NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Only Hillary's Uneducated Voters will Vote For Sarah Palin

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Tom Brokaw's Meet the Press this week was as prosaic as ever, but for one little line uttered by the increasingly partisan Andrea Mitchell. In a discussion about the McCain VP pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, guest Doris Kerns Goodwin, plagiarist/historian, said that the choice of Palin is a "very strange choice," showing how little she bothered to even think about the facts. But the most outrageous analysis came from Mitchell who said that only uneducated, female voters will be drawn to Sarah Palin, not those smart, college educated ones.

At about 5:57 into this clip Andrea Mitchell was brought onto Meet the Press with Goodwin, David Gregory and host Tom Brokaw to tell us all that Sarah Palin will only appeal to uneducated women, not educated ones.

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After Brokaw asked Mitchell what this Palin pick means for Hillary voters, we find that Mitchell took the occasion to attack instead of answer the question with serious analysis.


Transcript:(My emphasis)

Brokaw: ...There are other Republicans who are saying, listen we'll be able to pull those Hillary Clinton voters who are not happy the way Obama treated her across the line. What are the chances of that Andrea?

Mitchel: Well, they think now that they have a story. They have a story of a working mom, she is a colorful character, an Annie Oakley... you know, Annie get your gun. They love her story, but when she tried to talk about Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, in western Pennsylvania, yesterday at a rally with conservative Republican voters, Hillary Clinton was booed. So, she can use the Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro analogy if she wants to in interviews, she cannot use that at Republican rallies.

She is not appealing to the same women who were really voting or supporting Hillary Clinton on ideological issues but they think that they can peel off some of these working class women, not college educated, who, the blue collar women who were voting for Hillary Clinton and may be more conservative on social causes.

So, only the stupid, uneducated, working class ninnies will be somehow fooled into voting for the McCain/Palin ticket, Andrea? Them thar smart, educated, upper class women are too smart for that? Is that what we are saying here, Andrea?

But, notice how Mitchell didn't just answer Brokaw's question but did her best to gig at the GOP for their "booing" of Hillary Clinton? Brokaw asked about Clinton voters crossing the aisle to vote McCain because of his VP pick, he did NOT ask anything about how traditional conservative voters react to mention of Hillary Clinton's name at rallies. Further, no one should expect conservatives to have any different reaction to Clinton now that she is a loser than they've ever had. So, Mitchell's attempt to make Republicans look mean because they booed Clinton's name was gratuitous needling on her part. Of course conservatives are going to boo Hillary, but, Andrea, THAT wasn't the subject under discussion!

So, on top of calling any women who might vote for McCain because of the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket uneducated, Mitchell needlessly strayed off topic to search for some way to make Republicans look mean.

Yep, that's the partisan hack Mitchell we have become so used to!

(H/T Jessi via email)

(Photo Credit: Wonkette.com)


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Whenever I see Ms. Mitchell on the air...

I automatically change the channel. Is anyone surprised at this? She is one of the unabashed loony left talking heads over there at MSNBC, and I know without any doubt what kind of bilge will be coming from her. 

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan, January 21, 1981

Andrea Mitchell is kind to her inferiors...

...if she can find any. 

You know how Rush always sarcastically refers to this show as..

"Meet The Depressed"? Take a look at Brokaw from todays show. You don't have to wonder why. (Those darn Republicans! Can't they just concede the election to Our Lord Barack and call it a day?)

Right on Andrea. We've seen

Right on Andrea. We've seen exactly how smart and educated the Obama/Biden women are over at Daily Kos and DU.

Wow, I wish I could get me a

Wow, I wish I could get me a edukashun lahk Andrea's got, then I'd be as smart as she is. Duh.

Moose & Squirrel '08

No way in h&ll we ought to run away from the picture the left is painting here.

Bullmoose worked for Teddy Roosevelt.  If Boris and Natasha are so all fired ready to bring on socialism, who better to call in Moose & Flying Squirrel.

