It’s official! Friday will be Andrea Mitchell’s last day hosting her daytime MSNBC show Andrea Mitchell Reports. Mitchell made the official announcement on Monday’s show.
Back in October, Mitchell made the decision to step down from the daily duties of hosting her MSNBC show but will continue at NBC News in her roles as chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.
Before she departs on Friday, we at NewsBusters wanted to take a not-so fond look back at just some of her worst moments from MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports:
Hailing Hillary’s “Star Performance” In “Suffragette White”
“Hillary Clinton in a star performance, hoping her loss in 2016 may have paved the way for America to finally accept a woman as president….Clinton, dressed in suffragette white, said that [Kamala] Harris is now the one to break that ultimate glass ceiling….She feels and other women feel and male analysts, that she paved the way, she made it more acceptable for men and women to think of a woman as commander-in-chief.”
— Host Andrea Mitchell discussing Hillary Clinton’s DNC speech as aired on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, August 20, 2024.
Are We Being Unfair To Biden, Just Like Hillary In 2016?
“76 percent of those polled in our recent poll are concerned about his [Joe Biden’s] age and far fewer concerned about Donald Trump’s age, who, when he’s not on teleprompter, you know, we’re not addressing that, the White House would point out....I can understand the basic point of fairness, especially after what happened in 2016 when there was a real argument that is exactly what happened to Hillary Clinton.”
— Host Andrea Mitchell to correspondent Mike Memoli on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, February 9, 2024.
Mitchell Spreads Lie About DeSantis and Slavery
“Let me ask you, what does Governor Ron DeSantis not know about black history and the black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida schoolchildren?”
— Host Andrea Mitchell to Vice President Kamala Harris on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, February 17, 2023. DeSantis has said himself that Florida law requires slavery and its aftermath to be taught. Mitchell offered a half-hearted correction on her Feb. 22, 2023 show.
Can Democracy “Survive” the 2022 Midterms?
Host Andrea Mitchell: “How confident can we be that democracy does survive?”
Former Newsweek editor, presidential historian and current MSNBC contributor Jon Meacham: “We can’t, we can’t be confident. We have to work really, really hard. This is the gravest test of citizenship since the Civil War and it’s, this is, as President Biden might say, it’s not hyperbole and it's not a joke.”
— MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, October 28, 2022.
After Roe V. Wade, Is Brown V. Board of Education Next?
“If they [conservative Supreme Court justices] care so little about precedent and overruling precedent, what about Brown v. Board of Education? What about other major civil rights rulings of the 60s?”
— Host Andrea Mitchell to Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, May 11, 2022.
Trump “Lost So Much Time” on Stopping Climate Change, Is It Too Late?
“It’s been 15 years, though, since An Inconvenient Truth came out. How much ground have we lost because of inaction and the rollbacks under President Trump….over the past 15 years….Have we lost so much time that we are not going to be able to recover?”
— Host Andrea Mitchell to former Vice President Al Gore on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, November 4, 2021.
Andrea All But Cues Up Rocky Theme Music to Get Joe to Run
“[Philadelphia Eagles quarterback] Nick Foles said the other day, ‘Don’t be afraid to fail, failure is part of life. It’s part of building character. Without failure, who would we be?’ Does that inspire you when you think about — you’ve run for president twice — when you think about the future?...So is there some part of Joe Biden who’s identifying with Nick Foles and the team as they climb the steps of the art museum today? Is there a part of you that thinks about Rocky Balboa?”
— Host Andrea Mitchell’s questions to former Vice President Joe Biden on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, February 8, 2018.
Trump Administration Isn’t “Incompetent” or “Evil” It’s Both!
Host Andrea Mitchell: “You posited that it’s either incompetence or evil. I would suggest that it could be both – that there is an evil desire to deter by making an example of these people, and then it was carried out with no planning – and that is the rank incompetence that makes it even that much worse.”
MSNBC Legal Analyst Mimi Rocah: “Absolutely, and you’re right. It shouldn’t be presented as an either, or. It could be both.”
— Discussion of Trump administration immigration policy on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, July 10, 2018.
Andrea Advances Election Conspiracy Theories For Hillary
“Some Clinton supporters are trying to mount a campaign to ask for an audit in key states to see if a recount should be ordered. According to a group of election lawyers and computer scientists cited by Gabe Sherman in New York magazine, there is, quote, ‘persuasive evidence that election results in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan may have been manipulated or hacked.’”
— MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Andrea Mitchell Reports, November 23, 2016.
Fawning Over Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton Making “Magic” at On Stage
“You watched this event, it did seem like magic on that stage....Even their colors seem to match. And blend in with each other.”
— Host Andrea Mitchell to former Obama advisor Anita Dunn on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, June 27, 2016.
No Conspiracy Here, Bill Just Likes to Party
“It, is, we are told, traditional that when Bill Clinton knows that a Cabinet secretary or another [Secret Service] protectee....is in the area, he’ll say, ‘Oh, let me say hello.’...Met with her [Loretta Lynch] for about 30 minutes. She said it was completely social. They talked about grandchildren. But this has led to a lot of conspiracy theories that even before Hillary Clinton has been interviewed by the FBI, to our knowledge, that somehow this is Bill Clinton talking to Loretta Lynch about clearing Hillary Clinton of the e-mail investigation.”
— MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Andrea Mitchell Reports, June 30, 2016.
