MSNBC's Mitchell, WashPost's Marcus Spin for Rosen, Polish Up Her Anti-Romney Argument
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell has been a key player in pushing the network's "war on women" meme, such as when she viciously tag-teamed with liberal senators to attack Susan G. Komen founder Nancy Brinker to her misleading, biased coverage of the defunding of Planned Parenthood in Texas.
So it's no surprise that Mitchell joined forces with liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus at the top of her program today to spin for Democratic activist and PR flak Hilary Rosen, who stepped in it earlier this week with her ill-advised attack on Ann Romney.
"Hilary Rosen's comments on Ann Romney set off a firestorm," Mitchell noted as she opened her April 12 Andrea Mitchell Reports program. But alas, "rather than starting a debate about women in and out of the workplace, Republicans, then Democrats, rushed to criticize Rosen."
"Can we get serious, Ruth?" Mitchell complained after airing a montage of politicians slamming Rosen. "What was, I think, lost in the conversation was what Hilary Rosen was trying to say, inartfully, but trying to say."
"I tried to sort of be her interpreter," Marcus offered, pointing to a column she posted at WashingtonPost.com on the matter:
MARCUS: Look, the mommy wars are like one of these sectarian conflicts or trash fires by the New Jersey Turnpike that never go out.... What she was trying to say was that the Romney campaign, which put, is using her as their emissary to women --
MITCHELL: She's their bulletproof shield!
MARCUS: She's their bulletproof shield. That's fine. She seems incredibly likeable and has a terrific life story. But in many ways her life story is not the life story of many women.
Why, yes, Ms. Marcus. Not every woman has multiple sclerosis and survived breast cancer. Of course, I'm sure that's not what Marcus meant, preferring to fixate on the Romneys' wealth and all.
To her credit, Mitchell blasted President Obama for having thrown Rosen, a strong supporter of President Obama, "under the bus."
"Oh, and then drove over her.... They took turns driving over her," Marcus agreed of Obama acolytes.
"I just disagree with the president.... Perhaps [Ann Romney's] life experience is not on a par with the life experiences of many women who don't have the luxury of choosing whether to work or not," Marcus noted.
Of course, by saying that "choosing whether to work or not" was a luxury, Marcus communicates that being a stay-at-home mom is something that's workable only for the wealthy. Of course, that's not only patently untrue but feeds into the class-warfare rhetoric that the Left is aiming to use as a cudgel against Romney.
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Keep on talking about this
Submitted by forest on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:37pm.
Keep on talking about this Democrats.
Agreed, forest. Let the Dems
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 6:11pm.
Agreed, forest. Let the Dems double down with this little gem they've given us.
Defenses
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:44pm.
I can not decide if the defenses put forward by the Mitchell and Marcus types are borne of jealousy, hatred , stupidity or personal political beleifs.
Should probably be noted that
Submitted by balboa on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:47pm.
Should probably be noted that Mary Matalin has defended Rosen against the reaction.
Bush up on that "reading comprehension, bal.
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:12pm.
Matalin did not defend Rosen. She merely exposed the hypocrisy of the loudmouth liberal "pals" who drop-kicked her under an 18-wheeler for uncharacteristically using poorly chosen punditry one-tenth of 1% as egregious as their putrid hourly utterances.
She also said that Rosen was right to apologize to Mrs. Romney.
Matalin's criticism was aimed at Rosen's liberal "pals" including in the WH, who ran over her immediately, without giving her a chance to respond appropriately (I would assume, to apologize on her own).
Matalin recounted a similar personal blunder, and how George W. Bush pretty much told her to keep fighting, but try to be a little less inflammatory.
And she added about the Obama admin....
The character of a campaign flows from the top; it is a reflection of the values of the leadership. While relentlessly extolling how caring and fair it is about every last citizen, when it came to its own foxhole sister, the Obama team showed its true character.
She exposed typical Obama thinking: we stand by our own, unless it's not politically expedient.
I couldn't agree more
Submitted by rockyracoon on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:33pm.
I couldn't agree more motherbelt, however Zero leads from behind, and passing the buck in this WH, is like a game of musical chairs. That is as long as Zippy doesn't get blamed for anything. The only thing Zip can run is his mouth, while assigning blame.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
I forgot to mention that
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:58pm.
I forgot to mention that Matalin recounted how, in her own situation,
President Bush himself called me and told me to keep fighting, and to make just a tad fewer wild throws; he put out the word that our own staff was to lay off.
Here's her whole article, which I also forgot to link to.
Don't you mean...
Submitted by jdlybrand on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:52pm.
...polish a turd?
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
And in the process …
Submitted by JeffC... on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 4:56pm.
… they insulted New Jersey.
