Michele Bachmann doesn't accept Helen Thomas's apology

[Enrique]

get ready, more of this will be coming.

http://biggovernment.com/mbachmann/2010/06/05/helen-needs-to-go/

Once again the liberal media has shown its true colors! The White House media dinosaur, also known as Helen Thomas has called on Jews to leave Israel and move back to Poland and Germany. This anti-Semitic sentiment has no place in our public discourse. I call upon her employer, Heart Corporation to dismiss her at once! The White House needs to revoke her press credentials immediately.

Her apology is not sufficient, considering her many previous negative sentiments against Israel. Her language is offensive, vulgar and intolerant.

[Codeine]

1. It was a fabulously stupid thing for her to say,

but Michele Bachmann has no room to talk.

[Enrique]

3. yes, very careless

and i don't see a lot of her colleagues having the courage to defend her. But we'll see...

[calimary]

25. Hell, they never defended her when there was a really good reason to.

When she was shunted to the back of the press room and effectively muzzled because she asked too many uncomfortable questions about what bush/cheney was up to, NOBODY stood up for her. NOBODY. They were all a bunch of chicken-shits.

[XanaDUer]

2. Michelle's a bit long in the tooth herself

So she can drop the "dinosaur" appellation there.

[KingFlorez]

4. Where does she have room to criticize anyone?

She wants to talk tolerance, but she does not ever try to control her rants.

[marshall]

5. What would she consider sufficient?

Does she want Helen to go back to Lebanon?

[Angry Dragon]

6. When was the last time bachmannn

apologized for any of the stupid, hateful, name calling garbage that comes out of her mouth??

[Bitwit1234]

7. Gee all the times she and her fellow republicans

have said something and then apologized should be accepted. But some one else can't apologize..tsk tsk typical dingbats responses. Bachmann is full of them and IT. YOU ALL KNOW WHAT IT...IS.

[annabanana]

8. fuck Michele Bachmann

that is all

[lamp_shade]

9. She probably oughtta not mess with Helen... know what I mean?

[Joanne98]

10. When is Michelle Bachmann going to apologize for all the stupid stuff she's said?

[Ozymanithrax]

11. Bachmann is right is this one case...Helen Thomas is a racist anti-Semite.

Now, I need to go wash my fingers in battery acid.

[madrchsod]

12. i wonder how many jews are personal friends of michelle.

it was not all that long ago that the christian right and conservate republicans hated the jews.


..oh wait ...they still do.

[mzteris]

13. how old is Helen?

sometimes you gotta give people a pass due to "senior moments", coming from a entire lifetime spent in a world that "younger people" can't even begin to comprehend.

[Codeine]

14. Obviously anti-Semitic comments never deserve a pass. nt

[mzteris]

19. i really don't even know anything about this incident

except the brief blurb - context can be just about everything.


"anti-"___X____" "should never "deserve a pass" - but ... when one is very elderly - and - either the "education" about what is going on in the world is missing, or the mental processes have started to weaken so that an individual starts having - um - flashbacks? - to an early time and language that is no longer acceptable, then. . .

I can't get too incensed that people over 80 still use the word "colored" or - worse. It makes me very unhappy - VERY - but there's no point in attacking them over using a word - or a thought process- they probably used for over half their life - when it WAS "acceptable".

Does that make sense?

[Codeine]

20. Yeah, I see where you're goin'. nt

[joeybee12]

15. What garbage...spinning and cutting Helen's words...the full quiote

says to America nad elsewhere...these jackasses are spinning it like she wants them to retrun to death camps.

[benddem]

16. did you read the comments

on http://biggovernment.com/mbachmann/2010/06/05/helen-nee. Not only can bitchman not spell (Heart (sic) corporation)...her followers are Morans.

[47of74]

17. People in glass houses, Ms. Bachmann

[fascisthunter]

18. No Michele... you are offensive, vulgar and intolerant toward everything around yourself

I will applaud the day it all comes back to bite you in the ass, which may actually turn out to be her face.

Helen doesn't need to apologize for a thing. Enjoy!

[IndianaGreen]

21. Michele Bachmann is an idiot, and still remains an idiot

All those Russians with the most nebulous and distant Jewish roots were allowed to emigrate to Israel and enjoy full citizenship, while Palestinians born on that land are not allowed to live on it or travel freely.

[HopeHoops]

22. Bachmann is an incompetent - what's the word I'm thinking of? I know it rhymes with "bunt".

Aw, can't think of it.

[upi402]

24. I have a thought

which will remain within the confines of my mind.

[keroro gunsou]

28. punt?

you know those gondola like boats... oh wait, unlike rep. bachmann, punts are useful.

[HopeHoops]

29. No, That's not it. I just can't THINK of the word (without puking in the context).

[keroro gunsou]

30. oh!

you mean runt... but those are yummy candies from my youth.... and unlike rep. bachmann good for something...

well, let's keep on guessing.... :evilgrin:

[upi402]

23. "Her language is offensive, vulgar and intolerant" -Michele Bachmann

Republicans accusing liberals of doing exactly what Republicans are doing... it never fails to piss me off.

[TheKentuckian]

26. I accept her apology but I also know from which direction she is coming on these matters

Of course, Republicans often hate Jews too while enjoying using Israel as a football and a cudgel so Bachmann and friends have little credibility either.

[Zavulon]

27. Despite the idiocy of Bachman, I don't accept the apology either.

I wouldn't accept that apology no matter who it came from. I'm not part of this "an apology gets you off the hook and anyone who doesn't accept it is a bad person" mentality at all; what Thomas said was completely fucking unacceptable and she should have the wrinkles and bags slapped off her face for saying it.

[Voluntary1]

31. Who cares what Bachmann thinks?

What Helen Thomas said was based on bigotry. It is one thing to be critical of Israel, but another thing to be a bigot against the Jews.

Bachmann is nuts, but Thomas is a bigot. Instead of accepting these facts, you try to rationalize bigotry.

I am Jew, but an American first. I am also critical of Israel. However, I am not blind that bigotry against Jews doesn't exist. I clearly see that you are being apologetic to bigoted behavior.

[depakid]

32. Michelle Bachmann: "Her language is offensive, vulgar and intolerant."

:rofl:

Quite aside from suffering from delusional disorder, this woman has absolutely no shame or self awareness whatsoever.

[Old Troop]

33. I saw the video. Helen needs to go join her Arian Nation friends somewhere

[davidinalameda]

34. didn't realize it was made to her

[Ian David]

35. Helen's apology is woefully inadequate.

She refused to negate the substance of her argument, which was that the Jews should be cleansed from their own homeland in Israel.

An acceptable apology would have included an acknowledgment that Israel is home to BOTH peoples, and that NEITHER should have to leave.

Helen Thomas can still go fuck herself.

[johnaries]

36. Pot, meet kettle......

Michelle is an expert on offensive, vulgar, and intolerant language. I call on her employers to replace her.