Helen Thomas is talking again. And while her blunt tongue may have forced her to resign from her White House scribe post, she continues to stand by what she said, saying it’s “baloney” to think that’s she anti-Semitic.
“I hit the third rail,” she told reporter Scott Spears in an interview with Marion, Ohio, radio station WMRN, which aired Tuesday. “You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.”
She discussed the interview in which she told Rabbi David Nesenoff that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine,” a comment that cost Thomas her job.
“I told him exactly what I thought,” she told Spears. “I was not talking about Auschwitz or anything else.”
Thomas said she’d like to work again as a journalist and gave an assessment of prominent women in politics today. She characterized Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a “hawk.” She said that if Sarah Palin were to become president, “that would be a tragedy, a national tragedy.”
She also had one word to describe Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell: “frightening.”
The interview was recorded a week ago in Thomas’ Washington condo.
