That’s what MSNBC correspondent David Shuster asked while interviewing two guests about Chelsea Clinton’s role in her mother’s campaign, according to the WaPo.com (actual clip is here, and see also.) There aren’t enough hours in the day to blog every example of the sexist garbage being thrown at Hillary Clinton these days, but this post at Shakesville gives a useful if depressing overview.
–Ann Bartow
Update here.
Taylor Marsh has an excellent post about this. Some commenters are listing names of advertisers to contact in protest. Sexist have been coming from MSNBC for a long time now. Many of us have sent e-mails to no avail. It’s time to protest to sponsors. taylormarsh.com
Not surprisingly, the Clintons have noticed the pattern coming out of MSNBC and are threatening reprisals.
“Threatening reprisals” would be one way to characterize it I guess. But I think there is room to believe Hillary is acting on principle here. And I’d say the same thing if Obama was being accused of “pimping” his wife or children, or if a Republican candidate was being accused of this.
I didn’t intend my language to mean anything about being unprincipled. (I guess I’m not familiar with negative connotations of that phrase – my bad?) I think what she’s doing is 100% correct. MSNBC’s hosts clearly aren’t ready to respect women in this campaign.
I’m probably overly sensitized, and should step away from the computer for a while.
[...] The outrage over MSNBC’s David Shuster’s remarks about Chelsea Clinton got him suspended and MSNBC threatened by the Clinton camp. Isn’t what John McCain said about Chelsea in 1998, when she was only 18, much worse? Apparently, the news media generally refused to print the “joke” that McCain told as part of prepared remarks before a Republican audience: “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.” [...]