Clinton Camp Threatens to Boycott NBC Debates Because of Comments About Chelsea Being “Pimped Out”

Clinton not appearing in debates because of a slang expression regarding her daughter? Woo-hoo! The system works!

I agree…..
Clearly the media have been bias in this election on both sides.
All the newtworks should be called the OBAMA Network anyway…..

Ironic because HRC does it all the time. The pitch is:
This is all about winning the news cycle. If the talking heads are talking about stupid stuff they won’t be talking about the Bad Clinton MoJo out there.

I remember when Clinton was in power and Chelsea was just a kid the media were constantly putting down her looks and making disgusting comments about her looks, as she was in an awkward stage. American media is nothing but a dumbing down of public information and slandering those they want to control. Chelsea has been used as a pawn and the media is again cannibilizing her. Where is real media in the US? They treat Americans as if they were dumb as stumps and after a lot of years the are living up to the media’s view of them.
Mean and ugly.

Whoa! You kidding me? Here we have the Clinton campaign practically begging on their hands and knees for Obama to debate them every week on one day, and now the next, they suggest boycotting debates because of some stupid pundit comment about Chelsea. Give me a break. This is just another one of their “play the woman as victim card” gimmick, that’s all. How desperate is the Clinton machine anyway? Pathetic, just pathetic.

Disgusting. The media has made me sick, and are the butt of jokes concerning the media hype involving a candidate running on a platform of nothing but rhetoric. This is only one example of their pointed use of language. Everything said about one candidate is rose-colored and pretty, and everything said about the other is skewed and condenscending.

Family support has been demonstrated by the Clintons over and over again. With all there is to dislike about them, to attack and make these sort of remarks about family participating in the campaign only lessens the attacker.

all the networks have been for obama if they get a chance they find something to say something about hillarys campaign or the clinton family. it is the obama network by the way where is he getting all the money mabye from opra.

Chris Matthews and the other guy are sleeze bags and are jealous of Hillary and have to criticize their daughter because they can’t get to Hillary herself (Teflon Hillary)…….Chris Matthews and that other guy are so funny! They have issues with females, and it’s probably something Freudian like they had trouble with their mama’s at an early age and now can only criticize women to look good ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

If the Clinton’s take the oval office, I’m afraid all comments in the media will be subject to review.

No, I don’t. Mr. Shuster’s words were ill-conceived and poorly chosen, and he apologized. Mr. Matthews’ words were the same and he apologized. There is absolutely no indication that a “pattern” is emerging on MSNBC.
Instead, Mr. Wolfson is attempting to engage in a variation of the game I previously mentioned here, “Could You Possibly Be More Offended Than I?” Here, he acts as if there’s a conspiracy to slander his candidate, all the while taking offense and acting as an extremely aggrieved party. What is “beneath contempt” is Mr. Wolfson’s attitude.

Yes, both comments were unnecessarily cold; the Matthews comment — “imply(ing) that Hillary’s whole career depended on being a victim of an unfaithful husband” being the worser of the two.

It’s too bad the Clintons can throw mud but aren’t happy when it’s being thrown right back at them. After the nasty campaign they’ve been running they deserve everything they get. Chelsea included.

Janet,
i think it’s a little different when someone calls your kid, “pimped out” well maybe not ot you, but to me it is .

Boo Hoo, I won’t attend a debate because my daughter was called a name. Boo hoo. Hey Hill, how about be happy you are invited to debates and not barred like Ron Paul. Boo hoo, I cry alot.

I too am discusted with the coverage of the Clinton campaign by Chris Mathews, David Schuster and Keith Oberman. They are way out of line and I will not watch any longer. If we all stop watching maybe they will get the message and give us fair and balanced. Joe Scarborough is the only one with an open mind.

I think it is the fact the MSNBC is the same station that Imus made his famous remarks that offended a female college basketball team and many other people. These comments about Chelsea are just as stupid and offensive from the same station. Imagine if the person he was referring to being “pimped out” was Michelle Obama. That would be all over the news for many reasons!

If Chelsea were a six-year old kid and used in political commericals and made a focal point of the campaign, that kind of comment might make sense. But she is a grown woman who is perfectly capable of acting on her own behalf and I don’t see criticism of other adult children of candidates who actively support their parent described as being “pimped out”. Remember that when the Clintons were in the White House, they made huge efforts to shield Chelsea from the media. I don’t see this kind of mud being slung at the Obamas for bringing out their young children to rallies. The bias is obvious here.

I never did like Chris Matthews for his comments and not only on Chelsea. He has stressed comments about Hillary in a round about fashion.And Shuster is in the same category. This is not in good taste for new media’s to make bad comments on candidates families or the candidate themselves. Wolf Blitzer never makes comments about any candidate and is well respected in the news media. I think it is great for Chelsea to campaign for her mother. Why not? Romney’s sons were campaigning for him before he dropped out. It is good for their children to meet and greet people on the campaign trail.

The media is entering a realm which is beyond disrespect. I don’t believe it would have been acceptable (tolerated) or appropriate to comment in such a way about Amy Carter, the Ford, Reagan or Bush children (even when George W. Bush himself suggested using the very menacing ‘Willie Horton’ ad against Gov. Dukakis when George H.W. was campaigning).
This is a former First Family. There was a time when no matter what your political affiliation (or lack thereof) — the U.S. citizens would give at least a modicrum of respect to this fact. The treatment and disdain for these individuals (the Clinton family) as well as outright disgusting slurs is only an indication where this country is heading and how this campaign is being directed by a news media wholly unqualified in proper journalism and decent, moral standards.
The dumbing down of America has spawned some very ugly ignorance and rancor.

Answer: Free speech. Question: What is the next basic American right to erode if there is another Clinton Administration?
She has no shame.

I agree with Sarah 2:33:31 and Publius 2:19:35. I can’t believe the Clintons and their supporters are so being so thin-skinned. How do they expect to manage if they win the nomination and the “Right Wing Conspiracy” begins again? By the way the Republicans are just salivating at the thought getting Bill & Hill in their lives again.
They had better toughen up.

If he had used the work “exploited” instead of “pimped out” we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

Let’s see. A grown women campaigns for someone (in this case her mother) and she is being “pimped out”. So following that logic…Oprah and his wife are being “pimped out” by Obama?
I thought they were just working to get someone elected who they love and admire

The Chris Matthews show is a cesspool of misogyny.

Oh, Oh. I hope this doesn’t mean the tears are flowing again. Come Hillary you’re a big girl!

I love this country, I just can’t ever picture Hillary Clinton running it! It will be like another LBJ era, which in my mind started this great nation on its present down hill slide!

Would he use the word pimp if she was a son?

Perhaps the use of Chelsea for Hilarys campaign will remind Americans that Character does count!

who knew????? you mean she ain’t being pimped out????? who knew?????

why is it that the Clintons can dish it out but can not take it in return?

Get America back on Track I do not see it your way so I guess that means it is not one sided. Its only one sided if thats the way YOU want it to be. Freedom of the press is at work here if you like it or not. If you like red and I tell you no you like blue does that mean you are going to like what I tell you to like. If so, then it sounds like you are one sided and one of the millions of blind believers that follow these people to the end. Good luck! Your going to need it and wish it.

Bill Clintons feelings got hurt,because someone said they pimped out his daughter,what about all those woman hed pimped out,and their families,I guess they dont have feelings or count.The Clintons are always touchy and demanding,only when they arent getting what they want.And anytime someone speaks bad about them,its always an issue.Now they should know how everyone else feels.Also they are fault finders about everyone else,and to hell with you if you point fingers at them.

After the IMESS laid his pile of stink on that place, it will be hard to ever recover from that. I see Olbermann and Dan Abrams as the last two SAVIORS left to prop up that place, and I like Olbermanns show a lot. I also like Kucinich, Obama, and Clinton, etc. so don’t go by what I say…Jack “the welch” Welch the GE clown which nbc let on the MORNING JOE show the other day said the IRAQ war spending was “CHIMP CHANGE”. Shows you a ton what the aroma is around there these days…

Stop crying like it’s fourth grade. This lady is running for president? What if some head of state calls her a mean name, is she going to resign or go into a state of hysteria? Get over it. Sticks and Stones, Hillary, Sticks and Stones…

What’s happening to msnbc? I watch or tivo all the programs from morning joe to the primetime newscasts. This treatment that is given towards the Clintons and now Chelsea is disgusting. Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Edwards also have big mean mouths. Dan Abrams even made a comment of his show the other night that even if Hillary does well on SuperTuesday it will still be all about “the second coming” Obama. It really is becoming nauseating at how Obama is such a godsend, I no longer feel that way. Its such a turnoff. Thank god you have people like pat buchanan, craig crawford, dan abrams,chuck todd and tim russert talk in such a way that is middle of the road without all the nastiness. I used love joe s. david s. and chris m. but they are so sexist when it comes to Hillary.

The Clintons just can’t handle the truth. The are “pimping out” Chelsea to these super-delagates and celebrities. I swear, if the democratic nominee is picked by a pack of back-room power players, I will quit the democratic party for good. That is a slap in the face to all the Americans who voted and campaigned for their candidate. I don’t see why they can’t just give the nomination to the candidate with the most popular votes (gasp!) and adhere to the wishes of the American people (for once!)

As I understand it, “pimped out” does not mean that somebody put someone out on the street as a prostitute, although that was probably its origin. In the usages I’ve heard it means that somebody is trying to impress somebody with superficial appearances. In this case I’d say that the usage was absolutely accurate since the Clintons are triing to use Chelsea to do just that and Senator Clinton is because someone publicly pointed out her transparent little scheme.

I don’t think HRC is that “thin-skinned,” the man dissed her daughter! Imagine how terrible that would feel as a parent.
BTW, this “journalist” couldn’t think of a better term than “pimped out?” Think of what this implys-. This girl that grew up in the public eye and never became a disgrace. She went to Stamford and then on to Oxford. She could eventually be president one day as well.
Have some respect.

My goodness———-with EVERY news media website I check out there is something negative printed about the Clintons.
It is very clear that the Media is biased. Don’t worry Hillary, alot of voters can see through the hoopla—-this is why you are still standing strong!

I heard those comments personally and they were as bad as they sound. I used to like Chris Matthews. He is getting waaaay too cocky. I think he thinks somehow he can drive the outcome of the race. He has that much power. That is dangerous. The night before Super Tuesday, David Shuster and Nora O’Donnell were practically gloating that Obama was going to win. All they needed were Obama t-shirts.
I voted for Obama, but I voted in one of the early primaries and now I realize I voted for the wrong reasons. I fell for this media frenzy. I am now supporting Hillary having done the research I should have done before I voted. I could kick myself, but some of you still have time. I would caution everyone to take a step back before you believe all this media frenzy. I think Senator Obama might be a good president — some day — but right now, too much is at stake. Hillary has her negatives, but we already know what those negatives are. MSNBC has been covering Obama as if he’s the “second coming.” No politician gets to that level without some skeletons so… we will see.
But I don’t blame the Clintons. Mitt Romney’s kids campaigned for their dad. Chelsea is an adult, and she’s very close to Hillary. I have read where she wanted to do this for her mom. She’s proud of her mom. Many of us could be that lucky to have a great kid like her.
Chris Matthews will have no show if the Clinton people don’t show up for interviews. David Shuster is just a jerk.

They didn’t “diss” Chelsea. The “dissed” Hillary for using her own daughter to sales talk super delagates into promising to cast their votes to Hillary. They were questioning how a parent could put her child in that position. Big deal. Boo hoo.

Well, now it’s Obama who doesn’t want to debate Senator Clinton. Geez, I wonder why? Maybe it’s because he can’t get two words out of his mouth without stammering and saying uh, uh, uh — while she clearly commands the stage with poise and a complete knowledge of the issues AND (imagine this) solutions to the many problems we have thanks to GW. The media is in an Obama frenzy. Finally, if someone referred to YOUR daughter in this manner, I doubt you’d be very happy — regardless of your feelings for the former President or the Senator.

I think that both Clinton & Obama should come out and say they are not going to do a debate on NBC. He also has children and if things don’t change they will be targeted. So called “journalists” have no consequences for their actions.

gregg no its because Obama has already debated Hillary 18 times and she just wnats to debate to keep him from campaigning while she sends bill and chelsea she is even shepimping Bill.

The Clinton’s are up against the Republicans and the Press. I think they’re doing a good job.

I used to tune into Matthews but no more. He is not unlike others at that network. Matthews spews his venom at the Clintons like he is on some kind of personal vendetta. My belief is that he is still pissed at Kerry’s loss. This guy has infected others too. Yes, there are better networks.

MSNBC is going down the tubes was a ardent watcher before use to watch Chris and all of them. Imus was right when he use to say Chris was a loud mouth who like to hear himself talk. if I was Bill Clinton I go and slap Shuster in the mouth. I know I would if he had said that about my daughter

I don’t know if these announcers have daughters. The general rule should be if you wouldn’t want others to speak about your daughter in this manner, than perhaps an apology is in order, and that type of language should not be used again. Didn’t Don Imus get fired for using abusive terms in regard to female athletes? How does this differ?

People, it’s one thing if their opponet is saying ‘pimped’, but when the press says it you really have to wonder if they have a ulterior motive.

Why is Chelsey calling superdelegates? Who is she? I hope this thing gets rapped up with a clear winner, and none of this superdelegate mess becomes a reality.

Who can deny she isnt being pimped? It is what it is.

The reporters are entitled to their opinions – it is their choice of words that come into question. How about the word “exploit”. I don’t agree she is being exploited but if that’s what they think, then fine. Clean it up lads and watch your dirty mouths.

All the canidates family members get pimped, but they will only say it about the Clintons because the press has a love fest for Obama.

I refer to MSNBC anchors as Obama-heads.

TELL ME, WHAT OR WHO IS CALLING UP THE CLE’S FOR OBAMA ??????

I have already banned MSNBC from being watched in my house, due to the bias expressed by there commentators. CNN is still, at this point, marginally tolerable.

What happens to American Famility values? The guys should be fired and Boycott NBC.

Pimping
A person who uses another for their own personal gain.

If sweet little Chelsea is going to enter the political arena she has to learn to roll with the punches. So the Clintons only support freedom of speech when it’s *their* freedom to speak?
NBC is a bunch of wusses to apologize and to suspend the person who made the comment.

J-Hale – I totally agree with your comment. I used to really enjoy MSNBC but have totally stopped watching it. It is so blatantly over-the-top anti-Hillary. For the Obama supporters that feel this is an okay thing to say and insinuate about Chelsea and that Hillary is just being a cry baby, then I guess it would be okay if CNN, ABC or whomever reported that Obama was pimping Michelle out last weekend along with Oprah, Caroline and Maria? Right? I mean fair is fair? WRONG! No matter who you are supporting, none of the above mentioned women, or any woman for that matter, deserves to be treated with such disrespect. They are very intelligent women supporting the candidate they believe in and for a male to attach such demeaning terminology to their campaining is sickening and nothing but pure sexism!

Clinton = Pimped
Obama = Spreading the word of God
We get it press, you adore Obama and hate Clinton

I understand the uproar over an insensitive overtly sexual reference to the former first daughter, however, isn’t the villain in a pimping situation the parasitic, dehumanizing pimp? I’m not certain why the bulk of the focus is on the slight on Chelsea. Whether you agree with it or not, the original attack seemed to intend that Hillary and Bill are exploiting their daughter in a vulgar way.

Like the polls said, Hillary will do ANYTHING to get elected, including pimping her own daughter. She has cried twice the night before a big vote, lied more than the number of stars in the sky, lied about her finances to generate more money for her campaign and now is pimping her daughter.
yea, she should be the leader of the free world. Shame.

Every campaign “pimps” their staff, but the press will only use the word pimp to describe the Clintons because they want them to lose. Period.

She is supporting her mom – obviously a great kid. Using the word “pimp” is appauling and inappropriate.

The media can say what it wants within the law.
The Sorority House rules are not in play.
Can we have some real news about real candidates please?

MSNBC is as fair and balanced as Foxnews. I used to watch MSNBC but not any more. It is OBAMA networK!!!!

