Chelsea Clinton Asked About Monica Lewinsky Again, Watch Video

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Once again Chelsea Clinton has been asked about the Monica Lewinsky scandal while campaigning for her mother. This time she faced the question at North Carolina State University. Chelsea's response was quite similar to the one she gave last week when a Butler University journalism student first asked the dreaded question.

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Mostest, wrote:"Chelsea should say:'asking questions about Monica won't work because my mother being elected is too important. We have sky rocketing foreclosures, no healthcare, unemployment increase and my skyrocketing foreclosures because Chelsea's mommy according to her claims of being so influential in the White House, worked for and passed Glass-Steagall, which allowed the merging of banks and investment houses. We have no healthcare because mommy dearest blew it. Now she offers a 'plan' which mandates forced payments to private for profit insurance companies, even if one is unemployed--that sure smells like payback to her economic masters on Wall Street. Unemployment increase? Ignore NAFTA?THE HEDGE FUND THAT YOU WORK FOR CHELSEA? invests in the distressed debt market and which also happens to be run by folks who have been big financial supporters of your parents. (So much for getting her job on your silver-spoon merits.)
Investors in distressed securities typically make an assessment not only of the issuer"s ability to improve its operations but also whether the restructuring process increases the investors' wealth. This typically means things like stripping out pension assets and moving high wage jobs overseas.
The Clintons are a fraud. Hillary is psychotic. First she drags her little girl into what she claims is a free-fire zone. Now she pimps her out to colleges to dupe the yet-to-be educated to vote for her mother.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:04 PM on 04/04/2008

Disbarred. That's a pretty big deal for a former president. It's not a fair question?

That is absolutely a fair question to ask HIM. Has the world gone so crazy that anything goes? Hope none of your kids ever have to answer unsavory and unfeeling questions about you. I doubt there is anyone in this world that wouldn't find it embarassing and totally tacky to have to aswer questions about a parent's sex life. If you think that is okay because you don't agree with her parent's politics, that's pretty sad.

By the way, John McCain cheated on his first wife with every skirt in the town. And may be cheating on his second wife. But God Bless America.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:51 PM on 04/04/2008

The Senator from Wall Street has the nerve pimps her daughter out to show how connected she is to working people in areas trashed by NAFTA and Clinton era deregulation?
Chelsea Clinton works for a New York Hedge Fund called the Avenue Capital Group. This is a company which invests in the distressed debt market and which also happens to be run by folks who have been big financial supporters of her parents. (So much for getting her job on the merits.)
Investors in distressed securities typically make an assessment not only of the issuer"s ability to improve its operations but also whether the restructuring process increases the investors' wealth. This typically means things like stripping out pension assets and moving high wage jobs overseas.
Avenue Capital Group and firms like it profit from downturns in the economy and foreclosures and bankruptcies. There are more than a few voters in Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina and beyond who have a right to hear how Chelsea Clinton rationalizes her chosen professional career with her pro-working man rhetoric.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:42 PM on 04/04/2008

I hope they're not grooming this cow for public 'service' -- we simply cannot afford anymore Bush's or Clinton's in public 'service' -- she's more annoying than her mother

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:47 AM on 04/04/2008

Oh for crying out loud! This isn't brain surgery. Here's the answe to the "dreaded" question. "Look, I was young, I remember it was difficult. It happened. I don't think I was damaged in any way, except for the fact that I'm afraid of the question and afraid of the press." See. If you're going to campaign, step up to the plate.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:31 AM on 04/04/2008

NO, Here is the answer;

"You know, I have been asked that question about 4 or 5 times now. I am not Einstein but there appears to be a pattern here..or some sort of strategy maybe to try to scare me off campaigning for my mother. You know what IT won't work. It won't work because my mother being elected is too important. We have sky rocketing foreclosures, no healthcare, unemployment increase and my mother has the skills, the know how and the ability to fix it. So, go back and tell the person sending you and others out to "scare me off the trail" Simply it will not work...My mother getting elected is more important then your PETTY questions. NEXT Question."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:14 AM on 04/04/2008

