Helen Thomas “Out of Questions”


Helen Thomas is “out of questions” says the Washington Post. The veteran White House reporter was pressured into resigning from her job as a Hearst columnist yesterday after comments she made about Israel were made public. Thomas, who has a reputation for being stubbornly opinionated, told a Long Island rabbi that “Israeli Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go home to Germany, Poland and America.”

Calls for her resignation came from both the right and the left of the aisle. And many of her colleagues in the White House Press Corps say this latest flareup is just the latest in a long string of incidents: “As a columnist she felt totally unbound from any of the normal policies of objectivity that every other reporter in the room felt compelled to abide by, and sometimes her questions were embarrassing to other reporters.”

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