Our TV-watching gang is all abuzz about how the cable networks are all passing on today’s campaign news as if they live in a bubble. It’s professional to wait until you confirm a story before you rush to judgment. But viewers are still finding it weird that analysts are talking this afternoon about how Kerry is “unstoppable” (as they tell me was said on Fox). Can’t they at least let the inevitability chat slide a bit before the curtain opens?

As for the disdain for an adultery story, I would submit that no one should anticipate the breakout of 1998 on this story. The media have absolutely no desire to lock back onto that beat. (Oh no! Keith Olbermann will have to quit again!)