Rocky & Bullwinkle '08

My favorite along with Pogo

My favorite along with Pogo

FROSTBITE FALLS...

As much as I like Bullwinkle J.Moose, I now fear for him. Sarah Palin is a moose hunter. She kills em' dead & will gut the poor moose if she needs to.

As for Boris & Natasha, what an odd couple. She could have done much better then the short, squat little man.

 

"...it's still We The People, Right?"  Megadeth 

I'm laughing.  Biden

I'm laughing.  Biden reminds me of Fearless Leader (http://bullwinkle.to...).

 

Strange how strong,

Strange how strong, competent conservative women freak out weak, incompetent liberal women who can't come up with the brains of a dead chicken.

AS Rush says... ...Andrea

AS Rush says...

...Andrea Mitchell...NBC News...

...for those who follow Rush, they would be laughing knowing what I mean here.

She was the greatest thing that gave me joy Friday morning watching her go into moose-burger meltdown...all day long...from Morning Joe all the way to bed... 

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

Strange how strong,

Strange how strong, competent conservative women freak out weak, incompetent liberal women who can't come up with the brains of a dead chicken.

U.S. is more than East and West Coast

Unfortuately for Mitchell the majority of Amercians don't drink Grey Goose and Lattes. They drink Crown Royal and regular coffee.

skin

I know this is sort of terrible, and beneath me, to do this, but I can't resist.... what is Andrea's skin made of? :

sample 1

sample 2 

sample 3

 

 

* * * SOCKS THE CAT '08 * * *
For REAL Change

Shy

Could it be she's supplementing her gift of gab with a little meth?

I'm just sayin' I've seen similar irregularities.  Of course it would be a slam dunk if she were with CNN.

Rocky & Bullwinkle '08

Mrs. Greenspan

Normally I would say her skin is a spackle job, but since this is upper-class and educated 'Andrea' then it must be Plaster of Paris.

Booing whom???

Has anyone seen any video from this? Could it be that the crowd was simply expressing their feelings of Hillary???

 Andrea is a buffoon anyway.

Unbelievable I agee with her

I never thought I would see the day.

Listen to yourself

Mitchell's attempt to make Republicans look mean because they booed Clinton's name was gratuitous needling on her part

Of course Andrea, not a single Democrat booed Bush or McCain at last weeks convention.

Nah...

Nah, Democrats are all nice folks. Look how they are welcoming Sarah Palin to national politics by saying she made her Down Syndrome baby retarded and how they are helpfully saying she lied about her whore of a daughter's teenaged pregnancy and all. See how nice them thar Democrats are They're all princes.

WTH, Free Republic has a

WTH,

Free Republic has a picture that should finally put this garbage story to rest. Too bad, I was hoping we could get a couple more days out of it.

http://www.freerepub...

http://www.flickr.co...

Do you think...

The hatemongers of the left will believe it or say it was a "faked photo"?

Actually, I think they

Actually, I think they already have. I just read the comments at flikr.com. Liberal insanity-the gift that keeps on giving.

Good point...

There was a lot of booing for BHO from HRC's supporters.

Andrea Mitchell is a bumbling idiot.

I am not sure how much longer MSLSD and NBC can get by with their cheer leading for BHO and the left? Mitchell's commentary is insulting and stupid, my wife is college educated and she will vote for John McCain. Are we some how to assume that left is smarter than the right? Mitchell is not making that case for them with comments like hers.

What a self parody!

So long as a Democratic, or really anyone, slavishly follows the lead of the MSM they are “educated;” otherwise, they are “uneducated.” What they mean is "educated by the MSM."

How ridiculous!  And to think it is the Dems who liberally label anyone who goes off the plantation as “Uncle Toms.” 

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Bashing Palin

HOW LOW CAN THEY GO?

Check out this lovely front page diary at DailyKos. (A front-pager put it up, mind you, not one of the community posters.) Keep classy, kos kids:

http://www.dailykos....

Sexism, sleaze, and smears, all in one diary!

