The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Helen Thomas
Speaking of degenerate journalistic institutions, Helen Thomas has one fewer award named after her. “The board of directors of the Society of Professional Journalists [SPJ] voted Friday to retire the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award,” the SPJ announced in a press release Friday. [Helen Thomas was a reporter for UPI for 57 years, and the head of the White House Press Corps for many years.]

SPJ declined to take this step last spring, after Thomas unburdened herself on video of the opinion that Israeli Jews should “go home,” by which she meant just the opposite: that they should leave home and move to Europe or America. [See video below.]  But the spiteful superannuated screwball exceeded the tolerance even of the SPJ with her assertion last month, in a speech to an Arab-American group, that “Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.” [NOTE: a Zionist supports the existence of the Jewish state of Israel] 

An interesting side note: The Working Press, the newsletter of SPJ’s annual convention, featured a profile in October of the organization’s new president:

Hagit Limor remembers the Six Day War like it was yesterday.

She remembers the air raid, with sirens swirling and missiles flying, as she ran to a shelter in the middle of the Israeli night, a first-grader with a heart beating out of her chest.

“I do remember that very clearly,” she said. “I grew up innocently, feeling completely safe until that war broke out.”

It was June 1967 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and, during the war, Limor saw her hometown transform into a very different place.

“I grew up in a little town where nobody locked their doors,” she said. “It was a different time.”

That’s right, Limor is an Israeli-American. She enrolled at Northwestern University, graduated in 1983, and went into broadcast journalism. She’s now an award-winning reporter at Cincinnati’s WCPO-TV.

If you were Helen Thomas, you might say that the SPJ’s decision, under Limor’s leadership, to nix the Thomas award proves her claim that Zionists control the media. But wait. How can Thomas fault Limor when Limor did exactly what Thomas wants all Israeli Jews to do–make like a tree of the Righteous and leave?

Even Thomas’s anti-Semitic ravings are logically inconsistent. …..

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Watch the entire interview with Mrs. Thomas below: