Democrats died when Hilliary got crucified.

At no point was anyone asked to condemn him, though I might recall Don Imus asking one of his guests about the subject, but it was well understood that

Sorry, a nothing like Gannon is in no way comparable to a Helen Thomas.

All kinds of nuts from organizations get WH press passes. I’m sure you’ve heard of Les Kinsolving? He seems like a nice gentleman but he’s off-the-wall.

@ sarainitaly

“Side note: As SarahInItaly points out……..” Nice work !

I’m of two minds on this.

My assumption was that Helen Thomas was granted questions as a courtesy through these last few years.
Perhaps, the media has passed her by and at least two generations have adapted.

And that always is a sad time. And don’t pick on an old lady.

Of course, the other point is not so much what she stated, but when she stated it and the context.

In a nice way, it’s time for her to go. Both my parents are in their mid-80′s. They are wise, they have experience, but they haven’t a clue. They can’t hear well, they recount past experiences which are valuable, but it may not have any bearing on what is being discussed.

It will happen to us as well.

@SteveMG: I’m not trying to equate the Jeff Gannon and Helen Thomas situations as moral equivalents, I’m just saying that the last time there were industry and blog headlines about a member of the WH press corp, they were handled and covered in a similar manner.

Helen is something of a public figure because she’s been referenced in Johnny Carson monologues, Stephen Colbert rants and parodied on Saturday Night Live, but the majority of non-politically attuned, non-newsjunkys really know nothing about her and I’d prefer the matter was handled internally, in the blogs and the union, rather than having people I expect to be reporting on much weightier matters distracted by a Palin campaign.

What is that nit-wit (Plain of course) bitching about now? She has plenty of dumb, racists friends; Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity just to name a few. I mean, doesn’t she collect racists friends as a hobby?

By the way, who is writing her “tweets,” the family dog?

Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers says:
June 6, 2010 at 3:40 pm
If Mike Huckabee and other Biblical whacks want Jordan and Egypt to absorb the Palestinians, then certainly a counter position is that Germany should provide the land for a Jewish homeland, especially considering Germany is the reason why Israel exists today.

Gee, thanks for adding your “voice of reason”. Perhaps you’d prefer the ovens for them?

Let’s just sum it up, crazy old jew hater shoots off mouth. Liberal press colleagues pretty much ignore. Prominent conservative pundit comments on aforementioned old jew haters comments. Mediate tribe of liberal apologist commenters defends crazy old jew hater and demonizes the conservative pundit.

Pretty much standard operating procedure ’round these parts.

Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers says:
June 6, 2010 at 3:40 pm

John T. Brown you are the most stupid human being living on earth today.

Maybe someone else already said this, but just picture the outrage (selective) that would be coming from the left (hense the “selective outrage”) if Bill Oreilly said that?

BR says:
June 6, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Maybe someone else already said this, but just picture the outrage (selective) that would be coming from the left (hense the “selective outrage”) if Bill Oreilly said that?

Exactly! That is the point. It’s only news for Dan and his leftist buddies if a conservative says something stupid. Otherwise, we just pretend it didn’t happen. Sorry Dan, times they are a changin!

@timzank I think the press corps should always have a contrarion attitude, if nothing else, just to keep the elected administration’s press representatives on their toes.

Who asks the questions seems to be an issue…how and why are those questions being asked?

Does the individual have an agenda? Are they hired individually or are they staff?

Are they asking “Gotcha queries” or are they seriously interested in a follow up to their original query?

The big question has always been for me…if the “Media” doesn’t liked that they haven’t been scooped.

“The big question has always been for me…if the “Media” doesn’t liked that they haven’t been scooped” why don’t they deal with their own rather blame others?

Momentary connection lapse.

Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers says:
June 6, 2010 at 3:40 pm

If Mike Huckabee and other Biblical whacks want Jordan and Egypt to absorb the Palestinians, then certainly a counter position is that Germany should provide the land for a Jewish homeland, especially considering Germany is the reason why Israel exists today.”

