ANDREA MITCHELL: BARACK OBAMA’S GIVING FAKE INTERVIEWS

Appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, Andrea stated that Obama, “didn’t have reporters with him. He didn’t have a press pool. He didn’t do a press conference while he was on the ground either on Afghanistan or Iraq.

What you’re seeing is not reporters brought in, you’re seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questioned by the military and what some would call fake interviews because they’re not interviews with a journalist so there’s a real press issue here.”

Click through for rest of transcript.“Politically it’s smart as can be, but we’ve not seen a Presidential candidate do this in my recollection ever before.

I don’t think journalism is the prime thing that we recruit them and pay them for.”

Chris Matthews, for his part, does his best to bring in the race card.

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