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Chelsea Is All Grown Up.It's time for the press to scrutinize her.
Slate ^ | Feb. 11, 2008 | Guy Branum

Posted on 02/12/2008 5:50:39 AM PST by COUNTrecount

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To: Red Badger
If she can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. She is an adult.

Just think, Chelsea is 5 years older than Monica was--when Monica was serving our country as a Presidential staffer and performing her "Presidential duties"!

61 posted on 02/12/2008 7:03:56 AM PST by stockstrader
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To: Polyxene
BTW — is she still getting Secret Service protection?

I believe she is.

62 posted on 02/12/2008 7:04:34 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody

Our tax dollars at work! The Secret Service must be stretched pretty thin since they have to protect all of the presidential candidates and their families. I especially pity the ones who draw the Clinton detail!


63 posted on 02/12/2008 7:21:04 AM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: mowowie

64 posted on 02/12/2008 7:38:49 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (Pork, just bring the hot sauce!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Sorry, but I quite agree that describing Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her parents as “pimping her out” is classless. The fact that the phrase has common parlance among certain groups is no excuse. There are lots of phrases that have common parlance that have no place in political debate - they wouldn’t print “Hillary is a f**king bitch”, and God knows that’s got common parlance.

Chelsea is not a minor anymore, and if she’s going to be in the public eye campaigning for her parents then her remarks and actions are legitimately open to analysis and criticism. But to use vulgarisms such as “pimping” to describe that is out of line.


65 posted on 02/12/2008 7:49:13 AM PST by RonF
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To: stockstrader
Just think, Chelsea is 5 years older than Monica was--when Monica was serving our country as a Presidential staffer ....

There you go. Spiffed it up a bit.

66 posted on 02/12/2008 7:52:42 AM PST by RonF
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To: COUNTrecount
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.

So is "Ho", but that didn't stop the avalanche of overreaction against Don Imus.

67 posted on 02/12/2008 7:53:27 AM PST by montag813
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To: Polyxene

“her life has been dominated by attention she never chose to engender.”

Say what? These people are media whores of the highest
magnitude! They thrive on attention. Just not some kinds
of it.


68 posted on 02/12/2008 8:17:58 AM PST by Fireone (We need the 2nd Amendment to ensure the others.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I don’t care if they do or not, but what is the point of scrutinizing Chelsea? Just ignore her, and she’ll go away after her momma loses.


69 posted on 02/12/2008 8:21:05 AM PST by pallis
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To: tx_eggman

“If she’s out there stumping for mommy dearest, she’s fair game”

once she enters the political arena, as she has big time, then she should receive all the questions and other scrutiny other politicos endure. She’s on her own now!


70 posted on 02/12/2008 8:27:33 AM PST by elpadre
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To: WakeUpAndVote

LOL!!
My first Laugh of the day!
that look with the quote is priceless.


71 posted on 02/12/2008 8:57:41 AM PST by mowowie
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To: theDentist

That was exactly Shuster’s response/explanation for his comment in his initial emails, and I think it has merit.

In fact, Shuster even gave Chels a break in that he focused, not on the fact that she was just out there campaigning, but that she was also making closed-door calls to superdelegates.

IOW, what she did in public at least could be scrutinized even if she didn’t submit to questions. But getting down and dirty by essentially lobbying superdelegates, in a race as tight as this one, led him to conclude that such a person should not be totally off-limits to the media.

Can’t blame him for his reaction.

If Shuster saw Keith Olberman’s apology on his behalf-—which I unfortunately stumbled upon while channel surfing-—he’ll now have a clue why the rest of us despise the smarmy Keith so much.


72 posted on 02/12/2008 9:00:13 AM PST by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: Red Badger

Here’s the thing: the Hildabeast absolutely LOVES the fact that this has been the story for the last days. She gets to be the victim, the wronged and protective and defiant mother figure, the little woman all those mean men pick on her.

Hildy CHOSE to publically release her letter of anguish and admonishment to msnbc, effectively pimping them out against their wishes as well.

She couldn’t have written a better script for Chelsea’s role. She knows she attracts the “female vote” whenever she’s a victim and especially when she’s the mama bear victim.


73 posted on 02/12/2008 9:06:22 AM PST by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he used to say: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: Iron Munro

She does look like Webb. However, who knows? They are allinbred and intermix in Arkansas, lol.


74 posted on 02/12/2008 9:07:18 AM PST by societygirl
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To: All; dead
She's seven years older than Monica was when President Clinton had her lick his a#*h*@e in the Oval Office. And Monica was somebody's daughter too.

And from that picture, it's obvious she's never learned what Bill wanted Monica never to forget: NO TEETH!

75 posted on 02/12/2008 10:43:26 AM PST by E. Cartman (Huckaboob will never be Vice President.)
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To: COUNTrecount; theDentist

Oh what evil Webb’s we leave, when first we practice to conceive.


76 posted on 02/12/2008 1:10:25 PM PST by redstates4ever
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