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As for the G8 Summit reporting. CBS' White House correspondent Chip Reid stuck to the global warming agenda, covering Barack Obama's "disappointment" as the eight major economies failed to agree with the nine largest developing nations on a formula to cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next 40 years. Chuck Todd, NBC's man at the White House, found himself in a terrible mess as he filed from Rome. "You have heard of the saying While Rome is Burning…" he began, setting us up for some reference to Obama's imperial self-indulgent vanity while his citizen's livelihoods go up in flames. Instead we heard the non-sequitur that Obama's "domestic agenda and his political poll numbers, while not burning up, seem to be wilting a little in the summer heat…Obama's healthcare and economic policies are under increasing fire at home."
ABC's G8 coverage disregarded diplomacy altogether as Yunji de Nies guided us through the First Tweens' excellent summer adventure including visits to Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin and the Coliseum. de Nies replayed the President's soundbite with her colleague Jake Tapper praising his trench-coat-clad daughter as a Get Smart spook in the Kremlin's halls. Sasha and Malia travel free on Air Force One while their parents pay "for every extra room, meal and souvenir. First Families know that a front row seat to history is priceless."
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