Its funny they dont even

Its funny they dont even consider that they are both up on a stage and looking down would be the direction he would look to see people in the crowd.  But that doesnt fit the narrative.

 

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Wilson Reagan

Hey Andrea...

I got your uneducated right here... Sarah Palin Special Edition #3 - Combo 

It seems as if the dummies are actually on the LEFT!

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

45 Communist Goals for America http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goal

Clear, I had to bring this

Clear, I had to bring this one over here, so that everyone can see what foams in the "minds" of those who call equate President Bush to Hitler!

“I’ve read that she had genetic testing done during her
pregnancy because of her age, and knew that she was going to have a
Down’s Syndrome child.
If that’s true, that makes her even more disgusting.”
— Posted by B. C.

Another "useless eater"! How DARE she bring a less than Aryan...er....perfect child into this world!

UPDATE: LEFTY BLOGGERS WRONG AGAIN!

UPDATE...LEFTY BLOGGERS PROVEN WRONG (again):
By Steve Holland
ST. PAUL (Reuters) - The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.
Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)

The Credibility Train Stops at the Next Station

So, she can use the Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro analogy if
she wants to in interviews, she cannot use that at RepuSblican rallies.

Perhaps Andrea should talk to Ferraro before she embarrasses herself further.

Ferraro defended Palin from charges that the Alaska governor -- who
got her first passport last year -- doesn't have enough foreign policy
experience.

"What she doesn't know she will learn very quickly, she seems smart enough," Ferraro said.

http://blogs.abcnews...

I want to support Sarah Palin

 

 I am a 36 year old conservative woman. If this country is insane enough to elect BHO, I want Ms. Palin to still be a rising star in conservative politics. I can't find any official website. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you and I love this site!

 

 

Q: What's the difference between Barack's election day chances and Teresa Kerry?
A: Heinz has a 57 Steak Sauce while Barack has a 57 State Loss. -Jerry

 Mitchell is the type of

 Mitchell is the type of liberal who doesn't even realize that she just crapped in her mess kit.  Mitchell is the great arbiter of who is inteelegent and who is not. Any woman should be insulted by what she has said. Let's see her crawfish out of this.

Andrea ... get on the golden ship you've killed your career.

Weren't most of Hillary's supporters described as blue collar, working class and uneducated?

Now, it seems after seeing numerous man on the street interviews at the DNC Convention, even likely Barack Hussein Obama voters were so uninformed they were getting bent out of shape trying to find the "chosen one's" halo. 

Andrea...

Get a shovel...

If only Olbydork fired the wrong person...

 

lol

Drill ANWAR

I watched this and I was

I watched this and I was also miffed by Andrea's assertions. I don't see how she qualifies her remark that only uneducated women will be swayed to the McCain-Palin ticket. An unbiased, competent reporter would at least refer to a poll or study. I think Russert would have called her on the carpet about the "uneducated" remark. NBC is a boulder rolling down a hill.

Not enough body guards.....

If these slime balls slandered my teenage daughter the way they have Ms Palin's they wouldn't be able to hire enough body guards for them to make it through 10 days, alive. I hate violence but it's fast coming the only thing the Lame Stream Media will understand. Put a few of them in the grave and the others might wake up. Then I wouldn't go after them, I'd find out who they love most in the world and go after them. Let them know their family member/loved one died strickly because of their actions. Lots of good ole boys get out of prison every day and can use a few thousand dollars for a job completed. Not kidding I would do it.

 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

I understand your anger but

I understand your anger but we simply can not stoop to this level.  We have the moral high ground now and unless the left starts some type of actual civil war (which seems unlikely as our side has all the guns) we can not go to physical violence.  We are the responsible side and we have to keep it that way. 

 

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Wilson Reagan

Democrats talking about Democrats

That's intellegent, only stupid democrats will move away from Hillery and vote for Palin. The only stupid people are the ones who are still Democrats after Obama, former DNC chairmans comments about the hurricane and New Orleans, Micheal Moore. and on and on and on.

