She’s right…..

So the rap on Iowa is that there are no rappers, there’s no Kathy Griffin taking off her shirt in public, no dope fiends camping out in public parks?

What a hellhole !

well we can’t have that. is there something our government can do to rectify this situation?

Pretty much on target with that analysis, Andrea.  Iowa is about as backwards as they get.  

“The rap on Detroit,” she said. “It doesn’t represent the rest of the
country… too black, too violent, too urban. Still here, politics are
personal.”

See… all of a sudden you would thing the same thing is racist. Weird???

So you and her are proud racist.. Looks good on you. :)

Busing…..

Andrea is one of those liberal unbiased commentators.

i’m sure this horrible predicament is now Eric Holders #1 priority!

The ‘rap’ on NBC reporters:  too elite, too urban, too condescending, too narrowly educated.

Equally accurate description.

“Doesn’t represent the rest of the country?”  Someone should point out the ’08 election map to Ms. Mitchell.  It’s 90% red.

It’s funny that you think the use of white, evangelical, and rural are negative.

let’s not forget CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and his racial views on New Orleans:
http://youtu.be/1Sfo32rlkiE
 

Would she rather Iowa be like New York City, where one of America’s greatest actresses, Ellen Barkin, was brutally clubbed by a squad of police thugs?

‘Too White?’ This Leftist media shrew should check the color on her own network. ‘Too Rural?’ Spoken like a haughty Lib elite who thinks the world begins and ends in New York City (like the famous New Yorker cover decades ago…parody works when truth is involved).

Dude, You simplify EVERYTHING to ABSURDITY! 

Somebody please ask Santorum about him being a big Jerry Sandusky fan. Rick’s a “diddler enabler”!

Rick Santorum sponsored Penn State serial pederast Jerry Sandusky for a” Congressional Angel of Adoption” award at a time when Sandusky, a two time national assistant coach of the year, couldn’t get a coaching offer because of a national whisper campaign regarding his fascination with little boy’s bottoms!

Sandusky “retires” from coaching at 45!!!! (1999) after he had already been caught showering twice with the victims.  In 2002, Penn State grad Santorum sponsors him for the award, further enabling him to build the ring he used to catch more kids, right as coach McQueary catches him a third time buggering a kid in the Penn State showers.

But it gets even better! Santorum sponsors Sandusky for the prestigious award, yet denies he’s ever met Sandusky!!!! A Penn State Senator has never met a Penn State national assistant coach of the year and designated JoePa successor????
“Me thinks he doth protest too much!”

Santorum / Sanduski 2012 – No Child’s Behind Left Undone!

Well considering there are many cities as well as blacks in Iowa, you seem to be buying into the hick stereotype too.

Pity those poor Iowaonians, victims of extreme anti white racism

Andrea left out one adjective….too TeaBagish.

Spare us Andrea–you are one of the reason MSNBC rating are in the cellar.

The rap on the average conservative: too stupid, too narrowminded, too backwards, too petty, too bigoted, and too quick to cry about how they are some victims of evil liberal bigots

Andrea Mitchell Greenspan is too old, too ugly, too bitter, too brainwashed, too bizarre, too macabre, too grotesque…

“Racist”, that is such a stupid lie. I love right wing political correctness, where stupid white bigots pretend they are victims while simultaneously crying about how liberals are always playing the race card.

Considering how much you love unbridled police power, low class brutes and hate OWS and Ellen Barkin, that should make you over joyed

So the rap on Iowa Republicans is that they don’t represent America.

That’s what really kills you baggers, isn’t it?  You hate America because its not just white, evangelical, and rural.

Since Cheetah has gone to that Great Treehouse in the Sky, we can’t afford to lose any more of the best talent in Hollywood.

You nailed it Tatboy. Its funny if a reporter said that about Detroit or Oakland how the media wold call them racist and be fired in minutes. The media are buffoons and filled with white liberal guilt. 

THANK YOU !!

Tha Iowans are a happy people, living on a diet of fresh air, sunshine and pork chops on a stick. Their chief exports are well adjusted children, big smiles on the tourists’ faces and corn.

Come back soon, neighbor !

Shorter version of “rap”: Too goyish.

This is our country now! It so sad to see a failing economy and no support for growth or business… instead  its ran by idiots with no sense of morals or values just basic check writers to give out to ones who want handouts along with our media and government that loves to glorifying being poor and demonizing the wealthy. WE ARE SCREWED!

How can someone be elite and narrowly educated at the same time?

elite or élite  (ɪˈliːt, eɪ-, ɪˈliːt, eɪ-)
 
— n
1. ( sometimes functioning as plural ) the most powerful, rich, gifted, or educated members of a group, community, etc

This article is a distortion of how Andrea Mitchell was reporting this story.  She was not relaying her personal opinion here.

She was discussing the criticism that many people on both sides of the aisle have had about the Iowa caucuses:  the idea that Iowa is not representative of the country and that it should not have such a huge impact on the nominating process.

She wasn’t relaying her personal opinion…she was discussing a criticism that has been leveled by people in both parties.

Uh, actually they are a very industrialized state.

To the rest of the world; please avert your eyes as we pretend having obscure irrelevant little states determine the next leader of the free world is democratic.

The forty obstructionists in the Senate setting filibuster records represent about 11% of the population. When do we throw off the shackles of the tyranny of the minority? 

Evangelicals should make certain that Rick Santorum becomes the Republican candidate for President. I would love to see a true Christian up against Obama. America should get back to its small town roots.
I think Rick Santorum has God on his side.

“government that loves to glorifying being poor and demonizing the wealthy.”

You’re confused.  That wasn’t the government.  It was Jesus.

You left out the swipe against her being Jewish too.

Thank you

That is and can be a good thing……….well done!

He still has his understudy, Chuck Norris, to carry on

Yeah,… that really fits!

Since she is spot on, why is that bothering you so much?

So religion is worse than violence? A weak way around to a slam.

Oh yes, when the Christics get power, they will re-establish blasphemy laws and use them against non believers

Yeah right, poor rich people, they work so hard  (screwing the rest of us and lobbying for tax cuts while crying about deficits) but are such victims

“Iowa Republican caucus-goers don’t really have a very good track record for picking presidents”

Get it?  That red you speak off was not for Chuck Huckabee

Andrea attacks Iowans.

