Unnamed "suit" at WMUR-TV gets his 15 minutes of fame

...and if he's lucky, it will only be 15 minutes.

"Alterman was in the spin room as a guest of the Creative Coalition and went to an area reserved for a private reception for WMUR-TV. Police said he was asked by an executive at the party if he was invited to the private area and was asked to leave."-- CNN's Political Ticker

oh really...?

A guy came over and asked me who I was and I told him I was a colmunist for The Nation and he told me I had to leave. I thought he was kind of rude, so I asked him his name, thinking it might go into Altercation the next day. He refused to answer me I asked again. He refused again. But I was following him out when he went to get a cop. The cop told me to leave the room and I did. We left the room, past where the people were handing out badges to go into the reception and I figured the entire drama was over. But the cop kept yelling at me to leave. I didn't understand. I thought I had left. I asked him to stop yelling, I had left. He kept telling me to leave. In retrospect, I guess he was kicking me out of the building and I didn't understand, but it was really mystifying and annoying and I told him I wanted to speak to his commanding officer. -- Eric Alterman, via Instapundit

UPDATE:  WMUR is running what it calls "a first-of-its-kind Blogging Competition, aimed at identifying 15 representatives to participate in the New Hampshire Primary Debates," using the members-only gather.com blog service. So far (Monday afternoon EST) only one story about the arrest.
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Via LGF, where Eric's not getting a whole lot of sympathy from the peanut gallery.

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