Retired anti-semite Helen Thomas, left her front row seat open when finally not even the liberal press could give her cover anymore, thus triggering a bidding war for her prime parking space in the White House press room.

Sounds like something you'd fight over if you lived in a concentration camp, doesn't it?

Well, apparently the Associated Press get's Helen's seat, and Fox gets AP's seat, which was also on the front row.

Liberal groups had lobbied for NPR's placement in the front row over Fox, which one petition called a "right-wing propaganda outlet."

Well, yes--isn't that how the White House has been characterizing Fox News? Not a "real" news organization? So how does the bete noir of all right-thinking liberals pull down such a prestigious seating arrangement?

Well, ultimately they have the viewers, and like it or not, the White House sometimes has to direct its rhetoric at the benighted masses.

Now its just going to be that much more obvious when Robert Gibbs ignores Major Garrett.