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2010-06-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Cal Thomas column on Helen Thomas spiked

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2010-06-08 09:58|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Some prejudices are tolerated by elites in this country. Examples: One can regularly smear political conservatives as know-nothings; Evangelical Christians as believers in a fantasy; Roman Catholics for their church's stand against abortion and birth control; and Republicans as greedy people who care only about profit and power. Bill Maher regularly serves up a menu of these prejudices on his HBO program. Comedy Central is working on a cartoon series mocking Jesus Christ, but altered a sketch featuring the Prophet Muhammad for fear of a Muslim backlash. Some prejudices must be controlled. One prejudice seems to be gaining a certain cachet. Like a volcano, it occasionally erupts to reveal what has been churning below the surface. That prejudice is anti-Semitism...

So, the bigotry, antisemitism, and racism that liberals are so fond of railing about for others is found within themselves.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-06-08 11:00|| 2010-06-08 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 There was no reason to spike this column. It was not hate-fired vitriol. It was just an opinion by Cal about Helen Thomas and her *ahem* unfortunate remarks. Now Cal Thomas' column will go round the internet like Jack the Bear.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-06-08 12:03|| 2010-06-08 12:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Boy how the definition of "spiked" has been changed by the internet. Putting the dead in dead-tree media...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-06-08 12:13|| 2010-06-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#4 It is downright bizarre that this column was spiked. By most any measure it is tame. It is limited to just Thomas as well, while it could have indicted so many others for just as grievous displays, and who weren't fired over it.

Jesse Jackson and his "Hymietown" comment.

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent." - Senator Joe Biden

"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?" -- Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

"Blacks and Hispanics are too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." -- Mike Wallace, CBS News

"You f*cking Jew b@stard." -- Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray

"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Rev. Al Sharpton

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-08 12:37|| 2010-06-08 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course there was a reason to spike the column: Mr. Thomas defined antisemitism as Jew-hatred. This reflects the historical fact that the term was invented as a polite replacement for the crass German word Judenhass ("Jew hatred"). This removes the popular antisemitic rationalization that Arabs are also semites, and therefore incapable of antisemitism or are therefore equally victims of it.

Revealing such shibboleths is simply not done, my dears.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-08 12:46|| 2010-06-08 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 This report is in violation of the Sacrid Theology of Liberalism, a.k.a. Political Correctness.

Posted by Harcourt Angoger7112 2010-06-08 13:36|| 2010-06-08 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 the ever historically-challenged Al Sharpton always amuses me...what a clown.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-06-08 17:14|| 2010-06-08 17:14|| Front Page Top

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