Andrea Mitchell Goes After Palin Again

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For the second day in a row, NBC's Andrea Mitchell depicted Sarah Palin as a bumbling neophyte, as she claimed that even the McCain camp is concerned: "The McCain campaign is so worried about Palin's ability to debate Joe Biden, she's gone home with the McCains, for debate camp in Arizona." However Mitchell didn't point out that Joe Biden himself is taking time off the campaign trail to prep for Thursday's vice presidential debate.

On Monday's "Today" show Mitchell highlighted Tina Fey's satirization of Palin appearance's with Katie Couric and on this morning's "Today" show the NBC reporter played up Palin's response to a Couric question on Pakistan as she teased: "more controversy about Sarah Palin."

The following excerpt occurred on the September 30 edition of the "Today" show:

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MITCHELL: And more controversy about Sarah Palin, after she said U.S. troops should cross into Pakistan to hunt terrorists.

SARAH PALIN: If that's what we have to do to stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should.

MITCHELL: It's an Obama position McCain has criticized. Monday he tried to rescue his running mate.

KATIE COURIC: Are you sorry you said it, Governor?

JOHN MCCAIN: Wait a minute! Before you say is she sorry, she said it, this was a gotcha sound bite that...

COURIC: It wasn't a gotcha, she was talking to a voter.

MCCAIN: She was in a conversation with a group of people and talking back and forth and I, I'll let Governor Palin speak for herself.

PALIN: Well and in, in fact, you're absolutely right on. In the context this was a voter, constituents hollering out a question from across an area, asking, "What are you gonna do about Pakistan? You better have an answer to Pakistan." I said we're gonna do what we have to do to protect the United States of America.

MITCHELL: In fact the McCain campaign is so worried about Palin's ability to debate Joe Biden, she's gone home with the McCains, for debate camp in Arizona, supervised by McCain's own top strategists.

—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Ooooooo!!!!

*clap clap clap*

Debate Camp!!

 

Yeah -did she talk about Obama debate camp?

and say how worried the Obama campaign was because of his horrible performance at Saddleback? 

Wait...I thought he "won"

Wait...I thought he "won" that debate. If he believes his own hype, he won't need to bother with debate camp. The MSM will pass him regardless of performance.

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Not for nothing, but you'd

Not for nothing, but you'd think the smart money would be on this bitch taking a little hiatus on the Palin attacks, at least this week, until the bailout deal gets sorted out... since her husband's culpability in it is coming out more and more.

I was wondering when someone

I was wondering when someone would bring up Andrea's husband in this. Thank you.

sounds like a story to me, but...

...it's an angle we're certainly never going to see on NBC.

just google 'greenspan to blame'

(I'm sure her and Greenspan have 'separate checking accounts'!) 

Pin the tail on the Jack-ass!

BigSpoon65

Will the MSM ever report on the gaffe-a-minute Joe "Plugs" Biden?  Will the truth ever get out about the democrats responsibilty in the financial crisis?  Will the great welfare house give-away perpetrated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at the direction of democrat leadership ever get dragged out into the light?  Will the group ACORN's responsibilty in the welfare mortgages and its close ties to Obama be revealed?  Time for some straight talk Senator McCain!  No need to share the blame for something the democrats did all on their own.  Connect the dots and let the citizens decide who pays for the crisis.  You are sinking in the polls because the Main Stream Media will NOT do their jobs and the GOP is receiving all the rancor of American citizens.  It is time to be partisan and shine some light on the cockroaches who actually caused this crisis.  Wrap the democrats and Obama up in this mess and let it pull them to the bottom of the pool.   

Conservative.....Because we can't all be on welfare!

I love the smell of exploding heads in the morning.

I'd have paid serious money to get someone like Gov. Palin in the public eye just to watch all the libtard's heads exploding.

