Last night may have ended half a century of some kind of tradition, but as I recall, reporters used to be a little more respectful.
Just for kicks (or a need to raise my blood pressure)I visited DU, and those pin heads think she was snubbed because she said at some dinner that Bush was the worst president ever. Shows how much they know. They probably never watch a press conference, or they would know it's because she asks questions like 'why does Bush want to bomb Iraqi women & children?' And she does stuff like that at just about EVERY press conference.
No President needs to stand in front the country he leads and submit to an unintelligent, misleading, and downright hateful attack. Criticism is one thing, but she goes way past criticism straight to hate.
They wouldn't get why that should be a problem, mainly because given the chance those jackasses would ask the same kinds of idiotic and disrespectful questions. Doesn't take long at the DU to realize that that is exactly how they think.