NBC Top Political Reporter Giving Cash to Hillary?

[elizm]

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Sunday, July 8, 2007
Is NBC's Top Political Reporter Giving Cash to Hillary Clinton?

That's the question I had after reading the Denver Post's dispatch today about Sen. Clinton coming to Aspen to rake in big money from a who's who of the the corporate and political Establishment. Here's the excerpt:

"Sen. Hillary Clinton drew powerful, deep-pocketed crowds at a pair of fundraisers here Saturday...Clinton, wearing a coral blazer and black slacks, arrived for a cocktail reception at Belly Up without her husband, who was in town for the Aspen Ideas Festival. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced her colleague to the crowd of more than 100, which included former Disney chief Michael Eisner and movie producer Steve Tisch, who is also a co-owner of the New York Giants...Later, Clinton was the featured guest at a $2,300-a-plate dinner where the guest list included former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his wife, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell." (emphasis added)

The wording of the article leaves open a little wiggle room, but it sure seems to suggest that both right-wing Republican Greenspan and NBC's top political correspondent Mitchell are now giving big money to Hillary Clinton. That would be a particular problem for Mitchell, considering that when she's not hob-nobbing with the rich, powerful and famous on the cocktail party circuit, she's supposed to be reporting on the presidential race in an entirely nonpartisan, objective fashion. It would be a little tough to claim to do that at the same time you are handing over big checks to individual candidates at $2,300-a-plate fundraisers - the same candidates you are supposed to be covering in an objective fashion.

Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, this story should be troubling from purely an interest in fairness. Will Mitchell ask for a correction if this story is somehow incorrect? If it is accurate, will NBC let this kind of thing stand, and will the other Democratic presidential candidates ask NBC to forbid Mitchell from covering the campaign?

http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/07/is_nbcs_top_political_reporter.html

[aquart]

1. Andrea Mitchell...objective?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I think it is just "MORON"

If they are contributing to Hillary, they must be terrified of something.

[Buzz Clik]

4. Corollary: Calling Andrea Mitchell a "reporter" is delusional.

As you suggest, a reporter should be objective, and she is not.

[demgirlamerica]

2. whats the big deal

wasnt a study just released saying 90% of the media contribute to democrats? i think its great the media is on our side. im sure many of them contribute to obama. calm down.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Can you provide a link or source for that assertion?

"90% of the media contribute to democrats"? Sounds like a talking point to me.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

12. Link?

I find that hard to believe. It sounds like a right-wing myth straight from Hannity or Flush. ;)

[ChazII]

15. Links

Google is our friend. Here are a few links:


myth: the US has a liberal media
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-liberalmedia.htm


Journalists give campaign cash
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/


UCLA study done in 2005
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664


demgirlamerica,
I am with you on this topic, some folks need to calm down.

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. thanks for the links.....

but as the msnbc report points out, they've included reporters who report on food, fashion, and entertainment in that number.

And as far as "calming down", you folks on the right throw this claim out ad nauseum, when you pretty much control all the media outlets. No matter who they donate to, it certainly doesn't matter when the corporate media bosses have the final say on what gets published.

[mod mom]

5. You mean Andrea "the polls show the majority support a libby pardon" Mitchell?

Despite polls showing the difference Mitchell offered by this lie (and was later forced to apologize). NBC needs to remove her.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Let her take the corporate $$$...

...the proof will be if she ACTS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. FDR was a corporate fav, but he still DID WHAT WAS IN THE BEST INTERESTS of the AMERICAN PEOPLE. That's why FDR is considered one of the BEST PRESIDENTS EVER.

I can hold out hope, can't I? :crazy:

[LaPera]

7. Republicans want her so badly to win the nomination, repugs like Murdoch & others having fundraisers

and donating and I'm sure even more republicans will be donating and the corporate media is pushing for her....The republicans and the media know with their ten or eleven republican stiffs that are running, their only hope & chance is having an oppressed gender, a woman or an oppressed minority, a black man as the democratic nominee for president and they will both be on the news every night after night, and they will both continue to rake in the big bucks!

[illinoisprogressive]

8. NBC has been openly pushing Hillary , and this may explain some of it,.

It's no secret that NBC has a very pro Hillary slant and is backing her heavily. Mitchell is one of many who are very pro Hillary at NBC.
But, Hillary also has ties to Fox. She has been seen hobnobbing at Fox parties with their personalities. And she is close to Murdoch. I heard he is throwing a fundraiser for her this month.

[Alamom]

13. Murdoch has supported Al Gore, D. Feinstein, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, plus

Since 1987, Rupert Murdoch has supported many Democrats other than HRC. Plus many Democratic committees


http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Rupert_Murdoch.php

Al Gore (D)
Diane Feinstien (D)
John Kerry (D)
Ted Kennedy (D)

Edward Markey (D)
Max Cleland (D)
Robb Charles (D)
Bob Graham (D)
Earnest Hollings (D)
Victor Fazio (D)
John Dingle (D)
George Mitchell (D)
Thomas Foley (D)
George Mitchell (D)
Mel Levine (D)
Lloyd Brenstsen (D)
John Breaux (D)
Charles Robb (D)

&

DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
DNC-NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUAL
DNC SERVICES CORPORATION/DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (D)
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

[Alamom]

14. BTW, got a link regarding the Fox Parties and Fundraiser, I don't find anything...

TIA

[MADem]

9. Oh, please. They're getting worried about the NBC franchise NOW?? Give me a break!!!!

General Electric's NBC??? GE, we bring good WARS to life??? Does anyone think that entity that Jack Welch wiped his ass on, that plastic piece of crap that once was the Honorable Peacock, has ANY credibility at all? Oh joy, they have Olbermann on their cable arm that doesn't reach all markets, but that's ALL they have. The rest is shit.

Brian Williams, the GOP go-to anchor with no detectable ideological bias??? Per Frank Luntz?? Timmy "I got my Bush button on my lapel" Russert? Look at the NBC stable...they're crawling with GOP toadies.

Come on. What a load of crap. There isn't a reporter on TV who isn't partisan, and Andrea hasn't done the Democrats many favors.

If her husband (who looking back, probably thought Clinton was the best fucking boss he ever had) bought the tickets and took his wife, well, that's not necessarily HER contribution, now, is it?

Are Carville's contributions also Matalin's? Of course not.

For all we know, she might have been 'comped' to cover it, and Alan paid but she ate for free.

Did people tell Barbara Walters she couldn't report when she was fucking John Warner? Why no, they didn't.

And who knows? Maybe they're just hedging their bets? The whole money thing is just obscene nowadays. Plenty of wealthy people toss it around to both sides, covering their bases, just in case.

But the whole article comes down to a great big fat MAYBE. This sentence says "We reported on this like it COULD be fact, but in reality, we don't know JACKSHIT." I really HATE that kind of shitty, FOX NEWS-like reporting, too--either get the facts or don't go to print:

The wording of the article leaves open a little wiggle room, but it sure seems to suggest that both right-wing Republican Greenspan and NBC's top political correspondent Mitchell are now giving big money to Hillary Clinton.

[msongs]

10. DU swiftboaters in action again innuendo and smear with no facts in evidence nt

[demgirlamerica]

16. like i said

we have the media in our pockets. why are we afraid of rush limbaugh? ive never even listened to him.

MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.

[venable]

18. Andrea Mitchell is no different from a rush or coulter. in some ways she's worse

because she is not considered a lying partisan. but she is one.