Proving my previous point!

Chelsea 'pimped out' remark riles Clinton camp

So this is exactly what I was talking about. The inappropriate comments constantly directed at Hillary and her family. It's insulting and outrageous, and it just shows how pathetic most of these a**holes in our media are!

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson today blasted MSNBC for a remark made by talk show host David Shuster about Chelsea Clinton's efforts in campaigning for her mother. Shuster, filling in for talkster Tucker Carlson, said this week that Chelsea was being "pimped out" by the campaign after noting that she had called panelists on "The View."

If you don't feel his use of the word "Pimped" was inappropriate, maybe you should look up the definition.

Here's the full exchange between Shuster and Democratic pundit Bill Press:

DAVID SHUSTER: Bill, there's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying support my mom, and she's apparently also calling these super delegates.

BILL PRESS: Hey, she's working for her mom. What's unseemly about that? During the last campaign, the Bush twins were out working for their dad. I think it's great, I think she's grown up in a political family, she's got politics in her blood, she loves her mom, she thinks she'd make a great president --

SHUSTER: But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

Shuster reportedly apologized on air, but Wolfson said today on a conference call with reporters that that wasn't good enough. "I havent received any phone call. I'm not familiar with any apology," Wolfson said. "Look, I think the comment is disgusting. Its beneath contempt. It’s the kind of thing that should never be said on a national news network."

Wolfson suggested that the campaign might retailiate against MSNBC by no longer agreeing to any further debates sponsored by the cable network. He also wondered if perhaps there is something anti-Clinton in the water. Last month, Chris Matthews apologized after suggesting Hillary Clinton benefitted because of how she was treated by her husband.

"I think at some point you have to question whether there is a pattern here at this particular network," he said. "Is this part of a pattern? Is this something folks are encouraged to do or not do?"

Posted by Jim Oliphant on February 8, 2008