OUCH! Has anybody noticed how much Andrea Mitchell is flailing?

[calimary]

Just watched her stumble and grope all the way through a couple of segments. Addled. Searching for words. Stumbling all over points that she’s trying to make. When I was still working, we called it “fumfering the copy” (blowing the lines). She couldn’t get a smooth adlib out to save her neck. Just stumbled all over it.

All I could think of, while she wandered around, lost in almost-total verbal confusion, was: “time to hang it up, honey. Retire while you can still do it gracefully!”

[bottomofthehill]

1. She is lost. Time to move on

[calimary]

6. Lordy, was she lost!

Just stumbling all over her lines. All over the place. SHEESH!

I kept mumbling “make your point and get ON WITH IT, girlfriend! ENOUGH with the verbal over-decorating!!!!!”

[Samrob]

28. She is not lost. She is upset. Upset that her GOP pals are being exposed for their crimes.

She is fumbling words because she really does not exactly how to spin on their behalf without exposing her spin. Maybe she should go on over to FOX?

[BigDemVoter]

2. The only reason I haven't noticed is that I don't watch her.

She is a lying sack of shit in my humble opinion.

[Beakybird]

3. Ditto

[calimary]

9. Indeed!

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. Someone must have given her a list of words she cannot use..they took her "SNARK"...

She knows no other way...shut her off years ago..I call her last word snarky...

[brush]

5. Yeah, she's way past her "sell by" date.

Wonder who at NBC she's got kompromat on because she should've been gone.

[calimary]

11. Either that or she's got a damn good agent

who engineered one helluva contract for her.

Anymore, I feel like I need an ear-cleaning treatment. Her adlibs are like an endless chain of Gordian Knots!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot

[Novara]

7. OMG yes

I had a medical procedure yesterday morning and took the rest of the day off so I watched her for the first time in ages. The last time I watched her I noticed that she does fine when reading the news but she can't ad lib to save her life. It's way worse now. There seems to not be one single follow-up question she can get out without stumbling all over her words. At times she seems lost how to express a thought. I cringe for her. It's way past time she be put out of our misery. Take her off the air. Please.

[calimary]

10. ... and put her out of OUR misery, definitely!

[agingdem]

17. monotonal and reaching for words

her questions are non sensical and never ending... I'm 74 and I knew when it was time to get of the stage..someone needs to retire her now...

[Novara]

21. She used to be really good but this is painful

It's like when Willie Mays played too long in his career. Painful.

People like Buster Posey know that hanging them up when you're at the top of your game leaves a much better legacy that hanging on too long and making an embarrassment of yourself.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. I never watch her

She carried water for Trump and Bush 2.

She doesn't get my ears or eyes.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. As a person of a certain age myownself, I am opposed to forced retirement.

I am, however, not opposed to canning someone who is unable to do their job.

She should be told she's lost it. Assuming she hasn't been.

But then it is up to her. If her contract allows her to keep working based on her decision not much can be done.


I am still working but slowing down to part time. Mostly mentoring these days.

[sarcasmo]

13. Emails has been on the wrong side of stumbling since 2016.

[calimary]

31. That one got so bad that, around our house,

she was known and referred to as Andrea “oh but her emails” Mitchell.

It got to the point where I started to suspect a deep jealousy rearing its ugly head in DEEP resentment of Hillary Clinton. I was in a similar situation in a much different arena when I was still working. There were women I worked with who resented me for no other reason than because I had some job they thought they should have had, but I’d gotten there first. There were a couple who actively tried to screw me over because of it. I still carry the scars of “knife wounds in the back”.

You’d have thought that, when women finally started making inroads on the air (mid-70s to early 80s), we’d all be celebrating each other and pulling for each other and sharing that sense of historic accomplishment together as a united front. “For the movement” kind of thing. HAH! Fat chance! It was often more like “every woman for herself.” Some of ‘em could stab you in the back and you’d never even feel it - until too late.

