Ok something about the elderly

And this goes for Helen Thomas or your really elderly neighbor...as brain cells die, and they do, people who are really old start saying things that might shock you. In a few cases it is things they believed before that they had self discipline not to say. In other cases they revert to what was (and in some places still is) common accepted belief when they were thirty.

Anybody cares to observe some of the things that were all the rage when she was young? The International Jew and the Protocols were common and top of e charts when she was thirty. No you did not have to go to gun shows or white supremacy websites to get this. Just walk into your local bookstore. What you are seeing is a reflection of this country not too long ago in historic terms.

And yes her statements were common belief oh back in the 1930s and 1940s. They went underground after the Holocaust, but they are resurfacing and becoming chic again. And I will call her an anti-Semite spouting out of the Protocols, if I ever have the chance.

We want a person who we see do virtuous things to be virtuous in all things.

Helen can be a great woman who did historic things in the press corps, and still be prejudiced and spiteful in others.

And, clearly, age has decayed her faculties.

some of the racism I'm seeing coming out in the open from relatives in their 70's who never dared to say openly racist things before.

Jewish people was even printed in the letter section of Life magazine, circa 1919 to 1930.

And Life Magazine went to Germany and did this rousing full pictorial of how great life was there in 1936. Although they did have two of the fifteen pages devoted to showing some of the difficulties that the Jewish population was facing. (Signs in public parks to the effect of "No Jews allowed here." Gold Stars having to be worn," et al.)

Americans do not know this. We don't teach history in this country, but that is a whole different rant...