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[VIDEO] Panel Jokes About What Hillary Clinton Should Do Next
Posted: January 8, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, Hillary Clinton, media, MSNBC, NBC, New York Post, news, The Pantsuit Report, video Leave a comment
Journalists Hail Castro’s Achievements, ‘George Washington,’ ‘Folk Hero to Most of Us’
Posted: November 26, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, CNN, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, Little Havana, Miami, MSNBC, President of Cuba, Raúl Castro, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle Leave a comment
Brent Baker reports: Fidel Castro, who died late Friday night, was a tyrant who oppressed Cubans and brought misery to many for several decades and while much of the breaking news coverage emphasized that reality, journalists on ABC, CNN and MSNBC – matching how too much of the media approached Castro for decades – couldn’t resist crediting him for supposed great advancements in education, literacy and health care.
“Castro ‘was considered, even to this day, the George Washington of his country among those who remain in Cuba’.”
On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell insisted in a stock bio that Castro “gave his people better health care and education.” Appearing live by phone, she soon trumpted how Castro “will be revered” for “education and social services and medical care to all of his people.”
Along a similar theme, in an ABC Special Report during Nightline, Jim Avila maintained that “even Castro’s critics praised his advances in health care and in education.”
In a relatively tough report on Castro’s abuses, CNN’s Martin Savidge, in a pre-recorded bio piece, highlighted how “many 
saw positives, education and health care for all, racial integration.”
[More, media’s worst from the MRC archive as collected by Rich Noyes: “Fidel’s Flatterers: The U.S. Media’s Decades of Cheering Castro’s Communism”]
A meandering Brian Williams popped up by phone on MSNBC to ruminate and recalled how in his last visit to Cuba, in 2015: “You see the medicine system they are very proud of.”
ABC’s Avila went so far as to tout how Castro “was considered, even to this day, the George Washington of his country among those who remain in Cuba.”
Reminiscing about his high school years, via phone on MSNBC, Chris Matthews asserted that Castro was Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Andrea Mitchell Describes ‘Radio Silence’ at Clinton Victory Party
Posted: November 8, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, CNN, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, media, news, NRO, Presidential Campaign 2016, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Hacked Emails Cast Doubt on Clinton’s Sworn Statement About Turning Over All Work-Related Emails
Posted: November 3, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 2016, African Americans, American Federation of Government Employees, Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Mitchell, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, John Podesta, Vladimir Putin, WikiLeaks 1 Comment
[VIDEO] Clinton Aide Shows Andrea Mitchell Something He Wrote on His Phone Before She Asks a Question
Posted: October 21, 2016 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Clinton Campaign, CNN, Hillary Clinton, iPhone, media, MSNBC, Press, TV News Leave a comment
The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins
Posted: October 15, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Bill Clinton, Charlie Rose (TV series), Clinton Foundation, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Republican Party (United States), The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, United States Leave a comment
As reporters focus on Donald Trump, they miss new details on Hillary Clinton’s rotten record.
Kimberly A. Strassel writes: If average voters turned on the TV for five minutes this week, chances are they know that Donald Trump made lewd remarks a decade ago and now stands accused of groping women.
“But even if average voters had the TV on 24/7, they still probably haven’t heard the news about Hillary Clinton: That the nation now has proof of pretty much everything she has been accused of.”
But even if average voters had the TV on 24/7, they still probably haven’t heard the news about Hillary Clinton: That the nation now has proof of pretty much everything she has been accused of.
“The Obama administration—the federal government, supported by tax dollars—was working as an extension of the Clinton campaign. The State Department coordinated with her staff in responding to the email scandal, and the Justice Department kept her team informed about developments in the court case.”
It comes from hacked emails dumped by WikiLeaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, and accounts from FBI insiders. The media has almost uniformly ignored the flurry of bombshells, preferring to devote its front pages to the Trump story. So let’s review what amounts to a devastating case against a Clinton presidency.
Start with a June 2015 email to Clinton staffers from Erika Rottenberg, the former general counsel of LinkedIn. Ms. Rottenberg wrote that none of the attorneys in her circle of friends “can understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself to review them and delete documents.”
[Read the full story here, at WSJ]
She added: “It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.”
[ALSO SEE – Rigged Debates: Wikileaks Confirm Media’s in Clinton’s Pocket]
A few months later, in a September 2015 email, a Clinton confidante fretted that Mrs. Clinton was too bullheaded to acknowledge she’d done wrong. “Everyone wants her to apologize,” wrote Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress. “And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles’ heel.”
