Update 2-08: Shuster apologizes, suspended.
Appearing on Tucker Carlson's show a few days ago, Hillary fan Lanny Davis observed that Tucker's is "about the only show on MSNBC that consistently allows a Clinton perspective to be expressed." But maybe not so much when, as this evening, David Shuster is the guest host. Employing one of the more graphic metaphors to be heard about a Clinton from the MSM, Shuster tonight claimed that Chelsea Clinton is being "pimped out" by her mother's campaign.
The jumping off point was a clip in which three members of The View mentioned having been called by Chelsea on behalf of her mother. Shuster's guests were Dem pundit Bill Press and columnist Bob Franken.
View video here.
DAVID SHUSTER: Bill, there's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying support my mom, and she's apparently also calling these super delegates.
BILL PRESS: Hey, she's working for her mom. What's unseemly about that? During the last campaign, the Bush twins were out working for their dad. I think it's great, I think she's grown up in a political family, she's got politics in her blood, she loves her mom, she thinks she'd make a great president --
SHUSTER: But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?
Press predictably disagreed, but Shuster persisted.
SHUSTER: The collective Washington media, which has respected the sort of unwritten rules about staying away from Chelsea, not asking her questions, that is now out the window, that it's now fair game, that when you and I, Bob, Bill see Chelsea out there at these campaign events, there's nothing wrong with going up to her with a microphone and saying, OK, which super delegates did you call?
BOB FRANKEN: One teensy-weensy problem: she has Secret Service protection, so it gets a little bit dicey.
Update 2-08: Shuster Apologizes
Shuster apologized during the 8 AM hour of Morning Joe:
You know how we ran this clip of women from The View; Chelsea Clinton had called them. Last night on Tucker's show we ran the same clip, and out of that I said a lot of things about Chelsea. I praised her and said Americans should be proud of her. I know Mike Huckabee has praised the Clintons for how they've raised her. The fact of the matter is all of us, everybody loved Chelsea Clinton. We also talked about the fact that Chelsea Clinton, as the campaign has acknowledged, she's making calls to these super-delegates to help her mom get the nomination, which can be the unseemly side of politics. Last night I used a phrase, some slang about her efforts. I didn't think that people would take it literally, but some people have, and to the extent that people feel I was being perjorative about the actions of Chelsea Clinton making these phone calls, to the extent that people feel I was being perjorative, I apologize for that. I should have seen people would see it that way. I'm sorry.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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I'm not sure if Chelsea's
February 7, 2008 - 20:24 ET by Chris NormanI'm not sure if Chelsea's being "pimped out". She's a grown woman who can support her mom if she wants. However, what I do find unseemly is that the media persists in treating her like an "innocent widdle girl" where everything she does, including political work, is "just too pwecious and so charming". That was one thing fifteen years ago, but now it's absurd.
The Clintons have always
February 7, 2008 - 20:56 ET by motherbeltThe Clintons have always brought her out when it was advantageous. I think the last time she was this visible, and shilling for her parents was during the Lewinsky scandal, when she was shown over and over again walking between her parents to Marine One: the "glue" that held them together.
I think one reason she doesn't want to talk to the press is that she is afraid someone might ask her how it feels, with her parents and other Democrats raging against Wall Street, to be working for a hedge fund.
Ya think?????
I think you're right, motherbelt.
February 8, 2008 - 11:38 ET by GalvanicThe press might ask some embarassing questions like . . .
1. How did you manage to get a 6-figure salaried job right out of college?
2. In John Edwards' "Two Americas," which America have you been living in?
3. What would you say to all the young Democrats your age who are supporting Obama?
The Clinton campaign doesn't want her taking those risks.
David Shuster = A**HOLE
February 8, 2008 - 00:46 ET by pilsenerI don't like the Clintons - BUT - I absolutely despise David Shuster. MSNBC's pretense that Shuster is an honest reporter is less forgiveable to me than Olbermann's highly-slanted shtick.
THIS IS FUNNY...
February 8, 2008 - 01:03 ET by danybhoyI find it amusing that David Shuster is talking about Chelsea being pimped out. Shuster must not sense the irony about what he sees as the Clinton's pimping their kid, but he works for a network that does just that. In a political sense, the family of NBC news operations as a whole, & MSNBC in particular, are in the tank for the DNC, & Obama in particular, BathTubBoy aside(he loves Bill Clinton more then Hillary) I not sure I would consider the morons at MSNBC as being pimped out, but they seem just as skanky as any cheap whore is.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
Whoa...save that for the Bush Twins, will ya
February 7, 2008 - 20:38 ET by JayTeeOh, Bush is so not important nowadays..........is the MSM going thru BDS withdrawal and focusing on the only political operative (Chelsea) that refuses to speak to the Press ?
I think these guys are suffering from word association...Clinton - Pimp
BIG PIMPIN'...
