Andrea Mitchell Conducts Softball Interview with Feminist Pushing FCC to Silence Limbaugh
Andrea Mitchell is no newbie to journalism. In fact, in 2010, she was given the Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism by the National Press Foundation. She's in good company with Brit Hume and the late Tim Russert among previous recipients of the award. But alas, the MSNBC anchor displayed no "excellence in journalism" with her brief, softball interview today with Robin Morgan of the liberal Women's Media Center.
Mitchell brought Morgan on to discuss her group's petition drive to request the FCC to ban Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves. The WMC's argument is that Limbaugh engages in "hate speech" which is not in the "public interest" and hence cause to push him off the air. Below the page break I've listed in bullet points the questions Mitchell posed to Morgan, which, as you can see, are all softballs meant to advance Morgan's talking points:
- He has apologized, Rush Limbaugh has, he's said that, for over 40, excuse me, for over 20 years, quote, "I have demonstrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance," he says, "I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke. My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices." So, should that apology be enough?
- This was Rush just within the hour on his show again today. [plays Limbaugh clip where he says the women of America "want jobs" and that the Obama administration "calculated they could create this mythical Republican war on women, and look where they are."]
Yup. That's it. Following Morgan's answer to the second question, Mitchell thanked her guest for appearing on the program. In effect, it was a brief advertisement for the Women's Media Center, a short plug for their petition drive to silence Rush.
As you may recall, in recent weeks Mitchell has tag-teamed with liberal feminists on matters from the Komen/Planned Parenthood controversy to the ObamaCare contraception mandate to Texas legislators defunding Planned Parenthood.
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They're doing us a favor with this FCC business,
Submitted by fscarn on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:26pm.
Because it shows, yet again, that liberalism is based entirely on FORCE.
The ideas of liberty and freedom of choice are simply not part of the leftist dictionary.
They're so fast to call us name, notably as fascists and nazis. But facism and Nazism as well as communism describe liberals to a T.
I can't wait to hear what
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:28pm.
I can't wait to hear what this lady has to say about Bill Maher and Mike Malloy.
You also remember..
Submitted by tomchris on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:31pm.
Mitchell in her interview with Sandra Fluke was one of the first to "break the news" that President Obama, himself, had called Fluke and offered his praise and solidarity. Or better yet, the White House had THEIR network and THEIR anchor- Mrs. Alan Greenspan- continue this phony political theater involving contraceptives and the Republican's supposed war on women. And, of course, give more media exposure to Cindy Sheehan, oops, I mean Sandra Fluke.
How Britt Hume won a Taishoff Award is beyond me since the only excellence I see from Mitchell is advancing the Democrat's big government behemoth.
Andrea ceased being a journalist...
Submitted by KyWriter on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:34pm.
...when they switched over to newsprint from papyrus.
No, KY, she stopped
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 7:16pm.
being a journolist, when she couldn't get anyone to carry the stone tablets, hammer and chisel for her.
UpNorth
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 8:28pm.
ROTFL
Or when she and Hillary Clinton became BFF's . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 7:23pm.
. . . which was approximately the same time.
Fluke Told Andrea Mitchell She Was Having Sex When Obama Called
Submitted by GlenStanish on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:37pm.
The Daily Rash printed the "unedited" transcript of Andrea Mitchell's interview with Sandra Fluke when Fluke admitted she was having sex when she received President Obama's phone call. http://www.thedailyrash.com/sandra-fluke-i-was-having-sex-when-president...
Andrea Mitchell is no newbie to journalism?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:38pm.
Understatement of the year.
I present into evidence one of Andrea's earliest columns after graduating the University of Memphis.
Mitchell is the worst.
Submitted by Barabbus on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:40pm.
Mitchell is the worst. Because she's not dumb. She's just a craven liar. I mean, a Mika for instance, is an idiot with an Oak leaf cluster, doesn't really understand how shoe laces work. But this Mitchell works hard to scam us daily. She'll be studied by future generations trying to figure out what happened.
Oops
Submitted by Dave. on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 6:54pm.
Wrong thread.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Rush being removed from the
Submitted by Free Thinker on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:54pm.
