NBC’s Mitchell Thankful Sen. Flake Denounced ‘Lock Her Up’ Chants

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 6, 2017
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The theme of NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday was all about complaining how “broken” U.S. politics have become under President Trump. According to the stacked anti-Trump panel, most of the blame belongs to the “anti-intellectual” of “the extreme of the right-wing.” In the mix, Hillary super-fan Andrea Mitchell couldn’t help but smear the Republicans who were critical of her beloved Hillary. Yet she found herself thanking ‘Republican’ Senator Jeff Flake for standing up to those who chanted “lock her up.”

“I really appreciated that Jeff Flake said the ‘lock her up,’ those cries at the Republican convention by Michael Flynn no less,” she touted, before claiming it was the lowest point of “what I view as the Republican Party.”

Mitchell was also taken aback by how much animosity there was for highfalutin elitists like herself and the rest of the panel, “even among those who are college-educated. Extraordinary.” That teed up Moderator Chuck Todd, who recently bemoaned about how he was taught to be impartial, to get in his own smears of the GOP.

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