Andrea Mitchell To Komen Chief: I'm Expressing 'Anger' Of Many People (VIDEO)

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell had some tough words for Susan G. Komen chief Nancy Brinker about the growing firestorm over Planned Parenthood.

Mitchell and Brinker were discussing the controversy that has erupted around Susan G. Komen's recent decision to end its funding to Planned Parenthood. The funding supported Planned Parenthood's ability to provide breast cancer screenings for its patients.

Shortly after the interview started, Mitchell disclosed her connection to breast cancer and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. "Let me just put out there first of all, I have have been identified, an outspoken supporter and participant in the races over the years long before I, myself, ended up being diagnosed with breast cancer." Mitchell announced that she was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2011.

Mitchell added that she and Brinker have known each other a long time through Brinker's role at the foundation and her time as a diplomat at the State Department. "But I come to you today, you know, expressing the anger of a lot of people," Mitchell said. "Channeling through them, you see it on Twitter, you see it everywhere."

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[Chubster30]

12:47 PM on 02/07/2012

1973:

"I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant women and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes. The upshot is that the people and the legislatures of the 50 States are constitutionally disentitled to weigh the relative importance of the continued existence and development of the fetus, on the one hand, against a spectrum of possible impacts on the woman, on the other hand. As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court."

Well said Justice White...very well said...

[Chubster30]

12:42 PM on 02/07/2012

"I come to you today expressing the anger of a lot of people..."

Really Andrea?

Well I come to you today expressing the absolute joy of a lot of people that the largest abortion provider in this country has a few less extra dollars in their pockets.

[StaceyKay6]

07:09 PM on 05/22/2012

Back your statement up with facts please. Plan Parenthood does so much more the provide abortion. You know like help people with low income get mammogras and pap tests. And also provide birth control so abortions aren't nessecery. But you're probably anti-birth control too. The only people who should be able to plan parent acorrding to you is the rich who can afford insurance, Doctors and or birth control. OR they should die virgins.

[katgal1232]

10:33 AM on 02/06/2012

Karen is a scoundrel.

[katter47]

10:32 PM on 02/05/2012

Komen for the Cure clearly chose to make a political statement by disavowing ALL the work Planned Parenthood does and focusing on the 3% of their services related to abortion. There is not even the suggestion that the Komen grant was ever used for abortion services. Their reversal of policy only confirms that this organization bows to political pressure. If Komen wants to align itself with the anti-abortion, social conservatives, that is their option, but by doing so they have lost the moral highground and become just another polticized organization catering to the political right wingers. I, for one, will never again look at pink ribbons or For the Cure fund raisers as I did in the past. There are other worthy charities fighting breast cancer that will now get my donations instead of Komen.

[robjh1]

03:17 PM on 02/05/2012

Activist journalist. And people wonder why the left media is blamed for being political and onesided. Ask no more! Here is proof.

[JPJABBER]

08:05 PM on 02/05/2012

BS

[katgal1232]

10:32 AM on 02/06/2012

there is no other side. Women are the only folks that should have a say in terms of the female human body, end of discussion.

[robjh1]

11:16 AM on 02/06/2012

I wonder if Planned Parenthood ever considered changing its name to reflect all the good work it does. The current does seems to reflect that it does one thing. Before I started doing research I too thought the group's focus was on planning families. I was completely unaware of the other work the group is involved in.

[MTinMO]

12:23 PM on 02/05/2012

Women who have low incomes and lack health insurance, especially those who have a family, are apt to put off their own health due to the many other expenditures they put ahead of their own needs. I have seen it over and over again and have been there too. Programs such as the breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood make it possible for women without means to take care of themselves and to find the peace of mind that they are healthy or to find out early enough if they have a problem. Breast cancer caught in early stages has a much better chance of being arrested, giving women the best chances to survive and actually costing much less to treat. To remove funding from an organization that has a very good track record of reaching the targeted groups and to do so under such flimsy excuses make the Susan G. Komen organization look particularly bad. Especially when their organization is specifically about breast cancer; the diagnosing, treatment and finding a cure. How does such a group cut funding to another organization that has not been shown to be doing anything wrong with the funds? When they are doing the job they are supposed to do? The excuses offered have not excused them in my eyes and haven’t brought me back, even after they rescinded the previous decision. I no longer trust Komen to do the right thing and I will not be supporting them anymore.

