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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!I wrote that I doubted Helen Thomas was anti-Semitic, despite her grievous choice of words about Israel, and received an earful.
"Helen’s comments were indefensible, yes, but her life is very defensible."
Helen Thomas' outspokenness -- the quality that made her a media legend -- is the quality that proved her undoing.
The 89-year-old fixture of the White House press corps steps down after saying that Israel "should get the hell out of Palestine."
No stranger to controversy, Helen Thomas was at the center of a lot of highly charged press room moments before the one that led to her retirement today.
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas has retired her position after making a series of controversial statements regarding Jews and the state of Israel.
Free and open discourse is hallmark of democracy. Helen Thomas was wrong in what she said, but forcing her to step down is also wrong.
There's no shortage of examples of how not to apologize, and just one of the right way to do it. The wrong-doers might take some pointers from the world's religions.
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