I have MSNBC on all the time, I love Hardball but don't like when Shuster fills for Chris Matthews. I just dont like him, but I dont think he should be fired either. The Clintons daughter is not a little girl anymore, if she can be paraded around for her mother's political benefit she can take a remark from a political pundit. I've heard Pat Buchanan say much worse things while on MSNBC. I don't agree with Pat politically but I still find him very enjoyable while on TV, but what Shuster said wasn't the worst thing to be said on TV.
Which is my point.. "pimp" was used in the same terminology as "parade"
Hillary is reaching to take offense at this. Campaigns are often a family affair. I think what Kerry said (and I voted for him) about homosexuals, that they would feel like Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, was just being herself. That was more inappropriate than anything that Dave Shuster said. Kerry was trying to be hypocritical of Cheney's views on gay marriage, knowing he had a gay daughter. Yet it was disrespectful for an opponent to take his daughter's personal private life and put it on the national spotlight that way. She wasn't consulted nor asked about it and that was clearly about her sexual orientation.
They talked about using Chelsea Clinton to make phone calls for her mother and that the national spotlight is still shielding her somewhat on her political involvement. That's a valid question. Dave doesn't have the charisma or charm, but saying that someone was being pimped out is used to restore a car "pimp my ride" or they pimped him out to get more business. It's easily calling someone a go-getter or a top sales person.
It just doesn't have the negative connotation that some old-ass mofo asked "don't you think that's going too far to call someone's child." She's 28 years old. Hillary was pimping out her husband in S. Carolina and she pimped out her daughter to make calls for to superdelegates and it hasn't hit the headlines.
I'm sorry but she's looking for offense for a questionable choice of words, because she ate a lot of crow for her own choice of words about King/Johnson and wants to have the same press coverage where she's not the only one.
Hillary is not a victim and I think her "softer" teary side is as frabricated as her tears were before New Hampshire. I'm a chic, though, so I think that is manipulative on her part. Hillary didn't take offense until some other on-air old-fart took offense at Shuster, first and she ran with it.
It's all theater. Oh Hillary, we'll apologize, don't pull out of the debates. She wants that coverage, where they had to apologize to her, just to get her to debate. Trust it's a facade to get coverage to make her look more sympathetic. Just like that stupid assertion by her campaign is pushing -- they are getting away from Hillary being the inevitable experienced candidate, that Obama is "establishment candidate" because he got endorsements of the establishment like Kennedy. That's right, they said Hillary is not the establishment candidate, Barrack is. Every person that heard that has laughed on camera.
No, Dave doesn't need to be fired, he doesn't need to be suspended. It's not going to have the effect on superdelegates that Hillary fears. Hillary's camp is more concerned that the Dave's statement is claiming she's pimping out her daughter, the superdelegates they are trying to court won't want the negative press that they had a hand in "exploiting her child" and lose superdelegate votes. It's paranoid and it's fabricated martyrdom.