Andrea Mitchell: A study in “controlled” pissed!

It goes without saying television history was made again this evening as it has been all these past few days. Tonight, in my opinion, was the crowning glory. There was Andrea Mitchell, with that WTF expression on her face as one diarist put it, expressing her heart out. First of all, Andrea is not the type of person who likes for you to waste her time. Further, I get the impression she does not waste your time nor want you to waste her’s. I envision her becoming quit annoyed when that happens. I would imagine she was promised a different venue by her boss to get her to make the trip and it did not happen. I sense some mis-placed anger and perhaps a smidgeon of feelings of betrayal.

From my perspective, the Obama campaign refused request from over two hundred reporters who wanted to go on the trip but the three networks decided they were better than mere reporters so they sent their anchor persons separately and with much fanfare. When they arrived, they found the hen house door closed shut, pad locked and bolted from the inside. There’s this ego thing with anchor people and their entourage. You do not treat them as you would ordinary reporters. They are our mainstream media sacred cows or so they thought until they saw that red bejeweled hen house door and could not get in. At this point, they may want to sit down, try to pull themselves together and consider taking “a spoonful of sugar.”

In my opinion, this is the first time we in America and the rest of the world can finally see Sen. Obama in relaxed mode without fears of having answering a bunch of potentially toxic reporter’s questions on the fly or having fears of later seeing a picture of himself scratching his nose with the caption he is giving his audience the finger. It seems to me his campaign managers have brilliantly done all they can to let everybody see, enjoy and evaluate “the real” Sen. Obama to which I most enthusiastically say, Bravo!!
As always,
BB