To cleanse the palate, via WaPo and Vimeo poster “PAPSFIRST,” an historic near-encounter captured live as it happened this morning at Reagan National Airport. In one corner: An obnoxious camera whore who represents everything that’s wrong with America. In the other corner: Snooki. Which one of them is capable of naming all three branches of government? Trick question, my friends — probably neither is.

Schumer shouldn’t take this personally, really. Turns out she’s into Republicans.

Snookie Ignores Her Senator Charles Schumer from PAPSFIRST on Vimeo.