…slowly defining anti-Semitism downward.

Because American sovereignty means never being allowed to say Israel was wrong.

Many considered the entire affair unworthy of mention or requiring her immediate termination.

“Many” meaning “pretty much no one.” Because I saw nothing but condemnation of her remarks from everyone, and I mean everyone. But I guess the fact that no one was calling for her to be drawn and quartered, then burned, then what was left of her shot via moonrocket into orbit, so that her horribleness could never desecrate the earth ever again, proves that everyone was really OK with what she said.

Just saying that proves you’re an anti-semite.

You know, I really prefer this Jennifer Rubin:

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This is why you never give them anything. No-tzing.

Wingnut rampaging has reached the level where they’re like zombies, saying “Let me eat your brains just a little bit, and then I’ll go away”. Would you believe that?

Thought experiment:

A) Columnist (yes, Helen Thomas is a columnist, just like Pat Buchanan is) says distasteful thing about Israel. Wingnuttia goes berserk. They complain that everyone is evil and hates them and so on. She resists calls to resign, and they continue complaining that it’s terrible and evil.

B) Columnist says thing, then resigns. Wingnuttia continues to go berserk, and complain, just as in the above.

Conclusion: Do whatever you want, they just want brains.

Well, shit, I am an anti-Semite, too, because I don’t like gefilte fish.

“the left and the White House were mute.”

Boy, they just make this shit up don’t they?

Also. Too. Why do you hate America??? Ms. Rubin, I would very much like to introduce you to “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”…but you are too thick to understand the moral of the story. Now, go make me a sandwich!

Sweet Jeebuz, Commentary Magazine really is the pundit equivalent of “Guns & Ammo” isn’t it?

Still waiting to see the whole video, without James-O’Keefe-style editing. I doubt that will ever happen.

Meanwhile, why does the ADL’s Abe Foxman give the Catholic League’s Bill “the Jews run Hollywood” Donohue much gentler treatment than that he accords Helen Thomas or History’s Third Greatest Monster, Bill Moyers?

What I long feared has come to be. The prissy have not only begun to control the world, they are destroying everyone who refuses to obey their prissy little demands. Helen Thomas, an old broad who had what looks very much like a brief senior moment, is the latest victim. Next?

It might be worth noting that all the time spent discussing Helen Thomas’ nasty comment is time spent not discussing the flotilla massacre, and the general wretchedness of life in blockaded Gaza.

I suspect that is the whole point of this Commentary writer’s multiple posts on this bit of trivia. Someone over in comments to today’s Attaturk post noted that Mel Gibson provided this IDF-friendly distraction service in 2006, shortly after a shelter in Lebanon was bombed by the Israelis. These hasbara operatives really know their stuff. If it hadn’t been HT popping off, they would have found something else, and ginned it up from a molehill into a mountain accordingly.

I bet old Abe is pretty sweet on Mickey “Kill The Arabs But Leave The Goats” Kaus, as well.

I don’t condemn what she said, she’s right. Helen was right. The current majority in Israel was placed on top of an indiginous people whose rights were taken away. SOmebody thinks that’s fine. Not me. I think it’s pretty much bullshit; so does Helen.

It seems that any time someone or some group criticizes the actions of the Israelis all are immediately labeled antisemitic. Cut the rot. What Helen Thomas said not only has merit, but it is not antisemitic, it is anti-ethnic cleansing, anti-occupation, and anti-bullying. Are we really following the dictates of Ari Fleischer, now? Who is kidding who? Ari Fleischer is a leading anti-semite. A Semitic person is a person who comes from the Middle East and speaks one of the following languages, among others : Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, HEBREW, Syriac, ARABIC, South Arabian. Ari Fleischer and the entire Bush Administration were themselves anti-semitic, anti Muslim. However, today, when someone says that Israel was wrong to have done X or Y, we hear loud screams of “ANTI SEMITE!” That’s Bull!

Moreover, Helen Thomas is being used to deflect criticism of Israel for the Flotilla Massacre–and it WAS a massacre. Israel has been co-opting Palestinian land hand over fist. Look at what that country looked like before 1967and look at what it looks like today! And as for Ari Fleischer’s cry of “religious cleansing”, look at Gaza, look at how babies, children, women, and men are dieing because Israel will not allow medicine, food, and other necessary supplies to get into that area! Disgraceful! That is not an anti-semitic statement, it is an anti-killing statement, an anti-ethnic cleansing statement. Helen Thomas did not say the Israelis should get out of Israel, but I agree with what she DID say, the ISRAELIS should “get the hell out of PALESTINE!”

I for one am glad that this post was sans boobies