Saturday 5 June 2010





Friday, June 4, 2010
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/06/far-left-reporter-helen-thomas-tells-jews-get-the-hell-out-of-palestine-and-go-back-to-germany-poland-video/

Far left media darling ad anti-Semite Helen Thomas tells Jews:
“Get the hell out of Palestine.”

Via BreitbartTV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14&feature=player_embedded

“These people are occupied. And it’s their land.”

What a terribly foolish woman — Jews have lived in the Palestine region for thousands of years; there has always been a Jewish remnant, in other words.

What’s ironic is that if Palin had said something like this, it would be trumpeted from the rooftops for months — a leftist says it and it evaporates into the ether.

It’s amazing how trenchant the double-standard is.


Helen Thomas

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Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas - USNWR.jpg
Thomas at the White House, September 30, 1976
BornHelen Thomas
August 4, 1920 (age 89)
Winchester, Kentucky, USA
EducationWayne University
OccupationHearst Corporation Columnist
White House Press Correspondent
Spouse(s)Douglas B. Cornell (1971-1982)[1]
Official website

Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, member of the White House Press Corps and author. She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and, later, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas has covered every President of the United States since the later years of the Eisenhower administration, coming to the forefront with John F. Kennedy. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents Association, and, in 1975, the first female member of the Gridiron Club. She has written five books; her latest with co-author Craig Crawford is Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do.

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[edit]Early life and career

Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky. Her parents, Mary (née Rowady) and George Thomas, were Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon;[2][3][4] her father's surname had originally been "Antonious".[5] Thomas was brought up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne University (now Wayne State University), graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1942. Her first job in journalism was as a copygirl for the now-defunct Washington Daily News, but shortly after she was promoted to cub reporter, she was laid off as part of massive cutbacks at the paper.

Thomas joined United Press International in 1943 and reported on women's topics for its radio wire service. Later in the decade, and in the early fifties, she wrote their "Names in the News" column, for which she interviewed numerous Washington celebrities.[6] After 1955, she covered federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Thomas served as president of the Women's National Press Club from 1959–60.

[edit]Presidential correspondent

In November 1960, Thomas began covering then President-elect John F. Kennedy, following him to the White House in January 1961 as a UPI correspondent. Thomas became known as the "Sitting Buddha", and it was during Kennedy's administration that she began the tradition of ending all presidential press conferences with a signature "Thank you, Mr. President".

Thomas was the only female print journalist to travel to China with President Richard Nixon during his historic trip in 1972. (Barbara Walters was a member of the NBC News team that went to the People's Republic of China to cover the visits of President Richard Nixon in 1972.) She has traveled around the world several times with Presidents Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, and has covered every Economic Summit since 1975, working up to the position of UPI's White House Bureau Chief, a post she would hold for over 25 years. While serving as White House Bureau Chief, she authored a regular column for UPI, "Backstairs at the White House," which provided an insider's view of various presidential administrations.

She is the only member of the White House press corps to have her own chair in the White House Press Room. All other chairs are assigned to media outlets.

[edit]Resignation from United Press International

On May 17, 2000, after 57 years with the organization, Thomas resigned from UPI the day after the announcement of its acquisition by News World Communications Inc., a company founded and controlled by Unification Church leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon. She later described the change in ownership as "a bridge too far".[7][8]

Less than two months later, she joined Hearst Newspapers as a columnist, writing on national affairs and the White House.

[edit]Controversy

On May 27, 2010, outside a White House Jewish heritage event, Thomas stated that the Jews "should get the hell out of Palestine" and that Palestine is a country of occupation, whose occupiers should leave the region, returning to "Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else".[9] Thomas subsequently issued a statement of regret on her personal web site.[9][10]

[edit]Bibliography

[edit]References

  1. ^ Helen Thomas, www.nndmb. Retrieved on July 2, 2009.
  2. ^ Helen Thomas, Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times, Scribner, 2000, page 17.
  3. ^ Contemporary Heroes and Heroines. Vol. 3. Gale Research, 1998; Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Vol. 19. Gale Group, 1999; Current Biography, H.W. Wilson Co., 1993.
  4. ^ Thomas, Helen (1975). Dateline: White House‎. Macmillan. ISBN0026176203.
  5. ^ http://www.northshire.com/siteinfo/bookinfo.php?isbn=9780684868097&item=0
  6. ^ Helen Thomas, Dateline: White House. Macmillan, 1975, page xiii.
  7. ^ Winter, Greg (2000-07-10). "Helen Thomas Is Back as a Columnist With Hearst". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). Retrieved 2008-04-15.
  8. ^ Stout, David (2000-05-17). "Helen Thomas, Washington Fixture, Resigns as U.P.I. Reporter". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). Retrieved 2008-03-07.
  9. ^ a b "Helen Thomas Apologizes for Saying Jews Should 'Get the Hell Out of Palestine'". Fox News.
  10. ^ Helen Thomas (04 June 2010). "Helen Thomas". Retrieved 04 June 2010. "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."

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