While MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell admitted that the planned NBC biopic of Hillary Clinton was a "bad idea," on her Thursday 1 p.m. ET hour show she and her guests scolded Republicans for refusing to allow the biased network to moderate GOP primary debates: "That's where you get debates where the audience is cheering because they were all hand picked by local or state parties, that's where you get candidates like Mitt Romney talking about self-deportation to try to play to the crowd."
Mitchell made that observation while discussing the topic with former Obama White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, not exactly someone with the best interests of the GOP at heart. Gibbs ranted: "If you're only going to do debates in front of diehard Republicans that 100% agree with you, you're going to end up pushing yourself farther and farther and farther to the right....you're not going to win any national elections."
Moments later, USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page appeared on the program and argued that Republicans being subject to unfair debates would be good for them: "Nothing serves a candidate better than to go before an audience or a questioner who seems to be unfriendly and handling himself or herself well."
Mitchell chimed in: "Remember how Reagan used to call – President Reagan used to call on some of the really aggressive reporters, the sort of outlying reporters, just when he wanted to develop sympathy from the television audience."
Mitchell chimed in: "Remember how Reagan used to call – President Reagan used to call on some of the really aggressive reporters, the sort of outlying reporters, just when he wanted to develop sympathy from the television audience."
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