Iowans must be finding out how
Obama’s Hope and Change Fundamental Transformation
is affecting them.

Just another stupid Democrat Bimbo, shooting her Big Racist mouth off.
And we all know how that mouth got so Big.

Yup!

It’s fresh meat for the baggin’ trolls.  Let them eat it up out of context and expose themselves as the phony victims of the lame stream media.

We got rid of Osama, now it’s time to get rid of his evil twin Obama. 

Chuck will get his Best Actor Oscar before Will Ferrell does.

Which Republican has argued that Iowa is too white and too christian? Just curious.

Pity those poor inner city folk, victims of extreme anti black racism…

See how that works genius….

They may not come out and use those terms, but I think the evidence is clear as increasing numbers of GOP candidates have chosen to skip or to downplay the Iowa  caucuses.  McCain, Romney, Huntsman, etc.   All have chosen to either skip or minimize their presence in Iowa during the last couple of campaign cycles.

I love left wing political correctness just as much… :)

please.. hes dog meat once he gets out of Iowa. 

“poor in SPIRIT” means humility- not poor financially.
Matthew 19:24 refers to an actual location, a passage way in the ME that you could only pass through on a camel -no extra possessions could be taken through with you because it was so tight you had to squeeze through it. Thus derives the meaning that “you can’t take it with you” – you leave this Earth/physical realm with only your soul. Again absolutely nothing to do with finances. 
There is nothing wrong with having money, as long as you don’t worship at the alter of $$$ and it’s importance and priority in your life doesn’t take the place of God. 
To whom much is given much is expected. 

MSNBC audience are New Yorkers, I have known several that felt that 
thinks the world begins and ends in New York City.

Yeah only racists….

Easy buddy…Kathy Griffin is hot,and pretty damn tight….I mean really…

Why is it the left plays that race card first thing? Blacks are pushing 13% nation wide population but the left wants a 50/50 split.

You obviously missed my point. The people in Iowa don’t seem to be suffering at all

I know, compared to all those cosmopolitan internationalists who FOX features and caters too, like Huckabee, they are so provincial.

Even I give the people there credit for being adult enough to ignore or laugh at her harmless comment. What a sensitive little guy you are.

That’s elite liberalism for you.  Too bad for her (ideology) most voters don’t live in New York or LA or other 3 or 4 major cities that liberals seem to think are the only cities with ‘culture’ and intelligence.

Luke 6:20 “And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.”

http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm

“For the last two centuries it has been common teaching in Sunday School that there is a gate in Jerusalem called the eye of the needle through which a camel could not pass unless it stooped and first had all its baggage first removed. After dark, when the main gates were shut, travelers or merchants would have to use this smaller gate, through which the camel could only enter unencumbered and crawling on its knees!

Great sermon material, with the parallels of coming to God on our knees without all our baggage. A lovely story and an excellent parable for preaching but unfortunately unfounded! From at least the 15th century, and possibly as early as the 9th but not earlier, this story has been put forth, however, there is no evidence for such a gate, nor record of reprimand of the architect who may have forgotten to make a gate big enough for the camel and rider to pass through unhindered.”

This is just another example of fake christians reinterpreting the words of Christ to mean something other than what they say, because actually following the teachings of Christ proved to be inconvenient.

Who cares… detroit does not represent all of America just like Iowa… she still has a point..

Got any more irrelevant rubbish you want to share? Guess what Chief, NO is full of poor blacks,.

But it is great that Mediaite presents it in a way so the conservative bigots here can get their fake outrage then pretend they are a victim of Barack’;s evil anti-white conspiracy.

Like this board is?

thanks
its my PC side

There’s no such thing as too white or too stupid for teabaggers.

America is whiter, more rural and more evangelical than the big cities Andrea Mitchell inhabits. Iowa is more like America than New York or Washington DC.

Typical rightie response. Attack the messenger. Ignore the message. Weak.

This article is a distortion of how Andrea Mitchell was reporting this story.  She was not relaying her personal opinion here.She was discussing the criticism that many people on both sides of the aisle have had about the Iowa caucuses:  the idea that Iowa is not representative of the country and that it should not have such a huge impact on the nominating process.She wasn’t relaying her personal opinion…she was discussing a criticism that has been leveled by people in both parties.

….Except that more people actually live on the coasts and in places like NY, DC, LA, SF, etc. than live in middle America.  Just look at any map of the US population. 

Given those realities, what specifically makes Iowa “more like America” than those places?

How dare Andrea Mitchell be blunt in speaking the truth.

Amen.  Major, important legislation gets held up by Senators representing states with hardly any people living in them.

Funny, where is Fox News’ headquarters?

NO! Much of the Midwest and deep South are more rural & evangelical than the big cities.  But the majority of Americans ARE NOT rural-white-evangelicals.  We live in large and moderate cities throughout the country with particularly high concentrations on the East & West Coasts.  Andrea Mitchell is right.  Iowa is not reflective of America. 

Sure, the map looks Red when you put all the states with 5 people living in them together. 

Funny how the Dems can win the coasts, plus or or two others and win 52% of the vote. 

You know who doesn’t represent the country? Andrea Mitchell and NBC News.
Go away Andrea…trust me, you will not be missed by anyone.

Mitchell is a Washington elitist snob. The one percent of the one percent. When her lips are moving, she is speaking as if she is the spokesperson for the Washington elitists, repeating what they all say at their insider cocktail parties.

… and no husband facilitating economic housing bubbles while protecting the ‘central banks’ of the western world with special issuance gold-backed treasury bonds, available for purchase only by those banks.

“People get ready, …  there’s a train a’coming.”

Michow is not qualified to make judgments. She needs a nose job. I prefer the Iowa type of female news talker.

Curious, did you root for the overthrow of Mubarak?

Who cares what this butt-ugly b*tch opines?
Maybe the dozen or so who watch her.
She thinks Iowa is too white..which also makes it safer.
I think the White House is too black….which makes it more corrupt.
So what?

Marry a Treasury Secretary, then hang around the clueless Washington elite set.

No, that’s why she diminishes Iowa.

I don’t think the issue here is one of backwards and progressive. It’s that Iowa is too homogeneous to reflect the entirety of America. What she said wasn’t racist in any way. If she had called it too “white and backwards” though…well, that would rightfully open up a can of worms

Or point out that Iowa voted for Obama.