Well said, mostest. Well said.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:52 PM on 04/04/2008

Her father was disbarred because he lied under oath about Monica. Disbarred. That's a pretty big deal for a former president. It's not a fair question? Maybe questions about Gennifer Flowers or Paula Jones or other trailer bait are not fair questions because her father never lied to a grand jury under oath about them and was disbarred for it. But questions about Monica are more than fair.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:43 AM on 04/04/2008

A Clinton plant. I wouldn't put it past the desperate Clinton campaign. Like the plant who held up the sign in New Hapshire, "Wash my Shirt."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:30 PM on 04/03/2008

These types of "TYPICAL" tactics are nothing unusual for Obama, his campaign and his supporters, he is an EXPERT in GUTTER BALL POLITICS as he demonstrated recently in Altoona, Penn.

THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU OBAMA SUPPORTERS ASKING THE MEDIA AND OTHERS TO MOVE ON FROM THE IMPASTOR-WRIGHT ISSUE.

WELL HOW 'BOUT YOU SAME FOLKS MOVE ON FROM BILL CLINTON'S MONICA LEWINSKY MISTAKE which happenned more than a decade ago, something that his wife and child (Chelsea) have forgiven him for as well as their supporteres?

Here is the video link of IMPASTOR-WRIGHT "RIDIN' DIRTY" from what is supposed to be a place of worship, a sacred pulpit, what a disgrace!

He is disparaging the Clintons in Dec. of 2007, just before the primary season influencing the change in the black vote with Obama's approval.

Obama appointed Impastor-Wright as the head of the AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE within his campaign:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KeNa69uyYW0&feature=related

In this video Obama is seen in the audience:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Xb7AVw_no0&feature=related

Considering what Impastor-Wright did is far more agregious and blasphemous, Obama and his supporters can expect the IMPASTOR-Wright issue to stay in the news for at least TEN years or more.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:29 PM on 04/03/2008

Show me evidence that this question was asked by an Obama secret agent?????

GWW

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:51 PM on 04/03/2008

If they want an answer they should ask Bill, these tactics are undignified and callous!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:27 PM on 04/03/2008

I would rather hear Chelsea version of dodging sniper fire in Bosnia.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:14 AM on 04/03/2008

Fellow citizens. Get online and look up two important sources and review them.
THE CLINTON CHRONICLES. (Watch the video online)
Clilnton's Death List (Take your pick which one you review)
You will be shocked, and you will wonder how these people have gotten away with so much.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:24 PM on 04/03/2008

Ms Clinton is pimping her kid like David Shuster pointed out and got suspended for. So when the John ask her a perform and she gets upset we blame the John. Why not blame the pimp-her mother

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:54 AM on 04/03/2008

I don't think so. The problem with Chelsea isn't that she's being rude, or that her questioners are, or that her parents are taking advantage of her. It's just that she's terrible at this.

You could easily imagine someone with actual political skills refusing to answer a question about her dad's infidelity in a way that turned it into a political plus. God, probity and the American Way would be trotted out as the real targets and intended victims. But they would prevail against the hateful Stalinists, the agents of pornography, the welfare queens (nobody said it has to make sense) all bent on using the airwaves to launch their filthy indoctrination. AND FOR THEM TO BRING my father AND MOTHER INTO THIS? HOW DARE THEY?

Unfortunately Chelsea's a stiff, so whether she refuses to say anything, or answers some questions but not others, she just makes everybody uncomfortable. It actually says nothing about her except that she has the wrong personality for public life. By all accounts she's a reasonably bright, perfectly normal young woman. But most people have no idea how much of being a public person doesn't come naturally. And it's a lot. And it doesn't. But thankfully, it's also usually invisible because we're watching a self-selecting pack of publicity hounds. It's only presidential election campaigns that drag an occasional fish out of water like Chelsea into the spotlight for trying to be a good sport for her parents. But not really helping them very much.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:45 AM on 04/03/2008

What bothered me most about the Monica Lewinsky affair was that Bill Clinton's persecutors were so high on sanctimony that they greatly intensified the injury suffered by the two people whom the President's misbehavior affected most of all: his wife, Hillary, and his daughter, Chelsea. As Clinton's enemies tried to transform a family affair into a Constitutional challenge to the President, they demonstrated how little they cared about Bill Clinton's closest family members, who were the primary victims of his sexual transgressions. Obviously, it was not "family values" that drove this campaign, but naked political ambition.

