We all knew it even it before Sarah Palin showed them at their worst: the mainstream media are (by and large) male sissies and female primps.
Before heading out on the “story”, mainstream media men need their fizzling out batteries recharged with multiple lattes; mainstream media women need convincing from their cameramen that every blonde hair is in place; that their lips really do look bee-stung.
When Sarah’s savvy and intuition left the media eating her dust on the bus trail, you could hear the screams of foul all the way to Canada: “Waaaah!”