re: #74 tradewind

There’s bigotry, perceived or actual, and then there’s an actual call for ethnic cleansing.
Thomas was guilty of the latter. Some difference there, even if you stretch it.

yeah sorry, I’m not going with you on the Helen Thomas’ evil comments are awful just awful, and Glenn Beck and Limbaugh’s evil comments are totally It’s Okay if You’re a Republican Look Over There!

Sorry, not there witcha, but carry on, you’re as predictable as a clock. :) Helen Thomas is an ant politically, compared to the reach of syndicated radio hosts. Ask a hundred people on the street who Helen Thomas is and 98 of them won’t know. Helen Thomas is not a household name. Helen Thomas is not signing quarter-billion-dollar deals. Helen Thomas does not have absolute power to destroy anyone’s career in the Democratic Party the way Rush does to the GOP.

And of course, the obvious, which I shall emphasize, since you don’t seem to understand: Helen Thomas was forced out of her career for what she said. Beck and LImbaugh are celebrated for what they’ve said, dutiful junior racists nodding in agreement to every single Bircher bon mot. End of story!