Albert Eisele, the editor of The Hill, “The Newspaper for and about U.S. Congress,” recently made an enemy out of the veteran White House correspondent, Helen Thomas, by publishing this quote of hers:

The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Apparently, Thomas’s statement prompted some people to send her some nasty e-mail, which Eisele laments in his latest column:

Anyway, having unintentionally caused Ms. Thomas considerable pain, I wish to rise to her defense. Thomas is a great journalist, the first lady of the White House press corps, who has blazed a trail for women journalists and has been doing for decades what White House reporters are supposed to do but too often don’t, which is to ask tough questions of presidents.

It was Helen Thomas’s extreme imagery that made her quote newsworthy. But she also tipped her ideological hand by parroting the rhetoric of the hard-left. And it is interesting to note that Eisele—and the entire Washington establishment press, it appears—didn’t think to ask whether Thomas’s statement revealed anything about her biases and the possibility that those biases could have ever colored her reporting during her long career.

Is it possible that a vast majority of the Washington press corps agrees with the assumptions on which Thomas based her comment?