Posted on 02/12/2008 5:50:39 AM PST by COUNTrecount
The recent emergence of Chelsea Clinton as a voice for her mother's campaign has resulted in a chorus of "poor Chelsea" from various sources. Ms. Clinton is still deeply wary of the media, and the sentiment may be valid; her life has been dominated by attention she never chose to engender. But it's got a nefarious underside, as exhibited by the suspension Friday of David Shuster, a commentator for Hardball who got put in the naughty chair for asking on the air whether Clinton had "pimped out" her daughter. Pimping is a common enough euphemism in modern parlance, but one which an indignant Hillary Clinton has managed to turn into a carnival of pity and remonstrations.
I am not unfamiliar with said carnival. Back in 1997, as a surly student journalist at U.C. Berkeley, I made a couple of comments about the use of Chelsea as a prop for controversy-free photo ops when her parents dropped her off for her first semester of college at Stanford. Scraping for something to say about the upcoming football game between Cal and Stanford, I criticized my school's rival for pouring resources into the circus surrounding Chelsea's arrival, suggesting that they were more concerned with maintaining a pristine, photogenic student body than educating as large and diverse a population as possible. I then encouraged Berkeley students to share our less refined ways by trashing the campus, including Ms. Clinton. Sure, my line "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass" was over the top and poorly chosen. And then the AP wire snipped my column's line, "Chelsea Clinton represents the Stanford ethos of establishment worship which must be subverted and destroyed," into "Chelsea Clinton must be destroyed." (The column is no longer available online.)
The comments made their way to Mrs. Clinton,
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keith olbermasshole used the word “pimping” saying Mr. Bush was “pimping” General Patreaus.
msDNC didn’t seem to mind.
I heard the clip on a talk radio show. They were discussing this.
He only used “pimp” because there’s no easy verb for “hurdy gurdy street monkey on a leash.”
Chelsea Clinton...the Paris Hilton of politics.
Wrong, so wrong. Written by a man, obviously. Mrs. Clinton’s reaction was visceral, yes, but to say she was infantilizing Chelsea is ludicrous and self-serving. I wonder how the tone of this article would have turned if Chelsea were to have chastised Shuster herself? Think about it, and then believe that the course taken was the path of least resistance while still getting off the well deserved shot. “Pimped out”, while perhaps accepted jargon among the younger generation will never be words of choice for the more mature. Just because it is said on TV doesn’t begin to make it acceptable by the majority.
Put some ice on it.
As far as I’m concerned, after her B.S. story in Talk Magazine about September 11th, Chelsea put herself in play.
After that the gloves were off.
To say that Hillary is "pimping out" Chelsea, is to insult HILLARY.
In any case, I would agree with you if Chelsea wanted to stay on the sidelines.
But Chelsea got into the game. She gets no quarter.
Oh come on now, Paris is at least cute in a wierd, anorexic kind of way!
IMO, the queen in waiting has been fair game since her mom took her to Africa where she lectured the American people on how terrible we are.
Did HRC and Babbs have some kinda mutated lesbian sex that produced this offspring? Is that possible?
So, then , when the Bush twins got involved with GWB run, the left were ok to go gunning after them and we were wrong to say that they were a**holes for doing so.
Lets pratice what we preach.
Hey, "It's Hard Out There For A Pimp".
If Mr. Ed can't stand the smell, she should stay out of the barn.
Just HOW LONG is Schuster suspended?? ANyone know?
As El Rushbo said yesterday....So where was Hillary’s outrage when her husband was pimping a much younger intern?....Exactly!! Remember, Hillary’s a mother first...
OK I’ll grant you that Paris Hilton has a certain esoteric attractiveness to her. They’re about equal in intellect.
Mrs. Clinton is incensed at the press referring to her daughter as being ‘pimped’ out. Isn’t Chelsea about the same age as Monica Lewisnky when Chelsea’s father and Hilary’s husband was taking advantage of his power and getting her to perform fellatio on him in the Oval office? I wonder how Monica’s parents felt? Perhaps Mrs. Clinton could enlighten us about that?
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