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Rabbi Who Filmed Helen Thomas Says More Video Is Coming

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As we predicted the Helen Thomas story has blown up over the weekend. Thomas did not show up for the White House briefing this morning, and word has it the WHCA is discussing the matter. It is a sad turn of affairs for a reporter who had, until now, such a long, illustrious, and pioneering career (our own Tommy Christopher notes “seats at #whbrief are assigned, but if someone doesn’t show, they’re fair game. Except Helen’s seat”). And it may get worse.

Rabbi David Nesenoff, whose interview with Thomas at the White House Jewish Heritage Day resulted in her now infamous remarks about Jews “getting the hell out of Palestine” and going “home” to Germany, or Poland, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning. Nesenoff noted that he was just as surprised as anyone else at Thomas’ comments and that he had intended the interview to be “light”: “I was dumbfounded and hurt by it.”

Nesenoff also revealed that “there was more to the video” and that “part two is coming out in the next day or so.” Nesenoff would not disclose what “more” consisted of except that the visual “explains it all.” I must admit I find the fact he is waiting a “day or two” to get it up when there is clearly such a clamor for this story somewhat questionable. Additionally, one wonders whether Thomas will still have her job in a day or two, and if she doesn’t whether any additional video will really matter in the larger picture. One last point: Nesenoff, clearly not one to miss his moment in the spotlight, has invited President Obama to join him on a trip to Israel.


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  • The Real Royal King

    One has to commend Rabbi Nesenoff for his ability to exploit a story. And, FOX & Friends, as well.

  • AmericanCowboy

    The Real Royal Queen’s #1 favorite sexy libtard is a racist.

  • SteveMG

    It’s sad that the child-like petulant attitude of some people is to point fingers at the Rabbi instead of the real culprit in this story, viz., Helen Thomas.

    I dare say that this immature reaction would not have been repeated had Ms.Thomas been a rightwinger instead of a leftwinger.

    Sometimes everything isn’t about politics. Sometimes it’s about right and wrong, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical. Unfortunately, reactionaries on the internet wish to blame the messenger here instead of examining the message.

  • AmericanCowboy

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

  • The Real Royal King

    As one who conducts a great deal of business in the Middle East and travels there frequently on business, I can say that you mischaracterize the nuanced nature and complexity of the region. In some ways, it is very simple, simpler than the residual national feuds in Europe or within the UK, and certainly simpler than the Far East. The real culprits are the ones who try to turn the land into a place of “my way or the highway”. Respect is all that is required in the region.

  • felixw

    Ah, the “the nuanced nature and complexity of the region.” Well, Royal King, at least you have Helen Thomas to explain these “nuances” to us. Do we still need 20 more like her in the White House? If there were twenty, which one gets elected as Imperial Wizard?

  • SteveMG

    Indeed, the complexity and nuance of the region needs to be considered when proferring opinions.

    But calling for “Jews to get the hell out of Palestine” isn’t indicative of any deep understanding of those complexities. Indeed, it’s evidence of a simplistic reactionary view; one held by those who see the world in absolutes and not the grays that it actually is.

    And nowhere else has Ms. Thomas – in my detailed reading of her columns and reports – indicated that she has that deeper understanding. To defend her views expressed recently or over the years is further evidence of the erosion of our public education. It’s perhaps better that some spend less time posting sophomoric writings on the internet and more time reading and contemplating about matters.

  • mabelee

    AmericanCowboy says @ June 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm
    “Gee, I wonder if Helen thinks Blacks should go back to Africa? Did anyone ask her?”

    Or if Mexicans should go back to Mexico?

  • Liberty – Not Redistribution

    It’s amazing how the invention of personal recorders, and the internet has allowed regular and not so regular individuals to openly question those in power, such as government officials, media personalities, corporations and etc. It’s truly an amazing thing. 30 years ago with only the dinosaur news organization, this would have never been reported. And if it did, it wouldn’t have had the impact as actually seeing it on TV. Watching Helen spew her bigoted opinion and views really puts some weight behind it.

  • writer

    If ‘one’ is constantly traveling the world, and ‘one’ finds almost every other place on earth morally superior to the bigoted and hated ‘Amerika’, it seems like ‘one’ would take the opportunity to relocate.

  • AmericanCowboy

    mabelee says:
    June 7, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    Or if Mexicans should go back to Mexico?

