Horrified But Not Surprised Department: Helen Thomas Collects A Journalism Prize From The PLO

As mentioned before, OS is horrified, but not shocked.

The Jerusalem Post article linked above tells the immediate tale.

OS has other questions, along the lines of:

Didn't any of the Best and Brightest of the Washington/YewNorkCity press corps not have an inkling of this woman's virulently anti-Semitic views?

Wouldn't it be plausible to ask if she had acted as an agent of the PLO over the years, feeding Arafat and company the inside gossip and info from the White House? She was revered, treated with deference, a true insider's insider. She was tiny little lady who was traditionally called upon first at Presidential press conferences, harmless by all appearances.

Until she was 'outed' a couple of years ago, it would have been completely unthinkable to even raise the questions about her in public--wouldn't wish to appear sexist, you know. Or disrespectful to harmless little old ladies.

Why do the press get to ask all the questions of us, and we never get to ask questions of them?

Why do they presume to always occupy some mythical moral high ground, especially if they adhere to the dogma of the Left?

Why?

Adios, Helen Thomas: Departed And Unlamented

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?