Wrong, liberal breath. In 1947 the UN divided Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state9 later to be known as a Palestinian state) but guess who would not accept it? The Arabs and since then, the Arabs have done nothing but call for the destruction of Israel.

And don’t be so dome to call Palestine a Palestinian state because it is called Palestine. It has been called many things over the last 1200 years .

Sarah Palin, once again hits the nail spot on!!! Time for Helen Thomas to be turned out to pasture.

TylerDurden says:
June 6, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers says:
June 6, 2010 at 3:40 pm

If Mike Huckabee and other Biblical whacks want Jordan and Egypt to absorb the Palestinians, then certainly a counter position is that Germany should provide the land for a Jewish homeland, especially considering Germany is the reason why Israel exists today.”

Wrong, liberal breath. In 1947 the UN divided Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state9 later to be known as a Palestinian state) but guess who would not accept it? The Arabs and since then, the Arabs have done nothing but call for the destruction of Israel.

And don’t be so dome to call Palestine a Palestinian state because it is called Palestine. It has been called many things over the last 1200 years .

—

If there is an argument in there, Tyler, I can’t find it, unless you’re saying “Nanny, Nnny, Pooh-Pooh ….”

Robert = what is your fascination with Jeff Merrill and his horse. You claim he engages in intimate acts with Royal King, but you claim that you are the real royal king. Is Susan aware?

Is Thomas the first person in the press to ever show bigotry? One would guess so the way everyone is jumping out of their pants about this. I have not seen or heard one example of this idea of hers tainting her reporting. I’m not saying it doesn’t, but if it does, show me. If it does, then we have an argument. If it does not, then there is no argument. From a political standpoint, her remarks reek of Machiavellianism. While I do not agree with her opinion, she certainly has the right to hold that opinion and state it clearly when asked in any social situation. Does freedom of speech not apply to White House correspondents?

Pastol….” Does freedom of speech not apply to White House correspondents?”

Of course, as do the consequences. She is merely reaping the consequences, and rightly so.

@timzank: I know that I’m one of Gordon’s “loons”, but I don’t know whether I’m one of your “liberal apologist commenters”, nonetheless…

To clarify: I’m not expressing an opinion one way or the other concerning Ms. Thomas’ statement, what I was commenting about were those from Ms. Palin and the twitter reaction from her followers and two White House correspondents.

From what I can see, Governor Palin made two tweets on the subject and though she’s described Helen’s with a couple of unflattering adjectives, the takeaway is more of a misunderstanding of the White House press corp; As Tapper and Henry both said yesterday, it’s not their job to “call” a colleague about their views and by simply doing their job — which is to represent their employers, not the American people — they aren’t condoning anyone else.

I mean, if you’d want to take it someplace else… how is this different than a pundit or spokesperson asking a White House correspondent to condemn Fox News and because he doesn’t publicly disavow, should the White House assume that Major Garrett represents Glenn Beck?

…or that whomever was representing NBC at the time was in bed with Jeff Gannon?

It doesn’t surprise me one bit that Dan comes on to defend his counterparts in the media. Helen should be retired, she never issued an apology. The fact that her colleagues in the press corpse don’t openly condemn her is damning enough to them. They are quick to criticize any conservative, even make up stuff about them (like they did with Rush), but when it comes to one of their own….nada, zilch, zero, zip it. Typical.

Who really cares what either of them said one is near senility and the other is past it…you choose. The MILF from Alaska is past..ok?

