Bomb Throwers Abound This Week

We had two "un-plugged moments" in the media this week that made level-headed thinking Americans have a collective cringe. The first is "Sir" Paul McCartney. After partying it up in the White House with a President who should be more concentrated on stopping the oil flow than entertaining Hollywood made this comment:



If you look at that clip, even Jerry Seinfeld was mortified! What mortified me was less the comment, and more the President's refusal to rebuke McCartney's words. (Which is, again, a pattern, with this president, as he refused to rebuke Wanda Sykes's rant last year.) When you look at his comments, it's more Paul McCartney who hasn't been to a library because if he did, he would have learned that Bush is a voracious reader, his wife is a former librarian and his family has been involved with literacy issues for years. In the past, Karl Rove has written about George W. Bush's reading habits. Maybe Mr. McCartney should read this article first before opening up his mouth and speaking about topics of which he knows nothing.

The second cringe moment this week comes out of the mouth of Helen Thomas in her un-plugged comments on Israel:



Wow! That has to be one of the more anti-Semitic statements I think I've heard from a public figure. If you listen to her questions over the years, they are not objective questions, but rambling, loaded, anti-Israel statements. Putting aside the fact that she's 89 years old and still doing her job, she makes a mockery of journalists and journalism. Doyenne or no doyenne, her words are inappropriate, her apology is canned and not from the heart and she should face retribution for her comments, as harsh as losing her seat in the briefing room.


UPDATE: The Anti-Semitic witch is gone! As I am very happy she is being held responsible for her reprehensible comments, I reminisce on how not everyone let her get away with spewing hate from the front row of the White House Press room

-Exhibit A: Dana Perino
-Exhibit B: George W. Bush
-Exhibit C: Tony Snow (RIP)