Hey, fair is fair. What he said was completely out of bounds. It's every bit as bad as that woman from ESPN who got fired for saying "F*** Jesus" at an ESPN-sponsored event.....

OH, wait!!! She only got a one-week suspension.

<dismissive hand wave> Never mind. -Emily Litella

...and unlike a lot of people, I'm sure that the only time that I've ever used that word was to reference a person who, by trade, controls the meanderings and job security of the common streetwalker. 

For the mainstream media or the public at large to give legitimacy to the "gangsta'" culture by adopting their lingo shows that those people have no idea what constitutes adult behavior.  They seem to want to be accepted by the young culture for being hip.

I often see parents (especially in certain culture groups...) trying to emulate the dress, language and behavior of their teenage children or the young adult culture in general and I want to point out to them that THEY are suppossed to be the role models for their kids, not the other way around.  Your kids should want to grow up to be like you, not the other way around!

What's next...Tim Russert grabbing at his crotch while he ditty-bops out onto the set?  News correspondants walking around with the waistband of their pants around their thighs while covering a news story?

And I agree with Noel yesterday...if Chelsea wants to play with the big boys and girls, then she will be subject to the same classless remarks by classless people.  Holding her out there as some sort of paragon of virtue because Bill was able to hang around long enough to be considered he father is no reason to give the parent of the century award to the Clintons.

And there is no truth to the rumor that Chelsea looks uncannily like Web Hubbell...!

Apparently the execs at MSNBC are clueless to the culture of denigrating commentarty the likes of Schuster, Matthews, Olbermann and others spew daily on their network.  The facts are, as classless as that comment was, it was equally as despicable as what Imus said.  They effectively called Chelsea and the Rutgers basketball team whores.  I'm not a Clinton fan, but their daughter should not be targeted with that kind of stupid comment.  The problem here is that apparently no one at MSNBC has learned from the Imus incident.  Consequently, the garbage commentary continues.  Until execs at GE and NBC Univerasal own up to their own failed standards, this nonsense will continue.  Schuster should be fired, without delay.  At the same time, so should Olbermann and Matthews - they have been equally culpable in fostering this garbage environment and Jeff Immelt and Jeff Zucker need to fix it.

Media Matters and Clinton Supporters have been after MSNBC Network for weeks, even posting their email addresses on their site; trying to censor Hardball and Morning Joe for saying anything at all that was not complementary about the Clintons, trying to make them impotent and Clintoness puppets by just reporting favorable things about the Clintons.  They finally got lucky with Shuster making this remark which has been taken out of the context that he meant to deliver it in.  The irony of it all, is that Shuster always defended the Clintons and critisized Obama.

Do not let Media Matters and the Clinton supporters get away with trying to censor the Media, which will throw us back to the Bush years after 911.  America we want Change!

And finally, if Media Matters and the Clinton supporters had put this much energy into contacting TV/Radio programs which are allowed to broacast smut, violence and sex to our children, may be we would have cleaner and more decent broadcast programming to watch and hear.

So what is behind HillaryLand's latest over-reaction to the times and events that is daily programming on MSNBC? Is she simply defending daughter Chelsea's honor from an overzealous anchor? Hardly. Chelsea's Mom is in something of a pickle when she agreed to two debates with Barack -- something she suggested so she could get her campaign back on track. She knows she has to debate said opponent, but she is terrified, terrified of having to take questions from Tim Russert. It is her belief that in a Democrat food fight, Russert has an unfair advantage. What Hillary wants is for any an all debates to be on CNN, where she will know what the questions are ahead of time...the fate of her campaign depends upon it.

When will the Clintons release their medical records and their financial records?

I think more will be accomplished for this country from what's revealed in those files than the snarky little comments coming from the likes of Shuster.

Hillary said that a tempory day on the beach and an apology was not enough. We all here know that Hillary calls the shots at MSNBC.

Should Olbermann be fired for saying "pimping General David Petraeus"? Of course not, that was against a Republican.

My interest in this saga from the beginning has been due singularly to the blatant hypocrisy on the part of the management MSNBC and NBC over their decisions in matters such as this. Clearly, there is a double standard, which has been more than amply demonstrated on the pages of this site since its inception.

Believe me, I dislike David Shuster as much as anyone. I consider him to be a first-rate jerk. If I ever encountered this guy on a sidewalk, I would have to strongly resist the urge to punch him out.

However, in this instance, I believe a short suspension may be in order, and I am not really comfortable with that, but that is as far as it should go. I do not want to see Shuster lose his job over what he said, which I believe was taken way out of context by many. In fact, I agree completely with what he was trying to say, as it is clear to anyone with a brain that Chelsea Clinton is being used by her mother's campaign.

First of all, the word "pimped" does not always have to do with those who manage the "ladies of the evening." In several office environments I have worked in, if you were about to be "pimped," it meant that you were about to be given all or part of someone else's work, and it would be your responsibility to complete it - whether you wanted to or not.

I am somewhat disheartened by the reaction of many so-called conservatives in this matter. It seems to me that, in recent months, many who claim to be conservative are becoming as emotion-driven as our friends on the left. Just because someone says something that is offensive, it does not mean they should lose their livelihood over it. We have enough Al Sharpton's on the left as it is. If we start acting like them, them all we are doing is lowering ourselves to their level, and further moving us down that slippery slope to speech fascism.

I do not know about the rest of you, but the idea that someone, in this case, Hillary Clinton, can call up a media outlet and nearly get someone fired for something they said is more than just a little troubling to me.

At this very moment, CAIR, a group with known ties to Islamic terrorist organizations, is trying to get Michael Savage taken off the air right here in the United States of America. They have managed to get other radio hosts fired for making negative comments about the Islamo-supremecists. Regardless of your feelings toward Savage, their attempt to silence him should send a shudder down the spine of all Americans who truly value freedom. If CAIR gets its way here, who will be next? Rush? Sean? Neal? Maybe Us?

Shuster's ultimate fate should lie with his employer and his audience.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

What's telling of this episode is that it's a window into the mind Thunder Thighs Hillary. The perfect media for the queen is a state run media. It's a continuous cycle of "The Clinton Machine" manipulating / threatening the "free" press . Whether it's NBC, Vanity Fair, or CNN. If she had her way, all media would be nothing short of Pravda. Pure propaganda and and no dirty laundry on the queen and her family.

The dims party tried this with Fox news. No debates on Fox, no interviews with B.O.R., Cavutto. Just the morning milk-toast show.  We all know how well that worked. If you do not know check out the ratings.

So when Msnbc people who rely on liberal viewers say something that they believe is terrible, the Clintons use it to energize their base and to flog Msnbc back into line.