“Given those realities, what specifically makes Iowa “more like America” than those places?”

REAL Americans.
Got it now?

Interesting that you reference ‘biblicalhebrew’ in your response regarding a discussion of evangalicals in Iowa.

Was Moses also an evangelical ?  Who knew ?

Nope.  Please define “Real Americans”

I wonder if the pig would be “relaying and discussing” the same message if it was a Democratic caucus and a white Progressive was running in the race.

BTW….Herman Cain was doing well in the “TOO WHITE” area before the Progressives destroyed his character with outright lies.
Too white….my ass!!
Maybe too conservative for the likes of Assrag Andrea and her repulsive ilk.

She’s talking about demographics idiot, not making a value judgement. 

It’s a fact: Iowa has a higher percentage of white votes than the country as a whole.  There’s nothing biased about saying that.  She wasn’t saying they’re racist.

Oh I get it…..but Fox News (headquartered in NYC), is just full of “real Americans”??  

Their folks go to the same damn cocktail parties….they just play conservatives on TV to pander to middle america.

Vornak,

You may not be aware of this, but the Bible was not written by white evangelicals from Iowa.

From what I’ve read the Republican primary in Iowa is dominated by fundamentalists, so it seems odd that everyone’s making a big deal out of the results of an election whose outcome is controlled by a relatively small number of the most backward, uninformed Iowans. I really don’t mean to insult  these people, but, in this day and age, to take the likes of Perry, Bachmann, Gingrich, etc seriously indicates a great lack of commonsense and education, political and moral.. If I’m not mistaken Iowa has a large and  progressive Democrat Party and Obama overwhelmed McCain in 2008. Obviously, this is what the real Iowa is about. Also, while I’m appreciative of MSNBC, can anyone tell me what Andrea Mitchell is about as she is married to Alan Greenspan, who was one of the most bizarre, nut jobs in government as the head of the Federal Reserve and inflicted his Ayn Rand philosophy on the world. Has she ever apologized on his behalf?
 

“fake christians”???

Since you are taking the vow of poverty as synonymous with being a “real christian” I assume you currently live by handouts on a street corner in all your misguided righteous religious glory. Being poor isn’t a condition to get into heaven.  The glory of God isn’t always found in being broke in finances but broke in spirit. God uses anyone – no matter what the balance of their bank account is- His criteria is measured by the heart and obedience. 
You missed my point completely- Jesus did not condemn those who had money – only those who put wealth and the glory and power of money above their commitment to God acknowledging that He is where all blessing flow. It takes a charitable heart to help those in need but more specifically it takes money.

November 2012. 309 days from today.

Dear Surfergirl,

I am not a Christian.  It pleases me to quote Yeshua to those who take HIS name in vain for all their petty political purposes.

Go back to Norcal’s quote, to which I responded.  Yes, Jesus is “glorifying” the poor and chastising the wealthy.

If you claim to be a Christian, but also are a member of a political party that demonizes the poor and exalts the wealthy, then you are a fake.

The point is… would she say that about Detroit? or any other minority area… If not …it should be clue that her comments are out of line.

 nothing will happen to her because the whole media industry loves the entitlement welfare crowd. That’s the main voting block for Obama’s reelection..

Henry,

What political party hasn’t demonized the poor or used a demographic of any criteria (race, wealth, equality, gender…) for their own purposes? The Founding Fathers would certainly come under the constraints of your criticism, not to mention anyone who is not a ‘Believer” would be rendered a hypocrite by reciting the very words of our Pledge of Allegiance.

You somehow are to willing to overlook the point of wealth -that it is not wealth, in and of itself that Jesus is chastising it is that those with money who have chosen to put wealth above God. It is a spiritual application, not being a Christian I can understand why it is so easy for you to pass judgement without understanding. Literal meaning is lost on some, when discussing the tenants of a belief/faith based on  supernatural concepts.

Sorry there crater face but not all of us are upper east side New York Jewish princesses. Thank God.

LOL…God doesn’t give one squirt of holy piss who the POTUS is nor does he care if you fold your hands and pray before you eat your dinner out of a can.   However, Santorum appeals to your cowardly nature because he too is a limp noodle.  Silly christian, you chose to be born again instead of simply growing up.  

You may want to research some more, there are ‘Rappers’ from Iowa….dont think thats what she meant, cant say much for them having a ‘Kathy Griffin’ taking her shirt off even as Im sure there is someone taking there shirt off in Iowa!! Oh, by the way, here is a couple of them…..Arecee (formerly of Ames, now in NYC)….Izzy Dunfore of Ames…..Skylar Johnson of Cedar Falls…..Krummie of Cedar Rapids….a couple of more but last but not least, a home-grown ‘Rapper’ from Des Moines by the name of Aeon Grey!!

The government does not think about religion or of Jesus.
They think about reelection and keeping their jobs. They know where there votes are.They will kiss up to wall street  behind closed doors and then act different in public. same old story…

Why do white liberals hate themselves?

You really are full of hatred, arent ya!?!?!?

‘Too Elite’ yep, just as all Media is. ‘Too Urban’ not quite, dont know many that are actually in the urban area. ‘Too Condescending’ pretty-much like all Media. ‘Too narrowly educated’ that one just may be on the money, since most in the media dont really have a clue as to the topic their speaking on, other than opinion.

Hey, thats true!

If you don’t you’re part of the problem. White evangelicals are scared to death that blacks and Mexicans will be running the country before they’re dead.  

No self respecting God would have anything to do with the lying cheating homophobic loser Santorum.

Get a brain. She’s talkjing about the Iowa caucus and what she said is true- you can choose not to like it but who cares what you like- it’s the truth- a small bunch of loony farmers will not pick my president.

With your lack of education you were screwed anyway.  “It’s RAN by idiots”?
“…that loves to glorifying being poor…”   Should you be on meds or are you just dumb?

Conservative Patriots.
Just when I thought Knut_Rockne was the dumbest of dumb….along comes M_B_W

“…topic their speaking on…”   doofus.

Yes but no one lives there.

Don’t call him a chief with only 4 years active duty- that’s a republican pussy.

If a Republican or a Conservative had mouthed the same words there would have been an uproar.

According to who? Rachel “snapon tool” Maddow and olberdouche?

