Oh, Helen Thomas. Nobody really remembers why you mattered to begin with, but at some point, you simply became one of those institutions. What a grand, old dame, what a great character. But while we may not remember how she began, we’ll all remember how she ended–with a vitriolic little racist rant calling for Israelis to go “back” to Poland and Germany.
While we reject calls to drop her from the White House Press Corps (you know, not a great thing for the gov’t to ban reporters whose ideas they find distasteful–there’s probably a rule about that somewhere), we think a better solution would be for her to bow out gracefully, and to seamlessly replace her with the current octogenarian flavor of the month–White House Press Corps, meet Betty White!
While we reject calls to drop her from the White House Press Corps
Kudos to you for standing up to the Judaean House of Shrill.
Oh, look who is calling for her to be fired — the producers of the Iraq War!
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