Chelsea's Liberal Media Fans Act Like She's a Forever Unmockable Child

Newsbusters ^ | 4/19/14 | Tim Graham

[absentee]

“Why we root for Chelsea Clinton” was the latest from the Washington Post’s new culture blogger Alyssa Rosenberg. “For those of us who were once curly-haired, awkward daughters, Chelsea Clinton’s arrival on the national stage at age 12 meant years of sympathetic wincing. The barbs directed her way landed on us by proxy,” including Rush Limbaugh’s old “family dog” joke.

Youngsters might not realize that almost everyone in politics treated Chelsea with deference to her parents throughout the Clinton presidency, which ended when she was 20. The weirdest part is how Rosenberg can complain about Clinton opponents mocking Chelsea instead of the “adult Clintons” while she talks about 2008 and 2010, when ahem, Chelsea headed into her thirties:

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/04/19/chelseas-liberal-media-fans-act-shes-forever-unmockable-child#ixzz2zP1NNSMm

[absentee]

Chelsea is a grown woman. The media is going nutbaggier than usual about her pregnancy while simultaneously pretending she's still a child immune to and above criticism.

[absentee]

dangit, it had one of those copy/paste scripts that includes the URL.

[funfan]

Does she still receive Secret Service and wondering about Amy Carter as well.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, just like the kid gloves treatment they gave the Bush, Palin, Ford and Reagan kids. Oh, wait...

[Kozak]

In Liberal Land everyone is an eternal adolescent.

[re_nortex]

...Rush Limbaugh’s old “family dog” joke...

So the liars at the Washington Post are bringing up that falsehood again. In reality, it never happened.

[kcvl]

Alyssa Rosenberg is the Features Editor for ThinkProgress.org. She is a columnist for the XX Factor at Slate, and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. Alyssa grew up in Massachusetts and holds a B.A. in humanities from Yale University. Before joining ThinkProgress, she was editor of Washingtonian.com and a staff correspondent at Government Executive. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Esquire.com, The Daily, The American Prospect, and National Journal.

ThinkProgress is a liberal American political blog that "provide[s] a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies". It is an outlet of the Center for American Progress.

The blog is edited by Judd Legum, who founded it in 2005. It was edited by Faiz Shakir from January 2007 to May 2012 when it was announced that he would leave to join Nancy Pelosi's team as Director of New Media.

Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organization’s content when it departs from the White House’s agenda.

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[Louis Foxwell]

Liars lying liars lies.

[Steve_Seattle]

“For those of us who were once curly-haired, awkward daughters, Chelsea Clinton’s arrival on the national stage at age 12 meant years of sympathetic wincing. The barbs directed her way landed on us by proxy,” including Rush Limbaugh’s old “family dog” joke."

Apart from the Limbaugh comment that another poster has already debunked, what other examples can the author provide of "barbs" directed at Chelsea by mainstream journalists or pundits?

[Mr. Blond]

I remember that episode of his tv show, though as I recall, he was talking about Bo and mentioned the “White House dog”, then his producer put up a pic of Chelsea. Who knows if Rush was in on it or not.

[cynwoody]

When it comes to Chelsea jokes, leave it to Senator Johnny “Crash” McCain, in 1998: “Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly?” he told a handful of GOP-e fat cats. “Because Janet Reno is her father.”

[chemicalman]

Now, that is funny.

[JennysCool]

Okay, the last “personal” thing I heard about Chelsea was that her then-pretty-much-new husband had run off and gone skiing or something for apparently the rest of his life? That was years ago. Anyone know what happened in the interim to create this new domestic bliss?

[JennysCool]

Alyssa Rosenberg is the Features Editor for ThinkProgress.org. She is a columnist for the XX Factor at Slate, and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com.

She's on welfare, in other words.

[JennysCool]

Knowing the family as we all do, my guess is this pregnancy was completely arranged to "soften" Hillary.

Oh, look! She's such a doting grandmother!

[bjorn14]

During the Clinton WH era I remember Hillary saying that Chelsea was off limits to the press and apparently so as a 27-year old Chelsea told a 10-year old reporter that she didn’t talk to the press.

[DeaconRed]

Give her a cigar.
From Daddy.

[Yardstick]

The write-up at the link explains what happened. Doesn’t sound like it was intentional to me. And Al Franken’s account of it in his book, which is how most most people are aware of it, is certainly incorrect. BTW, that Franken book is the one book you can count on all liberals having read.

[des]

Hate her politics

[Hot Tabasco]

Does she still receive Secret Service

No, she's so ugly even the guard dog was scared away........