The chocolate city is full of scam artists who can always get it together for a party.

yeah, right! (meaning for the dimwitted…(clarification) there is no way in hell anyone could legitimately thread a few factual issues together to support that Santorum would or did condon Sandusky’s actions).

Wow, you have such high standards how eleetest!

While under W. we were virtually a theocracy and he had conversations with God that told him to invade Iraq.  Regardless of how unconstitutional, his DUI attorney, told him it was just fine.

The only other card liberals have to play other than the race card is the joker.

wow, I can see how such a genteel aristrocratic type like you gets so offended by the likes of her

Real Americans, according to some here seem to be barely literate white trash redneck bigots who hide behind their fake patriotism and fake piety.

Ah, so Iowa does not meet Andrea Mitchel’s demographic ideal for the perfect State.  She does however begrudgingly recognize their plucky desire to have their voices heard.  How colloquial, as if each vote counted in the brave new world of Numb Brained Communism.

Unfortunately the part of America you represent is the part the rest would rather forget

Andrea Mitchel is just jealous of Kathy because SHE gets all the attention!  If Andrea took her blouse off in public, NBC’s ratings would sag below the knees :-)

iowa launched obama, he won it in the general election but some how now that obama is not doing well there, its cause its to white.  mitchel is useless

ok.  Fine.  Don’t respond to anything I’ve said, just call me names.  I get it.

She neither said that nor implied any antipathy toward rural America at all. Mitchell was criticizing the campaign process and having such a narrow slice of America leading of the race. The same criticism could be laid if Berkeley was the lead off caucus: too young, too urban, too non-Christian.

As much as you…. ;)

Do you live there??? How do you know this so well???

go file a complaint with the Department of the Navy then … democrat dick.

Having
grown up in Missouri and married someone who grew up in Iowa, it is easy to see
what Andrea Mitchell means.  And she is
absolutely right. Unfortunately for my stupid red necked idiot brethren who are
frozen in time back there, they will always see the truth or the facts as
elite, urban, condescending or narrowly educated. The sad part about that is
the fact that it comes from people who are indeed poorly educated and live in a
bubble that is an alternate reality. 
Even with a college degree in most cases….such people are still idiots
who living in an alternate universe that is controlled by their masters in the
GOP.  You all know the
type….”quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand….ignorance,
prejudice and fear walking hand in hand.”  Anytime someone presents the facts in an
unbiased way like Andrea Mitchell, people like Missouri Mule always retreat to
that tiny little GOP corner of their simple mind where it is OK to yearn for
the good ole days of burning witches and placing burning crosses in the front
yards of innocent people who do not espouse the same twisted skewed right wing views
with twisted skewed right wing political ideology and twisted skewed old time
religious ideologies. Coming from any right wing extremist from the Midwest,
the truth and facts are always construed as liberal or left wing.  In reality, Iowa does not pick presidents….it
picks corn

Awesome!  It is refreshing to hear someone put things into correct historical perspective.  I was once one of those brain washed evangelicals who attended 2 separate Southern Baptist colleges to learn bible, religion and theology.  Rather than becoming indoctrinated like so many of the drones who attended those schools, I came out understanding that most denominations of Christianity are very messed up and the people they indoctrinate are in most cases…very messed up people with very extremely flawed thought processes.  At this point in history…God and Jesus must be getting very very tired of all evangelicals and their efforts to plug their twisted interpretations of Christianity into political and economic affairs of the country and the world.  At this point, Satan is probably even sick of all evangelicals as they have promoted more twisted perversions of ideologies than even he could have devised.  I would imaging that the devil must be pretty down hearted at this because evangelicals and right wingers have destroyed this nation far far beyond anything he could have imagined.

Yes, and . . . .

What effin’ planet do you live on?  So, he’s a “true Christian”?  What is that:  a guy who clearly hates gays and lesbians but can’t stop obsessing about them?
“Small town roots”?  Don’t make me laugh.  What would those be?  Inbred, pasty-thighed Klan members in trailer parks?
“God on his side”?  So, you actually think that, out of the 7 billion people on this planet, some nondescript far-right bigot politician has the ear of a supernatural being who controls space, time, and cosmic creation, thought without one jot of proof of its existence?
If anything, you’ve proven that, on the evolutionary continuum, American right-wingers like you are somewhere below patio furniture on the intelligence scale.

No, she is the reason the liberal media gets pathetic ratings.
http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

Not me: Iowa is heaven. Save me from the diversity of America since it equals violence, bankruptcy making financial excuses for failure and taxpayer funded trannie operations.

Somehow I don’t see you saying that about Muslims. I guess that’s cuz “justice” is whatever a liberal points at since they are experts at Orwellian self-contradiction.

No she doesn’t: she made it seem like her diverse world is nice when in fact it sucks. Kids at Iowa proms don’t post video of them beating the crap out of each other or mimicking sex at a prom.

I’m not sure gay people hate America. They’d just leave.

‘Oh Really’…Tatboy, your attempt at ‘sarcasim’ was a complete waste!

A significant plurality of America, IS, “white, evangelical and rural,” just like out Founding Fathers?  But, there so, passe’,  

Karl, Vladimir and Barak are so inn… 

Purveyor 

THAT’s an excellent question!  ”Self loathing,” must be the explanation; they want the rest of us down there in the cesspool of failed socio-political movements.

Outstanding, SP Conservative

Almost any identifier with the word “too” before it could sound unflattering.  

Too Evangelical to be representative?  In fact, many African-Americans are Evangelical, and Protestantism (from mainline to Pentecostal & Evangelical) has a growing presence in Latin America and among Latino-Americans.  

Almost any state has a racial, ethnic or religious composition that could set it apart from the mixture in another state.  

Did she have acid thrown in her face or get it caught in a meat grinder at some point in her life?

@M_B_W…I didn’t just call you names you moron(LOL!)
I also answered your stupid question.
QUIT WHINING!

Detroit is too black, South Carolina is too black, Chicago is too black……..think you would EVER hear that cross those skanky, manly, lips of hers ? By the way, Ann Coulter is far more feminine looking than that shemale.

 But since you are speaking about a predominately black city, it is by definition racist nowadays.  This is why Obama getgs re-elected.  This is the way things are going.  It will get much worse before it gets better.

 You mean you don’t?

“Amen” is recognized as a Christian term.
Not to be uttered by heathen pigs.
Find something else.

