Mitchell to Buchanan: You Wouldn't Say Caroline 'In Miers Country' If You Knew Her

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The people just don't know Caroline like I do.  That was the essence of Andrea Mitchell's defense of the would-be senator after Pat Buchanan analogized her to another nominee who famously flopped.  Appearing on Morning Joe, Buchanan unleashed a merciless metaphor.

PAT BUCHANAN: It's not only entitlement.  It appears–we are getting close to Harriet Miers country, where Bush put her out there, and it became transparent when people started going after her that she wasn't quite up to this --

Buchanan's barb stirred Andrea into action.

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ANDREA MITCHELL: I think people would be very surprised, Pat, if they got to know her.

Maybe so, but when Joe Scarborough proposed that Kennedy sit down for an hour with Katie Couric for the express purpose of letting people get to know her, Mitchell gave thumbs down.  According to Andrea, going public in that way would offend Gov. Paterson, who has the power of appointment.  Please. If Caroline did well with Katie, it would build such momentum for her that Paterson's putative concerns would be overwhelmed.  

When Scarborough asked Andrea if Kennedy was conversant with the issues, Harold Ford Jr. jumped in to say that she shouldn't be held to a higher standard than other senators.  Agreed Andrea: "how many hearings have you guys watched?  I mean, you've watched them every day.  You know it."  Translation: the Senate is swimming with mediocrities—one more won't hurt anything! 

Of course we all remember how the MSM was happy to lower the bar for Palin.  Or not.

Note:  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) made the rounds on Today and Morning Joe, where on the latter he made no bones about his interest in running for the Senate seat in 2010.   He made an interesting revelation about Caroline's much-vaunted work at an educational non-profit.  She apparently toiled to the tune of an average of . . . one-to-two hours a week.

View video of King's Today appearance here.

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


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Kennedy toiled one to two

Kennedy toiled one to two hours a week at that non-profit?

Hey, that's one to two hours a week more than Obama devoted to his senator job the last 18 months! 

Just out of curiosity

Is Caroline's senate-quality, two-hour a week job ... any openings there?  I would like to be first to apply. I know that I can perform the duties enthusiastically.

Time to call a spade just what it is....

 

I guess the caravan of talking heads need those gab-fest gigs to stay relevant.  Simply put, Pat Buchanan should have schooled this Mitchell idiot on the hypocritical abyss that exists in the thorough examination of a liberal candidate versus that of, let's say, Sarah Palin.

The entire "Caroline Kennedy for Senate" campaign -- waged largely by the same extensions that brought us the pandering socialist and racist from Illinois -- is just one more example of the commercialism overwhelming media today.  There is a template that must be followed or the business plan fails.  Liberals must advance liberals or the message dies.

Only liberals fail to see this as the most unscrupulous manipulation of news or information since the days of the Third Reich.  North Korea's press apparatus has set the bar for America's liberal media -- a bar so low, even a caveman could distort, deceive, and deny facts to meet the agenda.      

Your call!

You are stranded on an uninhabited island or you are lost in the woods or you are facing enemy fire in a foxhole somewhere.  Who would you pick to be with you?

Sarah or Caroline "Dead Weight" Kennedy?

New York has Chuck and deserves Caroline too.

Hey, I'm from New York and

Hey, I'm from New York and I would consider a move to Alaska.  Be nice to know one politician will have my back.

 Kennedy should NOT be considered by Patterson for the Senate seat.  Wasn't one inexperianced person who got in on a name enough?  This is truly making NY a laughingstock.

Maybe

Maybe if Al Franken loses in Minnesota, he could get appointed as the New York senate seat.

You would need a rain coat...

to sit through that slobberfest.

"Maybe so, but when Joe Scarborough proposed that Kennedy sit down for
an hour with Katie Couric for the express purpose of letting people get
to know her, Mitchell gave thumbs down."

 Katie: Your courage,your devotion to social change,your dynamic ability to lead people to causes greater than yourself...do you think you get that from your family...from being a Kennedy.

 Katie: What's it like to come from a family with such an historic  legacy to this country and to the world....?Does it overwhelm you like it might overwhelm the rest of us?

 Katie: If you followed in the enormous footsteps of your Uncle Robert what challenges would you dedicate yourself to first....?

Katie: How does it feel to you when you see so much despair and hopelessness brought on by the last administration and you know you could do so much good if only you had the power....?

Katie would be floating several inches above  her seat.

Several inches above her seat...

Hmmm. I think the layer of BS would be a tad thicker than a few inches.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

One to two hours a week?

Wow, she really would be prepared to be a (D)-Senator. 

