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"This is putrid.
Rall's tortured logic fails to distinguish between freedom of speech and freedom from consequence. If you walk into your boss's office and spew racial invective, you won't go to jail unless you commit an assault. But 15 minutes later you'll likely find yourself at curbside, holding a cardboard box, unemployed. That illustrates the difference between the two.
Quick! What do Rush Limbaugh, Al Campanis, and Don Imus have in common? Probably lots of things, but for the purpose of this argument they were all rich white guys who put their foot in their mouth by saying something stupid and racist, and they lost their jobs because of it. I don't recall Rall rushing to their defense.
Lanny Davis' point is so obvious Rall has to acknowledge it but is helpless to actually refute it. So Thomas "didn't say anything racist"? Telling Jews to go back to countries they've never lived in equates exactly to telling blacks to go back to Africa, and it is most definitely a racist statement. Thomas made the same mistake the rich white guys made: she got lost in a time warp back to 1955, when white people could say blatantly racist things without consequence. Come to think of it, 1955 is probably the last time Thomas wrote anything decent enough to be called journalism.
Speaking of historical ignorance, history for Rall apparently begins in 1948. Rall ignores history by failing to acknowledge the Jewish state and hundreds of generations of Jews who existed in Palestine for centuries, as early as 1800 B.C. For Jews, The Holy Land has been a center of worship since that time, while for Arabs, only since about 600 A.D. Palestine has been in conflict and turmoil and under rule of various entities for 2700 years (since Assyria sacked the northern kingdom in 722 B.C.) The Jews have as much (or more) right to it than anyone. Since the modern recreation of the Jewish state in 1948, Israel has been under constant threat and attack from the Palestinian hate brigade. They have as much right to defend themselves as any other sovereign nation.
Helen Thomas deserved to be fired. Good riddance to this hateful, left-wing moonbat."
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