Andrea Mitchell: Is the Rise in Extremism Due to an ‘African American President’?

‘This is a sensitive question, but I need to ask it’

Andrea Mitchell: Is Rise In Extremism Due to 'African American President'? (NewsBusters)

Leave it to MSNBC to exploit a shooting by a pair of deranged extremists to push the notion that violence is on the rise as a racist reacting to having a black man in the Oval Office.

That's what MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell did in a segment of the Tuesday edition of her MSNBC program, asking political consultant and former Attorney General Eric Holder spokesman Matthew Miller if the shooting was in part fueled by the fact that “we have an African-American president.”

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