Sunday, June 6, 2010

Re: Helen Thomas


"She should lose her job over this," Fleischer said in an email. "As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling."
"She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs."

Fischer, as usual, is wrong.  I suffered Helen over a decade at the UP when she was the junior White House correspondent to Merriman Smith.  She was, and continues to be, an opinionated bitch.  But she is a pro and a good one.  Her origins are Lebanese but I believe she is a Copt, who naturally would have Arab sympathies, though one does not need to have Arab sympathies to concludes that Natanyahu is a shmuck.  I wish people would drop this; she's over 89.  OK? 

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