Wicked Witch of the West retires

[john doe]

Apparently she couldn't claim to have been misquoted after she was videotaped saying things about Jews needing to go back to Germany and Poland, where life was all peaches and cream for them back in the 1930s and '40s. Helen Thomas ends 5-decade career in controversy - Yahoo! News

[pam]

She has done some great interviews over the years. She's always been highly opinionated..but come on..she's a press reporter. She should know to be careful in saying what in front of who. Or unless at her age she just didn't care.

[HoosierGuy]

We need more reporters like Helen Thomas. She has the guts to ask the tough questions without coming from a certain political angle like so many reporters who want to make a name for themselves or represent their own companies beliefs (Fox News.) Ok, she made one mistake and apologized and now retired. She did the honorable thing.

Edited June 7, 2010 by HoosierGuy
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[Moksha]

If only Mormons had that same power to punish. Wait a minute, take that back - the power to punish is not a good thing. Especially in a country that theoretically upholds free speech without fear of religious reprisal.

[HoosierGuy]

I just watched the news and story about this. So she said these things when someone was interviewing her? I thought she said all this to the President during a press conference. Not so. I think she was at some Jewish event at the White House. Anyway, although her stance may be wrong she did say it while not officially on the job interviewing the President or Press Secretary.

[Wingnut]

It took me a few posts to realize that you weren't actually referring to the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. I was surprised that she'd still been working.

[pam]

I just watched the news and story about this. So she said these things when someone was interviewing her? I thought she said all this to the President during a press conference. Not so. I think she was at some Jewish event at the White House. Anyway, although her stance may be wrong she did say it while not officially on the job interviewing the President or Press Secretary.

She may not have been interviewing the President or the Press Secretary but she said it on the White House lawn on her way to the Jewish American Heritage Month celebration at the White House. To a Jewish Rabbi no less. I guess that makes it okay then.

[john doe]

Oh, well that makes everything she said all okay then. Because what a reporter or talking head does or says to reporters when they are 'off the clock' is no one else's business, right?

[john doe]

It took me a few posts to realize that you weren't actually referring to the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. I was surprised that she'd still been working.

Put a wart on the end of that nose, and you've got a ringer for a match.

[Moksha]

It took me a few posts to realize that you weren't actually referring to the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. I was surprised that she'd still been working.

Speaking of Oz, I am missing Elphaba.

[Wingnut]

Speaking of Oz, I am missing Elphaba.

I was thinking about her last week, realizing it's been a few months since we've seen her around.

[Just_A_Guy]

It took me a few posts to realize that you weren't actually referring to the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. I was surprised that she'd still been working.

Poor Margaret Hamilton . . . loved kids, and they wouldn't come near her after that movie.

[LocalFarms]

Poor Margaret Hamilton . . . loved kids, and they wouldn't come near her after that movie.

This makes me sad.

[hordak]

It took me a few posts to realize that you weren't actually referring to the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. I was surprised that she'd still been working.

I laugh because i was about to look Helen Thomas up on IMDB to see what other films she did besides Oz

[FunkyTown]

Having watched the video, I have to say:

I think this was a bit of an overreaction.

She's someone who follows the international stage. To her, Israel moving in to Palestine and displacing palestinians would be similar to a very large group of people from Mexico moving to California and displacing the residents there to a small ghetto.

It would not have turned out well despite a historical claim to California.

What she said was not politically correct. I also think it's not actually correct, since a lot of people have now been born in Israel.

Regardless, I think it would be best to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one. I feel badly for her. One impolitic statement should not end your career, even though it often does.

[Hemidakota]

Regardless, I think it would be best to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one. I feel badly for her. One impolitic statement should not end your career, even though it often does.

Well said Funky...