'People Just Flat Out Lie': NBC's Andrea Mitchell Rips Trump in Scathing Interview

[DonViejo]

by Joe DePaolo | 8:48 am, April 10th, 2017

Days after being called “Hillary Clinton’s PR person” by President Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell fired back in a scathing new interview — in which she ripped the Trump administration for, among other things, lying and limiting media access.

Appearing on a podcast released by Politico Monday, the veteran NBC correspondent took the White House to task for what she deemed an unprecedented effort to deceive the public.

“I have never seen anything like this where people just flat out lie,” Mitchell said. “You know, black is white and white is black, and they mislead you. It’s really disconcerting to see the podium in the White House briefing room being used to mislead or misdirect or obfuscate.”

Mitchell referenced the upcoming trip to Moscow by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, on which journalists are not being permitted to accompany the nation’s top diplomat.

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[NurseJackie]

1. She's one to talk.

[Orrex]

2. Yes, and...

It's all well and good to complain that Trump is a liar, but that's hardly a surprise to anyone who's heard him speak for more than 2 seconds.

Mitchell should instead call out journalists for their utter failure to take Trump to task on any matter of significance. They don't call him on 99% of the bullshit he says, nor do they hold him accountable for his actions. Instead, they simply devote themselves to stenography and keep on their merry way.

This, after they were happy to give him a full year (and billions worth) of free campaign publicity.


Trump is an asshole, but everyone knows that he is an asshole. We kind of hoped for better from the journalists charged with reporting the truth, though.

[sharedvalues]

9. For profit journalism is the problem

This CNN expose is a must read.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/magazine/cnn-had-a-problem-donald-trump-solved-it.html

[Orrex]

11. Saving for later. Thanks!

[BannonsLiver]

36. Did I miss something?

Pretty sure the Times is a for profit enterprise.

[sharedvalues]

38. Times is privately held. And family controlled. Makes a huge difference

Propublica and Mother Jones are nonprofits and better, but both are smaller.

NYT and WaPo are privately held and controlled by sane Americans. That matters.

WSJ and NY Post are controlled by a crazy right-winger.

CNN is public. And its parent CEO is a right winger. Also all broadcast for-profit media is more ratings craven than newspapers.

Seriously read the NYT piece. CNN promoted Trump to make money.

[BannonsLiver]

39. I knew that about CNN and MSNBC for that matter

But the Times isn't privately held. Anyone with money can buy stock in the company. It is as much of a for profit enterprise as Coke or McDonalds.

[sharedvalues]

42. NYT is family controlled via preferred shares

NYT is effectively privately held. You can buy shares but they are class A shares with limited voting rights.

The Sulzbergers control the NYT because they control a majority of the class B shares with full voting rights.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times

Being family controlled matters a lot, I think. Despite the news dept problems at the NYT, e.g. about Hillary's emails and Iraq war cheerleading, the NYT is the US paper of record. We are lucky to have such a thoughtful paper of record.

[Squinch]

29. Yeah, but even SHE is talking!

Next up, Alex Jones calls DT a filthy liar!

[NurseJackie]

30. Ha!! :-D

[Squinch]

31. .

[democrank]

3. I'm glad she's speaking out.

Andrea has a lot of experience, so it's easy to understand her frustration. The Trump administration's practice of lying as a regular daily activity is inexcusable. Trump's hollowing out of the State Department, not regularly briefing reporters and not allowing them to travel with Tillerson is beyond anything nearing normal

Mitchell SHOULD be ticked off.

[sharedvalues]

10. Then she should report the truth. Don't report what he says.

[LanternWaste]

15. Reporting "today the President said..." is not a lie

"Don't report what he says..."

Reporting "today the President said..." is not a lie regardless of whether the President's statement itself is a lie or not.

Objectivity is not a weakness.... try it.

[sharedvalues]

16. It's not a lie. It is spreading disinformation, however.

If journalists choose to report what people say without challenge, they are subject to exploitation.

One side (here the GOP) can exploit journalists who do this by blatantly lying. Then journalists repeat lies and amplify them, becoming part of the propaganda machine. Hence how our current president got elected.


The only way to fix this is for journalists to report the truth. To use their brains to identify what is true and what is false. And to resist exploitation by liars.

[CakeGrrl]

37. Too little, too late.

They aided and abetted the horrid GOP and she was happy to disrespect President Obama.

Now she might - or might not - appreciate the difference when you are dealing with a REAL president rather than a lying, corrupt jackass.

