Clinton Sends Blistering Letter To NBC News Over Chelsea "Pimp" Remark

New York Times:

Senator Hillary Clinton sent a blistering letter today to the head of NBC, which suspended one of its reporters Friday for comments he made about Chelsea Clinton.

The reporter, David Shuster, had said Thursday that Ms. Clinton had been "pimped out" to make calls to superdelegates on behalf of her mother.

Mrs. Clinton said in her letter, to Steve Capus, the head of NBC, that she wanted to write personally to convey the "depth of my feeling" about Mr. Shuster's comments.

"Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient," she wrote.

She also said that Mr. Capus should look at "the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language."

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[TRichards]

Mrs. Clinton to MSNBC: "There will be blood."

Eric Berne in "Games People Play" identified a game being played by Mrs. Clinton -- NIGYYSOB (or Now I've Got You You Son Of a Bitch) It's the Al Sharpton game, ramping up the indignation to the nth degree to make sure someone pays dearly for a mistake.

Those who have watched this reporter may have noticed that he is NOT a hatchet man and is actually pretty darn good. However, it won't count. His flippant (not malicious but too flippant by far) comment will be paid for dearly or Hillary Clinton isn't Hillary Clinton.

Where was the indignation over "I did not have sex with THAT WOMAN, Monica Lewinsky" and the deliberate effort to reduce her entire being to that of a slutty cocksucking whore.

Had Lewinsky not kept the blue dress, she would have been painted as a liar and been hung out to dry.

But, there is a difference. Chelsea Clinton is what passes for American royalty. Monica Lewinsky, on the other hand, was a disposable person to be used and then attacked. Her life was ruined and her name has become a joke while her victimizer now passes as a statesman.

It's time for the Clintons, not some hapless reporter, to suck it up.

[midtown]

And it's also time for the press to ask the new junior politician, Chelsea, just want position she intends to get from mama for all the work she is doing now. Chelsea said she intends to enter politics. That was her degree.

[midtown]

In 2006, Chelsea left McKinsey to take a job with Marc Lasry's Avenue Capital Group, a $12 billion hedge fund. Lasry, a financial donor to the Democrats and the Clintons, was a founder of Amroc, a "distressed stock broker." Amroc's partner included Keystone, Inc., an investment firm linked to the Robert M. Bass Group. Robert M. Bass is the billionaire son of Texas oil tycoon, Perry Richardson Bass. Robert M. Bass is a long time contributor to George W. Bush's political campaigns. His brother Ed was a Yale classmate of Bush and remains a close friend. Robert Bass is founder of Aerion Corp., a Pentagon contractor.

There was a time when Chelsea Clinton was off-limits in the political scheme of things. However, with recent revelations concerning her father's dodgy business deals with Kazakhstan dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan uranium mining deals for Clinton big mining Canadian pal Frank Giustra, and Bill Clinton's dubious Sustainable Growth Initiative, Chelsea's own dubious relationships with New York's most powerful hedge funds and Bush political allies raise further questions about all three Clintons' "ties that bind."

[midtown]

The above was a quote from waynemadsenreport.com. The attribution didn't publish for some reason.

[degjack]

I'm in the group that believes the media is due for a good a** whupping and if it takes this particular journalist - one I generally admire - in this particular incident to accomplish it, too bad. Lewinsky won't be the first disposed person in America not Chelsea the first to be crowned princess.
That's America's fault and failing.

[bikerdude]

Are you comparing what Chelsea Clinton did to what Monica did? You are crawling in the same gutter as Shuster and the rest of the sexist MSNBC "pundits". MONICA decided to have an illicit sexual encounter with someone. SHE provided the comment and "evidence" that led to the impeachment, but not conviction of a president. She got her 15 minutes. Yes, she was manipulated by the republican witch hunters.
This kind of comment is an attempt to lessen the seriousness of a degrading disgusting term used by what we all assume to be a neutral news person. MSNBC has been propagating and inserting racist and sexist comments in most of their "reporting". Tucker, Chris and even that vacuous VP who slimes everyone, usually on Tucker's show have all done this to some degree. Even Matthews had to make an "apology", albiet a weak one.

[bikerdude]

Remember the republicans spent $70 million to try to convict the Clintons of ANYTHING. While Gingrich was chasing Bill Clinton's sexual dalliance, he was having an adulterous affair himself. The press leaped on the Clintons and prematurely published all the bullshit that Ken Starr and the republicans were handing out. Bill Clinton is not a saint by any criteria, but to try to paint Chelsea and/or her mother with that same brush is not fair and disgusting.

