Helen Thomas Calls Anti-Semitism Charge ‘Baloney!’

[John Adams]

MARION, Ohio
 (AP) — In a radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were “exactly what I thought,” even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job.
 
“I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,” Thomas told Ohio station WMRN-AM in a sometimes emotional 35-minute interview that aired Tuesday. It was recorded a week earlier by WMRN reporter Scott Spears at Thomas’ Washington, D.C., condominium.
 
Thomas, 90, stepped down from her job as a columnist for Hearst News Service in June after a rabbi and independent filmmaker videotaped her outside the White House calling on Israelis to get “out of Palestine.” She gave up her front row seat in the White House press room, where she had aimed often pointed questions at 10 presidents, going back to Eisenhower.
 
She has kept a low profile since then.
 
“(It was) very hard for the first two weeks. After that, I came out of my coma,” Thomas said.
 
Rabbi David Nesenoff, who runs the website rabbilive.com, said he approached Thomas after he’d been at the White House for Jewish Heritage Day on May 27. He asked whether she had any comments on Israel.
 
“Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,” she replied.
 
“I told him exactly what I thought,” Thomas said in the radio interview. But when she soon began getting calls about her remark, “I said this is the end of my job.”
 
 
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/helen-thomas-on-being-anti-semitic-baloney/

[Jw2]

thought you were all for being against being "PC".

[littleeye]

She and Imus should colaborate on a new news program -  "Big Mouth Bass Kicks Some Ass"

[Dan]

"I'm not anti-semitic.  That's just a lie perpetrated by those greedy Jew bastards."

[upyrwazoo]

“I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive,”



that is also a lie