“I get the feeling that Andrea Mitchell regards herself as an objective reporter. She has looked just devastated the past few weeks, perhaps realizing how badly she’s misjudged the current political scene.”
If Andrea was ACTUALLY an objective reporter, then she wouldn’t need to be judging the political scene in the first place, but simply reporting the facts along with objective analysis not particularly requiring judgement of the political scene.
Andrea is devastated because she just realized that the race horse she’s been touting to the punters is lame.
Good analogy. The old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be.