Mitchell will anchor her final daily show on MSNBC today, Friday, ending a 17-year run for “Andrew Mitchell Reports.”
Mitchell, 78, announced last fall she would be stepping down when the presidential election is over, so her departure was not a surprise, The New York Post pointed out.
Despite stepping down from the daily show, Mitchell is still clinging to several sought-after titles at the network including chief foreign affairs correspondent and chief Washington correspondent.
Curtis Houck, of the Media Research Center, tells AFN Mitchell is a quintessential and stalwart Washington journalist.
"In the most negative sense possible," he says.
"She not only knows but is friends with many of the permanent Washington elites, in particular liberal globalist elites,” Houck advises.
Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
NBC calls Mitchell's reporting 'unmatched'
On paper, Mitchell’s 50-year career at NBC News reads like a hero reporter chasing after the big stories and holding the powerful accountable. Her ability to land the “biggest-name news-making interviews is unmatched,” NBC said in a statement about her departure from the daily MSNBC show.
Compare that praise to an MRC article recalling “the worst” of Mitchell while chairing her MSNBC show.
The clips from her show include her predictable praise for Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, for example, while she expresses concern about climate change, public education, Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and even democracy itself.
“How confident can we be that democracy does survive?” she asked Jon Meacham, a liberal presidential historian, during the 2022 midterm elections.
After someone leaked the pending Dobbs abortion ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, Mitchell wondered ominously what the right-leaning court would do to other rights next. “If they care so little about precedent and overruling precedent," she said, "what about Brown v. Board of Education? What about other major civil rights rulings of the 60s?”
MRC's clips of Mitchell follow a similar theme: Putting left-wing hysteria in the form of a question but fawning over her liberal guests.
"Is there a part of you that thinks about Rocky Balboa?” she asked Joe Biden in 2018.
A graduate of Penn State, the university recognized its famous alumnus with a research facility in 2017, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. It hosts speakers from politics, academia and journalism to support and study “democratic values, ideas, and institutions throughout the world.”
Houck, however, remembers Mitchell’s glowing praise for Fidel Castro, the late Communist dictator of Cuba whom she interviewed numerous times.
"She spoke glowingly of the regime," says Houck.
After Castro’s death, in 2016, Mitchell traveled to Havana to report from there. She recalled the now-dead dictator was a “voracious reader” and was “very, very smart, and very wedded to his revolutionary ideology.”
