The Thin Skin of Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas is seriously peeved.

Drudge reports:

HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHED

White House press doyenne Helen Thomas is plenty peeved at her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of THE HILL newspaper in Washington, D.C.

In a column this week headlined "Reporter: Cheney's Not Presidential Material," Eisele quoted Thomas as saying "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar."

Thomas also said: "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does," according to Eisele's column.

But Thomas said yesterday at the White House that her comments to Eisele were for his ears only. "I'll never talk to a reporter again!" Thomas was overheard saying.

"We were just talking -- I was ranting -- and he wrote about it. That isn't right. We all say stuff we don't want printed," Thomas said.

But Eisele said that when he called Thomas, "I assume she knew that we were on the record."

"She's obviously very upset about it, but it was a small item -- until Drudge picked it up and broadcast it across the universe," Eisele said.

Still, he noted that reporters aren't that happy when the tables are turned. "Nobody has thinner skin than reporters," Eisele said with a laugh.

Although Helen Thomas' skin has the texture of a raisin left out in the desert for a month, she is obviously very thin-skinned. Her withered, leathery appearance and tough as nails attitude are misleading.

Albert Eisele seems to have broken a trust when he printed Thomas' proclamation that she would kill herself if Dick Cheney ran for president.

Thomas drives me crazy; but I can understand her feelings about what Eisele did. She didn't think she was on the record.

Nevertheless, in the end, Thomas has herself to blame for making such hateful remarks in the first place.

I think it's interesting that Eisele, and most likely Thomas too, thought nothing of it UNTIL Drudge broadcast it to the universe.

The New Media busted Thomas for being the partisan hack that she is. That was hardly news, but this latest incident is most definitely an embarrassment for such a fabled journalist as Thomas.

The insulated world of the liberal elite is no longer closed territory. What's said by the likes of Helen Thomas gets around very fast, and it's scrutinized by the masses.

Poor Helen. She's actually being held accountable for her despicable remarks.

Boo Hoo.