Clinton people are shooting themselves in the foot with this one. He was just using slang and it really is no big deal. Maybe she just wanted to get in the news but they overreacted here.

I'm for Barack, first of all, but Shuster's comment is over the board. He needs to learn a lesson. He's talking on national tv not at his home where what he has said is probably (normally) happening within his family.

David Shuster's remarks were highly offensive, basically calling Chelsea a whore and her mother a pimp. Such mortal insults are rarely well received. Unfortunately, MSNBC has fostered this culture, pushing their politics of personal attack to the edge. So MSNBC can hardly claim it is unexpected when this culture produced a comment like Shuster's which SOARS FAR over the edge.

This is not only offensive to women. Any man with a wife and daughter understands the harm when someone publicly calls their daughter a whore and their wife a pimp, then smirks and laughs in their face. Isn't that what David Shuster of MSNBC did? Sure it is.

I'm a white male. The remarks were offensive and way over the edge (Shuster can be heard snickering in the backround after making the remark), the call for Shuster's head was proper, Shuster's "apology" compounded MSNBC's problem by being insincere, and MSNBC under-reacted by only suspending him temporarily. I doubt its over.

David Who?..........
Oh yeah! - David Scheister

Shuster's comment is simply the logical extension of the anti-Clinton reporting begun by Chris Mathews. Because Shuster took it too far his punishment should be more severe. However his media pimp, Mathews, should not pass unscathed.

You know, my problem isn't with phrase "pimped out." True, it's damned distasteful, but it's just a phrase. What I find ridiculous and offensive is the press taking perfectly normal activity - in this case, a family member helping with a campaign - and implying that it's something corrupt, questionable - "unseemly." Why does the media CONSTANTLY do this with the Clintons? And NOBODY else?

Hillary Clinton's daughter is helping out with her mother's campaign. So? Why does this jackass Shuster seem to think that there's something wrong and "unseemly" about that?

It didn't seem to bother Shuster when one of Mitt Romney's sons was recording messages in Spanish to help his father's campaign in Florida. You have a perfectly upstanding young woman helping her mother's campaign and that's unseemly? Yet somehow the impudent, spoiled behavior of the Bush twins is OK? It's interesting to me that a media that bent right over for the Bush Administration every step of the way is so against the Clintons. I have to wonder what their motives are, probably in direct contrast with the interest of those making UNDER 250,000 a year.

The comment is reprehensible. Ms C Clintons actions are perfectly normal for a 27 year old woman who supports a candidate. Obama girl is neat to Matthews and Shuster , but Hilary is a caculative slut to them. HMMMMMMM?

He has been anti-Clinton from the beginning. He was all over Bill when he worked at Fox News. Maybe he still thinks he works there.

Yet another example of how the US Media will stoop to any levels to attract eyeballs... This isnt reporting.. This is pandering. Seriously dude be responsible because there are several folks watching the program.. His comment was reprehensible and he should be punished

On MSNBC's Hardball with Cris Matthews the Clinton's are pounded on any and everything they do. At the end of his show, his round table is made up of Clinton haters who make remarks that can't be rebutted, and leaves viewers with a thought that if Cris thinks this way, it must be true. The biggest Clinton hater is not David Shuster, but Rachel Madow of Air America. I don't think she has ever said a good thing about the Clintons, and when Keith Olbermann brings her on his show, you can expect some snide remark about Bill or Hillary. The pimp remark is kinda tame after listening to Chris and Rachel.....

I guess it is a generational thing, but I don't find the phrase "pimped out" that offensive. The metaphor has been dead to me for a long time now so I don’t picture actual pimps and whores.
What I do find offensive is that the Democratic party holds their own membership in such contempt that 40% of the primary has to be decided by career politicians in backroom deals. Nobody cares that peoples family support them, that is expected. I think what David was talking about here is sending the Clinton daughter to sweet talk these "super delegates". Again though, as long as super delegates exist, campaigns are going to stop at nothing to pander to them across the board. Why do we voters put up with this garbage from our party?

