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Posted by: TimALoftis 7 months ago

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On Thursday's "Tucker" on MSNBC, David Shuster, who was serving as guest-host of the program, made a comment about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign that was irresponsible and inappropriate. Shuster, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology.

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jordan117 months ago

Rhetoric has been so ugly for years, I'm not surprised someone would use 'pimped out' without a thought to its implication.
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SonOfTheMask7 months ago

Talk about your chilling effects on free speech. A guy makes an offhand comment, Hillary's campaign makes a big deal about it, and now the guy is suspended?
If I had been in charge at the network, I would have said, "Hey, you want to grandstand and threaten that you won't come on NBC/MSNBC and debate Obama? No problem, we'll give all the airtime to Obama instead..."
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TimALoftis7 months ago

Clearly Mr. Shuster went over the line in using that term. I don't really understand where he was coming from with his comments. Chelsea is 28 years old...she has every right to campaign for her mother. If she did not want to do it, I am confident she would not be out there.
As far as being suspended for it...I am a little surprised.
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ameliog7 months ago

puzzling over this.
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  TimALoftis7 months ago
  
  Tonight on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann on behalf of David Shuster and NBC News offered an apology to Chelsea, Hillary, and to Bill Clinton.
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      NelsonR7 months ago
      
      But the truth never hurts when facts are indisputable. With Bush the facts are factual by past events. The comments on Chelsea were not deserved nor warranted.
      Bush deserves rebuke and hatred and so far the world and most Americans hate Bush and his present policies. Bush is an idiot that only another idiot would follow.
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kboy7 months ago

Is this another Hillary Moment? Do not use your husband and your daughter in the political arena and expect them to still be treated as "hands off". If he had said she was being used as a political shill, that would have been correct. And this was MSNBC, not Fox.
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mmrhe7 months ago

I agree this is a bit of a stretch. This term is used more and more as not just a euphamism for prostitution but anyone being "used" by another for that person's gain.
Obviously, a little too vulgar for MSNBC. I thought it was pretty funny.
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RedstateLib7 months ago

I wonder what the reaction would be if he made the same statement about Oprah?
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