Helen Thomas Speaks — Unfortunately (Updated) | Bernard Goldberg
Thomas and Buchanan have been preaching their breed of anti-Semitism, Muslim and Catholic, for decades.
It’s no secret that Ms. Thomas, a major league liberal and the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, is no fan of Israel. Over the years she didn't actually ask questions regarding Israel so much as she made mini speeches to the White House press secretary condemning Israel. She has compared Israel’s military to the Nazis and just the other day referred to that Israeli raid on a Turkish "humanitarian aid" ship bound for Gaza as a “deliberate massacre.” She told Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, that Israeli soldiers “deliberately kill people.” And she’s made other comments over the years at the White Housemaking clear that she sees Palestinians as victims of Israeli atrocities, presumably even when those put upon Palestinians are firing rockets into civilian neighborhoods in Israel.
"Today," she says, "anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism."
Enter Pat Buchanan, a passionate foe of Israel and I suspect an anti-Semite too.
He once called Capitol Hill, "Israeli-occupied territory" ... and right before the first Gulf War, he went on the McLaughlin Group TV show to announce that, "There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the Middle East -- the Israeli Defense ministry and its amen corner in the United States."
Now Pat thinks there are too many Jews on the U.S. Supreme Court.
On the nomination of Elena Kagan to the court, Buchanan wrote: “If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.
Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?”
Since when is Pat Buchanan a fan of diversity? I don’t remember him screaming for it when blacks or Latinos or women were behind the 8-ball. And with all those numbers – 2 percent this, 33 percent that -- when did Buchanan start favoring quotas? A staunch Catholic, he doesn’t seem to have any trouble with the number of Catholics on the court – six.
Buchanan is right-wing, Thomas is left-wing, but on this one issue, they come together: Both wish Israel would just go away.
Buchanan never apologizes for anything, but Ms Thomas has just said I’m sorry...
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