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catman
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 Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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DETROIT - Wayne State University said Friday it will no longer offer an award named in honor of one of its most famous alumni, former White House press corps member Helen Thomas.
The Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media award has been retired because of controversial remarks Thomas, an Arab-American, made at a conference Thursday in Dearborn and earlier this year, school officials said.
Thomas said at a diversity conference that "Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by Zionists. No question, in my opinion."
Her remarks have cast a shadow over the award, which was set up more than a decade ago to honor diversity and excellence in journalism, officials said.
"The controversy has brought a negative light to the award, which was never the intent of the award," said Matthew Seeger, interim dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State.
Thomas, 90, resigned as a columnist for Hearst Newspapers in June after telling an interviewer that Jews should "get the hell out" of the Palestinian territories and go to Germany, Poland or the United States. She didn't back away from those remarks on Thursday but instead expounded on what she called the influence of Zionists worldwide.
Thomas could not be reached Friday.
Thomas' sister, Barbara Isaac, said they had expected WSU might eventually make such a decision, especially with this week's controversy.
"It boils down to more punishment for being honest and forthright," said Isaac. "She wanted to tell the truth. She's trying to get justice for the Palestinian people."
Wayne State is "showing its fear" of losing donors, Isaac said, adding that her sister was not referring to Jewish people when she used the word "Zionists" but to people who are "pro-Israel."
"All Jewish people are not Zionists," Isaac said.
But Jewish leaders applauded WSU's decision: "(We) applaud their courage in rescinding the award and distancing themselves from this blatantly anti-Semitic rhetoric that has no place in an academic institution," said Betsy Kellman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.
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I certainly defend her right to free speech and she has done great work in the parts. However, I feel she has no one to blame but herself at this point. |
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mises
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I have absolutely nothing to say about this. |
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recessiontime
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| I have absolutely nothing to say about this. |
that's a lie
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:55 am Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| catman wrote: |
| I certainly defend her right to free speech and she has done great work in the parts. However, I feel she has no one to blame but herself at this point. |
For what, telling the truth?  
www.911missinglinks.com |
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Fox
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:14 am Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| Space Bar wrote: |
| catman wrote: |
| I certainly defend her right to free speech and she has done great work in the parts. However, I feel she has no one to blame but herself at this point. |
For what, telling the truth? |
So the assertion that the Jews should "Get the Hell out of Palestine," and go back to, "Poland, and Germany, and America, and everywhere else," is not one woman's opinion, but rather is some sort of metaphysical truth about what should happen?
Interesting. |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:39 am Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| Fox wrote: |
| Space Bar wrote: |
| catman wrote: |
| I certainly defend her right to free speech and she has done great work in the parts. However, I feel she has no one to blame but herself at this point. |
For what, telling the truth? |
So the assertion that the Jews should "Get the Hell out of Palestine," and go back to, "Poland, and Germany, and America, and everywhere else," is not one woman's opinion, but rather is some sort of metaphysical truth about what should happen?
Interesting. |
homas said at a diversity conference that "Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by Zionists. No question, in my opinion." |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:48 am Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
| Space Bar wrote: |
| catman wrote: |
| I certainly defend her right to free speech and she has done great work in the parts. However, I feel she has no one to blame but herself at this point. |
For what, telling the truth? |
So the assertion that the Jews should "Get the Hell out of Palestine," and go back to, "Poland, and Germany, and America, and everywhere else," is not one woman's opinion, but rather is some sort of metaphysical truth about what should happen?
Interesting. |
Thomas said at a diversity conference that "Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by Zionists. No question, in my opinion." |
Yes, THAT is to what I was referring. |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| Maybe they should go back to Khazaria? Hard to say. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| Koveras wrote: |
| Maybe they should go back to Khazaria? Hard to say. |
DNA analysis suggests that there's very little in the way of blood ties between the Khazars and the Ashkenazis. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Challenge - How is Hollywood controlled by Zionists? |
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Koveras
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| northway wrote: |
| DNA analysis suggests that there's very little in the way of blood ties between the Khazars and the Ashkenazis. |
I'll take history over statistics any day. Besides, look at an Ashkenazi and tell me he's more Semitic than Caucasian.
