NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first official trip to Asia on Monday's Today, and she couldn't help recalling Mrs. Clinton's trip to the United Nations summit in Beijing in 1995: "Starting today in Tokyo she will cover 21,000 miles in seven days....In Beijing her reception will be a lot friendlier than 15 years ago when as First Lady, Clinton provoked the Chinese by campaigning for women's rights."
As you can see from a photo that appears in Mitchell's memoir Talking Back, Andrea and Hillary didn't find the whole trip too unfriendly. Hillary wrote: "To Andrea who helped make our trip a lot more fun!"
Mitchell added this caption in her book: "Sharing a joke with First Lady Hillary Clinton en route to Mongolia after the Beijing women's conference in September 1995."
Mitchell also found space to praise President Obama in her Hillary story: "In Japan alone, she will find so much excitement about Barack Obama that Tokyo's biggest newspaper sold eight million copies of his Inaugural address and in a first, they even printed it in English."
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wow! covering 21,000 miles in a jet!!!!!!
February 16, 2009 - 16:42 ET by political mavenThe way she makes it sound you would think Hillary was Marco Polo, walking. Meanwhile she's on a Luxury Jet on our dime, stuffing that pie hole at state dinners.
Hope she doesn't take too much sniper fire out there!!
21,000 miles in a jet?
February 16, 2009 - 16:47 ET by botgwhat kind of carbon footprint will that leave?
(she really should cut it in half and make it a one way trip)
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Tim, I'm glad I hadn't
February 16, 2009 - 16:46 ET by rockyracoonTim, I'm glad I hadn't eaten my late lunch/early dinner before I read your article.
A couple of giggling school girls, makes a suspicious person wonder how objective Ms. Mitchell could be.
Oh Well!!!!!!
rocky
February 16, 2009 - 16:52 ET by SeftonYou beat me to it -
Is that a picture of objectivity or what? /sarc off
Question for Tim...
February 16, 2009 - 17:05 ET by political mavenAny evidence or "backdoor channel" evidence if the drones (like Mitchell) read Newsbusters?I mean we are all preaching to the converted here, and our rants are intended for the drones, would be nice to know if some of it leaks through their nose in the air force field, so my rants aren;t a total waste of time;-)
Do we
February 16, 2009 - 17:05 ET by UpNorthhave any secrets left that Hil is taking to her buds in Red China? Just checking, I know the Chinese got a Great Leap Forward from the Clintons regarding missile technology, in exchange for campaign funds last time around. Wonder what her and the Obamunist are giving away now?
Yet if a picture like that
February 16, 2009 - 17:14 ET by winston smithYet if a picture like that existed of Sarah Palin looking all happy and giddy in a country like China you can bet your last yen that Andrea Mitchell and her ilk would be using it as incontrovertible proof of her lack of qualifications to hold office.
hey, now, those are just really cool girls
February 16, 2009 - 17:58 ET by thebutlerdidithaving fun! We are supposed to think it means they are smart, yet down to earth. Just like the rest of us, who have millions in the bank. I think you are right, though, Palin would be called ignorant of their customs, and not comporting herself correctly, or something to that effect. LOL.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
drill Mitchell
February 16, 2009 - 22:08 ET by seesalrunlike they did Palin and the woman would die in her own dust. I'd like to see that though.
Nice to see them in a true, unedited moment though. The truth tells all.
Party time.
Mitchell!
February 16, 2009 - 18:43 ET by blazermaniacAndrea Mitchell needs to go back to China. "AND PERMANENTLY STAY THERE!"
blazerm... We could never
February 16, 2009 - 18:45 ET by bigtimerblazerm...
We could never get that lucky!
Her eyebrows were all the
February 16, 2009 - 20:07 ET by Roger the ShrubberHer eyebrows were all the rage in Mongolia, if I remember correctly.
Why China
February 16, 2009 - 22:40 ET by slickwillie2001The nature of this trip is interesting. We've commented on how responsibility is being stripped from Hillary in the SoS position, re Dick Morris's column. Will she be left with the singular task of converting Red China (and maybe India) into global warming believers? An impossible task!
Obammy will give Hillary trivial or unachievable tasks as SoS, because any major accomplishments will further her credibility as a primary challenger in 2012. That assumes Obammy messes up bad which I believe he will.
PS Every time I see Andrea, her eyes are further apart. Is that a facelift side effect? Her field of vision must be around 270 degrees or so.
She's got Andrea Mitchell's eyes
February 16, 2009 - 23:08 ET by Seftonslick - Maybe she's turning into a catfish.
Um, slick.....
February 16, 2009 - 23:42 ET by BlondeDude....that post needed a BEVERAGE ALERT!
Funniest thing I've read here in about a month.
Excellent....carry on.
Slick
February 17, 2009 - 01:34 ET by thebutlerdiditToo funny! She does have a fish face. A carp! Her hubby looks like a toad, so they go well, together.
The post by Morris was interesting. She is being shut out. Heck, I go to China pretty frequently on business. I could do that job,save them some money. I'll bet I don't charge as much as Hillary.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
A toad or a turtle. That
February 17, 2009 - 15:14 ET by deerjerkydaveA toad or a turtle.
That picture is priceless. It goes with the one I've seen before with Katie Couric hob nobbing with Hillary Clinton. Calling them the liberal media is too nice. I'm going to start calling them the "liberal propagandists."