http://ht.ly/42ZDn Report: Jimmy Carter consoled Helen Thomas last summer after controversial remarks
By Jeff Poor - The Daily Caller | Published: 4:33 PM 02/24/2011 | Updated: 8:22 AM 02/25/2011
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Jeff Poor covers the media for The Daily Caller.
If there was any question where former President Jimmy Carter’s sympathies lie, this might shed a little more light on that.
According to a column in the Feb. 24 edition of the Falls Church News-Press by Nicholas F. Benton, the editor-in-chief of the publication, the paper’s newest columnist Helen Thomas had a surprise waiting for her after an extraordinary interview she gave to HLN’s Joy Behar last week. That was flowers from Rosie O’Donnell, who had been on the record for defending Thomas in the past.
However, as Benton noted, at the time of the Thomas’s infamous remarks, there were very few willing to defend her other than O’Donnell and the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.
“[Rosie] O’Donnell sent Thomas, now age 90, flowers in sympathy for the highly upsetting incident and, along with President Jimmy Carter, was one of only a handful of her longtime colleagues and friends to reach out to her,” Benton wrote.
Alana Goodman, the assistant online editor for Commentary magazine, followed up with Benton on that claim. She noted in a post that Benton told her that Thomas told him that Carter reached out to her after the comments.
“Benton told me over the phone that Thomas told him about Carter’s outreach herself, though she didn’t give him details about what the former president said to her,” Goodman wrote. “‘The context was in the context of what transpired,’ said Benton, referring to Thomas’s unceremonious retirement from Hearst.”
If Carter actually did reach out Thomas following her controversial departure from Hearst, it wouldn’t be out of line with his world view. Carter has been a longtime critic of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, including in his 2006 book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”
Tags: Alana Goodman, Helen Thomas, Jimmy Carter, Joy Behar, Nicholas F. Benton, Rosie O'Donnell, the Falls Church News-Press
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13 Comments
1.
ussben
No matter what brand of lipstick you put on that anti-semite pig s/he is still an anti-semite pig.
10:33 AM 02/25/2011 - 10:33 AM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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D8ve
hu! Igor consoling the chupacabras?
10:04 AM 02/25/2011 - 10:04 AM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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AtomicAsphalt
Two anti-semites…And that’s all that really needs to be said.
9:11 PM 02/24/2011 - 9:11 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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Mark Oregon
I once thought there could never be a worse president than Carter. Boy was I wrong about that. And Obama is also an anti-semite, duh.
8:05 PM 02/24/2011 - 8:05 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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JoeJ
Even old ladies are subject to the wrath of the Zionist’s lemmings.
Kick that old lady you Stockholm Crybabies!
7:28 PM 02/24/2011 - 7:28 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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notalone
These two make such a lovely couple – can we send them off together to some far away place. They make me want to throw up on my throw up.
6:14 PM 02/24/2011 - 6:14 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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jomo2009
I always knew Helen Thomas was merely Jimmy Carter in drag. Now there’s visual proof.
6:07 PM 02/24/2011 - 6:07 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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notalone
Proof indeed
6:23 PM 02/24/2011 - 6:23 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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I_Walk_Alone
Helen Thomas & Jimmy Carter both hate America (and Israel) and are ‘pro-terrorist’…
go figure.
5:00 PM 02/24/2011 - 5:00 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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brian61
What a stomach-churning image: two anti-semites, way past their prime, giving each other a hug.
5:00 PM 02/24/2011 - 5:00 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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virginiagentleman
Makes me shudder and want to vomit!
5:17 PM 02/24/2011 - 5:17 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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southernandproud
I’ll barf to that.
7:54 PM 02/24/2011 - 7:54 PM Log in to Reply | Report Comment
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cindylou
Ditto to all the above. Disgusting.
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