It was the time delay between the insult and the apology that will hurt David Shuster and MSNBC, in the exact same way and for the exact same reasons similar delays have damaged other media reputations. The delay (and initial refusal to even acknowledge the mistake) clearly implied that Shuster (like Chris Matthews several weeks earlier) didn't quite "get it" until MSNBC brass explained it to him. If media personalities want to avoid escalating mistakes like this they should take an immersion program in public relations crisis management -- the advice they should follow is pretty straightforward: a proper apology, according to http://www.perfectapology.com, should always include the following:

1. a detailed account of the situation
2. acknowledgement of the hurt or damage done
3. taking responsibility for the situation
4. recognition of your role in the event
5. a statement of regret
6. asking for forgiveness
7. a promise that it won't happen again
8. a form of restitution whenever possible

Obviously perfect apologies work best when delivered to recipients who are prepared to forgive. But when the aggrieved community sees an opportunity to push the hurt a little further then no apology is likely to be good enough. And that is precisely where we are today -- we're in the midst of a political charged election environment where the primary imperative is not to be reasonable but to search for ways to generate support for your side. When media personalities like MSNBC's David Shuster or Chris Mathews (or MSNBC's Don Imus, or Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman, etc.) screw up by insulting Chelsea or Hillary (or the Rutgers University women's basketball team, or Tiger Woods, etc.) even perfect apologies may not work, for perfectly rational political reasons.

The real error in these cases was not the initial mistake but the fact that the best, most sincere and meticulously worded apology was the last one to be issued by those who screwed up. What is so fascinating (and perplexing) about the rising number of failed public apologies over the last few years is that so few public figures (surrounded by public relations advisers) really know how to do it well, or quickly enough.

Peter F. Goolpacy

Big deal, its no more than the comments her father made down there in S.C., which in my opinion hit a real low for him. I defended him more than once but that was directed against a fine decent man who did not deserve it, so you think what David said was bad well I say big deal.

David Schuster is not a law abiding person. He is a lawless thug. I worked side by side with him in Little Rock covering the Whitewater trials and he was extremely abusive to me. He harassed me inside of the Federal courthouse in Little Rock and on the grounds of the Whitehouse. His harassment of me continued for months. I filed a complaint against him with the federal marshalls and with the local station who employed him. Nothing was done about him. I am not surprised that he would abuse the nation's airwaves with his unlawful characterizations of Chelsea Clinton. Not only should he be fired, he should be sued for defamation, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for intentional harassment. He should have been prosecuted for what he did to me in Arkansas and in DC and the only reason he wasn't was because he was a Clinton hater. Given his history of harassment, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and immediately. Judith Haney, USNewsLink

Once again, the obvious unfairness of criticizing Hillary Clinton and her campaign for doing something that is perfectly fine for the other male candidates to do, just reaffirms that bias towards women is still alive and well in the U.S.

Funny, I don't hear Al Sharpton raising cane about this incident, that wreaks of the same distastefulness as the Don Imus comment -- but then I guess Chelsea isn't black enough.

I am not so naive to think that perhaps Shuster may have been pimped out by MSNBC in an effort to continue their Clinton-bashing campaign.

Hillary does not need to participate in debates on MSNBC -- I certainly won't be watching this network any longer, and neither will anyone else with an ounce of integrity and decency.

If it is true that Mr. Shuster has ascended to MSNBC from Fox News, than perhaps they would like to have him back.

It is not so much that his commentary was offensive, than that it shows a lack of self-respect. For someone who considers himself so well educated, he has lowered himself to something that he clearly does not feel ashamed for. He obviously needs to gain the attention of an audience who finds that kind of comment acceptable. And since Mr. McCain has said equally offensive things about Ms. Chelsea Clinton in the past, perhaps Mr. Shuster has some friends waiting for him there at Fox who might appreciate him. Maybe he can join 'Fox & Friends."

I do feel sorry for him since he clearly does not understand that he has done anything wrong.

Shame on Shuster, that "low-sinking" idiot who would say the likes of this on "International TV." It is obvious that he has a bitter grudge against the Clintons. Maybe he is anti-Women too. Women in power, or those vying for power should really do everything to clean up this mess, and rid the swine-infested media of vernon like this. If he said this about Obama, and his family, can you imagine the outcry from anti-everything,loud-mouthed Sharpton? When will the media learn to play fair? Its perfectly fine for Chelsea to campaign for her mother, but its not fine for Shuster to compare it to "prostitution."

If a disparaging comment is made toward a white male nothing is done. Blacks and women are so damn sensitive to almost any comment. If Shuster is fired, I personally will not watch MSNBC anymore and tell my friends to do the same.

I think it is so bias against the Clintons. Cris should pull his head out from between his legs to. he never has a good thing to say, and is allways trying to stir up some controversy over the Clintons. I done much better under the Clinton administration than the Bush's i will be lucky to servive this last 8 years. I am not a person with money. And I have a lot less since this rich giveaway sack of crap took over. Just check your doctor exspenses now to 8 years ago

Speaking of Chelsea Clinton:

There is bad news about her father.

It is opined that Bill Clinton committed racist hate crimes, and I am not free to say anything further about it.

Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Y. Wang, J.D. Candidate
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are probably thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post. Moreover, there are innumerable copies in very many countries around the world.)
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“If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Off the top of my head—it came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.