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nolabear

(41,984 posts)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:55 PM Jan 2018

Andrea Mitchell is on BREAKING NEWS dissing Hillary. FFS!

Senior advisor to Hillary’s 2008 campaign was accused of sexual harassment and was not fired. Her lawyers say the issue was dealt with (no details) but he wasn’t fired. He was fired later for “workplace issues.”

Of course I don’t condone sexual harassment but who on earth is throwing Hillary out there one more time to give 45 and his ilk something to nudge-nudge wink-wink about. Mitchell even rehashed criticism of her over Bill and Monica.

I can’t help but feel like this is a “See? He’s not so bad” for that orange asshole. Why?

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Andrea Mitchell is on BREAKING NEWS dissing Hillary. FFS! (Original Post) nolabear Jan 2018 OP
I agree. cilla4progress Jan 2018 #1
Much as I liked Bill Clinton as a president Merlot Jan 2018 #2
Oh Id imagine hed have everything but a shock collar on. nolabear Jan 2018 #4
Same cilla4progress Jan 2018 #33
I would give my left arm to have him 'hanging around the White House' at this moment. Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #67
No, not a bit. And it never goes the other way. nolabear Jan 2018 #3
should have...De,mocrats need to fight as dirty as the repukes do gopiscrap Jan 2018 #48
I dont know I agree but do agree we need to stop rolling over. nolabear Jan 2018 #52
I agree with you - I'm so sick of this "taking the high road" crap! TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #57
!!! Alice11111 Jan 2018 #58
exactly gopiscrap Jan 2018 #59
Dems/progressives can't get a seat at the table if they can't get elected! TheDebbieDee Jan 2018 #61
It is true. Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #68
Surrogates and the media DID speak of those things karynnj Jan 2018 #71
WOW !!! just saw that !! Hillary took action against the guy too its not like she ignored it !!! uponit7771 Jan 2018 #5
Andrea needs to get a grip MontanaMama Jan 2018 #6
She IS helping...... Gabi Hayes Jan 2018 #31
Poor andrea.. she's obsessed with Cha Jan 2018 #63
She is and MontanaMama Jan 2018 #73
Squirrel Iliyah Jan 2018 #7
Is that true? nolabear Jan 2018 #9
The campaign DID take action against the guy but Mitchell and the other commentator are ignoring tha uponit7771 Jan 2018 #14
+1, seeing Clinton campaign took action against the guy !!! WTF !?!? The McGhan stuff must be huge uponit7771 Jan 2018 #10
Why I refuse to watch Andrea Mitchell... SO biased in her reporting. InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2018 #53
And dammit, theyre leading with it in the following hour. nolabear Jan 2018 #8
Hillary DID take action against the guy its not like she did nothing uponit7771 Jan 2018 #12
And the top of the other ticket? underpants Jan 2018 #11
Some bad news must be about to befall the orange fuhrer. kydo Jan 2018 #13
Now theyre bringing Weinstein into it via some Lena Dunham statement? nolabear Jan 2018 #15
RIGHT !!! Clinton campaign took action against the guy that they didn't fire him is their point?! uponit7771 Jan 2018 #19
I think the NYTimes is behind this. triron Jan 2018 #34
Something is afoot Iliyah Jan 2018 #21
+1, this was in 08 and the Clinton campaign took action against the guy ... NOT breaking news !!! uponit7771 Jan 2018 #24
Yup, here we go! A new Hillary scandal to deflect us from Trump! Atman Jan 2018 #16
omg ... you've got to be kidding me .. something that happened in 08 that the Clinton campaign took uponit7771 Jan 2018 #22
Breaking news for Andrea Greenspan. Atman Jan 2018 #43
It's not. They are desperate. smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #62
Andrea Mitchell is a conservative and worked hard and Hortensis Jan 2018 #17
GOPer's billionaire friend, Steve Wyn "rape allegatons" is coming out Iliyah Jan 2018 #18
Another host, forget her name, is on right now OliverQ Jan 2018 #20
I should be less shockable I guess. But its stupid unless you mean to do it. nolabear Jan 2018 #25
+1, looks like they're trying to say if the Clinton campaign didn't stab the guy in the minerals ... uponit7771 Jan 2018 #27
Mrs. Greenspan pamdb Jan 2018 #23
Until the media give proper coverage to #45 JaneQPublic Jan 2018 #26
I keep thinking Matthews has something breaking down. nolabear Jan 2018 #28
Tweety and Andrea both need to be shown the door. JaneQPublic Jan 2018 #40
WHY?.to compete the with STEVE WYNN story ,that is WHY! (Iliyah's post#18) Stuart G Jan 2018 #29
+1, Good point, I haven't seen MSNBC report on Wynn yet uponit7771 Jan 2018 #37
It's time to get Hillary out of the White House dalton99a Jan 2018 #30
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2018 #36
Let us see, Polly Hennessey Jan 2018 #32
I listen to Mitchell as often as I listen to TYT BoneyardDem Jan 2018 #35
Ten years old is "breaking"? NightWatcher Jan 2018 #38
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2018 #56
I'd rather watch Ancient Aliens than Ancient Andrea and her Pathwalker Jan 2018 #39
. . . hatrack Jan 2018 #42
Oh, he's my favorite character! I just love unintentional comedy. Pathwalker Jan 2018 #45
lol andrea mitchell is the green eyed monster Cha Jan 2018 #64
yup--everyone in the WH has their own PR team. librechik Jan 2018 #41
Andrea Mitchell is fucking piece of shit gopiscrap Jan 2018 #44
It appears the Clinton campaign followed due process delisen Jan 2018 #46
Yes, they followed the protocol of the time. nolabear Jan 2018 #50
+1, not MSNBC's finest hour ... apparent distraction uponit7771 Jan 2018 #55
Have to agree with you. July Jan 2018 #70
Oh noes! The Clinton presidency is in shambles! Takket Jan 2018 #47
@mitchellreports if you want to send Andrea a message. Her Emails!!!!!!!! sarcasmo Jan 2018 #49
Thanks. nolabear Jan 2018 #51
right.. mitchell is a big part of the Cha Jan 2018 #65
Nearly every 2016 live report @mitchellreports was about E-mails sarcasmo Jan 2018 #72
Can she at least be president if we're going to keep picking at her every life decision? Johonny Jan 2018 #54
m$nbc was all over this shit....the fucking 2008 campaign???? spanone Jan 2018 #60
Who cares? Hillary is a private citizen. Demsrule86 Jan 2018 #66
Bingo dalton99a Jan 2018 #69