“In a series of 2010 emails, a senior aide to Mrs. Clinton asked a foundation official to let her know which groups offering assistance with the Haitian earthquake relief were “FOB” (Friends of Bill)…Those who made the cut appear to have been teed up for contracts. Those who weren’t? Routed to a standard government website.”
Clinton staffers debated how to evade a congressional subpoena of Mrs. Clinton’s emails—three weeks before a technician deleted them. The campaign later employed a focus group to see if it could fool Americans into thinking the email scandal was part of the Benghazi investigation (they are separate) and lay it all off as a Republican plot.
“Clinton staffers debated how to evade a congressional subpoena of Mrs. Clinton’s emails—three weeks before a technician deleted them. The campaign later employed a focus group to see if it could fool Americans into thinking the email scandal was part of the Benghazi investigation…”
A senior FBI official involved with the Clinton investigation told Fox News this week that the “vast majority” of career agents and prosecutors working the case “felt she should be prosecuted” and that giving her a pass was “a top-down decision.” Read the rest of this entry »
Media Reminder: ‘Obama-Is-A-Muslim’ Campaign Begun by Hillary Clinton in 2008
Posted: September 18, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Christian, Democratic Party presidential primaries, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Message transfer agent, Muslim, NBC, NBC News, Pantsuit Report, Republican Party (United States) 2 Comments
John Nolte writes: While our corrupt media frenzies over the fact that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump did not defend Barack Obama at a campaign event last night, there is one teensy-weensy detail the media is choosing to hide from everyone: It was Hillary Clinton who started the Obama-Is-A-Muslim rumors.
The reason this is pertinent is due to the fact that our feckless media is (again) trying to crucify Trump, his time for not vouching for Obama’s Christian faith after a questioner at a campaign event accused Obama of being a Muslim.
This is more bubbled overreach from our stupid media. Nobody cares that Trump didn’t defend Obama. It’s a stupid headline: Trump Doesn’t Defend Most Powerful Man In The World – a tempest in The Acela Teapot.
But the media is telling a huge lie of omission.
And they know it.
The root of the Birther/Obama-Is-A-Muslim movement can be found in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.
That’s a fact.
That’s science.
Hillary Clinton is the grandmother of the Birther movement.
Nevertheless, although they are well aware of this, hack reporters like NBC’s Andrea Mitchell aren’t asking Hillary about her clear responsibility here. Nope. Instead, today Mitchell chose to ignore this fact and instead ask Hillary three questions teeing up Trump as the villain.
It wasn’t Trump who sent the photo above to everyone.
All he did was blow off a loon. Read the rest of this entry »
Post-Debate: Words Frank Bruni Never Imagined Writing: ‘Hooray for Fox News’
Posted: August 6, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, Cleveland, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Megyn Kelly, Prime time, Quicken Loans Arena, Republican Party (United States), Rosie O'Donnell, The New York Times, Twitter, White House Leave a comment
New York Times’ Frank Bruni Shocked that Fox Staged a Compelling Debate, Fox Moderators Asked Tough Questions.
“This wasn’t a debate, at least not like most of those I’ve seen. This was an inquisition.”
Frank Bruni continues:
…And Donald Trump had to listen obediently, even meekly, as Megyn Kelly—the one woman on Fox News’s panel of three debate moderators—recited a squirm-inducing litany of his misogynistic remarks through time.
“It was riveting. It was admirable. It compels me to write a cluster of words I never imagined writing: hooray for Fox News.”
“You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals,” Kelly said, and if she was trying to hide her revulsion, she wasn’t doing an especially deft job. She recalled that Trump once told a contestant on “The Celebrity Apprentice” that “it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees.” And she wondered how he’d ever stand up to inevitable charges from Hillary Clinton that he was a carrot-haired corporal in “the war on women.”
This wasn’t a debate, at least not like most of those I’ve seen.
This was an inquisition.
“Did Fox take this combative approach because it was theatrical? Because it promised tension, promoted unease and was a sure route to reddened faces and raised voices?”
On Thursday night in Cleveland, the Fox News moderators did what only Fox News moderators could have done, because the representatives of any other network would have been accused of pro-Democratic partisanship.