Rush being removed from the air is a wet dream of the fringe left that will never happen. In a classic display of idiocy and supreme irony these same women have compared Rush to Goebbels. You know Rush is laughing about all of this which makes them even madder that their little publicty stunt has backfired.
"This was Rush just within
Submitted by Free Thinker on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 5:57pm.
"This was Rush just within the hour on his show again today. [plays Limbaugh clip where he says the women of America "want jobs" and that the Obama administration "calculated they could create this mythical Republican war on women, and look where they are."
What am I missing with Andrea's point here? Is she suggesting this is wrong or somehow insulting to someone? Or is she merely pointing out to this feminist that once again Rush is right and the left's ploy to change the subject from Obama's failures has failed.
Kick Limbaugh off the air?? That's laughable.
Submitted by theknight70 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 6:09pm.
Rush's attornies, particularly Mark Levin, will eat their lunch and kick their cat too!
LOL!
'The Great One' needn't waste his time...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 6:20pm.
Anyone whose watched a couple of episodes of Law and Order could win that case.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 8:30pm.
As someone who has seen far to many episodes of Law & Order, I could only handle it if someone was murdered, or if it furthered a leftist cause. Oh, wait, I see what you're saying...
Hey, Jer
Submitted by 26CX on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 8:40pm.
Isn't "whose" a possessive pronoun?
Indeed it is, CX...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:32pm.
Please don't tell Matthew. My fragile ego could scarce endure any further humiliation. I have already PMed the admins urging the removal of the offending post.
Jer
Agreed, Jer
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:27pm.
Especially since Limbaugh publicly apologized. The FCC isn't going to bother with this.
The Dems and their MSM water carriers have been hamering this nail so long that they've bent the nail and split the board -- and they're still hammering. A few Dem "strategists" are hinting that it's going on too long, but the DNC and their allies don't know how to turn it off.
Yet a new poll indicates that despite the claim of a GOP "War on Women," Obama is losing support of women. If my wife is typical (and she may not be), women are insulted by this blatant pandering.
The apology was irrelevant in this case, Galvanic...
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:45pm.
and, fortunately for Rush, so was his ensuing mind-numbingly absurd explanation for the apology. Otherwise, Limbaugh might very well be laughed off the air.
Jer
What was so absurd?
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:53pm.
That he lowered himself to using liberal tactics?
Your wife is spot-on
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 10:42pm.
I am totally disgusted by the leftist ruse.
War on Women? War on Americans, more like.
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If Rush should be silenced by
Submitted by goldbough on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 7:56pm.
If Rush should be silenced by the FCC then the whole MSNBC staff should be too.
He would only be off the air
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 8:16pm.
Till January!!
The FCC only has jurisdiction over broadcast media
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:31pm.
It has not authority over cable or online media.
Anyone tell
Submitted by Boudin on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:33pm.
Obama and Holder?
They're well aware of it
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:42pm.
That's why
(1) They're letting all their surrogates do the threatening
(2) They have MSNBC be the WH mouthpiece, while NBC's approach is more subtle and comparable to rival networks CBS and ABC, though it occurs to me that NBC still enjoys a special connection to the WH.
For all the WH attacks on Fox News and calls from Dems and the MSM to curb its message, I don't recall Obama or Holder ever threatening to use the FCC against it (Though I may be wrong). Instead, they use the usual tactic of discrediting Fox News as the propaganda arm of the GOP.
Feminsts' War Against Men
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 9:10pm.
Only leftist nannyboys want to fluke feminists. Not only physically unattractive, ugly to the bottom of their soulless beings.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
The WMC's argument is that
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 11:13pm.
The WMC's argument is that Limbaugh engages in "hate speech" which is not in the "public interest" and hence cause to push him off the air.
This statement scares me as who is going to determine what is hate speech? Natürlich wird die Regierung bestimmen, und Obama ist der Kopf govermment. Alle Hagel Obama
Aspirin
Submitted by sngnsgt on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 11:38pm.
Did you conduct that whole interview with a bayer between your legs? Your buddies are the haters. Always have been.