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Andrea Mitchell: ‘Great Right-Wing Conspiracy’ Viciously Went After Bill And Hillary

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On Tuesday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell stopped by Morning Joe, where she looked back on the “great right-wing conspiracy’s” treatment of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Early on, Bill Clinton, Mitchell explained, defined himself as the “comeback kid,” partially thanks to his ability to not bow down to the anger and the “vicious” nature of the opposition. And they took particular aim, Mitchell recalls, at Hillary (aka “the wife”).

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“Anyone who has known Hillary Clinton then and now,” said Mitchell, “knows that, despite everything that they went through, that’s not who Hillary Clinton is. And it was just this… I hate to revert to the great right-wing conspiracy, but there was really a group out there who were not going to let him succeed. And he of course played into that with this own mistakes.”

Have a look at what Mitchell had to say, via MSNBC:

h/t NewsBusters

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  • Anonymous

    Andrea’s hasn’t been in the national news looking like a moron for a couple days.  Here she is keeping her stats up…

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    when talking about Bill Clinton i think MSNBC is using the wrong spelling of the word “come”.

  • Holistic

    Mitchell proving once again, how crazy she is.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The war was far more simple then. The information age has armed many more.

  • Anonymous

    What a JOKE. Bill and Hillary ARE RIGHT WING! Look at their history with the Bushes. They’re all buddies and all OWNED by the Elite.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sterling-Hallbrook/100001761276049 Sterling Hallbrook

    Poor, dear Andrea. It was the same folks that stole her impishness and girl-next-door good looks. 

  • Anonymous

    Poor Bill, he did nothing to get the Public think he was a sleaze ball.  Still, he looks very good compared to the joker who’s in the White House now.  Remember how Bill and Hill would rent out the Lincoln bedroom?  I never thought I’d say this, but I miss those days.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    Bill Clinton the sexual harasser president and his wife who stayed married to him to further her political career. What role models.

  • Anonymous

    My goodness….she has aged…haven’t watched her on tv for a long time now…but gooness, what the heck happened to her…wow!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Georgi-Tsakonis/100000671899573 Georgi Tsakonis

    she is right

  • Anonymous

    Anger and hatred.  The Dark Side has consequences.

  • Anonymous

    In Andrea’s world we are not allowed to oppose any of her heroes.
    Listen to her talk disapprovingly of organizations out to take someone down as if she doesn’t know anybody like that.
    MSNBC is devoted to attacking Republicans as company policy.
    It is their friggin’ mission statement.
    They even say it in commercials.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum’s surrogates make complete asses of themselves and it’s Mitchell who looks bad?

    Get real.

  • J.Glovington Donahue 3rd

    The Clintons viciously attacked a young intern and tried to make her look like a stalker, until the proof of what she said showed up. Then Hill goes on the Today Show to blame the other party for her husband’s actions.

    Mrs. Clinton wrote a book saying she was shocked that Bill was fooling around with Monica. That was a lie. She wasn’t paying attention to all the previous women?

  • Centrist79

    Well back when Hillary was talking about health care she was getting killed,  and remember Vince Foster. so yes Andrea is correct.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I don’t know if anyone here is following the series on PBS (started last night)…this is just opening up old wounds and the “LEFT” doesn’t like it…you know what I say, “it is what it is” and these two choose to share this life…let the chips fall where they may…Bill was, is and will always be, a seducer of women.. and Hillary choose to turn the cheek and went right along with all this…the end game  for the two was more important than pride…so sad!..

  • Dale Hogue

    Is it dark up there where you usually wear your head?  You read an old out of date story written by a somebody who is way out of her league – talentwise – and you ate it up because it gave you a chance to write snarky remarks about people who had nothing to do with the factual details of the article presented on this page.  I’m sure you really believe what you’ve written, so I’ll give you a pass on your post.

    That’s all I have to say on a subject that doesn’t deserve even that much of a response. 

  • J.Glovington Donahue 3rd

    At least Clinton didn’t go after teenage interns. They probably didn’t have any teenagers.

  • Anonymous

    ‘a group’ : yes, Andrea, and a group whon won elections in 1994, 96 and 98. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s democracy. But you live in a bubble where nobody you know voted for Nixon, where Clinton was viciously attacked by a conspiracy (despite the fact he was elected by a minority thanks to Ross Perot), and where the Tea Party is a fringe or racicts who dignore the greatness of Obama.