It was really disappointing and discouraging! I thought it wasn’t supposed to be that way, because “sisterhood” and all that. SHEESH was I wrong.

I found that the worst and sneakiest saboteurs (at least who I encountered or tried to work with) were inevitably female. No guy ever reacted or treated me that way.

[GenThePerservering]

39. That's because

you aren't a guy. They'll stab each other in the back just fine - I've seen it often enough. They're not as threatened by women.

Edit for fat fingeritis.

[sarcasmo]

45. Same here, she will forever be known as, Emails.

[SheilaAnn]

14. At the end of one of her segments after a piece on Hillary Clinton, Andrea made a snide remark "I

doubt she'll be doing that again." I don't know whether it was in regard to voting for President Biden but that was my take. Did anyone else hear it? I wasn't really paying attention to Andrea but I thought I heard that.

[yorkster]

38. I heard it. She was speaking to Yamiche Alcindor.

She pretty much said to Yamiche that she needn't have asked Hillary if she'd run again, because of course she wouldn't, which she, Andrea, knew from her in-depth coverage of the HRC campaigns. It came across as a put down of both Yamiche and Hillary, with the usual smarmy delivery.

[SheilaAnn]

40. Oh yes, smarmy is the word. I kind of would like Hillary to run again but doubt she would put

herself through it.

[Laffy Kat]

15. I have been emailing MSNBC for several years now to have her retired.

I get too embarrassed to watch her.

[tulipsandroses]

16. Yes, there seems to be a steep decline. I'm wondering if she is on meds

causing that. I’ve been on 2 meds that did that. I was searching for words I normally use. When I reread the documentation I did for work. I was horrified.
Topamax used for migraines and seizures is a big culprit. There is a reason that Topamax’ nickname is Dope-A-max.

[FloridaBlues]

18. I'm sure she feels the pressure to retire which makes it worse for her.

Agree time to replace her.

[LuckyCharms]

19. Yes. I've never liked her much, but I feel bad for her. n/t

[Bluesaph]

20. It could be beginning dementia

I have horrible brain fog at times and can’t get an argument out to save my life.

I used to be quite sharp and quick on my feet.

Never liked AM and wish her no I’ll will. But she needs to retire now. The anxiety caused by the loss of your abilities worsens things.

[Midnight Writer]

22. She is a "prestige" hire.

Like the studio films designed to garner Oscars nominations that no one watches.

[calimary]

33. And if she wants to keep being regarded in that way,

She really should retire NOW. Before the wrong impression starts to set in permanently with the viewers.

With her long and, yes, distinguished career, you’d think she’d want to quit while she’s ahead, with that career being what everybody remembers, and not her increasingly glaring decline.

Now, it looks pretty obvious that she’s only in it for the face time.

[tavernier]

23. She's not confused.

She’s pissed off that the hearing is not going her way and that her pals might be exposed.

[NewHendoLib]

24. Who???

[Karma13612]

25. I don't watch her very often.

But I think she has always had that “searching for words” style.

But maybe it has gotten a bit worse. She is trying to be clever by always having zingers, but sometimes while she is mentally trying to create the zinger, she appears to be fumbling. So the whole thing fails.

It isn’t a good look. And I discount her when she is on.

[calimary]

32. It's definitely gotten worse. Noticeably so.

The verbal stumbling around, wandering in dome rhetorical wilderness, almost blindly groping for the words she was attempting to use, and points she was trying to make, is much more glaring. Particularly this week.

Sometimes it looked painfully clear that she was lost in that rhetorical wilderness. Cluttering up the commentary with extra angles and asides that clouded up whatever main point she was trying to make. Like hiring a window-washing crew of 50 when all you needed was a spritz of Windex and a couple of tissues on the bathroom mirror.

By the time she got to the point she was trying to make, the whole point had been lost and long forgotten. The headline was lost in a sea of sidebars that just confused the issue and anybody trying to listen to it.