There's little about McLame but tons about the Gov. in the Lame Stream Media. She is making a great lightening rod for the libtards attacks. All McLame has to do is keep reminding the public that she's just the Vice President - so who cares anyway? In the mean time he keeps attacking Barry for being an empty suit/sock puppet for the Marxists like Soros.

The Main Stream Marxist

The Main Stream Marxist enablers are not simply trying to destroy Palin (like Quayle).

They are trying to annihilate her. They want to obliterate her.

From James Hirsen/Hollywood Confidential:

4. Henry Kissinger Corrects Obama and Couric

CBS, Katie Couric, and Barack Obama recently had to be corrected by famed diplomat Henry Kissinger for their media missteps.

Kissinger released a short statement that was intended to clear up some false representations made about something he had allegedly said.

During the Couric-Palin interviews, Couric asked the following question of Sarah Palin: “You met yesterday with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is for direct diplomacy with both Iran and Syria. Do you believe the U.S. should negotiate with leaders like President Assad and Ahmadinejad?”

Palin answered, with respect to Ahmadinejad, “You can't just sit down with him with no preconditions being met.”

Couric claimed that negotiating with Iran without preconditions was Kissinger’s position.

When the interview ended, Couric told her audience, “Incidentally, we confirmed Henry Kissinger’s position following our interview.” She repeated that Kissinger supports talks “without preconditions.”

Is it possible that CBS and the Obama campaign are communicating?

During the first presidential debate, Obama claimed that Kissinger “along with five recent secretaries of state just said we should meet with Iran — guess what — without preconditions.”

John McCain shot back, “Dr. Kissinger did not say that he would approve a face-to-face meeting [with Ahmadinejad]. He did say there could be secretary and lower level meetings.”

Kissinger later weighed in, saying, “Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next president of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend, Senator John McCain.

"We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality.”

Maybe CBS, Couric, and Obama should engage in talks with a make-up artist on how to get the egg off their faces.

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5. CBS, ABC Distort Sarah Palin Interview

It is a tale of two con jobs.

As outlined in my previous LCR, ABC’s Charles Gibson interview of Sarah Palin was questionably edited. Now CBS has followed suit with the Katie Couric interview of the GOP vice presidential candidate.

A pattern of distortion has emerged. Both ABC and CBS cut answers by Palin; answers that would have indicated a more nuanced approach to foreign policy when it comes to the issue of multilateral diplomacy.

In the Couric interview, Palin answered a question that dealt with what the U.S. should do to convince Pakistan to take a harder line against terrorists.

“At a time when new leadership comes in, that is the opportunity to forge better, tighter, more productive relationships and that’s what we’ll take advantage of with new leadership in the U.S. and in Pakistan. And I’m sure that President Zardari, too, will agree with us as we commit to the support that Pakistan needs, that other nations in the region need, in order to win this war on terrorism,” Palin responded.

This question and answer were edited out.

Could it be that Palin’s response did not serve CBS’s desired post-interview spin?

When Couric inquired about the implementation of democracy in other parts of the world, Palin answered, “Well, one is that America cannot be counted on to do this solely, to be the savior of every other nation, but we need friends and we need allies and we need this nation-building effort and we need to forge new alliances, and that is what a new election will provide opportunity to do.”

This response, too, was withheld from the public.

Could it be once again that CBS did not find the response to be consistent with the hawkish image of Palin that mainstream media are trying to cloak her with?

Similarly, Couric asked about instances when a democracy does not produce the desired outcome, such as in the election of Hamas.

“Especially in that region, though, we have got to protect those and support those who do seek democracy and do seek protections for the people who live there. And you know, we’re seeing today, in the last couple of days here in New York, a speaker, a president of Iran, Ahmadinejad, who would come on our soil and express such disdain for one of our closest allies and friends—Israel—and we’re hearing the evil that he speaks . . .

"If hearing him doesn’t allow Americans to commit more solidly to protecting the friends and allies that we need, especially there in the Mideast, then nothing will,” Palin responded.