February 8, 2008 - 01:10 ET by danybhoyIf Clinton = pimp, I really wish they would dress the part. I want Bill & Hillary to dress like the pimps they are said to be. This also mean Chelsea need to dress the part as well.
I'm no fan of the Clinton's really, but Shuster really needs to go the hell away. Maybe one of the worst people on television, & I'm including the types of people who are guests on shows like Maury, or Jerry Springer. At least they can be somewhat amusing, Shuster is just moronic.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
On the one hand you have to
February 7, 2008 - 20:42 ET by DaBirdOn the one hand you have to give Shuster some credit for calling Chelsea fair game. But on the other hand the only reason he is bringing Chelsea into play is because NBC/MSNBC are so obviously in the tank for Hussein Obama.
So Shuster calls Chelsea a political whore
February 7, 2008 - 22:33 ET by Lame CherryShuster is exactly right but needed to explain to his audience the Clinton Chicken Ranch operation.
Chelsea is being pimped BUT ONLY TO SELECT large wallets. In brothel circles Chelsea is the tease or come on, she is the cute whore who sits with the General in the movie the Wild Bunch sticking her tongue out at the lower classes who think they too will get Chelsea, but once inside they find out it is Maddy Albright and Joy Behar the underlings get for their two bits.
Chelsea gets to be a political operative and NO ONE is allowed near her.
If Shuster was doing his job he would have ASKED WHY IS IT THAT CHELSEA IS WORKING FOR THE HEDGE FUNDS who are driving up commodity, (oil), futures, (grain) and investment (gold) prices bankrupting the American system and impoverishin the poor Hillary claims to care about.
Come on you liberal goats and you supposedly on the ball Michele Malkin and Laura Ingraham babes breaking stories..when are you going to go beyond the pimp story Shuster is playing and start exposing the hedge fund attack upon America by George Soros working for the international banking cartels to bring about their "order".
World Net Daily is touching on this subject off and on, but when are Conservatives going to expose Chelsea and her boss George Soros?
Oh and for the record, Hillary and Obama BOTH ARE HEAVILY FUNDED BY THE HEDGE FUND OPERATORS.
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Shuster Must Be Betting On Barak
February 7, 2008 - 23:50 ET by PSPCplFor Shuster to come out with a statement like that must mean that he has determined that Barak has it in the bag. Woe betide this man should Queen of the Damned win this thing. He will get to see what happens first hand when you cross the Clintons. Look for news reports from Shuster on the happenings from East Bumbletuck.
→ This is great
February 8, 2008 - 06:19 ET by Cool ArrowLeave it to a Liberal to call Hillary's daughter a whore.
Chelsea hasn't done anything particularly offensive to me. Looks like she's turned out OK given her parentage.
Let's just suppose Chelsea maybe wants her mom to be President. Something wrong with that, Shuster?
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Shuster just apologized on
February 8, 2008 - 09:38 ET by motherbeltShuster just apologized on "Morning Joe" for that comment. He said he was just using a slang phrase, and should have realized that it was unseemly and would upset people.
Maybe you can get the video.
Working for Free?
February 8, 2008 - 11:12 ET by CaringwhiteguyCan you be "pimped out" if you're working without pay or healthcare like many in the Clinton campaign are doing?
secret service
February 8, 2008 - 17:43 ET by samnichSomebody said Chelsea has secret service protection. Why would that be? When the Clintons left the white house, only they get protection along with minor children.
Chelsea shouldn't be getting it too.
Shuster Suspended
February 8, 2008 - 18:06 ET by CaringwhiteguyWOW!. This just hit. http://www.mediabist...
Now....
February 8, 2008 - 18:38 ET by BarkerShuster needs to go kiss the ring of Huggy Bear.
As much as I despise
February 8, 2008 - 18:27 ET by bigtimerAs much as I despise Shuster, and have forever, he is right about Chelsea and her parents using her...they know nothing else, this is how they have always thrived....
Oh well, another leftist imbecile bites the dust....for awhile anyway.
Now if we could just get rid of the Clinton's once and for all....msnbc and most of their leftist agenda driven crew too.
What is funny about all of this is the power the Clintons have with the group that are aiding and abetting them, they know that most of the people from the left, especially on msnbc are for Obama...Matthews has already had to back down and apologize, Imus lost his job after being a big critic of Hillary for years..on and on it goes...going to be interesting in the near future to watch the power of Soros/Clinton and the other groups power over the control at msnbc.
Unbelievable!
February 8, 2008 - 18:40 ET by The Detroit PopulistHe gets suspended for telling the truth?!?!?!?!
http://politicalbyli...
I would have said, "I Said it and I'M PROUD OF IT!"
Did I mention that I cannot STAND Billary????
and I'm a Progressive minded Right of center!
Imagine that!