[wndrwrthg]

"Methinks she doth protest to much". Her level of outrage seems to be out of proportion to the "crime". "No temporary or half-hearted apology is sufficient", what does she want, his head on a platter? His comment was directed at the campaigns use of Chelsea to drum up support, not at Chelsea herself. He never did call her a whore or intimate that she was anything of the sort. My own opinion of this is that Hillarys camp will milk this as long as they can. Watch her displays on the talk shows, which does she give the most voice to, her being down in the caucuses and primaries or the precieved slight to Chelsea.

[JessWonderin]

I call BULLSHIT . . . Shuster was wrapped up in the Insider-Frat-Boy-Fart-Joke-Look-At-The-Hooters Talking heads pioneered by Faux, and deserved more than a letter expressing the "depth of (her) feelings". It is a pattern of sexists attacks and comments becoming more prevalent now on MS/NBC, approaching the low standards established by Faux. You pass this off because of what I suspect is an anti-Hillary bias, but what would you have reacted to a comment about Obama and his wife? News needs to be "news" . . . wanna comment? Make it "Commentary" . . .

[ReelBusy]

Hillary (or Bill) must really need the free PR to keep pushing this. It's just driving me toward McCain in the general election now.

My issue now is this: A FREE PRESS IS A FREE PRESS.
When they say something you don't like TOO F'N BAD!
To keep pressing this issue to NBC smacks of press intimidation and is a very Bush/Rove move.

Is Shuster and MSNBC a scapegoat target like Wilson and Plame?
Really starting to feel like it.

Chelsea's 28 years old, campaigning and lobbying super delegates yet refuses (at her parents order?) to speak with the press?
Can't have it both ways.
Shuster was right.

[BBGG]

My sons are in their 40's . . . but I will tell you now. You'd better not screw with them or suffer the wrath of their mother! I am sure that's the way God made us and too bad your mother doesn't fee that way about you. Gay, you say? How do you like it?

[OneWoman]

He didnt have to directly call her a "whore". He implied it with his comment.

[Marmann]

I don't think he implied it. I think he was implying that Hillary is exploiting Chelsea, which she is. She didn't have time for Chelsea when Chelsea really needed her to "have teas and bake cookies," yet Chelsea is very useful to Hillary when it comes to persuading "super delegates" to vote for Hillary -- you know -- those people who could make my vote and your vote worthless.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Clinton has, for some time now, been designated to be the next American president. The American people are being played once again.

[LorettaSingbiel]

He DIDN'T "directly call her a whore" OR "imply it with his comment".

I AGREE with wndrwrthg: "His comment was directed at the campaigns use of Chelsea to drum up support, not at Chelsea herself. He never did call her a whore or intimate that she was anything of the sort. My own opinion of this is that Hillarys camp will milk this as long as they can."

I also AGREE with TRichards: "Where was the indignation over 'I did not have sex with THAT WOMAN' and the deliberate effort to reduce her entire being to that of a slutty cocksucking whore. Monica Lewinsky was a disposable person to be used and then attacked. Her life was ruined and her name has become a joke while her victimizer now passes as a statesman. It's time for the Clintons, not some hapless reporter, to suck it up."

It was WRONG for the Clintons to RUIN Monica's life, as it is WRONG for them to RUIN Shuster's career!

Stay safe, healthy and happy,
Love, Loretta

[BeerHolder]

I'm sorry but Chelsea is looking hotter all the time. She may have been a dumpy looking girl but she is definately hot now.

[bluestatelib]

Truer words have not been written.

[ReelBusy]

That's how it always is.
The plain ones blossom later in life and the pretty cheerleaders get fat and ugly.
Same applies to the boys who are a bit dorky.
They grow into it and the jocks just get fat pot bellies.

[apresdeluge]

You Obama supporters are so vile. Stop and listen to yourselves.

[bluestatelib]

All Obama supporters are vile? Vile? Please. Maybe you should take your own advice and stop and listen to yourself.

[dora rice]

and that's how they will lose, because the rest of the country will see the trash they are representing....if you can't even call another hard working candidate by their real name....you are nothing but dumb trash..

[nomobull]

or start to wonder why clinton supporters are trying to tie his name to something even a six year old realizes he had nothing to do with.or those making remarks who are not obama supporters begin to wonder why they are being labeled as such just because they express a different opinion on something.you sound desperate as much as you may hate to admit other people besides people who like obama dislike clinton. and this may send you over the edge some obama supporter like her they just prefer his platform or believe he can change things. so unless you can prove those you are insulting are obama supportes just say you don't like him and let it go.

