Take that, pundits, pollsters

There was a great moment last night a few minutes after Obama's speech, just before Clinton's, when Chris Matthews talked with Tom Brokaw about how wrong they all were. Brokaw agreed that everyone all day was wrong. The pollsters were wrong, the pundits were wrong, and the system got a jolt.

Matthews sounded like he was rethinking the way he does his job (he just sounded that way, he wasn't actually rethinking). Brokaw said media figures should rethink the way they rely on polls. Matthews responded with something like, "Well, then what will we do all day?"

I don't think he was joking. Matthews and all the pundits who sit around and predict as though they know something, got a shot to the gut last night. They'll go back to doing what they always do this morning, but for one night, it was fun to watch them squirm. (Photo courtesy of The New York Times)