Helen Thomas' boss and the difference between a Zionist and a Jew

Nicholas Benton, Helen Thomas' new boss at the Falls Church (Virginia) News Press, has a classic anti-Semite's answer to charges that Thomas is an anti-Semite. Benton's editorial last week welcoming Thomas to his paper appears to gloss over the journalist's past diatribes.In the piece, Benton fiercely condemns Thomas' initial remarks at the White House in May -- when she said that Jews should "