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?”