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In an interview with Orrin Hatch, Andrea Mitchell (an anchor for MSNBC) said that she would NOT classify George Soros as a left wing person. Um…. Say it with me: There’s no liberal bias in the media. There’s no liberal bias in the media. There’s no liberal bias in the media. There’s no liberal bias in the media. There’s no liberal bias in the media. Click here to see interview with Orrin and Andrea...

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell asks Valerie Jarrett if President Obama has a backup teleprompter in case it breaks.

A new high-tech Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Racism. And parents too dumb to raise their children. That was how NBC sought to explain away opposition to Pres. Obama's planned speech to schoolchildren. View video here.

So Obama’s poll numbers are in freefall, support for his health care plan in the toilet, and opposition to his policies in general are rising. How can this be? Our dear leader’s policies are so important, so critical for reinventing America? Andrea Mitchell of State-Run Media outlet MSDNC, has figured it out! We, the lowly proletariat, oppose the policy because we don’t know what’s best for us. The dripping condescension of Mitchell in this video for Americans who happen to disagree with her boss on his health care policy is evident in this video, and illustrates what the elites really...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This morning on MSNBC -- Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington -- was discussing the new MSNBC Wall Street Journal poll that's not good news for Obama on health care. MITCHELL: You've got 47% of the people at our NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll who have health insurance -- ANCHOR: Mmm-hmm! MITCHELL: -- who don't like what the president's doing. The problem he's got, 47% of the people who have got coverage don't want change. They don't like what they're hearing. Now, they may not know what's good for them, but the problem is that he always...

Andrea Mitchell: You're Too Stupid to Know Obamacare is Good for YouJuly 31, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This morning on MSNBC -- Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington -- was discussing the new MSNBC Wall Street Journal poll that's not good news for Obama on health care. MITCHELL: You've got 47% of the people at our NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll who have health insurance -- ANCHOR: Mmm-hmm! MITCHELL: -- who don't like what the president's doing. The problem he's got, 47% of the people who have got coverage don't want change. They don't like what they're hearing. Now, they may...

Via Breitbart, consider this a video companion to Karl’s post. She’s totally right, incidentally: It’s certainly possible that we halfwit proles with private insurance might have misjudged where our true self-interest lies. But the same could be said of virtually any group involved in any issue — e.g., anti-war types “may not know what’s good for them” in opposing the effort to counter jihadism with democracy — and yet, curiously, it isn’t. To think, Megan McArdle was worried about elitist liberals using health care to dictate to the masses what’s in their best interest. As for the current state of...

Here is video of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell discussing people who oppose Obama's Government Health Care Plan and saying "they may not know what's good for them." It's as if Mitchell thinks anyone who does "know what's good for them" would want to turn their health care over to a gigantic government bureaucracy. . . . . . (Watch Video)

The poor, benighted little people. They just don't understand what a wonderful hopey-changey world Pres. Obama is offering them . . . Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the problem Pres. Obama is facing in selling his health care plan to Americans who already have coverage is that people "may not know what's good for them." [H/t reader Restless 1] Mitchell made her condescending comment on today's Morning Joe. View video here.

Did someone make this "Declare Your Devotion To a Dem Day" at MSNBC? You have to wonder. During the network's noon hour, Dr. Nancy Snyderman declared herself a "big fan" of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Not to be outdone, during the following hour Andrea Mitchell ended her interview with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Ia.) by thanking him profusely—and I mean at length—for having pushed through passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act 19 years ago today. View video here.

Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sara Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation -- a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption charges. Despite rumors of a looming controversy after Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she will leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no investigation into Palin for her activities as governor, as mayor or in any other capacity. "There is absolutely no truth to those rumors,...

Andrea Mitchell say her sources that she has "had it" with national politics and is sick of it. Mitchell says she does not plan to pursue the Republican nomination in 2012.

After Morning Joe ran video of Robert Gibbs abjectly abusing the truth by claiming Pres. Obama didn’t bow to the Saudi king, Mike Barnicle expressed sympathy for the White House spokesman: “Poor Gibbs. He’s got to be saying ‘why did I take this job?’” Ever it ever becomes too much for poor Gibbs, I’ve got a suggestion for a substitute: Andrea Mitchell. Yesterday, the NBC correspondent demonstrated her PC credentials, slapping Pat Buchanan on the rhetorical wrist for speaking of “illegal aliens.” Andrea was back at the ramparts today, defending PBO over his bow by . . . parroting the...

