The First Amendment: From Michael Moore to Helen Thomas

I know that this news is fairly old, but I was searching for some videos on the conflict between Palestine and Israel when I came upon "A Brief History of The United States of America". From Bowling for Columbine, this video is truly ludicrous. Besides missing factual basis for how the slaves made their way to America, it also clearly states that all NRA members must be white supremacists. This is based on the fact that the NRA foundation coincided with a Civil Rights Act of 1871. There is no person alive today who can be punished for something that happened about 200 years ago. Before I go further I think that I should let everyone else judge this video for themselves. People like Michael Moore go around spewing this crap, and while I agree that according to our prized first amendment he has every right to free speech to say all of it, the scary part is that he has some hand in politics. And that there are people out there who are influenced by his movies and use them as a "history" lesson. Everyone is allowed to say whatever they want, however there really are some things that you SHOULDN'T say.

Take Helen Thomas for example. Her recent Anti-Semitic comments have led to her retirement, which at nearing 90 years old isn't exactly premature. Thomas is a prime example that just because someone has a heritage based in a certain region it doesn't mean that she has any expertise on the history more than any other person (Thomas is Lebanese) . She stated that the "Jews should go back to Poland and Germany". It is true that during the Holocaust many European Jews immigrated to Israel/Palestine in an attempt to escape Hitler, and really who could blame them? However, what Thomas fails to understand is that Jewish people have lived in the Middle East for many many years before 1948. And without getting too much into the whole Palestine/Israeli conflict, one of the main setbacks is that each nation keeps taunting the other, very much like children. Essentially Ms. Thomas should have just shut her mouth when it comes to this issue which she obviously is not well versed in. It took 50+ years for Helen Thomas to finally be removed from the front row of the White House press conference. In this case, change is most definitely a good thing...