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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on June 07, 2010, 12:44:20 PM
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In the world of political journalism, it's the end of an era: Helen Thomas has retired just months shy of her 90th birthday.
The longtime White House journalist has covered ever president since Dwight Eisenhower and broke several barriers for female journalists but stepped down from her latest role -- a columnist for Hearst Newspapers -- in the wake of controversial remarks made in late May about the need for Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" and return to Poland and Germany.
"Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately," read a statement from Hearst Newspapers on Monday. "Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on videotape and widely disseminated on the Internet."
Thomas said in a statement that, "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.’’
The decision to retire came as Thomas faced rebuke from nearly every corner after video of her remarks during an interview with RabbiLive.com's Rabbi David Nesenoff emerged online late last week.
"Those remarks were offensive and reprehensible," Gibbs said during the Monday briefing, adding that Thomas's remarks "do not reflect certainly most of the people here and certainly not those of the administration." Thomas did not attend Monday's briefing and journalists, perhaps sensing the closing of an era, were spotted taking pictures of Thomas' empty front row.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0610/Helen_Thomas_retires.html
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Darn, there goes the hottest woman in broadcasting.
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Happy to see good things happen to bad people....huh? Good!! buh-bye!
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Whether you like her or not (personally I don't)....I think it's sad that a 50 year career will be remembered by the last 10 days or so of the career.
She should have quit several years ago, and gone out with a reputable (in many people's opinion) career intact, instead of trying to imitate the Energizer Bunny, failing, and going out with a piss-poor whimper.
It's hard to believe that she would do it for the money, it had to be ego.
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Darn, there goes the hottest woman in broadcasting.
:lmao:
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Anyone check DUmmyville to see if they're going to send her flowers again? They must be heartbroken. :loser:
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And let me be the first to say:
:nelson:
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Anyone check DUmmyville to see if they're going to send her flowers again? They must be heartbroken. :loser:
Right now their opinion is that her retirement (firing) signals the death of journalism in America.
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Right now their opinion is that her retirement (firing) signals the death of journalism in America.
My response would be....."I sense a disturbance in the Force......"
doc
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The DUmp goons are crying in their beer. Fleischer was right; she was calling for a religious cleansing. A religion well acquainted with persecution and extermination. It's vile and has no place here. Good riddance you old ugly lefty battleaxe.
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The DUmp goons are crying in their beer. Fleischer was right; she was calling for a religious cleansing. A religion well acquainted with persecution and extermination. It's vile and has no place here. Good riddance you old ugly lefty battleaxe.
That's an insult to battleaxes everywhere. A battleaxe is a weapon that, while rather bloody in its' use, is something that honorable men use.
I think we can be pretty safe in the assumption that Helen Thomas was never 'used' by any man. :evillaugh:
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Whether you like her or not (personally I don't)....I think it's sad that a 50 year career will be remembered by the last 10 days or so of the career.
She should have quit several years ago, and gone out with a reputable (in many people's opinion) career intact, instead of trying to imitate the Energizer Bunny, failing, and going out with a piss-poor whimper.
It's hard to believe that she would do it for the money, it had to be ego.
It was good enough for Dan Rather.
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Too bad the hag retired 20 years too late.
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What, no picture? :evillaugh:
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What, no picture? :evillaugh:
My iPhone refused to copy and/or load any image of the Sea Hag.
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What, no picture? :evillaugh:
They're talking about the Helen Thomas incident on a radio station I'm listening to right now, and the intro to the segment was the theme from "Tales from the Crypt." :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
It's not even a political show. :evillaugh:
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Why we're all happy thatbthis old anti-semetic gas bag won't be slithering through the WH press area anymore...let us also remember too that she will now be free to expound on her hateful views without fear of being fired.
Look for her to now be a panelist on the MSM Sunday shows and treated with far more respect than she deserves.
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Why we're all happy thatbthis old anti-semetic gas bag won't be slithering through the WH press area anymore...let us also remember too that she will now be free to expound on her hateful views without fear of being fired.
Look for her to now be a panelist on the MSM Sunday shows and treated with far more respect than she deserves.
Someone mentioned on Fox News earlier about the fact that she writes a column for some paper, and that should have precluded her from being in the press, corp(se).
