MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell slammed President Barack Obama for mentioning the Crusades at the National Prayer Breakfast on Sunday’s edition of “Meet The Press.”
After New York Times columnist David Brooks heaped a good deal of praise on the speech, Mitchell condemned the President’s remarks.
“You don’t use the word ‘crusade,’ number one, in any context right now,” the host of “Andrew Mitchell Reports” said. “It’s too fraught.”
“And the week after a pilot is burned alive in a video shown, you don’t lean over backwards to be philosophical about the sins of the fathers,” she added.
Obama has drawn outrage, mostly from conservatives, for referencing Christianity’s history of religious violence while discussing the Islamic State terror group at the prayer breakfast.
“You have to deal with the issue at hand or don’t deal with it at all, talk about faith,” Mitchell said.
Other panelists were less critical. Stephen Henderson of the Detroit Free Press praised Obama’s allusion to American Christians defending the institution of slavery.
“Our political culture does not allow for much nuanced debate,” journalist Katty Kay added.
Mitchell remained unimpressed.
“But he’s the President,” she said. “You can’t really go back to 1095.”
“If you’re giving a major speech about theology, perhaps. But this is the prayer breakfast,” Mitchell added.
Watch the clip, via Mediaite:
I am not surprised in Andrea Mitchell. She is always critical of anything President Obama does. I think that she has lost all credibility as a journalist with her bias dislike of President Obama.
Hey, Andrea. You don’t have to go back to 1093. How about the 60’s for a video of a hanging and burning of a black man? How did that escape your notice?
For a person with their own “news” show, she certainly is ignorant.
Meet the press? lol. BTW the KKK STILL uses a CROSS as it’s symbol.
“You don’t use the word ‘crusade,’ number one, in any context right now,” the host of “Andrew Mitchell Reports” said. “It’s too fraught.”
How then, would you describe the Crusades? “That thingy where certain people went out and slaughtered others who didn’t buy in to their view of religion”?
Yes Andrea, a Christian Prayer breakfast is no place to discuss theology and religion…