The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and other civil rights groups are expressing outrage over one of syndicated right-wing columnist Anne Coulter’s latest columns in which she refers to veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas as “that old Arab.” Coulter’s February 23 column for Universal Press Syndicate focused on the controversy surrounding ex-White House reporter James Guckert, better known as Jeff Gannon. Coulter wrote, “Press passes can’t be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.” The American Arab Discrimination Committee called the story outright racist. Helen Thomas is known as “The Dean” of the White House press corp. and has covered every president since John F. Kennedy.