Submitted by Toni Dalton, as seen on Counterpunch.org:
The Ambush of Helen Thomas
by Gary Leupp
Counterpunch.org
June 8, 2010
“Any Better Comments?”
Outrage!
White House journalist Helen Thomas, covering a Jewish American Heritage Month celebration at the White House May 27, is accosted on the sidewalk by someone who asks: “Any comments about Israel? We”re asking everybody today—any comments about Israel?”
Smiling in grandmotherly fashion—-the way an 89 year-old woman might do when suddenly approached by an 17 year old boy who seems sincerely interested in her thoughts—she replies: “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.”
“Oooh”¦” responds the questioner. “Any better comments?” (A voice in the background: “Helen is fun!”)
“Hah hah hah,” laughs Helen. ” Remember these people are occupied, and it”s their land, not German, and not Poland.”
“So where should they go? What should they do?”
“They could go home. Poland. Germany.”
“Where”s home? You”re saying Jews should go back to Poland and Germany?”
“And America and everywhere else.”
A week later this video of the impromptu interview appears on “RabbiLIVE.com,” website of Rabbi David Nesenoff. (Who by the way is this “live rabbi”? Who is this rabbi character who”s terminated the career of a Washington press icon? How many journalists are even asking?) Continue reading “Was Helen Thomas the Victim of Spin and Disinformation?”