Wednesday, October 06, 2004

What is Andrea Mitchell's Job?

I recognize that increasingly there are grey areas in our dysfunctional media. Media people move back and forth between "journalist," "analyst," and "pundit," often with most viewers being unaware of either the difference between those things or about which particular hat the person is wearing at any given time.

Bizarrely, NBC currently has her listed as their "Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent." But, in case, for someone who is mostly presented as a straight journalist she's sure been engaging in a lot of partisan Republican hackery lately. Her gushing over Cheney last night was utterly ridiculous.

But, her most hacktackular moment was this one in August:

MS. MITCHELL: Well, let's take a look also at the American support for this. When we looked at our NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, again, as to whether or not all this was worth it, a majority, 51 percent, feel that removing Saddam Hussein was not worth the casualties and the billions that we spent.

So, Joe Lieberman, have we lost the American people?