HOW R THEY TOO BLACK AND IN CONTEXT TO WHAT. OR DID YOU BIGOTRY GET THE BEST OF YOU AND JUMPED OUT BEFORE YOU COULD CATCH IT.

I live in Iowa, and last time I checked I am not a “loony farmer”.  We have very intelligent people living/working in this state, so do not stereotype us as hillbillies.

david- how could someone as dumb as you pass the bar exam?

There seems to be a lot of talk about a missing Black populous but the second minority demographics in America is Hispanics.  Perhaps a combination of Hispanics,Blacks, Asia or Arabs is what Ms. Mitchell is referring since she doesn’t mention one particular ethnic group. 

I’m sorry, but I have met some VERY redneck people from Missouri. So just because you married someone from Iowa, do not assume that you know what everyone is like.  If that is the case, I can assume that everyone from Missouri are alcoholics with dysfunctional families (which might actually ring true for you)..

I’m white and consider myself to be an evangelical christian and I’m proud of it, not sure why this is being considered a negative thing. Although I do not agree with my country’s decision to go down the road of moral decline I hate absolutely noone and feel that it is my personal responsibility as a christian to show love and kindness, afterall that is a big part of what being a christian is all about 

While I’m in total agreeance that the way she made her point was rude and ignorant……….however it won’t be much longer that you can say the word ‘minority’ when it comes to all other colors of the rainbow, if you will. Soon it’ll be my turn to use the ‘minority’ card, when all this is (politics and all), is a sad excuse to say what anyone wants to, in the name of ‘our country’.

Not everyone is Iowa is a loony farmer!  I was raised in Iowa and would not have changed a thing about it.  Great place!  

a mormon should do well here

white people run the country

So, you are a fulltime student that the rest of the people pay for with no want of a job, the rural “clan” feed your ass

Those who ridicule Americans who love Jesus Christ know little or nothing about the founding of this country and why we have been blessed for so long.  I encourage any person who denigrates Jesus Christ to first go back and study his life and his princilples, then to back and study the prophecy that tells of a messiah and savior and finally to study the religious beliefs of our founders.  It will quickly help anyone understand that America, America, had God shed His grace on thee.  Compare the blessings of America with any other country on planet Earth.  There have never been any countries that compare to the philanthropic work and love of Americans to people worldwide.  Billions have come to know Christ world wide because of the outreach of the Christian Faith.

i wish i knew,and why are they always going for jobs behind the tv screen. 

Andrea Mitchell is too ugly. Washington, D.C. is too black. Boston is too Irish and Catholic. Fire is too hot. Water is too wet. Any other profound statments out there. So, I guess white, evangelical Iowa should be sued for being an ideological hate crime. For EEO purposes more blacks should be shipped into Iowa, especially during the Iowa caucus. WASPS should not be allowed to vote to satisfy the liberal media, especially NBC. It proves only one thing to me, Andrea Mitchell is a bigot !

Oh! white people I get it now. Your fellow white person wasn’t fluent in code talk, so he missed your point. But we the alert black people get it…..

thats the lib mentality, “we are smarter and more cultured than everyone else, and we hate ourselves for being white.” get off the guilt trip , and come down off your highhorse.all the money your father left you does not make you better.

thats your message,now go back to your moms basement troll.

Paul, what’s your education level? I’m just going to assume it’s at a high school level, for obvious reasons. You obviously don’t know why this country was founded, nor understand (lack of) correlation. Philanthropic work + Americans = Christianity? No sir. You’re more than welcome to worship your magical man in the sky, but please don’t procreate. 

Evangelical and rural are negative. It’s 2012.

Have any of you “experts” ever been to Iowa?  You are showing your ignorance through your comments.  There are many Iowans who are giving much thought and time into this process and I think the reporters’ comments diminish what is happening here in Iowa.

Actually, neither statement is racist.  they are just observations.  Grow up.

lol most of iowa is farms and bull$hit like that but places like waterloo have a LOT of diversity and have some crime

Andrea Mitchell is too liberal, too biased, too racist and too stupid to matter.  And she’s too personal also.  Coming from NBC, why am I not surprised by this blatantly racist remark?

I like your use of the term “true Christians” because it’s a perfect example of what judgmental jerks most evangelicals are.  I guess as a Catholic, I’m not a true Christian?  Or Pres. Obama, an member of a UCC congregation is not a true Christian?  

Hey, guess what?  Jesus didn’t worship in the same why you do, so I guess he wasn’t a “true Christian” either?

Man I wish I lived in Iowa… 

The proper comment would be… Iowa does not reflect the demographics of the general population, anymore than Detroit, NYC, San Francisco, or any other majority urban/ rural area.

Just like a bunch of “smart and moderate” voters like yourself, nation wide, elected Obama, who obviously is a complete scary, stupid disaster for our Nation. 

However, I know you do not agree with the above statement, which further proves my point that liberal “smart’” people are really stupid voters.

Without those “Looney Farmers” you don’t eat Fxxk Tard ! Or do you think your Lord and Savior Obama just waves his mighty hands and makes your food magically appear just like your food stamps do! And yes, this comment is just as racist as saying the same thing about a minority group. You Libs can’t have it both ways. People are sick of the double standards so stop pretending tha it doesn’t matter.

Fudamentalist Protestants and catholics sre attracted to Rick Sanctorum for his sanctimony. We Americans must be aware that God does not take sides.
Bob

I dont understand the Fuss, Andrea Mitchell ISN’T BLACK, DO WE JUST USE BLACK AS THE DIRECT CONTRAST TWO WHITE ?

NBC the typical Racist.  Go down to Phila and say they are to black to matter and people will get sued.  it is OK to say that about whites. 

Nope, it’s only racist when white people say it.

Iowa is flat,full of government subsidized, well fare cornfields, hot in the summer and cold in the winter; fertile place to belong to Tea Party; a healthy proportion of black members on the University football , track and basketball teams. Sanctimonius Protestant and Catholic Christians who favor the sanctimonius views of Santorum.
Bob

Wow, Nacho_II…very interesting and insightful comment….didn’t see it until you broke it down….that is funny, and I bet tatboy doesn’t even see it…..

I keep reading down and don’t see a “DISLIKE” button, where is that?

Racism is RACISM.  AND PLEEAAUUUZZZEEE, stop the fighting as to who is Christian and who is NOT!  I do not understand those who use “GOD” as a reason to put other people down!  ummm, Christians are not like that. 