If you believe the democratic party no longer represents you, stand up for yourself like Ronald Reagan did and move over to the only party that really cares about you and this country.

It can't be any plainer, if after all this and the totally inhuman statements made by your party over just this past week, and you STILL believe these people represent you and your thoughts, then you are lost and deserve each other. 

If political power is the only thing that matters to you by all means follow the wolves into the voting booth and if we should be so unlucky that Obama and his minions win, don't complain when he reneges on everything promised and the only change we see are the ones that benefit no one but Obama.

 

It Was A Joke!

In the clip of McCain talking about the duties of the vice-president, he was telling a joke, right?  Right??  He was smiling; you can hear the laughter in the studio.  I'm astonished that Doris Whatshername (and apparently, Brokaw) took it literally and went on to expound upon the importance of the office.

Are they having that much trouble finding video clips to try to ridicule McCain with, or are they really so dumb that they don't know a joke when they hear one?

Of course they are that dumb!

Don't you remember McCain's joke at the Rick Warren event where he joked about $5M being rich?  Obama and the media were all over it as if he really meant it.  Anyone who watched it knew the difference. 

 

McCain even indicated that

McCain even indicated that he was joking when he said "Watch them come at me with that."

They are sooooo predictable! And they have NO sense of humor!

It never ceases to amaze me

It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant, snobbish and uppity the left wing media really is. What does "educated" really mean to the left wing?  Does it mean you studied "liberal arts" at a very "liberal school" from a very "liberal professor" that taught you to hate everything about America and its founding fathers?  No wonder guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs dropped out of places like Harvard.  Andrea Mitchell makes me want to vomit.

Um...

Andrea Mitchell makes me want to vomit.

Don't do that, you'd just be making more Andrea Mitchell!

LOL

Good Point :)

Good Point :)

That's good thing!

Since most people - men and women - would have to be stupid to vote for a Democrat. If only the uneducated of those stupid people vote for McCain/Palin, that's gotta be a good 25%  or 15 million. What a break!

Seriously, I think they

Seriously, I think they confuse "educated" with "filled mentally with the BS the left-wing media spews day and night" :)  My brother has an M.D. and a PhD from Stanford but he NEVER watches the news.  He is voting Republican for about the 8th time in is life.  Does that mean he is uneducated?

No, it means that he, like some of the rest of us...

. . . has enough discernment to understand that which is dangerous and fake from that which is the opposite. Shows he has wisdom. And true intelligence, not just pieces of paper on walls.

Andrea Mitchell, liar/reporter...

Andrea and the rest of the MSM are only talking amongst themselves anymore. They just don’t realize it. Andrea can lie all she wants but MTP only has an audience of 3 mill or 1% of the population. It is one of NBC highest rated news shows. To be a fourth branch of government as they have desired to do, the MSM had to maintain an audience. Guess they forgot that.

Love how Andrea had to slip Dan Quayle’s name into the conversation. Someone ought to inform Andrea that we all have computers now and what the MSM did to Quayle was back when the MSM were gatekeepers of news and views, before the internet, and actually had an audience. The MSM trying to falsely make someone a dummy won’t work anymore.

Love the "…Doris Kerns Goodwin, plagiarist/historian…" reference.

Wait...

Wait...

Love the "…Doris Kerns Goodwin, plagiarist/historian…" reference.

Ya mean that isn't her official title at NBC? *snicker*

Y THE PROFANE LIARS?

LEFTY BLOGGERS: Y THE PROFANE LIARS?

