Let's get the Helen Thomas thing out of the way. Hearst Newspapers announced the immediate "retirement" of Thomas, a veteran White House reporter, who covered ten presidential administrations. All of this in the midst of an uproar over her comments that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine...." It was all caught on a flip camera by a rabbi/blogger, who released it to the Internet. In her defense, she's 89 years old. She probably wasn't aware that there was a medium out there for spreading information faster than the Pony Express.

Seriously, I don't like to see anyone lost their job because of something they said, no matter how inappropriate or unpopular those remarks might be. We used to have freedom of speech in this country. Believe me, I'm NO fan of Helen Thomas, never have been. Nevertheless, it is impressive that an 89-year old can have a job in which she gets to speak to a sitting President on a regular basis. Most 89-year olds I know are sitting around having imaginary conversations with Teddy Roosevelt.

She IS an attractive woman though, isn't she? A friend of mine put it best: This is the worst thing Helen Thomas has done since 150 years ago, when she tried to kill Hansel & Gretel.