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All three network morning shows on Wednesday were in awe of President Obama tearing up during his White House gun control address on Tuesday. On NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer used the “rare display of emotion” to tee-up a four-minute segment on “The Politics of Tears” and Obama being the “Latest in Long Line of Emotional Politicians.”
Correspondent Andrea Mitchell proclaimed: “Well, he is famously known to his staff as ‘No-Drama Obama,’ even criticized as a political Mr. Spock, but President Obama was unapologetically angry and emotional when talking about the victims of gun violence, especially the children of Newtown.”