Andrea Mitchell: Drunk Again?
Jane Hamsher
Huffington Post
I really don't know when any sense of journalistic shame is going to kick in with Andrea Mitchell. There seems to be no limit to what she will say or do when the cameras are rolling, and the fact that the right is as angry as the left about her continued journalistic malfeasance in the CIA leak case means it has gotten pretty friggin' bad. And it does not fall into the category of "well everyone is upset so she must be doing something right." Wrong. She's a big, fat festering boil on the posterior of NBC that somebody needs to lance.
Despite the fact that the Libby defense team spent copious amounts of time trying to drag Mitchell into court to testify about her October 2003 statement to Alan Murray of CNBC to the effect that "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," she still continues to report on the case. And even though her reporting continues to be factually challenged, false and downright misleading, she just Will Not Shut Up.
For a withering analysis of Mrs. Alan Greenspin's history of ethical lapses in this case, please read David Fiderer's November 2005 piece in the Huffington Post. It's devastating. But nothing could compare to the explanations she herself has given on Imus regarding the CNBC quote, which included this:
"I must have been drunk."
Charming. Any other reporter leading off a litany of excuses like that, who wasn't so intimately tied into the beltway elite, would've been canned on the spot.
(Continued here.)
Huffington Post
I really don't know when any sense of journalistic shame is going to kick in with Andrea Mitchell. There seems to be no limit to what she will say or do when the cameras are rolling, and the fact that the right is as angry as the left about her continued journalistic malfeasance in the CIA leak case means it has gotten pretty friggin' bad. And it does not fall into the category of "well everyone is upset so she must be doing something right." Wrong. She's a big, fat festering boil on the posterior of NBC that somebody needs to lance.
Despite the fact that the Libby defense team spent copious amounts of time trying to drag Mitchell into court to testify about her October 2003 statement to Alan Murray of CNBC to the effect that "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," she still continues to report on the case. And even though her reporting continues to be factually challenged, false and downright misleading, she just Will Not Shut Up.
For a withering analysis of Mrs. Alan Greenspin's history of ethical lapses in this case, please read David Fiderer's November 2005 piece in the Huffington Post. It's devastating. But nothing could compare to the explanations she herself has given on Imus regarding the CNBC quote, which included this:
"I must have been drunk."
Charming. Any other reporter leading off a litany of excuses like that, who wasn't so intimately tied into the beltway elite, would've been canned on the spot.
(Continued here.)
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