She and the rest of the MSM enablers made their bed and helped Trump get where he is. Now they can deal with him and his administration.

[Paladin]

4. Of all the stupid things trump has spewed, that may take the cake.

Andrea Mitchell: "Hillary Clinton's PR person?"

That would be the same Andrea Mitchell who obsessively shrieked about Hillary's emails throughout the entire campaign, while ignoring the genuine evils of trump's stances and actions? The Andrea Mitchell who earned the permanent scorn of Hillary supporters---myself very much included---for her tone-deaf, misdirected "reporting" during the months leading up to the election?

Unbelievable. And Andrea Mitchell: to hell with you, now and forever more.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. And with that, bingo!, 35% of voters believe Mitchell was supportive of Hillary. It's now gospel.

[Paladin]

14. An object lesson on how many stupid people there are.

This past election was sad evidence to me that there are a lot more of them than I ever dreamed there were. Nothing to do but fight onward.....

[Baitball Blogger]

5. "I have never seen anything like this where people just flat out lie,"

I said that back in the late nineties when it reached epidemic proportions in my community. I'm surprised that it took that long for someone like Andrea Mitchell to notice.

Really, what the fuck took her so long?

[sharedvalues]

18. Krugman has been saying this since 2000

Why did it take the news section of the GOP 17 years to learn what their opinion writers knew long ago?


It is gobsmacking that journalists in 2017 are just discovering - shocking! Unbelievable! - that the GOP's PR strategy is to lie and get the media to repeat lies.

Krugman's first "Flat Earth Journalism" piece was in 2000.

17 years ago!!

[malaise]

6. Well people like Andrea Mitchell and her lying neo-liberal husband

brought us here.

Fugg off!

[stevenleser]

13. Not sure I would call Greenspan neo-liberal. He's a full on Randian Libertarian Objectivist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan#Objectivism

[malaise]

20. I mean Washington-consensus privatize everything neo-liberal

and I'll stick with that

[dchill]

7. K&R.

[Maven]

8. Fuck you Andrea. nt

[sharedvalues]

19. Report the Truth, Andrea.

[BSdetect]

17. She's way too late to pretend to have perception

[maxrandb]

21. Holy "Effing" Shite!!!!

A liar complaining about lying liars lying to them???

I think she just tore a hole in universal vortex. The earth has been knocked off its axis, and we are spiraling in a flat-spin toward the sun.

Is she for "effing" real? That's almost as bad as Chuckie Toad complaining that the Trump administration is like a circus.

Fuck every last one of these fucking Carnival Barkers and Ringleaders of Normalization. Fuck them all to hell!

[gratuitous]

22. How distressing that must be, Ms. Mitchell

If only there was some way you could publicize those lies, make the White House pay at least a PR price for lying. But how??? How could you possibly get the word out in a timely fashion and tip off the public that the White House is saying that black is white and white is black? It's a stumper, all right.

[edhopper]

23. And Andrea's like

"PR person? I did everything I could to sink her!"

[Lucinda]

24. She certainly should be able to spot them...shes done it enough herself. n/t

[TeamPooka]

25. Interesting how she said it on a Podcast but not her own TV show. When she starts saying on MSNBC

every day let me know.

[Solly Mack]

26. I see. So once she has been attacked, she decides she has insights about Trump.

[Achilleaze]

27. d'oh, Andrea

You mean to tell me it ain't until just now that you figured out that the republicans are lying to you and to the American people all the time?

Lame. Snap out of it dear. You are supposed to be a journalist. Pay attention.

[tandem5]

28. There is no faster way to piss off Mitchell than to imply that she's a Clinton supporter.

To her that's really hitting below the belt!

[Boomerproud]

33. Exactly. Saying she's Hillary's PR person is the only thing to snap her into reality?

She has always hated the Clintons. End of story.

[LAS14]

32. Interesting. What I'm remembering is the plethora of anti-Andrea...

... posts on DU during the election.

[ellie]

34. Poor Andrea!

To get her spirits up, she should issue another breathless report on HRC's emails. That will cheer her right up! What a fucking hack she is.

[Demonaut]

35. Mrs Greenspan, please avoid mirrors in case you see the offending party

[Tatiana]

40. Oh, I see. They (State Dept. and WH officials) blew her off. Now she's pissed.

Andrea Mitchell has never been treated so badly. It's all very disconcerting.

Nevermind the way in which she reported on a series of nothing emails.

These overpaid mediawhores kill me.

[tavernier]

41. Short memory, Mrs. Greenspan.

We remember you very well.