More Shuster

[brak666]

Perfect:

In context, yeah, MSNBC's Chris Matthews has been a dick about Hillary Clinton. And David Brock over at Media Matters, who helped blow Shuster's remarks from a little aside on one of the lowest-rated shows on television to big, bad sexism, has a lot of anti-Hillary karma to work off, Brock being one of the primary reasons that Clinton is such an unfairly reviled figure.

But the fact remains that Hillary Clinton agreed to a debate on Fox "news" despite all the not-very-nice things said about Chelsea (not to mention the "incredibly offensive" things spewed by Fox about Bill and her constantly). And she threatened to bail on MSNBC's debate, refusing to accept Shuster's apology and even Keith Olbermann's prostration. (The debate was canceled after Barack Obama agreed to another one on CNN.)

That means that she leapt at Shuster's remark as a way of keeping sympathy for her and her family in the news, a distraction from Obama's primary/caucus sweep this weekend. She used this Chelsea situation as a way to kick start some desperately needed fundraising.

And that, motherfuckers, is pretty much the definition of pimping.

Comments

[kc-risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

You are really into all this political stuff, aren't you? I guess it is important that some people are. I am NOT critisizing. I just can't do it anymore. Like I said before, I read on their stances on the issues that are important to me, and vote. I want Hilary before Obama and ANY Republican...

[brak666.livejournal.com]

I'm more into it this year than I have been. Political coverage has gotten a lot more entertaining over that last few years.

I can't just vote on the issues though. Character is important. I've been ignoring a lot of bad behavior on Hillary's part. This incident is just the final straw for me. I don't need another petty, vindictive, hypocritical president. I've been dealing with that for far too long.

[kc-risenphoenix.livejournal.com]

I don't need another petty, vindictive, hypocritical president. I've been dealing with that for far too long.

You aren't going to vote Republican, are you???

[brak666.livejournal.com]

Well, right now I'm thinking about the primary, so I couldn't vote republican if I wanted to.

If she gets the nomination I'll have to think very carefully about whether or not I want to vote for her. Which is not to say that voting republican is my only other option.