Minnesota Independent » Andrea Mitchell http://minnesotaindependent.com News. Politics. Media. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:37:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Andrea Mitchell on Palin: Her Down’s Syndrome baby is “a very strong appeal to the pro-life community” http://minnesotaindependent.com/6093/andrea-mitchell-on-palin-her-downs-syndrome-baby-a-very-strong-appeal-to-the-pro-life-community http://minnesotaindependent.com/6093/andrea-mitchell-on-palin-her-downs-syndrome-baby-a-very-strong-appeal-to-the-pro-life-community#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:10:45 +0000 Steve Perry http://www.minnesotaindependent.com/?p=6093 At the conclusion of Sarah Palin’s speech in Dayton today–an event with all the gravitas and eloquence of a high school pep rally where the principal was introducing the new vice-principal– NBC’s Andrea Mitchell dropped this observation, my emphasis…]]> At the conclusion of Sarah Palin’s speech in Dayton today–an event with all the gravitas and eloquence of a high school pep rally where the principal was introducing the new vice-principal– NBC’s Andrea Mitchell dropped this observation, my emphasis added:

“Her infant child, born in April, we are told by the campaign, with Down’s Syndrome. This [is] a very strong appeal to the pro-life community, having carried this child to term.”

Just curious: Did the campaign also point out the baby’s usefulness to John McCain, or is this Andrea Mitchell’s own tasteful extrapolation? Does this seem grotesque to anyone else?

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