"What Some Would Call Fake Interviews"

So how is Obama's Middle East trip going? Well, apparently some reporters, like Andrea Mitchell, who are actual Obama supporters, are becoming a little concerned. And with good reason. It is just one staged event after another, and the regular press corps has no access, they just get to see the press releases before anyone else. Has a candidate ever been this managed before? No serious questions for any major figures in Iraq or Afghanistan, it is all photo-ops to make campaign commercials that will be broadcast for free by the major media outlets as the network news. Mitchell's conversation with Chris Matthews is pretty telling. She raises a serious point about how the campaign is being run, how no one has ever run a campaign like this before, with no media access or real questions, and all Chris Matthews wants to talk about is the happy smiling African-American faces watching him shoot baskets. Anyone else sense a major disconnect here?
Thanks to Justin for the link.