From TNR's Michael Crowley, after news broke last night that Barack Obama was meeting with conservative columnists [emphasis added]:

I imagine this will generate some outrage from the left--potentially at the idea that Obama is already falling into the Beltway cocktail-circuit trap, or perhaps out of mere loathing for the crew in question (although the four fall into different categories, and Will and Brooks in particular have written some pretty nice things about Obama). But I think liberal outrage would be misplaced here.

Just as a general rule of journalism, isn't it a better idea to comment on events that have actually happened, rather than to comment on events that might take place. Although admittedly, the second approach makes life a lot easier for pundits.

Nonetheless, Crowley writes an entire piece about how blogger outrage, which he predicted would appear (it really hasn't), was all wrong. Beltway pundits love to do this; assign all sorts of motivation and blame to 'angry' liberal bloggers, regardless of whether it's accurate or not. Sorta like when they blamed bloggers for spreading the Palin fake pregnancy story during the campaign...