First let me get this out, I am in no way endorsing or condoning the hateful and hurtful comments that Ms. Thomas made. I do agree with the sentiment that what she said was beyond the pale and it is certainly not her finest moment.
But I have to disagree with the larger view that this is who she is and she should be defined by it. First we need to totally suspend disbelief to think Helen Thomas does not have any enemies, be in the media (Fox News), politics (AIPAC) or just personally people that just hate her guts because of who she is and what she has done (Her "friends" in the MSM who envy her prominent position and have wanted to bring her down all along).
The critics who were asking for Ms. Thomas head on a silver platter and got their wish they should ask themselves if they have ever said anything they regret, anything they wish they could take back, if they ever made a mistake?
Lets see, Mr. Ari Fleischer worked for George W. Bush, lets ask his boss if he had ever made a mistake?:
Lets see, that wasn't convincing at all, lets go to Sarah Palin see if she has ever said something she probably should regret and needs to apologize for, like today:
Maybe Sarah can enlighten us more about her "environmentally friendly" and "drilling safe" techniques later, but why stop with Palin lets go to her mentor and idol John McCain:
Wow, a "joke" and "get a life". I couldn't agree more with John McCain... but it is CONSERVATIVES who are a JOKE and should GET A LIFE. All this outrage at Helen Thomas from people who live in glass houses.
In the interest of BYEpartisanship and just to be "Fair and Balanced" i'm including Lanny Davis who has called for Helen Thomas head, has anyone he has worked for has ever made a mistake:
MEMO TO ALL THE HIGH MINDED AND PERFECTLY EGOTISTICAL ELITE:
We all make mistakes, the way to handle them is you acknowledge them you live with them and then you move on with your life. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
There is a lot of stones in this world but not really anyone with the pureness of heart and cleanness of soul to pick them.
UPDATE: I wrote this diary yesterday before the news of Helen Thomas retirement and couldn't publish it because I had published another diary earlier on that day, but I felt the truth within it still needed to be told.
I am astounded that the same MSM that didn't stand up to George W Bush on Iraq and were slow at best and complicit at worst in condemning torture is failing to defend the only one amongst it's ranks that has always gotten it right.
The MSM sold out its independent and impartial label to a form of "one sided political correctness" based on a political and partial view of the world (AIPAC), and that is a disgrace. Who will ever dare criticize Israel? even in the mildest way ever again? and not be petrified that they might be fired or forced into early retirement?, no one, and that is how they, the "Israel is always right no matter what it does" crowd like it.
The MSM is officially AIPACs B***H. Enjoy !
Constitutionally Mandated Freedom of The Press R.I.P