Helen Thomas on The Real News

Interesting, almost tough, interview. At the end -- I hadn't known this:

PAUL JAY: And a few days after you resigned, there was a poll taken in The Washington Post asking whether Helen Thomas should get her seat back in the White House press room, and apparently 92 percent of the people said yes, Helen should get her seat back.

One additional question for those who demanded Helen Thomas' head: Are people actually scarred that if European Jews go back en mass from the Occupied Territories and/or Israel to Germany and Poland and such that they will end up being rounded up into concentration camps? Is liberal democracy in Europe really that frail in 2010?

(Maybe it is -- I remember being hit by it all when I went to Germany several years ago -- this is where it happened I thought when the plane landed. Perhaps that reaction was a testament to my lack of knowledge of post-war Germany. Still, it was an eerie feeling the whole time I was there. Especially when I saw older people, I felt like going up to them and berating them: "What they hell were you doing?" -- "What they heck were you thinking?" Which takes my mind to thoughts of Lisa Kalvelage -- and why in the world Palestinians should be oppressed.)