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Only NBC had a reporter update us on the progress of the Obama transition. Andrea Mitchell focused on the recommendation by three former Secretaries of State--James Baker, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell--that President Barack Obama close the "festering sore" that is the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The closure would raise "thorny questions, " Mitchell conceded: "Some of the detainees cannot be sent home because they would be tortured; others are considered too dangerous to be set free." Mitchell did not address the accusation that the "torture" has happened already--at American hands.
Wrapping up Campaign 2008 coverage, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell saw John McCain "freer and unburdened after the election" and returning to the Senate "with a smile." The smile referred to a piece of NBC cross-promotion for McCain's appearance on Tonight with Jay Leno. McCain told a legitimately funny joke, which justified O'Donnell's plug: since the defeat, "I have been sleeping like a baby," he declared. "Sleep two hours; wake up and cry; sleep two hours; wake up and cry." Then O'Donnell spoiled it with a corny, and non-newsworthy, Tonight plug too far. McCain joked that he is working on the "transition"--from Leno to his successor Conan O'Brien.
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