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realmirage

(2,117 posts)
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 02:01 AM Jul 2016

Has anyone noticed what a hater Andrea Mitchell is?

She doesn't come off as an objective journalist when it comes to Hillary. She comes off as someone who has some sort of personal problem. It's almost like one of those women who hates other women, if you know what I mean? I can't be the only one who has noticed it.

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Has anyone noticed what a hater Andrea Mitchell is? (Original Post) realmirage Jul 2016 OP
Yeah shenmue Jul 2016 #1
Yes, I have noticed it. It's rather obvious, too. MADem Jul 2016 #2
It's been talked about for years.. I don't think she liked President Obama, either.. Cha Jul 2016 #3
She's a nasty piece of work when it comes to Hillary... BooScout Jul 2016 #4
Sometimes she allows her dislike to overwhelm her reporting. Thinkingabout Jul 2016 #5
She lost all credibility BlueMTexpat Jul 2016 #6
+1 fleabiscuit Jul 2016 #15
Yes, I noticed. She wants to be an important "investigative" journalist OKNancy Jul 2016 #7
You're definitely not the only one who has noticed it! NastyRiffraff Jul 2016 #8
she's been covering up all the messes her husband has done for decades beachbum bob Jul 2016 #9
Yes, for years regarding any Democrat. Always twists things to make them sound negative. nt Fla Dem Jul 2016 #10
She hates all pols though MaggieD Jul 2016 #11
Goodness, yes ladym55 Jul 2016 #12
I didn't even know her history of hate realmirage Jul 2016 #13
Too true. LAS14 Jul 2016 #14
She, Chuck Todd, and Joe Jamaal510 Jul 2016 #16
"Journalists should have no friends" -- that doesn't make them "haters" splat Jul 2016 #17
Thanks for the laugh realmirage Jul 2016 #19
Up your game splat Jul 2016 #20
She doesn't do it to everybody. That's the whole point. realmirage Jul 2016 #23
I like it when she desperately tries to appear viable by dredging up her.... Walk away Jul 2016 #18
Hillary deserves better than this high school stuff splat Jul 2016 #21
Is that some sort of scooby doo mystery riddle? realmirage Jul 2016 #22

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Yes, I have noticed it. It's rather obvious, too.
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 02:51 AM
Jul 2016

It's almost as though she and Maureen Dowd have way too much in common.

I often wondered if they were mad at Bill for whatever reason, and taking it out on her!

Cha

(297,209 posts)
3. It's been talked about for years.. I don't think she liked President Obama, either..
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 03:20 AM
Jul 2016

Maybe Dems rub her the wrong way?

BooScout

(10,406 posts)
4. She's a nasty piece of work when it comes to Hillary...
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 06:15 AM
Jul 2016

She should have been removed as a reporter on her beat years ago because of her blatant bias. I rue the day that network news programs came under the jurisdiction of the entertainment divisions....it totally ruined any kind of objective reporting.

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
6. She lost all credibility
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 07:22 AM
Jul 2016

with me years ago. I have absolutely NO respect for her whatsoever. She is the typical "Queen Bee" and goes after other successful and accomplished women like a Harpy.

Here is one example:

A report in The Washington Post ("Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry CIA Agent's Identity Was Leaked to Media" by Mike Allen and Dana Priest, Washington Post, September 28, 2003) that Mitchell had leaked Valerie Plame's identity led to her being questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While Mitchell never appeared before the investigating grand jury or in I. Lewis Libby's trial, she was on the subpoena list as a person of interest.

In October 2003, on the Capitol Report, Mitchell made a statement which Libby's defense construed to mean it was widely known among journalists that Joe Wilson's wife was in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a position she later clarified by answering the question of how widely known it was in Washington that Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA: "It was widely known amongst those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger. But frankly I wasn't aware of her actual role at the CIA and the fact that she had a covert role involving weapons of mass destruction, not until Bob Novak wrote it."


Eta link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Mitchell

She is a walking, talking, lightweight Op-Ed masquerading as a serious journalist and has carried RW GOPer water so often that she might was well be a Fox News anchor.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
7. Yes, I noticed. She wants to be an important "investigative" journalist
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 07:50 AM
Jul 2016

so she takes an aggressive approach to all things Clinton. She thinks by doing this she will get the big scoop.
It is a combination of the personal dislike and professional aggrandizement.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
8. You're definitely not the only one who has noticed it!
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 08:30 AM
Jul 2016

Andrea Mitchell is a walking, talking hatefest, a passive-aggressive tool who loves to take down accomplished women and men. It may be envy, or just showing off.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
9. she's been covering up all the messes her husband has done for decades
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 09:19 AM
Jul 2016

what you expect? fair and balance?....lol

 

MaggieD

(7,393 posts)
11. She hates all pols though
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 01:07 PM
Jul 2016

At least it seems so to me. My wife used to work at MSNBC and she would tell me tales of shit Andrea said in private about the Bush administration. It was not flattering at all.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
12. Goodness, yes
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 01:15 PM
Jul 2016

She is patronizing to all ideas and people remotely related to the Democratic Party, but is especially venomous when it comes to the Clintons. I categorize her as one of the Beltway insider haters. They like their own power and suck up to Republican power brokers in DC.

Her regular meme when I have seen her lately is how "unpopular" Hillary is, no matter how many supporters she has or how far ahead she was in primary voters. It's a tired statement not supported by things like numbers. (Why is really basic math so hard for so many people?)

Although she is an independent entity, I always keep in mind that she is married to Ayn Rand's acolyte Alan Greenspan, so that too, helps explain her.

 

realmirage

(2,117 posts)
13. I didn't even know her history of hate
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 01:51 PM
Jul 2016

I could see it plain as day just listening to her. That shows how awful she is. Can't believe someone so biased would be allowed to pretend she's a journalist

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
16. She, Chuck Todd, and Joe
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 04:46 PM
Jul 2016

are hosts who leave me frustrated and baffled about how they still have jobs. MSNBC got rid of people like MHP and Karen Finney who actually had good shows, but the aforementioned 3 still have theirs. I can't imagine any of them having high ratings.

splat

(2,294 posts)
17. "Journalists should have no friends" -- that doesn't make them "haters"
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 05:36 PM
Jul 2016

Joseph Pulitzer said that. Journalists are supposed to turn a hairy eyeball on everything.

But to expect any of the pros to be cheerleaders for your side or else you call them a "hater" isn't going to get us, or Hillary, anywhere good.

We're better than that.

 

realmirage

(2,117 posts)
19. Thanks for the laugh
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 09:37 PM
Jul 2016

When a person never has anything good to say about a person, and looks for the negative in every situation that deals with that person, it's called hating.

splat

(2,294 posts)
20. Up your game
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 10:26 PM
Jul 2016

But when they do it to everybody, no, it's not called hating. It's casting a jaundiced eye, being a skeptic, thinking all politicians are suspect. Get a nuance!

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
18. I like it when she desperately tries to appear viable by dredging up her....
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 08:21 PM
Jul 2016

own non-accomplishments from her past career. She never was much and she never will be. No wonder she hates other women.

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