Guess this means that Obama is “pimping” Edward Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, John Kerry, Oprah, and anyone else who’s supporting him. Chris Matthews has forgotten that he’s supposed to report the news…not create it! Journalism today is nothing more than a series of mean-spirited, cheap, shots. It’s not about politics, it’s about the journalists and the private axes they have to grind. Oh, and if this was said about Michelle Obama, you know that the “race” card would be pulled out in a heartbeat. It’s the Obama camp that can’t take any criticism!! Even when Obama’s words are played back on video -he denies what he said. He’s lost all credibility on my part and I once considered voting for him. By the way Imus was fired for using a similar derogatory comment regarding the Rutgers Basketball Team. Maybe Chris Matthews should be fired too – or is it just the black population that has a right to get their back up. Finally, why is everyone so afraid of a woman president…are they afraid that she’ll show up all the men that have gone before?

So if Hillary is elected, will Chelsea be able to consider her mother’s time in office part of her “experience” the way Hillary uses Bill’s time as part of her “experience”. Hillary only did one year of Children’s Defense Fund. Then she shilled as an attorney for Rose Law Firm (Thanks to her husband being AG an Governor – no way they would have hired her otherwise) and served on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors making sure unions never gained a thing from Wal-Mart and keeping the poor poor. How many EEOC cases were there from women being treated disparately at Wal-Mart while she was on the Board? She did nothing for the poor or women while there, but it is part of her “Public experience.”
So, if Hillary is President, Chelsea will have 12 years of public experience and can run for President! Oh wait, her daddy’s (pimp’s?) time as Governor and AG… Chelsea can have 18 years experience in public service.

Let’s face it, only roughly 25% of Americans now like or tolerate the Clintons. They have raped and stolen from every American family. Finally, people are understanding that. Hillary can barely get 25% of the vote of all Americans and that’s after 4 years of running this campaign and hundreds of millions of dollars. Bravo AMERICA, let’s take America back from the pimping Clintons.

pomposity and opinonated mind set along with abuse from so called news people are the hallmarks ofthe filth generated by people like mathews, shuster and borger among others. they psychoanalyse like idiots.their bias and contempt for the clintons is worse than those of the republicans because these charracters are supposed to be objective. they earn a living by scandalising people shame on them

does anyone really care

Will the news commentators ever learn to stick to the facts, and leave out their snide remarks? Who wants to hear their opinion anyway, especially since it is so biased that it makes the decent citizens of our country want to barf!
I prefer to get my news from the computer these days and tune out the TV with a good book when my husband has these highly opinionated, so-called newscasters on.

Obviously, it hit home for a reason. Could it be because they were right? lol. Free speech….even though I think that Hillary has pimped more than that to get there sHes at.

Main Entry: 2pimp
Function: verb
Date: 1636
transitive verb
: to make use of often dishonorably for one’s own gain or benefit
Sounds accurate!!!

Whoa there “time after time”. OF COURSE children are off limits as long as they don’t enter the campaign. The moment they start campaigning aggressively as Chelsea has been, then you can bet she is now vulnerable to the same scrutiny as anyone else. Besides, she can now claim this time as “experience” and run for President when sHillary’s done.

Maxwello is correcto. The comment about Hillary pimping out Chelsea was not intended to be derogatory towards Chelsea. So those of you who are angry at MSNBC, shouldn’t be. The Clinton’s (Hillary) is using Chelsea (whether Chelsea wants to be there or not) as a calculted pawn in her own game to get elected to HER dream job. The CLinton’s have proved over the years they will do ANYTHING to stay in power. Hillary is supposedly such a brainiac, you’d think she would have saw this coming sooner. And Bill! Wow, all the embarrasment and shame he put his family through, he has absolutely no business saying one word about any of this.

Sorry to say, but MSNBC – especially Chris Matthews – is far, far unbalanced when it comes to candidates for President. Both Republican and Democrat. I’ve lost respect for some because of Mr. Matthews comments and find that there are few news organizations that are trustworthy.

Why do you automatically associate a bad comment/truthful comment about the Clintons as being pro-Obama. Get real. This has nothing to do with Obama, and if you choose a candidate based on what people who can’t stand the Clintons say (all 75% of us in America), then you are don’t deserve a vote.

Hillary is done CRYING for VOTES TWICE.
She is done CRYING for MONEY once.
CRYING a THIRD time would look silly.
So, LETS SOMEBODY ELSE CRY…the CAMPAIGN with a frivolous reason…see if that works when things/voters are not going in favor of them.
this is getting really silly. How are these cry babies going to compete against ruthless Republican campaign, God forbid, if nominated.
Any adult, including Chelsea, actively participating in this campaign should be ready to accept tough questions and criticism form all direction, else should just stay out of this campaign. She is not a child, she is a college graduate adult and should not deserve to be treated like a child whose parents should start crying as if their child has been unfairly treated as an adult.

The sooner the Clintons go away, the better for the USA.

Looks like I need to be watching NBC shows again! I hope Hillary does boycott and NBC lets Obama have all that time to himself to address America. Eventually the Clintons will learn that they can no longer silence all the press.

MSNBC has too many Obama supporters on as regular guests. Each political panel has been an Obama supporter, an independent analysis and then the third is usually Pat Buchanan. If you’re going to have Eugene Robinson on all day – there should a Clinton person all day too.

Chris Matthews is so blatantly anti-Clinton he can barely contain himself.
The longer the primary process drags on the more Matthews feels he has to attach Hillary. David Shuster is usually a non partisan reporter. Perhaps he has been hanging with Chris Matthews too long.

Chris Matthews is so blatantly anti-Clinton he can barely contain himself.
The longer the primary process drags on the more Matthews feels he has to attach Hillary. David Shuster is usually a non partisan reporter. Perhaps he has been hanging with Chris Matthews too long.

Poor Hillary. It is all just so unfair.

jerry – I totally agree. For the past 2 years I’ve been getting friends and family to watch MSNBC (because Fox is nuts and Blitzer asks lame questions) and just before New Hampshire they all went back to CNN because of the slant toward Obama. It’s too bad, MSNBC was doing well for a while.

When Chelsea was young, the Clintons asked the press to respect her privacy and the press complied. But when grown-up Chelsea chose (or was coerced) into entering the campaign fray, she became fair game. Hillary and Bill can’t tell their daughter to pester super delegates, and at the same time tell the media their little darling is off limits.

i wish i was celeb!! hahaha

Oh come on!!! First of all they are COMMENTators, not anchors, and they have a right to COMMENT what they think, like it or not. And you’ll note that Hillary lets other people do the whining and name calling (Just like Bill did) so that they can pretend to distance themselves from it, while it’s still floating out there for people to hear. Same old game, different Clinton. Chelsea is no kid–she’s an adult and she’s campaigning–fair game.

Bad choice of words, but the meaning was right on. Why is it so terrible for someone with the media to “dis” Chelsea, and acceptable when it’s Jenna and Barbara?

Absolutely. There are many so-called journalists (particularly on MSNBC) who seem to think they can say the most offensive things about people and then just turn around and say, “oops, I didn’t really mean that; I can’t imagine why anyone would take it badly, tee hee, but I apologize to those who did”, and expect that somehow makes it alright, even though they do it repeatedly. It has been obvious from the beginning of this campaign how biased much of the news media (and particularly MSNBC) is against Hillary Clinton. I no longer watch or read ANYONE associated with that network after watching a particularly vitriolic session one evening where they were all frothing at the mouth (I swear you could see the spit flying), shouting over each other in their self-centered attempts to get their own venomous obscenities heard above each other. What is particularly sad about this is they are apparently too stupid to realize how transparent they are. It is obvious they think the American public is stupid, and they can therefore get away with something like trouncing Hillary for her husband’s infidelity. I would bet big time that most of them have either had extramarital affairs themselves or they’ve been unsuccessful in their attempts (not too many partners would want a relationship of one)…but there I go, stooping to their level. How does the pat “apology” go, oh yeah, “I didn’t realize that anyone might take that as I really intended it, so to those who did, blah, blah.” The last debate was one of the most watched television events in all time, so future ones will probably bring big bucks (via sponsors) to the networks that hold them. If I were Hillary Clinton I wouldn’t want to thus reward a network that was constantly maligning me and my family.

I am not a supporter of Obama or Hillary, I am a republican, I believe that the media is bias against Clinton,the media is engaging in sensationalism in their reporting and conduct. The media outlets often choose to report heavily on stories with shock value or attention-grabbing names or events, rather than reporting on more pressing issues to the general public.
so sad!

Chris Matthews is a complete slug.

And you wonder why Hillary gets women’s vote! As a woman and mother, I’m more and more inclined to vote for Hillary based on only one reason: the hate and prejudice unfaily dumped on her! I’m not saying she’s an angle. I’ve never liked her. But come on! Play fair! Dig up the dirt from everybody, not just her! When you drag an innocent young girl into this whole smearing campaign, you crossed the line! Coming election day, I think I’ll vote for Hillary if Ron Paul isn’t in it (which I must sadly admit is unavoidable).

seems like to me you hillary supporters are soft just like her! …. its not our fault that chealse is doing what ever she can to see mommy be president ! GO NBC!!

NBC should can Matthews and Shuster immediately. Unfortunately Matthews and Shuster have gotten to a position and no one checked their qualifications to report news!!! NBC can replace garbage like Matthews and Shuster anytime, any place, anywhere. The media is all about Barak and they spend their nights up thinking of how to insult Hillary and her family. I can’t wait to see Hillary win …. even then I am sure they are going to have to swallow hard to acknowledge it. NBC is a loser media !!

I find it difficult to believe that any of you would think it appropriate for a reporter or “commentator” to use such a horrible word. I am sure that if the same remark was used to describe Michelle Obama’s efforts on behalf of her husband there would be an outcry of complaints, and rightly so. Chelsea Clinton is a young adult woman, who is supporting her mother. As a daughter and a mother, this is exactly what I would expect her to do. MSNBC should apologize, and there should be some consequence for this horrible behavior by their employees.

So would you like to say Michelle Obama, Oprah, Ted Kennedy, Kerry, caroline were pimping for Obama..
you are a Disgrace to journalism..which shouldn’t be biased. Why don’t you change the name from MSNBC to ObamaBC?

The comments were downright nasty. On the other hand it is so nice to see the remarks from the Obama folks here. Obama’s calls for hope and unity does not seem to have reached his own supporters and reading them has finally placed me into Hillary’s camp. Perhaps if Obama’s supporters had shown more respect for other opinions I would have supported him. I cannot and will not support the raw hate I see and read from Obama’s supporters in all too many blogs and now here.

wow just look at all the free speech liberals calling for mathews to be fired, notice it was never an issue when bush was running to call his girls every nasty name in the book and your still doing it, tough hillary you dont like dont go but either way shaddap

Hillary is worried that Monica Lewinsky will show up some place with a sign saying:
“Vote Republican, The Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth”

Wil – you’ve made your decision on who to support for president based on the demeanor of people on a blog messageboard? You’re kidding, right?
Hell, I’ll bet half the people posting dumb stuff here in support of one candidate, are in actuality supporting another, and just hoping their feigned ignorance pushes a few readers their way.

I used to think that there are four pillars of democracy
Executive branch
Legislative
Judiciary
and
Journalism
Now I wonder, is the democracy is eroding? Please, for the sake of our democracy, the network need to take a strong stand.
They need to either come out and confirm that Chelsea is engaged in attach , debate the issues. In this case , this is the fair game. I only ask to use a better language.
If not, action need to be taken, for all our kids future. Do not let the guilts of their parent fall into their fate. They did not choose their parents.
Senator Obama, this is a honest call for you too. You are not in any way responsible for this kind of behavior, but your supporters did it on your name. You need to come out and condemn this type of behavior as a father , as a decent man. We can’t not let this kind of behavior continue. It will destroy the values we believed.

The daughter is fair game as she is out their pimping herself out to win votes for mommie and daddy ( new Pres and VP) so she cannot open her mouth without expecting the same in return.
Being she thinks her daddy was so correct to ashame the whole USA with his weird sex acts in the oval office then it is clear she is as sick as he and should be labeled so.

The folks at MSNBC don’t even try to hide their contempt for the Clintons. This can be easily proven by simply turning on the channel, wait at least 10 minutes and you will hear one of the Clintons being bashed, yet their will be no beef to the story.
Chris Matthews is over the top obessed with his hatred of Clinton.
It would be nice to have a newscast that wasn’t biased one way or the other.
You can support Obama and refrain from bbashing Clinton

And don’t forget the time Mathews pinched Hillary’s cheeck. Such a sexist gesture showing a total lack of respect. He should have been fired for that.
Thanks ABC for reporting these unprofessional goings on at MSNBC. I just hope their ratings tank!

No one likes Hillary. Not even her supporters. There are basically the same person sitting there coming up with same crap. Look, she’s not a real feminist, she is where she is because of her husband. I know overworked housewives (and I agree) believe it’s still a tough job, and lord knows being Bill’s was was, but it doesn’t qualify as relevant experience. So women are displacing. But, the Clintons offend everyone. Even liberals. And liberals aren’t repugs, we have brains and Clinton’s thumb their nose at it. Because the press anywhere makes a true statement about Clintons’ and it happens to bad, because most of what they have done or do is bad or polarizing or offensive, doesn’t mean they are against them, just repeating. No one should have said pimping out, but don’t we all know that’s exactly what they are doing?

Are you joking me? people say thing about people all the time. and she is going to boycott because of little comments made about her daughter?
another reason that hillary is a joke.

The sexism of this slur is clear. Woman hatred is virulently unleashing itself in both the personal and public commentary on Hillary Clinton and her Campaign. Looks like the bigots of America have found their new playground. Racial slurs are forbidden but sexist slurs are permitted and justified. The hatred and cowardice of the bigots of America that fueled Racism in America found a new target. A woman running for President!

Just out of curiosity…If a television reporter accused Barack of pimping out Michelle because he is using her to further his goals, would it be o.k.? I mean, she’s an adult and tough enough to stand the “harmless euphimism”, right? Nobody would be offended by someone using that pejorative to describe the relationship between a black man and a black woman, right? And I may be forgetting, but how many times has Mike Huckabee been accused of pimping out his SONS for using them at campaign appearances. The only reason to use that word is to denigrate the woman it’s being used against.

I’ve been watching MSNBC’s coverage of Hillary for a while now, and I’ve come to strongly believe that the editors who are making decisions are misogynist. Plain and simple. What they need to know is…karma is karma…. and it will all come back around to bite their noses.

I stopped watching Hardball prior to the Feb. 5 primaries because both Mr. Shuster and Mr. Matthews were so over-the-top in their opinions and narrations.
Last week, while interviewing a Democratic “insider,” Mr. Shuster kept insisting that Chelsea’s campaign phoning was unseemly — the guest finally ended the “interview” by saying he was welcome to his opinion.
His and Mr. Matthew’s lack of professional “journalism,” and their exuberance to portray a negative image of candidates they obviously do like is a disservice to the public.
I certainly miss Mr. Brokaw.

Its ok to say the Clintons are pimping their daughter, but god forbid Bill says Jesse Jackson won SC twice was a slur…boo hooo Obabies

the comment about her being a bit retarded was funny

For All Clinton Supporter !
Please control your anger. We can not let the other to drag ourselves to their level. Even if we lose, we lose with our dignity. The Obama family haven’t done anything wrong. We should leave the alone as we ask the other to do the same.
Insulting them without valid reasons will drag us to their level. I refuse to go there.
There are other undecided voters, they are watching. Our behavior will help the m to make up their mind.

As I have said on numerous times on Political Punch, MSNBC is no longer fair and balanced. It is such a disgrace to my all time favorite anchor, Tom Brokaw. I used to be an avid MSNBC watcher, I have quit watching since the South Carolina primary. I am Samoan American and Keith Olbermann made light of the fact that Hillary acknowledged American Samoa. It was so upsetting because per capita our territory has the most men and women serving in the war in Iraq and and many fallen soldiers.Yes, I am sure some idiot is going to respond and say well Hillary voted “yes” and I my response to that is Obama didn’t vote at all. After 911 our nation was attacked in New York where Hillary is the U.S. Senator and how can you not say “yes” to a war that had implications of weapons of mass destruction. She was the voice for all the New Yorkers who died in 911 and in her defense if I was asked to vote against terrorism and tyranny knowing how it had affected my home state I would have done the same. It’s called patriotism.
Hillary 08

Are you a mother? Do you have a young daughter Chelsea’s age? Can you honestly say you don’t mind her being called ‘pimped out” everytime she helps you by reaching out to other people?
Sonia:
Are you joking me? people say thing about people all the time. and she is going to boycott because of little comments made about her daughter?
another reason that hillary is a joke.