[Zentomato]

So after multiple apologies for what was a foolish choice of words Hillary still wants to tar and feather David Shuster? Who is being the bitch now? What does she want? Shuster head on a pike? Oh poor Hillary and poor Chelsea. Get over it and accept the man's apology and move on. But no, your gonna play this up for all it is worth and to hell if a good journalist gets villified.

[bluestatelib]

It's really sad too, because Shuster is obviously a good guy. He surely made a boneheaded stupid mistake, but he certainly is articulately anti-Bush in his reporting. He shouldn't lose his job over this as Hillary is shamelessly suggesting. He's no Don Imus, who made a career out of making sexist, racially offensive comments.

[hank48188]

I think the difference you fail to see is that Imus is a shock jock, that is his stock in trade. Shuster on the other hand is supposed to be a NEWSMAN, not a shock jock. The only reason Imus got fired was because of his choice on adjectives, if he wouldn't have said "Nappy- Headed" he wouldn't of had a problem. The "Ho" part is a staple of black conversation these days and the girls took no offense from that term, they hear it a thousand times a day from the rappers and hip-hoppers

[degjack]

Head on a puke will do, yeah.
Plus no more debates on MSNBC.
Then Matthews' head on the puke.

[bikerdude]

Its pike, and I agree.

[Give Peace A Chance]

Wasn't it degrading language when the Clintons called Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones gold digging white trailer trash?

[midtown]

Oh . . . beauty comeback!

[dora rice]

what has that got to do with Chelsea...Monica was a cocksucker....and Paula didn't have a case. If she was so clean she would have called for the state trooper outside of her door to please escort her downstairs. She didnt do it. she undressed and thought she will be in riches from then on. Nothing but a whore.....

[LorettaSingbiel]

"Monica was a cocksucker....and Paula didn't have a case."

WOW! Are you REALLY a supporter of WOMEN, dora-rice?

If so, WHY are you seemingly PROTECTING the "STUD", and PUNISHING the "SLUT"? Was the "STUD" RAPED? If so, could he not have screamed for Hillary to cum to his rescue?

I'm DEFINITELY a Democrat...but was NEVER on Bill Clinton's side in his sexual shenanigans! And I DON'T fault Hillary for not kicking him to the curb. If EVERY woman kicked their husbands to the curb after they GOT CAUGHT, the "sanctified" Institution of Marriage would be EXTINCT.

Stay safe, healthy and happy,
Love, Loretta

[degjack]

"..depth of my feeling"...

THAT's blistering?! WTF??

[bluestatelib]

Hillary wrote, "Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient."

Here Hillary seems to suggest that Shuster should lose his job. If that's not "blistering," I don't know what is. I'm sure it's not an everyday occurrence for a presidential candidate and U.S. senator to suggest that a reporter lose his job.

[gala1]

Truman didn't suggest that a critic who insulted his daughter lose his job. He threatened to rip his head off.

Oh, I forgot. Truman wasn't a woman.



gala

[degjack]

Then you don't know what is...

What's more, what planet do you live on?

Bush leads reporters around by the nose.

[RogerHWerner]

I've always liked Chelsea. I think it's refreshing that the child of famous parents doesn't seem terribly interested in using that fame as a stepping stone. She has assidiously avoided the spotlight and focused on making a life of her own. Her only "problem" is being a Clinton and it's unfortunate she blamed for the perceived short comings of her parents. Any kid her age growing up in a fish bowl and who terns out the way she has needs encouragement and respect.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

"She has assidiously avoided the spotlight"

yeah, right up to the point she started calling the entire fucking staff of The View, and the superdelegates.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

she even called Elisabeth fucking Hasselbeck.

[godlessclif]

"I am still on the radio and Hillary is still Satan."...Don Imus

"I've always liked Chelsea. I think it's refreshing that the child of famous parents doesn't seem terribly interested in using that fame as a stepping stone"

How do you think she got he job as a financial consultant with a hedge fund???

"In 2003, Clinton joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City; she was the youngest person hired in her class, hired alongside those holding MBAs."...WIKI

Is Chelsea a financial genius or a pimped out Nappy Haired Ho.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0435657/

Happy to be Nappy

I think we should ask Don IMUS.

[Barrack69]

Chelsea Clinton is 28 years old. She is paraded around by her mother to try and swing some of the young vote. If the parents are low enough to use their kids as a political tool, they should take the heat over it. Chelsea Clinton is a public figure, thanks to her pimp mama.
Shuster wasnt knockin Chelsea, he was op-edding about her mother.
GE owners of MSNBC caved in because of the talk of boycotting. News shows arent news shows anymore. They are advertising tools.
Any politician who parades their kids around for political GAIN is a pimp.

[godlessclif]

I saw Obama kissing a baby.

Who is using kids in his campaign?

Obama has used everyone including Starvin' Marvin

the Ethiopian orphan to get votes.

[dora rice]

wow....the Clintons may bring some class to this country...but I am sure you won't let that happen.

[LorettaSingbiel]

"the Clintons may bring some class to this country"

now that Bill's no long able to get it up?

Stay safe, healthy and happy,
Love, Loretta

[maxfusion]

Sorry your thighness, but you do have a rich history of pimping for the goat you married.

[midtown]

:-)

[degjack]

MAXFUSION - maximum confusion.
Can you hold an idea in your head and keep it straight? Leave the thighs out of it.

[plages]

Be very careful of what you write billary, as it may come back to haunt you, sometime in mid November! You cried once, you just lost three more states, and don't count on the super duper delegates, if all goes under the political bridge . . .

[godlessclif]

Oh sure, democrats are so scared that Obama's supporters will line up to vote for Huchabee

The squirrel eating redneck.

If Hillary does not take the Vice Presidential spot under Obama.

Martin Luther King's Dream was not a white woman under a black man. That is Clarence Thomas' dream. All that and a can of coke.

[dora rice]

no , Obama's suppoter won't line up for Huckabee, but the republicans will ...wait and see

[dora rice]

The woman's name is Hillary....you trash can never accomplish in your life time what this woman has.....don't talk about her if you can't address her with her given name. Or you can call Obama , Hussein Mohamed , at least these are his real names... I don't mind you voting for a Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama for president, that's your priviledge, but at least show some class and name another hard working candidate by their rightful name.

[MRb1000]

Yeah She likes to use bigotry. I did not here her speak out about the use of bigotry by her campaign on Barack Obama. This sounds like a double standard. Come on Hillary!!!!

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

Keith Olbermann once said Bush was "pimping" General Petraeus.

what's the difference?

[bmermaid]

Huge difference. Chelsea is campaigning for her Mom, just like most candidates kids do.

Petraeus says whatever lies Bush wants him to say, for the sake of his job, or in other words, for the money.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

maybe Shuster meant that Chelsea was being politically pimped out for parental affection, which in a way is even worse.

[ScandalousCandice]

They all pimp.

What about Edwards using his wife with Cancer? That was totally pimp-tastic. All the candidates do it. Get over yourselves and stop being so sensitive.

Hillary Clinton: "WAAAAAAAAA The nerve of MSNBC to say pimp and use my daughters name WAAAAAA....... What do you think Bill? Were the tears and victim act enough to pull in a few votes?"

[godlessclif]

"Huge difference. Chelsea is campaigning for her Mom, just like most candidates kids do. " ...mermaid

None of Ronnie Reagan kids campaigned for him.

His kids all hated him.

[fuzzwald]

"Keith Olbermann once said Bush was "pimping" General Petraeus.

what's the difference?"

If you have to ask....

[godlessclif]

Where is Donnie McClurkin when you need him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku854nLq6kg&feature=related
Obama campaign song

[RogerHWerner]

Oh god there's a huge difference for crying out loud. Bush was pimping Petraeus; perhaps Olbermann was guilty of being coarse but it was perfectly descriptive. We can only imagine what backroom deals Petraeus was privy to as a means to get him to prostitute his career and rank for Bush. Hell, even Petraeus' immediate superior said as much. And last time I looked, Petraeus isn't related to Bush. What does Chelsea get from supporting her Mother? She doesn't live with them and won't be living in the White House and as far as I can tell she has never tried to live off her parents name.

[ReelBusy]

Chelsea's 28 years old, campaigning and lobbying super delegates yet refuses to speak with the press?

Can't have it both ways.

Shuster was right.

Mitt Romney pimped his boys out for his GOP run but they talked to the press all the time.

[LorettaSingbiel]

"BUSH was pimping Petraeus."

EXACTLY! And the SCOURGE is working!

Stay safe, healthy and happy,
Love, Loretta

[godlessclif]

General Petraeus is much sweeter. Just ask Larry Craig.

[Quaoar]

Olbermann is primarily a commentator who gets paid to voice an opinion, Schuster is a reporter who gets paid to report the news. It's far more out of line for a reporter to make such remarks than a commentator.

[midtown]

Except that at the time he made he remarks he was pinch-hitting for a show AS A COMMENTATOR.

[mike53]

Hillary(the banana) can go to hell.

Whats with yellow anyway?

[junglejane]

You tell 'em! Give 'em hell, Hillary!