What
is it about the strident liberal (secular socialist) that makes many
resort to extreme profanity, distortions, lies and smears instead of
simply finding facts to refute the conservatives? Maybe its the
unhappy, angry, jealous nature of so many liberals these days. Who can
say? We do know they are cowards who topic-shift and use other bad
behavior to excuse their bad behavior. Real debate simply makes them
mad and they curse you then run away.
Here we go again…Repubs nominate a VP who has a conservative record of
achievement. That is more than enough to get the kooks going…check this
example:
August 31, 2008
Lefty Bloggers Go After Palin’s Daughter (Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 5:47 PM)
Members of the lefty blogosphere haven’t stopped perpetuating the rumor
Sarah Palin “faked” her last pregnancy and are now humiliating her
daughter Bristol on the blatantly incorrect suspicion she is the real
mother of baby Trig.
“Sarah Palin is NOT the Mother” is the title of this DailyKos blog that
accuses Bristol, a completely fit-looking adolescent teen, of having a
“baby bump” in a photo they allege was taken March 9th of this year.
“Sarah, I’m calling you a liar” wrote blogger ArcXIX. “And not even a
good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson.
The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the
better. ” Photos of Bristol with detailed commentary about her abdomen
are contained in the post.
CRAWFISH NOTE: Proof is never needed in the liberal
fantasy world. They never lie. Every time they lose is not because of
their positions…its because “they was cheated again”… makes you wonder
if the saying,”Modern liberalism is a mental disorder” is more than a
saying…its a fact. The lib-media repeats instead of reports and changes
lib diapers daily so the whole approach to “news” remains warped.
Will there be apologies for this absurd charge a week from now? No way,
its liberal conspiracy land, chapter 99. Give us all a break!
(this is all done to avoid talking about smaller gov-ment-lower
taxes-family values…one of many silly distractions democrats must
produce)

Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)

Yes, liberalism is a mental disorder. But it's also...

. . . a spiritual malady too, IMO. People with such hatred and bias in their hearts are spiritually sick. And their tongues and mouths only serve as the filth-filled exhausts of that excrement.

Apparently, besides psychological and spiritual sickness, they lack the cognitive ability and skills to analyze anything and give some semi-coherent, semi-cogent, semi-succinct ressponse to anything outside of their reality.

El Rushbo calls it

It never ceases to amaze me. Lib after MSM Lib call every conservative stupid, undeducated (working class women is code here) when we are surrounded by the greatest amount of idiots the democrap party has ever produced.

Rush got it right when he said, in the past the democraps had some savy politicos, but with Nancy Peosi, Dingy Harry, Joe (I am the greatest) Bitten, Bank Buster Schumer, Barney (I ran a gay whorehouse outa my apartment) franks, etc etc ad nauseum, I simply marvel that the media could consider themselves and their democrap party hacks as well educated and intelligent. They are total idiots and proved themselves so every time they speak.

You can better believe that McCain's pick of Palin sent a tsunami of mega proportions through their little circus and they are crappin democrap crap faster than Chocolate Town Ray Nagin can get outa New Orleans the 2nd go round.

 By the way, see how a successful evacuation can go when you have a Repub in control. Go Bobby, help those poor democraps in LA...

Coulter call it, too

"If Democrats Had Brains, They'd Be Republicans"!

So, Andrea Mitchell is hardly one to talk

A person with a college education

Mitchell reminds me of what Penn and Teller had to say about a statement from PETA. "It takes a person with a college education to say something that stupid." But I’m also mindful of another saying, that "Ignorance is bliss." Looking at Mitchell’s picture above in the red dress, she appears completely gay and carefree. And as yet another cliché says, "A picture is worth a thousand words."

Criticizing Mitchell is like shooting fish in a barrel...

Personally, I'm beginning to feel badly about criticizing Ms. Mitchell. She's got some much empty acreage inside that head and so much hatred and bias in that heart, well, she needs prayers more than criticism.

She also seems to need something in her life that would awaken her to life outside the sewer that the OMSM has become and the Demockacrat, liberal and leftist coaltion called the "Democratic Party" is.

But, 'till then, let her continue her tripe. She and her fellow shills and shillettes in the OMSM are so consumed with hatred and bias that they cannot see how very damaging they are to Barack Obama, or Barry Soetoro, or Barry Dunham, or whatever his real name might be.

 Oh, yes, she might examine why she, a woman, has become such a misogynist.