Rosie O'Donnell: Helen Thomas

Rosie O'Donnell has a 2-hour radio program on Sirius, called Rosie Radio. She blabs about whatever is on her mind, such as Helen Thomas.

Audio (June 8, 2010), from The Radio Equalizer, via Breitbart.



Transcript

ROSIE O'DONNELL: Here's the exact quote of what she said. On Friday she was asked by a guy who had a video camera in her face for any comment on Israel. And she said, 'Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember these people,' the Palestinians, 'are occupied and it's their land. It's not Germany. It's not Poland.' She was asked where they should go and she answered, 'They should go home. To Poland, to Germany, to America.'

SHOSHANA KRAUS: How could that be construed as hate speech?

O'DONNELL: I don't know.

KRAUS: I don't see any way that that could be called hate speech.

O'DONNELL: Well, how do you construe it as hate speech, Shoshana?

KRAUS: I'm not saying it is hate speech. And I think the question is: Is it hate speech? Because I think some people would think it is. What about, you know, people say, what if it's saying black people should go back to Africa?

O'DONNELL: But black people are not occupying a country, right?

MALE (BOBBY PEARCE?): I think the difference here is that the hate speech comes from the fact that Jews left Poland and Germany because they were being killed.

O'DONNELL: Correct.

MALE: And so, hate is inferred when she says go back there.

KRAUS: Oh, that is absurd.

O'DONNELL: Well, here's the only thing. Right after World War II, when Jews who did survive the Holocaust went back, they were killed there, right? Not millions, but thousands of Jews were killed when they tried to go back and reclaim their businesses and their homes. They were killed by, you know, local people in Poland and in Germany. So, you know, there's that historical reference that is in fact true. But now I think in the year 2010, you know, what she was saying was not go back to the ovens.

KRAUS: Well, they're not there anymore.

O'DONNELL: Correct. What she was saying was, you know, the homeland was originally Palestinian, is what she was saying. And that it's now occupied by Israel, and that Palestinians should be afforded, you know, human and civil rights. That's what I think that she was saying, but I don't know.

KRAUS: And to construe that as hate speech I think....

O'DONNELL: But not only did a lot people do it, she apologized and....

KRAUS: Because it's politically correct. It is politically correct to not speak in that manner. It is politically correct to not have the opinion that she has. So, so, that's what her crime is is by speaking in a manner that was not politically correct. That is the thought police.

Facts and history don't seem to matter much to libs, I guess.
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In addition to O'Donnell, Thomas is getting support from Hezbollah. Read more at NewsBusters.