two most taboo things you can think of those are very controversial topics and in the case of helen thomas you know the comment that got her in a lot of trouble was it was a mixed bag because on one hand she said that israelis need to stop occupying palestine and then the second part of her comment was jews need to go back to poland and germany that was the part of her comment that got her into a lot of trouble and that was definitely a controversial thing so of course people are going to jump at her and criticize her for what she said there and you know it's really interesting to see that if you criticize maybe israeli policy or jewish individuals of course it's it's a little controversial you do get criticism for it but here in the united states why is it acceptable to immediately criticize profile discriminate against bugs loves i mean it's a really interesting thing and i'm not exactly sure why that's the case here well i wonder about that you know i mean do you have who do you think really is the decider the final decider as to what is considered taboo in terms of our freedom of speec

down to earth commons that appears to challenge conventional us establishment views journalist helen thomas who'd been a white house reporter for over half a century was forced to resign after she said he's really should leave land they taken from palestinians everybody has been fired for what they say they could. not if you say anything about their president the united states you can call them anything in the book but you can't say anything about israel. automatically makes you any sematic see it is former senior editor of middle east the fierce guardian not sir was sacked a year ago because of a tweet she wrote about her respect for a lebanese cleary who had one time it been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah that had leader broken ties with them after all sorts all the choices there it was promptly pushed out of the us mainstream media outlets all about consequences social and economic just pressure rather than real censorship politician it's expressing ideas against these that wish when you come under fire true like congressman ron paul who is running for president and some o

being attacked those are the two areas where you're speaking out on carol and certainly we saw helen thomas in the piece she said that you know you can say anything in the book about the president of the united states but if you say something about israel you're anti sematic i mean do you agree that it goes that far it certainly does bear many cases unfortunately of academics like norman finkelstein a group who was fired from his position at university or would couldn't receive ten year because of his writings about israel palestine there's the case of the muslim eleven the students for bind who recently spoke out while he israeli ambassador was giving a speech and they were taken all the way they were taken to a grand jury let me stop you real quick right every day just because for our viewers that are unfamiliar with that we actually have video of that this is when the an israeli ambassador all ambassador michael oren came to speak at the university of california irvine we'll play it and talk more about it. it was a source of frustration there was a person who spent much of his life. prob

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establishment views journalist helen thomas and being a white house reporter for over half a century was forced to resign after she said he's really should leave land they taken from palestinians everybody has been fired for what they say they could. and that if you say anything about the president of the united states you call them anything in the book but you can't say anything about israel. it automatically makes you any sematic see it is former senior editor of middle east affairs guardian now sir was sacked a year ago because it's weeks she wrote about her respect a lebanese cleary who had one time had been seen as the spiritual leader of the hezbollah and had leader broken ties with the response or all sorts all of it was promptly out of the us mainstream media outlets all about consequences social and economic interests pressure rather than real censorship politicians expressing ideas against the establishment you come under fire like congressman ron paul who is running for president and some of the law on there have been received. they have been explicit and they wrote. their

i sat at the table with president clinton, and he had helen thomas on his right, a table that was a mix of legislators -- well, congressmen, a number of black congressmen. he had people from arkansas, and i loved it when the strolling strings came in and played "the arkansas traveler." i thought to show that the white house is full of people from all parts of the country and not just one coast or the other was a great tribute. it was very convivial. we were dining in the blue room, and i think the piercing eyes of john tyler were on us, who incidentally -- you know, i collect history and so i told president clinton that he was ancestor of harry truman. sure enough, you'd look at them and they'd look somewhat alike. c-span: had you been back to the white house for that kind of a social evening since lyndon johnson had been president? >> guest: yes, i was invited to a ceremony by the bushes for mrs. johnson, and i had been there during the carter administration when i worked here in washington as assistant secretary of education under shirley hufstedler, when jimmy carter and rosalynn wer

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