My mouth actually dropped open while watching this…
…then I said a bad word. This woman is representative of the mainstream media.
For those not familiar with Helen Thomas, she has been working in media for 68 years, as a news service reporter, Hearst Newspapers columnist, member of the White House Press Corps and author.
Obama, Helen and I share a birthday. I’m changing mine right away… to Mother Theresa’s. It’s not that far off, from August 4th to the 26th.
Edited to add:
Hot Air has Helen’s apology of sorts but not really:
Helen Thomas issued the following statement today: “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.”
Riiiiight.
They also have the vid of the infamous Tony Snow briefing in which he thanks Helen for ‘Hezbollah view’.
June 4th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
What a hook-nosed, troll-like, wrinkled old cunt.
Hey, Helen, suck on this:
June 4th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
…and that was the bad word I said earlier.
June 4th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Must be solemn truth, for I said the very same thing the moment I saw it!
June 4th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
At least we have a consensus…
June 4th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I should have checked you before I posted this same vid – oh well. Great minds and all that.
June 4th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
No, everyone should see it!!
June 4th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
And you can change your birthday to Aug 9 – I’ll share
June 4th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Okay, thanks!
June 4th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Good. More people need to hear it. So where should the French, Greek, Armenian, North African, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Austrian, Dutch, and other Jews go, all either survivors or descendants of survivors of the Holocaust go? Or was it just Poland and Germany’s Jews?
What a CUNT.
June 4th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Hey, maybe the cunt should go back to Lebanon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas#Early_life_and_career
June 4th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Can you believe that? If I hadn’t seen and heard her I’d never have believed it!
June 4th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
June 4th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Well Helen should know…she was selling real estate to the Palestinians back when they were knocking the edges off of the wheel to make it round and moving easier.
Troll.
June 4th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Pfffttttt….!
June 4th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Lee Ann,if it was up to the “Palestinians, they’d have square wheels so their dokey carts wouldn’t roll away.
June 4th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
That’s the damned truth.
June 4th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Er, that’s donkey.
June 4th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
She sure looks like one!
June 4th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
That’s an AWFUL thing to say about donkeys!!
June 4th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
June 5th, 2010 at 10:31 am
GODDAM, put up a new post, please. Every time I come here all I see is that bitch who is ripe for a face transplant…
Where’s the puke smilie??????
June 5th, 2010 at 11:37 am
What a dumb bitch. Seriously, why wasn’t she fired for saying that crap? Old battle axe.
June 5th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I put a new post up; sorry ’bout that.
Lot of people are now calling for her dismissal… hope she gets to retire.
June 7th, 2010 at 9:55 am
You know what? We’re in America. That gives her the right to speak her addled mind all she likes. However, we don’t have to agree with her. And we don’t have to listen.
I’m wearing my hat to deflect any of her craziness.
June 7th, 2010 at 11:15 am
She can say anything she wants as long as it’s not ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater. The thing is, she’s the face of the leftist press. She just gave us a better look into their black souls.
June 7th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Just in…”Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas is retiring in the wake of controversial comments she made about Israel.
Hearst News Service, for which Thomas is a columnist, reported her retirement announcement Monday.
Her retirement is effective immediately.”
DUH!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37555003/ns/politics?GT1=43001
June 7th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Oh wait…it’ gets better! Crazy whacked out woman says what?
“Thomas wrote on her website that “I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians.”
She added: “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.”"
Excuse me…but if her comments (which came out of her mouth with no prodding or blatant editing to take them out of context or humour) do not reflect her heart-felt beliefs, then why would you say them, except that
shocker, its how you REALLY feel Helen.
Anyone else hear the loud beeping sound of her trying to back up out of this one? And why does the White House Press Secretary hang her out to dry with “”She should and has apologized,” Gibbs said. “Because obviously those remarks do not reflect certainly the opinion of most of the people here and certainly not of the administration.”
And yet Obama all but “Don’t let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Anyone else confused by this Washington-Double-Talk-PC-Bull***t? Duck and cover boys, or she’ll take you down with her!
June 7th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Oh, I’m not confused and I doubt that many out there are… we all know that was Helen’s ‘heartfelt’ belief. She can try to lie her way out of he predicament all she wants… it doesn’t work.
Hope she enjoys her retirement. Maybe she should return to Lebanon. She wants the Jews to basically return to the ovens… maybe she should try and make ‘em. I dare her.