They took each of the 10 Republicans onstage to task. They held each of them to account. They made each address the most prominent blemishes on his record, the most profound apprehensions that voters feel about him, the greatest vulnerability that he has.
It was riveting. It was admirable. It compels me to write a cluster of words I never imagined writing: hooray for Fox News. Read the rest of this entry »
Gun Control Losing Because Americans Refuse to Feel Guilty over Self-Defense: Greg Gutfeld
Posted: April 4, 2015 Filed under: Self Defense | Tags: Achilles, Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Breitbart, Barack Obama, Bob Beckel, Fox News Channel, Greg Gutfeld, Ted Cruz, The Five (TV program), Twitter Leave a comment
AWR Hawkins writes: On April 3, Fox News’ host Greg Gutfeld explained that the media’s gun control arguments increasingly fall on deaf ears because Americans refuse to feel guilty over using guns for self-defense.
Gutfeld said, “No matter how hard the establishment media tries, they can’t convince good people how bad guns are when they’re in the right hands.”
He then explained that the American people, while supportive of the police, have simply come to realize that there are long seconds–and frequently, agonizing minutes–between the time they dial 911 and the time police arrive. Moreover, he stressed that Americans understand that in many instances the police will only be coming to count bodies–that any defense that is going to happen has to happen before badges, handcuffs, or sirens are on the scene.
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Gutfeld suggested the gun control media’s inability to understand these things has only placed greater distance between their esoteric arguments and the American people. He said:
“Perhaps the media misses the big point. They do their theorizing from the fish bowl of a well-protected studio and travel to and from work at reasonable hours through tiny neighborhoods in secure vehicles. The fine people of Detroit don’t have that luxury; they realize that any argument against arming yourself is full of holes, which is not the way they’d like to end up being.”
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Empirical support for Gutfeld’s claims can be seen in the pro-gun attitude taking hold in Detroit’s heavily black community right now. Breitbart News recently reported that concealed carry is surging in the black community, and no less a prominent figure than Detroit Police Chief James Craig explained that this is a seismic shift from how things have been historically. Read the rest of this entry »
This Map Shows the Attacks on French Muslims Since Charlie Hebdo
Posted: January 10, 2015 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere, Religion, War Room | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Charlie Hebdo, Doha, Editorial cartoonist, France, Freedom of speech, Islam, media, Muhammad, Muslim, news, Paris, satire, Twitter Leave a commentThis map shows the attacks on French Muslims since Charlie Hebdo http://t.co/j61vbVynsR pic.twitter.com/K8KLlEvl4J
— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 11, 2015
BREAKING: 2 Officers Shot in Bronx: NYPD
Posted: January 5, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Al Sharpton, Andrea Mitchell, Barnabas, Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn, New York City Police Department, Police officer, The Bronx 2 Comments
Two NYPD officers have been shot in the Bronx, police say.
It’s not clear what led to the shooting on East 184th Street and Tiebout Avenue in the Fordham section shortly after 10:30 p.m.
The officers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and are expected to be OK, the NYPD said.
A law enforcement source said it appears one officer was shot in the back and the other shot in the arm. Preliminary investigation indicates the anti-crime, plain clothes officers were responding to a burglary call, a police source said.
The suspect fled in a car, crashed it and abandoned it a couple of blocks away from the scene before fleeing on foot, according to preliminary investigation, said the police source. Read the rest of this entry »
FULL DEMISE: Rolling Stone’s Cuckoo Bananas Rape Story Exposed as Fraud
Posted: December 12, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Brutal Assault, Credibility, North American fraternity and sorority housing, Phi Kappa Psi, Rape, Rolling Stone, Sexual assault, Student, The Washington Post, University of Virginia Leave a comment
Erik Wemple reports: Even as Rolling Stone’s Nov. 19 story “A Rape on Campus” unraveled last week, the magazine claimed that writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely did her due diligence in investigating an alleged gang rape on Sept. 28, 2012, at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia that had victimized a then-freshman by the name of Jackie. “Dozens” of Jackie’s friends, Rolling Stone told this blog, had spoken with Erdely for the story — some off the record, some on the record.
“Dozens,” of course, means 24-plus.
