Andrea Mitchell (sort of) issues a correction.
By on Apr 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Andrea Mitchell (sort of) issues a correction.
Salon.com’s Joan Walsh highlights a strange moment on tonight’s Hardball: “Without mentioning what had been discussed on Sunday, Matthews asked Mitchell, rather out of the blue, to talk about what Petraeus was telling senators. ‘It’s a good thing you bring that up,’ Mitchell replied, and she went on to say that Petraeus recently held a ‘closed circuit briefing’ for senators of both parties, ‘Democrats as well as Republicans.’ But Mitchell also repeated her claim from Sunday that ‘moderate Republican senators’ were privately saying they opposed Bush’s so-called troop surge, but would publicly support it out of respect for Petraeus, and give the general and the president until the summer to make progress in the war.”
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‘It’s a good thing you bring that up’
goddamn, that a clumsy segueway.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:24 pmAndrea Mitchell used to appear alright, then TP told me to watch out for her.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:24 pmWhy does the MSM hate America??
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 pmMitchell is a lame-assed rightwing shill.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:33 pm[...] UPDATE: According to THINK PROGRESS, Andrea Mitchell changed her story to include Democrats. [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 pmNothing changes in DC because nobody has the guts to stand up to Bush and his stooges in the Pentagon. Rest of Bush’s term looks bad.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 pmDoes that mean it was Republicans + Joementum?
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:53 pmThe wingnuts are upset that TP said that Petraeus met with only republicans. The line is that Patraeus invited everyone, but only Republicans showed up. Strange answer considering it was the shill Mitchell not only reported it, but still maintains that it is accurate. This should be fun.
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:05 pmAndrea you ignorant slut. Damned if you didn’t get my hopes up. I was hoping this would have been a new and improved scandal/blunder. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:14 pm…Matthews asked Mitchell, rather out of the blue, to talk about what Petraeus was telling senators. ‘It’s a good thing you bring that up,’ Mitchell replied…
oh, yea… that was so “out of the blue”…
nothin’ planned about any of that…
i’m fading early… g’nite all…
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 pmAndrea Mitchell, WIFE OF rightwingnut crank fudge-pachyderm AND Milton Friedman CRIMINAL SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMIC MAD SCIENTIST Alan Greenspan—OF COURSE SHE IS A CHIMPya SUPPORTER AND ONE OF THE LAPDOGS OF THE MSM WHO ROLL OVER FOR THE MONKEY BOY AND Bushland Uber Allies!!!!!
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 pmDoes “Democrats and Republicans” mean Republicans and Joe Lieberman?
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 amBut Mitchell also repeated her claim from Sunday that ‘moderate Republican senators’ were privately saying they opposed Bush’s so-called troop surge, but would publicly support it out of respect for Petraeus
Organized hypocrisy cloaking itself under ‘respect’.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 amI can’t believe the rational of these people.
How low can one go?
If they didn’t support the surge they should have just said so instead of using Petraeus as a flimsy excuse for their fairy tales.
We must mislead the constituency, they say, and we must use respect as our excuse to make up fairy tales. Yes, that makes it all okay, they think, that excuses our little white lies and now we can sleep at night knowing that Petraeus has our respect and we will look good in the public eye.
Woe is you, woe is you O’ tellers of tales. May your sleep be deprived thru nite sweats, may you envision war first hand, may the devil torment your sleep, may you toss and turn and your sickly soul burn, may you never have a peaceful sleep again.
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 amSeems like Mitchell had a talking to by somebody in the Bush Admin.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:10 amSo I guess its fine if the GOP makes backroom timelines for withdrawal with the Pentagon; they just don’t have the balls to make them in the open forum of our legislature.
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:49 amnever forget that Mitchell was one of The Cold-Call Six.
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:01 am& remember when Mitchell let it slip that it was “common knowledge” in DC circles that Christiane Amanpour’s phone calls were being monitored?
& then it was scrubbed from the transcript?
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:03 amHacks like Mitchell and Matthews and Russert yearn for Bush and the Republicans to give them ANYTHING they can tout as a GOP success–just small token so they hold it up and say, “See, the GOP really isn’t all about Karl Rove and Albert Gonzales.” Imagine how disappointed they must feel day after day when all they get from Bush is more and more death, debt, and corruption. Then there’s that pesky war. . .
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:25 amWere the “Senators from both parties” Lieberman and the Republicans?
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:48 amYep,
And after the summer they’ll give him until winter, then summer again… Nice plan fellas, sending your kid off to fight?
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 amand give the general and the president until the summer to make progress in the war
You must be joking.
This ‘president’ and the word progress do not belong together.
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:20 amUnless of course you happen to be in the business of disaster capitolism.
Just more controlled propaganda. Do people really listen to this garbage? I fail to see just how they make a go of it. Meaningless dialogue.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 amWell at least the GOP will eventually support a withdrawal. The more the polls show that Americans want out, the easier it will be for Republicans to support it.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:50 amWhy did the GOP Senate Caucus, in the secret meeting with General Petraeus, pick August 2007 as the drop-dead date?
Simple: Because the 2008 election season starts in September 2007, and they don’t want to be on record as voting for a war that nobody outside Bush and the GOP primary voters want. Especially now that the Democrats have signaled their intent to dole out the funding bills in small amounts, to force the Republicans to vote over and over and over on each one — and to go on record over and over and over again as backing both Bush and Bush’s war.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 amI wonder if the Democrat’s name was Joe?
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 am[...] plug. (Mitchell, no doubt after heavy hammering by her Beltway buddies for giving the game away, later amended her remarks in a non-apology apology that didn’t change the centrals facts much, if at [...]
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 am[...] at Horses Mouth. Think Progress also comments, also noting the question of whether the briefing from Petraeus was open to all [...]
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:19 pmI sent an e-mail to LTC Aberle (Chief, Media Operations Division
Public Affairs Office Multi-National Corps-Iraq) and she told me to go to “the U.S. Legislative Liaison Office in Washington D.C. .” Later,
I found this in the comments section of my post about Aberle:
Sir, Ms. Mitchell misspoke about the caucus, we have contacted her and she agreed and will be making a correction to her statement.
The video teleconference Gen Petraeus participated in was for a bi-partisan group of congressmen arranged by the Defense Department Legislative Affairs office. http://www.defenselink.mil/la/
The office cited (OCLL) is the Army equivalent of the DOD office.
LTC Joseph Yoswa
Deputy, Public Affairs Officer
Commanding General
Multi-National Force – Iraq
# posted by LTC Joseph Yoswa : 3:50 AM
http://radamisto.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-on-petraeus.html
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:27 pm