Suicide Journalism

The BEST of the Web today, by James Taranto:

"Helen Thomas, American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic, issued a suicide threat last week. "The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress."

"But Matt Drudge reports Thomas is having second thoughts. "We were just talking--I was ranting--and he wrote about it," Drudge quotes her as saying, referring to the Hill's Albert Eisele. "That isn't right. We all say stuff we don't want printed."