Eventually, as the Lewinsky-related hearings dragged on, the US-American public came to be as disgusted by the transparently self-serving (and often highly hypocritical) motives of President Clinton's Congressional enemies as by Clinton's own irresponsible behavior. Technically, there was nothing illegal about the attempt to impeach him, but it cost the would-be impeachers as much as it cost Clinton himself, and this, I feel, is just as it should be.

I feel the same way about people who question Chelsea Clinton in public about her father's behavior. If you really feel that what Bill Clinton did was wrong, then you have to respect Chelsea's feelings, too. To try to humiliate her in public only adds to the damage that her father has already done to her and to her mother. It is a shameful tactic that tells us a lot more about the questioners than about any of the Clintons.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:26 AM on 04/03/2008

Wait, you mean Hillary and Chelsea were more hurt than the women he victimized?

Of course, people forget that Lewinsky wasn't the real scandal. It was the sexual harassment of Paula Jones and subsequent perjury that cost him almost a million dollars in fines and civil damages along with the loss of his law license and impeachment by the House of Representatives.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:26 PM on 04/03/2008

In my posting, I did not speak of any affair except for that which directly involved Monica Lewinsky. I meant that Hillary and Chelsea were "primary victims" only in comparison to the famous intern - who was a "secondary victim" at best. To my knowledge, Lewinsky never charged Bill Clinton with sexual harassment.

Paula Jones is another matter entirely. However, her name has not to my knowledge been mentioned by anyone at Chelsea Clinton's appearances. Nor is she the topic of this thread.

I sympathize with the notion that Paula Jones was the "real scandal" of Bill Clinton, but this scandal took place during Clinton's governorship, not his presidency. Should our Congress take a woman's claims of sexual harassment more seriously when considering her purported harasser's fitness for public office?

I don't know - you could ask Anita Hill!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:12 AM on 04/04/2008

It's sick. Really sick. The parents paint a giant bullseye on her and then get angry when someone decides to use it. These people are really ill. It's mind bending to me that there are people out there who can fervently support the Clingons. What do they see that everyone else is so repulsed by? I truly don't get it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:27 AM on 04/03/2008

Of the small, sorry group of people who are offended by the Clintons, how likely is it that what bothers them is objectionable to anyone calling himself "AdultFilmLegend?"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:41 AM on 04/03/2008

Really Chelsea is almost thirty years old . I wouldn't care if you asked her when was the last time she got laid. This class thing that we have here in America is disgusting. If 18 year old kids can go to Iraq and die in that bull crap war how dare us try to shelter a woman almost thirty years old.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:05 PM on 04/02/2008

When Chelsea says it's none of our business -- how do we know she's not lying???

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:33 PM on 04/02/2008

i mean hahaha good to this comment -- not the one below it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:03 PM on 04/02/2008

hahaha -- good one

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:02 PM on 04/02/2008

Simple solution: Anyone who asks the question gets booted...if Bush can do it, Chelsea can too...and the booted person will have deserveed it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:59 PM on 04/02/2008

Very good !

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:16 AM on 04/03/2008

Ha!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:26 PM on 04/02/2008
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You know what? If a 27 year old daughter of an ex-president as well as the daughter of the present candidate for same position is out on the campaign trail, then she jolly well better have a better answer than the one she's been giving. David Shuster of NBC was given a two week suspension for his somewhat caustic remark of the "Clinton's pimping Chelsea" and I have to tell you, I think they are.
Her parents send her out, she does not take media questions (except for those daring to do so from the campus newspapers), she refuses any kind of interview, and she mingles little or nothing after her little speeches, but yet she is "supposed" to be representing the youth of America. Give me a break. If she's going to play with the big boys, then she better play all the way. Being shelterd, protected and kept apart isn't the way to best represent the campaign.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:09 PM on 04/02/2008

Chelsea's Age? Just because she's an adult doesn't mean she has to tell some jackass in a public setting what she thinks of her Fathers' partner is his adultery. This wasn't a question as much as a provocation. Ms. Clinton handled it quite well. Take the high road and bottom feeders won't bother you for long.

