Andrea Mitchell: "most people think ... Libby should be pardoned"

[sabra]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703130010

Ignoring polling to the contrary, NBC's Mitchell claimed "most people think ... Libby should be pardoned"

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The CNN poll, released at 4 p.m. ET on March 12, found that 69 percent of respondents felt President Bush "should not pardon" Libby, while only 18 percent felt the president "should pardon" him. CNN appears to be the only major news outlet thus far to have posed the question in a poll since Libby's March 6 conviction on federal charges of perjury and obstructing justice in connection with an investigation into the leaking of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

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From the March 12 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

MITCHELL: Well, I think that they are going to resist those subpoenas, if those officials are subpoenaed, because they can dodge behind -- the appeals are still in play, the request for a new trial is still in play. I think they're going to try to really tamp this down and appeal to the polling, which indicates that most people think, in fact, that he should be pardoned -- Scooter Libby should be pardoned. There isn't a whole lot of American public sympathy in this whole thing, but it still will be a political issue for the Democrats.

[bridgit]

1. she needs to set her high-ball glass down, nobody i know thinks Libby should be pardoned...

quite the contrary

[maxsolomon]

2. most people think

Andrea Mitchell is a tool of the Bush Administration.

[jimshoes]

3. She left out "braindead"

[hobbit709]

4. I put CNN just slightly better than Faux

They USED to be a decent news organization but they've gone into freefall in their accuracy and credibility in the last few years.

[Bluebear]

18. She's with MSNBC actually

[hobbit709]

26. My bad

One talking head is indistinguishable from another talking head. I thought she was one of the CNN twits.

[Bluebear]

31. hobb . . .

Same difference. :toast:

[EFerrari]

5. Andrea doesn't listen to Washington Journal. n/t

[Missy Vixen]

Andrea Mitchell is married to an economics expert

but doesn't know simple math.

Andrea. Sweetheart. Here, let me assist you.

Yesterday's CNN poll: I'll speak slowly so she can understand. 69% of Americans said that Libby should not be pardoned. That is a much higher number than the 18% that says he should be.

If you'll contact me, Andrea, I'll do my best to offer visual aids as well, if you still can't get it.

Fondly,
Julie

[Cha]

23. Too bad those mediawhores aren't

held accountable for the lyin' propoganda they spew outta their martini holes.

[goclark]

28. She is quoting the people at the cocktail party she went to last night

The one with the RICH REPUGS like her husband.

All ten of them felt Libby should be pardoned. We don't count.

[blm]

6. She's LYING ON PURPOSE because she is on broadcast tv where they control what

Americans HEAR about ANY story - facts don't matter to mediawhores working to protect the DC powerstructure.

[MADem]

10. No, that's not it. The Greenspans are friends with the Libbys. NT

[blm]

16. I know that, but she is still lying on PURPOSE because on broadcast TV she can get away

with it.

If this was an article being printed in the NYT or Newsweek, do you think she'd make that same quote?

[MADem]

24. She's lying on purpose to try to help her pals, really.

And she gets away with it because the circles she runs in ensures that she can round up some really good "gets." It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

[blm]

25. Sure - but she's been doing it on MANY stories for the last ten years.

She actually USED TO BE a reporter with credibility in the 80s and early 90s.

[MADem]

27. She got WELCHED...like many of the assholes at NBC did.

Tim Russert is a prime example, too. That sleazy Jack had his "Come to Republican Jesus" talk with quite a few folks...

[saltpoint]

7. Not at my house they don't.

Recent polls suggest that Andrea is mistaken.

Or else the polls shifted dramatically in about 48 hours.

[zulchzulu]

8. Who needs laws anymore. They are so boring...

:sarcasm:

[MADem]

9. Most people think, eh?

They pulled that shit when they tried to say Monkeyboy was polling near 90 percent...

All I can say is I must have been surrounded by the surly ten percenters.

Andrea is carrying water for her husband and herself. Scooter is a personal friend.

[Disturbed]

12. Mrs Greenspan is a RWing Operative.

Her fave person to travel with is Condi Liar.

[blm]

19. Do they try on each other's shoes? Exchange makeup tips?

I loathe them both for their roles in facilitating the fascist agenda.

[rurallib]

14. 100% in her sample household - her & old Alan.

[laststeamtrain]

11. "most people who belong to my country club think Libby should be pardoned"

Ditz.

[Czolgosz]

17. you beat me to it

[laststeamtrain]

21. Sorry. First thing that came to mind. Variations:

"Most people who winter in ________..."

"Most people who attended last year's_________..."

& on & on...

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. Most people say that mitchell is a post-menopausal prune.

[Czolgosz]

15. "most people [my husband and I associate with] think Libby should be pardoned"

[TahitiNut]

20. Her lie will spread like herpes at a free kissing booth before the facts get out the door.

It's a DELIBERATE cue to the reichbots to go into BIG LIE mode. Corrupt and despicable. :puke:

[Cha]

22. No, andrea, you lyin'

piece of gop'shite..most people don't think libby should be pardoned. Maybe the people you hang out with(greenspan and the power hungry,elite repukes who sell their country out to grasp on to their power) but not the everyday American who thinks outting an undercover CIA agent is TREASON!

[spanone]

29. She's so irrelevent. They cannot lie the American people into their shit anymore.

Andrea, blow it out of your ass. Your era is over. People have become aware of your cheap bias. Go away. Leave America alone. Fuck off.

[Gabi Hayes]

30. my thread on this from yesterday....I almost spit up when I heard her say that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x396017

[upi402]

32. I can't even look at TV news, aside from KO and maybe Dobbs

CSPAN irks me sometimes too. The way Brian handles the Kool Aid guzzlers vs liberals is frustrating.