Helen Thomas has been a Washington institution since the later years of the Eisenhower administration. Her place in the Press Room at the White House is iconic at the very least. Her role as the grande dame of question time will never be reprised. She has shredded glass ceilings for women journalists and has become a celebrity in her own right as she grilled Presidents over the decades.
But no-one should be fooled by the appearance of an 89 year old woman receiving cupcakes from Prez Barack Obama.
Thomas grew up in Kentucky, where the original residents probably weren't of Lebanese descent as Thomas's parents were. Presumably they arrived in a welcoming Amerika after the red faces were already assigned to the trash heap of reservations and shallow graves.
Her comments recently that Jews should get out of Palestine were a careless spillover during a casual and unguarded moment. But when asked where should they go Thomas says as if it were so simple "they should go home." When asked for just a tad of clarification she explains: "To Germany, to Poland, to America. Wherever". If she had left it with the 'American' Jews it might have been a little more agreeable. After all, few US Jews fled from an oppressive regime such as the Soviet or Fascist systems. But Helen, perhaps now might be a good time to buy that apartment building in Tripoli (it's about as muggy as DC) and leave Washington. To the Redskins.
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