The Hos Tell New Hampshire, or, The Cider House Tools

Charles Pierce, at Altercation, explains what network news coverage of the New Hampshire primaries is all about: the blathering class stroking each others' egos, insulated from hoi polloi, on the dime of their corporate masters:

Also, the Holiday Inn in Manchester seems to be the Lobby Of Horrors this time around. I mean, really, Russert, Matthews, Mark Shields, Frank Luntz AND Susan Estrich, all at the same time? There's never a damn cream pie around when you need it.

Or, as Ana Marie Cox put it, the millionaire pundit class's trip to N.H. "reminds us a lot of ancient Greece as well, because it's a bunch of stodgy old fucks blowing each other."

(Note to self: start writing funnier material, or at least commission caricature of self with a brow wax and knee boots.)