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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...
The Rabbi who brought an end to the nonsense after it had dragged on for half a century, describes his experience.
We were on the White House front lawn when I told the teenagers that approaching us was the most famous reporter in the world — Helen Thomas, a veteran who had covered presidents from Kennedy to Obama. We stopped her. I told Thomas that the young men were starting out in the press corps and hoped to be reporters. She kindly shared notes about journalism with us. “You’ll always keep learning,” she said. It was an honor.
Then I asked: “Any comments on Israel? We’re asking everybody today.” Like saying a password to enter a new, secret place. “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,” she replied, and “go home” to Poland and Germany.
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I merely asked a question with a video camera to a columnist. She answered me with an opinion that was unacceptable not just to me but to former and current press secretaries, politicians, the president, her agent and a great many other people. Her freedom of speech was not stifled; on the contrary, it was respected.She didn’t say that the blockade was unjust, or that aid was not getting to Gaza, or that there was a massacre on the high seas, or that East Jerusalem is occupied, or that the settlements are immoral…and get out and go back to West Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Eilat. No. This was not the two-state solution. This was get the hell out and go back to the places of the final solution, Poland and Germany. The Jew has no connection with the land of Israel.
And why? Because, as Thomas went on to explain to me, “I’m from Arab descent.” That’s it? That’s all you got? Do we all travel with only our parents’ stereotypes to guide us, never going beyond them to get to a peaceful destination?
I hope this is just the beginning. Helen Thomas’ continued association with that coveted “front row seat” was preserved purely out of name recognition. It had no basis in anything except those parts of aristocratic England that were never supposed to have a place in the New World, the country “of laws, not of men.” I continue to see it as a jutting appendage of the whole union mentality that sees a person’s job not as an association with an employer who needs work done, not as a contract, or an obligation, but as property. As a feudal title.
Anyone who promoted that or accepted that, I hope this manure just rolls straight uphill and their asses get fired. We’re supposed to despise “old boys’ clubs” in our modern enlightened society. Why should they get a pass just because they promoted an old girl? These jackasses went through the motions of pretending to bring us news, and instead just preserved a stale, do-nothing organizational hierarchy that gave a modern Hitler a soapbox. And then they kept right on doing it for as long as they could get away with it.
Oh and one other little thing. From all the years that I have listened to Helen Thomas’ “questions”…the idea of her telling young aspirant reporters “you’ll always keep learning” is something I find to be rich, risible and snort-worthy. The woman is the living pinnacle of intellectual stasis. Seriously — seriously — what does she think about things now, that she didn’t think at the very beginning?
The answer to that one would be a worthy addition to my collection of thin books, I think.
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- KC | 06/20/2010 @ 19:53But happy Father’s Day Morgan.
Thank you KC. I really liked your post.
- mkfreeberg | 06/20/2010 @ 20:35The anti-Semitism from the likes of Thomas is as inconsistent as it is disgusting.
Arab descent, my ass. Surely there are people living today who are of “Arab descent” who realize that it’s just plain goofy to be talking about wiping an entire country off the map and expelling (or killing) millions of innocent people who simply happen to be ethnically or religiously Jewish.
And for those who don’t have this level of common sense? Don’t you want to ask these people, “You ARE aware that there has never been a sovereign country called ‘Palestine,’ correct? You are aware that the territory by that name has simply been in one imperial duffel bag after another down through the centuries? You cannot tell me who its last head-of-state was or what distinguishes its people ethnically or culturally from Egyptians, Lebanese, or Jordanians, can you?”
I know this post was about Helen Thomas, not the Israel vs Palestinians thing per se, but I couldn’t resist expounding for a moment. I guess what I can’t get my head around is how someone with this level of bigotry (and ignorance) was allowed such a position of fame and influence for such a long period of time.
- cylarz | 06/20/2010 @ 23:22