[stonedragonfarm]

10:59 AM on 02/05/2012

Komen Foundation has lost my donations. I'm giving more to Planned Parenthood instead. KF's denials that the decision and the faux reversal are political are disingenuous. I'm tired of right wing lies. They will enthusiastically deny many people any kind of health care to further the right wing agenda. How sad is that?

[lifelongdemo]

09:55 AM on 02/05/2012

There would not even been a question if when Ronny R when he was president (and everyone loved him} got abortions outlawed. (please read me whole response). He had congress & the senate, but he chose to do nothing. Then there was Sr. George HW, did he do anything, no again did nothing. A third chance with baby Bush, surely he did something! Nada, zilch, zero. Wake up people this "prolife politicians" ARE NOT pro life. It's politics, no way are they going to give away their political trick and make abortion illegal. But along the way they are going to destroy just about everything and anything that pertains to women's health because it cost too much. So they kill two birds with one stone and one bird can be used again and again. Having just come thru cancer surgery like Jan 24, I've been laying in bed screeming when I see what these "prolife" people are doing. There are millions of deeply committed prolife people but most of these people out there mouthing off are hacks.

[enhancedvibes]

09:42 AM on 02/06/2012

That is because in the privacy of their homes most Americans are pro-choice. Americans do not want abortion to be made illegal. I dont care how loud a small number of shouting Americans are, most understand it as a necessary medical procedure.

[cissycord]

07:19 PM on 02/08/2012

On the contrary, Ronald Reagan and George W Bush appointed Supreme Court Justices (constitutionalists) whose jurisdiction it is to reverse the ruling (Roe Vs Wade) legalizing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy - an act of RAW JUDICIAL POWER, something that the framers of the constitution NEVER meant them to have.

[redhead55]

09:40 AM on 02/05/2012

Power to the People!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/kristof-after-recess-change-the-world.html?_r=1

[Dr Confuso]

09:23 AM on 02/05/2012

I could tell she was lying, her lips were moving.

[mrJJ]

09:44 PM on 02/04/2012

UPDATE: KOMEN CONFIRMS CONTINUED INVOLVEMENT OF ARI FLEISCHER ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD STRATEGY | Yesterday, ThinkProgress exclusively reported Ari Fleischer’s involvement — dating back at least to December — with the Komen Foundation, including issues related to Planned Parenthood. Tonight, the Washington Post reports that Komen is now publicly confirming that Fleischer, a prominent right-wing pundit and former press secretary George W. Bush, will help “on crisis communications” related to Planned Parenthood. Komen stressed that Fleischer, who is a long-time critic of Planned Parenthood, “had nothing to do with the funding decision.”

wink..wink..chuckle

[rwthewayIseeit]

08:47 PM on 02/04/2012

Every time I see Andrea I think of her husband Greenspan. She should have to give disclaimer every time she speaks. "My husband played a major role in destroying the US economy, our currency and was an accomplice in the largest heist in history". For here to get righteous about anything is a joke until she disowns her hubby.

[Nighthawk1]

08:38 PM on 02/04/2012

Komen was caught attempting to social engineer using money to coerce the outcome.

[Karen BruceHolmes]

02:21 AM on 02/05/2012

Monies entrusted to her by people she duped and misled

[SamBaby]

07:35 PM on 02/04/2012

Nancy spent a lot of time explaining it was Board decision based on metrics. I guess they forgot to tell her it was because PP was under investigation by the House.
I get so tired of being treated like an idiot!

[Guerry Glover]

05:20 PM on 02/04/2012

blah, blah,blah... komen has ended up annoying everyone