    ——–x———–x————-x————-x———–x———–x————-x———x-

    No one wants all Mexicans to go back to Mexico. We only want those who came here illegally to go back. That goes for anyone from any country that entered America illegally. If you came here legally, then you are welcome with open arms.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kam-Fet/572005492 Kam Fet

    That’s probably why she’s gone or she was told to jump or be pushed.

  • Blackspeare99

    She’ll soon be on “Larry King Live”—–he loves to interview all anti-semites—-for ratings that is!!!

  • RichS

    “The Real Royal King says:
    June 7, 2010 at 12:01 pm
    As one who conducts a great deal of business in the Middle East and travels there frequently on business, I can say that you mischaracterize the nuanced nature and complexity of the region. In some ways, it is very simple, simpler than the residual national feuds in Europe or within the UK, and certainly simpler than the Far East. The real culprits are the ones who try to turn the land into a place of “my way or the highway”. Respect is all that is required in the region.”

    Another of example of the super racist, trrk, saying nothing with a lot of words. I too have done business in the Middle East and the real racist king (trrk) seems to be letting out a whole lot of complications that don’t exist in the Europe that he sneers at.

    The story of the girls being burned in the fire in at their school in Riyadh because of the actions of the Religious Police was printed a Riyadh English language newspaper. That means the government approved the story. There was another story about a woman who was starving to death behind a Mosque. She was married, her mother found out that her husband belonged to the wrong tribe and divorced them. She loved her husband and continued to live with him as his wife. Her mother found out and caused her to be “cast out.” No one was allowed to give her a job, food, clothing or shelter. The story did not call for something to be done about the situation. That sure sounds like “my way or the highway” to me but the real racist king seems to have a different opinion.

  • OxyCon

    HAMAS just endorsed Helen Thomas.
    Congratulations Liberals!

  • TylerDurden

    Rabbi, you obviously tricked Helen, or took her out of context, or had her read a cue card you had written for her, or you slipped her a mickey or you had someone wear a Helen Thomas mask and say those things, or ….

  • writer

    Rich, you’re misjudging the King. What’s a little thing ‘honor’ killings of women or cutting off hands for theft, compared with the hated and despised ‘Amerika’? I’m sure that the King is looking to relocate, and get out of this Godforsaken place.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    He’s smart to wait a day or two. Then he can create a fresh round of controversy and finish the broad off once and for all.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Thomas needs to be kicked when she is down. I am for giving the libs the same treatment they give to the right. I believe in shoving it down their throat. They have no reason to complain since they do it all the time. These folks are the scum of the Earth. Keep the boot on their throat they will hang themselves. So hello to Van Jones and Dan Rather. It is only a matter of time for Obama and friends. The END is NEAR.

  • RichS

    Misjudging the real racist king? I’m not judging him, anymore than one of my cats is judging a bug that she is playing with.

  • lonestar77

    So, Ms. Thomas is a far-left anti-Semitic bigot? That’s only been obvious for the last half century. Welcome to reality, lefties.

  • BowenIsland

    Helen Thomas Defends Being A Liberal On Fox Business
    by Glynnis MacNicol | 5:43 pm, April 28th, 2010

    “I am a columnist. I’m an opinion columnist and I have the right to show my opinion. And I am a liberal…and I would say I am as far as you can go”

  • The Real Royal King

    Keep the boot on their throat they will hang themselves.

    Can you explain how this might be physically possible, Blower? Perhaps, you can demonstrate on your “show”?

  • PureFreedom

    If Helen was interviewed by any of the major media and they caught this remake it would have never been aired and she would be still sitting in her chair in the front row….

    Remember when MSNBC showed the close up of the rifle on someone’s back at the Tea party protest but only a very close shot of the gun. and reported about how dangerous those white people are.
    Then we later found out it was a Black man with the gun and he was a Tea party supporter.

  • Nachi

    Our brave heroes strike again!!

  • Nietzky

    Helen Thomas should NEVER be allowed to speak her mind, how prejudiced it might be. Next thing, she would have told the invaders of the New World to go home to their countries of origin…….after the genocide of Native Americans, also called American Indians. Is ‘Freedom of Speech’ only applicable for the loudest and most righteous, eh?

