In my piece today, I described NBC’s Andrea Mitchell as being “visibly depressed” last night after Palin’s speech. A reader was kind enough to send along this link to the YouTube video. It’s worse than I remembered:

A sample question that Mitchell asked Giuliani:

Let me ask you about your own speech, just briefly. You went after [Obama], you went after him hard, you were sarcastic. Barack Obama has 18 million votes and has survived a very tough Democratic primary test of 20 months. Did you have any pause at all in going after him this hard and belittling him the way you did?

A sample soundbite from Mitchell’s coverage of Obama’s speech last week:

Well, one of the most startling things about this was, as exciting a speech as this was to the delegates down here on floor, they really didn’t get fired up until Barack Obama went after John McCain on exactly what you guys were talking about, his perceived strength, when he — he went right after him and said, if John McCain wants to have a debate on who has the judgment and temperament to be commander in chief, that is a debate that I will have, and then when he said, you know, John McCain likes to say that I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, but he won’t go to the cave where he lives.
So, it was those — those moments where people started jumping up and shouting, whoo-wee, whoo-wee. I mean, they were really into it.
This was the red meat that this crowd has been wanting, they have been waiting to see. They’re Democrats. They’re rank-and-file Democrats. Some were Hillary. Some were Obama. Some were still undecided. They were waiting to see if this man is a fighter, because this is a change election.

I can’t find a video of Mitchell shouting, “Whoo-wee, whoo-wee,” into the camera. Any help on that front would be greatly appreciated.