Just like Timmy Tebow has God and JEsus on his side!! What a joke. That statement about Iowa is as accurate as you can get. i should know i live bordering Illinois and Iowa. Nothing but white crackers here buddy.!!

nbc sucks obamas too black , too muslim , too retarded, to be president of the u.s.

James, so you are saying the rest of us need a Visa to cross your Iowa boarders?  LMBO!  I do NOT understand the level of intensity I see everywhere involving Politics, Regilion, Race and Sexuality anymore.  To me all those doing all the yelling and finger pointing and “name calling” are the very thing they keep saying they don’t like/support/want to be.  I am saying when you oppose “it-whatever it is you are yelling about” with the vigour and name calling and judgement of “God” you use then you are being the very “unmoral” and “unchristian” person you say you oppose.  Ironic isn’t it?

Describing iowa as “too” white to be representative of the country is 100% accurate. Somewhere around 93% white is not representative of the US. Funny how conservatives call the truth biased.

What constitutes a “true christian”………and who’s to judge??? People, it’s 2012!!! We are CANNOT afford to think with a small town mentality - talking about religion all day long….that’s why we are so behind in terms of education and technology. The world has changed and will continue to move…with or without you….please give up the ghost….

this is a woman who thought alan greenspan was1 of the smartest men in the world.She married this feeble-minded idiot who apparently cant see very well.She and Noriega have similiar complexions and thats putting it mildly.She surely did not get to where she is because of her looks.She must have a powerful relative in the tv biz!

It’s true. At least she was honest. Iowa doesn’t represent the national
character; having only 4 congressional districts indicates this. Steve
King DOES represent his people well (the white supremacist that he is).
Moreover, hypocrites abound…Iowa farmers receive more welfare ($ for
$) than all the Latinos in Arizona and New Mexico, combined. FYI, I,
too, am Caucasian, conservative and evangelical, and not Iowan

This woman is married to in her opinion,1 of the great minds of the world.The inept Mr.Greenspan,who undoubtedly cannot see with those coke-bottle glasses he wears.This woman? and noriega have the same type of pineapple quality to their faces.She surely did not get to where she is because of good looks.She must have an important relative in the biz.Has to!

Andrea mitchell has one horrid face.Mr Greenspan besides being feebleminded cannot see with those cokebottle glasses he wearsShe has the face of noriega.She has to have an important relative  in the buisness.At least she plucked that beast of masculinity off the market.I recall her saying it was his mind that made her propose.This makes her opinion a little less viable.

Personally as an Iowan, I believe the rest of the country and all the jerk off politicians can stay the hell out…. We don’t need your insults or the B.S. shovelers around here… People run their holes about what Iowa is all about and DO NOT HAVE A CLUE what we’re about.
The rest of you jerk offs go ahead and choose the next politician to send us further down the rat hole! This is about as racist as it gets people, too white? Too religious? Excuse me all to hell! people who come here to Iowa and act all superior and think we’re a bunch of corn shuckin’ hicks usually get their ASS KICKED and shown one of the borders leaving the state! So all you people who feel that way can stick it and stay the hell out! Those of you who feel the opposite, please come to Iowa and experience what the rest of the country is missing! Family, close friends, and yes religious values. We’re not ashamed of who we are, but we don’t take crap from those of you who dish it out!

Thanks for exposing the hyprocrisy of some people…I thought “true christians” fundamenatlly believe that God  loves everyone-meaning he shows no particular favor to one of his children, over another….You can’t have it both ways…either he loves everyone equally, or he loves, and takes the side of one more than the other…make up your mind   

NorCalSister………Andrea Mitchell said “the rap on Iowa”….for those of you who do not understand semantics, when a person says “the rap” on something, or someone, that means that those are comments, or issues that have been expressed by many others for a long period of time…it doesn’t mean that that is the view of Andrea Mitchell…she’s simply stating something that has been previously expressed. She is not stating this as her OWN PERSONAL BELIEFS…what don’t you people understand about that…ridiculous …..Furthermore, there are more non-minority Americans on welfare than any other ethnic group…who do they vote for….and I work 40 hour a week in an office job…..who should I vote for……unless you folks are wealthy, you are just as un-cared about by the republicans as those in the “welfare crowd”. Wake up people……….   

I understand how you chose “too black” and “too urban” in comparison to Andrea Mitchell’s use of “too white” and “too rural”.

Can you clarify how and why you chose “too violent” in relation to Ms. Mitchell’s use of “too evangelical”? Why wouldn’t you keep “too evangelical” in your analogy?

I can’t imagine a plausible scenario that doesn’t paint you as a bigot.

Ms Mitchell is no better than Jimmy the Greek or Mr Imus with comments toword African American people or communities. she should be removed from her position with her employer immediately and made to give a public apology to the people of Iowa

Isn’t it funny how if it’s not tainted toward the blacks and minorities it’s just not fair?

Those  people in Iowa you talk about as so out of touch with the rest of America because they are 90% white, what will she say when Obama wins the state and he will.

Yeah but you forgot to mention that the entire state of Michigan still has more whites than blacks

Hey guys racism exists in both the white and the black neighborhoods

The conservitives argue that the media is too liberal. No that’s not true–themedia and liberals just realize that a lot of conservative’s great great grand daddy’s treated blacks as lower life forms—many times by killing blacks for no damn good reason at all–just pure hatred!!

All

Andrew Scott, Thank

You raise a good point: There is a national average (for number of Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants and others) and each state might vary from that national average. 
  
It is one thing to say a certain place is more Catholic than the national average (RI, last I heard, was the only state with a Catholic majority, but perhaps information is old).  

It really does have another connotation to say Rhode Island is “too Catholic.”  

Notice you added the implied modifier “to be representative  of the country” because you know that without that modifier, without that qualification explicitly said, it really does sound judgmental, even thought most of us know what she meant.  

Thanks again, Scott.

The ethnic diversity of the state is being underestimated.  Among others, German pacifist groups settled in the state.   

Dear Conservatives: You know she probably did not mean a harsh judgment on the people of Iowa. You know there might have been another way to phrase it.  
Dear Liberals: You also know there might have been another way to phrase it.  

