On Saturday, what most pollsters, Politico's, and Bernie Sanders campaign organizers had been saying for days or weeks proved true,

namely that the Democratic Socialist candidate for president had been well poised for victory in Nevada,

the most diverse and most populous state of the race so far.

Since the AP was able to call the race so early,

the punditry had all the time they needed to speak to the moment.

And while Sanders Wynn had been a consensus prediction,

as Columbia Journalism Reviews John Alsop observed, the analysis had an unmistakable

vibe of alarm. John, welcome back to OTM. Thanks for having me again. You watched the TV news

coverage of Sanders Wynn in Nevada. Tell me, what is the sound of the establishment clutching its pearls?

I don't know if there's an onomatopoeic word for that, but it was pretty much a full-blown freak-out

from that kind of establishment pundit class, and you had both personalities and hosts and

guests who were members of the Democratic

establishment on that network saying some pretty unmeasured things that were very critical of Sanders

and his electoral viability. James Carville said that the results were going very well for Vladimir

Putin. I promise you. He's probably staying up watching us right now. How you doing, Glad?

Nicole Wallace said the Trump and Sanders campaigns were kind of similar in their use of dark arts.

Of abusing the press, of bullying the press. I mean, what do we miss in terms of paying attention to a squeaky, angry minority in ignoring the majority?

Chris Matthews likened the breakthrough of the Sanders campaign in Nevada to France falling to the Nazis during the Second World War.

And the general, Renault, calls up Churchill and says, it's over. And Churchill says, how can it be? You've got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over? He said, it's over.

That is like Fox and Friends level sniping.

And Matthews got the same treatment from Bernie supporters and others leading on Monday to this.

Senator Sanders, I'm sorry for comparing anything from that tragic error in which so many suffered,

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