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| Challenge - How is Hollywood controlled by Zionists? |
It should be common knowledge that Jews own Hollywood. I don't know for sure, and frankly don't care, if they're Zionists. From the amount of Jewish propaganda they churn out one assumes that they probably are. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Challenge - How is Hollywood controlled by Zionists? |
Jewish Power in Hollywood
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Negative images of Arabs in American motion pictures are hardly surprising given the major role played by Jews and other supporters of Zionism in Hollywood. In his 1988 study, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Jewish author Neal Gabler shows that Jews established all of the major American film studios, including Columbia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Universal, and Twentieth-Century Fox. The American film industry, writes Gabler, was founded ... and operated by Eastern European Jews ... And when sound movies commandeered the industry, Hollywood was invaded by a battalion of Jewish writers, mostly from the East. The most powerful talent agencies were run by Jews. Jewish lawyers transacted most of the industry's business and Jewish doctors ministered to the industry's sick. Above all, Jews produced the movies ... All of which led F. Scott Fitzgerald to characterize Hollywood carpingly as "a Jewish holiday, a gentiles [sic] tragedy."
So rapidly did Jews come to dominate Hollywood that as early as 1921 Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent was moved to fulminate that American motion pictures are Jew-controlled, not in spots only, not 50% merely, but entirely; with the natural consequence that now the world is in arms against the trivializing and demoralizing influences of that form of entertainment as presently managed ... As soon as the Jews gained control of the "movies," we had a movie problem, the consequences of which are not yet visible.
In his detailed 1994 study, Sacred Chain: A History of the Jews, New York University professor Norman F. Cantor, pointed out that Hollywood film production and distribution was "almost completely dominated in the first 50 years of its existence by immigrant Jews and is still dominated at its top level by Jews ... The last Gentile bastion in Hollywood, the Disney studio, came under Jewish executive leadership in the early 1990s."
Jewish historian and journalist Jonathan J. Goldberg, makes a similar point in his 1996 survey, Jewish Power: Inside the American Jewish Establishment. He writes:
... Jews are represented in the media business in numbers far out of proportion to their share of the population ... In a few key sectors of the media, notably among Hollywood studio executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that calling these businesses Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical observation.
Hollywood at the end of the twentieth century is still an industry with a pronounced ethnic tinge. Virtually all the senior executives at the major studios are Jews. Writers, producers, and to a lesser degree directors, are disproportionately Jews -- one recent study showed the figure as high as 59% among top-grossing films.
The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America's most lucrative and important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal of political power. They are a major source of money for Democratic candidates. The industry's informal patriarch, MCA chairman Lew Wasserman, wields tremendous personal clout in state and national politics ...
Hollywood's Jewish executives greeted the founding of Israel in 1948 with ecstasy. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:47 pm Post subject: Re: University Cancels "Helen Thomas Media" award |
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| Koveras wrote: |
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| DNA analysis suggests that there's very little in the way of blood ties between the Khazars and the Ashkenazis. |
I'll take history over statistics any day. Besides, look at an Ashkenazi and tell me he's more Semitic than Caucasian. |
That doesn't disclude a ton of intermarriage. The fact that 40% of Ashkenazis have mitochondrial DNA from just four women is interesting, though I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4611592.stm
As for the Semitic vs. Caucasian argument, I think it's a bit specious. I've had Lebanese friends with red hair, freckles, and green eyes, and it's not exactly rare for people to look that way, so I don't think it means much. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:18 am Post subject: |
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Again I ask.......how is Hollywood controlled by ZIONISTS?
Where is all the Zionist propaganda that they are churning out? |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| catman wrote: |
Again I ask.......how is Hollywood controlled by ZIONISTS?
Where is all the Zionist propaganda that they are churning out? |
http://www.youtube.com/user/drdduke#p/u/9/AHKGOcUyQ-M
And just to warn you in advance, do not reply to this with ad hominem attacks. Surely you are capable of that. |
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