David Shuster of MSNBC was just suspended for saying yesterday that the Hillary Clinton campaign had "pimped out" her daughter Chelsea on the campaign trail, in particular in her personal phone calls to "superdelegates". The suspension came amid outrage from the Clinton campaign, which included threatening to pull out of MSNBC's February 26th debate in Ohio.
UPDATE: IF FURTHER PROOF BE NEEDED THAT SHE ACTUALLY IS BEING PIMPED OUT-- HERE IT IS! (tongue-in-cheek)
I am outraged by this firing. It would be one thing if Shuster in anyway insinuated that he was using "pimped out" in its technical meaning but he did not. He in no way insinuated that Chelsea was doing anything more than calling superdelegates on her mother's behalf. He saw this as usury and chose the term "pimped out" for it. It IS usury. I happen to see no problem with it in this case but Shuster did and he said so. The (very un-) righteous anger with which the Clinton campaign has responded is SO Clinton and it is entirely ridiculous. They are threatening to pull OUT OF A DEBATE because of this??? Wasn't it Hillary, who was arguing just the other day that the candidates should be debating every week? Now, that someone has publicly disagreed with their strategy by calling out the manner in which they were using their 27 YEAR OLD daughter (yes TWENTY SEVEN, not seven or even twenty!!!!!!) they are thinking of pulling out???
How childish! How Clintonian! How is everybody not SICK of this?
2 comments:
Don't you remember how they were always protecting her like that when they were in the White House? Yes, I know that Chelsea was a young kid in the White House but if the Bushes had reacted that way, think of all the great Drunk Jenna stories we would have missed out on.
You are using your adult child to help you win an election... she can take a few comments on the chin, and for Godssake, this wasn't even directed at a personal flaw of hers. CUT THE CORD!
Take a few "comments" on the chin?
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