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Mitchell Also Circulated Obama's Conspiracy Theory Over Cancelled Troop Visit
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 08/18/2008 3:06:42 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Andrea Mitchell's floating of the Obama-camp accusation that John McCain cheated by overhearing Obama's responses at the Saddleback forum, as NewsBuster D.S. Hube reported, isn't the first time the NBC correspondent has made herself the propagator-in-chief of Obama's conspiracy theories. As NewsBuster Noel Sheppard has noted, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has now written NBC to protest Mitchell's behavior. Here's an excerpt from his letter to NBC News president Steve Capus [emphasis added]:
"[I]nstead of taking a critical journalistic approach to this spin, Andrea Mitchell did what has become a pattern for her of simply repeating Obama campaign talking points."
In asserting a "pattern" of such behavior by Mitchell, what did Davis have in mind? Almost surely it included a very similar stunt that Mitchell pulled in connection with Obama's cancellation of his planned visit to injured troops while in Germany for his speech in Berlin. As I noted here at the time, Mitchell passed along the Obama camp's unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that McCain had pulled strings with his Pentagon buddies to have them withdraw permission for the visit.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; barackobama; conspiracytheory; injuredtroops; mccain; mccainforpresident; mccainpalin; nbcnews; obamavisit; propagandawingofdnc; saddleback; snub
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Mitchell makes habit of circulating Obama’s conspiracy theories. Ping to Today show list.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:09:17 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: hershey
Andrea Mitchell, aka Mrs. Alan Greenspan, should be fired.
The fact that anyone watching that crap called the NBC Nightly News in the first place is amazing.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Semi-comatose dissembler same as her hippie husband Allan Greenspan
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:25:58 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Noticed yesterday on PMSNBC that the master propagandist’s(Tim Russert) name still appears on their Meet the Press, promo graphic.
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:28:38 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("Duck I says... ")
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
The fact that anyone watching that crap called the NBC Nightly News in the first place is amazing. NBC has a nightly news program? I thought it was a news spoof.
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:30:16 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's past time that the MSM gets called out on this. However if they're smart, the McCain camp should keep pointing out instances of blatant bias. This shouldn't be very hard when 95% of all the presstitutes are in bed with the false messiah.
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:36:12 AM PDT
by
RU88
(The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
To: coconutt2000
NBC, CBS, and ABC miss the "good old days" when they controlled every bit of information to the public. Back then, they could call our allies the "Saigon Regime" and our enemies the "North Vietnamese Government" without answering to anyone.
Old habits die hard, I guess!
Thank God for the internet and Matt Drudge..
To: governsleastgovernsbest
That is normal for the anti-American left-wing offspring of Hitler and Stalin in the news media.
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:42:21 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
If Andrea Mitchell is going to serve as an Obama spokesman, perhaps she should take a leave of absence for the duration of the campaign. Otherwise, she'd be well-advised to begin investigating Obama's allegations rather than uncritically parroting them. I agree! She needs to go.
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:42:57 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I have contacted NBC regarding Andrea Mitchell’s blatant bias for Obama. I hope more of you do too (for all the good it will do) She really should be fired!
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:54:02 AM PDT
by
maizey
(maizey)
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
“Andrea Mitchell, aka Mrs. Alan Greenspan, should be fired.
The fact that anyone watching that crap called the NBC Nightly News in the first place is amazing.”
Well we could always start a letter/email/calling campaign to NBC complaining about her calling McCain a cheater. Let’s all write. Heck the left does it all the time.
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:58:24 AM PDT
by
blueyon
(Every one should get their 15 mins under the bus)
To: maizey
Good for you. She needs to publicly apologize also, confessing her bias.
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posted on
08/18/2008 3:59:27 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: maizey
What email address did you use?
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posted on
08/18/2008 4:00:17 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: governsleastgovernsbest
She is and has always been a lefty tool. It wouldbe better ifshewent home and spent her time tuning Greenspan’s rusty old carbureter.
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posted on
08/18/2008 4:06:19 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Andrea Mitchell is now the official Shill of the Obama Campaign.
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posted on
08/18/2008 4:19:09 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Mitchell is Olberwoman’s handmaiden.
Given her hubby’s age, perhaps they have a ‘thing’ going.
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posted on
08/18/2008 4:20:51 AM PDT
by
Carley
To: johnny7
The station is getting ready for Tim’s son to make his appearance during their programming of the DNC convention.
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posted on
08/18/2008 4:22:19 AM PDT
by
Carley
To: governsleastgovernsbest
She is only a Pimp for Obama
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posted on
08/18/2008 4:24:28 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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