The Clinton supporters should be happy MSNBC didn’t note the similarities in appearance between Chelsea and Hubbel.

There’s no respect for the white woman anymore. The day a Black guy is elected before a White woman is the day this country has no respect for its white women. Look at the polls blacks are looking out for its own and support him 100% like oprha while whites dont support their own.

DouglasKC—-why is it ok to demean the daughter of a candidate when she stumps for her mother? David Shuster has clearly demonstrated his personal dislike of the Clintons by slipping his words. But I think he has somewhat mixed up his work as a reporter with his ocassional sit-in as substitute for another foul-mouth host Chris Matthews.
Afterall, they are two of the same. David Shuster seems to be making some attempts to outbid Chris Matthews in the citation of outrageous remarks. good try.

What is this obsession with Obama? He stands for change, which is every candiates platform for the last 100 years, has zero experience, has no experience against the repugs. His followers are like sheep going into the meat grinder come november.

The sexism of this slur is clear. Woman hatred is virulently unleashing itself in both the personal and public commentary on Hillary Clinton and her Campaign. Looks like the bigots of America have found their new playground. Racial slurs are forbidden but sexist slurs are permitted and justified. The hatred and cowardice of the bigots of America that fueled Racism in America found a new target. A woman running for President!

MSNBC and CNN (Clinton News Network) is biased towards Hillary Clinton. 45 mins of air-time was devoted to Hillary speaking in Washington state; when will they show 45 mins of Senator Obama speaking? Still waiting.

I am truly disgusted at MSNBC. It is worse than Fox. I have been watching these news channels and comparing their coverage of the candidates and it is so very obvious that MSNBC is anti-Hillary. They belittle her accomplishments & her potentials. Also, a lot of the presidential candidates’ children work for the campaign (children of Edwards, Huckabee, Romney, McCain) of their fathers, and were even more hands on and there didn’t seem to be any complaint about those. I was not a Hillary supporter but my curiosity about the bias made me research the candidates accomplishments, which then led me to conclusion that Hillary is the most competent of the candidates. Unfortunately, not everyone is inclined to do the same, and instead of looking at the accomplishments most people are swayed by personalities/stories/likability factor which are not good basis for a president to fix the economy and all the other problems this country has.

Paul, I cant wait to see how the Dems blow this election because they want a flashy new sports car, instead of a family sedan. Dems hate success.

Rick, because they hate a sure thing.

The language is disrespectful and unneccessary and yes, draws conclusions. The media has become far too invested in this. If it is obvious to viewers who the journalist supports, then his/her usefulness as an impartial provider of fact is over. The who, what, where, why, etc. has apparently grown to include my clever 2 cents and as much as anything is responsible for the combative tone in politics. If Matthews wants to hold forth, he should run. Other wise he should watch his tone. He is sullying not just MSNBC but also NBC. I turn the channel to ABC which is far less combative given half a reason.

People, the likely reason that Chelsea and the Clintons draw the ‘pimped out’ comment is the fact that
CHELSEA DOES NOT SEEM LIKE SHE IS REALLY INTO CAMPAIGNING!
Chelsea APPEARS TO BE COWED by an aggressive mother, Hilary Clinton!
Cowed to smile!
Cowed to campaign!
Cowed in pursuit of Hilary’s blind ambition.
The Clintons’ campaing IS NOT about America.
It is SOLELY about Clintons’ PERSONAL AMBITIONS for a THIRD TERM!
ABCD = Anyone But Clinton Dynasty!

Sad day in deed to see a Black guy beating up on a white woman. I guess White males have no Tes***e or balls to stand up for there women.

It’s not like he called her a nappy-headed ho or something.

Nobody would appreciate hearing the media sling slurs of this nature about their child regardless of age or reason. Standing up for what is clearly wrong is not a sin but Hilary chooses to live her life in a politcally obvious manner in the public eye.
It seems to me that most people would/should get angry or hurt and choose to repond in a more private manner directly with the perpetrator. Certainly Shuster would take the call and talk it out but, being politicians, they get their staff to respond. I can’t help but worry that Hilary is using the “I’m a victim” card over and over in what is clearly a repulsive trend for a potential leader. I suspect that the poll numbers reflect that this habit is a positive idea for a female candidate just as I suspect that almost everything they do is calculated with poll results in mind. The saddest part is that it appears that even motherly instincts appear politically affected with her. That is the real sin here. A media personality making a statement like these is wrong but the rest of us should never hear about how it is dealt with. They should make their decision on how to deal with it without floating it out to the media to gauge the public’s reaction. It is safe to assume that if it turns out that many people are rightfully appalled with the media calling their adult daughter’s sincere efforts to help her mothers campaign as being “pimped out”, Hilary’s camp will milk it for all its worth for the political gain and not as a mother’s protective instinct.

Obama is the typical black guy. He loves his drugs. Now why dont Mathews, Joe, and Shuster hamper him on that.

You must realize that it surely is time for a woman president, a black president, a good president. But is she really “the one”? She’s in this position because of her husband’s position. That’s a little against the concept, isn’t it?

Obama would of pulled out the race card. So whats the big deal. Obama is pulling out the drug card now. Knowing the DC belt will draw allot of drugged up blacks to vote. Obama is incinuating that the white man is picking on him for his drug use to get more black vote. OBAMA CULT wake up

MSNBC endorses Obama. Breaking News

Obama would of pulled out the race card. So whats the big deal. Obama is pulling out the drug card now. Knowing the DC belt will draw allot of drugged up blacks to vote. Obama is incinuating now that the white man is picking on him for his drug use to get more black vote. OBAMA CULT wake up

Considering Clinton agreed to debate on FoxNews, I think NBC would be a walk in the park.

Oh great…another news outlet afraid of Bubba & the former First Liar.
Will they now show her crying about that statement the day before another primary?
Does anyone else see a pattern here?
So maybe the crack about Chelsea deserved an apology,but Chris Matthews observation about Hiiary’s career is right on THE MONEY.

NBC has gone way over the line regarding Hillary. This kind of blatant unethical reporting has no place in American politics. Except on Fox News.

NBC has gone way over the line regarding Hillary. This kind of blatant unethical reporting has no place in American politics. Except on Fox News.

this whole hillary is vetted argument is about the biggest insult to intelligence i can think of

The issue here is that the Clinton campaign is against Free Speach when it goes against them. Someone called her daughter a derogatory name… WHAH! What will happen if Clinton is elected? Will her “staff” contact all of the press and tell them what they can and can not write? Sounds like Cuba and Russia to me!

An overreaction by the Clintons, but one designed to get the maximum publicity possible. They send the kid out to campaign for them, to act as a surrogate for Hillary, and then complain when someone takes note of it. The words may not have been the best but he could have said worse. This is all another effort at dirty politics by the Clintons–and no, it doesn’t matter that they were overprotective parents when Chelsea was young.

To all of you out there who think these remarks against a young women are no big deal:
I hope you don’t have a daughter. If you do, I hope she won’t be called that. Because then you would understand how Hillary is feeling right now. I didn’t care for her “crying” before so I didn’t vote for her in the primary. But when the love any mother has for her daughter is demonized, it’s a totally different game.

Amen to that! if it were me, he would be missing more than parts of his anatomy!
sjs:
If I was running for Pres. my daughter better get out there and help me as much as she possibly can. And if someone said anything about my daughter being “pimped” out, he would find himself missing some part of his anatomy. That’s just the way it is.

What’s happening to our country? Mortgage foreclosures, dysfunctional families, etc., etc., and now this? Insults like “nappy headed ho’s” and “Chelsea’s pimping” are treated like maximum crimes. Brittany Spears is getting more attention than the war in Iraq. A lot of folks need to chill. I just want a better president come January ’09. I want to hear some debates.

MSNBC is a disgusting, biased and corrupt news org. i watched them faithfully since their launch, but have boycotted them ever since their disgusting coverage of the clintons over the last year. anyone who think this is a legitimate and credible news org is naive. they are sexist, and they parade andrea mitchell out as if to confirm their coverage is proper. yuck.

An overreaction by the Clintons, but one designed to get the maximum publicity possible. They send the kid out to campaign for them, to act as a surrogate for Hillary, and then complain when someone takes note of it. The words may not have been the best but he could have said worse. This is all another effort at dirty politics by the Clintons–and no, it doesn’t matter that they were overprotective parents when Chelsea was young. You can’t have it both ways: you use your daughter to your advantage, you also put her out there on the line and you just have to accept what comes along with it.

This whole phony controversy is another slick Clinton trick.
Newsflash: “pimp” has entered the acceptable popular lexicon in the years since Hillary was in touch with real Americans, back in 1985. Ever seen “Pimp my Ride”? OOOOOHHHHH. Where’s the outrage!
Obama is out there right now talking to 20000 people in Seattle about the tough issues. Hillary couldn’t even draw a crowd, so Wolfson manufactured a blood pressure crisis over some MSNBC dweeb using standard american slang.
Americans– don’t buy into the Clinton sleaze machine. We need to deal with issues, not playground spats. We’ve had enough of that in the 90s.

Are we as Americans as shallow, crude, callous and as so many of these posts indicate? What has happened to us that we would so casually represent ourselves to our children and the world.

Wow! Once again the Clinton’s are crying foul about being picked on! Whether they like it or not Chelsea is a public figure in the public eye doing political work for everyone else to see! But, it was alright however for Bill Clinton to stroll around South Carolina and stir up racial tensions and act like a thug throwing around his political clout. We’ll see what kind of whining happens after she the Republicans swift boat her and all her past baggage takes center stage! While I plan on voting Democratic in the coming primary, Hillary you have lost my vote even in the general election which hopefully you don’t make it to!

The Clinton campaign is amoral. They continue to truck out surrogates to besmirch Barack Obama, and dare to complain when the shoe is on the other foot.

How is a girl making phone calls to people asking them to support her mother “pimping out”? These people at MSNBC are immature JERKS, period.

Ask yourself if the Clinton’s response is likely to increase or decrease her poll numbers. Almost every day Hillary has been the center of the news. Is this coincidence or a well conceived PR program?

This is all part of the dumbing down of America, loss of manners and civility and crassness becoming increasingly mainstream to the point that some people here think it’s normal.

Like other people said – ‘pimp’ doesn’t exactly mean ‘pimp’ anymore.
I can’t see why the reporter was suspended. If I heard that comment, I’d have known that they meant that the Clintons were dragging their poor kid and throwing her on the phone lines to do something she may not really have wanted to.
This is truly weak.
I actually feel sorry for Chelsea…..

Once again the Clintons will do anything to get their hand on power!
Don’t we all remember that Chelsea was “off the limit” when it came to press release? Now, they are using her to call Super Delegates and the View hosts. I am just shocked! What a disgrace for the nation.

Hillary has been using the sympathy vote many times this election season. It only begs to ask the question. Is this yet another sympathy ploy for votes? It no longer works for me. I’m changing camps.

This is why I love Hillary and her campaign team. They wont take crap from anybody. And when push comes to shove, they beat anyone who tries to smear them. It’s about time someone set the record straight on how biased MSNBC to her.

Shuster Suspended.

I have wondered often where has Tucker Carlson gone as I have not seen him on CNN Tucker was the guy who said that he would eat a shoe if Hillary sold a million copies of her book. When the sale exceeds the million copy mark, Hillary went on Tucker’s show with a chocolate cake in the shape of a shoe and a copy of her book. Hillary was just too generous to nasty journalists like Tucker who now is serving in MSNBC. Now Chris Mathews is trying to outshine Tucker in unprofessional journalistic behavior. Perhaps Hillary was too nice to Tucker when Tucker put down her book. She should have insisted that Tucker ate a shoe instead of a chocolate cake in the shape of a shoe, then this Chris guy might behave with a tiny bit of decency. It is time for Chris to go as he does not meet the minimum stardard of journalism. He should be the spokesmand for Obama instead of a staff member of msnbc. No objective journalist can be allowed to do what he has repeatedly done. Time to go, Chris.

MSNBC and Schuster have apologized to Hillary, so she is reconsidering pulling out of the debate. How noble of her. She succeeded in getting more sympathy votes this time by using her daughter. She knew what the reporter meant, and of course, it was a poor choice of words. But if it can get her some more votes, hey, why not blow it way out of proportion. And it worked. Nic e going, Hillary. You sure are ‘strong’!

Yeah, like NYT and CNN did not show their unfair bias to Obama?

The actual story here is:
CLINTONS PIMP THE MEDIA FOR THE SYMPATHY VOTE DAY BEFORE KEY PRIMARIES

It seems fair to me that Chelsea would assist the Clinton campaign calling highly targeted people. It is shrewd, sneaky and sly but it is fair. It also shows that Hillary is in the race for the ride, the glitz and the glamor. It also shows that Hillary does not represent the average American. You go girl! Keep on bringing out the truth that Hillary could care less about us and more about herself!

I am an advid viewer of Chris Mathews! His love for Obama is making me think I need to find another show to watch during his time slot! Chris I have one thing to say to you! GO Hillary!

GROW UP its all an act to get voters to feel sorry for them.Is that who you really want for President someone who cries every time she doesn’t get her way.By the way the comment about Obaham’s wife was cruel how did it get posted?

What happened to the right of free speech?? Can’t a commentator make a comment on a talk show? And besides, isn’t it true that Hillary is indeed pimping out Chelsea??

Really people,NBC & David Shuster were both “pimped” out by the Obama campaign.Why isn’t anyone commenting on OPRAH and the way she is pushing her WEIGHT around and insisting that friends,employees and associates contribute to the Obama campaign.If america really wants to know about Obama,they ought to Google him.It won’t take but a few minutes to find out just how much he has lied to the voters.These are facts he can’t hide and NOT supporters of Hillary or anyone else.These are FACTS. Wake up america.

Funny how there’s always some Clintonian outrage the day before important elections. Geez, I wonder if this will be all over cable news tonight… wait… this just in:
NEWSFLASH
CLINTONS PIMP THE MEDIA FOR SYMPATHY IN LAST DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO RETAIN POWER

Being recently retired, I have had, for the first time, the opportunity to follow the primaries. It was my hope to acquire information that would enable me to make an informed decision. This has been impossible. TV does not provide us with information. Instead, all stations focus on increasing their rating. Now, as the above blogs show, msnnbc has been successful this time.
At present, I watch each of the three major stations. This is in order to confirm a recent decision. It is to become very “active” and get voters to boycott every one of the top three major TV stations after this election.
After their ratings drop, their advertising dollars also will drop. It is then that voters can hope to receive non bias reporting in future elections.
A presidential primary and general election affects everyone. The final results determine: a person’s opportunity to receive an education that would prepare them to have a job that was not shipped over sea. Also, if successful, they will not need to fear becoming ill would deplete either their finances or parents.
It would take a book to list the many ways that a president has a negative or pasitive affect on everyone.
The point being is that when so many are dependent upon TV for information, we must make it be non bias during every elections.
PS: If we hope to attract the best, we need to stop allowing the media to keep reporting like the tabloids.
Yes: msnbc was totally out of line when calling Hillary daughter a “pimp” Enough is enough.

I think the Obama campaign is feeding on an anti-Hillary frenzy by stoking more fire through proselytized fanatics. what is so appalling is the kind of attacks and antipathy displayed by these haters. they can no longer speak with rationale. they are elated and cheery when Hillary or her family members were smeared while irritated and upset when Obama is being critisized. If Obama’s supporters are a reflection of his candidacy, imagine what we expect after he ascends to the presidency.

