Mitchell Tags Toomey as ‘Conservative’ Four Times in 50 Seconds, Leaves Sestak Unlabeled
In the span of a mere 50 seconds on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell managed to apply a conservative ideological tag four times to Pat Toomey, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, yet she failed to issue even a single label for liberal Democratic candidate Joe Sestak. Sitting at the anchor desk with Brian Williams, Mitchell made clear Toomey “is a Republican fiscal conservative who was fiscally conservative before the Tea Party was cool,” soon repeating, in the narration for her story, how “Toomey is a former Congressman and a fiscal conservative ” – all before driving home his ideology once more as she recalled that he “led a conservative Washington interest group.” read more
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Mitchell Tags Toomey as ‘Conservative’ Four Times in 50 Seconds, Leaves Sestak Unlabeled
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