[Karma13612]

42. Useless. When we need sharp, expert

Commentary and reporting.

Must be she has a contract that means she can be awful and still keep her job. Maddening because we pay cable bills and get crap.

[ultralite001]

26. Andrea Mitchell is way past her sell-by date...

That is all...

[Cracklin Charlie]

27. Unwatchable.

Plenty of good tennis on.

[oregonjen]

29. Yes and it makes me uncomfortable to watch her

The phrasing she’s past her sell by date is ageist and I don’t like it. It’s clear she is having problems finding words on air and that is an issue considering that is her job, to communicate with her audience. I hope MSNBC addresses the issue with her. It’s uncomfortable to watch and makes me sad.

[Sogo]

30. I agree. It's very uncomfortable to watch her,

which is why I don't....

[calimary]

34. Tremendously uncomfortable to watch.

They need to gently ease her off the air before her reputation becomes permanently tarnished. She’s been a role model for multitudes of women - for probably a couple of generations. And that’s how she deserves to be remembered. NOT as a “former great” who stayed too long at the fair and didn’t know when to go home.

[Caliman73]

36. Well, I don't think that it has anything to do with her age.

I actually agree with the others who are saying it is likely that she cannot find a credible way to spin the information.

If you saw the clip of Brett Bier (sp?) on Fox with "Sandra". Where they toss to her after talking about how devastating Cassidy's testimony was and Sandra takes several seconds to answer, to the extent that the other guy on the screen was saying, "Sandra, are you still with us?"

Mitchell has always been at very least, a libertarian. She is married to Alan Greenspan for goodness sake. She has always had a way to spin information to the "Bad for Democrats" angle. The January 6th hearings however, have been masterful in their presentation. She can't be like Hannity or Carlson on Fox, who simply ignore, or straight up lie. There is some expectation on MSNBC that the hosts be somewhat credible. She just can't get the angle on how to spin it as bad for Democrats.

[budkin]

35. She's ancient

Not trying to be ageist, but it happens to a lot of people.

[Skittles]

41. she is 75

I think she has more issues going on than her age.

[Karma13612]

43. Andrea is 75?????? Wow!!! Eom

[Hamlette]

37. she has been awful, I don't watch her but have as she does the J6 hearings

she comes on during breaks and before and after the hearings. It's almost like she doesn't really understand what she is reporting on, she's missing the point. Usually a guest brings her back as Tur has done in what I've seen.

Someone needs to tell her retirement is great.

[jcgoldie]

44. she's checked out

Mailing it in. Either intentionally or not doesn't really matter at this point.

[Emile]

46. Why is she afraid to retire? It was a lifetime goal for me to stop being a wage slave,

but some people I guess it gives them a feeling of importance.

[calimary]

47. If she retires, she loses her platform - the one with the network TV cameras

and the ego in her probably is desperate to maintain that exposure - especially as she ages, surrounded by equally (if not MORE) capable and more photogenic younger women.

I could imagine myself becoming increasingly panicked in that situation, looking at the younger and hungrier competition. She looks like she’s “had work done” especially in and around the mouth area, but not her neck. If you’re on camera every day, and you want to remain competitive, that’s one of the things women have to deal with, unfortunately.

But it’s not her physical age that bothers me. Hell, I’m no spring chicken either! But it’s her presentation. Her increasingly choppy, shaky delivery, the lines she blows, the points she no longer seems able to make succinctly, even almost getting lost while trying to find her way to whatever observation or comment she’s trying to reach. It’s becoming a distraction.

[dalton99a]

48. She needs the money to supplement her meager retirement income

Don't force her to eat cat food

[orleans]

49. came across her on the tv the other day

(i forget what show)

saw her hem and hawing, and ummimg and stumbling & thought: fuck you--fuck this shit. click. she was gone.

she was having a major problem with her thoughts & words & this dem (moi) wasn't interested in watching her make an ass of herself as she struggled to say some crappy shit about democrats.