A double standard for Helen Thomas? Matt Yglesias on the Palestians &"forced population transfers."

I saw this by way of correntewire.com (which saw this by way of Sadly No!). I haven't seen where Yglesias' career suffered as a result of this 2002 comment, but maybe it has. I dunno. I wonder if all of the blogosphere notables who took out after Thomas will now demand Yglesias explain himself. I'm thinking they won't.

http://yglesias.blogspot.com/2002_03_31_archive.html#11339052

AFTER THE LATEST DEPRESSING news from the Middle East I think we have to start asking just how inhumane it would be for Israel to just expel the Palestinians from the occupied terroritories. The result would probably be out-and-out war with the neighboring Arab states, but Israel could win that.

All forced population transfers are humanitarian disasters, of course, but so is the current situation. It's not like there's not any room in the whole Arab world for all these Palestinian Arabs to go live in, it's just that the other Arab leaders don't want to cooperate.

Who is Matt Yglesias? Even prior to her recent comments, more people knew about Helen Thomas. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Even though I think Ms. Thomas' comments were awful, I don't think she should have been made to resign. Free speech is lessened when various groups use the bully pulpit to punish for people for exercising that right. A free society means we are going to hear and read things that piss us off, that sicken us. The Right-Wingers often condemn what they claim is the Left's push for political correctness as infringing on liberty. But they led the push to destroy Thomas. Hypocrisy indeed.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0607/huckabee-piles-thomas-neglecting-verbal-assault-palestine/

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However, Huckabee told right-wing conspiracy site World-Net Daily in 2008 that he believes Palestine to be illegally located on Israeli land, suggesting that Palestinians should just go somewhere else.

"There is only one place on earth where the Jewish people could have a homeland that is consistent with their roots, whereas the Palestinians can create their homeland in many other places in the Middle East, outside Israel," he said, leveraging the comment to slam a proposed two-state peace solution.

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Thanks for sharing that. So many evangelicals unequivocally support Israel because they think it fits in with all their little rapture prophesies.

He, Helen, and Schumer should be unemployed and forced to sit around and discuss diversity issues.

Period.

Especially those Americans in the media.

It is a double standard.

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