OUCH! Has anybody noticed how much Andrea Mitchell is flailing?

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47. If she retires, she loses her platform - the one with the network TV cameras

and the ego in her probably is desperate to maintain that exposure - especially as she ages, surrounded by equally (if not MORE) capable and more photogenic younger women.

I could imagine myself becoming increasingly panicked in that situation, looking at the younger and hungrier competition. She looks like she’s “had work done” especially in and around the mouth area, but not her neck. If you’re on camera every day, and you want to remain competitive, that’s one of the things women have to deal with, unfortunately.

But it’s not her physical age that bothers me. Hell, I’m no spring chicken either! But it’s her presentation. Her increasingly choppy, shaky delivery, the lines she blows, the points she no longer seems able to make succinctly, even almost getting lost while trying to find her way to whatever observation or comment she’s trying to reach. It’s becoming a distraction.