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If she was a Jew hater, why would she suggest that Israeli Jews come home to America, her country of residence? Calling someone a Jew hater for telling Jews to get out of Palestine is like calling someone an anti-Chinese bigot for wanting the Chinese to leave Tibet. Why is it only with Israel that a critic of their foreign policy is so often smeared as a bigot?Quote:
Originally Posted by chitown
It's the best Israel has got for a defense for their murderous ways. If you're a Jew and you criticise Israel, you're called a self hating Jew. The little empire's propoganda machine has the mythology wrapped up on all sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by GooMaiRoo
Not unlike the American empire's adoption of the England's "white man's burden" combined witho our home grown "manifest destiny" rationale to commit genocide across the continent.
Hit the Road Hellen, and don't ya come back no more, no more..... :bananaman::bananaman::bananaman:Quote:
Originally Posted by Boon Mee
Longtime Washington journalist Helen Thomas abruptly retired Monday
Helen Thomas retires in flap over Israel remarks - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – Longtime Washington journalist Helen Thomas abruptly retired Monday as a columnist for Hearst News Service following remarks she made that were denounced by the White House and her press corps colleagues.
The 89-year-old Thomas, dean of the press corps, has long been a fixture in Washington and has been lauded as a pioneering journalist who has covered presidents since 1960.
Known for her, Thomas apologized for comments that were captured on video and have spread widely on the Internet. On the May 27 video, Thomas says Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine," suggesting they go to Germany, Poland or the U.S.
Hearst announced her retirement, effective immediately, shortly after White House press secretary called her remarks "offensive and reprehensible."
The White House Correspondents Association also issued a rare statement, calling her comments "indefensible."
"Many in our profession who have known Helen for years were saddened by the comments, which were especially unfortunate in light of her role as a trail blazer on the White House beat," said the statement, signed by journalists who are officers of the association.
Thomas had been scheduled to speak at the June 14 graduation of Walt Whitman High School in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., but Principal Alan Goodwin wrote in a Sunday e-mail to students and parents that she was being replaced.
"Graduation celebrations are not the venue for divisiveness," Goodwin wrote.
Thomas wrote on her website that "I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the."
She added: "They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."
The national director of the, Abraham H. Foxman, said Sunday that Thomas' apology didn't go far enough.
"Her suggestion that Israelis should go back to Poland and Germany is bigoted and shows a profound," Foxman said in a statement. "We believe Thomas needs to make a more forceful and sincere apology for the pain her remarks have caused."
Thomas began her long career with the wire service United Press International in 1943, and started covering the White House in 1960, according to a biography posted on her website. She became a columnist for Hearst in 2000.
^ Ah, there still is some justice in the world.
as a journalist, she should have known better not to go into those kind of comments
even though she might have been right,
why not move the state of Israel in the middle of Texas, let's see how long the locals would be tolerant with them
^ She was no longer a journalist; an opinion columnist.
The press is all abuzz over who will get Helen's seat...Fox?
But, Helen Thomas’ Exquisite ‘Weimar Moment’ Reflects Progressive America w/out a doubt...:mid:
" The Times They Are a-Changin' "
General McChrystal is a libbie now :
"But when I heard that he (McChrystal) was an avowed liberal, who turned off Fox News in his office, which as you know, is the most widely watched network on all Army and Marine and naval bases all over the world by far. It's Fox News, Fox News, Fox News. When he did that and I heard that, I went, "OK, maybe his own ideology brought him down." I wonder if General McChrystal is as liberal now today as he was before the Rolling Stone article. So I think, you live by the liberal sword, you die by the liberal sword."
- O'Reilly Factor/June, 28 -
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"Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a war hero and patriot"
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"Of course, the situation is just awful. We have Americans dying in Afghanistan and now the commander there is on the carpet because of Rolling Stone? Are you kidding me? Our military in the field cannot afford this chaos."
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Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and numerous other Democratic political leaders chastised General David Petraeus during his Iraq surge testimony in September 2007. A full-page placed by MoveOn.org in The New York Times labeled General Petraeus "General Betray Us" and was not condemned by any of them.
Now President Obama has latched on to Gen. Petraeus as a lifeline to save his Afghanistan war strategy. What a paradox. A better name for Obama's new view of Gen. Petraeus might be "General Save Us." Will Gen. Petraeus be able to pull off this challenge with the current Counterinsurgency (COIN) Strategy and the dangerous Rules of Engagement (ROE) that General McCrystal had instituted in his year in his role as ISAF and U.S. Forces Afghanistan commander? Unfortunately, I don't think so. That is, unless both the strategy is changed and the rules of engagement are dramatically altered and new leadership is provided to both the Defense and State departments.