  • P Diddie

    Sexual Harrassment (how very un-P.C. of him)
    vs
    Lying us into unnecessary wars, not holding anyone accountable for 9/11, bailing out the banks and therefore undermining the global financial system, abusing impeachment powers to undermine U.S. governance?

    Hmm, I’ll take the sexual impropriety, and your weak, dishonest moral outrage, Jeff.

  • Anonymous

    You’ll “give me a pass”?

    LOL. That rich. That would also assume that I give a rat’s ass what a nonsense-spewing idiot thinks about my comments. When I do, you’ll be the first person I call.

  • http://twitter.com/MerryMarjie MerryMarjie

    Having been around for a few years, I couldn’t believe the vicious, malicious, nakedly depraved excoriation of a President that was flung at Bill Clinton.  No other president in history, including the truth-challenged Nixon, had received such vehement censure.  It was completely directed by the hatred of the right-wing.  Clinton’s moral problems were not a factor until his second term, but piles of excrement were heaped on him for everything he did.  Hillary Clinton, an intelligent, thoughtful woman, was scorned for trying to contribute to the health care crisis in this country, and even their beautiful daughter was lampooned. For the first time in memory, the President and the First Lady were dragged through the dirt on a daily basis, courtesy of the fear-mongering, hate-spewing right wing.

    By the time GWBush was elected, smearing the office holder had become commonplace, but at least Laura was given a break and never suffered the vitriol as Hillary had.  (The Democrats couldn’t be as horrid as the GOP, the only explanation.)

    And now it’s President and Mrs. Obama who are receiving the poison arrows of the extreme right wing.  Questioning his religious beliefs is merely a bit of fluff compared to all of the other vituperation and surliness directed at the couple.  Michelle Obama is criticized for every movement, dress or word, a subject of derision, while Barack is depicted as a buffoon who has no idea of what he’s doing.

    God Bless, people, when is all of this going to stop?  Will you feel free to throw rocks at the next President?  How far do we take this?  Better decide soon…

  • Anonymous

    Hey Andrea – maybe the right went after Hillary and Bill – I’m sure they did.  But Chris Mattews of your station made it his life’s work to tear her apart in order to get Obama elected. 

    So you don’t have to turn your head too far right – when turning it left will show you the same thing.

  • Anonymous

    Any thoughts on Juanita Broaderick? Or the young lady from Oxford who stepped forward and claimed she was raped by Clinton—-the press ignored her as it was a “she said, he said.” Kathleen Willey? Paula Jones? Jennifer Flowers?

    These ladies were treated like “trailer trash,” by the media and Dems. Where was Gloria Allred?

    Any thoughts on Sid Blumenthal (sp) claiming he was asked personal questions by the Grand Jury about his sexual life, which he later admitted were false. These stories were carried by the NY TIMES (they later apologized for the false story,carried by Anthony Lewis ). The evening news used these stories to brand Ken Starr. 

    We then have the war in Kosovo. We were told that over 100,000 Ethnic Albanians were killed in “Ethnic Cleansing.” After the war ended, the UN Forensics teams found about 2300 were killed before the start of the war, about one-third were Serbs. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Int., and the International Red Cross charged NATO with nearly 100 violations of the Geneva Convention. The European Press covered the War honestly, the US covered for Clinton.

    Now, Clinton was as excellent manager of the economy. He kept the govt. bureaucracy from expanding. He was aided by the “phony-dot-coms”, Corporate “cooking of the books,” and the beginning of the housing bubble. But, overall, a good steward of the people’s money.

    Andrea Mitchell was part of the “cover up.” 

  • Anonymous

    Wow, this is truly PATHETIC. Once again Mitchell shows why she’s such a major on-air NITWIT, with absolutely NO CLUE to this day…

    FLASHBACK TO…The New Hampshire primary where Gennifer Flowers comes forward about her affair with Bill. So what does Hillary do? She runs to 60 MINUTES and sings a Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man” song, where she accuses Flowers of being a liar AND the opposition of “making things up just to stop us.”

    FLASHBACK TO…Paula Jones coming forward to reveal her affair with Bill, which prompts Hillary to sing another chorus of “Stand By Your Man.” At which point she accuses Jones of being a liar AND the opposition of “making things up just to stop us.”

    FLASHBACK TO…Kathleen Wiley coming forward and accusing Bill of sexually molesting her too, which prompts Hillary to sing yet another reprise of “Stand By Your Man.” At which point she she accuses Wiley of being a liar AND the opposition of “making things up just to stop us.”

