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MSNBC: 'Damage' to Christie 'Regardless' of Being 'Cleared' by Feds
September 19th, 2014 4:53 PM
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Friday, host Andrea Mitchell noted that "Chris Christie has been cleared by the federal investigators of any allegations" in the George Washington Bridge closing scandal. However, MSNBC political reporter Kasie Hunt quickly dismissed the development: "But, there's a lot of damage that's been done in the interim. And there's going to be a lot of questions still…
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MSNBC: Joe Biden's Offensive Gaffes Make Him 'Real' and 'Authentic'
September 18th, 2014 4:53 PM
During a segment on Thursday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, fill-in host Kristen Welker noted Joe Biden making a string of gaffes – which included using an anti-Semitic slur – during a trip to Iowa, but then she and her guests proceeded to excuse his offensive remarks as merely being part of his charm. [Listen to the audio]
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza observed: "Joe Biden is…
Andrea Mitchell Changes Her 'Coalition of The Willing' Tune for Obama
September 11th, 2014 3:30 PM
At the outset of war in 2003, Andrea Mitchell mocked Bush's "coalition of the willing" as a "show." But now, she's promoting the Obama coalition-building and praising his "reaching out" to foreign policy experts for advice at dinner parties.
NBC Reporter: 'Ridiculous' That Obama Has No Strategy to Fight ISIS; M
September 3rd, 2014 4:50 PM
Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Wednesday, NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel ripped into President Obama having no strategy to combat ISIS terrorists: "This has been going on for over three years. The buildup of ISIS has not been rapid, it has been quite slow. It has been quite well-documented....I met an ISIS fighter and I broadcast it on Nightly News....So that we…
Bloomberg’s Jeanne Cummings Claims GOP Wants To Take Away Birth Cont
August 28th, 2014 1:57 PM
Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday afternoon, Jeanne Cummings, Deputy Managing Editor for Bloomberg News, decided to attack the GOP over their supposed problem with female voters.
The Bloomberg reporter argued that the GOP has “moved the abortion debate into birth control. This is a huge step where women -- that's a threshold issue for women. That’s about birth control,…
Chris Matthews: Obama Should Take 'Lesson' From Holder, Who 'Showed Ho
August 22nd, 2014 4:28 PM
Filling in for Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC's 12 p.m. ET hour on Friday, Hardball host Chris Matthews hit President Obama from the left while praising Attorney General Eric Holder's visit to Ferguson, Missouri: "...it may be a lesson for the President, too, and I'm not usually a critic of him. But I have to say that I thought that in a very positive way Eric holder showed how you lead in this…
Andrea Mitchell Wonders If WashPost Reporter Was ‘Detained For Repor
August 14th, 2014 4:12 PM
In the wake of Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown’s shooting death following a confrontation with local police, two reporters, one with the Washington Post and another with the Huffington Post, were arrested by officials for failing to follow police orders as the town continues to deal with ongoing violence and looting.
Following the arrest of Wesley Lowery, an African American reporter…
Andrea Mitchell Celebrates Fidel Castro’s 88th Birthday
August 13th, 2014 3:39 PM
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s love affair with former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro reared its ugly head once again on Wednesday, August 13 when she hyped the socialist’s 88th birthday.
Appearing on her daily Andrea Mitchell Reports program, the MSNBC host gushed at how “Cuba is celebrating Fidel Castro's 88th birthday today, starting the party early with a special concert last night. The opening…
Journalists Restricted By Hamas Rules and It's Reflected in Their Cove
August 8th, 2014 1:52 PM
On August 6, Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies charged that while the media have filled their stories on the current conflict in Gaza with “pictures of neighborhoods reduced to rubble, with Palestinian men, women and children in desperate circumstances,” they have been negligent in telling their audiences that Hamas has been “deploying civilians as human shields, storing…
Giddy Chuck Todd Cheers Democrats 'Walking With Confidence,' Most 'Pep
August 1st, 2014 4:15 PM
Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday, NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd made a celebratory declaration: "Look, Democrats, for the first time probably in 18 months, you see them walking with confidence. This White House seems confident again....the Republicans in a 48-hour period gave Democrats something to run on. And you see a pep in the Democratic Party step…
Andrea Mitchell Does About-Face on Russia: 'Who Says Cold War Isn't Ba
July 29th, 2014 8:15 PM
During the 2012 presidential campaign, GOP candidate Mitt Romney called Russia “without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe,” a comment that was mocked by many Democrats and members of the press. One of those belittling the Republican's remark was MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, who admitted that the foreign country is “hardly an ally, but certainly not an adversary.”
Two years later, the host of…
Andrea Mitchell to Ambassador: 'Israel May Be Losing Its Soul' Over Ga
July 29th, 2014 4:05 PM
Not only is Israel on the wrong side of opinion when it comes to the liberal media, but evidently the world’s lone Jewish state is losing its soul as well. At least this was the opinion of Andrea Mitchell on her midday MSNBC program.
In a conversation with Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer, the Andrea Mitchell Reports host – in reference to the large number of civilians dead…
'New Yorker' Editor Compares Vladimir Putin to Glenn Beck on 'Andrea M
July 23rd, 2014 4:45 PM
MSNBC is nothing if not consistent. On the July 23 edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports, the NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent invited David Remnick of The New Yorker on to discuss Putin and his propaganda machine.
Much to Mitchell’s delight, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist did so by comparing ruthless authoritarian Vladimir Putin to none other than the popular conservative…
Andrea Mitchell: 'How Long Can Israel Withstand This Kind of Internati
July 16th, 2014 4:48 PM
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday followed up a story on four children who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza by marveling, "How long can Israel withstand this kind of international pressure?" [See video below. MP3 audio here.]
While talking to reporter Martin Fletcher, she noted that Hamas had rejected an Israeli cease fire and insisted, the militant group is "getting the…