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Sexist Chelsea Clinton Statements Prompt Campaign To Attack MSNBC

Huffington Post   |   February 8, 2008 01:53 PM


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UPDATE: MSNBC has suspended anchor David Shuster for his comments about Chelsea Clinton.

In a conference call this afternoon, the Clinton campaign pushed back hard against what they see as a barrage of sexist and inappropriate comments from MSNBC anchors:

A distasteful comment about Chelsea Clinton by an MSNBC anchor could imperil Hillary Rodham Clinton's participation in future presidential debates on the network, a Clinton spokesman said.

In a conference call with reporters, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson on Friday excoriated MSNBC's David Shuster for suggesting the Clinton campaign had "pimped out" 27-year old Chelsea by having her place phone calls to Democratic Party superdelegates on her mother's behalf. Wolfson called the comment "beneath contempt" and disgusting.

"I, at this point, can't envision a scenario where we would continue to engage in debates on that network," he added.

Greg Sargent at TPM points out:

That he would effectively rule out future debate appearances for the time being strongly suggests that the Hillary campaign discussed this in some detail beforehand and decided to launch this broadside against the network. It also suggests that the Hillary camp sees the potential for political gain in drawing media attention to negative and sexist comments made on MSNBC about her and her daughter.

Watch: Shuster apologizes.

Watch: David Shuster claim Chelsea is being "pimped out" by the Clinton campaign.

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Chelsea Clinton is beautiful-she can call me anytime.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:09 AM on 02/11/2008

calling super delegates seems unethical, not sure why Hillary would make even more of this story again making the Clinton"s look desperate and demanding

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:46 AM on 02/11/2008
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I call this censorship. I say MSNBC will be sorry if they give into Hillary. It will give her the whip hand if she is elected. Kinda like Cheney and Fox Noise. Yeah, like we need more of that crap.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:19 PM on 02/10/2008
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Don't think Hillary will bow out of face time on any TV. She's a coattail whore and a pimp if there's a vote in it for her.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:13 PM on 02/10/2008

It's nice to see a Clinton actually be able to claim the moral high ground.
Unfortunately Hillary would have Chelsea pole dance naked in Times Square if it would get her and Bill back in the White House.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:44 AM on 02/10/2008

And Penn and McAuliffe are hurriedly out shopping with their new online donations to buy the matching python.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 PM on 02/10/2008

This is clearly another desperate attempt by the Clinton camp to garner free, albeit negative, publicity. Not to mention, label it in a way that she is sure to fire up women in her defense. Let's be honest here, who has heard of Chelsea's public service or her political opinions, if she has any? If anyone has, please enlighten me. No one is saying she doesn"t have the right to support her mom. I, a white woman, mother of 3 girls, didn"t see the comment as that offensive, I saw it simply for what it was, a common slang meant to imply, putting her daughter out there in the public eye to speak on her behalf. It"s that simple. Let's not pretend like the comment "pimped out" in the slang world implies anything negative. C"mon, the MTV show Pimped my Ride turns a lemon car into a pretty cool car (although not my taste)¦.which I see as a positive. Poor example maybe, nonetheless, I would say it's pretty common terminology nowadays and it is used frequently by people of all race, color and gender. My advice to Hillary, let's keep it focused on the real issues, that is what us Americans really care about. I don't see Obama trying to rally up the African-American vote, or any group for that matter, by bringing attention to non-issues such as this. Let's unify not divide! I"m afraid this is something Hillary Clinton and her camp has a nasty habit of trying to do. Shame on her! That is why my vote will go to Obama!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:42 AM on 02/10/2008

She can't keep it about the issues, she'll lose. It's definitely just a publicity grab.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:04 PM on 02/10/2008
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Outstanding montage of KO and the "pimping" story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xPsxhN8yuA

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:17 AM on 02/10/2008

I agree that Shuster's comment was out of line.

I agree that MSNBC has allowed many of it's guys to go overboard with edgy if not downright insulting comments when what the public wants is good discussion of what's up in the campaigns. Scarboro and Mathews are the worst ~ they don't have one sentence mistakes, they have paragraph upon paragraph long tirades.

Actually I believe Scarboro and Mathews are the ones that set the tone for the network over and over. They are the ones who should have their heads on a plate, not Schuster. He is the junior member of the team and has rarely crossed the line in my opinion so I disagree that his head should be served up on a platter.

