Veteran reporter Helen Thomas is reportedly miffed about the publishing of her suicide threat if Vice President Cheney were to run for the presidency.
"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told the Hill newspaper last week. "All we need is one more liar."
According to the Drudge Report, Thomas claims she was just sounding off to her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of the Hill, and her comments were not meant for publishing.
"I'll never talk to a reporter again!" Thomas reportedly exclaimed. "We were just talking – I was ranting – and he wrote about it. That isn't right. We all say stuff we don't want printed."
Eisele said when he called Thomas, "I assume she knew that we were on the record." "She's obviously very upset about it, but it was a small item – until Drudge picked it up and broadcast it across the universe."
"Nobody has thinner skin than reporters," Eisele said with a laugh.