I’ve never seen anything quite like it. A network correspondent presuming to school a pundit in PC-speak . . . It happened on today’s Morning Joe. Discussing Pres. Obama’s announced plans to address the immigration issue, Andrea Mitchell claimed that “there didn’t seem to be as much anger about immigration.” Retorted Pat Buchanan: “just you wait and see!” When Buchanan went on to make the point that there is very high unemployment among black and Hispanic American citizens, and that “illegal aliens” are taking their jobs, Mitchell jumped in to reprimand him: View video here.

The Treasury Department oversees the Internal Revenue Service. But if the Secretary of the Treasury - or any other political appointee being considered for the Treasury Department - didn't pay his income payroll taxes, it doesn't matter. That's the message from House Banking Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and he blamed the fourth estate for acting like it does matter. On MSNBC's March 11 broadcast of "Andrea Mitchell Reports," host Andrea Mitchell asked Frank to respond to criticism in a March 11 piece from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that too many appointees were being held up for...

As attention focuses on the lack of people at Treasury to help the beleagured Tim Geithner, Dems–with a helping hand from the MSM– naturally try to shift the blame to Republicans, accusing them of holding up nominations. We just had a perfect example of the phenomenon as—with an assist from Andrea Mitchell—John Kerry decried the intrusion of “partisan politics” into the confirmation process. Mitchell wanted to “clear up what you’re talking about” by explaining to viewers that “it’s probably Republicans” who have put holds on nominees. Thanks, Andrea. But I found myself wondering: has the great junior senator from Massachusetts...

So what if Tim Geithner freaked out Wall Street to the tune of a 382-point Dow dive? Wall Street wasn’t really his audience. That, according to Andrea Mitchell, is the Obama administration’s defense of Geithner’s universally-panned performance on Tuesday. Mitchell appeared on Morning Joe today. It was David Gregory’s “who’s-in-charge-here” question and Joe Scarborough’s ripping of Geithner’s claim that he’d only been there two weeks that prompted Mitchell to speak up for the Obama administration. Next time I’m in a jam, I’d hope to have an advocate as passionate as Andrea. Watch 38 second into the video, as Mitchell can...

As long as you don’t get fooled into thinking Andrea Mitchell is an objective reporter, listening to her can actually be very instructive. Floating somewhere between the journalistic and governmental sectors, and with her extensive contacts, Mitchell serves as something of the unofficial spokeswoman of the center/left inside-the-Beltway establishment. Want to know what's been said in bien-pensant Washington? Just listen to Andrea. Mitchell’s appearance on Morning Joe today was a perfect illustration of the phenomenon. Making the case for the Obama stimulus plan, Mitchell would at times cite the arguments of others, at others speak in her own voice before...

Andrea Mitchell scored quite a journalistic coup today: a phone conversation with Tom Daschle conducted after he had notified Pres. Obama that he was withdrawing his name from consideration as Secretary of Health & Human Services. Over the last hour or so, Mitchell has been relating on MSNBC the substance and tenor of the conversation, and the picture emerges of a very upset former senator. In her first description of their conversation, Mitchell described Daschle as “emotional” and “overwrought.” At 1:30, Mitchell was even more explicit, saying Daschle seemed “teary.” Chatting with Susan Page of USA Today and Chris Cillizza...

Believe it or not, veteran NBC News reporter Andrea Mitchell is an icon within the gay community. ....the article continues...“She’s the Golden Girls rolled into one,” one gay reporter noted. “The body of Sophia, the sassiness of Dorothy and probably a sex kitten like Blanche, and most likely from the Midwest like Rose.” Pick whatever icons you want. But for god’s sake, guys, this woman is a thousand years old, has a grating voice, and her face looks like a pillow case that was left in the dryer too long. Isn’t one Barbara Streisand enough for the gay community?