“If local provincial pride and jealousy arise, and you allow yourselves to speak with contempt of the courage, character, manners, or even language of particular places, you are doing a greater injury to the common cause, than you are aware of.”
–Rev. John Witherspoon, May 1776 http://bit.ly/yIDIi0

Do you think white, evangelical, rural folk think its a bad thing to be called?

Detroit has been #1 in violent crime many time (I know due to St. Louis trading spot w/ them many times). As Mitchel thought “evangelical” was the prominent feature of the state she listed… violent crime is the prominent feature of Detroit.

I can’t imagine a plausible scenario that doesn’t paint you as an idiot.

No one says that a 100% Black neighborhood needs more diversity.
No one says that a 100% Asian neighborhood needs more diversity.
No one says that a 100% Muslim neighborhood needs more diversity.
According to anti-Whites, they are already 100% diverse.ALL White neighborhoods and ONLY White neighborhoods need to be more diverse. White neighborhoods only stop needing to be more diverse when there are no White people left in them.
Diversity is a codeword for White genocide and anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White.

Yeah, except Detroit is a city, not a state and any election there is not the opening number to primary season. If you consider that Detroit is in the state of Michigan, Michigan is still a more comparable racial demographic representation of the United States than Iowa, even though they both have proportionally smaller Latino population than the national numbers.

If you would like to point out reverse racism, then you should at least compare apple to apples, not oranges.

Personally, I think they should take that list that ranks the state by the per capita ratio of (federal tax dollars received)/(federal tax dollars contributed) and give the states with the lowest numbers first dibs at the candidates. [url]http://visualizingeconomics.com/2010/02/17/federal-taxes-paidreceived-for-each-state/ [/url]
Only half of the states with elections preceding Super Tuesday have a ratio of less than 1. New Jersey has consistently had the lowest or 2nd lowest ratio for the last 20 years, and it’s part of the second to last group of states to vote in the primary cycle. That is what I call the short end of the stick! Moreover, it’s racial demographics are comparable to the nation’s.

Now it’s the other way around.

I don’t think too-retarded has ever been a disqualifier.

Beyond the jokes of replies that I have read, this article shows all that is wrong with the lame stream media.  They are out of touch with the bread basket communities who feed and power this nation and it’s economy.  They champion every liberal cause and denigrate every conservative one.  They consistently practice racism…. against whites.  The free and unbiased media that law says must be allowed has been completely overtaken by the liberal agenda, and yes, by the public education system.  Neither todays courts nor the media demand personal responsibility, everything is someone else/society’s fault.  Tat boy had a pretty darn good reply.  Flip the coin and see who whines and he won, because you all whined.

Violence is relevant. And violent felons are a large, untapped potential source of future voters. If they could Democrats would let death-row inmates vote on their way to the death chamber. Unfortunately Dem’s have to wait 18 years for the children of illegal immigrants to reach voting age. So that’s an investment in the destruction of our country that won’t pay off politically for some time yet.

To people like adler, it’s the flyover goyim who are always the problem; unless of course there’s a war that needs fighting.

No one says a neighborhood that is 100%
black needs more diversity.No one says a neighborhood that is
100% Asian needs more diversity.No one says a neighborhood
that is 100% Mexican needs more diversity.They are already
100% diverse.All white neighborhoods and only white
neighborhoods always need to be More Diverse. White neighborhoods
only stop needing to be More Diverse when there are no more White
people left.Diversity is a doublespeak for white genocide.

Anti-racist is a code-Word for anti-White  

Speaking of taxpayer burdens, did you know that Iowa gets back 10% more in federal funds than it contributes? And that so called liberal havens, like California and New York, pay more than 20% in federal taxes than they receive? Please explain to me who is the one sucking off the government’s teat?

Personally, I’m from NJ and the Presidential Primary Season perpetually puts me in a chauvinistic rage. I’m a moderate, I’ve voted for both Democrats and Republicans. In fact, in during my lifetime, our only good governors have been Republicans. But because NJ is a Northeastern Blue State, I have listen to the condescension of middle-American Republican politicians imply that my part of the country is not representative of the “real America” and is dragging the rest of the country down with it’s homosexual, atheistic, welfare queens, in an effort to kiss the butts of Iowans. Forget the fact that we’re pretty purple, or that we contribute 40% more in Federal taxes than we receive, or that we’re in the top 2 highest per capita earning states, or that we have a highly diverse and dense population, or that we have a highly diverse and dense economy, or that it’s the home of the 3rd largest international shipping port in the country (and largest of the coast) thereby making it a VERY REAL national security target.

Every four years, I have to hear a bunch of dipshits get hysterical over their Red Dawn, To Wong Foo and Precious fantasies. I am very, very tempted to vote for anyone endorsing the elimination of federal income tax, because I would like to see how those poor “real Amercian States” would survive without the blood of the rest of us.

Wow, a Jewish liberal who is critical of white, Christian America. How surprising! 

Because “the Left” is dominated by Jews at the top and they use race as a wedge to divide and conquer. Haven’t you figured that out yet? 

I’ll define “Real Americans” for you – LEGAL US CITIZENS who swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. 

That’s as good a definition as any. 

There’s a theory called “Competitive Altruism” which contends that whites try to “outdo each other” by being more staunchly anti-racist than other whites. It’s essentially a “status thing.” 

Yes, isn’t it funny how the racist “too white” state of Iowa chose Obama over Hillary in 2008!  Oh wait, that must mean they are sexist too!

Thank God. 

There’s no such thing as too white or too stupid for fleabaggers.

Oh, please.  Will the blacks be running America as well as they have run, oh, I dunno… Detroit?  or Somalia?  or Haiti?  And the Mexicans have done a real bang up job with Mexico, haven’t they?  Maybe you meant to say “running the country into the ground”  or possibly, “running amok in the country.”  Both of which are already in progress, unfortunately, and both something to be afraid of.

If white, christian America had any idea just how much Jews, and particularly the secular jewish elite, fear and loath them, they’d be shocked. This is why Jews almost universally support massive third-world immigration (+multiculturalism) into the US (and Europe). A buffer zone.

I accidentally “liked” your comment and have reasonable suspicions that you are not, in fact, all that cool.

I’m certain the feeling is mutual.

Steven, that’s a large leap for many. They need to be fed in smaller doses. One can choke even on the truth.

Forgive me if I don’t buy you all’s trash about how the big bad white anti-white racist Andrea is some major threat to your existence.

