Andrea Mitchell Plots Dem Strategy: 'Many of Us in the Media' Touted Liberal Spending

[For more, see video cross-posted at NewsBusters.] MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell on Friday openly plotted strategy with a senior Democratic adviser, complimenting him on successful efforts to convince Americans think that raising the debt ceiling wasn't "running up the credit card." Mitchell talked to Doug Hattaway, a member of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. She praised, " You were one of the advisors to persuade the Democrats that for this round of the debt ceiling debate they had to re-frame it so that it wasn't the Democrats wanting to spend more money." Mitchell unselfconsciously continued, "As hard as many of us in the media tried to persuade people, this is money that's already been spent, we're just paying the bills."