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July 31, 2005
See Helen Squirm
Ed Driscoll, with delicious exactitude, examines Helen Thomas's hypocritical indignation over having the tables turned on her--her remarks about a possible Cheney presidential candidacy were picked up by Drudge (hat tip Instapundit). According to Drudge, Thomas fumed:
"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 [Albert] Eisele [editor of DC newspaper The Hill] 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.
Ed Driscoll goes on:
...Thomas's meltdown--staggeringly ironic, as it comes from someone who spends her days praying for (and praying upon) similar gaffes from the president and his press secretary--is only the latest in a string of examples of reporters who specialize in playing "gotcha games" with their interviewees, and acting like hypocrites if the tables are ever turned.
Ed goes on to cite more examples of the same kind of brazen hypocrisy, as given by Roger Ailes and Bernard Goldberg--examples which are all too familiar to those of us who have been enduring this kind of arrogant crap for too long.
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