Everything and I repeat everything is done by the Clintons for personal gain.
The real story here is to try and get the debates to a more Clinton friendly network (CNN). I personally think the Clintons are afraid to take questions from Brian Williams and Tim Russert because they’ll ask both candidates the hard questions. Too bad, because I was really looking forward to them.
At the end of the day it’s all about trying to get back in the driver’s seat for the Clintons. Their fundraising burst didn’t get them there (Obama outraised them). So why not play this up more than it needs to be?
But to suggest such a thing (as is evidence on this board) is to be sexist and all women everywhere should uprise against the tyrannical suppression by evil men like David Schuster and turn out in droves to vote for the Clintons is propaganda.
For a couple that has a dynasty and legacy of wrecking people’s lives through the politics of personal destruction, America will be the judge on how sincere this latest outrage is.

Shuster shouldn’t have said what he said, but there was nothing sexist about his commments. Why is that anytime someone speaks out against Hillary her supporters call that person sexist?
We can’t afford to dumb things down to boys vs. girls when America’s future is at stake.

Here is the most cogent and articulate comment supporting the Clintons posted yet (below).
It kind of sums up for me the kind of dupes who fall for Wolfson’s engineered media stunts. WOW (gasp). Read it and weep, my friends!
“I found that Obama supporters is not humanity. Do you really know Obama? Do you know he is not mulism? Do you how he bought his house? Do you know how he attack Hillary again and again, and Hillary could not say anything about him?”
Posted by: John | Feb 8, 2008 5:45:00 PM

MSNBC journalists are Obama surrogates. Their bias for other candidates, especially the Clintons is too extreme that my friends and I no longer watch it. We should at least trust that our journalist will be fair, even if the hate other candidates. MSNBC should clean it whole house and should show respect for women. It is a pattern in this network.

Oh, my Lord! Has America become such a gutter that a well-known reporter could use such language on a young lady? I would never have associated thie FOUR LETTER word with Chelsea or any of the candidates’ offsprings. MATHEWS HAVE GONE OFF THE DEEP END AND HE SHOULD STAY IN THE DIRTY WATER AND NOT SURFACE AGAIN TO MAKE AMERICAN MEDIA DIRTIER THAT IT IS ALREADY. WHERE DID HE GO TO SCHOOL? GUTTER UNIVERSITY?

Here comes the ‘Ice Queen’. Does not matter if everyone votes against her, she will be president in order to continue the Bush/Clinton dynasty. She will ask Obama to be her VP since he is also a member of the Council on Foreign relations. Just watch!

RYAN FROM CANADA; Thank you! You are right. Don’t think that the 24 news media represents all Americans. There are those of us who read the news for ourselves along with more deeply informative books. Besides, those news groups are Republican owned, thus the obvious slant and vulgarity against certain people and groups. Unfortunately, not everyone is aware or cares to be aware of that fact.

CNN stands for Clinton Nation Network.
NYT once a great paper now stands for New York Tabloid.
How dare you talk about bias! What kind of question is that? ” Which do you like more, diamonds or pearls? ” in a presidential debate? What a joke!

These talking heads need to learn that they can’t just say any derogatory, defamatory, inappropriate thing they want and then just say “Sorry” and it all goes away. That moron Imus has set the tone now and it’s just going to get worse. They should never have put him back on the air. Reminds me of the person who rudely cuts you off in traffic and waves as though thanking you. Same mentality. Soulless. Simpson, Van Der Sloot, Peterson, Peterson…

I think its called freedom of speech. Let the man say what he wants…other people shouldnt take it so offensively. I dont really understand why people get so upset about these things. if you dont like it…you dont have to believe it, just go your own way.

Has anyone else thought it was strange that so many of these posts are about how MSNBC used a bad word against a Clinto, and now the poster is going to vote for Hillary? That’s insane! I guess I’ll vote for McCain cause his name starts with Mc and I like McDonald’s hamburgers. Makes about as much sense!!!!

Who does this guy think he is ?….Don Imus ?? (lol) I hope it’s as easy to keep Hillary from going to the White House.

Of course his comments were vile. The things being said against Hillary from the establishment, commerial (or should I say, vile) media have been flagrantly unfair too. The bias against Hillary is ignoble and unfounded and comes from many places. I am for Hillary and against Obama, and that’s not based on vile emotions …

I think what they meant is that Hillary was selling out her daughter for the sake of her campaign, not that there was actually any pimping going on. You people use the expression of being in bed with other people when you don’t actually mean that they are in bed with them. It is the same sort of expression that is commonly used. Grow up or stop using those kinds of expressions in the first place!

It’s really hard to take seriously many of the comments on this article. People who can’t take the time to form a complete sentence should rethink their authority on subjects they are more emotionally than rationally invested in.
As for Shuster’s comment, it is obvious to anyone under the age of 50 that the usage of the slang “pimping out” is common parlance and has come to mean “strongly promoting,” not “forcing the sale of sex for money” and is no longer a gender specific epithet, in fact it doesn’t necessarily imply a negative connotation. What is unfortunate is that Shuster unwittingly has given Hillary’s campaign another opportunity to manipulate the narrative to make it seem like she is once again victim of a misogynist conspiracy.
If you ask me, the sexism at play in this election lies in the pro-Hillary-cause-she’s-a-woman-and-so-am-I crowd. According to the polls, those who support Obama tend to be educated people and of diverse racial and gender backgrounds. They are tired of the manipulations and pandering of Clinton’s win-at-all-costs campaign tactics, and if there is anyone to blame for negative press about her, look to the members of her own campaign (including and perhaps especially Bill). While Hillary has been busy smearing, prevaricating, and adapting her message to whichever crowd she is addressing, Obama has remained a single personality, driving home the same message. Perhaps it is because he is not politics as usual, and because he began as a relatively unknown entity (as opposed to the ubiquitous and formerly “inevitable” Hillary) that he is simply a better news story, and in a news cycle dominated by negative narratives, his has been a mostly positive story at that.
If you haven’t yet had the revelation that political punditry is predominantly op/ed and that TV doesn’t/shouldn’t make up your mind for you, you are part of the problem, not the solution.

Lots of the news media is becoming more and more transparent in their sexist attitudes. Are men just so so afraid of have a woman in charge that they feel his kind of negative attack is okay? If this is you way of supporting Obama as a man because of your insecurities, as a Hillary supporter, believe me I will not vote for Obama. Or, is this your way to try to get Obama to be the nominee expecting Hillary supports will stay home or vote Republican? No Hillary sounds like a write-in campaign needed for Ron Paul.

MSNBC suprisingly biased…
Rather than that, better refer to her having striking resemblance to Alex Kingston of NBC’s so famous ‘ER.’ After Super Tuesdays Bon Fire of ‘not vanity,’how about staying a bit calmer than thowing snowball with personal taste?

just got a whiff of this story and it sounds like an overblown deal like imus and who ever it was. the guy goofed, spouted off -very dumb. but just a goofy dumb ugly and unprofessional mistake. he doesnt need to be crucified on the cross. he needed to apologize and he did. everyone needs to get over it. there are a lot more imortant things to worry about.
edwards to obama supporter here, but am truly trying to be objective.

If these commits were made towards Obama’s daughter, the NBC staffers would be fired and called racist. Where is the justice?

sure is funny! Aren’t these the same folks that promote that has-been sports news announcer? He’s worse than this guy. What up? Oh yea…
I guess its okay to be really repulsive if its republicans or conservatives your bad mouthing…..MSNBC,no wonde your dead last in ratings…

My guess in all this, and I hope I’m right, is that a mature 28-year-old woman has made a decision on her own to help campaign for her mother to become the next President of the United States, and she’s ignoring the crass remark and all this bickering from everyone. Being above the fray and not dignifying MSNBC’s lack of judgment with a response is how Chelsea should handle this saga.

Let’s rephrase the statement as it should be:
Hillary sold out her own daughter (for free) for the sake of her campaign to persuade celebrities and “super delegates”.
That doesn’t sound very good.
How about: Chelsea volunteered to help her mother’s campaign… targeting only celebrities and “super delegates”.
That still doesn’t sound very good.
Any way you put it, Hillary could care less about us and more about herself!

If Obama campaign can utilize Oprah, Caroline, then surprisingly Maria, why can’t Hilliary use her family members to campaign for he? Simply because they are the members of the Clinton family? If say early on Obama felt he was running against two Clintons, I’d say right now Clinton’s running agianst 10 Obamas (1 Oprah = 9 Obama’s already). It seems that no one looks at it that way. The media makes big deal out of things said by Clintons, but when it comes to Obama everything seems to be ok. Overall the media and press have been biased, especially MSNBC. Those crappy people. There’s only one person seems to care about Clinton, but too bad I don’t remember his name. I will next time.

Lets face facts here people. Chris Matthews for serveral months now has bash Senator Clinto on most of her issues for months now, he’s just plain rude and ignorant. Now he can’t get the public to sway from Clinton to Obama. So what does he and that Shuster sit in there chairs and say now, let’s just put it out there that Chelsea Clinton is out pimping for her mom. These two should be fired if someone was to say this about other people children of color they wouldn’t be on the air today. Imus was fired. The reporter on another network was suspended for saying the word “lynched” on air. Matthews and Shuster are uneducated and need to be put out like everyone had to do.

Excude me if I manage to repeat a point some else has already made. There are so many opinions and this is exactly where they belong, even if some are less than civil in nature.
I recall when journalists reported the news and only the news. I supopse it could be said that even the Walter Cronkites, Howard K. Smiths and David Brinkleys of the world may have been somewhat biased in their reporting, but today’s reporters seem to have thrown out all attempt at being unbiased and even handed. Even their vocabulary seems to play to the lowest common denominator rather than making use of the thesaurus and lifting the rest of us to a higher level of thought, they dumb things down. Too often journalism is replaced with speculation, inference or opinion rather than the facts.
Even where the program is all about opinion, the opinion is expressed with base expressions that are inflammatory or denegrate one part of the population causing us all to become polarized and angry. Certainly this style of journalism increases the corporate bottom line, but it serves no public good.

respond to Lori, answer the second part of my question….and please tell me what has O-bama change while in the senate?
And for all you O-bama fans, why couldn’t O-bama PERSUADE enough people for voting AGAINST the war…the reason is he is not persuasive to make the republican and or democrats to change any decision. But he wants to unite the country…please, give me a break..
Count on someone that can do the job
VOTE HILLARY

They are frustated about Clinton’s prospect. After so much of expectation Barack Hussein Obama couldnot do well in Feb 5 and these blind supporters ( they r not journalists)feel they are loosing and are frustated. See the differences of delegates CNN and other networks are projecting and MSNBC.This is equivalent to FOX.

It has been obvious from the onset of the presidential campaigning, that the news media as a whole, including MSNBC, has been biased against Senator Clinton and, in particular, has, with “goo goo” eyes, favored Senator Obama and Senator McCain. If the media had spent a fraction of the time it allots to “bad mouthing” the Clintons on more important matters such as objectively critiquing the Bush Administration, rather than “polishing apples,” this nation would not be facing the problems that it is.

Get a life, Clinton campaign! I’m a great fan of Senator Clinton, but this “pimp out” flap is simply the result of a generation gap.
The verb “to pimp, to pimp out” is very, very common (urban) slang among the under-30′s. Schuster, who’s a very tough reporter and needed by viewers, was using slang. Let’s not be fundamentalists and take everything literally.
Additionally, even to this Clinton fan (I’m an Obama fan too), there was something a bit uneasy about Chelsea’s lobbying Superdelegates, if she did.
On the other hand, she is a grown-up and it’s a free country. She might feel she has the right to try as hard as she can for her mother’s historic run.

No one wants to say too much about Obama because it might be viewed as a racial thing …and he seems like a nice sort of person but the truth is that neither of the dems have the integrity or intention of protecting the lives of our American infants.

Yes, Let’s Boycott the NBC Democratic debates. Their reporters have been far too opinionated, especially against the Clintons. This is comments made by their reporter David Shuster is going far overboard. I was also offended by Matt Lauer, bringing in a cut and paste photo of the Clinton’s with Rezko and asking her on the air about it. NBC really needs to get some un-biased reporters who concentrate on humanist skills and quality journalism to report an issue. Therefore, until NBC can get their act together, I will not support their unprofessional reports. President 2008 = Hillary, All the Way. Go Hillary!

I *hope* Obama’s Grassroots Movement can overcome the Political Machine———–Go Grassroots!

I thought that Hillary was supposed to be thick skinned and tough. Wait until the GOP starts in on her. She’ll be nostalgic for little problems like this.

The is pure Clinton spin to use any distraction to take peoples attention off the fact that Obama is out raising her, getting more endorsements and beating her in states won and delegates. That Super Tuesday was supposed to be her coronation and ended up in a loss for her is exactly what she doesn’t want the focus on so she will pimp her daughter to distract. If Hilary wanted to do right by her daughter she would have divorced that cheating sociopath of a husband to show her how not to be an abused Tammy Wynette standing by her man, but riding her husbands coattails into the White House was more important. Please America let’s put these selfish, self-centered, ME generation, white collar criminals out to pasture once and foe all!

Why are the Clintons so sensitive about using their daughter in this campaign?? Could it be there is just ateenie tiny grain of truth in this? I mean, since when have the Clintons had any morals anyway?

If I were Bill, Chris will not have any teeth now, as I will drive my fist into his dirty mouth. Or, better, I will pour a bottle of dish detergent down his throat. Hum, perhaps nothing can clean up this dirtbag.

I dont support that comment by NBC.
Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea !!! How many times did i call you?
How long will you want to stay in the white house? why not give others their own chance plsssss!!!

Americans a such hypocrites we pride ourselves in FREEDOM OF SPEECH but we get upset when people exercise their right!?!?!?

Come on people!! What David Schuster and Chris Matthews did was disgusting!
This is Senator Clinton daughter that we are talking about. We have become so disrespectful and hateful that degrogatory remarks about someone child is okay. I think not. The American people need to boycott MSNBC and all other network for their sexsism remarks.
MSNBC Political Analyst is so sexist. They are not fair to Senator Clinton. They do not talk about anything positive for Senator Clinton. They only make negative reports about Senator Clinton. They do not even make positive comments about her campaign events. They do not put her on the front page unless they have something negative to say. Why are they discriminating against this woman? She has the right to run for the highest position in our country. The American people need to start boycotting MSNBC and any other network that is not being fair.
MSNBC find the need to have an entire article on a campaign event for Senator Obama. Okay, so let’s play fair do a positive article on Senator Clinton Town Hall that over 250k people were able to participate. MSNBC needs to stop endorsing Senator Obama. They do not have the right on how to tell the American people to cast their vote.
You know what they say, what comes around, goes around. By the way Senator Clinton is very classy.

WTF! Americans a such hypocrites we pride ourselves in FREEDOM OF SPEECH but we get upset when people exercise their right!?!?!?

Obama says that presidential power should not be constrained by Congress as I heard it last night during a hearing about CIA on C-Span. He does not have the faintest idea about American Constitution. So, according to Obama’s view about presidential power, Bush could go to invade Iraq with or without Congressal approval. So what is he jabbering about the congressal vote anyway? According to his belief, Bush should not have been constrained by Congress and could do whatever he wanted as president. What a hypocrite!

who is classy? do you usually read the analysis of the elections?
to be sincere, we are all sick not to see beyond our eyes!
we have seen a clear leader in words in deeds and in thoughts.
we have seen the recent poll showing that only him can beat mccain and we r still wasting our time.
I guess republicans will be back again if we are not careful.
lets remember that iran will be next! and we will enter into another recession.
pls lets see beyond the horizon for the sake of our younger generations!

If someone called your daughter a pimp, might you not be just a little upset too? And every adult child of every Preidential candidate does the same thing. Goodness, people, I’m not voting for Hillary either, but I don’t think she is evil for getting up in the morning.

I TOTALLY agree with the statement below:
“Why is everything always seen as a Clinton trick? The sexism on MSNBC and the favorite son bias towards Obama have been glaring. I used to be a big MSNBC watcher and I am (choking while I say this) finding that FOX news shows more balance. I will vote for Hillary and have turned the channel because they do nothing but beat up on her. Where is journalism? Take this issue for the issue, Shuster messed up.”
I’m sick to death of MSNBC and Chris Matthews.