  • de Espinosa

    Helen Thomas said nothing else than did Philip Roth in “Shylock Operation”. He got a prize, she got lynched by mad Jewish/Israeli Nazionists

  • de Espinosa

    Philip Roth’s very literary novels, most famously Portnoy’s Complaint, have always had the feel of confessional autobiography. Operation Shylock boasts not only a character named Philip Roth, a Jewish-American novelist, but an impostor who is claiming to be him. Roth’s impostor causes a furor in Israel by advocating “Diasporism,” the polar opposite of Zionism, encouraging Israelis to return home to eastern Europe. In Israel the real Roth attends the trial of a former Nazi, and also observes at a West Bank military court dealing harshly with young Palestinians. Through stark counterpoint between distorted doubles, along with his trademark bawdy humor, Roth comically explores the tensions of his identity as a writer, as a Jew, and as a human being. Operation Shylock won the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1994.

  • de Espinosa

    She was furious and is older than Abraham…
    And she just said what probably millions and millions of the non-Jewish people we live among – in self-induced Diaspora or in Israel itself – often think, but don’t say.
    And – to be honest – they aren’t completely wrong: where we departed from – many voluntarily – 2000 years ago is – as human history and politics show – no legal entitlement to that land 2000 years later, especially not against the peoples who settled there in the meantime. Yes, Palestine remained our “Holy Land”, but not any more “our Land.” Our G_d is everywhere and the promised land is always the land you live on … Yes, our families, our peoples were victims of the Holocaust. But it’s not the guilt of the Palestinians. And, it seems that we feel good, more than good all over the world. Otherwise you and me wouldn’t live in US or EU. And I’m back in Germany and can’t say that today’s Germans are much more anti-Jewish than my Israeli co-citizens use to be. But there what counts is that Jews “hate” Jews. Poles the Romanian J., French the Marokaim J., etc.
    Therefore I came, I saw and … I went. What anyway each #Jew does sometime during her/his life :-)

  • de Espinosa

    We shouldn’t mix what happened 200 – 400 years ago, with what happened after the UN was set up in order to stop all peoples oppressing other peoples.
    And we shouldn’t mix Afro-Americans who were brought by force as slaves to the US in still feudal times with the last colonists the modern world experienced who “invaded” by own decision others’ homeland and forced the indigenous Palestinians to leave it

  • de Espinosa

    Read carefully and let your brains work for a while….

    This is what the now famous – or infamous – Rabbi David Nessenhof has to say about Jews and Israel on his website in an “article” —> http://www.rabbilive.com/RabbiLIVE/Articles.html

    Intro (much ado about nothing …)
    “Why is it our homeland? Well ask anyone they’ll tell you. Everyone knows why Israel is the Jewish homeland. We know, you know, I know. The television knows. The media knows. The public knows, the world knows. All the schools know. The senior citizens know, the college kids know. Everyone knows why Israel is the Jewish homeland.”

    Storyboard (the only story we, Jews and Israelis, seem to remember…)
    “So Jews started arriving in the late forties to Israel to live and start a new life. They had a rightful claim to the land because thousands of years earlier they once had lived there.
    In today’s torah portion we read about Abraham who was in Israel and who earlier in the torah was promised that land by G-d. And in the following portion when his wife Sarah dies Abraham actually buys with money land in Hebron to bury her.”

    Conclusion (from a different standpoint just saying what Helen Thomas has said…)
    “So after the Holocaust in the late 1940s it was a natural for the Jews to go back there– to their land and reclaim it again.
    And with the world feeling really guilty right after the Holocaust
    it made it that much easier
    to get the land back and
    kick out hundreds of thousands of Arabs
    who were living there and dwelling peacefully with their families and loved ones.

    But it was ours first as it was promised to us by G-d in the Torah so we have a claim to it.

    And that’s why we have a Jewish Homeland …” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Yeah, this is “our” Jewish view of the world we live in.

    Not to forget that we, Diaspora Jews, are the only of all G_od’s creatures with a “rightful” claim to at least TWO homelands (and two passports as well …).
    As we took the American, Canadian, Australian, South African citizenship (or kept our European, Asian, African ones) we have sworn loyality to ONE country, but many times we forget what we said, e.g. the Oath of Allegiance in US:

    “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen”.

    There are millions of Israelis with two passports. Shoulld they have no thoughts of returning to US, Canada, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, etc. they wouldn’t keep those passports.

    But Helen Thomas and the world are the expected by the Nazionist (ultra-nationalist, ethno-racist, segregationist, radically xenophobic religious ideology that replaces step-by-step Herzl’s democratic, multi-ethnic and multi-religious tolerant Zionism) Jewish-Israeli lobbies to keep their mouths and minds shut.

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