Ding Dong the Witch is dead! Helen Thomas flies away on her broomsick and retires

helen.jpgDing Dong the Witch is Dead, Which old Witch, the Wicked Witch! Always an anti-Semitic Jew hating Lebanese, the video of the REAL Helen Thomas that came out last week finally did the trick. The wicked witch of the West Bank announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately. Politico’s teary eyed piece on this mentions how it’s the end of an era. Yea, its the end of an era alright, the end of a 50+ year career of anti-semitism. Of course, seeing a way to score cheap political points, Robert Gibbs said

“Those remarks were offensive and reprehensible,” Gibbs said during the Monday briefing, adding that Thomas’s remarks “do not reflect certainly most of the people here and certainly not those of the administration.”

Yet there were nothing but crickets from Gibbs and this regime over the past week when RabbiLive.com’s Rabbi David Nesenoff video went viral on the internet

Over the weekend, Thomas’ agency dropped her as a client and a high school that had asked Thomas to speak at its commencement ceremony revoked the invitation. Such political bigwigs as Dana Perino, Ari Fleischer, Rep. Rick Lazio, Lanny Davis and Joe Lockhart denounced Thomas’ remarks, as did many Jewish organizations.

During Thomas’ fifty-seven years as a correspondent for United Press International, Thomas earned a reputation as a tough questioner willing to put the feet of politicians to the fire, while simultaneously becoming a whipping boy for conservatives who objected to her liberal viewpoints and, later, for her privileged position within the White House press corps (the middle seat in the front row was — first by protocol and then by mandate — designated for Thomas). She became the first female officer of the National Press Club as well as the first female member of the White House Correspondents Association and the Gridiron Club. When UPI was acquired by News World Communications, Inc. in 2000, Thomas resigned from the organization and later joined Hearst Newspapers as a columnist, where she covered national affairs.

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June 7, 2010 · Filed Under Helen Thomas


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  • ktchnsnk

    nicely put, you nailed it.

    there but for the grace of Satan, goes Jimmy Carter!