I believe Clinton is making this a "cause celeb". What better way to get attention and to issue a call to arms!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:20 AM on 02/10/2008

I agree with the previous comment wholeheartedly. Someone has to take a stand against this out of countrol media. They shouldn't be talking about anyone being pimps or being pimped. When they have all made their livings and substantialy increased those livings almost soley on the backs of both Clintons for the past 16 years. They are all Media Whores, fire them all. Especially Shuster and Chris Matthews.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:58 PM on 02/10/2008

chelsea clinton is a 28 year old woman. she is not a little girl. if she is going to stump for her mom then she needs to talk to the media. you can't have it both ways. the clintons clearly are exploiting chelsea. one need look no further than bill saying he and chelsea overheard union members in nevada making threats against other union members.
first off it was just another bill clinton lie. secondly since he says his daughter also heard these threats he is opening her up to media scrutiny. yeah schuster used one wrong word, but i think he is frustrated that no one can get an interview with chelsea, not even a 9 year old little girl!
now the clintons are using this non-incident to garner more sympathy as well as free press.
if hillary is so strong why does she keep playing the victim?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:18 AM on 02/10/2008

You can't even say it was the wrong word. They are doing it. It wasn't a shot at Chelsea, she's just being a good daughter with the guidance she's gotten. Her parents are the pimps that talk her onto "hooking" delegates for them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:07 PM on 02/10/2008

Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they've campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response.

"Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?" Sydney asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside.

"I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute," Chelsea told the pint-sized journalist.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:06 AM on 02/10/2008

hillary wants to take away your first amendment rights to FRee Speech and Freedom of the Press.

Well here's a tip hillary - if you don't want the public to comment on your daughter, then don't shove her on to the public stage.

If you send your kid out to turn tricks, don't be surprised at what people call her.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:49 AM on 02/10/2008

True that!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:08 PM on 02/10/2008

I see that MSNBC is so gutless and greedy. I thought Nora O'Donnell was great as usual but the broadcast last and this morning is absent the vigor of the network. It was boring because most of the people that interject was absent. So she was holding it down alone.

This censorship is so obvious. From the hour-long special that ran yesterday to the consistent run of tapes of a "humbled" Bill Clinton.

Is MSNBC really doing this because they want to continue to hold the debate?

What does the Clintons have over them?

I will check tomorrow to see if Joe Scarborough remains silent and start stroking Hillary in spite of her losses.

I can't wait to read the book that will definitely come out one day to tell us what really went down with the Clintons' bullying them into servitude.

Oh...I guess MSNBC is now being PIMPED (put to work)...making them look half-way descent.

This is sheer corruption. I find The Clintons masterminding this but I also find MSNBC as accomplices for not standing up to them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:03 AM on 02/10/2008

Sen.Clinton is exactly right,

Her campain is The MOVEMENT.

People understand ,what she wants for the country,

They want the same,

She explained,how she'll do it,

people agree with her on this too.

So there is the WILL of people,she represents,
and they gathering aroung her for their future.

THIS IS THE MOVEMENT.

And about Obama.

he sounds like shepherd,preaching to sheeps.

THEY DON"T KNOW,WHAT HE WILL DO,AS A PRESIDENT.

THEY DON'T KNOW ,HOW HE'LL DO IT.

BUT SHEEPS BELIEVE TO SHEPHERD,BECOUSE

SOMETHING IN HIS VOICE IS SO FAMILIAR,

they hear his voce and gather into herd,no metter,where he will bring them,With him it fills like home everywhere he goes.

THIS IS SOME MOVEMENT TOO

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:49 AM on 02/10/2008

almal, it looks like obama has a lot of sheep out there, he trounced hillary in nebraska and washington, as well as beating her by a significant amount in Louisiana.
by the way her campaign is a movement of more of the same even though she claims otherwise.
luckily educated people realize this, which is why a new comer like obama could defeat her even with the clinton name recognition as well as many women voting for hillary simply because she is a woman ( how stupid is that?)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:27 AM on 02/10/2008

Baaaah, baaaah, baaaah!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:12 PM on 02/10/2008

I think that they could go ahead and elevate the level of the debate to a more professional level, and it wouldn't bother me at all.
They can dream, change, promise, and prophecize to their hearts' content, but real reform is going to come from adapting and adopting the practice of distributed debate, getting cities and counties and city councils and state legislatures re-involved in the process of representative government, so that Congress can stop just being check-n-go. Stampies, stampies, billion here, billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money, but there's systemic stuff going on in tax and economy-land, stuff that'll take some frank and sober discussion on reforms that need to be made. Sunshine stories don't balance the books, simply put. 'Yes, we can' do a LOT better in that dept., first and foremost by people not standing there asking for more.
My thinking is, the checks and balances are a topic worth more discussion, because that also ultimately gets into the whole part of whether or not a vote is really worth your time to begin with. Question is, could an accountant get elected, a reformer, a Constitutionalist?
Paul's still alive, but trailing bad...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 AM on 02/10/2008

Well one good thing might come out of this after all because the last thing I want to watch is another debate....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:43 AM on 02/10/2008

Amen. Such minor differences aren't even worthy of debate anymore. The only difference is positive politics vs. negative politics. Who can bring positive energy to our country?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:15 PM on 02/10/2008
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