“If Americans are not waking up to understand what it is that he represents, then nothing is going to wake us up and we will be lulled into some kind of false sense of security that perhaps Americans were a part of before 9/11,” she added.

Again CBS editors snipped away.

ABC News cut similar content from the Gibson interview.

Intelligent, thoughtful, reasoned responses edited out? Beyond shameful, this represents the utter corruption of the Fourth Estate.

The New Media thankfully ride to the rescue.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Even if I had a public

Even if I had a public affairs officer with me, my plan to handle media/press interviews was to record them in their entirety. 

It would be a good insurance policy for McCain and Palin to insist on having their own functioning videographers present for every subsequent session they have with the MSM.  Two cameras would be ideal, one focused on the interviewer and the other on the interviewee.  The best defense is a good offense.

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18 Million Cracks

When Sarah Palin alluded to the 18 million cracks, was she referring to the votes Hillary Clinton received or to Andrea Mitchell's face?

 

BW222

The thing that concerns me

The thing that concerns me is, when SNL caricaturizes a public figure, sometimes that caricature sticks over the real person (Linda Tripp for example) - especially when the media shows it over and over and over again. This leads me to the suspicion that, in this case, this is exactly what the media wants to happen. They will really stoop to anything to destroy Palin and McCain.

McNotObama '08

Completely off subject

Completely off subject here.....but whenever I see Andrea....Madame....remember...the puppet?...comes to mind......sorry...just had to mention that....

Waylon and Madame? You may

Waylon and Madame? You may be right, Mitchell's morphing into her - someone seems to have taken control of her in her dotage

McNotObama '08

Andrea = Madame

BigSpoon65

I have been saying for years that Andrea Mitchell reminded me of Madame the puppet and finally I see someone else who recognizes the stark similarities. 

Conservative.....Because we can't all be on welfare!

Andrea Mitchell

Ol big nose is so biased!!! I can't stand her. They always parade her out during the opening segment and she is so blatantly biased with her little jabs. What the heck was that SNL skit playing the same time as Couric's interview with Palin all about? Since when was a soundbite from SNL considered a realiable news source? These folks are all insane.

It is so blatantly obvious that Andrea Mitchell is ga ga over Obama, she's probably still miffed that she got attacked by GOP Balloons.

It does not matter

Joe "gaffe machine" Biden could say that Iraq is in Europe and that it was his and Obama's idea to have the bailout and he will still win the Debate.

If and when McCain wins it will be the hardest 4 years any president will have, unless the GOP gets one of the houses back. With this hatred that is directed at Palin and McCain even before the election BDS will be like a sniffle when McDS and PDS are fatal conditions. McCain / Palin  '08

Always-in-last-place Couric

Always-in-last-place Couric proves once again when she will never be a success in "journalism". A complete whack job.

The major media report only half the news. Why are they surprised they have only half the potential audience?

Poor Andrea!

Andrea really seems to have a bee-in-her-butt when it comes to Governor Palin.  She just seems terribly irritated.  Perhaps there's been a major increase in the cost of Botox!  God knows she uses enough of it.

How can they find so much

How can they find so much controversy in someone they claim has never done anything.

 

Andrea Mitchell

What the hell is wrong with this b**, is she jealous or just plain old mean spirited. And Couric, another mean one. We won't forget the way they treat people, bunch of miserable losers. Ugly ones at that.

 

Livefree or die trying

Afraid to lose womens right to infanticide

BigSpoon65

Progressive women are intimidated by a conservative woman who doesn't kill her offspring.  They fear they may lose the right to bash their own like baby seals on a beach.  Like their messiah has said, "he would never want to burden a woman with maternal duties"!  Abortion is the underlying reason for the vile hatred we are seeing towards Governor Palin from the left.  Anyone who reminds them that their choice extinguishes a life is repudiated and discredited.  

Conservative.....Because we can't all be on welfare!