Playboy's 90-year old playmate
I sure hope that anyone buying April's Playboy Magazine isn't buying it just for the articles. That's because the April interview is with none other than Helen Thomas."I knew exactly what I was doing – I was going for broke. I had reached the point of no return. You finally get fed up…I finally wanted to speak the truth," explains former dean of the White House Press Corps Helen Thomas when asked about her now infamous May 27, 2010 comments on Israel in Playboy's April Interview (issue on newsstands and online at www.playboydigital.com Friday, March 18). The outspoken journalist sparked controversy when a rabbi and blogger asked her for remarks on Israel and she responded "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine," adding that the Jews "can go home" to "Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else." Shortly thereafter her comments went viral and Thomas abruptly resigned from her post at Hearst Newspapers on June 7, 2010.She goes on to sound like Stephen Walt.
The 90-year-old veteran reporter sat down with Playboy Contributing Editor David Hochman for her first in-depth interview following her contentious remarks. Not only did she share her thoughts on Israel and Palestine, she also discussed her sentiments towards Jews, her supposed retirement, President Obama, Congress's anti-Arab agenda and her obituary. Following are selected quotes from the interview:
On the aftermath of her May 27 remarks about Israel: "I went into self-imposed house arrest for two weeks…Every columnist and commentator jumped on me immediately as anti-Semitic. Nobody asked me to explain myself. Nobody said, 'What did you really mean?'"
On the situation in Palestine: "Everybody knows my feelings that the Palestinians have been shortchanged in every way. Sure, the Israelis have a right to exist – but where they were born, not to come and take someone else's home. I've had it up to here with the violations against the Palestinians…[The Palestinians] are incarcerated and living in an open prison. I say to the Israelis, 'Get out of people's homes!' It's unacceptable to have soldiers knocking on a door at three in the morning and saying, 'This is my home.' And forcing people out of homes they've lived in for centuries? What is this? How can anybody accept it? I mean, Jewish-only roads? [She later corrected herself to say Israeli-only roads.] Would anyone tolerate something like that in America? White-only roads?"
On Palestinian violence against the Israelis: "Of course I don't condone any violence against anyone. But who wouldn't fight for their country? What would any American do if their land was being taken? Remember Pearl Harbor. The Palestinian violence is to protect what little remains of Palestine. The suicide bombers act out of despair and desperation. Three generations of Palestinians have been forced out of their homes – by Israelis – and into refugee camps."
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On American support of Israel: "We keep giving Israel everything. Our government bribes the Israelis by saying, 'Please come to the [negotiating] table and we'll give you this and we'll give you that'…Why do you have to bribe people to do the right thing? I don't want my government bribing anybody. I want them demanding. Stop all this aid to Israel when they're killing people!...Why do they send my American tax dollars to perpetuate it?"
Read the whole thing - then you can avoid reading the magazine.
Labels: anti-Semitism, hag, Helen Thomas, Playboy
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:50 PM
6 Comments:
Your illustration says all I want to know about H.a T.e! I will treasure it. :))
Helen Thomas is proof that wisdom does not always accompany age.
the willful ignorance that the woman presents is astounding
as such, im trying to figure out how she was able to get to the highest level in the press core
her hate and ignorance have nothing to do with age...my mom is about the same age, and she is not this stupid.
freilichin purim
I will now and forever envision that Haman's wife, Zeresh, looked just like Helen. No wonder Haman was so grumpy.
As remarked before, Helen is being sponsored by my home newspaper's publisher Nicholas Benton at the Falls Church News Press that is printing her admittedly so far cautious (and poorly written) columns--he himself has ruminated on the neocon cabal (that includes the local dissenting Episcopal Church, past opponents of Rep. Moran, and, of course, Likudniks, as he connects fevered dot to fevered dot).
He has also explained that Ms. Thomas was originally set off when the IDF "killed nine humanitarian aid workers".
So from a distance all very harmless. But up close, a crypto-ant-Semite is sponsoring a compulsive anti-Semite who cannot manage to consistently handle the PR bullet points given her by Nick Benton and others (distinguish between "the Jews" and "Zionists", don't go on and on about the Jews directly etc.).
And the political elite of Falls Church continue to deal with Nick while his new protege publicly ruminates that there are too many Jews in Congress and Jews control Hollywood, the White House, etc.
Helen is a train wreck in progress but her little choo choo to nowhere has yet to be publicly renounced by Falls Church.
I'm not sure I want to know what that device is.
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