FIND A LOVE THAT LOOKS AT YOU THE WAY THE PRESS LOOKS AT HILLARY, this viral tweet correctly notes:

Just look at the rapturous expression in their faces — you can see them as well in a slightly different angle in this tweet from Andrea Mitchell, who’s just glowing — she can feel her future boss is this close to the oval office.

But note that the “blob’s”* expression also contains a healthy amount of fear as well – the media is very much the battered spouse in this relationship: “Clinton campaign warns media to tread carefully,” the Hill reports. As Steve Green asks response, “C’mon, media — you going to take this lying down?”

Of course they are. Because we saw the above image before. We see it every four years:

Just think of them as Democrat operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

* Classical reference.

UPDATE: “Did Hillary just tell Andrea Mitchell, ‘you’re my kind of woman’?”