This sounds like a mysoginous remark. Would he have said the same thing if Chelsea was a boy and not a girl? Racism seems to be less of a problem than gender. That’s why Hillary is always attacked by the media. Talents can be black but not female ?

bob- what is up? the race is close, who cares who says they are the underdog. maybe he feels like the underdog. what is the problem. what causes you to try to start something over nothing. i don’t get all this stuff. why are people so freaked out about the pimped out thing, it is slang, that is all it was used as. and the ones who are trying to make it more than that are instigating sympathy attention or instigating media hype for the ratings. ugh

she is in an uproar when it is her daughter. she did not complain when one of her supports bob johnson of black entertainment television uses music videos to depict and make tons of money of the pimp lifestyle. i have not seen NOW on the frontline to get the pimp lifestyle and negative images off of BET. don’t rappers have freedom of speech that is what they claim but i guess a reporter cannot try to hip. you go girl and protect the name of your daughter. too bad u could not do that for women in general. hillary is such a hypocrite!!!

The OBAMA network, the Huffington Post and Daily Kos are going to kill Obama’s chances. Does anyone remember the Daily Kos running the Ned Lamont against campaign in Conn.? Now, there was a real success. Keep it up men, it just pushes more voters toward Hillary. We can’t wait for Obama to show up in Texas. We ask questions and want solid answers. There is no there there.

msnbc David Shuster should not be suspended “he should be fired without a serverance pay.” Once, again, is a newscaster “expressing his own politicial views in his commentary.” Using the word “pimping” indicates to your viewers his political views. It is inappropriate and unprofessional. I will not ever watch a show or commentary from him again. He has very poor judgment and I doubt his analysis since he has expressed “his views with using such stupid statements.” Firing his will uphold MSNBC’s reputation.

I think it is hypocritical of the Clinton’s to put Chelsea out there if she can’t take the heat….also, what about all that Bill has falsely said/implied about Hillary’s opponents? Is that fair?????????? I might have voted for Hillary in the big election, but this is making me rethink my position ….

WHY IS IT THAT HILLARY IS BOMBARDED BY
NEGATIVE PRESS? DO WE LIVE IN A NATION
WHERE MEN ARE STILL THREATENED BY STRONG AND BRILLANT WOMEN?

ron – when you say hillary has experience, to what are you referring?

I’m an Obama supporter. I’ve supported him more than I have ever supported any candidate in any election. I can’t stand Hillary, I’m not voting for her in the general if its her against Johnny Mac, but I don’t think anybody needs to be calling out her daughter. As far as I can tell Chelsea is an intelligent young women who supports her parents and their ideals. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, or with the Clinton campaign having her speak on her Mom’s behalf.

Was this the same reason why this anti-war-saint voted Three times and hundreds of Billions to continue the bloody war which he is so famously opposed? “Presidential power should not be constrained by Congress” according to Senator Obama. When I heard this on C-span during the hearing on CIA, a chill ran down my spine. I have never heard anyone claim this kind of presidential power before, not even Bush and Nixon. According to Obama, American president is a King whose power cannot be constrained. No wonder this guy is pulling out all the punches like Chris, who will not do anything to become a king?

Sounds like a pretty typical GOP remark about the Clintons.

Jacqueline- i guess u have read and researched your candidate regarding health care, policies for american families etc. please answer these questions for me. if hillary is going to transform our current health care system, why are some of her biggest lobbyists related to the medical industry? how will she be able to transform the system that backs her financially? also, have u read miriam wright edelman’s from the children’s defense fund comments about the clinton policies and american families. hillary is always talking blah blah, blah about her work with the children’s defense fund. it seems that edelman does not have the same fond statements about hill and bill’s policies. also, several economists mentioned that freezing the morgateges would be disastrous. does this futher show her great decision making abilitities? can you explain to me how u know that clinton did not start the race baiting? isn’t 916 a cali area code and he started the race baiting in sc?

I applaud Ms Jacqueline’s detailed comment. MSNBC should be shunned totally by the viewers. It is already has the lowest ranking. May be Obama’s money is the one which is giving more attraction to these media bias.
I don’t know how an ultra liberal like Obama can bring the Republican’s to his side. Republican’s cannot be fooled by empty rhetorics. Let Obama tell with which policy he can unite everyone.
All the netwroks told Obama will win California and whoever wins CA will be the nominee before election. Now no one seem to bother to notice that.
I am from the largest democracy (India. We never saw this kind of media bias or media insult to a anyone.

hey jac, i am still waiting for answers to my questions about hillary’s platform. since u are so sure about hill and bill, please explain their platform with actual facts from a reliable source other than hillary.com.

Now, just think if that was said against Obama’s relative. WOW!!!!!!!!!
Fortuately for Shuster, it was said on the Obama television network against his rival.

There is much in this campaign that is vile.
We’ve covered racism, sexism, anti-Mormon religious discrimination…
Do you REALLY believe Mr. Shuster just casually used this term?
I mean do you think he hangs out on the weekends telling his friends, “yo, pimp my ride”?
This kind of BS needs to be stopped.
That was a deliberate remark because honestly EVERY campaign does the same thing if the kids are old enough. Only Rudy’s kids refused.

Hmmm.
Another invented controversy so nobody has to waste their time discussing the actual issues that matter. Too bad this always has to happen the day before an election.
Who’s really getting pimped here, anyway?

I work & live in Hollywood. If Chelsea is being pimped out than Barack Obama is the biggest pimp of all. He literally spent the past year in California ONLY focusing on the celebrities. The campaign would throw numerous events with Jessica Biel, Ben Affleck, JJ Abrams, Tyson Beckford, Will Smith, Scarlett Johannson and Universal head Ron Meyer. And I, who am somewhat a celebrity, after the 2nd time going to one of these events and just seeing how he only cared about talking to the celebrities and was enjoying their flattery, I literally was very disgusted. He even called a few friends of mine personally, who are either successful studio execs, lawyers or actors to try to get them to attend his events. Mind you, none of his events were directed to the “common” people, unless they could fork out at least $500. So to call “Chelsea a pimp” is a huge overstatement. Chelsea grew up in the White House and she traveled the world with her mother, meeting world leaders, including Nelson Mandela. . . she knows her mother would make a GREAT PRESIDENT and why shouldn’t she go on the phones and call people? It’s only natural to do that for your mother.

have u noticed that six of the stories on the politics site are proclinton stories? this is the most of the unbiased media networks.

Well, at least Obama can keep pace with his running mate Opra. She has the new OWN Opra Winfry network and Obama now has Shuster and MSNBC. Quite a pair we have there, ey! Won’t even need the Rainbow people with all there tax free money.

It is shame on MSNBC, Chris and Keith are passing dirty comments on Clintons. The network does not have professional standards and ethical values. In the name of anti-Fox news tirade, MSNBC is acting like election machinery of Obama. The TV channel should fire Chris and Keith to keep its name in the media.
It is worst than Fox News channel in spreading hatred, rumors and lies. It is time to tell its business partners to stop the trash in the media or lose the business

I pray that the Clintons stand their ground and boycott MSNBC! It’s about time people stop making so much money and fame (i.e. Obama Campaign and MSNBC) based on bashing the Clintons.

David “Obama Boy” Shuster is a joke. He and Chris Matthews are intimidated by strong women. Chrissy practically melted in his chair when Hillary confronted him at the debate.

The Clinton campaign is furious they were found out.
…but the “pimping” remark was a little bit much even if it was referring to Hillary.
…she might sell us (the U.S.) down the drain but that is a different story like selling or giving away secrets to China or something.

Another example of Obama bias. Did you see how they covered the Democratic Florida election. While ever other network had both a running ticker for Dems and Rep, MSNBC didn’t keep the Democratic one up for their audience because they knew that Florida was going to Clinton. All the networks knew it wasn’t going to count, all but MSNBC kept us informed. And why do all other news networks report different delegate totals than MSNBC (in favor of Obama), I might add. Actually, I like Obama, so it is not an attack on him. This is on MSNBC.

I think all politicians regularly pimp out their family members and we should be allowed to say so. I’m a little surprised by the outrage from the Clintons on this one.

The misogenic males in MSNBC are unable to keep even the appearance of fairnes. Romney “pimps up” his sons, Kusinich his wife, Obama his two daughters, McCain his wife and mother. But the only one that is accused of doing so is Hillary. Why, what is the difference? Of course, she is the woman!. The others are males, they can use their daughters, wifes, mothers. That’s OK.
As for Chris Mathews, that was REVOLTING. How much of what Bill Clinton achieved he did thanks to having an intelligent, supportive wife beside him? Would he have been who he is without her?. That doubt doesn’t cross Mathews brain!. Well, he probably would not have got anywhere by himself. He is just a good talker (as Obama). She is the one with the brain.

Fire them, raise a stink, be fair press and make a stink. Bill just compard a good campaign of Jessie Jackson’s to Obama’s and when I heard it I was surprised that anyone made it a racial thing. A talk show host was fire, a sports editor was fired so fire
Chris and that other guy. The use of trash language is improper anyway. Clean it up guys.

have u noticed that all about the clintons network have six proclinton stories right b/f the election-thanks George.
also least obama was honest about his former experimentation with drugs as a youth. however, w/ gw did not want to address it b/c he’s a changed man. billary did not inhaled or thought he inhaled or needed someone to provided him a definition about what is inhaling.
the hillary supportors have not realized that the election is over. the clintons are so divisive that they cannot unite the different groups- wave bye bye — youth vote, independents, and the moderate black voters. u combined that with the repub base – it will be an easy win for the repubs. good night folks!!

One reporter for MSNBC making unnecessarily derogatory statements about Chelsea Clinton and other innuendos is one thing. Apologizing for the insults and innuendos is a good thing both for the anchor and MSNBC. However, MSNBC allowing insults and innuendos to continue is another. Such is the case with the person who came out in the “Spin Cycle” on MSNBC afterwards and wrote more derogatory and insulting things about Mrs. Clinton. There was no newsworthy reason for this and both I, myself, and my friends are absolutely appalled. Is MSNBC going to continue this kind of communication to the public? Are they slanting more toward sensationalism and tabloid journalism rather than professional journalism? I really wouldn’t blame Hillary Clinton for staying away from the debate. I certainly would if I or my daughter were treated this way. Hopefully Hillary will go with a station that is more professional and fair to both herself and other candidates. The American people should be making their minds up on objective facts and analysis rather than on what the media’s endorsement or writings of their personal dislikes or likes of candidates are. Professional journalism gives people facts and objective analyses to help them become better informed to make up their own minds. Professional journalism does not try to shape our opinions for us which is what MSNBC appears to be doing. Hopefully they will not keep doing this for their own sakes. People have other sources to turn to for more objective information within a professional context.

Totally distasteful. Even the spokesperson for the Obama campaign said that such a comment is deplorable and has no place in the politcal process. I hope that the Clinton campaign boycotts the NBC network, it’s not the 1st time in the past 30 days that their commentators have made distasteful charges against the Clinton women.
The Clinton’s have done a fantastic job raising Chelsea, remember the Bush twins were flipping off camera men and others around and smoking weed and who knows what else. This is something that we would never see Chelsea do, too much of a lady for such trashy acts. I think that it’s wonderful that she’s working in the campaign for her mother, it speaks a great deal of her character and the respect that she has for her mother and realizes that her mother has the best platform for this country.

Actually, after a $65 million investigation, by Kenneth Starr, that was notorious for being THOROUGH, Hillary Clinton is either “clean as a whistle”, or after not prosecuting Mrs Clinton, the Republican Party is too stupid to be re-elected as Dog-catchers (no offense to dog-catchers). Seriously, Starr threatened everyone around the Clintons for years, then, didn’t prove anything except Bill had an “affair”.

I discover how sexism is still very strong.It can be understood.For instance, my boyfriend has problems with his dean who is a woman. Even as a supporter of Hillary Clinton, at the moment of big crisis with his boss, he projects in Hillary his frustrations and says she reminds him of his woman boss. Of course afterwards he distances himself from his earlier emotion.
I don’t always blame men for that but I think Hillary is courageous because she has to prove she is strong, otherwise she cannot be viewed as presidential. By doing so she has to fight that invisible enemy that is her own gender.If the sexist media is out there to criticize her, they would say she is too manly and then too weepy if she shows tears.
But she sure has qualities, endurance and determination. She announced she gave a loan of 5millions of her money for the campaign, that is to say she is a self-made woman.
Obama gets his money from his friends supporters but some of them like Rezko seem to pose a problem, yet the matter is not clarified. In the mean time Obama suggests she is richer than he, implying she is not transparent. But Obama seems to forget he is about 15 years younger than she and she wrote a book that was worldwide published , she has 15 years of work ahead of him and her husband Bill Clinton also has made money lecturing, involved also in a publication etc… Is Obama going to launch another Starr case to get even with her statement? Don’t tell around that Obama is a nice guy. Wait until he has power, and you find out who he is. At least the Clintons were seen at work. And just don’t forget America had a good record of economy and foreign policy under Bill Clinton government.

Thanks God! I avoid watching two propeganda oriented news chanels. It is hard to get real news.

There they go again playing the gender card again to try and silence people . . . as a woman I find this kind of ‘playing the victim’ manipulativeness absolutely repulsive.
David Shuster’s a bit of a slickster and the comment could have been phrased better, but the point he was making is valid. Chelsea’s a 27-year-old woman who is out campaigning because she’s seeking political gain for her mother. That makes Shuster’s comment valid political speech since Chelsea has chosen to inject herself into the public spotlight for personal gain.
I think the idea behind the ‘pimping’ vernacular was intended to allude to the fact that Chelsea seems uncomfortable in the spotlight and must therefore be acting against her personal preferences. Note that she has only recently started to speak at rallies and doesn’t speak to the press. Granted the language was in poor taste but isn’t it relevant to question whether Hillary is ignoring the comfort level of her own child for personal gain and whether Hillary is seeking to censor free speech?
I think so . . .

The people who are continuing to down the Clintons, and accept news anchors degrading them and their childern are disgusting, heartless, and simple idiots. If this where your child that was degraded on national TV for what ever reason or situation political or non-political, I’m very sure you would be the first ones trying to sue MSNBC or any other news station for the news anchors making very insensitive comments made towards you or your child, what sorry gutless, jerks. Nobody, not even my worst enemy needs deserves to be humiliated like that on National TV try and make news ratings. Have this world gotten that cold and insenstive?
And for the Sexist Cable news shows like MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN, all the taking off the air, they are not reporting objective and non-biased news, they are acting people personally and getting away with it this is disgusting, and gutless as well. I will not be watching these stations no time soon until they start cleaning up their act and start reporting non-biased and objective news again, this has really gotten out of hand and way over the top, this needs to stop from this day forward, people in droves are going to start boycotting you, the public refuse to continue to accept crap like this and call it news, these reporters and anchors sholud show some class and leave their personal opinions, views and commentaries at the door.
Chris Matthews should have been fired for the comments he made about the Clintons some weeks ago, this is not free speech when you are given the trust of delivering the news in non-biased and objective way. Since this election Campaign have started, these cable news station have gotten bold in letting their seist and gender biases made know towards the Hillary Campaign, they all but made The Obama campaign a place of holy worship, this not fair, no matter how they feel about the Clinton’s personally, they should leave their biases and personal opinions in check at the door, this pattern continues to happen,because the management of these cable news stations fails to put these people in check, so inmy opinion they are also guilty by association.
I hope the Clinton Campaign boycott’s MSNBC,because this ahs become a ritual and pattern. The men on MSNBC and some other Cable news satations would rather for a black man become President, then a Women, because their behavior is prove’s that they have peoples with gender, exitbit that old glass ceiling mentility was very ignorant in my opinion. I believe if a well popular white man was running for President on the Democratic ticket, these news anchors would not give Obama’s campaign the time of day, because most people who have gender problems most likely have problems with race as well, but Obama so happen to be Black and a male, so they settle for him for the time being, and hope doing the general that a White male Republican beat Obama out, then a Republican Prseident would remain office, the news media is not fooling me ,Oh they are building up Obama right now, he could do no wrong, but just wait until the general election, if Obama is the nominee, thses new anchors will more than likely try and tear him down, to help get the Republican nominee in office.
and popularity nowObama, enjoy your ride now, because if you become the nominee, you will be shift-boated by these biased same news anchors who are currently building you up to win the Democratic nomination as well, you will not escape their venom, but the goal and Objective first is to try and get Hillary out of the way, because she has more experience and know-how than her Democratic opponent, which gives her a better chance of beating the Republican nominee, so in order to try and accomplish this,they try and bend the strong men; a woman in this case, meaning Hillary, and then will be easier to pick off the weaker men, meaning Obama, because he’s only a Jr Senator. How clever and shewd that would be.
Go Hillary Go!! You are our new “Clean up Woman” who has the most experience, know-how, and ability to clean-up Bush’s mess he’s going to leave behind in 2009, including making Obama’s message he so often preaches about on his campaign stump truly a reality, not just brillant talk and pump-up inspiration and emotionalism.

