The Washington Post may really want to reconsider republishing pool reports from Dana Milbank — not because they’re snotty (if it’s snotty, it’s Milbank), but because in patches, they get whiny:

The couple hundred guests, said by local press accounts to have given $10,000 per ticket, were in an air-conditioned tent. Your pool was held outside. (Temperature: 87; Accuweather “RealFeel” temperature: 106.) Guests dined on steak salad and fruit tart, sipping white and red wine. Your pool did not.

This kind of “coverage” of a Palin event makes the reader consider that maybe Milbank’s dumping on Palin today in the newspaper and online is not just because he’s a liberal who loathes Palin, but because he’s feeling a little emotional about feeling overheated and underfed.

Byron York clearly remembers previous “Our hero worked the rope line” pool reports.