“Publications can be excused for getting things wrong; that happens all the time. What’s inexcusable, however, is that in this case, Rolling Stone did nothing to stave off catastrophic error…”
As a second heavily reported story by Washington Post’s local staff has revealed, however, Erdely’s reportorial sweep didn’t net three rather critical friends. “Randall,” “Cindy” and “Andy” were identified in the Rolling Stone piece as three eager helpers who came to Jackie’s aid on the night of Sept. 28, 2012, when she allegedly experienced a traumatic situation. The three told The Post that the story reported by Rolling Stone doesn’t match what Jackie told them that night.*
“As The Post reports, the friends were “never contacted or interviewed by the pop culture magazine’s reporters or editors,” meaning that neither Erdely nor the magazine’s fact-checkers lifted a finger to check with the story’s most obvious source of corroboration.”
And perhaps most critically, the latest revelation from The Post casts either account into doubt, as the man that Jackie cited as her date that night appears not to have been a student at the University of Virginia.
“What’s the excuse for the failure to reach the friends? We’ve asked for an explanation on this front as well…”
It all raises a mind-boggling possibility: that Erdely made an exhaustive effort to interview peripheral sources, leaving no time for the central ones. The Erik Wemple Blog has asked Rolling Stone for an inventory of the friends interviewed by Erdely, as well as other information about the reporting. That’s an extravagant request — but presumably Rolling Stone is already compiling such a file, if it’s serious about figuring out how it produced the shoddiest piece of journalism in recent memory. We haven’t heard back from the magazine. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] MSNBC: Andrea Mitchell Ponders Soul Loss, Suffers Existential Confusion in Interview with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer
Posted: July 30, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, War Room | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian people, Ron Dermer, United States, YouTube 1 CommentMSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell to Israeli Ambassador: ‘Israel May Be Losing Its Soul’ Over Gaza
[Also see: MSNBC Falls to 4th in Cable News Ratings…]
[POLL: Twice As Many Americans Blame Hamas For Gaza Violence Than Israel…]
[Hillary Clinton: Hamas Operates in Civilian Areas Because Gaza is a Small Place or Something]
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell sat down today with Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, and asked him a provocative question: is Israel “losing its soul [and] may be losing the war because of the political impact of what is happening on the ground” in Gaza?
[More – MSNBC: ‘Keep it right here on Morning Jew’…]
Mitchell brought this up in the context of images depicting wounded and killed Palestinians, in those conditions as a
possible result of Israeli bombing.
“The difference is Hamas is using their civilians as human shields. They’re placing missile batteries in hospitals, they’re putting weapons depots in mosques. They’re storing rockets in UN schools. This is sick and grotesque.”
Dermer insisted, “Israel is not losing its soul. We are upholding our values under the most extreme circumstances.” Read the rest of this entry »
Dept. of Double Standards: Why does Google Image Search List Greta Van Sustren as a ‘TV Personality’ and Megyn Kelly as a ‘Television Actor’?
Posted: July 16, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: ABC, Andrea Mitchell, Barack Obama, Bias, broadcast news, CBS, Christiana Amanpour, Diane Sawyer, Fox, Fox News, Fox News Channel, Jon Stewart, Megyn Kelly, MSNBC, NBC, Women in Journalism 1 CommentA Law Degree and a Cup of Coffee…
@DianeSawyer @camanpour Why does Google search show @gretawire and as a ‘TV Personality’& @megynkelly as an ‘Actor’? pic.twitter.com/TdjXItYYiA
— Pundit Planet (@punditfap) July 16, 2014
Extra Credit: Internet Movie Database‘s list of Acting appearances featuring ‘Television Actor’ Megyn Kelly – Zero
[VIDEO] REWIND: White House Expected…’Euphoria’ Over Bergdahl Release?
Posted: June 3, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, War Room, White House | Tags: Afghanistan, Andrea Mitchell, Bergdahl, Bowe Bergdahl, Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, Michael Hastings, Michael Tomasky, Taliban, White House Leave a comment
Hot Air’s ALLAHPUNDIT comments:
“…As for Todd’s point about the White House expecting “euphoria,” there are only two possibilities. One: Despite a Pentagon investigation in 2010 into Bergdahl’s disappearance, despite Michael Hastings’s article two years ago in Rolling Stone, despite the fact that Bergdahl apparently left a note confirming his desertion, somehow everyone in the administration who had input into this prisoner swap missed the longstanding accusations against him. They thought they were bringing home a guy who was captured heroically in combat and have now been caught completely by surprise. I don’t buy that, although I’ve had a few dozen conservative pals warn me on Twitter over the past 24 hours to never underestimate Hopenchange’s ignorance and incompetence. Point taken, and if this were purely a policy matter, I might go along. It isn’t. It’s a political landmine too and O’s usually careful to protect his own political capital. Someone surely looked into Bergdahl’s disappearance and signed off on this knowing the allegations against him.
