Cal Thomas
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Cal Thomas is a conservative American syndicated columnist and author. His column began in 1984 and appears in over 550 newspapers throughout the United States. He is a panelist on Fox News Watch, a Fox News Channel program critiquing the media, and until September 2005 hosted After Hours with Cal Thomas on the same network. He also gives a daily radio commentary, which is heard on over 300 stations.
He has written a great deal about political issues and supports, among other things, many right-wing positions related to Israel.
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[edit] Biography
Cal Thomas was born in Washington, D.C. in 1942. During the 1960s and 1970s he worked as a reporter at NBC News. He has written more than ten books, including Blinded By Might, that discussed, among other things, the role of the Moral Majority in American politics of the 1980s.
[edit] Controversial statement(s)
In response to Dolphinarium disco bombing in Tel-Aviv which killed 21 people, mostly high school students, Thomas authored a June 6, 2001 article in the Jewish World Review which expressed support for expelling Palestinians from Israel to surrounding Arab countries.
Israel should declare its intention to transfer large numbers of its Palestinian residents to Arab nations. This sounds radical until one considers that is precisely what Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have done. After the Palestinians assisted Saddam Hussein in Iraq's invasion of Kuwait during the Gulf War (which Arafat cheered while calling on Hussein to shell Israel), Kuwait forcibly evicted and transferred to Jordan about 300,000 Palestinians, labeling them as traitors and a fifth column. Saudi Arabia also recognized Arafat's betrayal of their Kuwaiti hosts by transferring about 350,000 Palestinians to Jordan.[1]
—Cal Thomas, A coalition of terror, 2001
In 2004, Cal Thomas was the target of a Google bomb attack, where the phrase "ignorant asshole" [1] was linked to his website. This Googlebomb was triggered by a segment on his After Hours show regarding the Netherlands' policy on euthanasia. It soon became an attack on the Netherlands' drug policy, prostitution, and the nation's immigration policy. In a follow-up, Thomas rejoined "Thanks to our Dutch viewers for watching and for caring enough to write. Keep watching. Maybe you'll see some things you do like."
In August 2006, Thomas remarked that the Oliver Stone film World Trade Center was "One of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-male, flag-waving, 'God Bless America' films you will ever see."
In 2006 referring to TV news sources other than Fox News, Thomas said "All of them are trying to copy Fox News now to be honest. Many of them are doing tabloid, more big-lipped blondes and all this kind of stuff. There's only so much of that trailer trash pie to go around."[2]
[edit] Bibliography
- 2001, The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas (ISBN 1-58660-299-3)
- 1999, Blinded by Might (ISBN 0-310-22650-3)
- 1994, The Things That Matter Most (ISBN 0-06-017083-2)
- 1988, The Death of Ethics in America (ISBN 0-8499-0638-5)
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Thomas, Cal (June 6, 2001). A coalition of terror (English) (HTML). Jewish World Review. Retrieved on October 3, 2006.
- ^ "Trailer trash" quote (includes video clip). Crooksandliars.com. Accessed June 25, 2006.
