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MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell had some harsh words for Hillary Clinton during an appearance on NBC's "Meet The Press" Sunday. Mitchell told host David Gregory that Clinton is "rusty" and "out of touch," to judge by recent comments the former secretary of state made during her ongoing book tour.
"She is a little bit out of touch," Mitchell said, "despite all of her work and all of her connection to hardworking people in the middle class."
Mitchell's criticism is a response to recent comments Clinton made to ABC's Diane Sawyer that her family was "dead broke" when they left the White House in 2000. Those remarks have made Clinton the target of tough media criticism this month, in which Mitchell is now the latest participant.
"It's a little bit of lack of self-awareness when she talks about being dead broke and she then tried to fix it, but still not getting the language, you know, politically correct," Mitchell said.
More plus video at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/29/andrea-mitchell-hillary-clinton-msnbc-meet-the-press_n_5541587.html
reddread
(6,896 posts)how do you distinguish?
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)I don't take much stock in what she says EVER!
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)as she is probably as well off as Clinton. More so, it is decades since she had to apply for a job or change her whole life. And I doubt if she has ever been millions in debt.
Warpy
(111,175 posts)I'd start sending some of those bobbleheads mirrors.
It's not like Mrs. Greenspan is going to acknowledge any of us who were hurt by her husband's policies. She's too out of touch to know we exist.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The Greenspans are hurting? They are in touch with the common man? It gets tiresome.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)And that is the problem. Let's talk Liz Warren. She has more than enough credibility without the baggage.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)The dead never sleep.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)but these bogus attacks on her income is definitely orchestrated.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Anyone who is involved in politics knows that what she said would open a flood of criticism based on the least flattering interpretations.
I have no problem with them having money. I do have a problem with the thoughtlessness of the comments and disregard for political fall out.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Paladin
(28,243 posts)Must be Sunday.......
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)a compliment coming from Andrea Mitchell.
hatrack
(59,578 posts)Thanks for the heads-up, Andrea!
Gosh, if there's anybody I think of when I think of who has their finger on the struggles, daily lives and aspirations of hard-working middle-class Americans, it's you!
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)She sounded like she didn't know it was a state. It was too far from her little Washington D.C. bubble.
whathehell
(29,037 posts)unless it was both of them.
spanone
(135,795 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)BFF.
That's how "in touch" she is.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)In that bucket of assholes says?
1000words
(7,051 posts)Attack!
JEB
(4,748 posts)karynnj
(59,498 posts)they have been part of the elite. THEN she can make the case for policies that help the middle class and the poor. Others can make the case that from the time the Clintons graduated Yale, their decisions showed that they valued public service over making money. (The same argument that could be made of FDR, JFK, Al Gore, John Kerry, Howard Dean etc. The fact that all these people had the choice to make incredible amounts of money had they used the connections they were born into or got in elite colleges -- and they chose to serve instead.)
Yes, I know that they were poorer than most people entering the White House, but attaining that position made them among the cream of the cream. When leaving the WH, she had a book advance of $8 million, he was very likely to get more. He had a Presidential pension and she had the salary of a Senator. More importantly was that they were connected to the entire power elite.
Many wealthy people have won the Presidency - including Democrats like FDR and JFK. This is not a right wing conspiracy, this is a reaction to a set of comments that the Clintons all made. I think calling her "rusty" is actually praise in that it suggests that her norm was and will be again to be much better avoiding saying things that like this -- and unbelievably repeating them after they go down poorly.
greatlaurel
(2,004 posts)As Mrs.Greenspan, she should no longer have a position as a news correspondent. Mitchell has no credibility whatsoever. She is just the water carrier for the neocons.
rurallib
(62,387 posts)even though she is married to the the biggest Randian of all. The man who set the country up for its big fail.
While we at DU understand that and laugh, she may actually influence some real voters.
malaise
(268,724 posts)asshole of a husband.
Good Heavens, if that wasn't a case of lack of awareness with HER saying it, I don't know what is.
She should change her last name to Mit-Chell-never-look-in-the-mirror-before-opening-my-mouth.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)Andrea Mitchell is an overpaid nitwit!
GoCubsGo
(32,075 posts)And, you and your crook husband are "in touch"? GMAFB.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Universities, the truth is UNLV Foundation raised money to give to UNLV, the speaking fee was negotiated before the fund raiser, donated by different people and went to Clinton Global Initiative, a charity group set up by Bill Clinton. I would say if the current, past and future students of UNLV does not appreciate the funds they receive from the UNLV Foundation and would rather have their tuitions raised in the future for lack of money donated should step up to the plate and raise hell to have their tuitions raised.
MerryBlooms
(11,759 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts).. between paying the bills and putting food on the table you 'self-aware" millionaire...?
LaurenG
(24,841 posts)but the fact that she brought that up tells me more about Andrea then it does Hillary.
How many disgusting male, want to be presidents, ex-presidents or borrowed a heart VP's in the last ten years have been self aware?
Oh Andrea you are poison lipped.