The nutty aunt in the attic and the dead kid in the box

It's not up yet at the Media Resource Center, but they report (from my email):

8) Picking up on complaints that President Bush did not take a question at Thursday's press conference from Hearst Newspapers
columnist Helen Thomas, on Fox News Sunday Brit Hume suggested that she's "the nutty aunt in the attic of the Washington press corps" since her questions "have not been questions of the kind that any professional journalist would normally ask. Mostly they are argumentative, she makes statements."

Hume also revealed why she does get to pose questions at the daily briefings: "Privately, they will tell you, that her
questions are so outrageous and so over the top, that when the person giving the briefing wants to generate a little sympathy in
the TV audience, all you've got to do is call on Helen."

During the roundtable portion of the March 9 program, Hume explained: "I sat next to Helen Thomas when I was covering the
White House for eight years. She'd been there for a lot longer than that and she still shows up. And she deserves a certain
amount of our admiration for sheer indefatigability and dedication.

"But she is, to some extent, the nutty aunt in the attic of the Washington press corps and has been for years. And all of us
have been kind of overlooking her because we're personally fond of her, as I rather am. But let's face it, the questions that she has
been asking at White House briefings and press conferences, for decades, have not been questions of the kind that any professional
journalist would normally ask. Mostly they are argumentative, she makes statements, she gives speeches. She does things that
journalists trying to behave with some neutrality simply do not do and she's gotten away with it lo these many years principally
because she had been there all this time and she became sort of an institution. She is not now a working daily reporter, she's a
columnist and opinion dispenser and she has been moved out of the front row of the press conferences.

"She retains, however, her front row seat in the White House briefing room. And why is that? Privately, they will tell you,
that her questions are so outrageous and so over the top, that when the person giving the briefing wants to generate a little sympathy in the TV audience, all you've got to do is call on Helen."

"not been questions of the kind that any professional journalist would normally ask" said the anchor from Fox news.....smirk.

But, since you're such an expert on crazy relatives Brit, maybe you can enlighten us on why your son killed himself? Here are some leads. From Datalounge, from WND lunatic Joseph Farah, and even from the Clinton Body Count.

You report...we'll decide.

(Update:) I'm already getting email from people complaining that by bringing up Sandy Hume's suicide I have somehow crossed a "line". After all his smears of the Clintons that continue to this day on Fox, to his latest, "Helen Thomas is crazy...but bless her heart" comments, I would say that Brit has pretty much trampled and stomped on any "line" that used to exist. I'm tired of bringing a knife to a gunfight.

Too bad.

(Update redux:) Here is the Official Media Research link.