I lived in New Jersey and I never remembered trash fires next to the turnpike, you elitist, New York snobs!
JeffC: Marcus is right on the NJ Turnpike trash fires.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:09pm.
We keep relighting them, but sadly the Secaucus F.D. always gets there in time.
Yes, Yes, Yes libs keep talking
Submitted by Tomorama on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:02pm.
The little girl from MSDNC, errr Chissy Hayes (aka as Maddows little sister) said "that if Republicans think being a Mother is work, why are they not paid"?
They are paid …
Submitted by JeffC... on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:20pm.
… by the husband and father. His salary is used to take care of everybody. I know mine is.
Then again, the left seems to believe that the only money worth getting is from the government.
Jeff
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:29pm.
I think they want you to put her on payroll so the government can get a cut of it. That's how you know you're working, the government gets some of what you make.
~If staying home with the kids is only an option for the wealthy
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:05pm.
yet virtually every woman was able to do so just a couple of generations ago, what changed?
How did we go from feminists agitating for the 'freedom' to work to Dems proclaiming that women don't even have the choice to stay home unless they're wealthy?
They're admitting that women have been forced into virtual slavery just to get by financially; why is that, I wonder? How did the "empowerment" of women turn into the economic enslavery of women in just 30 years?
"economic enslavery of women"
Submitted by Radical1979 on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:29pm.
I love that phrase. I know I was not only a better mom for being home, I was/am a better wife. I don't expect my husband to do a lot of stuff at home that I now have time to do. We're more of a team.
Bulletproof shield!
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:28pm.
MITCHELL: She's their bulletproof shield!
MARCUS: She's their bulletproof shield. That's fine. [Not really!]
How DARE the Republicans use a tactic that's reserved for Democrats!! (See the "Jersey Girls" in Ann Coulter's Godless: The Church of Liberalism).
And Marcus' MARCUS: What she was trying to say was that the Romney campaign, which put, is using her as their emissary to women - is priceless.
So that makes her fair game??
If so, I hope Ruth is ready to tell Mrs. Obama to stay home, sit down, and shut up, or it's open season on her!!
MB
Submitted by rockyracoon on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:40pm.
I think this issue is about choice, and libs don't like women to make choices for themselves, unless they approve of them.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Famous feminist Simone de
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:49pm.
Famous feminist Simone de Beauvoir said, back in the day, that (paraphrasing) women should not have the choice to stay home and take care of their children, because too many women would actually do that, given the choice.
To liberals, the only women who "count" are those in the workplace (preferably single mothers).
When they talk about a "war on women" that's who they are talking about.
A double post.
Submitted by rockyracoon on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:43pm.
A double post.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
Delete
Submitted by rockyracoon on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:47pm.
A mistaken triple post. I hate when that happens.
Facts are like kryptonite to the liberal.
I think the response to this
Submitted by ray johnson on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:51pm.
I think the response to this is to just let them (the hyenas) say whatever they want. Mrs. Romney can handle it and is more than capable.
I read this three times before the words actually registered....
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 5:51pm.
(sic)"when she viciously tag-teamed with liberal senators to attack Susan G. Komen founder Nancy Brinker"
I kept reading "when she tea-bagged liberal senators to viciously attack"...
Odd what the mind sees sometimes isn't it?
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Hilary Rosen is a lot like her globe-trotting WH friends
Submitted by ekslib on Fri, 04/13/2012 - 8:01pm.
They all seem HOMEphobic.
Grandma got run over by Ms. Rosen...
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 12:41pm.
Hay, women's libbers, why don't you ask your mother, or your grandmother, how "luxurious" it was to, you know, stay home and take care of your parents, take care of YOU as opposed to, you know dumping your parent, yourself, onto the care of some other woman at some government approved day care center?
I mean, really if Mrs. Romney is "out of touch" because she's a stay at home mom, then is your own Grandmother, or your own Mother!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Such Fun
Submitted by giatn on Sat, 04/14/2012 - 3:38pm.
I love the way the Dems have turned a puff of smoke into a wildfire. I saw both Rosen's
snarky remark and Ann Romney's gracious reply. I don't need the media to translate.
The utter stupidity of Obama, Michelle, Axelrod, Carney et al speaking out immediately and
try to bob and weave through the matter has provided the gasoline. My personal favorite is Carney's claim to personally know 3 Hilary Rosens. Stop me before I die laughing. All
any of them had to say was that the remark was inappropriate, but by going to extreme lengths
to distance themselves just made them look ridiculous. During the two months of "outrage" caused by Limbaugh's idiotic remark, I did not hear a single person on the right try to defend
what he said. In fact I heard more defense from the left of Bill Maher's misogyny. The
imaginary "war on women" is over. The left lost BIG time.