Obama’s trip to Iraq, is, just what McCain’s staffers say that it was, a dog and pony show…

In rare moment of candor, MSNBC shows some objectivity…

The Story: Andrea on Obama Trip: ‘What Some Would Call Fake Interviews’ | NewsBusters.org

Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter’s pride and principles, both of which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate’s current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell let loose on this evening’s Hardball, speaking of "fake interviews" and indicating we don’t know the truth of the trip because we don’t know what was edited out of the video that’s been released.

Before Mitchell made her displeasure known, Roger Simon of Politico, Chris Matthews’s other guest during the segment, depicted the images coming out of the war zone as all Obama could have dreamed of.

The Video:

Transcript:

ROGER SIMON: The optics are all very good on this trip. I mean, the beginning of this trip is so good, Senator Obama might just want to call off the end and just keep running the videotape. He goes into a gym, everybody, all the service people there cheer. He shoots a basket, you know, it goes through the hoop. He’s obviously
standing there with troops, they seem to be liking him, smiling. They don’t seem to feel that Barack Obama wants to desert them, to leave them in Iraq. This is exactly what the Obama campaign hoped for,
and this was supposed to be the tough part of the trip. The meatiest part of the trip in Jordan and Israel may be tough in terms of foreign policy, but the back end of the trip to cheering European crowds will certainly be as good if not better than this. So I think he’s feeling
very good right now.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Andrea, I want to get ethnic a little bit here —

ANDREA MITCHELL: This is message —

MATTHEWS: Yeah, go ahead, please.

My Take: I’m just going to repost here, what I said over on Jack Moss‘s Blog:

Jack,

I’m just going to tell it like it is. This Commie Liberal is, basically, a joke. If it were not for the fact that his skin was black. He wouldn’t be even running for President. If his name was George or Bill or John. He’d still be in Congress or worse yet, working in a law office
somewhere. Because he is black, he is getting special treatment. He is a perfect representation of the Generation of Blacks who do not appreciate what their ancestors went through. I think of some of them
were put BACK into chains, they’d be a little more appreciative of the freedom that they have.

Paleo Pat

Further more, let me just say this. I think it is a freaking outrage that the family of Martin Luther King Jr. is sitting idly by as this empty suit, commie liberal, rides into the White House on the shoulders of their Father. Then again, Martin Luther King Jr. was rumored to be a Commie as well, so, I guess birds of a feather, flock together.

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