Look up in the sky because you might see some flying pigs.
In a news organization dominated by liberals, Andrea Mitchell may be Hillary Clinton's best water carrier at NBC News. At times her praise for the Clintons has been so effusive that diabetics had to turn of their TVs due to the heavy sweetness. Yet on Thursday morning she presented an unfavorable report claiming the wealth of the Clintons and their recent errors talking about their money may be a problem for Ms. Clinton's populist campaign message.
But both Hillary and Bill Clinton are being trailed by questions over money, including foreign donations to the Clinton foundation and their own finances. After raking in $25 million in paid speeches since the beginning of 2014. Fueling the controversy, recent revelations from the AP that Bill Clinton had a shell company WJC, LLC in which money could pass unreported.
Mitchell followed with Carly Fiorina's "guerilla attack" on Hillary's South Carolina event where the Republican told Mitchell
People expect basic questions to be asked of anyone running for president. What can be done? Are you trustworthy? Are you transparent? Will you answer questions?
Mitchell also described Democratic Candidate Bernie Sanders' rant earlier this week where he described the "rich" Clintons as out of touch, as well as Hillary's faux pas about being dead broke when she left the White House, and Bills recent statement that he has to keep on giving speeches for a half-million dollars a piece because, "I gotta pay our bills."
Mitchell summed it all up with a warning that Hillary Clinton may face the same issues as Mitt Romney did in 2012:
With the election still more than a year away, Hillary Clinton is trying to avoid making her wealth a liability, like Mitt Romney in 2012. Still with voters, like these southern voters, Clinton is down home, trying to motivate her dates. The questions about the Clinton's wealth come amidst the continuing controversy over Hillary Clinton's private e-mails. In the wake of a judge's ruling the State Department has to turn over those e-mails on an accelerated timetable once a month, faster than the State Department had planned.
After Mitchell was done, host of "Meet The Press" Chuck Todd, another defender of Hillary Clinton piped in with his agreement with Mitchell's report.
The surprising part about the report on Hillary Clinton's wealth was not its content, but its source, Andrea Mitchell who when the controversy about labeling Boko Haram as a terrorist group arose blamed it on people trying to "go after" Ms. Clinton. This is the same Andrea Mitchell who blamed the media for the Clinton email scandal, and then changed her approach and simply began to spew "Team Clinton's" talking points. That Andrea Mitchel made the report on "The Today Show" which is run by NBC News.
Who knows, maybe pigs do fly.
Video of the entire Mitchell report follows: