Andrea Mitchell Joins NBC News Revolt Against Hillary Clinton Film

[monmouth3]

The NBC News revolt against an upcoming miniseries about Hillary Clinton continued on Thursday, with Andrea Mitchell calling it a "really bad idea."

NBC's entertainment division is making the miniseries, much to the chagrin of both RNC chair Reince Priebus--who has promised to ban NBC News from hosting any upcoming Republican debates if the series gets made--and NBC journalists, who worry that people will think they had some hand in the film. Foremost among these was Chuck Todd, who called the program a "total nightmare" for NBC News on Thursday.

On her MSNBC show, Mitchell joined in. Speaking to contributor and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, she said Priebus was "understandably miffed" about the miniseries, as well as a CNN documentary also in the works. Gibbs called the shows a "bad idea."

"A lot of news people would say, including NBC News people, including Chuck Todd and all the rest of us, a really bad idea given the timing," Mitchell responded. Gibbs said the films would definitely be "unsettling and uncomfortable" to some.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/andrea-mitchell-nbc-hillary-clinton_n_3727563.html

[Waiting For Everyman]

1. I don't remember a big problem with "Our Nixon" on CNN recently. nt

[katmondoo]

3. I saw "Our Nixon"

Lots of cheering, very little about the reason he went down. Clips of his speeches, clips of the Inaugurations more cheering. If you didn't know the true story you would come away from this film feeling he wasn't really that involved in Watergate. It was the people around him.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Is Nixon Running In 2016??

This is yet another PR stunt by Rheinhold to intimidate the corporate media...also known as "gaminig the refs". He's tryint to deflect attention away from the civil war going on within his inept and corrupt party...

[Waiting For Everyman]

10. Hillary is already a former First Lady, that's reason enough for a special.

She is already a national public figure on a par with a former President like Nixon. Show me any potential candidates who can say the same. Besides, she hasn't announced and there's no guarantee that she will even run in 2016, so that's irrelevant.

[KharmaTrain]

12. Agreed...

...Mrs. Clinton's had a fascinating life that is very worthy of a bio-pic. If there wasn't such popular appeal, Rheinhold wouldn't be so anxious about bullying NBC around. I can see him getting in a lather for an announced bio-pic on Elizabeth Warren.

Again...I see this as a distraction...to get the tongues on hate radio wagging about how evil Hillary is and how "liberal" the corporate media is. Anything but the implosion of their party thanks to the teabaggers driving the party off the political abyss...

Cheers...

[Mass]

15. Nixon wont run in 2016. What would you say if there was a movie about Jeb Bush, for example?

[Waiting For Everyman]

19. Was Jeb Bush a President or First Lady?

Everything isn't about elections. There is such a thing as history. Hillary already belongs in history at that level, Jeb Bush does not.

I'll answer your question anyway though. As the maxim goes, the antidote to bad speech is more speech. I personally wouldn't care what specials are run on whoever, and I doubt that Jeb Bush would be very riveting to watch, so I don't think that would have much audience appeal anyway. I'm also not a Hillary fan. I just think the crabbing about this is absurd.

[Lil Missy]

23. Not the same thing. Nixon isn't a potential presidential candidate for 2016 n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

24. Really? Who said he was?

You might want to read the replies above yours.

[DonCoquixote]

2. Sad thing is

Andrea Mitchell's opinions will count for ten times that of many a liberal in this party.

[asjr]

4. If NBC folds and pulls this from the line-up they

are utter idiots. I do not know if Mitchell and Chuck the Toad have seen it but they have really outed themselves on air. The Republican party could not have asked for anything more than those two relaying their message.

[spanone]

5. remember the outrage for this? That's My Bush!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That's_My_Bush!

[IDemo]

6. Chucky thinks it's a bad idea?

Well, that settles it...roll the film!

[tularetom]

8. Are they assuming that the series would be a puff piece?

I haven't followed this story so I'm asking this.

Are they worried about giving the appearance of favoring a Hillary candidacy by running a miniseries about her?

Because she could just as well be depicted very unfavorably, indirectly, by her association with all the Clinton scandals, real and fake, of the 1990's.

And the last thing that Bill Clinton wants is for the public to be reminded of troopergate, travelgate, paulajonesgate, whitewatergate, vincefostergate, and especially monicalewinskygate. I think he's sort of enjoyed the ass kissing he's been getting from the liberal media over the last few years. They've been holding him up as some sort of paragon in order to discredit Obama but if Hillary runs, all bets are off, all the old dirt will be dug up.

And maybe it wouldn't be so bad to watch him squirm a little bit. He's been so busy trying to be a republican he's sort of forgotten how those people treated him when he was in office.

[malaise]

9. No revolt against her discredited husband though

Fugg her too!

[Champion Jack]

11. If mrs Greenspan is against it it must be good

[hobbit709]

22. That's about what I'm thinking.

[Tippy]

13. When did the stations beging dictating what should and should not be shown?

Another tea party idea?

[Boom Sound 416]

17. wait, what?

are you asking when did networks begin deciding what they will broadcast on their own?

[randome]

14. So no movies or miniseries about anyone from now on.

In case someone wants to run for President in the future.

Memo received! And I do not want to see another Clinton in the White House.
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[Mass]

16. I would have no problem with this.

[randome]

20. While we're at it, let's shut down all 'reality' shows, too.

This would be a better Universe without them.
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[Boom Sound 416]

18. its silly to think that because the series and doc start in 1998 that it will show

Hillary in an unflattering light during the Lewinsky scandal

she will obviously be portrayed as the victimized wife who stood by her man

[monmouth3]

21. I hope she will be portrayed as one of the best SOS we've seen in a long time...n/t

[davidpdx]

25. Just as much as NBC Entertainment can't influence NBC News, the reverse should also be true

If the conservative 1% want to have a snitfit about the other side doing a mini-series, then maybe NBC Entertainment should tell the news division to fire Mrs. Goldspin.

[AndyA]

26. What was that ABC documentary that aired not long before the 2004 elections?

It made the war in Iraq seem reasonable. It was misrepresented in advertising, which made it sound like a documentary of the facts, when it was really nothing but propaganda. I remember calling my local ABC station about it, and haven't watched that station since.

Mrs. Alan Greenspan, who sat there on the air and discussed things her husband was involved in with no disclosure that she was actually MARRIED to the guy and slept with him every night...and Chuck Todd, what a piece of crap--always has been, always will be.

[kelliekat44]

27. But it's ok for FOX and CNN to air nasty anti Clinton films? Andrea and Todd, maybe they belong on

FOX "news." FOX entertainment can put out all the nasty stuff they want to about the Obamas and Clintons but NBC Eisntertainment can't do any of this unless it's guaranteed to be negative against the Obamas and Clintons? FOX already has Hannity and O'REilly entertainment pretending to be news programs.

[Tom Ripley]

28. "I thawt I thaw a Wandian!"...Mrs Greenspan has an intimate relationship with bad ideas...

but this isn't one of them.