Reply #13: She's getting a lot of support [View All]

[sabrina 1]

around the internet. The rightwing of course, is vile, using every ethnic slur they can think of to attack her with.

It would be great if the outright bigotry against Muslims expressed by Republican members of Congress and their favorite media personnel were to receive some condemnation but apparently bigotry against Muslims, including Muslim Americans is acceptable.


One comment in over half a century of reporting and the left is cowering in fear of being associated with her now. Disgusting really, no wonder we are under the thumb of the rabid rightwing in this country even when we are in the majority.

If this situation were reversed and she was a Rightwing bigot like Rush Limbaugh, whose vile anti-Muslim and anti-gay and black comments are merely brushed aside, yet he has far more influence over the way people think than Helen ever had, she would be defended loudly by every rightwing pundit on the air. She would be given a contract to write a book and funded while she did so.

But her record will hold up in the history of journalism and it will be the atmosphere that exists in our current society of selective censorship that will be noted and not in a good way.

I wish the WH would condemn the killing of nine peace activists, and that Joe Biden would understand that the killing of a U.S. citizen IS a big deal, a bigger deal than an emotional comment by a longtime reporter. But our priorities ARE a bit skewed these days. Helen deserves condemnation but not the killers of those peace activists.