We can never miss an opportunity to watch and laugh whenever MSNBC makes mistakes. But now, one of their supposedly official journalists—distinct from the I-man’s role back in “the old days”—used the overly colorful phrase “pimping out” to describe how the Clinton campaign is using Chelsea. Aside from that so-2007 question of whether it’s an acceptable phrase for him to use, gotta love it when MSNBC looks stupid.
David Shuster’s initial crude, insensitive and sexist remark, followed by painful, awkward apology #1:
[UPDATE: Here’s the email correspondence that occurred between Shuster and the Clinton campaign.]
Painful, awkward apology #2:
Disturbing to hear an apology mapped to Shuster’s wooden reporter-ese rhythms.
The following morning, Joe Scarborough, not realizing his mike was live & open, ripped into Shuster after giving him a reputation-bolstering fill-in slot at the Morning Joe desk. Must watch!
[…] Frances Martel wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWe can never miss an opportunity to watch and laugh whenever MSNBC makes mistakes. But now, one of their supposedly official journalists—distinct from the I-man’s role back in “the old days”—used the overly colorful phrase “pimping out” to describe how the Clinton campaign is using Chelsea. Aside from that so-2007 question of whether it’s an acceptable phrase for him to use, gotta love it when MSNBC looks stupid. David Shuster’s initial crude, insensitive and sexist remark, followed by painful, awkward apology #1: […]
Poor David. Getting shot down by Moronic Joe ON Moronic Joe. How low can you go? And that was just the beginning of his fall from grace…I’m sure Joe “knew.” No accident about that…he just wasn’t going to be upstaged by a little twerp in his own time slot. These people have egos.
It’s official, all of the jerks on Mourning Joe are A-Holes……. Glad Imus got out while the getting was good!!!!! 🙂
Mika, cute hair.
Imus knew what he was doing. Mika may have cute hair but she is one of the head strong people who got too big for her britches.
Joe S., as much as we dislike him for taking Imus’ spot is a good person. She loves to attack him at every opportunity.
Her Father is for Obama. At least that is what I remember of the reports.
Mess-NBC is now in its last Voyage to the iceberg. Re-arrange the deck chairs and the boat still sinks 2 miles deep.
Knew it wouldn’t take long before someone linked Imus and Shuster:
http://gothamist.com/2008/02/08/david_shuster_m.php
ENJOY!
And again, Olbermann put his two cents in!
Maybe this sounds stuffy, but all these reporter type guys are wordsmiths or at least, should be, given their jobs. Shuster had every opportunity to choose another word, but chose to go for a slang word that he may have thought was cool. Many people who watch the show may not have been up on the evolution of the word and took offense. Doesn’t bother me particularly, but in the context of the presidential election, it might not have been the best choice, in reference to a candidate’s daughter. Hill’s not my choice, but within the circle of presidential events where we expect a certain amount of decorum, the reporting could hold up its end.
Don’t take me wrong here. I love the scrabble and give and take between the candidates and the general commentary of the reporters, but there is just a little gray area for me, too.
And here is Brocks Statement equating Schusters to Imus.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200802080012#comments
Give him a piece of your mind. I did
Remember the Floridian guy Sinfonian…. Well he posted on the previous thread. I suggest we do a number on him.
Here was my reply on the Previous thread.
“Hey Sinfonian….. Is that what you do? Sin or Fone it In.
Here is your email address recoveringatty1111@comcast.net
Not the idiotic one you wish to put on here.
So when you are ready to do the hustle. Keep posting here and you will get a whole lot of messages from we the Imus friends. And we are just a mere drop in the bucket to the Millions that do not take too kindly to crap spewed from your Computer.
Get a real life and ‘SHUT UP'”
Bruce Bradenton FL.
Bruce, I get hs name, but I guess it’s because I’m such a cunning linguist. It’s a sin that he’s so phony.
Once again exposing another dope who is using the I-Man to get a little blip on their site:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/02/vets_if_theyre_not_homicidal_o.html
Then they have the nerve to follow someone back here……………..
More on Shuster and the I-Man:
http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/02/08/opinion-why-the-shuster-suspension-was-warranted/#comments
ENJOY!
Shuster is a GIT who came to fame {so-called} by way of his reporting on the Plame/Scooter Libby trial. I’m probably only one of 10 people who followed that trial closely – Pork Chop Butts & butt boy Scooter Libby vs. Valerie Plame. Imus was always wondering about the importance of the story with Shuster reporting. In any event, Shuster seems like geek to me & a follower not a leader, I know Walter Cronkite & David aint no Walter. I believe Uncle Walter would have had the grace & sense not to parse rude words regarding the 1st female Presidential contender & her loyal daughter. Shuster you are a git for being so crude & rude.