TALK ABOUT A DISGRACE……..HILLARY IS!!
Obama has more experience in a legislature than Hillary. And Hillary had no experience as “wife” of the President. Even the NY Times admitted her resume was thin on experience. She grossly exaggerated her experience and credentials.
Hillary’s health care plan will provide medical care for everyone – even the illegal aliens – and if we disagree with it, she promises to garnishee your wages. This is exactly her ill-thought out reasoning that caused the last health insurance debacle.
Yes, Hillary is right. She is not all talk. She did the Rose Law Firm, White Water, Travel Gate, Vincent Foster, …etc. Oh, yes she can – she wasted millions of dollars of tax payers’ money when she tried to pass health care reform when Bill was President. Oh, did I forget to mention that the Congress were occupied by the Dems then? Why failed? – she was too divisive that she couldn’t have Dems to vote for it. Yes, she is not all talks – even as the Clintons were leaving the White House she took funiture from it so that she had to reimburse the cost to a national disgrace

So… if the Clinton’s are pimping out Chelsey for making these phone calls.. is Barack Hussein pimping out Michelle for opening his shows?
Just think for one second if this comment would’ve been said in regards to Michelle Obama.
No, we are no overreacting. We’re just sick of this flagrant and distateful hatred agains the Clintons.

All I seen from Oprah show she polorized for many years and no this is the first year I ever seen her have hispanic’s so if anyone polarized it was ABC Oprah for many many years.

Darrel, slander has to be a false fact and it can’t be political speech which is protected by the First Amendment. Hence, the Clinton’s don’t have any grounds for a suit against MSNBC.
And I’m only a couple of years older than Chelsea, and can’t imagine a poor choice of words by a 3rd ranked news channel phasing me whatsoever. And even if it did, I wouldn’t hesitate to call him up and set him straight.
I would think if strong women were not seeking to gain a political edge, they too would be denouncing the infantalization of Chelsea as some victimized child rather than the grown woman with political sway to attract superdelegates and influence voters. It’s repulsive to see women play the ‘victim’ card for the sake of political gain imo

Has Everyone forgotten the pictures of this Sweet little Angelica little brat flipping the public off during her Daddy’d presidency when she was getting in and out of her limo ?????
Give Me a Break. It may or may not have been “pimping” but they made some kind of deal with this little brat to make her “Mama’s Girl” all of the sudden and having “her” make the calls……..yeah right!
What do you call it ????
Goes to show you, nothing is sacred to the Clintons and they will try anything and everything!!

copy of email i sent to msnbc today i think we should all boycott them, write to them, etc. The media bias is bad enough, but attacking children is beyond the pale. And if the same phrase had been used regarding Michelle Obama, Shuster would’ve been fired in a second and the media would’ve spent a week talking about how bad it was – what i wrote to msnbc – It is atrocious enough that your crew of misogynistic “reporters” continue their biased, hateful commentary, clearly attempting to steer the democratic nomination to Barack Obama.. Then when they are called on a particularly egregious statement, that the Clintons are “pimping out” Chelsea, you “temporarily” suspend one of them and have him issue an apology. Then you post an article with a headline highlighting that Clinton is angered by the atrocious comment rather than saying up front that the comment was atrocious. Similarly, you took no disciplinary action when Matthews expressed his hateful opinion that Senator Clinton’s career is a result of President Clinton’s infidelity. I shall certainly boycott your network and hope that many others do the same. If you have any respect for journalism, you will fire virtually every commentator you employ and start again, with an apology to the viewers. .

so saddened et al – if you don’t like MSNBC, don’t watch. There are plenty of other news networks that champion the Clintons every chance they get . . .

If God abandons the United States, and America is unlucky enough to nominate Clinton, please do not bring cigars to the campaign celebration. Illustrious Billary politics contributed to a forfeit of one business, and I cannot afford the closure of another Company established since 1902. Well what the “watergate” do I know anyway. You need further delegates Hillary “Cry Us a River”. I am confident tears and unfaithful Billary will disarm the world. Slick Willy has lost his place of alleged “Black Belt of Verbal Combat.

MSNBC can go to Africa since they don’t like mexican or illigels they can take the media to Africa and make movies for use to see over there.

I don’t know what to think about this. I have never heard of such an expression and so would never have used it myself. So I am just feeling lucky that I do not know so much English to get myself into troubles like this.

Gloria, Mess-nbc can’t stop the Mexicans from putting the H. Clinton as President of the U.S.A, viva la raza!

It’s Like The Media Has Nothing and I Mean Nothing Positive To Say About Americans There Always Putting Someone Down In The News Everyday and frankly im tired of it!!!

There are things that happened in that Whitehouse that were so despicable that no one should have forgotten. The media you think is biased is just informed. They have it all in front of them. It was all there all documented. How Hillary expected an office in the West Wing of the White House and had a tantrum when she did not get Al Gore’s office. How Hillary behaved toward the Troopers. That was called Troopergate. Then the firings of the travel office, Hillary did that alone. She put in her friends from Arkansas. That was called Travelgate. The media and we have access through the internet to it all. It happened. People don’t want to think that the stories are no more than Hillary’s words “a vast right wing conspiracy”. Tell Vince Foster. Tell Juanita Broderick. During the debate Wolf Blitzer tried to remind everyone the debacle of Hillary’s Health Care. (Behind closed doors.) If Hillary gets the nomination, then the Democrats lose the White House. There are too many who remember and she is too polarizing to win Republican votes. Obama on the other hand takes all.
There are only a few oportunities like this in a lifetime. I have a feeling that this man is more than a candidate. He is more than a movement. He is something of history. Vote your gut.

Jeanie,he is a cult, There nothing wrong with a strong woman, We need a strong leader that will get everyone working for the country. Obama just talks prety, his got more skeleton then a graveyard.

jeanie – yes sure dream on !!!
Messiah/Senator “YES WE CAN” will quickly become President “NO HE CAN’T” and 50% of the democrats will have bumper stickers “DON’T BLAME ME, I VOTED FOR HILLARY!”
Its not American Idol we are voting for, it’s the American President!

The people who are continuing to down the Clintons, and accept news anchor’s degrading them and their childern are disgusting, heartless, and simple idiots. If this where your child that was being degraded on national TV for what ever reason or situation, political or non-political, I’m very sure you would be the first ones trying to sue MSNBC or any other news station for the news anchors making very insensitive comments made towards you or your child, what sorry gutless, jerks. Nobody, not even my worst enemy needs deserves to be humiliated like that on National TV in the name of news ratings. Have this world gotten that cold and insenstive?
And for the Sexist Cable news shows like MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN, they should all be taken off the air, they are not reporting objective and non-biased news, they are attacking people personally and getting away with it, this is disgusting, and gutless as well. I will not be watching these stations no time soon until they start cleaning up their act and begain reporting non-biased and objective news again, this has really gotten out of hand and become way over the top, this needs to stop from this day forward,if not people in droves are going to tired of it and start boycotting these stations, the public will refuse to continue to accept crap like this and call it news, these reporters and anchors should show some class and leave their personal opinions, views and commentaries in check at the door.
Chris Matthews should have been fired for similar comments made about the Clintons some weeks ago, this is not free speech when you are given the trust of delivering the news in a non-biased and objective way. Since this election Campaign have started, these cable news stations have gotten bold in letting their sexist and gender biases known towards the Hillary Campaign, they all but made The Obama campaign a place of holy worship, and can’t be touched or critized in any way or you will be swift-boated for doing it by these news anchors, this is not fair and balanced, Obama can say anything about Hillary and recieve no negative comments towards him or his campiagn staff, I believe no matter how they feel about the Clinton’s personally, they should leave their biases and personal opinions in check at the door, this pattern continues to exist,because the management of these cable news stations fails to put their anchors in check, so in my opinion, they are also just as guilty by association.
I also hope the Clinton Campaign boycott’s MSNBC,because this has become a ritual and pattern. The men on MSNBC and some other Cable news station’s would rather for a African American man become Presidential Nominee then a Women, this made bluntly evident because their behavior and actions prove’s out that they have issues with gender, by exitbiting that old glass ceiling mentility, which very old fashion and ignorant in my opinion. I believe if a well popular white male was running for President on the Democratic ticket instead of Obama, these news anchors would not givehis campaign the time of day, because most people who have gender problems most likely have problems with race as well, but Obama so happen to be a Black educated and a male who can speak very well, so they settle for him for the time being, and hope doing the general that the White male Republican beat Obama out, then a Republican Prseident would remain in office, the news media is not fooling me, Oh they are building up Obama right now, he could do no wrong, but just wait until the general election, if Obama is the nominee, these cable news anchors will more than likely try and tear him down, to help get the Republican nominee in office.
Obama, enjoy your free ride, pass, and popualrity now, because if you become the nominee, you will be shift-boated by these same biased news anchors whose doing a excellent job building you up to win the Democratic nomination, because in the long-term you will not escape their venomthey often spurted on Hillary, but the real goal and objective of the biased media and Republicna partygoal and is to try and get Hillary out of the race, because they know she has more experience and know-how than her Democratic opponent, which gives her a better chance of beating the Republican nominee, so in order to try and accomplish this,they will seek to try bind and gag the strong man; a woman in this case, meaning Hillary, and then it will be easier to pick off the weaker man, meaning Obama, because he’s only a Jr Senator. How clever and shewd that would be.
Go Hillary Go!! You are our new “Clean up Woman” who has the most experience, know-how, and ability to clean-up Bush’s mess he will leave behind in 2009, including making Obama’s message of hope and change he so often preaches about on his campaign stump truly a reality, not just brillant talk and pump-up inspiration and emotionalism just to get the young and old to take a leap of faith to vote him, because Obama is the candidate who has the lessor of experience to deliver on his campaign promises, also recently, Obama is now unwilling and scared to debate Hillary anytime, anyplace, as requested by her campiagn staff, if he was such a brillant and confident Orator, he should not have had a problem stepping up to the plate, and meet her challenge head-on, therefore the voters who vote for Obama will really be taking a greater risk voting for him over Hillary, becuase she is willing and able to meet and overcome any challenge put before her in this electin campaign.
“Keep on Pushin” “Clean-Up Woman Hillary,” because “We’re Rolling On And A Winner”

Jackas, if you need a reason to want to be Americans again. And Obama Hussein is giving you that sentiment, you should see a Doctor.

I am sure Hillary, would pimp out her dead grandmother, if that were to her benefit.
I do not envy Chelsea, poor girl.
Nick

copy of email i sent to msnbc today i think we should all boycott them, write to them, etc. The media bias is bad enough, but attacking children is beyond the pale. And if the same phrase had been used regarding Michelle Obama, Shuster would’ve been fired in a second and the media would’ve spent a week talking about how bad it was – what i wrote to msnbc – It is atrocious enough that your crew of misogynistic “reporters” continue their biased, hateful commentary, clearly attempting to steer the democratic nomination to Barack Obama.. Then when they are called on a particularly egregious statement, that the Clintons are “pimping out” Chelsea, you “temporarily” suspend one of them and have him issue an apology. Then you post an article with a headline highlighting that Clinton is angered by the atrocious comment rather than saying up front that the comment was atrocious. Similarly, you took no disciplinary action when Matthews expressed his hateful opinion that Senator Clinton’s career is a result of President Clinton’s infidelity. I shall certainly boycott your network and hope that many others do the same. If you have any respect for journalism, you will fire virtually every commentator you employ and start again, with an apology to the viewers.

We have been watching the “shuster” clip from overseas and we are completely shock at the lack of common human decency that this MSNBC network has for their presidential candidates. We have begun to boycott not only this network but also have contacted the paid advertisers about this network’s inciteful of hate and the destructive message they have sent thru the media waves with their sexist commentators. These commentators, Matthews and his minion, Shuster must be fired to right the wrongs they have committed.

Don Imus was fired for called young women “nappy headed ‘ho’s.” This is the same thing. We are talking about human respect and we are talking about the family of an ex-president.
Louis Farrakan, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be yelling and screaming if someone made the comment “pimping out” about anyone in Obama’s family just as they did when Don Imus wrongfully spoke of the young women that way.
I guess some Americans no respect for themselves or anyone else…..

Susan, the difference with the Imus situation was that the Rutgers women’s basketball team didn’t seek out the spotlight – they just happened to make it to the national championships which got national news coverage.
In contrast, Chelsea could potentially alter the outcome of the next Presidential election. Political speech – and like I said, I’m sure she could care less what David Shuster thinks of her and her mom.

I think a secondary motive for the Clintons to speak out is because they know her ‘base’ tends to feel angry, powerless, and victimized, and so portraying Chelsea in this light fires up the ‘base’. They don’t care whose career they destroy in the process – all part of the game . . .

MSNBC is terrible, seriously I used to like them until about 5 years ago. Nowadays, when I try to stomach them and tune in, all they do is complain about what FOX or CNN does. Between Olberman, Matthews, and Abrams, they act like they’re possessed on the air. Maybe (MS)NBC News should pay better attention to their own operation instead of critiquing everyone else!

What concerns me, is not the comment, but the consorship by MSNBC ( media ) of
the reporter making the comment. When you step in the public spotlight, one is subject to comment. Apparently those controlling MSNBC ( Bill Gates ) have little respect for the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment.
Second, the fact that the Clinton’s and campaign are upset, illustrates that Hillary and camp are not thick skinned enough, to lead the U.S. in the rough and tumble world of international politics. Hillary is a whiner and if she gets in a President, the U.S. will be branded a Notion of Whiners….. boo who.

While one can understand that the Clintons are protective of their daughter, she is an adult who has chosen to thrust herself into the spotlight by actively campaigning on her mother’s behalf. The Clinton campaign has attempted to insulate Chelsea nonetheless. Chelsea refuses to answer questions from reporters. That’s ok. But when reporters attempt to ask Chelsea questions during campaign events or while Chelsea is pressing the flesh with voters, Clinton staffers have shushed the reporters, yelled at the reporters, and attempted to block the reporters. This conduct by the Clinton campaign is almost as ridiculous as the time the Clintons had an aide send a letter to an Italian restaurant in Manhattan threatening legal action because the restaurant had hung in its window a picture of the owner with Chelsea Clinton. The picture had been taken when Chelsea had eaten at the restaurant. These celebrity-with-owner photos are pretty standard decoration at most places. If the Clintons actually want to protect Chelsea’s privacy, they wouldn’t use her in the campaign even if she wanted to help. Otherwise, the press and public have a right to comment on Chelsea and ask questions of her. She’s an adult voluntarily acting as a surrogate for the candidate and may be put through the ringer just like the candidate. Just because she is the Clintons’ daughter does not excuse her from scrutiny and ridicule, she’s now an adult. Minor children are a different scenario – Obama’s daughters and Edward’s two younger children have had no real choice about whether to appear on the campaign trail so they’re understandably hands-off. The comment itself is stupid but harmless. The Clintons are making a tempest out a teapot. It’s a pretty bad attempt to deflect the coverage away from how they’re asking their daughter to solicit support from celebrities and super delegates. You might expect a call from Bill, from the campaign staff, or from public officials who’ve endorsed Clinton, but a call from Chelsea is a bit weird.

