Andrea Mitchell Would Like To Know Why The SEC Missed ‘The Whole Maddow Thing’

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by Frances Martel | 8:56 am, April 24th, 2010

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Can an intern get Andrea Mitchell a cup of coffee? The exhausted-looking host had trouble telling apart one of the most notorious fraudsters in history from one of her own MSNBC colleagues yesterday when she repeatedly asked Rep. Barney Frank about all the porn the SEC employees were watching instead of following the “Maddow” (?) case.

Mitchell was interviewing Frank on the recent discovery that SEC workers had spent thousands of hours watching pornography during work hours in 2008, when the Bernie Madoff scandal was wreaking havoc on the economy and many in the financial sector were wondering where the SEC was during the entire time that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. During the interview, Mitchell repeatedly called the convicted fraudster “Maddow” –apparently referring to MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow, instead. Frank answered without regard to her error, instead offering a broad condemnation of free-market ideals for having caused the problem.

Mitchell didn’t seem to be deliberately implicating her colleague, and sounded exhausted as she tried to string her question together, which came out like this:

“…we finally figured out why the SEC missed the whole Maddow thing, where we have an internal report that says that they found that some of the people at the SEC on Maddow were, during that period at least, were on pornography sites for thousands and thousands of hours, sometimes as much as eight hours a day?”

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m

I’ll spare the sarcastic remark by saying that this simply is a gaffe and is not worthy really of any particularly big mention. It’s own article? Just a smaller blurb would’ve been satisfactory.
felixw

Whie you are at it Andrea, maybe you can explain to us why the business press and financial experts in the media missed “the Madoff thing” as well. Or, even better, explain to us why the Social Security Administration — which is using the exact same accounting methods as Bernie Madoff to manage everyone’s retirement money — isn’t under intense journalistic scrutiny.
TonyClifton

“Andrea Mitchell Would Like To Know Why The SEC Missed ‘The Whole Maddow Thing’”

Because, like everyone else, they don’t watch her show.
Jim R

The media has been missing a lot besides Madoff and Iraq, like the unrelenting attacks on and misrepresentations of S.S. by economic royalists and the political descendants of those who opposed its formation from day one.

It’s not a retirement program, but an insurance program. To insure against the elderly living under bridges and starving in the streets.

Or they fail to report that it pays on average half what the other 30 or so advanced countries with similar programs return to their participants. Or that the 2.5 trillion borrowed from the system I helped save since 1983 via one of my numerous Reagan tax increases on the middle class, will indeed be paid in full or learning to speak Chinese will be a bigger problem than solvency.

Or that a growing economy and liberalized immigration solves all funding problems for the next century.

But that wouldn’t help their brethren in the investor class dupe us into letting Wall Street feast on the labors of the underclass and invest the proceeds in foreign bank accounts to avoid taxes.
Tater Salad

Liberals……………hypocrits and liars!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssl5yb7FewA&aia=true
Sunnyr

This poor old gal is in over her head. Alzheimers? or just liberal brain rot disease?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-Amsel/1450316715 Bob Amsel

I would suspect that Andrea is fearful of becoming yet another victim of the MSNBC pogrom against Jews since she’s the last major token at the predominantly Irish network.

So is you’d like to help Andrea, please sign the BRING BACK DAVID SHUSTER petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/NewsFans/petition.html
MrsPeel

Word, Bob.
Jamestaylor

Andrea, I’m so glad you and the rest of the media have made this such a big story. NO ONE can condone this type of behavior but ABC reported tonight that a SEC invesigation into this found 31 serious offenders during the past two and a half years. That’s less than 1 percent of the agency’s 3,500 employees . So I think everyone should put down their broad brushes and get out their styptic pencils.

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