The similarity between Helen Thomas and Robert Bovine The Real Royal King Stephenson is amazing. Put some more lipstick on him and you can’t tell the difference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEg_qLi0vaU

No Thomas is not the first to show bigotry…just go to FNC..Glenn…Brian Kilmeade has had a few…

So now Sarah Palin thinks she is in charge of the death panels???? Sarah Palin has made some awful dumb, racist comments–so has Beck and Limbaugh–but they were said in satire. Ari Fleischer and Lanny Davis have been White House spokesmen and they know Helen Thomas very well–and they offered their opinions of disgust about her comments. Sarah Palin isn’t Jewish and she doesn’t have a pony in the show—why should she think that she needs to parrot what has already been said? She is nothing more than an ambulance chaser–wanting to see her name in the news. Yesterday’s comment was about the death of the respected UCLA Coach, so Sarah wanted us to believe that she had close personal ties to him. She hires speech writers to peruse the news and see how she can tie her name to the current person who is newsworthy–like a blood sucker or parasite who wants to live through other people’s accomplishments. I do not like Helen Thomas’s bigotry–but she is 89 years old and still working; is not making divisive comments about someone every day, and she hasn’t quit a job and abandoned her responsibilities because she could get more money elsewhere. The Queen of Greed is really not any more popular in public opinion than Helen Thomas.

Strangely enough, I think I’m actually advocating old fogies opinions saying whatever they want to say. Maybe they earned the right to voice their opinion.

That’s how you learn. Thomas’ comments have made me think. I dis-agree with her but she was out their on the “point” when we were in diapers..

I dis-agree with her….but I have no real argument with how she asked her questions.

Nappy-Headed Helens: A Tale of Two Racial Slurs

http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/06/06/nappy-headed-helens-a-tale-of-two-racial-slurs/

@MichelleF: I’m not going to comment over there because I don’t want to register and again, I’m not saying one thing or the other about Helen’s comments and for the record, I used to watch Don every day and would still watch him, if he was on my dial, but the fellow on Breitbart’s analysis is way off-base.

!) Imus made the comments on television.

2) Imus wasn’t considered “not one of them” or a “country boy” by mainstream media. In fact, him being such an insider, so embraced, watched and well-liked by media and political figures actually became part of the controversy and a couple of news organizations took flak because their pundits were completely silent.

3) Rosie O’Donnell, Bill Maher and several people currently identified as “the left” spoke out on his behalf.

4) Though he had to change employers, Imus never really left the air for an extended period and his show is now on simulcast on Fox Business.

Let it go…we all learned a lesson.

“We” should pick and choose our words carefully.

Let it go.

Forty comments later I am still loving how the Hitler loving (yes, this is such a moment one can correctly use a Hitler comparison) Helen Thomas f-up is somehow Sarah Palin’s fault.

Got a problem with liberal doctrine?

Find a way to blame it on Sarah Palin.

Nice.

Helen Thomas hates Jews. End of story.

Forget your ideology for a moment and deal with it.

Actually, think hard on your ideology and wrap your mind around it.

Fuck Fox, NBC or whomever: think for yourself and ponder this.

Do Jews not matter so much at the ballot as blacks and Hispanics for the liberal saviors of humanity?

Does the average liberal voter even think of such things or do they simply fall in line and do as they are told?

Is a minority only worthy of support if they can produce enough votes to bring a progressive candidate to power?

Is John Edwards really not at fault for acting like a douche?

Are you sheep or Human?

Does part Goat count???

If Thomas were to slip and fall off of a second story balcony onto a cyclone fence which then ripped her open and her intestines spilled out onto her neighbors barbecue, and she was able to watch her guts burn as she takes her last few breaths, that wouldn’t bother me a bit.

Crude, hillbilly Repug Palin. What an insult to humanity. What a reflection upon GOPsterism itself. Yuk!

I see the Murcuhn Patriotic Repug Christians (lanqueer, et al) are out in Force here today. Speaking, screaming from their angry, bitter, personal Vomitoriums. Nothing changes. The Night Trains will soon be coming for them. First stop?? Stuttgart.

Washington Post has a blurb on a high school disinviting her. Still not a peep from the old retired gray lady.