First to the State Department: Ambassadors Eikenberry and Holbrooke have long outlived their effectiveness. They are a drag on success in this difficult war. They must go.
Next, to the Department of Defense: This a war is not an "Overseas Contigency Operation (OCO)" as President Obama’s administration calls it. We have lost 89 ISAF soldiers and 53 US soldiers this month with 2 days left to go.
Mr. President, we are in a violent war against radical Islam and your denial of this fact will ensure our defeat.
You and your administration cannot even define the ideology we are fighting against. John Brennan, your National Security adviser for counterterrorism, thinks "jihad" means "holy struggle" not a war against infidels.
Your Secretary of Defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have accepted these ridiculous new definitions of the threat.
This means you, and your national security leadership team are clueless about how to defeat this violent threat against America.
They must all go and you must change your senseless strategy.
How can we expect General Petraeus to defeat the Taliban when he does not have a leadership team supporting him the way the Bush administration's team did during the surge in Iraq?
That surge worked because we had a president who was intractable in telling the Joint Chiefs and General Casey -- our commander in Iraq -- that he wanted victory not a tie even though they all had resisted the surge. His determined leadership throughout the surge while facing fierce political pressure from the left, the mainstream media and the Democratic Party was the most intense this nation has ever seen. His leadership prevailed.
Gen. Petraeus' COIN strategy in Iraq worked because he was determined to win and support his forces in the field by destroying Al Qaeda -- not by counting how many schools we had built and how many civilian causalities there were. Winning hearts and minds was an adjunct to destroying the enemy and then the hearts and minds followed.
General McChrystal got this backwards and implemented the rules of engagment that are killing American soldiers today.
This is unacceptable. The rules must be changed to ensure that our American and ISAF troops are protected at all times on offense and defense. We must accept collateral damage -- and that means civilians, most of whom are either hostages or sympathetic to the Taliban. This is a war not an "Overseas Contingency."
Lt Gen Dave Deptula the chief of intelligence for the U.S. Air Force did a very thoughtful interview with Wired magazine recently about the war in Afghanistan. He pointed out that the Afghan people’s complaint against the Karzai government is about corruption and incompetence and he notes that the Taliban are the top killers of civilians in Afghanistan. -- The Taliban have been very skillful in using the media against airpower. This is a tremendous asymmetric advantage that General McChrystal had lost due to his dangerous rules of engagement. If General Petraeus does not change this, he and ISAF will fail.
In summary General Petraeus has a very narrow window to defeat the Taliban. Winning hearts and minds will follow. He must change his rules of engagement, get the president to change his July 2011 departure timeline as well as change his national security leadership to show that he is determined to win. Right now the Obama administration has sent all the wrong signals for victory against radical Islam. Even General Save Us cannot win this one.
Lt.Gen. Thomas G. McInerney is retired from the Air Force. He is a Fox News military analyst.
FOXNews.com - Everyone Must Go, If We Want to Win In Afghanistan
Poor Lambik, trolling for some speck of fodder to attack Fox..but there is none. :) Who was it that took the libbie McChrystal down with comments that were off the record? Oh ya, the libbie Rolling Stone and its unethical reporter. Yep, the libbies eat their own.
LOL..Quote:
Originally Posted by dotcom
[quote=Jet Gorgon;1489272] attack Fox..
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How did I attack Fox please ? I just mention O'Reilly changed his opinion about McCrystal, in a couple of days, apparently because McCrystal was not watching Fox News in his office.
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"It's been reported that he (MacCrystal) banned Fox News Channel from Kabul. Well, that's just not true. It's not even -- that package, the armed forces network package isn't even offered in the NATO headquarters in Kabul because the NATO contractors have BBC and Sky and all the other European international programs for the folks at Kabul to watch."
- RET. BRIG. GEN. ANTHONY TATA, U.S. ARMY -
^ *giggle* He should have banned Rolling Stone.
