Are the media zombies finally beginning to wake up?

Things got a little "chippy" at the White House press briefing yesterday when Chip Reid of CBS began pinning spokesman Robert Gibbs down as to just how "public" the public town hall meeting on health care really was:





"The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and have controlled..."

- Helen freakin' Thomas (!), who is about as liberal as it gets in the major media. It's about time she started doing her job correctly by questioning the Messiah's deceptive tactics.

She knows from secretive and controlling administrations, too, since she's covered every White House since Kennedy.

"'Calling reporters the night before, telling them they’re going to be called on — that’s shocking,' Thomas said, referring to an incident last week when Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney was given advance warning that he would be called on to ask a question on behalf of the Iranian public."

Welcome back, Ms. Thomas.

Keep yukking it up, Mr. Gibbs. You look oh so professional with your smarmy dismissals of the reporters' legitimate and tough (it's about time) questions.