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She's part of the problem which elected these goons in the first place.

How did she help?
Oh, do you mean asking hard questions about what our government is doing?

That is what reporters are supposed to do.

All very well to say. But the Homogeneous - they like to call themselves "associated" - press is a propaganda monopoly, and has been since the Civil War era. Its central feature is the taboo it enforces against any challenge to the claim that it consists entirely of nothing but objective journalists. Which is why Dan Rather was so sure that he could stonewall when his "Texas Air National Guard Memo" hoax was exposed within minutes of its broadcast, and thoroughly disproved within days. Rather was wrong in his belief that in 2004 he could perpetrate that hoax as an "October Surprise" on GW Bush, but you have to admit that he was correct in his assumption that it was impossible to create significant journalistic criticism of Dan Rather or of CBS News for broadcasting that hoax and stonewalling the subsequent Internet criticism.
The opposite was the case, tho, when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth told the truth about John Kerry. Any newsman who had backed the SBVT for telling the inconveniet truth about John Kerry would have instantly been drummed out of the profession. As it is, the term "swift boating" is a way for Democrats and reporters, to slur on both the SBVT and whoever else tells the truth about a Democrat.
So while reporters may ask legitimately challenging questions of Republicans, they reserve the softball questions for the Democrats, and outright hoaxes (see "Palin, Sarah") targeted at Republicans. Had reporters done the slightest bit of investigative journalism and analysis from anything other than a left-wing perspective, the electorate would have known before November that Obama's best friends were racists and/or terrorists.

I must confess when I read the article I clutched my chest Fred Sanford-style and nearly fell out of my chair. I could not believe my eyes.

...But after putting things in perspective (and reading RetroSexual's full post-#12) I now understand that while on one level Thomas is right in her offense at journalists being controlled by politicians, but as Retro correctly pointed out, it was she and others like her who let the animals out of the barn and now it's far too late to close the door.

Well said. I think Helen may have also exposed something else that she and her fellow travelers possibly haven’t even considered, that is, the dinomedia has been part and parcel of setting the agenda heretofore. Their often incoherent, warm and fuzzy but useful nanny state advocacy gave the pols cover for their steady movement to centralized government in DC. Enter the obamessiah, who wants nothing to do with the slow but steady pace of the feeder streets. He’s entered the freeway and moved into the fast lane to implement his marxist idealogy before the engine blows up. He’s left the dinomedia behind and I daresay he is even making some of the mush heads in the WH press corps a little nervous. They shouldn’t be. I doubt there’s a real American patriot in the bunch. And of all people, Princess Helen should retire if she can’t keep up. ;^)