@juddlegum Indeed. ALL of the journalists who were suspended tonight committed only one apparently unpardonable offense: They criticized Elmo. That's it. That's what they did.

From a psych point of view, he's an extreme narcissist who has been suffering non-stop narcissistic injury for the last month with all his very public blunders, and now he's engaging in full-on decompensatory behavior—inevitably resulting in even more public shame and ridicule.