Cal Thomas

Cal Thomas is a conservative American syndicated columnist and author. His column began in 1984 and appears in more than 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 more than 300 stations.He has a Holiday Home In Northern Ireland

He has written a great deal about political issues and supports, among other things, many American positions related to Israel.

Biography

Cal Thomas was born in Washington, D.C. in 1942. During the 1960s and early 1970s he worked as a reporter at NBC News. He has written ten books, including "Blinded By Might", that discussed, among other things, the role of the Moral Majority in American politics of the 1980s. Thomas was vice president of the Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985.

Controversial statement(s)

upport for removal of Palestinians from the Palestinian territories

In response to the Dolphinarium disco bombing in Tel-Aviv that killed 21 people, mostly high school students, Thomas authored a June 6 2001, article in the "Jewish World Review" expressing support for expelling Palestinians from the Palestinian territories to surrounding Arab countries.

Quotation|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. [cite web
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Anti-Netherlands

In 2004, Cal Thomas was the target of a Google bomb attack, where the phrase "ignorant asshole" [http://www.google.com/search?q=ignorant+asshole] was linked to his website. This Googlebomb was triggered by a [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140612,00.html 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 [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,147568,00.html 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."

Reporter at KPRC-TV

In the early 1970s Thomas was a reporter with KPRC-TV in Houston, TX. He was an onsite reporter during Fred Carrasco's 1974 Huntsville Prison Siege , of which Thomas wrote, “It is a tragedy that two hostages died. It is a miracle all the rest lived.”

Bibliography

*2007, "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America" with Bob Beckel (ISBN 978-0-06-123634-1)
*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)

External links

* [http://calthomas.com Cal Thomas Website]
* [http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas Cal Thomas] at Townhall.com
*imdb name|id=0858582 Retrieved on 2008-01-17

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