Andrea Mitchell: Drunk Again?

[CatWoman]

I really don't know when any sense of journalistic shame is going to kick in with Andrea Mitchell. There seems to be no limit to what she will say or do when the cameras are rolling, and the fact that the right is as angry as the left about her continued journalistic malfeasance in the CIA leak case means it has gotten pretty friggin' bad.

And it does not fall into the category of "well everyone is upset so she must be doing something right." Wrong. She's a big, fat festering boil on the posterior of NBC that somebody needs to lance.

Despite the fact that the Libby defense team spent copious amounts of time trying to drag Mitchell into court to testify about her October 2003 statement to Alan Murray of CNBC to the effect that "It was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger," she still continues to report on the case. And even though her reporting continues to be factually challenged, false and downright misleading, she just Will Not Shut Up.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/andrea-mitchell-drunk-a_b_43385.html

[Virginia Dare]

1. Andrea is the mouth piece for the corporate puppet masters...

you need look no further than her husband for proof of that.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Andrea has a 'special relationship' with higher-ups

Or should I say "Mrs. Greenspan" has connections.

[HamdenRice]

4. You beat me to it by a few milliseconds! nt

[HamdenRice]

3. You mean Mrs. Alan Greenspan?

She is too well connected to get canned and probably brings loads of access and inside info to NBC.

For this reason, like the poor, she will always be with us.

[EV_Ares]

5. We have always known she is incompetent as a journalist and

the corporate powers that be, she is the spokesperson for.

She would never of had/have the job if it was not for her husband.

[jaysunb]

8. She was a journalist before she married him.

If you can call what she does , " journalisim ." :evilfrown:

[EV_Ares]

9. Really; didn't know that so I am wrong to blame it on Greenspan

for getting her the job. Well, she must have known someone else high up before him. Because I think she is one of the worst although I like her better than Nora O'Donald.

[Buzz Clik]

6. Meh. Another talking head with a political agenda.

These days, they're dime a dozen.

[tularetom]

7. She's one of the worst

for at least ten years I've muted the TV every time she appeared because I knew she was going to spout pure bullshit from the puke talking points. It's nice to see her finally being exposed as a republic shill who only keeps her job because of her connections within the beltway cocktail party circuit.

Plus she's fugly.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. she really is amazingly bad....even Imus caught her out on a very thin limb.

I think that's what the "drunk again" reference is about...haven't read the huffingtonpost thing yet

did you see this...one of several Mitchell threads?

we seem to be ahead of the rest of the world, once again.

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

[KoKo]

11. Someone posted earlier today about Andrea "drinking problem" but gave no Link?

Anyone have a link to her having alcohol problems in the past?

[Gabi Hayes]

12. how could you NOT have a drinking problem when you have to wake up

every morning to a character out of "V"?

what a couple....