February 9, 2008
DSO YOU WANT TO BE A JOURNALIST OR A RAPPER? (via The Mother Judd):
Reporter initially defended Chelsea comment (Michael Calderone, Feb 8, 2008, Politico)
On Thursday, Shuster guest-hosted Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show, "Tucker," and in referring to Chelsea Clinton's role in calling superdelegates on behalf of the Clinton presidential campaign, he asked if she was "sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"Later that night, he heard from an outraged Reines, who called the remarks "absurdly offensive."
Shuster was unrepentant. He told Reines his commentary was justified because of the contrast between Chelsea Clinton's overt political role and the aggressive way campaign aides "jump down the throat" of reporters who seek to question her about it.
He was more contrite the next morning, apologizing on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show, "Morning Joe." [...]
[O]ne high-level NBC source told Politico that apologizing was an act of cowardice on behalf of the network.
"This is at least the second time they've caved to the Hillary Clinton campaign," a source told Politico, referring to Chris Matthews' recent apology over remarks he recently made about Clinton that were widely denounced as sexist. "What does this do to journalism?"
Make it fit for civil society? Posted by Orrin Judd at February 9, 2008 12:50 PM
MSNBC is the same company that employs Keith Olberman. They aren't known for their judgment.
Posted by: pchuck at February 9, 2008 1:28 PMLooks to me like Chelsea wants to go into the family business. I think she's old enough now, so maybe she'll be named to take over for her mother in the senate?
Posted by: erp at February 9, 2008 3:07 PMWhen Olbermann, Shuster, or any of the other jabbers apologizes to a Republican, then we can talk. Olbermann is just snarky all the time, but Shuster has been caught in a number of lies about the President and Republican in Congress, and has not 'repented'.
Of course they are 'unfairly' insulting Chelsea. But as the story showed, they pride themselves on it. For MSNBC to be civil, Jeff Immelt would have to fire about 10 or 20 of them in one swoop, and hold the rest to some measurable standard.
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 9, 2008 3:41 PMIt's important to be courteous to women. The GOP is male.
Posted by: oj at February 9, 2008 5:30 PM