    FLASHBACK to…Monica Lewinsky, which becomes TRULY LAUGHABLE with such great moments as Clinton wagging his finger and indignantly declaring: “I did NOT have sex with that girl.” Or appearing before a Federal Grand Jury, where he puts his hand on a Bible and swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth…you know, that silly thing we expect the highest elected official in the land to do…at which point he proceeds to LIE HIS SORRY ASS OFF.

    All of which culminates in Billy Boy breaking into prime time TV one evening, to address the nation, where he’s finally forced to admit: “Well…okay…I really DID bang that girl. And the others too.”

    But through it all one of the biggest CROCKS was the infamous TODAY interview, where Couric and Lauer couldn’t pimp themselves or NBC’s journalistic credibility fast enough, to carry water for the DNC. At which point they let Hillary do an all-new encore of “Stand By Your Man” simply so — yes, you guessed it — she could accuse Lewinsky of being a liar AND the opposition of “making things up just to stop us.” At which point she truly put foot in mouth by claiming that it was all the work of a vast right wing conspiracy.

    Now, if Hillary had shut her big, fat yap and said “This is a personal FAMILY matter that we are going to deal with, so I have NO comment” — I would have supported that on a purely human level. Or conversely, if she had said “This is being investigated by Congress and since I respect the LAW of the land, I have NO comment to make”– I would have supported that too.

    But she DIDN’T do that. Instead like the cold, calculating shark that she always is, Hillary decided to make it POLITICAL. Which is why she sat on the set — with Couric and Lauer’s compliance — and thought “How can I make this work for ME, to benefit MY long term ambitions?  Hey, I know!  Instead of just admitting that Bill is a sh*tty, lying husband, I’ll blame the REPUBLICANS!”

    So as I said — F*CK OFF, NBC and MSNBC.

    In modern media, the “Right Wing conspiracy” comment is Ground Zero for the moment you pimped your journalistic morals and you revealed yourselves to be nothing more than a DNC tool. Simply because on that day — when the dam had broken and you couldn’t toss a pebble without hitting evidence of Clinton’s obvious guilt — not one single person at NBC or MSNBC had the journalistic guts to turn to Hillary and say “WTF!!!  A government conspiracy? Like a Roswell UFO conspiracy? Like a who shot JFK conspiracy? THAT is who you think is causing all of your problems versus the cold, hard fact that Bill just can’t keep his pants zipped? Seriously, what the hell are you babbling about, and do you honestly think anyone is STUPID ENOUGH to buy the bullsh*t you’re peddling?”

    Well, now we know the answer. Because not only was Andrea Mitchell RETARDED enough to buy it back then, but she’s still a journalistic EMBARRASSMENT for pushing such a lame, pathetic talking point…

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    I just heard a clip from PBS’ documentary about Bill and in just a 30 second clip, the obvious nature of the bimbo eruptions was apparent. As I recall, it was over the Lewinsky matter that HIllary developed her “right wing conspiracy” meme. Seems like she should have gotten out of denial and blamed Bill for not keeping it in his pants and then lying about it.

  • Anonymous

    Um, watch the PBS series about Bill.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what is in your thinking are that ignorant of just trying to look like one, please show us your birth certificate 

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Agreed. As I posted below, it was the women that the press ignored, like Juanita Broaderick and the girl from Oxford, that the media ignored. 

    The press’ narrative was that it was just a consensual affair, which is why they ignored the non-consensual ladies. 

    I remember when the impeachment hearings were taking place and a recess was held for the congressional members to view the FBI documents on Clinton. The members (both parties) came back and said they were disgusted. The press played it like they read about Monica Lewinsky. They already knew about Lewinsky. They were disgusted because they read about the other ladies. 

  • Holistic

    The very minute Obama shows his.

  • Anonymous

    >> By the time GWBush was elected, smearing the office holder had become
    commonplace, but at least Laura was given a break and never suffered the
    vitriol as Hillary had.  (The Democrats couldn’t be as horrid as the
    GOP, the only explanation.)

    LMAO!!!

    Or, gee, maybe the “explanation” was the simple fact that Laura Bush never really inserted herself into public policy VERSUS Hillary who, right from the start and given her own ambitions and gargantuan EGO, always viewed things as a “Co-Presidency”, where she LITERALLY thought she was on equal footing with Bill, in terms of power, prestige, and the ability to order Congress around — hence the reason she thought she could ram nationalized healthcare down the nation’s throat at the time.

