Mitchell vs. Obama: After a Pilot Is Burned, Don’t Wax Philosophical About the Crusades

Andrea Mitchell Rips Obama Prayer Speech: After A Pilot Is Burned, "You Don't Lean Over Backwards And Be Philosophical" (RealClearPolitics)

NBC News' Andrea Mitchell chided at President Obama for his controversial remarks about Christianity and the Crusades at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier in the week.

Mitchell criticized Obama for leaning over backwards to be philosophical days after it was found out that a captured Jordanian pilot was burned alive by ISIS.

"You don't use the word Crusades, number one, in any context right now," Mitchell said on NBC's Meet the Press today. "It's just 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. You have to deal with the issue that's in front of you or don't deal with it at all."