NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell was bombarded last night. Not by an angry mob or bullets in Iraq, but by balloons.

After John McCain gave his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican convention in St. Paul, MN, Mitchell was trying to give her report, summing up the effectiveness of the Arizona senator’s words. But she apparently positioned herself in exactly the wrong spot on the convention floor — right where hundreds of balloons were being released and spit out into the convention hall. Mitchell fruitlessly tried to bat the red, white and blue balloons away from her head. 

Tom Brokaw dubbed the standup: "Andrea ‘Boom-Boom’ Mitchell and the Dance of the Republican Balloons." MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann called it "the political equivalent of Chuck E. Cheese."

NBC’s Brian Wilson said: "I’ve been in Ramadi [Iraq] with that woman with automatic weapons going off — that didn’t stop her, but it appears mylar has stopped Andrea Mitchell in her tracks."

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