She'd better be more concerned with the fact that Obama's beginning to pull away.

Actually, I found the term "pimping" to be fairly close to appropriate. Why else is she there?

"The mind is like a parachute, it only works when it's open."

It's certainly not the first time that the son or daughter of a presidential candidate has been out campaigning for them. It's nice to see that they believe in the parent. The young lady is certainly old enough to find something else to do if she didn't want to hit the campaign trail.

The comments were a bit harsh. However, wanting the man fired is also a bit of a knee jerk reaction. I think voters are going to see it as Hillary being vindictive. The reporter was already suspended, public notice of her concerns over the comments and the network coverage was raised, and it's time to let it go. It can't help her public image to push this one.

I have to disagree with your interpretation of Sen. Clinton's remarks.

Greg Sargent over at TPM has the same interpretation.

But her statement doesn't say Shuster should be fired, but rather that MSNBC needs to look at its "pattern of behavior," which I have to agree with, especially given the frankly bizarre things Chris Matthews has said and the other crap that's gone on there.

Democrats need to push back against all this crap.

...according to ABC News, anyway.

The campaign says it has more to do with what it sees as a sexist, locker room, on-air atmosphere at MSNBC.

I'm really surprised at some of the reaction to this topic. Why anyone would defend Shuster and go on the offensive toward the Clintons is beyond me. I have been watching MSNBC a lot lately (CNN is just bad) and there is hardly one newsperson, pundit, reporter, whatever you want to call them, on MSNBC that hasn't been really biased against Clinton running for president (including Olbermann), until last night, of course.

Obama's camp calls Shuster's comments "deplorable".

It appears Shuster, initially, may not have been apologetic and Shuster tried to defend his comments in correspondence with the Clinton campaign.

Are we going to have to return to the 30 minutes of network news to get actual news without all of this unwarranted biased reporting?

Unfortunately Hillary just added to the spotlight's glare on Chelsea by sending the letter which she must have known would leak out. She should have picked up the phone to expand upon her angry thoughts about this..then again...I suppose with everyone listening to our conversatons these days, it could have leaked out anyway via the White House. Leaks there are more common than cow manure in a barn.

The comment was completely inappropriate no matter how you think pop culture has changed language. Celebritarts selling their children's pictures are pimping out their children. Adult children working on campaigns are not whores. When the vultures try to attack our children we DO become bears. They don't stop being our children when they turn 18.

I can remember some very ugly remarks about Jenna Bush when her book was published last year.

In fact, I made some of them.

I have much better reasons to dislike Bush, but his unwillingness to be a parent, lack of protection of his daughters from the paparazzi and absence of reaction to their attacks by the media have always disappointed me.

Being a president's kid is a tough gig. The worst thing I remember anybody saying publicly was when Limbaugh called Chelsea "the family dog." She was about 12. Amy Carter was treated horribly, too.

And I always liked the story about HST threatening to punch out the music critic who gave his daughter a bad review.
The Clintons obviously did a whole lot of things right raising Chelsea, a Stanford graduate who has turned out beautifully. I remember when GwB was inaugurated -- the Bush twins were decked out for barhopping. Chelsea was wearing a beautifully tailored suit.

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That's horrible.
McCain needs to be reminded of that one, early and often.

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In the same world in which that woman turning sexism on its head is framed as Odd News, and in which that woman is called a bitch to the amusement of the other party's nominee, and is called a she-devil and depicted with horns, and is heckled by jerks demanding she iron their shirts, and is reduced to tea parties and her response to that demeaned as "really be[ing] on edge," and in which she is cast as a feminazi monster, and has her ability to withstand the rigors of the presidency questioned with an unflattering image, and has a nutcracker designed in her image, and finds her moment of candidly expressed emotion turned into a national story using dog-whistles once removed from "hysterical," and is routinely accused of playing a victim and of playing the gender card, often erroneously, and is said to need a copy of The Rules, and is accused of having a career only because her husband cheated on her, and is subjected to the swill of online hate groups with names like "Hillary Clinton: Stop Running for President and Make Me a Sandwich" and "Hillary Clinton Shouldn't Run for President, She Should Just Run the Dishes," and is regularly featured in sexist political cartoons, and is challenged by a 527 calling itself C.U.N.T., and is called the Crybaby-in-Chief if she shows emotion, and can't bloody win no matter what she does, but only in the eyes of misogynist wankers because SHE'S. STILL. HERE.

But damn if there aren't plenty of people in this world trying to see that she isn't.

Tons of embedded links at the original.

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