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CurtEastPoint

(18,652 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:51 AM Oct 2019

Help me out here... Andrea Mitchell... why is she despised here.

Last edited Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:22 AM - Edit history (1)

I'm NOT DEFENDING HER! I posted on FB about my displeasure in her being on the panel for the next debate and someone is asking what is my problem w/her and I cannot define it!

I googled Andrea Mitchell bias and it's all about how LIBERAL she is.

What has she done/is doing to our detriment?

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Help me out here... Andrea Mitchell... why is she despised here. (Original Post) CurtEastPoint Oct 2019 OP
But her emails Kingofalldems Oct 2019 #1
LOL CatWoman Oct 2019 #3
Her views tend to lean right at times. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #2
I think she hates the Clintons treestar Oct 2019 #4
But her emails. TidalWave46 Oct 2019 #5
Well, first of all, she's not that liberal... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #6
Haven't you watched her?! InAbLuEsTaTe Oct 2019 #7
In 2015-2016, I'd be watching MSNBC and Mitchell would... Garrett78 Oct 2019 #8
I hate her voice and how she is a so-called "expert" in everything from foreign affairs to politics. femmocrat Oct 2019 #9
She's a both sides do it "journalist". MontanaMama Oct 2019 #10
+1 rogue emissary Oct 2019 #32
She is hesitant and has trouble completing her thoughts on her show. nature-lover Oct 2019 #11
Yes, this is it for me -- she seems uncertain lettucebe Oct 2019 #18
This Poiuyt Oct 2019 #23
For some reason she hates Hillary (probably jealousy) and during the 2016... brush Oct 2019 #12
Mrs. Alan Greenspan & Clinton hatred catbyte Oct 2019 #13
She's absolutely not liberal jcgoldie Oct 2019 #14
Andrea Mitchell is NOT a iiberal Miguelito Loveless Oct 2019 #15
Her last name kind of stands out...but that is another story for a different time & place. Stuart G Oct 2019 #16
I never put that together! LuvNewcastle Oct 2019 #30
What kind of connection are you suggesting? Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2019 #40
chronic "bothsideserism" NRaleighLiberal Oct 2019 #17
Because she's the Cokie Roberts of Chuck Todds hatrack Oct 2019 #19
However, when 'they' come over to our side, they bring more votes empedocles Oct 2019 #21
. Guy Whitey Corngood Oct 2019 #22
I LOL'd KG Oct 2019 #24
!!!! BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #26
Love that! LuvNewcastle Oct 2019 #31
Perfect kcr Oct 2019 #36
Someone here whines about all MSNBC people at times. Nt USALiberal Oct 2019 #20
She is the Maggie Haberman and Judith Miller of NBC/MSNBC. BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #25
She is a hack. ellie Oct 2019 #27
She seems incapable of speaking Hillary's very name without palpable distaste, & mention of... Hekate Oct 2019 #28
Well (emails) it just seem (emails) that at critical times (emails) she gets grantcart Oct 2019 #29
Didn't see it mentioned here in this thread....she's married to Lars39 Oct 2019 #33
She loves talking about the "optics". rogue emissary Oct 2019 #34
She's one of those people that some people here despise but I have no opinion on, bad or good Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2019 #35
I don't despise her. She sometimes gives the other side a voice nolabear Oct 2019 #37
for starters she's married to a republican shitstain from the Reagan administration gopiscrap Oct 2019 #38
Read these: Chiyo-chichi Oct 2019 #39
One of the reasons I don't watch NBC or MSNBC pecosbob Oct 2019 #41

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
6. Well, first of all, she's not that liberal...
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:55 AM
Oct 2019

For me, though, it's mostly because she has passed her expiration date. People age at different rates, but she is showing her age in how she struggles to form sentences, loses track of what the teleprompter is telling her, and mumbles and fumbles through interviews.

She's worse than Chris Matthews, and he's getting pretty bad at the same problem. Listening to those two stumble their way through an hour show can be tiresome, TBS.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
7. Haven't you watched her?!
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:56 AM
Oct 2019

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
8. In 2015-2016, I'd be watching MSNBC and Mitchell would...
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:56 AM
Oct 2019

...bring up Hillary's emails when the topic at hand was completely unrelated. She did this repeatedly. It got to a point where I wasn't sure she was capable of talking about anything else. I have no use for Greenspan's "liberal" spouse.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
9. I hate her voice and how she is a so-called "expert" in everything from foreign affairs to politics.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:57 AM
Oct 2019

Maybe she is, but so are other people who are more pleasant to listen to.

