He probably got word that Helen Thomas was being assigned to Canada.
I spend a lot of time in Canada. While many in America decry the bias of the MSM ours are tame by comparison. The bias against anything conservative anything USA anything that doesn't advance the social/liberal agenda is marginalized, mischarcterized and mocked. Take for example the issue of gay marriage (only because we are all familiar with it) Canadians generally poll about the same as Americans on the subject majority against. However no politician..not even Stephen Harper..dare stand up the liberal Canadian Courts that by fiat have decreed it. The press suggests any such move with be tantmount to an overthrow of their judicial order. There are many examples but if anything our MSM is still in the closet..theirs is out and proud. By the way brilliant tactic by Harper on stiffing the media hope it works.