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This latest development makes me so happy. I don't celebrate because someone I disagree with politically caused her own demise, but simply because the court of public opinion still matters to some extent. What she said was evil. How pitiful must one be to torpedo such a long career with those hateful remarks? Wow Helen- you went out in flames, and most definitely not in a blaze of glory.
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I've said this before here but I'll say it again: last summer Mrs RC and I saw Helen at the Smithsonian/ American History in DC. She looks worse in person then she does in pictures, damn scary.
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Good riddance to liberal Jew-hating trash (pardon the redundancy).
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I've said this before here but I'll say it again: last summer Mrs RC and I saw Helen at the Smithsonian/ American History in DC. She looks worse in person then she does in pictures, damn scary.
Just because a human being is not aesthetically appealing does not diminish their value to society nor negate their potential positive contributions to said society.
There are however root-cause exceptions and in this biased wind bag's case the reason Thomas *IS* so ugly on the outside is because she is soooo ugly on the inside.
In my opinion, the Medusa got off easy.
Bigots like Thomas should be so marginalized that she loses all methods of income AND, loses her retirement in addition.
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Rot in hell, you syphilitic brained old hag....
(http://www.the700level.com/images/2008/03/24/cryptkeeper.jpg)
BYE BYE BITCH!
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dude, tell us how you REALLY feel. :hyper:
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Well at least this time someone on the left had the decency to leave after letting their real thoughts out. It's just a few hundred years to late.
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Well at least this time someone on the left had the decency to leave after letting their real thoughts out. It's just a few hundred years to late.
Amen. Nice to see you, AW
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Couldn't happen to a nicer anti semitic .itch
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Amen. Nice to see you, AW
Same here
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Rot in hell, you syphilitic brained old hag....
(http://www.the700level.com/images/2008/03/24/cryptkeeper.jpg)
BYE BYE BITCH!
Wait a minute. Isn't that a picture of Hugh Hefner?
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Let me guess, Helen Thomas's retirement gifts are Mein Kempf and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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From Newsmax:
The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham H. Foxman, said Sunday that Thomas' apology didn't go far enough.
"Her suggestion that Israelis should go back to Poland and Germany is bigoted and shows a profound ignorance of history," Foxman said in a statement. "We believe Thomas needs to make a more forceful and sincere apology for the pain her remarks have caused."
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/helen-thomas-retires-jews/2010/06/07/id/361258
Thomas is a life long rabid commie/socialist. Now days they call themselves "progressives". These are the very people that have created the Constitutional destroying, free speech killing disease known as "Political Correctness".
Poor Ms. Frankenstein-Thomas, she was devoured by the VERY monster she helped create.
It is called "Karma" Beotch!
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Maybe Al-Jazeera is hiring .
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Damn it is about time
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Proof positive that sooner or later these socialist liberal anti-christs will destroy themselves. Her departure is long overdue.
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Don't let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya.
oh wait, ewww.
:whatever:
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Don't let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya.
oh wait, ewww.
:whatever:
that "visual" is beyond gross.... :o
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Rabbi Receives Death Threats Over Helen Thomas Video
The New York rabbi who videotaped veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas telling Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" says he has received numerous death threats and thousands of pieces of hate mail in the days since Thomas' abrupt retirement.
Rabbi David Nesenoff said he is facing an "overload" of threatening e-mails calling for a renewed Holocaust and targeting his family — a barrage of hate he said he planned to report to the police on Wednesday.
"This ticker tape keeps coming in," Nesenoff told FoxNews.com. "We got one specific one saying, 'We're going to kill the Jews; watch your back.'"
"This is something that I thought was a couple of people here or there, [but] it's mainstream and it's frightening," the Long Island rabbi said. "[Thomas] is just a little cherry on top of this huge, huge sundae of hate in America."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/09/rabbi-receives-death-threats-helen-thomas-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Text+-+Politics%29
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Rabbi Receives Death Threats Over Helen Thomas Video
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/09/rabbi-receives-death-threats-helen-thomas-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Text+-+Politics%29
What are their DUmmy names?
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What are their DUmmy names?
Clearly they are TEA party members... since they are all Nazi simpathizers... clearly.
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"[Thomas] is just a little cherry on top of this huge, huge sundae of hate in America."
Thanks, Rabbi. There's a mental picture I really didn't need. :puke:
Must find the bottle of mind bleach now...