TIME TO GO, HELEN – AT 8:41 A.M. ET:  Well, at least some people have a moral compass.  Vulgar senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas has been dropped by her speaking service.  And a high school in the Washington area has dropped her from its graduation ceremony.

This comes in the aftermath of Thomas's anti-Semitic remarks, caught on tape. 

It's time for Thomas to resign quietly and be gone.

I doubt if that will happen.  Anti-Christian and anti-Semitic remarks have become accepted by a certain trendy segment of American society in recent years.   Jesse Jackson, in 1984, referred to Jews as hymies and New York as hymietown, and survived quite well.  The current president ridiculed Americans who "cling to their guns and their religion," meaning the Christian faith, and he got elected.

The nation's elites seem to be upset only by bigoted comments directed against groups popular on the political left.  Arizona is called "racist" for passing an anti-illegal immigration law that actual provides all kinds of civil-liberties safeguards.  And yet, it is perfectly acceptable in some circles to make the worst comments about Cuban-Americans, among our hardest-working and most patriotic citizens.  Cuban Americans are perceived as anti-Castro, a sin in leftist circles.

Helen Thomas's disgusting call for Israeli Jews to "go home" to Poland and Germany, where the Holocaust took place, is even more sinister than it seems.  Remarks like that are part of an international campaign to delegitimize the state of Israel by denying that Jews have a history there.  But many of the same forces behind this campaign are also militantly anti-Christian.  After all, if Jews have no history in Israel then, by definition, Christianity was never invented, since there could not have been a Jew named Jesus.

There is actually a textbook floating around in some American schools that describes Jesus as "a Palestinian," an absurd concept, but one that strips him of both Judaism and Christianity. 

The hard left's war against Western religion is fought in many ways.  Some are coming to the surface.

We await the moment when President Obama calls on Helen Thomas at a news conference. 

June 7, 2010