NBC’s Andrea Mitchell: Only Hillary’s Uneducated Voters will Vote For Sarah Palin
Posted on September 2, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston
**Video Below the Fold**
Tom Brokaw’s Meet the Press this week was as prosaic as ever, but for one little line uttered by the increasingly partisan Andrea Mitchell. In a discussion about the McCain VP pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, guest Doris Kerns Goodwin, plagiarist/historian, said that the choice of Palin is a “very strange choice,” showing how little she bothered to even think about the facts. But the most outrageous analysis came from Mitchell who said that only uneducated, female voters will be drawn to Sarah Palin, not those smart, college educated ones.
At about 5:57 into this clip Andrea Mitchell was brought onto Meet the Press with Goodwin, David Gregory and host Tom Brokaw to tell us all that Sarah Palin will only appeal to uneducated women, not educated ones.
After Brokaw asked Mitchell what this Palin pick means to Hillary voters, we find that Mitchell took the occasion to attack instead of answer the question with serious analysis.
Transcript:(My emphasis)
Brokaw: …There are other Republicans who are saying, listen we’ll be able to pull those Hillary Clinton voters who are not happy the way Obama treated her across the line. What are the chances of that Andrea?
Mitchel: Well, they think now that they have a story. They have a story of a working mom, she is a colorful character, an Annie Oakley… you know, Annie get your gun. They love her story, but when she tried to talk about Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, in western Pennsylvania, yesterday at a rally with conservative Republican voters, Hillary Clinton was booed. So, she can use the Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro analogy if she wants to in interviews, she cannot use that at Republican rallies.
She is not appealing to the same women who were really voting or supporting Hillary Clinton on ideological issues but they think that they can peel off some of these working class women, not college educated, who, the blue collar women who were voting for Hillary Clinton and may be more conservative on social causes.
So, only the stupid, uneducated, working class ninnies will be somehow fooled into voting for the McCain/Palin ticket, Andrea? Them thar smart, educated, upper class women are too smart for that? Is that what we are saying here, Andrea?
But, notice how Mitchell didn’t just answer Brokaw’s question but did her best to gig at the GOP for their “booing” of Hillary Clinton? Brokaw asked about Clinton voters crossing the aisle to vote McCain because of his VP pick, he did NOT ask anything about how traditional conservative voters react to mention of Hillary Clinton’s name at rallies. Further, no one should expect conservatives to have any different reaction to Clinton now that she is a loser than they’ve ever had. So, Mitchell’s attempt to make Republicans look mean because they booed Clinton’s name was gratuitous needling on her part. Of course conservatives are going to boo Hillary, but, Andrea, THAT wasn’t the subject under discussion!
So, on top of calling any women who might vote for McCain because of the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket uneducated, Mitchell needlessly strayed off topic to search for some way to make Republicans look mean.
Yep, that’s the partisan hack Mitchell we have become so used to!
(H/T Jessi via email)
(Photo Credit: Wonkette.com)
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Andrea!! You mean some of the women who were supporting Hillary are STUPID? Well, I agree with you…but those dummies are now voting for Obama. Including YOU.
Barack Sexist charge, With Cnn & Msnbc
There is Proof out there I know first Hand, that Obama Campaign & Barack & Michelle Obama, them self, are making CNN & Msnbc, Thrash
Palin & Her Family,
Obama Campaign heard Quarter, emails and faxs going around, From Both Michelle & Barack,
To attack Sarah Palin on her Experience and Family Values, many sources right now confirming ties Between Cnn & Msnbc,. to the Barack Obama camp,
One Source in side Obama Head Quarters in Illinois one chief obama staffer claim that, He heard Barack telling them have Cnn & Msnbc, to thrash her and thrash her Hard, Let me worry if it Sexist or not, Msnbc & Cnn are Paid assets, and owe us, They taken care of Hillary for me, and they will Take care of Sarah Palin, Soon as Cnn & Msnbc start in on it,, the other news Network will start rolling with it to. Just like with Hillary, That was a direct Quot,
What a hag.
I thought that Andrea Mitchell was smarter than that. I am college educated and have taught 31 years and plan to vote for Sarah Palin along with many of my colleagues.
Rove and Morris are right the democrats are scared. That is why they are viciously attacking Sarah Palin.
As a woman with a BS and a MS I take umbrage with the lady’s “blue collar” remarks.
I would hardly consider Ms. Mitchell’s education as being superior. It is no wonder that her mere BA is not in the sciences.
Also, all women can take cheap shots. Perhaps Ms. Mitchell should bring suit against her plastic surgeon for the flagrant facelift.
Mitchell is an Elitist. Instead of giving an opinion, how about just reporting the news.
MS. MITCHELL IS A MEAN SPIRITED PERSON AND SHOULD RETIRE!! I KNOW MANY WOMEN WITH COLLEGE DEGREES ETC. WHO PLAN TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN-PALIN. SARAH PALIN MOST LIKELY HAS MORE “ON THE BALL” THAN MS. MITCHELL EVER HAD. I DO HOPE SHE GETS THESE MESSAGES.
Ahh…I really hate to interupt this little RNC meeting but…
What exact policy issues do Clinton and Palin agree on?? Let’s hear them, point by point.
And do you NOT think that education will not have an inverse relation to those Clinton supporters who might be duped into voting for this policy and religious nutcase??
Stop watching Faux news and do your homework! Believe me kids, we’ve only begun to see the real corrupt underbelly of this woman, GAME ON!!
Rich
Who can call this fair, unbiased reporting, from supposedly a top ranking NBC journalist?? She should be fired or at least seriously demoted! I doubt I will ever trust “news” from NBC ever again – But then I am just an independent, uneducated small town woman/wife/mother who helped start and run a suscessful multimillion dollar business for 35 years- what do I know?
Andrea Mitchell
I just heard on Fox News that you made a statement that only uneducated people would vote for Sarah Palin. I, a woman who has a Bachelor and Master degree with 25 years experience teaching special needs children, am highly insulted!!! Exactly where do you come from???
My husband, an attorney with many years of education, including yearly seminars to continue his education,does not appreciate that rhetoric from YOU!!!! He is also a supporter of Sarah Palin. Perhaps you should focus some serious EDUCATED criticism of our DO NOTHING Democrats who control Congress. Seems all of our problems started 2 years ago when they came to power spouting CHANGE. Oh, and let’s not forget your husband’s blunders that led directly to the mortgage fiasco.
You and other pompous Washington elite are the ones that don’t get it. We regular people are fed up with our government because they have disappointed many of us by doing nothing and living the good old life, I, for one, would love to see McCain/Palin clean up Washington. Perhaps someone should try to clean up the liberal media which tears our country apart. I think that might include you!
I AM APALLED AT YOUR ELITIST ATTITUDE!!!!!!
Dory
Bradenton, FL and Laguna Hills,
As a woman who has a Ph.D, and also a Fulbright scholar, I am certainly educated and will be voting for McCain. Only a bigot like Andrea Mitchell would make comments like that despite her schooling. And in case she doesn’t know what a bigot is, from the Encarta dictionary: “intolerant person,somebody with strong opinions, especially on politics, religion, or ethnicity, who refuses to accept different views”.