A few days ago Robin Morgan dismissed Caroline Kennedy's support for Obama as a kind of vile Electra complex for her dead daddy. That made the rounds with lots of cheers but nary a complaint by feminists who see Clinton as an icon.

I expect that this kind of talking point will be overlooked by Clinton supporters, just like Gloria Steinem's "Women are never frontrunners" op-ed.

From the February 8 edition of MSNBC's Tucker:

    NORAH O'DONNELL (guest host): But we begin with MSNBC's David Shuster, who has a comment about something he said on this show last night.

    SHUSTER: Last night during the show, I spoke about Chelsea Clinton and noted the affection that so many of us have for her. I also spoke about phone calls she has made to super delegates to convince them to support her mom. In describing this effort, I used a phrase that was inappropriate, and I apologize to the Clinton family, the Clinton campaign, and all of you who were justifiably offended. As I said this morning on MSNBC, all Americans should be proud of Chelsea Clinton, and I am particularly sorry that my language diminished the regard and respect she has earned from all of us and the respect her parents have earned in how they raised her.

    O'DONNELL: OK, David.

I agree that his comment more reflected a disgust at a family member supporting a candidate than it was a sexist attack.  I think the Clintons are overly sensitive to any charge that they are being unseemly by campaigning for Hillary.

But c'mon.  This is getting silly.  His comment was no worse than one hears daily in heated political discussions.  Hillary simply does well when she's the victim.  I bet she has a moment on air shortly before the next elections where she "tears up" about how the media has treated Chelsea.

But this stuff backfires.  It reminds people of the politically correct 90s that most average people recoil at (and they also associate liberals with pcness).  This stuff will just drive Hillary's negatives higher and get her the sympathy vote of the media and Republicans being mean to her.

Sigh.  This is what we have to look forward to with a Hillary candidacy.

is a Shuster Suspension like a Romney Suspension? (ie, does this impact the delegate count in any way?).

It was a stupid choice of words and people were rightfully offended by them...so he sincerely apologized and that should be the end of the story.  Chelsea Clinton is an adult now and for some reason, though she's heavily involved in her mother's campaign, she is still being sheltered from the press as if she's that awkward teenager during her father's tenure in the white house. What's up with that?

And then there is this:
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MSNBC's Shuster falsely suggested Mark Penn first brought up Obama drug use issue on Hardball
Summary: On MSNBC's Morning Joe, David Shuster asked Clinton campaign chief strategist Mark Penn if it was a "mistake" when he "brought up a word and reminded people of [Sen.] Barack Obama's past drug use" on Hardball in December 2007. But, Penn was not the one to bring up Obama's past drug use; it was Chris Matthews. Matthews, as well as Norah O'Donnell, have falsely asserted that Penn brought up the issue.

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I can tell that everyone who wrote comments here today are male.  Funny that.

I'm not surprised that David said this on Tucker's show, I suspect he was encouraged to be a bit slimy. He's normally a good reporter.

is apparently going to address the apology on his show.

Is it me or do the Clintons just thrive in this type of political pie fight?  Hillary couldn't have picked a better issue.  She certainly didn't want it to be a debate over her foreign policy beliefs.  So we now have to stop all political debate to argue over the use of the word pimp and get to talk about how unfair the media is to the Clintons.  Jeez.  Shoot me now because I cannot take this if this is going to be "debate" during the general if Hillary is the nominee.  I tell you.  We are being held hostage while the baby boomers resolve their issues from high school.  Is lil' Bush and Rove going to win or will Bill and Hill finally prove that the baby boomers are progressives that made America safe for a right-leaning female corporate schill (what, should I have said "whore"?).

Let's compare apples and apples and check what I posted:

Then there's the hypocrisy from MSNBC.  As dnA over at Jack and Jill Politics posted, Pat Buchanan had this to say 2 week ago:

"in South Central L.A. [Los Angeles]" and "in the prisons" as evidence that tensions between African Americans and Latinos would affect voting in the Democratic primary. Buchanan said: "I regret to say you are mistaken about the African American community and the Hispanics. South Central L.A., there is a turf war going on. There's a war in the prisons." Buchanan continued, "People who don't understand that don't understand America, I'm sorry to say."

Go to Media Matters to watch that racist prick spew this.

Gee.  I don't remember...was Buchanan suspended for spouting this stuff?

No?  Well, that's not right...I'm sure the liberal blogosphere was just atwitter and besides themselves regarding Buchanan's statement.

No?

I wish I could say that I'm surprised.

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Since there have been so many posts re Schusters comment and suspension, I doubt that this will get read but what the hell. By focusing on the Schuster comment, the focus has been once again be directed exactly the way the media heads want it to be. Wake up folks! If schusters comments are unnacceptable, what the hell do Matthews never ebnding slurs directed against women reflect? Or how about having on the variety of pigs and slanderers such as buchanan. This is pure and simple BULLSHIT! Schuster is the latest piece of meat needed to misdirect the anger!
His record of reportage has been so on target that he had become a threat! Pure and simple.
Its better to see that Nora bitch with here stupid laugh and her ridulous laugh or that Fox lineup of abhorrent group of pigs! Give me a break.
Now, msnbc can tout their desire to portray themselves and presenters of the news!
WAKE THE HELL UP and FOCUS!
All they did was get rid of a potential threat to their message!

So who is the whore?

Schuster is put on the tube based on nothing more than his abilities with his mouth. MSNBC could not make enough money pimping his sorry opinions and are now using this pathetic excuse to kick him into the gutter they got him from.

BLOCK FOX, MSNBC AND CNN!

I have had these three channels blocked from my TV for two years now and I have no lack of news. There are newspapers and the internet. Either of which are trying to shove their right-wing propaganda and hate-mongering down my throat.

The added benefit is that I no longer have the blood pressure problems I had when watching that fascist garbage each day.

Shuster should iron Chelsea's shirts.

I'm running for the US Senate again, Wisconsin 2012.