Which brings us to the other possibility. Namely, Obama expected “euphoria” over Bergdahl’s release not because he didn’t know about the desertion claims but because he assumed that most of the public would never find out. I think he expected the media to go face-first into the tank in ignoring the desertion angle in the interest of (a) protecting the White House and (b) playing up the gauzy “POW reunited with parents” human-interest stuff. And you know what? That was a reasonable expectation. They 
probably thought that any desertion claims against Bergdahl would be confined to Fox and a few problematic segments on Jake Tapper’s show, all of which could be ignored and ghettoized as some new right-wing bugaboo (sorry, Jake) that no one else need take seriously. Michael Tomasky was way out in front of that yesterday morning. But then all sorts of big-media outlets dug in — the Times, WaPo, NBC, ABC, and on and on — and that made the “politicization” defense too difficult (although the left, God love ‘em, is still trying). I’m shocked by how eagerly the media went after it, frankly, although not as shocked as the White House. The X factor they didn’t anticipate, I’ll bet, is that soldiers like Cody Full would come forward and risk retaliation for putting his name to the “deserter” theory. It’s one thing to call a Republican a hack, it’s another to call a veteran who was there and who lost friends in the hunt for Bergdahl one. They’ve been left with no counter.
Senator Patty Murray’s Ignorance of Supreme Court Review of Regulation ‘Stunning’
Posted: March 26, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Birth control, Bruce Braley, MSNBC, National Journal, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Patty Murray, Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court 2 Comments
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“I’ve worked hard to make sure that women have access to the right kinds of health care, and it’s their choice, not their employer’s choice,”
— Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
“Sitting in that court today, it was stunning to me to recognize that nine people are going to make that decision — and will decide for a long time to come — whether women have to question when they go to work every day what the shareholders of that company’s religious views could be.”
Hot Air‘s Ed Morrissey comments:
Well, that problem wouldn’t exist had Congress not given HHS the power to mandate that employers provide specific products and services to their employees in the first place. Prior to the passage of ObamaCare, most employers already provided some form of health insurance to their employees, and most of those already covered birth control, albeit with co-pays. Those employers who object to abortifacients found other health plans, but that doesn’t prevent men and women from acquiring birth control of their own volition — or finding other work based on competitive compensation packages, for that matter. This became an issue only when Democrats forced the creation and participation of a command economy in health insurance and gave bureaucrats the power to issue regulations such as the HHS contraception mandate, for no rational reason except as political demagoguery. Read more…Hot Air
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a critical religious freedom case. The court will decide whether the government may compel family-owned companies to provide employees with health insurance that covers no-cost birth control and other medical procedures that violate the owners’ religious beliefs.
The plaintiffs argue that a 1993 federal law on religious freedom extends to private, for-profit businesses…Read more….CNSNews
Completely unrelated, but too good not to share. A Patty Murray Freudian slip:
SAY MY NAME
Posted: February 11, 2014 Filed under: Humor, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Michael Goldfarb, MSNBC, NBC, New York Magazine, Washington Free Beacon 1 CommentDaily Caller: MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, and local NBC affiliates across the country are uniformly referring to the Washington Free Beacon as an “anti-Clinton website,” without even mentioning the site’s name.
The description came after the publication’s Alana Goodman wrote a story Monday called “The Hillary Papers,” a window of sorts into Hillary Clinton‘s thinking from her now-deceased best friend.The story was heavily hyped on Drudge before it even ran. Calling the Free Beacon an “anti-Clinton website” is odd treatment for a story that could just as easily landed in The New York Times, New York Magazine or elsewhere.
Free Beacon‘s founder Michael Goldfarb told The Mirror, “The piece wasn’t anti-Clinton, and our website isn’t anti-Clinton, but occasionally the facts are anti-Clinton–and when they are we report them. In this case, some of the documents showed Hillary as ruthless and calculating and vindictive, others showed her in quite a sympathetic light.
Watch Clapper lie.
Posted: June 12, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, National Security Agency, NBC, Ron Wyden, United States, United States Congress Leave a commentHe’s got a tell:
“No spy should have that big a tell.”
via Althouse:
