CNN, PBS, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, realizing the danger, break down the equipment in a flash and flee the building with cameras in hand before the mob can turn their wrath on the elitist press corps. Torches in hand, the well-heeled horde storms the Situation Room.

Gloria Borger loses a heel as she scrambles toward the exit. Campbell Brown barely makes it out of the building alive. Keith Olberman trips over a klieg light and is soon swallowed by the mob. Gone.