Yes, really.

Via Jim Geraghty:

From Mark Leibovich’s This Town, Chapter Three, describing Election Night 2006, and how Sen. Harry Reid responded to the CNN’s declaration that Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri had won her Senate race:

“Reid, a man of thoroughgoing cynicism, is nonetheless capable of a boyish hullabaloo at times like this. So what did Harry Reid do to mark this key step in his ascent to Senate majority leader? He rose from the couch and he kissed the TV – tenderly, caressing the screen. And then he sat back down to receive from [Sen. Chuck] Schumer something between a pat on the head and a noogie.”