It was a classic case of lèse majesté, and it left Andrea Mitchell fuming. The NBC correspondent, first on Today and later on Morning Joe, expressed outrage over the unkind words about Caroline Kennedy that New York Governor David Paterson let leak after JFK’s daughter withdrew her name from consideration for appointment to Hillary’s open Senate seat. There was a whiff of the liberal elite circling the wagons around one of their own to the way Mitchell, with an assist from Mike Barnicle, went about denouncing David Paterson. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So Andrea, how would you characterize the emotions that the...

Andrea Mitchell of NBC News gushed her way through an interview with Charlie Rose Wednesday night, virtually cuckolding Alan Greenspan and generally making the rest of us nauseous. The most important thing she said seemed to slip past the mainstream media like Sandy Berger out of an archive room...

Caroline Appointment: Mitchell Mimics Maureen in Mocking Al D'Amato By Mark Finkelstein | January 7, 2009 - 15:19 Does Maureen Dowd moonlight at MSNBC as Andrea Mitchell's [file photo] writer? Here's how for, purposes of defending Caroline Kennedy in her NYT column today, Dowd mocked former New York Republican Senator Al D'Amato [emphasis added]: [B]elieve me, she talks a whole lot better than the former junior senator from New York, Al D’Amato, who once wailed that he was “up to my earballs” in some mess, and another time complained to me that those “little Jappies” bring over boats full of...

The people just don't know Caroline like I do. That was the essence of Andrea Mitchell's defense of the would-be senator after Pat Buchanan analogized her to another nominee who famously flopped. Appearing on Morning Joe, Buchanan unleashed a merciless metaphor. PAT BUCHANAN: It's not only entitlement. It appears–we are getting close to Harriet Miers country, where Bush put her out there, and it became transparent when people started going after her that she wasn't quite up to this -- Pat's barb stirred Andrea into action. View video here.

Next time you find yourself in a room with Andrea Mitchell, be careful what thoughts you permit yourself to think. The NBC correspondent evidently has the gift of reading minds. Defending Caroline Kennedy on today's Morning Joe, Mitchell stated as a fact that Kennedy's press-evading performance in upstate New York was due to her desire not to appear presumptuous. Continuing her advocacy, Mitchell went on to praise the very remarks Kennedy made after her meeting with Al Sharpton yesterday that I found dangerously sleep-inducing. She then dismissed Charles Krauthammer's criticism of Kennedy as "an opinion piece" coming from "the right."...

You might not be thrilled by the election of Barack Obama, but look on the bright side: it's going to make life a lot easier for Maya Angelou when she hangs out with her European friends. Asked by Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC's 1 PM hour what was going through her mind as the results rolled in, the poet mentioned, among other things: I realized, almost within the minute, I don't have to apologize for my country when I'm abroad. I can say: "I belong to a great country." And the Europeans who say: aren't you glad to be here in...

Greeley, CO—In one of the most dramatic turn of events, Senator Joseph Biden, D-DE, has quit the Obama Campaign, and joined Senator John McCain, R-AZ. The sudden announcement came during a rally in Greeley, Colorado, at UNC (University of Northern Colorado.) Amidst his speech—at the Butler Pavilion—on jobs, mortgages and children’s futures, Biden dropped the bomb on the unsuspecting crowd. The news came in the middle of using the common themes of the Obama campaign: restoring the middle class and gaining respect in the world.

Objecting to Andrea Mitchell's incredible bias on the Biden incident.

"They [the RNC] are calling voters, cold calls, and saying to them, what about William Ayers and the close working relationship he had [with Obama], which is not true by anybody's count . . . It certainly is a mischaracterization of the relationship." -- Andrea Mitchell to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.), MSNBC 10-17-08. Andrea Mitchell, meet Stanley Kurtz . . . It's turning into Andrea Mitchell Day here. Earlier, I noted how Mitchell, measuring the drapes for Obama, predicted that he would run a "bipartisan" administration. Now Mitchell has ridden to Obama's defense, denying that he ever worked closely with...

You might know Barack Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate, a hyper-partisan who toed the Harry Reid line an amazing 97% of the time. But Andrea Mitchell sees in Obama a bi-partisan president in the making. Appearing on Morning Joe today, Mitchell came close to speaking of an Obama presidency as a given, but just managed to curb her enthusiasm. And wait till you see the people she cited as evidence of Obama's bi-partisan tendencies. View video here.

