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'What Makes People Think Having Someone Like Their Neighbor in the White House a Good Thing?'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/12/2008 11:27:03 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

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 guest was Lisa Murkowski, Republican senator from Alaska. Mitchell began by trying to lure Murkowski into taking a swing at Palin for her comments about taking on the "good old boys." Palin defeated Murkowski's father Frank, then the sitting governor of Alaska, in the 2006 GOP gubernatorial primary.

MITCHELL: One of those good old boys was your father, Frank Murkowski. How does that make you feel?

Murkowski wouldn't bite, speaking graciously of a generational change in a young state. Mitchell tried again to use a daughter's loyalty to provoke Murkowski into taking a shot at Palin.

View video here.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008; andreamitchell; democrats; dncmediamachine; elections; elitism; enemedia; liberalmedia; lisamurkowski; mccainpalin; mediabais; mediabias; msm; obamedia; sarahpalin
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1 posted on 09/12/2008 11:27:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Angry, elitist Andrea ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 09/12/2008 11:27:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I first met Andrea Mitchell in the White House Briefing Room years ago.

I am very relieved to know that my first impression of her was correct. She is a snob, and has an unreasonably high opinion of herself.

-Rex


3 posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:46 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit!" Douglas MacArthur)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Since we are all citizens, we are all suppose to be the same in the eyes of government and one in a while, we ask one of our fellow citizens to lead in different offices.

Andrea is having a meltdown.


4 posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:47 AM PDT by edcoil
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I agree with Mitchell... I don’t want someone like her or her lefty neighbors in power either. Ha!


5 posted on 09/12/2008 11:30:22 AM PDT by The Hound Passer
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

No, Andrea thinks we need elists who are more god-like and can cure disease, calm the seas, and walk through walls. Regular normal human beings are so frail.


6 posted on 09/12/2008 11:30:33 AM PDT by downtownconservative (Intelligence sans reason is vainglorious pulp)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Maybe it has something to do with the “out of touch” crap that the MSM likes to spew, Andrea. Sound familiar? Like something you or Matt Lauer or Missy Matthews may have pounded on for the last few years.


7 posted on 09/12/2008 11:30:39 AM PDT by gundog (John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
No, Andrea ... she is not just like you.
8 posted on 09/12/2008 11:31:02 AM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, perhaps some of us are tired of the old, ineffective de facto aristocracy that the Dem party tries to foist on us every election.


9 posted on 09/12/2008 11:31:17 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And notice the contrast between the confident, respectful, classy Republican Senator and the imploding liberal.


10 posted on 09/12/2008 11:32:01 AM PDT by ProudFossil
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
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.

Andrea Mitchell I agree with you. You aren't qualified for anything...but you haven't let that stop you so far.

11 posted on 09/12/2008 11:32:19 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
...What makes people think that having someone like their neigbhor be in the White House is a good thing?"

Easy. Getting a good look at how the MSM's favored elite run the country.

To borrow a line, I'd rather be governed by the first 100 names in the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.

12 posted on 09/12/2008 11:32:19 AM PDT by SampleMan (Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Uh. Because then we would be spared a left-wing Communist pig?

ML/NJ

13 posted on 09/12/2008 11:33:27 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"Is that what we really want in our leaders? Do we want someone 'just like me?'

As I recall, Andrea Mitchell once said something like, "What people like about Bill Clinton is that 'He's just like us'".

If I've got to choose between two neighbors like Bill Clinton and Sarah Palin, I'm pretty sure who's coming over for barbecue.

14 posted on 09/12/2008 11:33:27 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: caseinpoint
These old, wrinkled, overthe-hill liberal "feminists" just can't stand it, can they? LOL

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15 posted on 09/12/2008 11:33:49 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 ("I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. ( DBM)
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To: RexBeach

Andrea Mitchell(I think of something that rhymes with Mitch)is as bad as the worse the MSM has to offer. Such a snide old wrinkly white hag is she.


16 posted on 09/12/2008 11:33:59 AM PDT by billhilly (I was republican when republican wasn't cool. (With an apology to Barbara Mandrell.))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Answering the headline: it’s taken me nearly 40 years to understand that most people in powerful positions got there through intelligence and hard work. But fundamentally they are my neighbor not because they put their pants on one at a time like me - but because in the end they can prove their humanity and frailty just as easily as I can and often do.


17 posted on 09/12/2008 11:34:14 AM PDT by Frapster (McCain / Palin 2008!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t want someone just like Andrea Bitchell in the White House either. I’m glad Bitchell agrees.


18 posted on 09/12/2008 11:34:58 AM PDT by BykrBayb (May God have mercy on our souls. ~)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Andrea looks like Jimmy Durante with a bad wig.


19 posted on 09/12/2008 11:35:47 AM PDT by xDGx
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To: greyfoxx39

Perfect photo! LMAO!


20 posted on 09/12/2008 11:36:17 AM PDT by SAJ
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