But sometimes you only have the material the subjects are giving you. This afternoon, they were making a video of a sleepy Mike Huckabee event that the "mainstream" reporters were openly mocking among themselves.

"I saw Obama earlier today and I have to do this? This is infuriating," said one radio reporter.

Messrs. Slutsky were walking around with their shoulders slumped and looked a little sad. They admitted a personal loyalty to Barack Obama but said that their real personal goals over the next few days would be to land stories on the front page of the Huffington Post.