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Andrea Mitchell To Ben Smith On Obama College Tapes: ‘This Isn’t Some Firebrand Radical’
mediaite.com ^ | 3/7/12 | James Crugnale

Posted on 03/07/2012 4:57:10 PM PST by ColdOne

“It’s kind of an amazing, interesting moment because he looks so young but he sounds exactly the same. It’s a really interesting moment in his career, he’d always try to take this conciliatory middle ground, particularly around issues of race. This was a moment he couldn’t there was an intense, divisive moment at Harvard where Derrick Bell was threatening to quit if they did not increase divserity in hiring and everyone had to choose to side and he ultimately chose to side with Bell and he gave this very classic Obama speech.”

“And what’s classic about it is it’s race and gender!” Mitchell exclaimed. “It’s the very issues we are talking about today, it’s issues of gender that have certainly taken hold in the republican campaign and we have heard what the president said when he called Sandra Fluke and spoke out about it at his press conference.”

“It gives you a sense of how adept he is at navigating these issues in public and how look he’s been doing it — and how much practice he’s has,” Smith noted.

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1 posted on 03/07/2012 4:57:14 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Trying to get out ahead of the story by citing the edited version of the tape. Hannity will have the full length version tonight.


2 posted on 03/07/2012 4:59:18 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: ColdOne

So how likely is it that Andrew’s ghost is releasing all he has on The One today?

Looks like an Obama bum kissing media trap to me. Once he has everyone’s attention and the media has desparately spent their wad...ba boom! Time will tell. :)


3 posted on 03/07/2012 5:01:18 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: saganite

Even if the tape shows Obama screaming “Black Power” and “Kill Whitey”, the media will make excuses and try to whitewash it.

I don’t think this will have much impact.


4 posted on 03/07/2012 5:01:51 PM PST by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

Same here.


5 posted on 03/07/2012 5:03:05 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: ColdOne
I think Andrea Mitchell has been AT LEAST a half-bubble off plumb since she became a national news reader.

jmho....

6 posted on 03/07/2012 5:03:34 PM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Retired Greyhound
I don’t think this will have much impact.

Correct. The right already knows he is a commie and the left don't care.

7 posted on 03/07/2012 5:04:21 PM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: ColdOne
“And what’s classic about it is it’s race and gender!” Mitchell exclaimed. “It’s the very issues we are talking about today, it’s issues of gender that have certainly taken hold in the republican campaign and we have heard what the president said when he called Sandra Fluke and spoke out about it at his press conference.”

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For her gang, everything is about "race and gender."

And they're the one's making "issues of gender" a big deal in the presidential race. I doubt the candidates have much interest.

I can't believe people listen to this hoo-hah.*

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*I'm using "hoo-hah" to mean "commotion" but I looked it up and slang dictionaries say it refers to female sex organs.

Race and gender! Race and gender!

8 posted on 03/07/2012 5:10:47 PM PST by x
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To: ColdOne
Andrea Mitchell sleeps with Alan Greenspan (her husband) and that contributes to her...mood.

That pretty much Explains her attitude.

9 posted on 03/07/2012 5:10:51 PM PST by capt. norm (Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never run out of material. c)
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To: ColdOne

It’s hysterical to watch this all play out. This video was hidden for years. And on the day Breitbart is set to release it, the lib media suddenly finds it, edits it, airs it and tries to create a narrative that is beneficial to Obama. And they do it with a straight face.

It would be funny if it weren’t so corrupt.


10 posted on 03/07/2012 5:12:56 PM PST by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else (Maybe Tim Thomas))
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To: ColdOne

Well if this is it ... I am utterly underwhelmed. Guess I”ll wait and see what Hannity has.


11 posted on 03/07/2012 5:13:17 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

I’m afraid the rest of the tape will just be Professor Bell and we’ll be expected to connect his rantings with Obama because he introduced him.

If that’s the case it will be a disappointment. I so hope I’m wrong.


12 posted on 03/07/2012 5:18:19 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: RIghtwardHo
Well if this is it ... I am utterly underwhelmed.

That's why they released it. They want you and everyone to be "underwhelmed."

Hannity will have about 3 million viewers. The MSM will have about 20 million.

And when the water cooler chat starts up (i.e. "Did you see that Obama video") most will have seen the G rated edited MSM version.

It's all part of the strategy - to get out in front of the story. Distract, confuse.
13 posted on 03/07/2012 5:20:22 PM PST by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else (Maybe Tim Thomas))
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To: ColdOne

An Alinskyite socialist(Obama) is not a radical?...
Nazi or Stalinist propagandists would be proud of that statement..

It was brilliant tactics when leftist teachers Unions stopped teaching American and World History in our schools.. and when they stopped teaching Civics it was iceing on a malicious cake..

Many dont know Santo and Romney are OWNED by the Unions..
I think we are screwed.. the fix is in for Zero..


14 posted on 03/07/2012 5:26:34 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: hosepipe

Looks like he was athletic too. Must have been on the Harvard Pocket Pool team.


15 posted on 03/07/2012 5:28:57 PM PST by NostraDanUS
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To: Retired Greyhound

“I don’t think this will have much impact.”

That’s probably because you live in a liberal sh#thole. Pull up your life, move and enjoy some quality time with like-minded patriots and conservatives.


16 posted on 03/07/2012 5:39:39 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: ColdOne

I was impressed 0bama spoke without a TOTUS.
I guess that’s how we can tell when he is sincere


17 posted on 03/07/2012 5:43:29 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: ColdOne

It’s a really interesting moment in his career, he’d always try to take this conciliatory middle ground, particularly around issues of race.
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SERIOUSLY?! Bwhahahaha!

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The great Obama beer summit?

African Americans for Obama?

Jeremiah White?

Middle America who clings to their guns and religion?

Typical white woman? (about grandma)

*Their confusion made me question my own racial credentials all over again. …To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.“Dreams From My Father,”

Tim was not a conscious brother. Tim wore argyle sweaters and pressed jeans and talked like Beaver Cleaver. …His white girlfriend was probably waiting for him up in his room, listening to country music. “Dreams From My Father,”

After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.“Dreams From My Father,”


18 posted on 03/07/2012 5:44:09 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: ColdOne

It’s oh, just f’in SHUT UP!!!!!!! Nothing else.


19 posted on 03/07/2012 5:46:32 PM PST by smalltownslick
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To: NostraDanUS

HAHAHAHAHA..good call.


20 posted on 03/07/2012 5:47:21 PM PST by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
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