Helen Thomas

White House correspondent Helen Thomas turns 90 in two months. She has reported from the US seat of power through 10 presidencies since 1960.

Helen Thomas

Last week she told a Jewish online news service Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine,” and “Remember, these people [Palestinians] are occupied and it’s their land. It’s not Germans’. It’s not Poland’s.”

This week the mounting pressure boiled over and her long and illustrious journalistic career was over. Poof. Fifty seven years of building a media legacy down the drain.

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  • Grumbles says:

    06:03pm | 15/06/10

    Freedom of Speech is not freedom of consequence. I wish our lawyers and Judges would realize this. Read more »

  • Grumbles says:

    06:02pm | 15/06/10

    To call it like it is would be to say, It’s Isreal’s land they have defended it successfully and if they wanted the rest of the middle east they could take it easily. That a teroorist organisation that oppresses its own people and is hellbent on destroying Isreal is really… Read more »

 

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