http://www.jeffgannon.com/White House Press Corps Catfight!
While "Catfight" is a term used to describe a bit of nasty clawing between two women, I thought it was applicable to the review of of Hearst columnist Helen Thomas' book by the nominally-masculine Washington Post reporter, Dana Milbank. Thomas wrote that White House reporters were collectively softballing the Bush administration after 9/11 and failed to ask the tough quesetions that might have prevented the war in Iraq. This presupposes that the intelligence was manipulated to support the case for Saddan Hussein's ouster, but that's another discussion.
Milbank, one of the reporters Thomas criticized, objects to the characterization, since "softball tosser" seems to be the most insulting thing a White House reporter can be called. Milbank whines that he and his colleagues asked suitably biased questions.
Thomas complained that the White House Press Corps "gets to chummy" with those in power, a charge to which Milbank responds, "I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!"
To support their own offended scribe, the Washington Post ran the review with the following photo from 1997.
It appears that Thomas is either demonstrating her aggressive reporting technique or applying for that intern job...