MontanaMama

(23,324 posts)
10. She's a both sides do it "journalist".
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:57 AM
Oct 2019

Mitchell was a “but her emails” nightmare throughout the 2016 campaign to the point where she did not appear impartial on any level. I can’t even listen to her - she can barely get a sentence out of her mouth that’s coherent.

lettucebe

(2,336 posts)
18. Yes, this is it for me -- she seems uncertain
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:16 AM
Oct 2019

I can hardly watch her. She just seems like it's time to retire. Not thrilled she'll be a debate moderator

Poiuyt

(18,126 posts)
23. This
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:35 AM
Oct 2019

She stumbles and stammers over words—she has trouble finding the words she wants to say. This happens as we age. Lord knows it's happened to me too. That's why I'd turn down NBC if they asked me to replace her.

Time for her to retire from live TV.

brush

(53,794 posts)
12. For some reason she hates Hillary (probably jealousy) and during the 2016...
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:01 AM
Oct 2019

campaign she constantly on-air talked about: "But what about her emails?"

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
14. She's absolutely not liberal
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:04 AM
Oct 2019

Queen of both sidesism. Normalized Trump villified Clinton. 'Nobody likes either candidate they are both the same.'

Miguelito Loveless

(4,465 posts)
15. Andrea Mitchell is NOT a iiberal
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:08 AM
Oct 2019

But she is classified as one by the corporate media. This would be the same corporate media who classify Susan Collins a "moderate".

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
16. Her last name kind of stands out...but that is another story for a different time & place.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:11 AM
Oct 2019

HINT:.....kind of like .....John N Mitchel......... .....Attorney for Richard Nixon.....................

.......................hard to believe but some youngsters may not know that name.....

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)
30. I never put that together!
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:13 PM
Oct 2019

"Mitchell" is a common name, so I never thought it was anything more than coincidence. Thanks for the clue.

ellie

(6,929 posts)
27. She is a hack.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:53 AM
Oct 2019

Her breathless reporting on HRC's emails was ridiculous. I like to tweet at her every so often asking where the next installment is.

Hekate

(90,722 posts)
28. She seems incapable of speaking Hillary's very name without palpable distaste, & mention of...
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:57 AM
Oct 2019

...how Hillary "lost" because voters just didn't like her. After awhile it just came to seem so personal. I wanted to shake the woman and ask: "For gods' sake, what did Hillary do to you--spit in your coffee?"

Andrea's entitled to her own opinion, but she's not entitled to her own facts. Bothsiderism is not the same as even-handed reporting of facts.

Other than that, Andrea Mitchell is the doyenne of female tv reporters and a role model for a generation of young women trying to get into the business. The reason she's so old now is because she was a pioneer and survived. So there's that.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
29. Well (emails) it just seem (emails) that at critical times (emails) she gets
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 11:59 AM
Oct 2019

Obsessed about (emails) particular right wing talking points (email) even though they have (emails) been thoroughly debunked (email).

I can't think of a particular example at the moment but give me a minute and I will.

Lars39

(26,109 posts)
33. Didn't see it mentioned here in this thread....she's married to
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:18 PM
Oct 2019

Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand fan extraordinaire

rogue emissary

(3,148 posts)
34. She loves talking about the "optics".
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:22 PM
Oct 2019

The optics are always especially bad when a Democrat with the last name of Clinton, does, says or just breaths.

Her use of optics is always to paint them as negative when any Democrat says or does something the slightest bit outspoken.

She never talks about the negative optics for Republicans when they do or say something awful.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,185 posts)
35. She's one of those people that some people here despise but I have no opinion on, bad or good
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:26 PM
Oct 2019

Ditto for Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, Chuck Todd, maybe a few others....I'm all like "meh" to all of them. Don't really like them but don't understand why people get so worked up against them, either.

nolabear

(41,987 posts)
37. I don't despise her. She sometimes gives the other side a voice
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:33 PM
Oct 2019

But I’m not one who thinks we should refuse to hear them. I am often disappointed at how often they have the same crazy RWers on, I think for effect, but her no more than most.

She’s married to Greenspan but hey, I don’t begrudge anyone loving who they love.

She’s not much my cuppa, true, but she’s worked to get there and I’m not askeered of what she says or will ask at the debate.

gopiscrap

(23,761 posts)
38. for starters she's married to a republican shitstain from the Reagan administration
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 12:41 PM
Oct 2019

but moistly because of her biased anti Democratic Party reporting

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
41. One of the reasons I don't watch NBC or MSNBC
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 01:51 PM
Oct 2019

But then I don't have cable so I only hear their drivel second-hand here at DU and elsewhere. She's another enabler and normalizer of Republican criminality every bit as much as Chuck Todd. They would consider themselves different from the straight-up propaganda slingers at FOX, but in my mind they're not really different at all. Not to single her out as any worse than the rest of the field, but it is what it is.

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