Dan Pfeiffer for the win:

[Baltimike]

The media's obsession with optics is a self-fulfilling prophecy and a lazy crutch when the substance is too complicated to explain in 30 seconds or 280 characters

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[jayfish]

1. The Whole Point Of This Excercise Was To...

put Mueller in front of the camera (America) and have him explain his report. Since the information already exists in a publicly viewable format; optics were everything. How are we not getting this?

[onetexan]

2. Who gives a crap about optics? Todd is a showboater

[volstork]

7. And a poor one at that.

I remember this from 10 years ago, and thought he was a vain, chickenshit piece of crap for weaseling out on something so trivial:

https://www.newser.com/story/72443/chuck-todd-chickens-out-on-goatee-bet.html

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Next up on CNN, Mueller's tie choice? Did it affect the mood of the room?

[MFGsunny]

4. Well said, Dan Pfeiffer!

Is a "disaster" looking for YOU, Chuck?????

[Sherman A1]

5. Precisely

If it is not a 10 second soundbite it is far too complex for the likes of the bulk of the TV Media. Besides they have ads for drugs we never knew we needed to run. The rest is just to fill airtime between those ads.

[StarfishSaver]

6. This says it all