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To: GB
The daughters of these people did not chose to be in the public eye. The media runs around like little 16 year old groupies hoping for a juicy tidbit to sell magazines. That's all this is. The bigger scandle they can turn this into, the better. But this isn't just about informint the public or selling publications. Something else is being sold here. It's an agenda.

Is anyone under the impression that Chelsea never had a story important enough to print in the newspapers? She was given a total pass. You know what, I think that's appropriate. I may think her folks are the devil's spawn, but that doesn't give us license to screw with their child.

The Bush kids should be given the same treatment. You know it. I know it. And we both know that the media is and will continue to play games along these lines.

Everything positive about Chelsea will be shouted to the mountain tops. Everything negative will be deemed unworthy of publication. Every worthy about the Bush siblings will be deemed unworthy of publication, and their negatives broadcast to the four corners of the earth.

273 posted on 01/29/2002 8:51:48 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
And we wonder why Chelsea's underage drinking parties in Aspen were never, ever mentioned.
277 posted on 01/29/2002 8:54:37 AM PST by codebreaker
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To: DoughtyOne
Is anyone under the impression that Chelsea never had a story important enough to print in the newspapers? She was given a total pass. You know what, I think that's appropriate. I may think her folks are the devil's spawn, but that doesn't give us license to screw with their child. The Bush kids should be given the same treatment. You know it. I know it. And we both know that the media is and will continue to play games along these lines.

Hear, hear!!!

359 posted on 01/29/2002 9:28:28 AM PST by Rutabega
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To: DoughtyOne
I don't disagree with you. I don't think paparrazzi, reporters, etc., should follow the any president or any governor's kids around 365/24/7 waiting for them to screw up. But the thing is, when they do things that invite attention ... my analogy of sticking out your jaw and saying "hit me" ... they and we should not be surprised at the reaction.

And again, you are wrong if you think that if the press had police reports naming Chelsea Clinton in hand, or photos in hand of Chelsea Clinton falling down drunk, that they would not have run them. Trust me, I've been in the business for more than a quarter-century. It would have happened, regardless of any protestation from the White House. All the columnists, pundits, etc., would've fussed about it ... that's where Billy and Hilly would've called in their chips ... but as far as an everyday news decision by the working stiffs in the newsroom, that stuff would've been in the paper.

Which as I said in another response here, begs the question as to whether Chelsea had the good sense, either from her own intuition or because of drilling by her parents and their handlers, to know her stopping point and to never let herself completely go to the point of not realizing that photographers could lurk behind every pillar.

370 posted on 01/29/2002 9:32:43 AM PST by GB
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