Just now Santorum's spokesperson on MSNBC called talked about Obama's "radical Islamic" policies

[wndycty]

. . .was actually talking about his "radical environmentalist" policies and slipped up with the "radical Islamic." She can spin it anyway she wants, it was locked and loaded in what Eddie Murphy once called "your mental Rolodex."

[peace frog]

1. It's a verbal tic

In today's lexicon, "radical" is nearly always followed by "Islamic". Santorum isn't sharp enough, or honest enough, to catch and correct his own errors.

[NAO]

2. I'm just waiting for a talking head to say b/c is an issue in this erection year -nt

[gtar100]

14. A *real* reporter would follow up with questions like, "what policy are you referring to" and

"how is that related to Islam"...

Instead they let this stuff drift into the public media discourse as if it had any authenticity at all.

[SunSeeker]

19. Exactly. Reporters are now little more than stenographers.

They just repeat press releases verbatim, or at best, attribute it to the person who released the statement. But they almost never inform the reader as to whether the statement is true. I guess they figure that is Politifact's job, because, uh, they do it so well.

[emulatorloo]

26. That is not true! They are very very skeptical of Democrats

Only Republicans get the free pass treatment.

[SunSeeker]

29. You're right. They don't even bother to report stories that conflict with RW narratives. n/t

[wndycty]

3. Video added

n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Walking back statements is becoming the single major activity of the Santorum campaign

[underpants]

20. He speaks the code of the hard right wing. Walking things back is not how you win elections.

of course this "son of the coal fields" got obliterated in his last election run - he lost by 18% to Casey

[zbdent]

5. odd, since Ayatollah Santorum (borrowed from another poster) said that he accepts that O is

a Christian ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002331718#post1

but then, I don't think this is a slip, or an "error" ... they are likely to keep hounding this ...

Kinda like, in court ... "The jury is instructed to disregard the statement." - but it's now in their minds.

[KamaAina]

8. Actually the Ayatollah is even walking that back

he just said that mainline Protestants, of which Obama is one, are "gone from the world of Christianity".

[SemperEadem]

11. so where is he going to erect the scaffold

for the burning of heretics when he becomes president?

[wndycty]

6. Andrea Mitchell spun it for her. . .

. . .just now.

[xxqqqzme]

7. 'get by with a little

from my friends'.

[usregimechange]

10. What did she say?

[grantcart]

9. 'Not ready for Primetime' can now be changed to 'Not ready for Kindergarten'.

[SemperEadem]

12. and Andrea let her get away with it

way to go, Andrea. Guess you just dont' have any kind of a spine or what should pass as journalistic integrity because the truth should have been charging out of your mouth when she said that.

[xtraxritical]

13. My guess is she wasn't listening

like the rest of us.

[AlinPA]

16. Of course. Andrea Mitchell is a republican tool. No way she would challenge that.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. Andrea Mitchell is absolutely useless

[underpants]

18. I would disagree with that

in a friendly type way.

When I was available to watch her show I always did. It is not that she actually reflects any specific point (see Kathleen Parker) or that she is an actual journalist - what it is is that she reflects the conventional wisdom of the upper most crust of the DC and Wall Street elite. That includes both and all sides. Watching her show lets one know exactly what we are up against. She unflinchingly (expressionless mostly) lets us know what the most powerful have already decided.

BTW she is a horrific journalist - when Freiss made his jackass comment she said nothing. .... she tweeted "What should I have asked???" - uh if you don't know then you shouldn't be on air.

[AlinPA]

17. I don't think she "slipped up" when she said it. It was clearly said.

[Ruby the Liberal]

21. Who among us hasn't done this on occasion?

I mean really. Happens every day.

[Jack Rabbit]

22. I can believe it was a slip

After all, the talking point of the day was Santorum's support for the global-warming-is-a-hoax hoax.

Now, I suppose she really wanted to argue about how not blah man should ever be president.

[SemperEadem]

28. I don't.

she's trying to retred a blown out tire from 2 years ago when the tea booggers were all in the streets with their side arms strapped to their legs.

[Bucky]

23. Can someone help me & explain Islam's theological teachings on energy exploration?

ty

[CAPHAVOC]

27. Sell the oil to the Infidels at most high price.

[angrychair]

24. This is no small thing

We should be shocked and horrified at this disgusting show of behavior by both of these ladies. First and foremost for Ms. Stewart saying it at all and second at Ms. Mitchell for allowing her to continue unchallenged and then to allow Ms. Stewart to interject herself back into the conversation by attempting to roll back her racist and unconscionable comments.

Andre Mitchell should have higher standards than this and MSNBC should hold their reporters to a higher standard than this. To even allow Ms. Stewart to call back and say, "oh, sorry, meant to say this....honest mistake" requires a level of cognizant dissonance on the part of the listener as to be in total free fall from reality. Everyone knows that she meant what she said and said what she meant to say. The whole incident is deplorable and we should not let it go unanswered:

[email protected] (not positive on this one but it’s the only one I could find)
also find her on Twitter

[email protected] (president MSNBC)

We must all make a point to start calling things like this out and shame them when they get it wrong.

[TheKentuckian]

25. Letting it go is malpractice.