Andrea Mitchell, Imus Vid Clip: "There is confusion because I am confused"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Andrea Mitchell steps in it again: (+ defends Bob Woodward)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/11/23.html#a6036



Imus got wind of her flopping around about her previous statements regarding Joseph and Valerie Wilson on his show 11/12, so he had her back on to clarify. She was fumbling and stumbling throughout the segment. It's "hard work" to carry water for the administration. Whether you like him or not, Don has one of the only shows that is able to get politicians and journalists on and he will ask them some tough questions that other outlets will not. Do you think Chris Matthews would hold her up to any kind of scrutiny?

Video-WMP low res-(it's really about the audio)

Her answers were ridiculous and she almost steps in it again as Imus asks her about this exchange.

Murray: Do we have any idea how widely known it was in Washington that Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA?

Mitchell: It was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger. So a number of us began to pick up on that. But frankly I wasn't aware of her actual role at the CIA and the fact that she had a covert role involving weapons of mass destruction, not until Bob Novak wrote it.

(Rough transcript. Anyone want to write a transcript?)

Imus: It seems unclear what you said and perhaps you can clear it up about what you said back in Oct. of 2003---

Mitchell: I have been trying to figure out "what-the-heck" I was talking about, frankly. There is confusion because I am confused.

Imus: So when you told Alan Murray of CNBC, that it was widely known that his wife worked for the CIA-(interruption)--what were you drunk?

Mitchell: I don't even remember the deal...

(later)

Imus: His question seems plain...Imus: What this suggests to me is that you knew she worked at the CIA, but you didn't know what she did there. Isn't that fair-did you know that?

Mitchell-(garbled)

Imus: Why did you say that Andrea?

Mitchell: I messed up...(later)

Imus: Russert was a little short with me---almost like he was trying to hide something....

Imus laughing: I realized-well this is an unfair thing to say, I was gonna say- all you folks in Washington are all in bed with one another, but that would be an awful thing to say....

I can't agree with you more on that point. Listen to Andrea discuss Booby. She says Bob Woodward is a great journalist who made one "teenie-weenie" mistake. Notice she spews the BW company line that they told him casually about Valerie and says that it wasn't "something important until it became important." I agree with Imus, she is drunk.

Andrea: Bob Woodward is a terrific reporter, there is no one like Bob Woodward. He has done extraordinary work---(later) If people make one mistake in the course of a thirty five year career when they have been bullet proof---

Then she says that we don't know if Libby is lying. I'm too tired to go on.....


2:03:50 PM Comments (101) permalink2:03:50 PM

[Wetzelbill]

1. honestly, these numbskulls really annoy me

I have no hate for an Andrea Mitchell or anybody like her. But, these "journalists" virtually never tell me anything that I don't know already. I mean really is Andrea Mitchell or Dan Balz more politically aware than I am? Hell no! These people are biased cocktail circuit insiders. They are insulated from the real world. They regurgitate the same thing they have heard somebody say on Hardball the night before. It's ridiculous. They are so insulated and benign that whatever they say is usually weak or even wrong.

[Neil Lisst]

2. She's great at repeating talking points with great authority ...

... as if she actually knows things. She was blabbing something someone told her, as if she knew. She's useless.

[Wetzelbill]

3. yeah, that's the essence of most of the MSM types

"Oh I heard so and so say it on Hardball, I'll copy that tomorrow"

I can't remember what it is, but Andrea Mitchell commands like 10,000 bucks a speaking appearance. Honestly, who the fuck would pay her that kind of money? Half of the people I saw listed -gosh I wish I could find that article for you - you couldn't have paid me money to go watch 'em.

[IndianaGreen]

4. I don't like Imus, but this is such a gem

Imus has really gotten fed up with the entire neocon cabal, he refers to Cheney as a criminal.

Thanks for the post, Bush_Eats_Beef

[0007]

5. Thanks for the video. I'm not crazy over Imus, but he did insinuate one

thing that hit home. Everyone is in bed with one another as far as superstars of the MSM are concerned.

[wellstone dem]

6. This was great, I saw it and wish I had a clip

At one point as Imus kept pushing her she said something like, "I guess I was drunk."