In all seriousness though, how could anyone of sound mind think that the Democrats are the ones who look out for the middle / lower class when they consistently regurgutate "entitled" elitists to positions of governmental power?  Just like Obama flying to HI to have a "normal" family vacation on his $9M oceanfront property.  Yeah, most Americans can relate to that.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/21/obama-arrives-hawaii-holiday/

Caroline Kennedy for Senate appointment

Dems only know how to "appoint" senators.  Like

Illinois, elections to let the public vote for a seat

are taboo.  Must keep the Dems in power. It

doesn't matter if Caroline has any experience,she

has the "Kennedy" name.  That's all it takes.  At

least Hillary had experience.  Don't like her, but

she did more work than Obama ever did in

Illinois.   Caroline would probably devote two

hours a year to the Senate.  I don't have anything

against her, I just think we should be able to vote

for our officials, local or federal.  Appointments

should not be the "new" way to fill vacancies.

Why would...

any informed person want as their senator, a person who doesn't vote much?

If she failed to vote in even ocal elections, what kind of senator will she make?

She'll probably vote "Present" on every bill.

It tells me that she's only interested in the glamorous of being another Kennedy in office.

http://www.nydailyne...

Leave her alone!

When Caroline was a little girl she asked for a pony. She got a pony.

Now Caroline wants to be a Senator.

All you meanies stop it! She wants a senate seat and she'll have a senate seat.

Mitchell suggests..

"you watch Senate hearings? Well?"

Just like we thought, ANY dolt can do it and Kennedy is as good as any other dolt.

Mitchell is such a brain trust? Oh My God!

Mark, I'm so glad you wrote

Mark, I'm so glad you wrote about this. When I heard it this morning, I hoped you would post the conversation. 

First of all, Caroline is so dead behind the eyes, just listening to her talk is a "yawner".  Secondly, I would like to know if she can perform her duties as a Senator AND take care of her kids...afterall, this is what Andrea opined about Sarah Palin...Her only experience is playing in the Oval Office at her Dad's feet...how does that qualify her?....ooops, I forgot, she's a Kennedy....silly me....

It doesn't matter if she

It doesn't matter if she could do the job, look at the last senator they had, he wasn't even there enough to vote properly.  Now he is in a position where he doesn't have to do anything but look good and tell the news media how to report.

 

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."

I saw this segment this

I saw this segment this morning...

Andrea is so in the tank for Princess Caroline of Kennedy that she cannot help but show her blatant bias...if I was her, I would be ashamed, embarrassed, something...\Oops, I forgot, 99% of the msm have the same condition.

Their leftist march will continue on...we will see the Princess throned in her seat.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

While flipping through the channels

the other day, I heard a female caller on CSPAN say that Caroline deserved the senatorial position because of ALL THE HARM THIS COUNTRY HAS DONE TO HER!

I was gagging so much I couldn't change the station fast enough.

Other than the untimely death of her father [which has happened to a lot of children], exactly what harm has ever befallen her? And this country was not responsible for his death, one unhinged man was [or a few, if you're into conspiracy theories]. She always had more money than she could count, married well and, I believe, had healthy children.

Yeah, her life's been rough.

Chai

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money"  Margaret Thatcher

Good evening Chaitea

Remember the Menendez brothers who killed their parents? One juror felt sorry for them and voted not guilty because their parents were dead.

coco... Good point! Hot

coco...

Good point!

Hot Obama Love

 

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Chai... I heard it

Chai...

I heard it too...I also had had enough...I never looked back either.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Well, unlike the Dems and

Well, unlike the Dems and MSM who raged against the machine Palin, I'm willing to let CKS have a shot. She'll have to run for re-election soon anyways and let her short record be the benchmark for the electorate. She can't be nearly as bad as soon to be Senator Franken right?

It is kinda funny to watch Mitchell tout CKS on every show she's been on, including her own. She's definitely showing her leg thrills and doing her best to make CKS's lobbying for the senate seat succeed. That's the parallel I chuckle over everyday. It's only on Morning Joe that Mitchell gets grilled and you can see her neck swell up with anger. She begins to stammer and has to reach in to grab words to justify her position.

What ARE you girls doing?

 wotsizname   Caroline K. : doing part time volunteer work.  Sarah Palin:   Last week signed more papers toward building the multi -billion dollar gas pipeline.   Today  Sarah presented her administration's  $5,582,664,200.  annual State Operating Budget to the Legislature.  That's five and a half billion dollars American.  We hire her to take care of it for us.  We're happy.  And  what are John and Joe doing this week? 

Come On Seriously

Andrea Mitchell, would you say the same thing about Palin? If not, I would consider this to be politically bias.

I'm still dumbfounded by

I'm still dumbfounded by what Chaitealover posted.  Words fail me.  God I hate people sometimes.  I hate New York sometimes, too.