Aren’t the right or should I say the “radical” right trying to run Muslims out of Lower Manhattan? I don’t see much outrage about that here on the Mediaite forums. Or from Mrs Palin.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=177668

Let me get this straight: Caribou Barbie, who quoted material from an avowed Jew-hater named Westbrook Pegler (who called for the assassination of FDR) in her speeches has the nerve to accuse someone else of racism?

For more on Pegler.

@Jelperman: Technically, the two Palin tweets are aimed more at the Press Corps and not such much toward Helen. Up above, she does use the adjective “racist” and in the previous, she says she (Helen) has a “misunderstanding of Jewish history”, plus she calls the comments an “unconscionable indecency”, but both tweets are directed more toward the press.

After all, if you want to get right down to it, neither tweet actually condemns Ms. Thomas or calls for her resignation, instead especially in the one above, she calls out her colleagues.

Like Sarah really cared about the Jews. Gimme a break, remember another book of hers is comming out soon. So just throw any kitchen sink and cause another trouble, like the death panel caused last year. Well lets see if the WHC, takes the bait and remove her. Individuals amongst them have said they deeply disagreed with her, but not her employers nor her colleague thinks it would be necessary to remove her.

I’m really waiting for them to take the bait, as they tried to pin Mr. Obama the other day during the signing of the ‘Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act law’ when they try to ask him about freedom of the press and he dodged their question. Lets see if they would tolerate freespeach and freedom of the press and get rid of Ms Thomas. I bet whatever might happened they would be dammed, 1. by thos throwing hissy fit for her to be fired and those that would cry fowl on protecting freedom of speech and the press. Unless it dies down, they are in big, trouble. Now they won’t be asking the questions, they would be answering questions on moral judgement and basic freedom of the press and speech. What an exciting time coming.

Wow.

it continues.

Liberal F!cks up.

Just talk sh!t about Sarah Palin.

Amazing.

Racism only counts when it serves “the cause.”

We get it.

Kam,

Are you not aware that the 1st Amendment applies to the Government? If a private company wants to can someone for bigoted statements they can. Hellen can be a bigot, and people have the right to boycott Heast Corporation.

Its a choice that they can do, I bet you are against the beck boycott. But I find it amusing that you are calling for her boycott, when you deployed the same being done to Mr. Beck. Unn interesting. I for one do not care about boycott, its up to the employer/corporation to decide if it affects their image. Fox does not think so, so its up to Hearst Newspapers to decide. So people can cry fowl as much as they want, its up to the corporation.

Kam,

I’m not against the Beck boycott. Companies and free individuals have the right to choose who they do business with. Just like it was her “talent” agency that dropped her. They didn’t agree with her anti-Semitic statement and complete lack of knowledge about the Jewish Diaspora.

How out of touch are the liberal loons? No one can deny Palin is right about this and yet they do? Weird people aren’t they. Maybe because they are not “people”. They are liberal scum.

Sarah Palin is like a broken clock, with the exception she’s not even right twice a day. She’s a piece of right wing shit and those who think she’s anything more are the flies on that shit.

Stephen says:
June 6, 2010 at 7:24 pm

No Thomas is not the first to show bigotry…just go to FNC..Glenn…Brian Kilmeade has had a few…”

You are a funny man. And stupid one also.

@Liberty – Not Redistribution
So we agree! its up to the corporation if they want her representing them. Agencies can be easily changed, they are their for you to earn extra buck. Hearst Newspapers/Fox news are in the same league in regards to this situation. They choose to stick with their man/woman. Even though people hate what they said at a particular point in time.

Gee, I wonder if Helen thinks Blacks should go back to Africa? Did anyone ask her?

“No one can deny Palin is right about this”

Wrong, again. I can.

Well, the jews didn’t retire old Helen Thomas the way they usually retire those who disagree with them.
Then, she is a Lebanese Greek Orthodox Christian–a group who has suffered amost as much as the Moslems have at the hands of the Zionists.