By the way, I oppose both her Parents since halfway through Bill's first term (Hillary hasn't had Presidential term yet). Play dirty and some of it rubs off on you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:46 AM on 04/03/2008

So let me be clear. She doesn't HAVE to give interviews to the media, she doesn't HAVE to mingle after the speeches with strangers, and she isn't "'supposed' the be representing the youth of America." She's just going out to give speeches and answer questions. And just like anyone else, she doesn't have to answer stupid questions that no one gives a crap about.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:24 PM on 04/02/2008

So let the rest of us be clear, theistus. Chelsea's father, then president of the United States, commits a sex act with Monica Lewinsky. If memory serves she was at the time a White House intern and they were in the oval office. He lied about it and was impeached. Unfortunately this is a historical fact that will never go away. Her mother has said that it was the worst crisis she had ever had to deal with. Her mother is running for president of the United States. Please explain to me why this is not a relevant question for someone campaigning for Hillary? It was not a 'private family matter' as Chelsea is claiming. It was a national scandal that cost her father his law license and nearly cost him this presidency. It certainly irreparably damaged his reputation and historical standing. Monica Lewinsky is the 800 lb gorilla stalking Hillary's campaign and Chelsea claiming that it is none of anybody's business is nonsense.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:04 AM on 04/03/2008

Simply doesn't pass the "smell test", my friend, and I'm not going to let you bait me into being on the defensive. Questions of this nature are tasteless and irrelevant as a simple matter of course. It's been 10 years since Bill cheated on his wife, and only the most crass and prurient would insist on continually bringing it up again. What possible insight wuld you hope to gain by such a line of questioning? Or is it enough to simply drag the entirety of the presidential campaign into the mud?

I think I'd like a little higher ground, and I would encourage everyone else to follow suit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:20 AM on 04/03/2008

So because Chelsea goes out on the campaign trail she has to have an answer for every stupid question? It's a stupid question, irrelevant issue, none of our business, no one give a crap, and she's well within her rights to not answer ANY question, let alone this one. She not even the right person to be asking, even if it was an appropriate question to begin with.

Using your logic, should one of the Bush girls have been required to have an intelligent thoughful response to anyone asking them the 'Pretzel incident'? No, because it would an asinine question that didn't deserve a response, and would do nothing but lower the level of discussion.

She's playing with big boys just fine, and playing just like them, but picking her battles and choosing her role, rather than trying to live up to someone else's pathetic standards of what she should be.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:21 PM on 04/02/2008

Chelsea: When your mom gets to be president (God forbid), are you going to fit right in? Don't you care what other Americans think? I want you to remember that it will be part of "our business" if you mother gets in the White House. WE VOTE. And, we want a VOICE along with HONESTY and TRUSTWORTHINESS.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:57 PM on 04/02/2008

The questiion was extremely rude! A child should not have to respond to the parent's bad behaviour. She is right - it is none of our business.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:12 PM on 04/02/2008

God what some people will do to get on Fox News.These of course are the same people and news media that won't breath a word about The Bush Twins whoring it up at the tax payers expense.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:43 PM on 04/02/2008

BESIDES: What possible bearing on the campaign or election, or anything else, could it have? Do you really want to know what Chelsea THINKS (feels), about what her mother THOUGHT (felt), about her father's Oral Office Interview(s)? I mean, pl-eeeeeze, Chels was what -- ten(?) at the time? Does she even remember it? Did her mother talk to her about it? Then? Later? And how about Billy, has he discussed the matter with her? Will he? and if either of them do, will we then prosecute them for Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor? or worse, Kiddie-Porn???
Just WHAT the ---- do you want this kid to say? And more importantly, WHY???