Ewwww...WASHINGTON - Ahead of her 90th birthday, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who resigned following her offensive remarks against Israel, may be getting a statue in her honor at the Arab American National Museum in Michigan.
Supporters of the initiative in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit and the town with the second largest Arab community in the United States, are trying to raise money to have the copper statue constructed and put in the local museum.
But Thomas' remarks that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Poland and Germany, which abruptly ended her 67-year-career, are not helping the cause. "There are people who don't want to donate because of it," said Anan Ameri, the Arab American National Museum's director. According to museum sources, some $30,000 is needed to have the statue erected.
Ameri said he does not think Thomas herself believes in what she said.
| Then why did she say it? And why, immediately afterward, did so many in her circle say -- on the record -- that she said things like that all the time, in private? The question then becomes, if she was merely being a nasty liar when she said that, what does that say about the Arab-American community that they hold her up as a heroine and exemplar? |
Thomas, who will be turning 90 on Wednesday, is a member of the museum's advisory board, and the museum has launched a 45-day online campaign to gather the remaining $10,000 that is needed to erect the statue, which is being constructed by former news photographer and sculptor Susan McElhinney.
Well, that'll be the first erection that face ever inspired...