Helen Thomas: 'You can't criticize Israel and survive in this country'
In an interview that was aired on an Ohio radio station on Tuesday, one time White House correspondent Helen Thomas complained that you cannot criticize Israel and survive in [the United States] (Hat Tip: Jammie Wearing Fool). In a radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were "exactly what I thought," even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job.Unfortunately, she is living proof that you can criticize Israel and survive. And thrive. She's been interviewed several times over the last few months, and has received several awards. I'd rather not hear from her anymore.
"I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive," Thomas told Ohio station WMRN-AM in a sometimes emotional 35-minute interview that aired Tuesday. It was recorded a week earlier by WMRN reporter Scott Spears at Thomas' Washington, D.C., condominium.
Thomas, 90, stepped down from her job as a columnist for Hearst News Service in June after a rabbi and independent filmmaker videotaped her outside the White House calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine." She gave up her front row seat in the White House press room, where she had aimed often pointed questions at 10 presidents, going back to Eisenhower.
She has kept a low profile since then.
"(It was) very hard for the first two weeks. After that, I came out of my coma," Thomas said.
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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:19 PM
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And where exactly does she want THIS Jew (me) to "go back to", given that I am of neither Polish nor German descent?
Sum, if you are a Mizrahi Jew, that's a very good question. When anti-Semites say the Jews should leave Israel and go back where they came from, they showing off their ignorance.
Its too bad Helen Thomas is receiving publicity. People are better off ignoring the contemptible wretch.
ms thomas criticized israel on frequent occasions from the press room...not once was anything said or done in response
her statements in the vid were not criticism, they were unabashedly jew hating claptrap
he comments now are just more of the same
when will she die so that i may dance on her putrid grave?
The question is whether she is currently, or has been for the past many years, out of her "coma".
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