Genuine bigots on the left are celebrated.

Investors Business Daily in Helen of Oy points out that Helen Thomas is not the only openly bigoted leftist who has been idolized by the fellow members of the media.

The "retirement" of Helen Thomas comes as no surprise. Neither did the remarks that prompted it. She's expressed such sentiments before, and her brethren in the White House press corps, which salivates over any politically incorrect utterance from the right, let her get away with it.

She got away with it for the same reason those on the left from Bill Maher to Keith Olbermann get away with similar over-the-top sentiments. It depends on whose political ox is being gored. Tea Partyers who oppose the policies of the first black president are racists. Genuine bigots on the left are celebrated.

Looking at pictures of Helen Thomas, I am reminded of "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in reverse. Thomas' reputation was carefully burnished by her supporters while the actual image of Thomas was repellent, indicative of her hatred for Jews, for America and for democracy.

helen Thomas IS the face of American journalism.

In a way, it's a shame that Thomas is gone.Her departure will be blamed on the Jews, on the Right, on those who wish to suppress freedom of speech.  She should be there as a constant reminder of the kind of person lauded by the MFM.  Sort of ironic for those who decided that Jeff Gannon should not be allowed to part of the White House press corps.  Whatever he was, one thing he was not: a Jew hating abettor of the next holocaust.