Even Helen Thomas learns that it is possible to get caught in the act of being one's self. She was caught with her virulently anti-Semitic pants down last week, and finally is retiring.
Wikipedia updated her bio today:
On May 27, 2010, outside a White House Jewish heritage event, Rabbi David Nesenoff asked if Thomas had any comments on Israel. Thomas replied, "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,"[10] and added that the people are under occupation. Asked where they should go she replied that "they should go home" to Poland, Germany, America and "everywhere else".[11][12] Thomas subsequently issued an apology on her personal web site.[12][13][14] On June 6, Thomas's agency, Nine Speakers, Inc., announced that they had dropped her as a client, due to her remarks.[15][16] Craig Crawford, who co-authored "Listen up, Mr. President", said that he "will no longer be working with Helen on our book projects".[17] Other fallout from Thomas' statements include a rebuke from the White House[18] and cancellation of a commencement speech she was to give at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland.[19] Around noontime on June 7th, 2010 in consequence to her comments from a few days earlier, Thomas tendered her immediate resignation and entered into retirement.
She wasn't a harmless little old lady, as she was so often portrayed, and happily let everyone believe. She was a bitter partisan, carrying a legacy of anti-Semitism inherited from her Lebanese family heritage. This latest outrage was the final straw.
Of course, there will be an obligatory period of silence, the acquisition of a new speaker bureau representation, a new book deal, and she'll be on the road this time next year, in front of sympathetic anti-Semitic audiences on the left of American politics, as well as Muslim groups , explaining how she was victimized by the Zionists and the Jooo-ish Conspiracy.
In the interlude, we all get a bit of relief.
Miss Thomas, Oprah's on the phone. You available to appear?
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