The great Tony Snow and the awful Helen Thomas

The following, from 2006, is a perfect video.  First, it shows what a horrible person Helen Thomas has always been.  Second, it highlights the Bush White House attitudes towards Israel as well as the late, great Tony Snow’s intelligence, wit and charm.  That’s as good a contrast as you can get to the anti-Israel White House and the crude, condescending buffoonery of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICq2AuxYTTE[/youtube]

(The sound quality is poor, so you can find a transcript here.)

In light of Helen’s latest pro-Hezbollah and Hamas rantings, American journalists are backing off a little bit.   Their nostalgia for her “greatness,” though, indicates that they’re much less sorry for what she did than for the fact that she got caught.  After all, acceptable antisemitism emanating from both the Left and the most extreme Right is pretty much de rigueur for the journalistic class.