Elton Beard notes Meet the Press' Andrea Mitchell making clear which side she's on - and it's not ours: 51% of Americans now consider the war a boo-boo, noted the NBC host. Perhaps discomfited by this she turned to a guest for consolation, and her mask slipped for a moment (all emphasis added): So, Joe Lieberman, have we lost the American people? Not surprising, then, that she let his description of the war as one against "the very same people who attacked us on September 11th" slide unchallenged. As Elton observes: ...as one, a million viewers across the land leaned forward in their comfy chairs awaiting a journalistic follow-up to these odd, Cheney-esque assertions. Like, what was that previous circumstance where division at home deprived America and the world of a victory over terrorists who hate us more than they love life? And, does the honorable Senator have any information connecting anyone now in Iraq to 9/11? A million viewers across the land were sadly disappointed. Russert's substitute just let Sen. Lieberman's startling statements stand...some causal viewers, under the impression that Andrea Mitchell is a journalist, unaware that Meet The Press and the Senator are on the same team, just might have walked away believing that what Sen. Lieberman said correlates well with reality