Helen Thomas is apoplectic that her comments last week that she would kill herself if Dick Cheney ever ran for president were reported in the media. “I’ll never talk to a reporter again,”
vowed Thomas, who was the so-called “Dean of the White House Press
Corps” back when she was a UPI reporter. You know, that’s the person
who gets to say “Thank you, Mr. President” at the end of press
conferences. Considering Thomas’ sad post-UPI public performance one
must assume that the most famous UPI dean of the White House press, Merriman Smith, is none too happy with her as he looks on from legitimate-reporter Heaven.