Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Well, that was fast. After her disgusting anti-Semitic remarks, it really was just a matter of time before the shitstorm engulfed her. And considering she was apparently about to get canned from the WHCA, it seems like she was just trying to beat them to the punch.
Helen Thomas announced Monday that “she is retiring, effective immediately,” according to a statement from Hearst newspapers.
Her decision comes after her controversial remarks about Israel hit the blogosphere. She later apologized for her comments, saying she “deeply regretted” making them.
Ed Morrissey is reporting that apparently there are even more videos of her making anti-Semitic statements coming soon. If true, it’s really not all that shocking that she would try to run and hide from the controversy.
Let her legacy continue in the role she had to give up, like Ted Kennedy’s in the seat he vacated. Which is to say, not.
She’s been covering our presidents since the Eisenhower administration. Her antisemitism has always been thinly veiled, at least it has been to the extent of my awareness, watching her pelt a then-President Ronald Reagan with all kinds of snotty lecturing dressed up as a question. Her biases haven’t been a secret by any means; kind of a “yes but no” unacknowledged gossamer reality, like JFK’s marital infidelities or FDR’s confinement to a wheelchair.
Under this cover of cooperative darkness, the antisemitic scandal has ripened into a journalistic-objectivity one. That is being kind. “What in the blue fuck is she doing in there??” has been the unstated, and therefore unanswered, question. This situation seems to have arisen somewhere around Nixon/Ford, and perhaps much earlier.
And then, the powers that be allowed her to continue chafing her rump in that Press Corps chair, for generations more.
Adios, you miserable toad. Don’t let the doorknob hitcha where the Good Lord split ya.
For those who are left standing — let’s stick to real questions from here on. Just to throw the rest of us off. M’kay?
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By her logic, America is being occupied by … hell, everybody but “American Indians”. So we should all go back to Europe. And in her case, Lebanon. Or in the case of some of my co-workers, China, Ukraine, India, Iran, Iraq, Romania. And what do *I* do, Helen? I mean, I’m part Portuguese, German, Italian, and maybe even a little Irish and(*gasp!*) French in there.
Where do I go, Helen? Gonna chop me up into pieces?
She should have retired during the Grant Administration.
- philmon | 06/08/2010 @ 07:47Helen Thomas in 2001: An Anti-Semitic Odyssey. I can already see how it ends:
“My God! It’s full of Jews!”
I’ve been waiting for that rancid pustule on the ass of DC journalists to go away for a long, long time. And I’m happy that she’s leaving in disgrace, because she deserves no better.
- Physics Geek | 06/08/2010 @ 09:28