BBC Calls Clinton's NH Primary Win "Stunning Upset"

In what I can only call the overstatement of the year, the 5:30 am radio headline from BBC news today called Hillary Clinton's close victory over Barak Obama in the NH primary a "stunning upset." Come on, people! This is the primary. It's January. The vote was in NH, among party loyalists, voting only for candidates from their own party, to start the process of narrowing the race to only one name per party in preparation for the actual presidential election almost a year from now. Clinton and Obama were less than a couple of points apart. To call this a "stunning upset" is beyond hyperbole and sounds instead like the media are trying desperately to take themselves seriously.

Perhaps what actually happened is the collected world journalists-- hundreds of them, if not thousands-- looked around at all the other journalists and vans and cellphones and laptops and blackberries and cameras and microphones, and then looked at the action they have been tasked to cover, in rural conservative hayseed New Hampshire in the dead of winter, and realized only hyperbole could justify all the fuss. Some BBC journalists may have felt an emotional let down... some may feel an upset! A stunning upset!