The Democratic Party/Mainstream Media cabal has entered the grief stage as Barack Obama is counting down his final days in office.

At least two media personalities dropped any pretense of objectivity on Friday when Matt Lauer and Andrea Mitchell both admitted on live television that a ceremony at the White House yesterday left them in tears.

After Obama gave Vice President Joe Biden the Medal of Freedom, Lauer said on “Today” that he was sitting in his apartment, reduced to tears.

“So I’m glad there were no cameras in my apartment yesterday,” Lauer said after a package ran on the ceremony, “because I was sitting there just weeping.”

He continued, “I just burst out crying when I saw that moment.”

Meanwhile, Andrea Mitchell acknowledged on MSNBC that she, too, was in tears while she was covering the Thursday event.

Referring to the ceremony, Mitchell told guest Chris Cillizza, “You know, every time I watch this I’m just watching that ceremony I was in tears. We are seeing so much dissension and disruption in Washington and around the country and to see this relationship, this partnership pretty seamless on policy, if they had disputes, they were over their, you know, little lunches and breakfasts that we didn’t see.”