Re-arranging The Furniture

Today, for the second time in a row at a press conference, President Bush skipped over Helen Thomas at a White House press conference. I find it astonishing that anyone, even Drudge, would find this to be newsworthy.

But more than that I find it very humorous. Helen Thomas is typical of the elitist left mentality in Washington, D.C., saying such hilarious things as "He came on to my turf", a reference to the room in which the press conference was held. She has been in the Washington Press Corps so long that she believes that a press conference room in the White House actually belongs to her. That is like saying that your living room belongs to your sofa because it has been there for so long.

And like an old sofa, Helen Thomas has gotten softer in some places, uncomfortable in others, and has grown uglier, nastier, and smellier as time has passed. The time has come for her employers to take her to the Goodwill store, retiring her from the living room.

The fact of the matter is that Helen Thomas is no journalist, but rather a leftist media iconoclast. She is there to throw softballs and swoon over the likes of Bill Clinton, and then to torment those with a more conservative agenda, like Bush (though he is certainly not conservative), while all along her contemporaries in the media are cheering her on, inviting her to parties, etc.

It's time to rearrange the furniture. Helen Thomas at least needs to be moved to the garage.