David Shuster suspended

[flopflipper]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/shuster_suspended_for_pimped_out_comment_77059.asp

Man, the Clintons really are sacred cows.

 

[slappy4428]

She is... what did he say that was so wrong?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Do believe he could have phrased it a different way, and gotten away with the observation.

The phraseology he used left him on the thinnest of ice.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

What absolute bull****!

 

[Chi City 81]

I think the comment was a tad out of bounds. I also believe the only reason the suspension happened is to protect the Obama-Clinton debate later this month on ... MSNBC.

 

[steveu]

Guess we better be all careful. Else we might join Vince Foster in a shallow grave somewhere.

 

[wickedwritah]

Once again, Hillary plays the victim card.

How can anyone vote for a woman who complains about exploitation, when she has exploited anything that has come her way? Philandering, sexism, whatever she can exploit, she does.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Oh, this is all bull****.
For 15 years, it has been permissable -- even encouraged -- to say almost anything about the Clintons on national television. FNC aside, Matthews has been greasy and inhuman on the subject for a decade. It got so bad this year that he had to apologize and that, of course, pissed off all his manly man buddies. This comment -- is Meghan McCain being "pimped" for her father? Cate Edwards? Liz Cheney? -- is over the line, out of bounds, and under a truck. Good for MSNBC.

 

[Webster]

I am baffled that anyone would think that his comments were appropriate and that he shouldn't receive some punishment.

 

[beardpuller]

What he said. (Fenian)
To everybody on this board who has to turn something ****ty done to the Clintons into them playing some kind of "card" -- Screw you, asswipe.
But why waste energy on someone who thinks "Clintons" takes an apostrophe.
Do you really have a job writing or editing?????

 

[wickedwritah]

I hope she boycotts the debate. Shows what a petty, churlish person she is.

And his comments may not have been appropriate, but considering who is doing the whining, I have no sympathy.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Not going to vent towards HRC on this one.

No way.

There's already enough ammo.

 

[flopflipper]

What he said. (Fenian)
To everybody on this board who has to turn something ****ty done to the Clintons into them playing some kind of "card" -- Screw you, asswipe.
But why waste energy on someone who thinks "Clintons" takes an apostrophe.
Do you really have a job writing or editing?????

Hey, thanks for the grammar lesson. I apologize for not proofing my post.

You know damn well if Shuster said that about Jenna Bush he wouldn't have been suspended. When does Erin Burnett return from her suspension for calling Bush a monkey?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

He'd have been suspended for saying that about Jenna Bush and rightly so. Does anyone here work for a paper where a writer would be allowed to use the phrase "pimped out" about the child of the subject of a story? I doubt it.

 

[flopflipper]

He'd have been suspended for saying that about Jenna Bush and rightly so. Does anyone here work for a paper where a writer would be allowed to use the phrase "pimped out" about the child of the subject of a story? I doubt it.

This coming from our resident romance writer.

 

[sportschick]

Who just happens to be correct.

 

[Thanks for comin' out]

What he said. (Fenian)
To everybody on this board who has to turn something ****ty done to the Clintons into them playing some kind of "card" -- Screw you, asswipe.
But why waste energy on someone who thinks "Clintons" takes an apostrophe.
Do you really have a job writing or editing?????

Hey, thanks for the grammar lesson. I apologize for not proofing my post.

You know damn well if Shuster said that about Jenna Bush he wouldn't have been suspended. When does Erin Burnett return from her suspension for calling Bush a monkey?

Exactly. No ****in' way this even gets posted if this comment is geared towards a republican's family. We probably wouldn't even know it happened.
Except for Fenian, of course. I know he would have been livid because his moral compass sees no political party.

 

[zeke12]

This thread did not begin -- and neither will it middle or end -- well.

 

[Ace]

I missed the part of the story where Hillary called and bitched and pressured MSNBC to suspend the guy. Can someone email me that?

 

[Armchair_QB]

I'm no Clinton fan but that comment was uncalled for and totally inappropriate. He deserves to get some time off for it.