I just watched the CBS and NBC nightly newscasts. No wonder more and more people are turning to FOX. The bulk of the news hours were filled with kids playing in fountains to fend off the heat, more oil slicked birds, Queen E II in NYC, Katie focusing on BP's shortfalls in the Gulf spill segment (nada on what the Feds are doing), and of course both networks showed the Feds taking on bad state AZ, but twisting the words so it looks like AZ is going to do racial profiling and increase work for ICE as its police make more arrests. 55555555
CNN. Well, that's the big loser of the networks, altho it does have some great producers and coverage of sobby events like Haiti. And, Larry King got fired. What a blow for the fluff-watching libbies. :)
What a shock!
The New Black Panther Party is blaming FOX News for their voter intimidation. Imagine that...
YouTube - Malik Shabazz
Malik Zulu Shabazz says Fox News is trying to stir up racial fears and lying to the public. He tells Russian viewers that Fox News’ viewers are whites and “Confederates”. When whites say they want to “take their country back, we interpret that as meaning take our country back from this black man”.
Shabezz also challenged “Right-wingers” and the tea-party: “We’re ready to rumble”:rofl:
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-07-08/fo...l-america.html
^ Well, Booners, Fox is the only US network carrying this news. This is a Russian network?
MSNBC Nightly News tonight:
Extreme heat wave
barge hits boat in Philly
a couple of the oil spill and big bad BP
Russian spies
scientists seek link between chemicals and cancer
French lawmakers debate the burka
Former Pullman porter celebrates 100th b-day
CBS
the heat wave
Wow! Russian/US spy swap
Oil spill..officials are fighting amongst themselves! Locals want action!
Philly boat accident
Obama not going to Israel after accepting invitation...Israel -- oh my, Katie asks Netanyahu if he trusts bambutt. Net says he trusts him. Katie trying to suck Net out. Oops, he's too smart for her.
Lady Gaga's contac lens
black serial killer in LA
China flash flood
...
Nothing about the new black panthers or voter fraud. No wonder people now watch Fox to know what's really going on.
Absolutely nada on the new black panthers.
Fox News: For the fearful and imbalanced
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As opposed to CNN who openly admit that they are sympathetic to jihadists who mass-murder Americans, eh?:mid:
CNN fires Octavia Nasr for Twitter post praising Hezbollah terrorist, says credibility 'compromised'
A little refresher on who this POS is CNN feels sympathy for...Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah was a bloody-minded mass-murderer who gave his personal blessing to the suicide bombers who killed 241 Americans at Marine Barracks in Lebanon in 1983.
Your opinion. As I noted before, folks here equate the opinion shows (Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, et al) to the hard news, which they are not. Fox shows are miles ahead of the spittle-spewing Olbermann and Maddow cartoons. Also proven in the ratings.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulBunyon
Where do you get your news? MSNBC? TD? Bloggers?
If you watched a few opinion progs of different political stripes, you would soon discover that Fox has the best info. But, you need to be up on the Issues and have a brain to understand Fox opinion shows. Hope you weren't a Larry King fan...what a pity for him. :)
What would happen if demons sucked the soul out of Lewis Skolnick from Revenge of the Nerds? We'd be left with Rachel Madcow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jet GorgonYour opinion. As I noted before, folks here equate the opinion shows (Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, et al) to the hard news, which they are not. Fox shows are miles ahead of the spittle-spewing Olbermann and Maddow cartoons. Also proven in the ratings.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulBunyon
Where do you get your news? MSNBC? TD? Bloggers?
If you watched a few opinion progs of different political stripes, you would soon discover that Fox has the best info. But, you need to be up on the Issues and have a brain to understand Fox opinion shows. Hope you weren't a Larry King fan...what a pity for him. :)
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Separated at birth or what?
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
Show me one liberal nerd that even comes close to Glenn Beck. :rolleyes:
I mean seriously, they should steal his weird Mormon underwear and make it the centre piece of the next Frisco gay pride march. :)
Did any y'all catch the catfight on Fox News the other day? I haven't found a satellite provider that carries the hated, detested, terrible Fox News but this was on YouTube...:)
YouTube - Catfight! Megyn Kelly Versus Kirsten Powers over Black Panthers Case
^ Saw that. Interesting. I think libbies also hate Fox because so many of the blond hotties who anchor these shows, have brains and law degrees, and (unlike maddow) are able to debate without sneering or spitting at their guests.
I have to play these back to back because the parallel is so stunning. (I found the Maddow linkie on a Tea Party blog; no, I do not watch her show, but this is, dare I say, a great clip.)
YouTube - Precrime Police: Barack Obama
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4294040/beck-think-like-an-activist/?playlist_id=87937#/v/4294019/netroots-nation-targets-beck/?playlist_id=87937