On what should be the crowning day of his professional career, one hopes for his sake that Paul Krugman wasn't watching Morning Joe. For news of his economics Nobel was met by the crew with ridicule that even Mika Brzezinski couldn't resist. Andrea Mitchell tried to uphold the Krugman honor, but—as seen in the screencap—even she couldn't suppress a smile at the award's arrant absurdity. Joe Scarborough piqued Mika's curiosity with his teasing of the news, while guest Jim Cramer saw the award as confirmation that America is well on the way to socialism. View video here.

H/t Melody N. Andrea Mitchell thinks talk of Barack Obama's ties to an unrepentant terrorist is a "distraction." Rudy Giuliani doesn't. Mitchell is happy to take the NY Times's word for the fact that Obama and Ayers weren't close. Rudy, not so much. After the former NYC mayor made the case on today's Morning Joe as to why Ayers matters, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs came on, called Giuliani a liar, and flatly denied that—when beginning his political career in his living room—Obama knew Ayers was a terrorist. View video here.

Since the $700 billion bailout plan went down in the House of Representatives by a 228-205 margin, talking heads and politicos have been looking for ways to circumvent Congress and give the executive branch the authority to perform a bailout without their consent. Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., first made the suggestion to NBC News correspondent Kelly O’Donnell. His senior economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, later confirmed to MSNBC that McCain said Congress has already given the Treasury Department authority to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the tune of a trillion dollars. ..more (w/video)..

Gingrich Denies Whipping Against Bailout September 30, 2008 4:00 PM ABC News' Teddy Davis, Arnab Datta, and Rigel Anderson Report: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that he did not personally urge members of Congress to vote against Monday's failed Wall Street bailout bill, disputing a report made earlier in the day on MSNBC by correspondent Andrea Mitchell. "MSNBC is just wrong," said Gingrich. "And it is probably wrong deliberately. It is a stunningly dishonest network." "I believe that if they would simply look at what I released yesterday, if they look at what I said on 'This Week'...

Andrea Mitchell gave it the old college try for Obama this morning. Summarizing the debate on Today, Mitchell managed to cobble together a video clip that showed McCain's only stumble, while snipping out what many including her colleague Chris Matthews saw as the debate's most salient feature: the multiple times Obama expressed agreement with McCain. And so it was that Andrea treated us to McCain's difficulties in pronouncing "Ahmadinejad." But the eight times Obama abjectly agreed with McCain? Not a one made it into the Mitchell editor's cut. Then there was Andrea's parting shot: "The only question is whether in...

Watching tonight's Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC (opposition research), I noticed an interesting exchange between the host and Andrea Mitchell. Of course we all know that both of these gals are in the tank for Obama, and they were having a typical lib discussion of the "Palin Press Dodge", as the headline called it, at the United Nations today. Of particular interest to me was Andrea Mitchell's response to this question (exchange begins at around the 2:24 mark of the video - this transcript picks up at the 2:40 mark): Maddow: ...Is today's burst of attention sort of a culmination...

Andrea Mitchell today stated that "all of us" originally thought John McCain had made a political mistake when he changed positions and came out of in favor of expanded oil drilling. On her 1 PM EDT MSBNC show today, Mitchell was chatting with former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers and Republican strategist Doug McKinnon . The subject was the just-announced Dem energy plan, that makes some limited provision for expanded offshore drilling. Mitchell made no bones of the fact that the politics now favor the advocates of expanded drilling, and that Dems were caught off guard. ANDREA MITCHELL: Dee...

Sarah Palin is sending the MSM around the bend. On MSNBC this afternoon, Andrea Mitchell provided perhaps the most blatant example yet of an MSMer openly admitting she doesn't want Palin as VP. Mitchell, clearly frustrated by Palin's every-woman-appeal, complained: "Is that what we really want in our leaders? Do we want someone 'just like me?' I mean, I don't want someone like me because I know I'm not because I know I'm not prepared to be vice-president or president. What makes people think that having someone like their neigbhor be in the White House is a good thing?" Mitchell's...

