Andrea Mitchell Admits Media Successfully Hid the Facts . . . And Is Just Too Cheerful About It!

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[It'salmosttolate]

Andrea Mitchell Admits Media Successfully
Hid the Facts
. . . And Is Just Too Cheerful About It!

09/10/2001
How many times have we heard that Gary Condit is a conservative
Congressman from a conservative district? Read the highlighted part of that
last sentence out loud. See how easily it just rolls off the tongue!

On Friday, 09/07/2001, while breaking the story on MSNBC that Rep. Gary
Condit, D-CA, will not seek re-election, Andrea Mitchell sounded pleased as
punch when she announced, "The good news for the Democrats is that
most Americans are not even aware that he is a Democrat." (Ed. note:
Condit's staff denies at the time of this writing that he has made a decision.
See links below.)

And why is that?

Mitchell went on to imply that this was due to Condit's congressional voting
record. As if voters outside of his district would have any reason to notice! The real reason few are aware of his party affiliation is that it has rarely been reported! A Media Research Center study found that out of 179 news
stories (ABC, CBS, NBC, mornings, evenings and weekends, May 14 through
July 11) only 14 stories identified Condit as a Democrat. A mere 8 percent!

And now the pay off, the good news: Most Americans are not aware that Condit
is a Democrat! Isn't that just great! Good news if you're a Democrat, anyway.

Some might argue that his party has nothing to do with the facts of the story.
Yet when Senator Packwood was widely pilloried in the media due to his
troubles in relating appropriately to women, it seemed very important to identify
him has a Republican every time the story was introduced. Furthermore, if his
party affiliation was so unimportant, then it wouldn't be news that the
Democrats had dodged a bullet! If most Americans don't know Condit is a
Democrat, it is yet another example of the liberal media's double
standard.

I have a few questions for Andrea Mitchell:

Why would you, as a reporter, crow about NOT getting a portion of the
facts out to the news consumers?

How often did you report that Gary Condit was a Democrat? I know it
was a least once, but out of how many stories?

How often did you report that he was a conservative?

Is spinning for the Democrats as much fun as you make it seem?

Let's put Ms. Mitchell on notice that we are disgusted by her obvious
delight in media trickery. Here is the contact information:

Andrea Mitchell
NBC/MSNBC
Washington Bureau
4001 Nebraska Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016

Phone 202-885-4200
Fax 202-362-2009

[Bernard Marx]

Yes, write Mrs. Greenspan a letter! She deserves to hear from lots of Freepers!

[It'salmosttolate]

Andreas' husband Greenspan derailed the New Economy

[an amused spectator]

medianews bump
CCRM bump

[agitator]

Andrea Mitchell is an obnoxious, self-righteous, twit. I once snail-mailed her over the fact that a report she did on semi-autos included footage of a Class III machinegun implying that she was either a propagandist or negligent and she wrote back indignantly saying that her video librarian assured her... yeah, right. I told her that I've fired machineguns and I KNOW what the difference is - unlike some video librarian who's only played with water pistols. I doubt that she took my suggestion to hike down to NRA headquarters to find out what the difference was herself...

[connectthedots]

Andrea Mitchell sacrificed her body on the altar of the socialist Democrats by marrying Alan Greenspan. One look at Alan, and then to hear the passion of his speech, she could not possibly have done it for love.

[holyscroller]

"Andrea Mitchell sacrificed her body on the altar of the socialist Democrats by marrying Alan Greenspan."

Speaking of Andrea's body, how could she possibly crawl into the same bed with that old creep? He looks like death warmed over.