Reporters hungry for more than newsy nuggets from Sen. Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump are getting a sugar fix from C-SPAN, the public affairs network that is providing more coverage of Iowa and New Hampshire that any other.
The fix was delivered over the past week in a care box complete with sugar cookies and appropriately named “Campaign Trail Mix.”
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The four cookies are sugar painted with a partial map of the first four election states, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
“We’re kicking into high gear,” said the included card from C-SPAN.
Roll Call’s Niels Lesniewski ‏tweeted a thank you: “I may not have many #blizzard2016 snacks, but I do have @cspan campaign map cookies.”
Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin, a giant in political coverage, joked that gift-sender Howard Mortman, C-SPAN’s cheerleader and director of communications, must be trying to fatten up reporters. “Why does @HowardMortman want me to be chunky? #justasking,” he tweeted with an accompanying picture of the trail mix.
Why does @HowardMortman want me to be chunky? #justasking @cspan @SteveScully pic.twitter.com/ulrH4JyuVt
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) January 23, 2016
He has a point. While delicious — and our thank you to C-SPAN — just one cookie has 200 calories. But we reason that it is just fuel for trudging through the expected snow on Iowa’s Caucus night tomorrow.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