Make it a trio of mindreaders at NBC/MSNBC. As noted here, yesterday Howard Fineman and David Shuster went Carnac on us, emphatically declaring that Barack Obama didn't have Sarah Palin in mind with his lipstick line. On this morning's Today, Andrea Mitchell joined her network stablemates [no pun intended!] in delving into Barack's brain and assuring us he meant no harm. ANDREA MITCHELL: Barack Obama has been a punching-bag [aww] for a barrage of criticism from the McCain campaign. Charges that he slurred Sarah Palin when he said this about McCain and his change argument [cut to clip of Obama's...

You could see this one coming. After Harry Smith called Sarah Palin "Geritol" for McCain, some MSMer was bound to take things the next step. I'd say it just happened. NBC News DC bureau chief Mark Whitaker was chatting with Andrea Mitchell at 1:27 PM EDT today. MARK WHITAKER: [People] want to see passion. They want to see that Obama, and the same thing is true of McCain, and we've seen him [show] a lot more passion since he picked Sarah Palin, it's definitely -- ANDREA MITCHELL: Someone described it as Geritol. WHITAKER: Well, or something else. Put a little...

An Obama campaign spokeswoman opened today's Morning Joe with an aggressive defense of his lipstick line, arguing that Obama was being criticized "for saying something that John McCain has said before, that Barack Obama frequently says about 'you can dress something up.' He was talking about the Republican change argument." A bit later, bolstering her argument, the spokeswoman described the conference call the McCain campaign arranged to respond to Obama's line. She pointed out that all the reporters asking questions on the call were women, and that all of them asked McCain representative Jane Swift "are you serious?" in alleging...

Were those evil Republicans attempting to carpet-bomb Andrea Mitchell with balloons at the RNC last night? Chris Matthews mused about the possibility on Hardball this afternoon. The footage of Andrea gamely batting away the balloons has received a lot of play. This morning, the Today show had fun with it. But Matthews seemed to conceive a more sinister explanation: CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you were watching last night, here was a funny moment. I have to tell you: I love Andrea. Look at this crazy moment. For some reason: I don't know if it was foul play or what it was,...

Video of Andrea Mitchell (only dumb women vote for Palin) getting buried at the GOP convention. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=168163

If you watched MSNBC on mute Wednesday night after Sarah Palin’s speech, it looked like the top story was that a hurricane swept through the North Pole and killed Santa Claus, so crestfallen were the network’s stars. It was the same with the sound up. Keith Olbermann’s first words after the applause in the Xcel Center finally died down were, “That appears to be the end of it.” He sounded relieved. The same man who literally couldn’t find anything wrong with Barack Obama’s speech in Denver last week — calling it “spellbinding,” “fully realized” and “tough” — found that the...

What does it say about Sarah Palin that some of my favorite targets, um, subjects raved about her this morning? Andrea Mitchell and Mika Brzezinski could hardly have been more complimentary, Tom Brokaw and Jay Carney chipping in with positive comments. ANDREA MITCHELL: Here was a novice on the national scene, with the lowest of expectations. People said sure, she'll be able to perform. But it was an amazing, amazing speech in terms of the way it connected to people. I talked to people afterwards on the floor, a lot of women. One woman from California who said it didn't...

Is there nothing—nothing?—that the MSM won't try to spin against Sarah Palin? They've turned the matter of her Down syndrome son into a suggestion she will neglect her child. Twisted the news of her daughter's pregnancy into a "damaging revelation" that will cause her image to "suffer." Now, in perhaps the most acrobatic stunt yet, Andrea Mitchell has suggested that the intensity of support that Palin's nomination has unleashed among Republicans . . . could be a bad thing. View video.

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...

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...

'Meet the Press' transcript for August 31, 2008 **SNIP** MS. ANDREA MITCHELL: Well, they, 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...

Think John McCain did pretty well in last evening's Saddleback Civil Forum on Presidency hosted by the Rev. Rick Warren? You're not the only one. The Obama campaign thinks he did well too -- so good, in fact, that they think he might have cheated. And on this morning's "Meet the Press," Andrea Mitchell wasted no time floating the Obama campaign's "private" concern: