Andrea Mitchell Fails In Blamestorming Battle With Rumsfeld
- Posted on February 22, 2011 at 5:03pm by
Mike Opelka
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With a #1 NY Times Bestseller in hand, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has bounded from talk show to talk show this past week, regaling hosts with some of the stories he shares inside the pages of Known and Unknown:A Memoir. For the most part, all along his press travels Mr. Rumsfeld has encountered respectful and professional hosts, for example, David Letterman:
Today Mr. Rumsfeld stopped by MSNBC’s studios to be interviewed by Andrea Mitchell. Ms. Mitchell acknowledges this is an interview about Rumsfeld’s new memoir, but immediately and unsuccessfully launches into an effort to blame the current troubles with Libya and Qaddafi on the former Secretary and his old boss, George W. Bush;
Point Rumsfeld.
However, Ms. Mitchell was not swayed, she was going to entrap Donald Rumsfeld in his own words, especially on the topic of Iraq: (btw – all of these video links have similar thumbnails, but are very different)
Mitchell continues to fire and miss, this time attempting to drag the issue of WMD intelligence and Colin Powell into the fray:
Fail, fail, fail and fail.
And we wrap with Andrea Mitchell alleging there was a Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld “Axis” working against Condi Rice:
Secretary Rumsfeld graciously endures the partisan attacks of Ms. Mitchell using the facts, eye-witness accounts, and supported by memos that he has posted on his website, a site that might have served as terrific pre-interview prep for the show’s producers. The time saved avoiding this wild goose chase might have offered more opportunities for the MSNBC audience to learn about the personal experiences of a man who has served his country inside the White House and the Pentagon during great moments in the life of our country.
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Comments (108)
Ashrak
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:43pmThere can be question but that RUMMY WHIPPED HER HIND END! The only smackdown missing was the Valerie Plame. I guess Mitchell thought she would get smoked like trees in the California summertime if she tried to go there and that all the other gotcha moments would get her a Pulitzer.
Too bad, so sad, Andrea Mitchell looked like a straight up fool at every turn in this interview. Rummy did everything but call her a liar to her face.
Outstanding job, Sir. Don Rumsfeld is a true Patriot and this country owes him a great debt of gratitude.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:41pmAndrea Liberal fails again
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:40pmWe’ve all been compartmentalized. Everyone was waking up… but now they’re convinced the problem is a handful of liberals and unions. What a waste.
Anyone who defends Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Bush might as well defend Obama and Soros. Only an idiot couldn’t put 2 and 2 together. Only an idiot would fail to see that everything Obama is using against them now was built by the Bush admin.
They say it to your face, and you’re still too stupid to believe it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CWBTL33MpA
If Soros said that, it would be on Beck‘s blackboard and you’d all be citing it daily… but it’s Bush, so you ignore it. When quoting Soros, it doesn’t matter how old the quote… but when it’s Bush, you argue the opposite. Instead of admitting you’ve been duped, you opt for leaving idiotic opinions about Rumsfeld, devoid of relevance. Just because you have the chance to bash a lib. None of these comments have any value. Just personal attacks and opinions. Looks like Huffington around here.
The Tea Party was put back to sleep 2 years ago.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:46pmI will get
1) No responses
2) Stupid responses
*Waiting*
Report Post »ackman81
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 12:24amI’m not sure what your point is, (I didn’t watch the video) but Bush was far from perfect and his poll numbers showed that he lost a lot of conservatives along the way. We were pissed about the increase in spending and the growth of the bureaucracy, not to mention the new drug benefit for the elderly. I view Bush as a 50/50 president, half good half bad. He was also too politically correct in his commanding of the war. We are at war with Islam, not necessarily all Muslims. That being said, I would rather have the Bush team in there now, on his best day, Obama isn’t half the man nor half the president Bush was.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 1:34amNot at all, man. Beck has run a portion of this clip several times on his show. You’re absolutely correct. Both Presidents were Progressives.
Progressive Republicans want the United States to drive the NWO. Progressive Democrats want the United Nations to drive it. I completely agree with you, and I’m not being snarky.
We haven’t had a decent president since Ronald Reagan, and even he made a couple of big mistakes. I don’t think he was a Progressive, though. That’s a HUGE mistake.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 1:38am@ackman81
President G.W. Bush doubled welfare spending during his terms. He was a horrendous president. I liked his handling of 09/11, but that was it.
I think George Bush and John McCain were cut from the same cloth. Had McCain won the Presidency in 2008, we’d still be a frog in a pot on a low simmer…slowly working our way toward Socialism.
The 1 good thing about President Obama – he’s such a radical lurch towards Socialism, most of the country is opening their collective eyes “Oh crap, we’re in boiling water!”
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 24, 2011 at 7:50amyou know were I stand
Report Post »hikinggussie
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:14pmAndrea Mitchell is all BIG SNOZE. All she’s got going for her is that HUGE nose!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:14pmAndrea Mitchell’s shallow mind has been filled with things a cat would cover up.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:04pmAndrea is a disgrace, I quit listening to this woman along time ago
Report Post »Gates
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:56pmTalk about SPIN !!! Ms Mitchell had to dig deep!
Report Post »chkiaar
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:51pmDamn, was this heifer interviewing herself??? SHE gave answers that she wanted to hear from him…good thing he was there to correct her.
Report Post »fastfwd
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:51pmPhttt he handled her like the brain dead head full of commie mush that she is.
Report Post »thetang
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:43pmPack it in Andrea!
Report Post »Independent American
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:42pmSame old story: Fact confronts liar, liar loses and changes the subject.
Report Post »AwakeandInformed
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:30pm@therealelvis–Your comment is disgusting and adds nothing to the discussion. These kinds of crass remarks are of no value to anyone.
Report Post »Comm Marine
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:29pmAndrea is rotten
Report Post »vjt
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 10:06pmUgly too
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:24pmHer gotcha moments only proved what a complete idiot she really is! It’s hard to distort the facts, while the person that made the actual history is sitting before you. Nice try, but she needs to climb back under her commie rock where she came from.
Report Post »MotherRedDog
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:22pmIsn’t her husband one of the idiots who played a big part in ruining the economy and our country???
Yeah, she’s just another useful idiot.
Report Post »glennisright.com
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:17pmAndrea Mitchell is the only reason we shouldn’t raise the retirement age.
http://www.glennisright.com
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:15pmAndrea, time to call it a career. You are over.
Report Post »FoundersKeeperUSA
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:14pmWow what a dumd dumb lib. Who belives anything her lib/progressives tell her. The producers of that crap hole show couldnt wait to try to trash him on tv. To bad there facts are all wrong and are nothing but theories trumped up on the left. Know matter how stupid they make them selves look, they probably still think they it was a success.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:14pmDonald Rumsfeld In Bed With Aspartame
Report Post »http://todayyesterdayandtomorrow.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/donald-rumsfeld-in-bed-with-aspartame/
crackerone
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:00pmShe could interview George Soro‘s in his diaper’s! They would have a lot to talk about!
Freaks!!!
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:12pmHere’s what Rumsfeld should have said to A. M. Your husband Allen Greenspand was the Fed director for many years and I could lay the mess we’re in on him leaving the interest rates to low.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:10pm“How did it come about that American military personnel stripped detainees naked, put them in stress positions, used dogs to scare them, put leashes around their necks to humiliate them, hooded them, deprived them of sleep and blasted music at them?” Levin asked. This was the opening statement at the hearing.
Levin said that Rumsfeld had also unleashed a virus.
“When Secretary Rumsfeld approved the use of abusive techniques against detainees, he unleashed a virus which ultimately infected interrogation operations conducted by the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Levin added.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina also gave his opening statement. He said that the country’s best interests were at the heart were placed first. But, he said that the legal reasoning was strange.
On another interesting note, a former Pentagon official said that Rumsfeld was envious of the other agencies. In short, Rumsfeld wanted to outdo the law enforcement agencies.
With these hearings, one should be prepared for these to make its way to the US Presidential Elections between presumed Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and presumed GOP nominee Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Culex
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:16pmI know people who pay top dollar to get that done to them in Vegas on the weekends
Report Post »Paleo Archer
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:09pmHitler Avatar?….Why? you miss him?
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:24pmTower 7,
Report Post »The long and short of Abu Graib is that the prison was being taken care of by a Natl. Guard Unit from Rural Pennsylvania. They were not the sharpest rocks on the beach.
It’s war. It’s chaos.Things happen.
Rumsfeld knew nothing about it! When the scandal broke he offered his resignation. It was refused.
Really Tower…., the true villian of the scandal was the New York Times.
They published the storywithout qualms or conscience. They did not care that they would put soldiers lives in greater danger than they already were.
MrBlonde
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 11:28pmThe best account of why these pictures were taken, and how they appeared in the dread NYT, is well stated in a book called The Men Who Stare At Goats by one Jon Ronson. I’m sure, MrTower,that you have heard of Mr. Jonson, since he had a chapter in his book Them in which he accompanied your hero Alex Jones on his inept assault of the Bohemian Grove a few years back.
Report Post »Oddly enough, I first heard of Mr. Jonson on the radio being interviewed by a Mr. Glenn Beck for Mr. Jonson’s book, Them.
Both of these books are highly informative and very funny. I would suggest them to anyone, but would avoid the movie at all costs.
Capt_Spalding
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:07pmSeriously…. this broad gives credibility to NBC like The Perky One does CBS.
Report Post »Wartface
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 1:03amTower 7… You are a loser, get a life!
The truth has no agenda…. But, you do, and we don’t like your view of the world.
Shouldn’t be over on the MSNBC site?
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:07pmRumsfeld is still kicking! He’s no dummy. No dummy.
Report Post »okiegrama
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:14pmYou can say that again! Rummie has been around the block too many times to let this drone get the best of him.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 9:53amThe neatest thing about Rumsfeld, is he doesn’t need to act nasty or ugly (like most do) to get his point across. I’ve always liked him and feel he is not only smart, but correct in what he’d done for America. The military seem to appreciate him.
Report Post »home_of_the_brave
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 5:58pmC’mon Ms. Mitchell is that all you and the libs have, the world is on fire and you want to blame it on Bush. Same old story.
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 5:53pmMs. Mitchell is a poor excuse of a reporter.
98% mouth and 2% neurons.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:16pmAn official guest list for Bohemian Grove‘s 2008 midsummer encampment along with a map of the Grove’s facilities has been obtained by a San Francisco based action group who held protests and information drives outside the entrance to the elite summer retreat.
The list reveals that amongst the hundreds of corporate representatives, government officials and banking elites, guests also included former president George H.W. Bush, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, as well as several former directors of the CIA, including James Woolsey.
http://infowars.net/articles/july2008/210708Grove.htm
HillBillySam1
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:17pmAndrea should change the name of her show to “Epic Fail!! With Andrea Mitchell”.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:29pmI absolutely despise this lady, I am going to be mean here and say she has a “ tremendous” head in comparison to her body and it is a shame it is not filled with anything but air and hate, She cannot give an interview that is not completely biased and is always trying to get a “ Got ya” moment and it has always backfired on her. I will be so glad when the network decides she is as irrelevant as I do and kick her out on her butt.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:33pmFirst senator Inhofe and now Rummy…..that was great !!!!!! Check and mate. Not that I agree with everything the Bush admin. did by a long shot, but I just love when a smarmy “I think I am so smart and witty” liberal gets their butts handed back to them.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:38pmADMIT IT…THE WOMAN LOOKS THE THE TROLL HOGGLE!
http://www.google.com/images?q=hoggle&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1027&bih=909
Report Post »WhatTheHuh
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:40pmDid she actually read his book? Sounds to me like she read the MSNBC Cliff Notes version to prep for this interview. Either way, she flopped.
I use to wonder why anyone on the right would go on this “network.” Now I see that it’s a good thing. It really exposes MSNBC for what they are: an extremely bias leftist network that can’t stand up to the scrutiny of the facts.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:47pmDoesn’t dave look like he wants to cry??
First time he has been around a man in a while…
And poor andrea hasn‘t been around a Man in so long she just doesn’t know how to act.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 6:57pmhttp://www.rumsfeld.com/
Report Post »cidav8r
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:04pmShe is really looking OLD! Wow. Kind of like Helen Thomas, I guess old reporters never die, they just embarrass themselves nationally and then shrivel up and scream “I’m melting, I’m melting!” I think 2% is being awfully generous to Mitchell but it’s good to be nice to old people. They can’t defend themselves from petty, obviously partisan attacks … well, with the exception of Don Rumsfeld. He did a pretty good job of it and managed to look not only competent but like a very nice guy, which he always does. (I wasn’t alluding that your post was petty or partisan, btw, i think it was quite fair – I was referring to Mitchell)
Report Post »solaveritas
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:25pmAndrea was doing the MSM “dance”, trying to make news where there is none.
Rumsfeld simply spoke TRUTH. He didn‘t struggle in his comments because he wasn’t lying.
He didn’t have to umm, and aah, and say “Look” or equivocate like BHO.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:25pmIt may be 2 neurons and they are misfiring. But if they stop working, no worries her mouse will keep on functioning without a single thought. The Left does not need reason just rhetoric.
Report Post »Scorchem
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:26pmShould be in the anchor chair next to her husband.
Report Post »Political_Freak
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:34pm“98% mouth and 2% neurons.”
Love it!!
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:28pmRummy is an American hero. That man has something like 35-40 years in public service and if he tells you something you can bet he’s telling you what he knows to be the truth. He doesn’t have a dis-honest bone in his body.
http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:32pm2% neurons? That’s a bit generous dontcha think?
http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
Report Post »AlbaL
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:36pmRight On! The woman is a poor excuse for a reporter and the fact that she has made a career in journalism speaks volumes about the state of the Press in our Country.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 10:06pmSISSYKATZ, I have to agree with you. I’ve always despised that nasaly Andrea Mitchell. She seems to play the gotcha game with everyone she interviews. Not like she really wants the current news, she wants anything dirty. Somebody else compared her to Helen Thomas, good example.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 10:29pmShe is one of the worst of the worst. How many times has she demanded respect for politicians, yet she has no respect for Donald Rumsfeld. Typical liberal hypocrisy.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the time for choosing video
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 10:50pm11 minutes of Mitchell trying embarrass and play “gotcha” games. Rumsfeld handled all she could throw at him, all while being composed and respectful.
She was completely outclassed, in every sense of the word.
Report Post »WTH
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 3:37amI think Andrea has the same people as Madcow doing her research, which is probably some blogger at Huffpo.
Report Post »Tony
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 8:09amMs. Mitchell!!! I thought she was Helen Thomas….rats!!! now there are two of them.
Mitchell was effective in saying, “I‘ve got my story line and I’m sticking to it”. She is a proud employee of the Nudging Broadcasting Company.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 8:41amThe TRUTH is the enemy of Liberals! The TRUTH has NO agenda!!
And Andrea Mitchell is so old her **** has mice! OOOoooo!!!!
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 10:04amTruth hurts.
Remember this ————- Rumsfeld sent our finest troops into action WITHOUT protection. They had to rummage thru piles of trash metal pieces to fix their own vehicles to protect themselves from IEDs. He hired ‘no bid contractors’ who managed to poison our troops water, who managed to electrocute soldiers while in the shower and they charged the government for 40 thousand meals served while only about 12 thousand were accounted for. He also allowed twelve ($12Billion) billon dollars – in cash on pallets – to go missing without any investigation. Oh, and let us NOT forget that any female employee had NO recourse if she was raped – because it was her own fault for being there in the first place!
Would you REALLY trust this man with your children’s lives???
Report Post »happyboy
Posted on February 23, 2011 at 10:50amHE JOB IS TO DEFEND OBAMA AND WORK TO GET HIM RE-ELECTED
Obama is not even our president, he is a nothing and America needs a president even Biden would be better than Obama. The 25th Amendment would permit Biden to become the next US President. Please Mr. Biden do your duty and save our nation.
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