IT’S FUN ON TWITTER RIGHT NOW, watching journos who’ve been pushing negative spin on the Rudy Giuliani and Scott Walker stories trying to grasp why they’re being so roundly mocked — including by many right-leaning journos who ordinarily would extend professional courtesy.

UPDATE: Lots of interesting stuff in the comments, including this:

This election cycle, we’re taking the fight directly to the Leftist media machine. Making it personal. No more ‘reasonable proportionate escalation’…we’re going directly to ’11’. Punch them straight in the nose, folks. Their weaknesses are clear: (a) they know they sold themselves out over DreamBoy BO, (b) they are cowards and lazy. Prepare for the fight, my friends…this is the big one.

Yeah, that’s kind of the spirit I’m seeing. After her performance in the 2012 debates, Candy Crowley should have been rendered radioactive and unemployable even at CNN; certainly a reporter who treated a Dem similarly would have been in big career trouble. I think a lot of people learned from that, and are angry.