Paul,
What does the Gospels or Jesus Christ have to with America, as if we are the only Christian country on earth? What about the other ones that weren’t so “blessed”? Maybe most of wealth comes from abundant resources, water farmland etc that is unavailable in the old world, as well as a much lower population density and weak friendly borders and neighbors so people didn’t have to fight over land to survive.

You are so ignorant and self centered. Finally, to show how childish your rant is, at the time of Jesus, The Americas were unknown to them. Your take on  religion is nothing more than some cheesy nationalistic celebration of mammon.

Glad to see you embed your antisemitism inside some more conventional and acceptable flyover red state self pity. BTW, scheisskopf, you low brow bigot, “Adler” or “eagle” is not always a Jewish name, it can be a German one too.

Well do you live there? Do you think they are suffering because of (Your contrived) anti white racism?

Brad, spare us the phony outrage! The racists here are the ones who are twisting this into a race thing so they have another excuse to rant against blacks and Jews, even though she is neither

That is such a paranoid racist lie, but since you self identify with Germans, I’ll assume you are a Nazi. Even though Nietzsche was no Nazi, the Nazis identified with his nihilism.

You show all that is wrong with today’s conservatives, You are anti-intellectual to the point of plain thoughtlessness. You conjure up antiwhite racism to justify your own racism. You talk is glib generalities that are dishonest, You use terms like the “lamestream” media that only fools who watch and listen to right wing trash media use. You are backwards, bigoted, reactionary and hatefilled. No wonder why most decent educated people look down on a miserable throwback like you. So keep whining!

I’d rather hang around the elites than the self pitying conservative trash heads I find here

Well , you certainly feed that stereotype.

So only Christian pigs can use the term Amen?
Jews use it to, low brow fool!

Most racists are right wing trash like the morons here babbling about how racist Andrea is or some mythical anti-white genocide Obama is hatching, so STFU,
BTW, Byrd renounced the Klan, like 50 years before he died, and Wallace left the Democratic Party to start a racist southern one. So maybe you should get you facts straight for once in your miserable life. Turn off the talk radio and FOX and open up your little head for once.

Most racists are right wing trash like the morons here babbling about how racist Andrea is or some mythical anti-white genocide Obama is hatching, so STFU,
BTW, Byrd renounced the Klan, like 50 years before he died, and Wallace left the Democratic Party to start a racist southern one. So maybe you should get you facts straight for once in your miserable life. Turn off the talk radio and FOX and open up your little head for once.

Here are some facts for you Scot
1) Obama is NOT Muslim,
2) He is smarter and better educated than you
3) He’s half white
4) You are a racist moron.

Here are some facts for you Scot
1) Obama is NOT Muslim,
2) He is smarter and better educated than you
3) He’s half white
4) You are a racist moron.

White do white conservative hate everybody but themselves?

Then that includes me and Obama too.

Actually , white Xtian bigot, while she married a Jew, she is not Jewish, Despising low class trash like you is instinct for a lot of people like you. It has nothing to do with race.

Making fun of an old guy with bad eyes and an older woman who lost her looks, how classy and intelligent can you get?

My experience is that true racists always go on about how they are really the ones being victimized by anti-white racists, The Nazis claimed the Jews started all the wars, including ww ll, and were out to kill them,

And most of the people sliming her here would be defending him no matter how awful his comment was

Wow, he named some Communists, he is so smart!
Sorry my pal, but Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson, Franklin were not only not evangelicals, if religious at all, but they were educated, The exact opposite of most the cons here.

You really have a way of being genteel and subtle.

The only blatantly racist crap here comes from paranoid white trash here who go into victims mode at the drop of a pin to justify their own latent bigotry. So quit playing your race card, it expired.

Racist antisemitic alert time, BTW, genius she is not Jewish. But rant on Jozef

Communism to a teabagging clown like you is anything that isn’t teabaggery

sickofgettingkickedaround, now there is a fake self pitying name if I ever saw one. How did her comment stopping one person in Iowa from doing their thing? How did it interfere with life there at all?

True, but to these rednecks on this board, they act like she is the vanguard of some antiwhite genocide.

I could care less about those jerks, to be honest. They deserved him

MORRISMINOR,

“You ignorant sluut”

Protestant Evangelicalism was born in Britain in  the 1730s and the American Constitution was created in 1787,  A majority of the signatories were Protestants who by then, were influenced by or committed too, “Evangelicalism.”

Moreover, as a Socialist, you live under the myth that “Washington, Adams, Jefferson, etc., were a-religious, which is nonsense.  Those men were men of their time and “men of their time” were religious to varying degrees.

Now go to your room!

Purveyor

“Sorry Pal”

The word “Pal” is peculiar to the east. Philadelphia, Jersey, New york?

White Republicans don’t take a back seat to any group when it comes to running things into the ground. Their greed and ignorance makes them standout losers.

Well calling Jefferson & Franklin evangelicals is a stretch even for right wing fantasyland. As well as some were Anglicans, Catholic, Quakers, etc. hardly evangelical to me.

So I guess we should only have white Protestants run things, since that describes the bulk of the founding fathers? Following your “logic”, we should wear wigs, write with quill pens, ride horse, light our homes with candles & oil lamps & sail in wooden sail boats, cause, heck, our founding fathers did.

You got wrong, lib. You socialists have a long history of racism toward blacks if they step off the Democratic plantation. Ask Clarence Thomas, ask Herman Cain. You are anti-semites, you are disgusting filth. No wonder you identify with the Stinking Movement aka Occupy Wall St. You people need to take your own advice, the race card expired, but you STILL use it, comrade.

MORRIS,

Some 200 men are considered to be “Founding Fathers” as they were signatories of the various documents, a vast majority of those men were Evangelical Protestants. (Note: I argue that many, named and unnamed, men and women were Founders also)

You owe me a complete apology as I have been reasonably civil to you despite your attitude!

As for your comment: “Following your ‘Logic,” we should wear wigs,” etc., such is a ridiculous and juvenile non sequitur. The fact is my original comment was accurate, yet contained a hint of mirth.

In the future, I would appreciate your respect, as such would be an ideal way for you to acquire mine.

Purveyor

No, I was speaking to God last night and he wants 4 more years.

Sounds like this website is nearly all racist left wing scum who hate anybody who worships God, is white or is heterosexual.