Comments on: Tell MSNBC An Apology Is Not Enough

By: April

April — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:34:24 +0000

David Shuster is an excellent journalist and did put his big foot in it when he made the comment about Chelsea Clinton. Let’s get real – what is Chelsea doing talking to Super Delegates? She’s shmoozing them, just like Hillary, Bill and Obama’s camp.
His comments were completely wrong, but calling for his head won’t do anything but take a good journalist off the air. Remember his reporting on the Libby trial?
I assume he got his butt chewed by his wife, mom and any other female relatives, so putting him out of work won’t do a thing.
Imus on the other hand went down the racist anti-feminist road. He’s been there for years, has his own lemonade stand and the street’s name for him.
Give David a chance to make up for his verbal diarrhea.

By: abfabdem

abfabdem — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:24:55 +0000

And now because it’s the primary we have the odd experience of fellow Democrats on Air America saying this is no big deal and it’s part of the way people speak these days. If this had been said about someone in the Obama camp, would they be so quick to brush it off? (Hey, Progressive Patriot, Obama and his people are calling the super delegates, too, but I’m sure it’s OK when they do it.)

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:56:15 +0000

You do see a pattern emerge with regard to clinton. Yes–this one thing being said all by itself is not that over the top–but taken together it helps for the Corporate media’s narrative of clinton. she is the triagulating flip flopper that won’t take a position on anything. Will say and do anything to get elected. The problem is that you can say this about EVERY politician. But Hillary is beaten with it. You can;t see or read a story about clinton that doesn’t at some point take a jab at her–and I am not a clinton supporter– i liked edwards–and his Corporate media narrative was a self serving trial lawyer that can’t be for progressive ideas because he made money and overpays for haircuts—unfortunately for progressives we need a homeless person to run. So the one comment is nothing to sneeze about but taken in whole a pattern does emerge.

By: Commonsense

Commonsense — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:58:41 +0000

After all the water passing under the bridge and the Clintons are getting prissy about what people say about them. I have sympathy for the Feminist Peace Network having to defend this young girl from this impermissible comment; however, our public language has been corrupted partly through the very agency of her parents. All of this, of course, must be premised on Schuster’s not having been requested to make this idiotic statement by the Clintons themselves to provide a basis for much face time and media time and fake outrage and causing us all to stop from what should be the focus of the day. But for the Clintons that is par for the course.

By: DonnaM

DonnaM — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:35:23 +0000

I think it’s all just more manufactured outrage – much ado about nothing. In the context that Schuster said this, it’s clear it was just a figure of speech. FYI for those who don’t know, Schuster – while subbing on MSNBC’s news show Tucker – said it seemed to him to be weirdly like they were pimping out Chelsea by having her call up hollywood celebs and Dem power-broker Superdelegates to shore up their support for Hillary’s campaign. Frankly, using Chelsea in this manner seems to me to be more inappropriate than Schuster’s choice of words in characterizing it. I think it would be far more appropriate for the Clinton campaign to send Chelsea to college campuses to recruit younger voters than to have her make cold-calls to entertainers and politicians on behalf of her mother! I have found Chris Matthews’ numerous sexist comments about Hillary to be far more offensive and off-color than poor David Schuster’s passing choice of words re: how the type of assignments Chelsea has been given in the Clinton campaign….. I wrote MSNBC’s Steve Capus and Phil Griffin and told them this. I asked them to let Schuster come back soon – I personally miss his reporting. It’s much better than most of the rest of the coverage we see on both MSNBC and CNN. You guys are making a big deal out of nothing! (Like I said – manufactured outrage.) Complain about Chris Matthews and his daily inappropriate comments re: Hillary – not David Schuster, who almost never says anything out of line about anybody! It was clearly just a slip on his part – not an intentional put-down. Cut the guy a break, already!