Antisemitic comments put cloud over crabby glory days
(NEWSER) - If only Helen Thomas had retired just a couple weeks earlier, then we could remember her for her legendarily combative presidential interrogations, muses Howard Kurtz. But after her “get the hell out of Israel” rant, we’re left instead with today’s column in the Washington Post titled “Helen Thomas, Tarnished Icon,” in which a host of detractors pile on. “She’s always said crazy stuff,” scoffs Jonah Goldberg, while an Atlantic reporter criticizes her for offering “the official Hamas position.” More»
