How does Andrea Mitchell have a Job

[brucefan]

This stupid teabag congressman is walking all over her with repute talking points.
I'm listening on the radio and have never heard so much dead air.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

1. Andrea Mitchell is a soft-spoken Republican tool

and Sean Duffy is a coked up asshole.

Fuck them both.

[Blaukraut]

2. It was painful to watch. I mean, the guy almost had me convinced!

Just kidding, but anyone who saw this and doesn't generally pay attention to the details on a 24 hour basis would have thought that Duffy's point about delaying the individual mandate was a perfectly reasonable and fair request.

[demgrrrll]

3. I agree it was really sad. Then she had Chris Schitzilla on after that

the KING of false equivalency. She knows what she is doing.

[Puzzledtraveller]

4. She shows up.

[City Lights]

5. She has a job because she does exactly as her corporate masters say.

She might not have a job if she stood up to the GOPee by questioning their lies and bullshit.

Don'cha just love the "liberal" media?

[d_b]

6. that IS her job

and she does it well

[Mika]

7. NEVER forget ...

DU search of Andrea Mitchell and Valerie Plame ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Andrea+Mitchell+Valerie+Plame&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

[JoePhilly]

8. Her job is to stand up the strawman so the GOP whack job can knock it over.

[Blaukraut]

9. She just let Toomey walk all over her, as well

He never did answer why the current CR was deemed unacceptable by the R's even though it is at almost Ryan budget levels. Oddly enough, Mitchell had no problems interrupting Debbie Wasserman Shultz.

[SummerSnow]

10. Cause her husband is...

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan

[GoCubsGo]

12. FORMER Federal Reserve Chairmain.

But, yeah. It sure helps to be Mrs. Greenspan.

[regnaD kciN]

16. ...AND personal disciple of Ayn Rand.

Never forget that Greenspan was a young protégé of Rand, and learned directly at the Mistress' feet

So, what kind of woman becomes the trophy wife of an aged Randroid? You tell me.

[dorkzilla]

11. She's awful...

She's always tripping over her words, "ummm"- ing a lot. I don't know why she's on teevee. Worthless.

[uponit7771]

13. Anyone else got the feelin the avg DU poster is more informed and willing to get the facts in than

...most of the MSM folk?

tia

[raging moderate]

14. She was not defeated by him; she agrees with him.

This whole dialogue was a Republicon monologue in disguise. Her last statement tried to assign equal blame for this government shutdown. The running written commentary was the Republicon lie that Obama is supposedly refusing to negotiate.

[FrenchieCat]

15. Read about her here......

http://billmoyers.com/2013/08/23/book-excerpt-the-evolution-of-this-town/

http://forward.com/articles/182008/mark-leibovich-channels-jewish-outsider-status-for/?p=all

Great Book, from what I understand (but haven't read it yet).

[Jim Warren]

17. She a member of the courtier class

She and her counterparts would have face paint and been servicing the court of Louis XIV had they been around that era.

[COLGATE4]

18. Because she's Mrs. Alan Greenspan. nt

[BainsBane]

19. She was a reporter long before she married Greenspan

She was one of the first women network reporters. I didn't see this exchange because I rarely watch cable news, but people here seem to think the purpose of MSNBC is to make them feel good about themselves. That's not what news is for, and that people continually get mad over being exposed to something they disagree with is exactly why broadcast news has become so incredibly bad.

[COLGATE4]

20. That's true, but she's at best a half-assed

reporter. Being married to Greenspan has permitted her to prolong an otherwise undistinguished career far beyond that to which any other mediocre reporter could have aspired. I don't object to NBC not 'making me feel good'. But I do object to NBC taking a Republican slant to their coverage of issues what affect all of us so profoundly.

[lpbk2713]

21. NBC's answer to Wolf Blitzer.

I think they're both brain dead.

[Aerows]

26. And that's putting it kindly. n/t

[B Calm]

22. she thinks of herself as a reporter, but she never follows through with tough questions

[Doremus]

23. Two words: Mrs. Greenspan. nt

[joeybee12]

24. An honest answer to that question would get me banned...

[Aerows]

25. Married to Alan Greenspan

that's the only reason I can remotely think of. If she was married to anybody else she'd probably have been in the unemployment line long before now.

[jonsiee]

27. Another vote for Greenspan

[Jesus Malverde]

28. Why does Maddow give her any airtime?...nt

[AlinPA]

29. She is disgusting and belongs on CNN with those idiots. Fox 'news" might be better but they have an

age limit. Anchors have to be young there.

[Rowdyboy]

30. For pretty much the same reason that little Luke Russert is on the air..and Liz Cheney gets air time

and Abby Huntsman is on the Cycle and Evan Bayh made it to the senate and the Kardashians are omnipresent on the air-due to winning the "lucky sperm/marriage lottery". How else could talentless hacks rise so far so fast?