Bent Corner

From Keith Olbermann’s Sept 20, 2007 “Special Comment“:

And in pimping General David Petraeus, Sir, in violation of everything this country has been assiduously and vigilantly against for 220 years, you have tried to blur the gleaming radioactive demarcation between the military and the political, and to portray your party as the one associated with the military, and your opponents as the ones somehow antithetical to it.

So why can Keith Olbermann use the p-word when describing a four-star Army general, but David Shuster gets suspended for using the word in connection to 27 year old Chelsea Clinton?

My guess it’s because General Petraeus doesn’t care what someone like Keith Olbermann says about him, while Senator Clinton chose to make a Big Deal out of Shuster’s comment. Playing the victim doesn’t look too presidential to me.  If she wants to be president, she needs to buck it up just a little bit. Chelsea Clinton’s not a 12 year old little girl anymore. She is an educated, grown woman that makes her own choices.  She agreed to personally call celebrities and superdelegates to ask them to vote for her mother.  No one forced her.

Hillary Clinton threatened to not participate in a debate sponsored by MSNBC later this month. We should be very leery of politicians that threaten news organizations.

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Hillary Clinton threatened not to attend any more events sponsored by MSNBC over a comment by one of their news personalities, David Shuster. Of course MSNBC knuckled under and suspended Shuster. Caving into pressure is what they do best.

Shuster said that Chelsea Clinton had been “pimped out” to make calls to superdelegates on behalf of her mother, Senator Hillary Clinton.

Only an idiot would think that Shuster meant that Hillary was sending Chelsea out to perform sexual acts with strange men for money. That is how they chose to react to the comment by Shuster implied that Chelsea was a prostitute.

What Shuster should have said was that Hillary Clinton is getting so despite in her run for the White House that she has enlisted her 27 year old daughter to call Democratic operatives to put pressure on them to cast their superdelegate vote for her mother - no matter what the will of the people may be.

In other words, Hillary is pimping Chelsea out.

The more states and delegates Barack Obama wins, the more Hillary is counting on the superdelegates to give her the election.  Since an overwhelming number of these superdelegates have ties to the Clintons, she sees this as a clear advantage over Obama.

Chelsea is not a 14 year old kid anymore. If she is going to help her mother circumvent the democratic process by locking in the superdelegate majority, she is fair game.