MSNBC takes the prize away from Fox News, when they allow the likes of David Schuster to spew such hate, vulgarity, and venom on a sweet person like Chelsea Clinton, who is out there helping her mother’s campaign.
Would David Schuster have ever said,” Obama continually pimps out his wife for votes”? Of course, not! Trashing the only child of a white woman Senator and the former President of the United States of America, seems to be fair game in this country, whereas it would be unfathomable to attack an African-American wife of a Junior Senator!
Thank God, Chelsea didn’t wear Michelle Obama’s black patent leather boots and tight skirts on the campaign trail! And heaven forbid, if Hillary would have ever snorted ‘blow’ to find herself!
David Schuster needs to be fired by MSNBC, and sued by the Clinton’s. As for the rabid Chris Matthews, he needs to be vaccinated, and then be neutered, before he is allowed to go back on the air.

So you then are saying that the media has no limit or no moral responsibility and that “pimpimg out” is a proper term to use when someone asks for privacy. Also, that sexism is OK in America.
Why couldn’t Mr. Shuster have said, “I think that Hillary Clinton is using Chelsea. She relates well with young people and Mrs. Clinton uses this to her advantage.” That is a political statement – not a sexist, demeaning, hate laden, inflammatory, vulgar attack on a loving act of support by a child on behalf of a parent.
I really don’t think anyone hates Hillary that much. I think they hate what she represents and the fear they hold inside as they are uncomfortable with themselves and their respective genders and they feel powerless as a result.

Boycott NBC? What are they going to do? Not read their news?

Bill and Hillary put Chelsea on the campaign tour so that makes Chelsea ‘fair game’. Chelsea is now like any other public figure, celebrity.

The media would never use the word ‘pimp’ to describe what Obama has been having his wife do for him for months. You don’t think Michele would call the Super Delegates herself if she was personally acquainted with them?
Do you know how many months the Obama’s supplied Ted Kennedy with vintage wines to get his endorsement?
But of course, no one can ever use the word pimp in regards to Obama – it would be racist.
If using the word pimp is considered proper in describing the actions of a loving daughter to help out her mother’s campaign, then Obama’s been mega-pimping out his wife and children for months since Iowa. Or do you honestly think that Michelle Obama was hugging all those fat Iowans because she wanted to stay warm?
What is considered more pimping, a young woman dressed in modest clothing speaking to Super Delegates, or a mature woman, prancing about in her black patent leather boots and ‘can-barely-zip-it-up’ outfits, hugging complete strangers for votes?
If ‘pimping out’ is considered a decent expression to describe family members campaigning on behalf of their parent of spouses, Obama is the Pimp of the Hill. Thank God he is better at Hillary in at least one other thing, besides letting out poetic “flatulance”.

Wow, it appears that some of Obama’s supporters have not value and no respect for anyone.

So what do you say to the fact it is widely reported as fact that the Obama campaign are contacting superdelegates? Did you think they wouldn’t it is not against the rules they are all trying to sway the votes in their favour.

when I read from this blog a comment like”there are things that happened in that White House that were so despicable that no one should have forgotten. The media you think is biased is just informed”, now I have to tell this story. I am vietnamese, from the south. I was there when President Diem and his whole family was assassinated in a coup d’état.Despeakable things were reported about them by the media then, to be found years later that they were pure lies to justify and calm the public of such a loss. Of course to these days it is reported by americans and most of the rest of the world that the southvienamese did’nt like Diem and his family. Wrong, he was the best we had then.We had peaceful years until he was killed.But the americans who put him into power didn’t like the wife of his brother, Mrs Nhu. So they killed the whole family. Bad policy because she was of course a strong character and was too visible in the government, but the vietnamese don’t mind that because their war heroes were a long time ago women.After Diem, the whole south fell apart. Now if the advisors of the White House were not so biased they would have understood more of the situation and would have avoided the deadly error they made.I am not a communist so I am thankful to the americans but not for all the mistakes they make so often in foreign policy, including in South Vietnam.The Irak war is certainly bad because of the way it’s conducted. The Bush administration should have understood more about tribal issues in those regions and not just blinded by the oil business. For history to be made by people they have to be far more informed, and that’s a job, for the media are often instruments of the power in place. America is still a democracy, come on americans can be more open minded to make their own opinions and not just through what is served by any media. So if you just hang on to the “despicable things” told by the media about the Clintons, you can be easily blinded and miss out on real issues.As far as my opinion is concerned, and allow me to give it, for as many mistakes can be made by the americans, I wish the best for this country and I can only say that Hillary Clinton deserves more respect than what has been thrown on her. How many politicians had affairs and even double lives : French Presidents Chirac, Mitterrand, italian leader Berlusconi, even President Kennedy and lots of republican politicians (senators, governors etc…)Now for europeans that’s private affair . But given that americans want their president to be like a saint and they have the right to claim so but why make a big mess just about Bill Clinton? and that being the case, Hillary Clinton had a lot of dignity when the ordeal was on.Isn’t it clear it was a republican conspiracy against the democrats and so she stood up to face hardship. I think the republican machine is dirty compared to the democrats. No democrats will take so much energy and public money to find out and expose a republican politician for sex.Now in this election run for nominee, it seems like there is a tactic to get Hillary out, imagine a republican candidate losing agaisnt a woman democrat,not just anyone but someone who stood up for years against their conspiracy, that must be unthinkable for the matcho republicans. For what else can they find against Hillary now that they have exposed everything they could? But they can find a lot to serve to the public when the time comes to beat a democrat if Obama was to be nominated. Inside the democrat camp, the democrats are not clear neither. They supported Hillary before they switch side because so many people fall into the trap of the pro republican media. And on top of that, sexism is neither excluded from the democrat side. Who is Obama before this campaign and who is behind the big money he got from the beginning? That’s the question asked by my american surrounding in conversations.I wonder how Obama can face the republican machine if nominated? But you americans make history if you distance more from the appearance. Hope the best for America with all my heart.

Gloria: For your information MSNBC is the only network that is out of control on their comments about Hillary. And Chris Matthews is not innocent by all means. They all need to be replaced. I listened to Fox last night and one of the news media stated that no one should ever make a comment like Shuster did on Chelsea. He has now been suspended at this time but who knows if they will take him back.Chris Matthews and the crew are busy promoting Obama between the lines of their statements. No station should promote any candidate.

MSNBC seems biased. I agree it is an “OBAMA NETWORK”. After listening to their Super Tuesday and post election commantaries, it seems to me that they are one of the most biased networks in the country

Comment from Germany:
First: Here in Germany a reporter with such a rude comment would have been thrown out immediately and i think, that would be a good idea.
BUT (second): Chelsea Clinton is not a little child anymore.
Yesterday, at Feb. 8 there was a detailed report in the biggest and highly respected german newspaper
“Sueddeutsche Zeitung” about the work of Chelsea Clinton (second page of the business section).
After studying in Stanford and Oxford she was employed at McKinsey in New York. She earned right at the beginning several hundred thousand Dollar per year. At the end of 2006 she changed to the hedge funds “Avenue Capital” at Wall Street where she is currently employed. Her annual salery is estimated several hundred thousand Dollar.
Here in Germany someone like Chelsea is considered as true lobbyist. Very interesting for germans, maybe also for US citizens and not commonly known.
Here in germany many of these hedge funds are responsible for the unnecassary asset stripping of many companies and the loss of thousands of jobs.

Clinton Tactics Knows No Bounds!

Anyone who dosen’t know that MSNBC has been campaigning for Obama hasn’t been watching. I actually do not watch any NBC programs anymore. What are they afraid of. My theory is that they want Obama in because they know he can’t win against McCain. I have found the most unbiased on ABC and CNN. And don’t forget the Daily Show!

We are expected to forgive Hillary when she makes a galactic error by omitting Martin Luther King’s role in the civil rights movement and we are supposed to be good little troopers when it comes to knocking off journalists that stray from the DNC talking points. Sorry to break up the Hillary lovefest, but I am not a fan of Hillary’s strong arm tactics.

What do you know about ladies liberty if you are not a woman? The only real freedom we have is our independency based on our work and effort to exist fully, without any bias towards men. You might think I am a lesbian. No I am not but I know about freedom. The price to pay for it is work work work for all the values you want to stand for.To sexist men I want to tell this, women can be strong and not destructive towards them. But they have to tune their attitudes accordingly. And “pimping” is not an acceptable word because it misleads the feelings of the public who needs more than being poorly entertained while they try to choose their candidate.

If anyone is prejudice go to Tim Russits blogs on MSNBC and the ones on Lou Dobbs now there are many many racist remarks I have read on there blogs that come from the people and on the internet all over who speak badly of the immigrants not those people are the prejudice who speak bad of the illigels alines

I think I am becoming very ashamed of my gender. When I read through these comments and find women who say they would actually kill this guy for saying something like this about their daughter, when I read that Hillary can demand to have it both way with impunity but other candidates must explain, I can only shake my head in despair. How is that the people, mostly women, cannot understand that most of us (women and men) are not against electing a woman as president, but against electing a manipulative, dirty-tricks, lying, underhanded woman for the office? Have we learned nothing from the last eternity with Bush in the WH? Do we really want a politician with the same modus operandi at play during the elections?
I can’t believe you are all swallowing this sainted mother bit: the reported used unfortunate words but the Clintons want to enforce selected censorship, it seems to me. And the TANTRUM Hillary displayed in threatening to cancel the debate was just too much–real woman don’t become hysterical and emotional when they can’t control things.
Unbelievable, people! Stop thinking with your gender, stand back, and look objectively at how Hillary is conducting her campaign. And if this is how she plays to get elected, how will she play if she is in the WH?

The suspension was well deserved. Unfortunately for David Shuster, he became a scapegoat representing all of the awful reporting going on in this campaign. The pro-Obama media bias is so nauseating, that many people can’t even stand to watch the news. Many say that Hillary Clinton will do anything to get elected. Many American’s feel the media will do anything to get Obama elected. It is unfair to American’s for this nomination to be so influenced by mainstream medai reporting. I am not watching MSNBC,CNN or NBC news any longer due to their bias. ABC has done an a better job straigh-up reporting the news and they now have become my favored news network.

let’s not forget who the anchors are on NBC. you have two former republican representatives, and the others have made careers in conservative talk. This is true of all the major media outlets and don’t forget about that filth called “fox news”. lets face it, there is a bias in our national media and it is definitely not libera.

eve, shut up. all candidates have used family members to campaign for them – its as American as the cheeseburger. and who would blame Chelsea if she did run and hide (which she did not – this statement by you is utterly false) given the hateful and spiteful treatment to the Clintons over all these many years by people like you and the mainstream media. don’t YOU have anything better to do but hate the Clintons.

What makes me sick is the people who are backing chelsea/Clintons, she is 27 years old! remember the phrase, “Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”!Well our soldiers in Iraq are not dieing from sticks and stones, but from bombs and bullets!And who Voted to send them there I think her name is Hillary!!!

It’s clear New York Times is behind this all after I have read the last few comments here, there the commutators behind this all or was it another Davini code?

This comment is being overblown, why?
The American people are being ‘pimped’ for media access by the Clintons in order to help make up for their cash-strapped campaign that cannot balanced its own budget, but which delude itself that it can balance America’s national budget.
It’s called karma.
How many females (including public humiliation of his own wife) have Bill Clinton used his power to mess with over the years?
Now his daughter is a target of a mere slang?
The Clintons have rightly kept their daughter out of the political process for years; because they recognize that she could have been a target of verbal jabs.
Just recently Chelsea decided not to give a 9-year old ‘reporter’ an interview. This means that the Clintons are hoping to have their cake and eat it too, while they plunge their daughter into politics. It ain’t gonna happen.

It is clear that Hillary and Barack both have passionate supporters–in an age of voter apathy, this is a very good thing, indeed.
But the point of this article is how Hillary reacted to a poor choice of words with a mean-spirited innuendo attached. Bringing Obama into the discussion misses the point.
Words were said. The issue is how to respond to those words. From my vantage point as a lady of certain age, I find Hillary over-reacted and I don’t like what someone termed her tantrum in response to those words. It seems clear to me (though I grant you others do not see it) that she grabbed this incident with both hands to garner additional, much needed publicity. I suspect those who supported her before will continue to do so and go on with glowing admiration on how this makes her even more of a role model. That is fine; but I must say, as a woman who went through the burn the bra age and the hey-day of the woman’s liberation period, I find Hillary’s response in this instance as less than inspiring and in fact points to the double-standard type of campaigning I see her doing all the time. It is hypocritical to me that she demands no one introduce the gender card (or race card)–unless it is her campaign.

The Clinton Tactics Knows No Bounds! first they tried bringing Race up agaisnt Obama in Politics, it failed,and people woke up and seen the light.Then she used tears, it helped her a little, but Americans woke up again!She continues using gender, but only the older women are falling for this tactic.Now they are using Chelsea, to stir things up! Well We Are Not Falling For It Any More!If you cant take the heat get out of the kitchen!

Time to get real, had this been said about Michelle Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver or Oprah with their performances last week in LA, people would be up in arms!
The fact of the matter is the comment was uncalled for in the choice of words used!
Many so called journalists are attempting to control peoples views instead of assisting them with decent and factual reporting!
On both Dem and Rep reporting this campaign season, the media has been continually wrong, polls are all wrong and the media is proving that their swing on what Americans are thinking is way out of tune!
Face it, the media has been ridiculed in their reporting on elections since 2000 and this year they have chosen the approach of sensationalizing for viewership! CNN claims to have the best Political team in broadcasting. When in fact they are terrible and bias!
The other news channels have sleeze hosts attempting to score points by making completely demeaning statements about people working in the campaigns, and reporting isn’t about the issues and the differences in them, which good reporting is, it is about everything else to attract attention to sway people towards or against someone!
Maybe the first step towards fixing Washington is to rid Washington of all the self presumed know it all news talk show hosts and none objective reporting journalists!

I suspect that most people who thinks Schuster’s comment was specifically sexist, and not simply metaphorical, are people who are supporting Sen. Clinton simply because she is a woman. She certainly has valid claims to being the best person for the job, as do the other candidates, however, to support her simply because of her gender is extremely narrow-minded. I have always thought that women should have complete equality and are certainly capable of being president, but to support her simply because of her gender, is, well, sexist. And going berserk about an innocent comment by a professional, capable journalist, is going too far.

Chelsea needs to do herself a favor and drop out of her moms campaign.Americans dont want any more Clintons in Office, they are the old politics, Obama is the new.Voting for Hillary is not moving forward but taking a step back!

Right now Republicans are disunited.
Democrats can AGAIN help Republicans unite by allowing Clinton! lol
The Clintons’ destruction of their own White House legacy, denied Al Gore the Presidency by UNITING REPUBLICANS against Democrats!
Considering that the Democrats are very skillful at ‘snatching defeat from the jaws of victory’, the Democrats can nominate the Clintons for a THIRD TERM and have an encore of Republican unity, Republican victory, and A HUNDRED YEARS IN IRAQ! lol
Only, the American people will suffer!

I am astonished by the level of ignorance that ends up in these blogs. Ironically all you people are doing is vomiting out all the nonsense you hear and choose to believe from the media. It’s about time you guys accept that both Hilary and Barack are both riding on a sea of money from all the organizations you propose to hate. They both have a HUGE debt to pay if and when they reach the WH. We live in a facist state and that means this place aint run by the President but by Exxon, Mobil, GE, etc, etc… I personally am working on a fuel derived from “hot blogger air” so as to turn this BS into something useful. I especially find you anti-Hilary ranters most akin to the Fox News type. As far as I can tell by this thread the real winner will John McCain and Fox. Keep it up loud mouths your doing a great job for the Ruppert and his boys I’m sure there reading this and having a great laugh.

jmaya, iowa
Would you please cite a specific example of how Obama is paying off the media for bias.
Not only me but the FCC and the electorate would be very much interested in money passing hands in such an arrangement.
If, on the other hand, you cannot prove your allegations, then you owe the Obama campaign and Opra Winfrey an apology.
BTW, this sort of random, unsubstantiated rumor-spreading on behalf of Hillary Clinton is EXACTLY the reason many of us find her unpalatable as a candidate.

