More accurately: Et tu MSNBC?
What of Andrea Mitchell? What of Mornin’ Joe Scarborough? What of the countless passes given to this administration and furthering of its propaganda? The errors of the past 8 years can certainly not be wiped away at this point, but ‘fessing up and putting a stop to administration and conservative bias would be a start.
Hey Keith, are you listening?
I hope you are. With all the respect and admiration that you and Rachel Maddow deserve and get (particularly among dKos denizens, including me), I ask that you turn your microscope – and not a terribly high-powered one is needed by the way – to your own network, MSNBC.
Yes, it’s true you cannot report on your own, but can you work within the network structure to rectify the illness for which Andrea Mitchell serves as poster girl? It’s great that Scott McClellan is finding some kind of moral compass deep inside the layers of garbage that comprise his body of work as Bush press secretary. While no surprise to most of us, let’s be completely fair and balanced by laying the guilt not only at the feet of Fox News (as delicious and deserving as that is), but also at the feet of every network.
Will the recent revelation of the illegal propaganda of Bush:Fox signal a new day for media, or will it remain business as usual? Just an idea: strongly recommend that Andrea Mitchell get the boot.
In a blatant display of biased and unfair reporting this past week during Obama’s trip abroad, Mrs. Greenspan delivered her viewpoints in a manner that characterizes her reporting "legacy" and could earn her a nifty spot over at Fox News. Her reporting, and I use that word loosely, is that of someone with a clear agenda – "the surge worked" should be the epitaph of her reporting career. In fact, a little ticker needs to run at the bottom of every report she does (this has been suggested here by many people as a good way for the network to actually be fair when she delivers her Fox-like talking points).
Don’t take it from me, let’s look at a few diaries and observations by others on Daily Kos:
(By the way the first quote is priceless, "fake interviews because they’re not interviews from a journalist." Someone pick me up off the floor, please.)
"Let me just say something about the message management. He didn't have reporters with him, he didn't have a press pool, he didn't do a press conference while he was on the ground either in Afghanistan or Iraq. What you're seeing is not reporters brought in, you're seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military and what some would call fake interviews because they're not interviews from a journalist." from DemFromCT’s diary
Disgraceful shill Andrea Mitchell just gave a two minute speech on Chris Matthew's Hardball in which she stated that "clearly the surge has worked!" Win Smith’s diary
On the one hand, there are the McCain supporters, including many reporters like David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell, who accept as gospel that the Surge Is Working®, that questioning of either the surge or General Petraeus is heresy, and that Obama's biggest sin is that he, as Commander in Chief, has the audacity to think he should be telling the Generals what to do and not the other way around. They are stunned that Obama doesn't agree, and offended at some core level whenever this narrative is challenged. DemfromCT's diary.
I watched Andrea Mitchell interview Adm. Richard Holbrooke, former ambassador to the U.N. Mitchell (wrongly) accused Obama of stepping back his policy on Iraq in his press conference, and the Admiral rightly challenged her on it. Mitchell then struggled to say that Obama actually stepped back on his policy regarding Israeli-Palestinian affairs. A comment from JDs Nebraska
While detailing Obama's Berlin speech, she threw in the line, "Obama criticized America, even though he was on foreign soil".
It truly was a disgusting an inappropriate comment to drop in the middle of an "objective" report. CaptCave's comment
When McCain campaigned in Maine the other day, Mitchell mentioned his appearance with "the still popular" George HW Bush. Still popular where? Kennebunkport? Back during the Plame scandal, Mitchell said that "most Americans" believed Scooter Libby should go free. JaceinVA comment
Watch this hatchet-job by Mrs. Greenspan on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News. How many loaded words and phrases can you jam into two minutes? How unfairly can you edit a thoughtful and nuanced press conference to make the candidate appear stubborn and uppity, I mean arrogant? Abrauer’s diary
Today, she states Obama was "cocky" when he made the point that the Bush administration were following his lead in diplomatic negotiations with Iran, which Obama noted by saying he was scorn for his position. In addition, she stated that Obama should give McCain credit for "surge" and Obama stated that he would not listen to the General.
Jeun28’s Diary