Andrea Mitchell is...sort of...uhm...bordering on ...bigotry?

J.Todd Foster:  Thank you, Andrea Mitchell, For The Ready-Made Column:

I learned something about myself Thursday that I did not know: I’m a redneck. But then again, so is every one of you reading this column. Or so says Andrea Mitchell of NBC News.

Mitchell, the wife of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, actually went on MSNBC on Thursday as Barack Obama was leaving the stage in Bristol and quipped live: “Interesting images today. Barack Obama, Mark Warner, in Southwest Virginia. This is real [chuckle] redneck ... sort of ... uhm ... bordering on Appalachia ... country. This is not the Northern Virginia ... uh ... you know ... high-tech corridor. And these are voters that he would not logically ... be ... you know, gravitating to. This is the beginning of a pivot.

Of course I'm surely a redneck since I live in Alabama.  Fine by me.  Mr. J. Todd Foster seems a little offended that he might be considered a redneck.  I don't have such problems, I just consider the source and let it ride.

Here's the kicker:

IF MITCHELL were telling Jeff Foxworthy jokes, and let’s hope she could do it without all the “uhms” and “you knows,” her lead would be: “You might be a redneck if you live in Southwest Virginia.”

I have a retort, however: You might be a gold digger if you marry a Fed chairman older than your daddy.

Ouch.

***Update 6-11***

Andrea Mitchell apologized:

MITCHELL: And now, a point of personal privilege. I owe an apology to the good people of Bristol, Virginia, for something stupid that I said last week. I was trying to explain, based on reporting from Democratic strategists, why Barack Obama was campaigning in southwest Virginia, but without attribution or explanation, I used a term strategists often use to demean an entire community. No excuses, I'm really sorry. As they say, when I make a mistake, it's a beaut.

Comments

[linda]

Hee hee hee--the gold-digger had to apologize to the lowly rednecks! Bet that smarted!

[Julie]

Dontcha love it!