"Pimped Out" Resurfaces On MSNBC

Agree about comedienne point, except I don't think Steph needed to bring up this phrase. It wasn't funny. I cringed, and I thought the FIRST incident was overblown.

Steph can be funny without being crass and I wish she would remember that because we need her on TV. Leave the crass stuff to that other not-funny comedienne who is always at the roasts.

Yesterday, Keith Olbermann had on a local NYC rock DJ, to do the closing "fluff" segment about "American Idol". She came on, did her irreverent thing, and invoked the phrase "pimp and ho'".

Well, KO, was in shock. He could not have made his discomfort more clear, if he had taken out a billboard in Rockefeller Center; he said there were certain things that MSNBC never wanted to hear again, and that she had just pulled the trigger on The Big One. See you again, dear, on a cold day in Hell.

This is my fear about players from new media becoming cable news "commentators". What made them the "edgy" media types they are, is already ringing corporate alarm bells. They're being told that if they want to be invited back onto this medium which is trying so nobly to "graduate" them into the rarified Bigtime, they will alter their act to MSM proportions... or suffer the consequences.

Yesterday, I heard a sound byte of another one of those feted "it" gals, Ana Marie Cox, basically apologizing for why the press thinks John McCain's so darned groovy. Ohhh dear. The cocktail weenies have done another one in.

I'm worried that too many of these will smell the greasepaint, check their bank accounts, and fall in line. And then... what good will they be? Do we really want to see Rachel Maddow, adjusting her observations to be more spongeworthy? Might as well just book Joe Klein and Laura Ingraham, again.

This whole thing is stupid. I'm a Clinton supporter, and I stopped listening to Stephanie Miller a couple months ago because of her blatant anti-Hillary, pro-Obama slant, but this is still a non-issue. I certainly objected when Joe Schuster first said it, but this time, it was not said in any way, shape or form as a negative attack on the Clintons. In fact, it was an attempt to humorously reference the previous "scandal" and also make clear that Chelsea is NOT being "pimped out," and is under no obligation to answer questions from the media if she prefers not to, especially questions concerning her father's infidelity in the 90s. How gross and inappropriate for a "reporter" to ask a daughter about her parent's sex life in the first place. Stephanie didn't do anything wrong, and it was Dan Abrams who called more attention to the comment than was necessary. Let it go. I'm surprised that HuffPost, which wants to annoint Obama President without an election, would even publish a story about it.

why are Obama supporters so hate filled! Just wondering!

When that remark came out, I was sickened.
This election was turned into a big joke by the entertaining news media, incluing Abrams.
Abrams show is very biased against Clinton.
My verdick, Keep people like miller out of news commentation.
Also, I gave up Abrams. I thought he was responsible. Now he has his fixed jurors on his show.

Bill Clinton says saddle up let fight. daughter is on the campaign is on the road. to include having her fire about being under fire. At age 28 she is a big girl.

The guy who answered the question is only 20! To him Chelsea Clinton is an adult, and he's not going to be worried about offending her sensitivities. It's got nothing to do with the electorate being "dumbed down". The questioner is almost a child himself.

Excellent observations.

Wow.

That comment is about as far off the mark as McCain is regarding the surge.

It is not bizarre at all to wonder if a woman who has been cheated on so many times can still be devastated by yet another betrayal by her husband. This is a woman who is running for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, an office that hardly needs to be filled by somebody with an enormous potential to be distracted by family problems, especial familiar and gratuitous ones like a husband who has never managed to grow up. People have a right to know...Hillary has already lied at least 3 times to keep Bill's "illness" of perpetual juvenality from becoming a public issue. Time is well past for people to know the truth...will she be distracted or not? And even that isn't the real issue...the real issue is the rest of having to do as we did when BC was president....be constantly waiting for that other shoe to fall. And fall it did, over and over and over. I, for one, have had enough of the Clnton marriage and as Hendrik Hertzberg put it its "metric that seems to attract constant investigations."

Why would anything Chelsea has to say be considered important

She talks and acts as a child and has zero accomplishments to show for the incredible priviledge and opportunity she has had. Name one accomplishment

Is she paying these schools to use their auditoriums as a campaign vehicle for her mother

The Monica lewinsky affair and disbarement of her dad are fair subjects. If she can handle corkscrew landings and sniper fire she can handle this

I kind of agree with you, but . . .

I think Hillary's lack of movement or anything during the scandal can reflect her ability to deal with issues as a President, but its a weak argument.

And while the question has little relevance, if she's going out there to represent the family, she should be ready to answer dumb questions.

But in the long run, it really is not that important.

This is a marriage in name only....one of expediency and political convenience. A REAL marriage is made up of TWO PEOPLE, both of them are trying to protect the marriage and save their spouses from unnecessary humiliations . Both MUST be demonstrating love and respect for the other. As shown by the recently-revealed notes, how many times was Hillary at home in the White House when Bill was dropping his pants for Monica? 6? 7? 8? In her own home! You can call that a marriage, but to me it is a sham.

Shakespeare may have said, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments," but if anything ought to be an "impediment" to a genuine "marriage" it is cheating on one's spouse with the zeal and consistency with which BC pursued bimbos.

BTW, we just celebrated our 40th anniversary.

Like most things in the Clinton world, words have different meaning. "is" was a challenge for Bill, so I am sure "marriage" would need similar clarification in regards to the Clintons.

My wife and I just passed the 32 year mark. and still going.

They're politicians who travel and work a lot, probably around each other more than the average couple! They're together for political reasons not love. Chelsey is and was old enough to be an area where there were snipers, but her fathers affairs are too much? Grow up