    And yes, the Democrats are every bit as “horrid” as the GOP when they want to be. Best example in a glass case that you can break when needed: Nancy Pelosi and her complete SHE-BITCH tenure as Speaker of the House.

  • Anonymous

    Such GOP filth will stop at nothing.  But then we’ve known that.  And here they are again with Obama.  They should rightfully be exterminated from the face of the Earth for their damage & destruction.

  • Anonymous

    MerryMajie : the only ‘conspiracy’ was the media who remain quiet on Clinton until the Drudge Report published the story. You may consider him like a kind of God (lefty politicians like Roosevelt, Kennedy,… are always icons) but the reality is that he was impeached by the House of Representatives. For the rest, grow up. It’s politics. It’s always ugly. It was already in 18th century. You trash our politicians, we trash yours. When you see how the left distorts and mocks our presidents, our culture, our politicians, do you really expect that we will be nice with you in return ? Even if Obama is reelected, the mainstream GOP – not what you call the ‘extreme right wing’ -, will defend his values and philosophy against your president. That’s democracy.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Well, at least we can be satisfied with the knowledge you’ll never reproduce since you think getting a BJ is having sex.  You’re a whole step up the ladder from thinking you get pregnant by swallowing watermelon seeds.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Not quite…  it was “a VAST right-wing conspiracy” not a “great” one.

  • P Diddie

    Yes, accusations and speculation are rampant on both parties.  But direct TAMPERING with classified intelligence by political hacks (Cheney’s task force…in Dubya’s Administration AND Ford’s) is something that is only sanctioned in conservative Administrations.

    The money causes drumbeats for unnecessary wars across both parties, it’s called campaign finance.  Rumors and speculation do not cause armed conflicts.  Opening classified intelligence documents to political operatives does.  

    I mean Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld were the SAME guys who falsified CIA intelligence in the 1970s to say that laser cannons and non-acoustic submarines (nonexistent weapons) existed because the CIA could not prove they DID NOT EXIST.  Their “Team B” exercise also attempted to tie ALL acts of terrorism from Basque rebels, to Egyptian insurgents, to the Irish Republican Army as being under direct control of the Soviets.

    LITERALLY THE SAME GUYS lied about weapons AND enemies by falsifying intelligence in THE SAME WAY as they did almost 30 years later!  Party of accountability, right?  Read a book sometime, know my country’s history, and then you might be able to defend its interests instead of tearing it apart for one of your Wall Street master’s profit. When it comes to matters of war and peace your snarky ignorance makes you obedient to the end.

  • Anonymous

    “When it comes to matters of war and peace your snarky ignorance makes you obedient to the end. ”

    You gleaned all that from one post?  Quite the Kreskin you are.  You lemmings nevver cease to amaze me with the depth of your elitism and hatred.  Enjoy the Xanax cocktail, you need it.

  • Anonymous

     The PBS documentary was spineless.  I found a far more
    informative account of the Clintons in that new Amazon eBook, “The Diary
    of Hillary Clinton’s Secret Campaign Consultant.”  It may be much
    shorter, but it is much more insightful as it contains information from an
    insider that has never before been made public.

  • P Diddie

    I am elitist for not defending the elites’ favored tax status, wars of choice, and insurance rackets, by threatening to start a bloody revolution at a time of war.  Gotit.

  • Anonymous

     She is Alan Greenspan’s wife and looking to help control the world.

  • Anonymous

    Check out what PBS won’t show you: The Whistleblower: How the Clinton White House Stayed in Power to Reemerge in the Obama House.
     
    If you pulled what the Clintons did – you’d be held in contempt or in jail. Wake up already.

    http://www.amazon.com/Whistleblower-Clinton-White-Stayed-Reemerge/dp/0987834304/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329861722&sr=8-1-spell

  • Anonymous

     Look up the rape of Juanita Broderick by Clinton and Clinton and pervert pal Jeff Epstein and underage girls in Europe.

  • Anonymous

     Hillary had her own women “pals”

  • Anonymous

    You are not an American just another dinosaur that does know how to go away

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Imnot-Tim/100002377097501 Imnot Tim

    and she joined in on the fun  i remember her on matthews loving it

    matthes show was was the clubhouse for the clinton haters

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Imnot-Tim/100002377097501 Imnot Tim

    thats nuts

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    I swear…..Andrea Mitchell just has to have Eeyore or Flicka somewhere in her lineage.