Look at the comment for what it was, totally inappropriate for a professional news reporter to use. I reiterate what has been said in the blog already. If this “pimp” comment had been used in reference to one of the Bush’s daughters, Michelle Obama or one of his daughters, there would be not only cries of outrage but the accusations of racism would be flying. Wake up people, the media is out of control at times. I see them foaming at the mouth when it comes to the Clintons, they can’t spew enough negativity about them with not one negative thing said about Obama and his campaign. Just wait, if he wins the dem nomination it’s gloves off time for the republicans and the media.

I am a supporter of neither of these candidates but am tired of how sexist comments, even if they are subtle, are treated as insignificant. If this was a comment that was interpreted as racist, there would cries for Chris Matthews and Shuster to be fired, just like Imus. Look how the only part of Imus’ statement that got the most attention was the racist part and not the sexist part. I used to like Matthews about 4 years ago until he became so patronizing and smug. His interview with Elizabeth Edwards was a perfect example of that.
People here are making negative comments about Hillary but are forgetting that this comment was directed at her daughter. It doesn’t matter how some of you and Shuster spin it, the word pimping was a derogatory comment, period. When Matthews and Shuster “apologize” they are not admitting that they should not say things like that, it is more like they were called on it and won’t say it again to save their jobs and the ratings. They still believe what they said and that to me, shows what kind of people they really are. Certainly not unbiased journalists. That is why I stopped watching MSNBC, NBC (due to Matt Lauer and the bunch), and CNN (I only watch Lou Dobbs) and even some public station programs like Charlie Rose. C-Span is about the only place left to get objective news. I hope they can stay that way.

In response to Eve:
I’m an African American male who believes of all people, you should know better, you are a woman, and it seems like you condone this sexist and prejudice jerks making these kind of statements to any woman, now I see why men have been allowed to degrade women this way for so many years, because some women like you allow them to. I believe it’s all-right to be challenged are even critized on this issues in an election, but not personal attack such as these, this is very un-American, heartless, gustless, shallow, and disgusting.
If this have been done to Obama’s wife or childern if they where old enough to campaign for their father, we would have a field day on that person and demand their resignation, this is very Hypocritical of people on support this kind garbbage.
since this campiagn started the media has been baised against Hillary not so much on her issues, but her personally because she is strong woman trying to break that glass ceiling that still neeeds to be shattered here in America, due to sexism and stupidity. She deserves to run and maybe become Presiden as well as a man, woman at one time could not even vote, they fought very for that right too, they are being trampled on for wanting to equal partners in our voting system, I see America still has a long way in becoming equal citizens in this country, and it’s other women like you who does not help matters any, you as a woman should be outraged at what was said no matter what party they belonged to.
As I stated in my first posting, the cable news stations needs to stop this female bashing, and sexist comments towards women in general, they are suppose to be there to report the news fair and balanced,without personal opinions or comments being expressed about person one way or the other, just report the news as it comes in; non-objective without making racist or sexist comments, their personal attacks, opinions about race or gender needs to be checked at the door, and left at home.
News stations and radio stations such as MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Air America Radio, Etc, has all been guilty in some shape of form during this election has been biased when it comes to Obama and Hillary, so far Obama has had a free ride and pass in the campaign without being challenged on the issues, as opposed to Hillary who has been challenged every step of the way, of all things, Women should also be outraged at these male news anchors for attacking her the way they do, I thought women had a better eye at catching behaviors, actions,and sexist comments towards their own gender, but I guess not, when it comes to a election campaign; I see; even that’s game with both genders in this hotly contested election.
I Believe that just because a person is campaigning to when an election, they should not be subject to this kind of personal ridicul, it’s senseless, baseless, and shallow of people to be this way, we’re all are still Americans, life is to short to be carrying on like this.
We should all step back, take a deep breath, and put gender, race aside and pick a nominee, based on the issues, not race, gender, or who even speaks or looks the best, but has the most experince and ability from day one to get he job done, In my opinion, Hilly is the most experienced and quailfied produce the results needed to turn this country in the positive direction, Obama is only able to Preach about it, but Hilly, her experience, is able to put it into action.
I hope and Pray that the news media start being fair and balanced when comes to media coverage of bothe campaigns, so far, Obama is getting most of the media spotlight, not only because he may be so inspiring, but also because he’s a male, some men and women really don’t want a female President, lets face it, this is not American equality, but discrimination based on gender.
Where is Oprah now, she should have jumped all over this story, she’s supposed to be an advocate and spokesperson for women’s Rights, there she goes again remaining silent on very important issues that gives her the opportunity to speak-up and speak-out against gender bias, but I guess not, she might be afraid it may hurt her personal friend; Obama during the primeries. Oprah only speaks out for her personal friends and people in her inner circle, not for America as a whole, because she should have waited until a clear nominee have surfaced before endorsing a candidate, but instead, she came to the aid of her personal, for get about the campaign issues,and who had the most experience, the better campiagn platform to be President, Oprah only voted on the Preaching of Inspiration and Emotionalism of Hope, Change, Unity, and Obama’s Brillance, not on in-depth substance of the issues, what a shame, because it would had been more appreciated by all Democratic voters after the nominee was chosen to come out to unify and campaign to help the Democrats take control of the White House again; no matter who was chosen to be the nominee, Oprah say’s she like Hillary too, I can’t tell, because she endorsed a candidate before he or she was nominated, I don’t see where’s that being loyal to the party as a whole, what I see is her partiality towards race and gender.
Go Hillary Go In my book, you are the New “Clean-up Woman” because you are the candidate who has the most experience and know-how to cleanup Bush’s mess he will leave behind in 2009, and you are more qualified to make Obama’s message a reality with positive results, something that Obama is only able to preach about through Inspiration and Emotional Speechs, Therefore, this College Educated Young African American Male will be voting for Hillary for President of The Great United States of America.

I have liked the political discourse on MSNBC and have been watching Chris Matthews and even Tucker although I don’t agree with Tucker’s views. However, these broadcasts of their opinions is a privilege and with it responsibility. Both Chris Matthews and David Shuster have crossed a line and their credibility of any objectivity is gone. Tucker should address this as well as it having been on his show. Chelsea Clinton is an exemplary young accomplished woman who withstood quite a bit in her young life- and has handled it with dignity. She is a daughter supporting her mother. Anyone who claims family values knows this isn’t “pimping”. She isn’t “fair game” she’s not up for election. Who is David Shuster to disparage her and why? Keith Olberman had the guts and respect to put an apology out that was tough and heartfelt. I haven’t decided yet who I’m for but the bias now being shown by MSNBC indicates your information isn’t worth watching. Will Tucker or Chris Matthews attack the Obama kids? McCain’s kids? How about McCain’s mother, is she fair game now? You gonna dig through her past? Where is a line of objectivity in journalism here? I hope in the next debate Tim Russert or Keith Olberman raises this issue with the candidates to let them personally express how sickening the gotcha journalism has become.

Response to Sam:
Sometime I may repeat things in my postings, because I believe you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, and repeat until the truth sinks in. Tuff, if you don’t like it, move on to another post, it’s just that simple. I’m not a spammer, my post may be similar,but not worded exactly the same way, if you have read all my post, you would see this.
Go Hillary Go The New “Clean-Up Woman.”

Let me think about it…what is worse…”pimping” or the meaning of “is”
PIMPING: Maybe a bad choice of words…it’s just slang now people. I don’t agree with it but slang none the less. It is just the truth. The Clintons are USING THEIR 28 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER TO BENEFIT HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN. They are making a very big deal about the use of slang (not against Chelsea) but against what they are actually doing.
THE MEANING OF IS: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”, “What IS the meaning of IS”, Oral sex isn’t sexual intercourse; she was a 20 year old intern
Really the Clintons have no axe to grind here; not with their slimey, shady past.

Yeah, like what woman in this country or any other, for that matter, hasn’t had to deal with an unfaithful husband.
Truth be known, it would be like 98% of husbands have been unfaithful.
Hope Hillary is next president and we can put the nation in order again.

Is Chelsea a child or adult? If she is going to lobby for her mom and campaign she is fair game. And who cares if Hillary won’t debate. She is using her latest tactic to play the underdog to get more free press. I believe she is exploiting this topic for the same reason.
The Clintons have a track record of doing what it takes, dirty tricks, exploiting who and what they need to, in order to get elected.
While I don’t like the phrase, they are using their daughter to further their “legacy and perceived right” to this presidency.
If Chelsea can’t stand the heat, she should get out of the kitchen! Billary can’t have it both ways!

Oh come on now! He didn’t realize the word “pimp” was offensive? If that’s true it’s a reflection of him and his loss of any sense of decency. I’ll bet he also doesn’t see how it is offensive to advertise erection drugs in prime time on national television either. We have lost our self respect. If we are the leaders of the free world, are we leading them to this? I don’t think they will follow.

So helping her mother’s campaign is legitimately called “pimping” because it benefits her mother? Would helping your grandmother get the government benefits she is eligible for, pimping? After all it is a solicitation that benefits her.

Free Speech ? If one were to hear some at a party ask whats’ the difference between a jew and a pizza and they answered that they didnt know and it was stated that the pizza does’nt scream when it is put into an oven.Should I make a citizens arrest at that point or wait for them to openly state that they miss hearing johnny weissmullers’ tarzan shout UNGAHWAH! at some restless hottentots?B.T.W the last original copies of “Blazing Saddles” are going fast.What does that indicate?

First they didn’t want her to do anything afraid that the media would emabrress them. Then they let her out to call upon ‘celebraties’ to support ‘her mother’ and are astonsihed by a comment that otherwise could be taken in jest but nonetheless unprofessional. Double standards and hypocritical politicians are an embarressment, more so than the media. When will the tears fly again I wonder.

Well, well. I see there are a lot of opinions and emotions here!
If you don’t want to watch MSNBC or if you don’t want to listen to certain pundits, one would think that is your right.
However, I see we’d like to go a bit further than that. I see that hyper-sensitivity and identity politics – as well as some protectionist/paternalistic chauvinism, thrown in from the prudish guys for good measure – like always, will take a backseat to common sense.
Let’s see. Might the term have been an unfortunate one? Perhaps. But it’s hard to find one of these younger people nowadays – you know, the ones that Clinton’s supporters tell us are naive and stupid – who would find it impossible to believe that “pimping” could have been used in a non-sexual way to denote usury of whatever stripe.
And Shuster’s e-mails with the Clinton’s press aide make it clear that the Clintons never intended to address the larger issue in the first place: The fact that the Clinton’s would like to use (yes, “use”) their All Grown-Up Daughter to pander for superdelegate votes, while insisting that she have some sort of special immunity from being interviewed by the press in the same way that any campaign operative – related or not – would be subject to.
Now the Clinton’s need – at least when it comes to themselves – to have EVERYTHING both ways, is fulfilled. Chelsea is just a little girl who can’t be “abused” by the press. Hey, I had more of a problem with the media commenting on her looks when she was young. But now she is 28 years old, and she is apparently grown enough to persuade virtual electors for the Democratic nominee, but not to be questioned by the press on that? The converse is a thirty-year old woman selling Girl Scout cookies. Kind of a weird double-bind to put someone in, wouldn’t you say?
But it’s not weird for the Clintons. Unsurprisingly, they have turned the issue around, and all the Royalists here – those who would fawn over the Clintons as if they were the sort of European monarchy they would apparently like us all to see them as – as well as some of the same Europeans who need offer us no lectures on the virtues of free speech – have spun the issue into not “respecting” The Apparent First Family’s Majesty. Well, my my. Chelsea was “dissed”. Sounds a bit like the sort of gangsta interpersonal dynamics whose wild popularity have led to the use of the term “pimping” into the mainstream and not so very sexualized slang that Shuster obviously intended it as.
What can be said is that the media messed up. But they shouldn’t be fired. When it comes to being able to manipulate the people as well as the politicians allow us to be manipulated, they are just trying to clumsily find the least unsubtle way to point out hypocrisy and entitlement on the part of elected officials. Unfortunately, they never figured on a conspiracy of mass stupidity, mass prudery and Clintonian entitlement to turn the issue back around on THEM. And the public will ultimately lose by allowing everyone to forget about the larger issue while the Clinton Family coasts through another victorious news cycle, the next primary and (if they get their way) four(+) more years of dumbing down the American public while they make everything about THEM once again.
You people deserve what you will inevitably get from such sanctimonious jerks as them if you can’t see through it.

There is no responsible reporting anymore. The media is so slanted and its disgusting how much they slant their headlines and news bias to ingratiate their corporate owners.
Matt Lauer had Ann Coulter on with her disgusting bias and trash mouth , bill oreily This is responsible reporting. Then we will be innundated with newt gingrich, and Tom Delay and their stupid discussions of their slant on the process. We know of their past indiscrestions and they set them up as truth doctors . Outrageous headlines abound. and enough is enough. TALK TRASH IS ALIVE AND WELL Follow the money folks of corporate news and you see the bigger picture. Look to who financially promoted George Bush .

Who cares. Also, wasn’t the comment accurate. What are they taking offense to the term “pimped”? So what, that’s what they were doing by engaging thier daughter. Then to say “she’s and we are off limits” is pure hypocracy. If you don’t want people to commenet on what she is doing don’t “use” her inthe process.

I don’t know what is more disturbing… the fact that “News” reporters are more interested in sounding hip than being accurate or the comments from viewers I read on these blogs.
It’s very scary

You can’t have it both ways—and that’s what the Clinton’s want. I do agree as a parent that the minor children should be OFF LIMITS BUT Chelsea is an ADULT and has CHOSEN to put herself out there campaigning for mom. When you put yourself in that position, you have made yourself a public figure. If Chelsea had remained quite and not chosen to present herself in public situations campaigning for her mom, then it would be different. She’s either a private citizen or a public figure. She cannot act as a public figure but expect treatment and rights of a private citizen.

Look Chelsea will be fine and so will Hillary and Bill. As far as Obama’s daughters are concerned, they are too young to be out campaigning for their Dad so that’s not even an issue. Hillary and Bill know how to play the game just as they did about claiming Hillary is broke. Look what she got in return, sympathy and a whole lot of money. As far as MSNBC, I don’t find them bias; quite frankly Fox News is the worst station on television. If we took a tally of the emails to see who’s all against MSNBC because of the comments about Clintons, then we’ll all realize that it’s just a race thing.
Get over and realize Barack is a better Candidate!!!!

The sad part of all this is that Hillary is willing to subject her daughter to the same kind of political gamemanship-that she and Bill both understand and have readily used on others-espcially women. “Pimping” is a word Bill and Hillary have used around the house before-even the White House(imagine that)! It’s not a shocker to them-I can assure you of that. This time the whinning and the yelling at the press and the crying in public won’t work. The very people that they were counting on to give them a free ride and be their advocate-have jumped ship. It may be over for them…Who knows…but acting indignant about something that happens to them-that they would fell free to visit on others-no matter who…smacks of an elitism that would not serve well in the White House. Wah…Wah…Wah

Why the double standard? We are all humans, we make poorly thought out statements, we make mistakes.
If memory serves, I think Bill made one very large mistake then lied about it. Did he loose his job…
Yet this reporter makes a comment and his whole world comes tumbling down and it is use of slang is blown way out of proportion.
Go Team Hiliary…

Funny how making phone calss and campaigning for your mother could be legitimated as “pimping” by Obama supports commenting here. If you ask the 5-13 year olds who are kidnapped and taken across state lines to be beaten and manipulated into having sex for food and shelter, I’m sure they’d be able to tell you if “pimping” is offensive. They have more common sense than the idots posting here. Obama supporters are very inteligent, huh?-

Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea what’s next? Are you ‘all going away quietly from the eyes, ears, and heads of the people of America. I suggest you become an ordinary American family. Join a neighbor support group aimed at helping needy children. Organize a community forum that helps women raising children on their own. Give some sincere time to helping the elderly folks. Create a group to help people learn what not to do when pursuing a public position. You know what I mean; just go away peacefully.

After Russert’s interview of Obama this morning, I vow to boycott NBC and GE in their entirety. How date the media seek to shape public opinion towards their candidate.