2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHas Andrea Mitchel lost all ability to reason?
Over the last few days saw a number of people complaining about her comments.
Don't normally see MSNBC during the day but in the past have seen her make an attempt to achieve some balance.
Today she came on like a Romney spokesperson.
She was all beaming because of Romney's 'brilliant handling' of the woman who called the President a monster.
If you missed it here is the exchange;
The woman, who did not identify herself to the crowd other than saying she is an angry mom, was telling Romney about her sons struggling business and said, Hes had to lay off people and he may have to close some stores and its all because of what this monster has done to this country.
As the crowd laughed and began to applause, Romney jumped in, Thats not a term I would use.
Romney later added that the woman had every right to be angry.
She then compaired it to one of the few bright spots of McCain's campaign where he famously gently chided a confused addle brained woman who thought Obama was a Muslim.
She absolutely gushed about how Romney 'pushed back' at the woman.
Romney didn't push back (and he didn't 'jump in' as the article suggests) he looked at the woman, smiled and said "that's not a term I would use".
No push back Andrea, that's a smarmy way to say "your right but I can't use the words that you use."
This country is losing its mind. Andrea Mitchel's may already be gone.
montanacowboy
(6,101 posts)person on TV
she is a shill, a lackey, who collects a big fat salary kissing the asses of republicons
monmouth
(21,078 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)And it has absolutely nothing to do with a lack of demand for his store's services ... Right?
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Now they can compare mittens calming effect to johnny (I'm a hero) mccain.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)And I was going to post that your tense was off and you should have written, "She IS a plant." While that statement may well be true, it was not what you intended.
siligut
(12,272 posts)And it was a set-up, just as you say.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Did anyone ask?
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I believe he was one of her inner circle worshipers when she was alive.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)He was.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)blue neen
(12,328 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Her show is heavily weighted to repubs and often she carries the water.
flamingdem
(39,321 posts)?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)When their businesses fail, it's all Obama's fault.
Really an incredible disconnect.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)She's simply showing her true colors, stomp the middle class = common people = rabble beneath her feet. They're really not bothering to hide it anymore.
She and the other long-time female commentors were just the classier version of the Fox T & A brigade. What made them appear reasonable was the charm school politeness they used in interviews. There was never anything in her head to begin with, nor most of the others like her.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)when Rush Limpballs was going after that student. It wasn't bold and it was nothing like what McCain did in 2008.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Its so obvious that she's trying to figure out how to squeeze in the talking point, even when it doesn't fit. You can almost see the squirrel on the spinning wheel trying to gather the thought and create a coherent statement.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)She's paid well to shill for R-money.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Dalai_1
(1,301 posts)for quite some time now...she has really surprised me; she
seems to not be as liberal(if at all) as I once thought ..
_ed_
(1,734 posts)All you need to know about this whore for the financial and banking industries.