  • Anonymous

    Is PBS a ” great right wing conspiracy”? 

  • Anonymous

    History shows us that the phrase ‘right wing conspiracy’ never ends well for democrats.   

  • Anonymous

    I missed part one of the Clinton profile on PBS, but am planning on watching part 2 tonight. 

  • Anonymous

    When you point your finger at someone there are FIVE fingers pointing back at YOU, Andrea.

  • Anonymous

    I so love seeing pictures of this Leftist Media Wench. Every photo of her shows a bedraggled, exhausted, livid Leftist who is coming to terms with the failure of her religion…Lib-Rul-Ism. This was supposed to be four years of caviar and champagne for these Obama lovers. Hasn’t turned out that way, and for that we can cheer.

  • Anonymous

    LOL  — wait, let me get this straight.
    So the phrase “oral sex” is NOT about sex?
    And the ACT of committing a blow job is NOT a sexual act?

    Seriously, are you actually willing to be that much of a public dim bulb just so you prove how committed you are as a lib?

    Then again, why am I even bothering to ask? When someone makes a comment as silly as yours, clearly you’re willing to showcase your sheer stupidity from the moment you wake up each morning.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, by the way Dumb Dumb — oops, I meant Darr Darr — statistically while the odds are against you, you actually CAN reproduce from simply engaging in a BJ, if you act fast enough…

    TRUE STORY — a few years ago, a Nurse and a Doctor began a sexual relationship after hours. The Doctor wanted a “no strings attached” relationship, so he insisted that the ONLY sex they would have would be oral because he SPECIFICALLY wanted to be sure that no “accidents” would occur.

    However, the Nurse had other ideas in mind. So, one night when he came to see her, at her apartment, she gave him a BJ as usual — at which point (sorry for the bluntness here) she didn’t spit out. Instead she waved him off pretending that she needed to wash her mouth out. She then raced into the bathroom, spit out the semen, and used a device she had “borrowed” from the hospital to quickly insert it into herself.

    The result — she actually pulled it off and got herself pregnant.
    The even NUTTIER part to the story?

    The Nurse never told the Doctor what she had done. In fact, once she found out that she was pregnant, she quit her job at the hospital and moved away where…I kid you not…she started up a Lesbian love affair and moved in with another woman, with whom she then had the baby.

    About 2 years later, the woman and her lover fell on hard times. Faced with raising a young child, they then filed a LAWSUIT against the Doctor seeking child support. In fact, they demanded not only ongoing payments for the future, but wanted to be compensated for the first two years when they had been raising the child in secret.

    The TRULY JAW-DROPPING part of the story?

    Hauled into court, the Doctor was stunned to discover he had actually “fathered” a 2-year-old child from a BJ.  And he likewise scoffed at the idea that he should now have to pay child support given that he had been duped from the start and had been denied even knowing about the child’s existence.

    However, in a truly stunning ruling, the Judge ruled AGAINST the Doctor and sided with the Lesbian couple and ordered him to pay the 2 years back child support — and future support for the next 16 years as well — by basically saying: “Yeah, it sucks what they did. But it’s still your baby and you should be HAPPY that you now have a kid. Therefore, since the MOST important thing is to always do what’s best for a child, I hereby order you to financially cover the Lesbian couple’s bills and take care of it.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/bonnie.fletcher1 Bonnie Fletcher

    Oh, all this hatred makes me ill!!  Is there no end to it?  Both sides, full of hatred for the other.God help us, we really need Him today!!

  • http://punditpawn.wordpress.com PunditPawn

     Only if the Satan Sandwich doesn’t get us first.

  • http://punditpawn.wordpress.com PunditPawn

     When 47% of the people don’t pay any Federal income tax at all,  I don’t even think God can save us now.

    Buckle up, this is just getting started.  Democrats aren’t used to Republican fighting back, but we sure showed them in 2010.  Wait ’til November…

  • http://punditpawn.wordpress.com PunditPawn

     He’s quite incapable of understanding complexities such as these.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Look up the claims the moon landing was faked.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    No one died when Clinton lied, unlike with George W. Boosh’s Iraq war.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Republicans love to just make sh-t up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Clinton beat Dole in ’96.
    And the GOP lost seats in ’96 and ’98.

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