Typically when a live shot of a plane on a tarmac gets together with flashing "BREAKING NEWS" graphics, it means something truly awful has happened. But, aside from applying Us Weekly-style body-language analysis to the way Barack Obama and George W. Bush greeted each other before their closed-door White House meeting (Obama's press statement called it "productive," while Bush's went with "constructive."), the cable news nets didn't have much to work with. The true star of today's MSNBC coverage? The American Airlines charter plane sitting on the tarmac of Reagan National Airport patiently waiting to ferry the President-elect back to Chicago.

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