Looking at Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, NBC's Andrea Mitchell caught a passage about herself in which Palin recalled that when she invited some reporters to go fishing with her this past July that “I wanted to see Andrea and her colleagues sporting fish-slimed waders, banging around in a skiff, stuck in the mud,” but, she regretted, the weather was too good so “dang it -- none of them got slimed.”
On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, Mitchell recounted, over video (with the book text over-layed) of Mitchell and Palin on a boat:
Remember when we went fishing with her after she resigned as Governor? Palin writes: “Now I wanted to see Andrea and her colleagues sporting fish-slimed waders, banging around in a skiff, stuck in the mud and trying to pull themselves back over the bow. At the very least they'd see there was no diva in me.”
But the weather didn't cooperate. She writes: “It was sunny, hot and flat calm, so -- dang it -- none of them got slimed.”
— Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Sarah well knows
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 01:14 ET by Captain RepusSarah well knows that it doesn't take fishy waders or mud to make Mitchell and her ethically challenged colleagues slimy - they come that way quite naturally.
Palen and Repus in '12 - in either order
Fishy waders
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 01:24 ET by merlin61You got that right Capt. Repus
I share Palin's regret.
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 01:40 ET by kefkaI share Palin's regret.
Too bad....
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 02:13 ET by pantrymanSarah didn't have old diesel-lips Katie Couric with her last summer.
After looking up Couric's who-ha, it would have been a refreshing change to see her fish slimed.
Remember in November 2010
Why?
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 02:29 ET by ptsonSlime the media? Coals to New Castle!
Annnnddddrrreeaa MITCHEL, eats organic fish...
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 03:00 ET by upcountrywaterYea try catch some eh!!
Well I snag em in those plastic containers. at the Whole Foods.
The end of age of oil is comming...
yea I know, that's on the list of the "unthinkable"
I want to go fishing with Sarah...In Alaska..
Then She can come here to Hawaii, and hookup with some buddies of mine.
secretly admiring
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 06:02 ET by spepperI think Andrea is subconciously admiring Sarah for being singled out in her book-- and it's obvious to me that Sarah was injecting some lighthearted humor there, with the "slime" reference to the reporters-- she could have gone off on a slime-based journalist rant there, but obviously stopped way short of that-- she's obviously leaving it to the reader to attach any meaning to it-- and all in the process of her explaining that she herself gets slimy also, that she is no "diva" as she put it-- oh my-- I just got another image of her in hip waders, while cleaning salmon-- what a hottie grandmother!
hypocrit
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 07:42 ET by nadadhimmiAndrea Mitchell? Her husband Allen Greespan is ex chairman of the Fed Reserve, Mitchell, like most of the msm is a millionaire in her own right. These hypocrits expouse socialism and aid for illegal aliens while keeping their money to THEMSELVES. Socialism you see is for the "little people " to pay for, not the "elites". The elites love socialism because it assuages their guilt about their own wealth. Yet, they don't give their own money, they just want to give away mine. Palin is different. She at least is not a hypocritical, elitist, socialist, snob. And she doesn't kill babies either.
MItchell as victim . . .
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 08:14 ET by GalvanicMaybe this was Andrea Mitchell's attempt to portray the MSM as targets of a Palin vendetta, as if it might justify their obvious and overzealous attacks on her. "Look, we weren't the bad guys. Palin had it in for us."
I'm sure every major MSM celebrity-journalist/pundit is hoping to find themselves referenced in Palin's book so that they can display it to their peers as proof that they were heroes in the the malicious fight against her.
"How About A Little Test"
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 08:53 ET by mad53PALet's take the backgrounds of Andrea Mitchell, Katie Couric, Maureen Dowd, Norah O'Donnell and Sarah Palin. Remove the names and go to all 50 states and ask women of all socio-economic classes the following question:
Which one of these women's experiences most resembles your own?
Hands down it's Palin, which is why there is such fear and loathing among the "elites". She best identifies with most families and what they cope with on a daily basis.
It's ironic that the same women who mock Palin as a hunter or fisherman have no problem cutting into their Filet Mignon or Chilean Sea Bass as they pass judgement on the rest of us.
"Nobody Hates Like a Liberal"
Her Kin
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 10:38 ET by slickwillie2001Andwea Mitchell looks kind of like a fish, so she might have thought of it as a family reunion.
re: Her Kin
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 10:51 ET by speppernow that you mention it.......an amazing resemblance.........
Gutsy Gal
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 11:13 ET by miss911ninjaOn this very same fishing trip, one of the reporters said to Palin: "You have fish guts on you."
Palin's reply was something like "Well, it comes with the territory."
I would have been totally sarcastic and said something like "Dang it, don't tell me my hair's messed up, too!"
Alligator bait
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 16:10 ET by Jerry MackIn Louisiana Andreaaaaaaaaa Mitchell would not qualify as alligator bait. For those unfamilar with this sport, the bait is supposed to attract the gator.
Andrea Mitchell?
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 19:35 ET by gregjohnsonrOh ya.... she's the one who covered the white house and could barely hide her glee whenever she reported on any U.S. deaths in Iraq during the Bush years.