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
1. I agree.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:57 PM
Jan 2018

However, sadly, I don’t think Bill’s lasting legacy helped her any. Particularly as a woman. Tone deaf.

😞

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
33. Same
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:37 PM
Jan 2018

here. I don't think he helped. Despite his economic strengths and other positive qualities, his treatment if women simply canceled it all out. Notwithstanding some of it may have been "consensual."

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
3. No, not a bit. And it never goes the other way.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:59 PM
Jan 2018

Anybody hold Ford responsible for Betty’s alcoholism? Of course not.

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)
48. should have...De,mocrats need to fight as dirty as the repukes do
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:15 PM
Jan 2018

otherwise we will continue to lose c lose elections

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
57. I agree with you - I'm so sick of this "taking the high road" crap!
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:21 PM
Jan 2018

It makes us look STUPID and it costs us elections! If Sec Clinton or her surrogates had mentioned Melania Trump's soft porn movie career or DJT's numerous affairs and intimated about his scuzzy history of money laundering for the Mafia and the Russians, some of these Trump nuts may have sat out the 2016 election...

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
61. Dems/progressives can't get a seat at the table if they can't get elected!
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:48 PM
Jan 2018

Same as with athletes! If everyone knows team B is doping and there is no one to stop them, should team A do nothing and continue to be creamed by team B?

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
71. Surrogates and the media DID speak of those things
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 09:48 AM
Jan 2018

People voted for him in spite of all that. The poll showing that 70 percent of evangelicals were willing to give his multiple passes because he supported their agenda needs to be considered. It might explain how his base was not only not going to vote for him, but was probably energized to do so "to take back America".

It might well have been that the supposedly originally planned positive close to the campaign speaking of what we will do and defining Clinton positively might have energized more of our base than the attacks on Trump. In retrospect, it might have been that countering the negative images of Clinton by familiar positive images of this serious, competent woman might have helped get out some of those disheartened by the campaign who had negate views of both.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
5. WOW !!! just saw that !! Hillary took action against the guy too its not like she ignored it !!!
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:01 PM
Jan 2018

Why is this even on !?!?

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
6. Andrea needs to get a grip
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:01 PM
Jan 2018

and shut her pie hole. She isn't helping when she does this "both sides do it" crap. She's as bad a Chuck Todd - can't watch or listen to either of them.

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
73. She is and
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:58 PM
Jan 2018

it is ridiculous. She’s one of the worst talking heads on msnbc. Half the time she can’t get a sentence out of her mouth without screwing it up.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
7. Squirrel
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:01 PM
Jan 2018

Burngazli.

Will Andrea go into dept about how HRC handled it? No. He had to submit to counseling, rehab, et al.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
14. The campaign DID take action against the guy but Mitchell and the other commentator are ignoring tha
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:06 PM
Jan 2018

.... that part and going over Weistein crap !!

WTF !?!?

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
10. +1, seeing Clinton campaign took action against the guy !!! WTF !?!? The McGhan stuff must be huge
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:04 PM
Jan 2018

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
8. And dammit, theyre leading with it in the following hour.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:03 PM
Jan 2018

Again, no excuses for it but right now pillory Hillary is a RW Party game and they’ll run with it as if she’d done it herself.

kydo

(2,679 posts)
13. Some bad news must be about to befall the orange fuhrer.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:06 PM
Jan 2018

Bad stuff happens to orange of don and the rethugs, they drag out Hills or Obama. This is dumb.

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
15. Now theyre bringing Weinstein into it via some Lena Dunham statement?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:07 PM
Jan 2018

And NDAs?

What the hell is going on here? What’s the point?

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
19. RIGHT !!! Clinton campaign took action against the guy that they didn't fire him is their point?!
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:10 PM
Jan 2018

The issue with the other people is there was ... NO ... action taken at all!!!

This is more of the M$M conflating complaints and punishments ... this isn't breaking news this is some screwed up stuff

Atman

(31,464 posts)
16. Yup, here we go! A new Hillary scandal to deflect us from Trump!
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:08 PM
Jan 2018

Jesus fucking christ. This is about an event in 2008. How is it more important than the so-called president of the United States about to be indicted?

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
22. omg ... you've got to be kidding me .. something that happened in 08 that the Clinton campaign took
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:11 PM
Jan 2018

... action against the guy is somehow breaking news for MSNBC ?!!?

Something bigger is coming down the pike

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
62. It's not. They are desperate.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 08:00 PM
Jan 2018

They realize that they are losing a majority of the people in this country and they think Clinton basing is going to save them. It won't.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. Andrea Mitchell is a conservative and worked hard and
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:08 PM
Jan 2018

consistently to defeat Hillary. It's also personal, not just political.

She and Sally Quinn belong to the same A-list circle all ambitious people in DC are eager to have entree to, including journalists. Long before Hillary arrived in DC as the new first lady, they were chortling over and spreading vicious stories about her, as vulgar and unprincipled as any lowlifes doing the same when the stories arrived as emails in the rest of the nation. But when first lady Hillary, knowing this, turned down an invitation to dinner at Quinn's, their hostility became a vendetta that continues to this day.

You know, there's no honorable or even respectable-appearing ground to back up to for people who've behaved this way for decades, even if they were capable of wanting to.

You may have noticed at the Democratic convention that Andrea behaved as if she was ill and might collapse. She's done a lot of silly acting out a bunch of times over the years, like when Hillary was elected to the Senate, but this time she was so weak and bent that I wondered if she could be genuinely ill and need to be in the hospital. Nope, just the usual malice masquerading as despair.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
18. GOPer's billionaire friend, Steve Wyn "rape allegatons" is coming out
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:09 PM
Jan 2018

Andrea is a right wing tool. Her ratings must suck but alas, MSNBC must make it balance

 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
20. Another host, forget her name, is on right now
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:10 PM
Jan 2018

and opened her segment with "Explosive Allegations against Hillary Clinton!"

Sigh. I'm so fed up with this nonsense, even by left-leaning networks. Trump and GOP are getting away with treason, and MSNBC of all places is whining about an 8 year old story on a Clinton staffer.

I'm just so exhausted from it all.

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
25. I should be less shockable I guess. But its stupid unless you mean to do it.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:13 PM
Jan 2018

MSNBC often bends over backward to appear balanced and reports RW talking points. THIS however is utterly pointless.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
27. +1, looks like they're trying to say if the Clinton campaign didn't stab the guy in the minerals ...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:16 PM
Jan 2018

... then they didn't do enough even though they took some action.

This is disgusting on part of MSNBC's part relative to Red Don's seemingly clear attempts at obstruction of justice

pamdb

(1,332 posts)
23. Mrs. Greenspan
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:11 PM
Jan 2018

Mrs. Greenspan has had it in for Hillary since the beginning. I have no doubt she is a republican. Why MSNBC keeps her on (along with that horrible Hugh Hewitt) is beyond me. During the election every other word was "emails" or "browser".

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
26. Until the media give proper coverage to #45
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:16 PM
Jan 2018

and his countless cases of sexual harassment, molestation, rape, marital infidelity, and misogyny, then they can shut the hell up about what Hillary's campaign did or didn't do 10 years ago.

BTW, MSNBC, why the hell is creepy old womanizer Chris Matthews still on the air? Let's talk about YOUR sexual harassment policy!

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
28. I keep thinking Matthews has something breaking down.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:18 PM
Jan 2018

He wanders, he can’t read, he asks inappropriate (not in the sexual sense) questions, he’s really gotten strange(r).

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
40. Tweety and Andrea both need to be shown the door.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:52 PM
Jan 2018

Both have been grasping at straws for bombshell breaking news to remain relevant and have trouble finding their words or are otherwise getting confused on air. MSNBC needs to either get them a hefty supply of Exelon patches or get them off-air jobs. And I'm saying that as a woman of "a certain age" myself.

Stuart G

(38,434 posts)
29. WHY?.to compete the with STEVE WYNN story ,that is WHY! (Iliyah's post#18)
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:22 PM
Jan 2018

This was released on purpose to protect Trump, and take away from the STEVE WYNN story about who is now the head of the RNC Finance Committee...

just bring up Hillary from 2008, (10 years ago) to compare to Steve Wynn of right now.

Polly Hennessey

(6,799 posts)
32. Let us see,
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:26 PM
Jan 2018

yes, they are all there. Andrea Mitchell, Chris Jansing, and, where, oh where, is Christen Welker.

 

BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
35. I listen to Mitchell as often as I listen to TYT
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:39 PM
Jan 2018

...which is to say never.

Blundering, blunderbusses that have yet to move on and find a positive spin on Dems while finding a reason to bash Reps. I have no use of either of them.

Pathwalker

(6,598 posts)
39. I'd rather watch Ancient Aliens than Ancient Andrea and her
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 02:50 PM
Jan 2018

ancient hatred of Hillary Clinton. Fuck her AND Chris Jansing!

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)
44. Andrea Mitchell is fucking piece of shit
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:13 PM
Jan 2018

always has been, always will be. She also married to Alan Greenspan a dried up ass shit toadie from the Reagan Bush years

delisen

(6,044 posts)
46. It appears the Clinton campaign followed due process
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:14 PM
Jan 2018

according to a NYT article.

The man was punished, including pay forfeiture, but not fired.
that was in campaign 2008 and according to attorney, due process was followed.

In campaign 2016 the man was hired by a related organization, and was apparently fired for a separate offense.

I found the NYT article to be a bit snarky; not straightforward and seemed to have an agenda-other than news reporting .

If there is a written procedure for harassment, the company must follow it. It seems to me an ethical reporter would start there and ascertain whether the company followed the procedure.

The article though stated the campaign manager in 2008 wanted the man fired and Clinton did not fire him.



Over the years I have had less and less confidence in the NY Times-who can forget Judy Miller and her false war reporting. Yet it is not just the big stories - it is the smaller stories like this.



nolabear

(41,984 posts)
50. Yes, they followed the protocol of the time.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:39 PM
Jan 2018

They did what was then considered the responsible thing.

July

(4,750 posts)
70. Have to agree with you.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 09:20 AM
Jan 2018

They often leave out salient details that would make an article more balanced and less helpful to the right. Not sure why they're willing to "report" that way.

Cha

(297,285 posts)
65. right.. mitchell is a big part of the
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 05:33 AM
Jan 2018

reason the Planet is dealing with this shithead bully in the wh

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
66. Who cares? Hillary is a private citizen.
Sat Jan 27, 2018, 08:35 AM
Jan 2018

Except for the usual suspects...like Mitchell...no one cares.

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