Time to retire Helen

[Arkiehawg]

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Helen Thomas under fire for saying Jews in Israel should go back to Germany, Poland ? - Blogs from CNN.com


She has been an icon at the WH briefings since US Grant Any reporter that blatant with their bigotry shouldn't be given the privilege of sitting in one of those seats. IMO

 

[Yzarctoo]

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Helen Thomas under fire for saying Jews in Israel should go back to Germany, Poland ? - Blogs from CNN.com


She has been an icon at the WH briefings since US Grant Any reporter that blatant with their bigotry shouldn't be given the privilege of sitting in one of those seats. IMO

Finally, I can agree with Arkie on something.

 

[AndrewG]

I agree with you Arkie. This is a historic moment!

 

[Arkiehawg]

I agree with you Arkie. This is a historic moment!

Must be the beginning of 2012 if AG and Yaz both agree with me.....

 

[ChillPill]

I agree. Curious to see how this will be handled.

 

[poppy]

So she said something you found offensive, get over it. If this is to be the standard then none of us would have a job.

 

[idlewind]

So she said something you found offensive, get over it. If this is to be the standard then none of us would have a job.

Please, do we really have to go through the list of people who have been canned because they said something that offended someone? I admire her longevity but that statement is over the top and she has to pay the price. If she apologizes and owns it she probably gets just a slap on the wrist.

 

[scooterbug44]

Wow, that wasn't even a context issue.

 

[Lake View Too]

Wow! Am I the only person on this board to think that the artificial establishment of European Jews into the Palestinian homeland was a very serious foreign policy error perpetrated by the British and now perpetuated by the Americans? From my understanding, the Palestinians were driven off their land and it was given to these European Jews solely as retibution for the Holocaust, which the Palestinians had nothing to do with. I think they have a very legitimate gripe. The Jews were given the Holy Land simply because the Palestinians were a weak nation. I am oversimplifying and I have nothing against Jewish people, at all, but this was a very big blunder on par with the George W. Bush invasion of Iraq, and we have already seen the immense destruction both of these blunders have caused.

 

[scooterbug44]

I have often wondered what history would be like if Israel had not been created, or it had been done in a different manner.

IMO (and many others) Israel building more settlements and expanding is responsible for a lot of the current conflict and needs to stop.