I already weighed in on this I think it was STAGED Shuster is a big libera,l he shouldn’t show his bias being a news reporter not commentator but he does. He fawns at the Clinton’s feet…so how did this happen? Did he take a Dive this is re Michael Graham’s diggs town analogy for what happened ot Mitt Romney in West Virginia, when the McCain people took a dive so that Huckabee could win. The results will be the perception that the media is hostile to Hillary Clinton and it isn’t, she isn’t getting any better or worse coverage then anyone else but she is behind in delegates, which finally started getting reported correctly. Hillary needs to look sympathetic so how do you do that “stage” a comment that makes her look like a victim of the media.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2008/02/msnbc-suspends-david-shuster-over.html
Now I am probably wrong because we all know MSNBC network is run so professionally and they are so good at reporting the news, we never can tell if they have a political bias. We know the Clintons would never try and manipulate the media or try any dirty tricks. Yeah I am sure this Shuster-Imus Moment is just how it has been “presented” to us.
Blast Off is attacking Bruce and PT:
http://flprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/02/imus-worshippers-fight-back.html
Time to take off the gloves……………..
One of Blast Off’s Friends……
http://southfloridadailyblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/your-morning-sift_09.html
I’m tired of these folks who talk about something that happened almost a YEAR AGO!!!! Is Don Imus the WORST person that is on TV and/or RADIO??? Why is he still being persecuted??? Dang…….
If you DON’T like him, DON’T listen to him!!! Why can’t it be that simple?
Right after the David Shuster comment, and subsequent suspension…I had a gut feeling that pundits and bloggers would immediately lump Imus back into the mix…if only for the basic link of MSNBC.
I was right.
They , in spite of all that is really screwed up in the world and our own country, have very little else to report on. And, THIS is a National News outlet?
Makes me “wanna holler”…
but that won’t stop them, or solve one damned thing.
You can’t cure stupidity, and there are no real statistics on insanity.
Below is my new favorite line and is quoted from a tech article in this mornings NY Times. Seems to relate well to this sinfonian creature. Please use at will
“Someone who lives in the vast gray area between Moron and Complete Idiot”.
This is Marty’s blog that was posted the morning of Feb 6th she states Obama in the lead with delegates I didn’t view the samething on the Imus in the Morning Crawl until Friday. Did anyone notice when it started being reported that Obama was ahead in the MSM the cablenews outlets?
David Shuster made this remark on Thursday. I am just saying everyone is discussing Shuster’s remark about CLINTON in the newscycle but not the important news Obama has been leading in the delegate count, at least known since Marty reported it on Wednesday Morning.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2008/02/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.html
The result of the Shuster comment, Hillary can posture as the underdog and insurgent…no she isn’t, with the Shuster comment, Clinton is getting more attention, then Obama’s delegate lead. Which appeared to break the MSM membrane on Friday?
I don’t know what a sinofinian is? Is it made in China?
I see no reason to engage with this guy except for the sport of rolling in mud with a pig. Since the pig always has more fun than me, and it messes up my hair, I will try to stay away from it.
I have been hearing about Shuster’s comment but I have not been hearing about this which I would add is real news.
You know journalist are supposed to report the news not become the news story. People think he just had a duh moment. I don’t think so. We are always getting the bait and switch and distraction technique from the media.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2008/02/attack_of_the_s.php
ICN Video,
Olbermann apologizes for Shuster…boy they are really into apologizing over at MSNBC, not that I don’t think they have alot to be sorry for 🙂 Griffin behind this ..Brenda Lee “I’m sorry so sorry”
http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/02/09/olbermann-apologizes-for-shuster/
Marty’s Media Manifest:
Twelve years ago two upstart cable TV networks manifested in the cosmic etherland. Fox News and MSNBC joining “serious news” CNN. What has happened since is nothing short of a journalistic breakdown.
The decline and fall of American television news standards was chronicled by Paddy Chayefsky in his prescient script for the 1976 movie “Network” directed by Sidney Lumet. The greedy, corrupt, amoral TV network sacrificed news anchor Howard “I’m Mad As Hell” Beale to the Gods Of Ratings by letting the “Mad Prophet Of The Airwaves” say and do anything on the air.
It took two years for the new cable TV networks to start slip slidin’ away. The seminal (no pun intended) event was the 1998 Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal. The wall-to-wall news coverage of the 1994 O.J. Simpson slow speed freeway police pursuit and the subsequent murder trial provided a glimmer of what was to come.
With the suspension of MSNBC’s David Shuster for his on-air Chelsea Clinton comments, it behooves the TV news industry to conduct an inventory of standards and practices.
To invoke a Clintonesque phrase: It’s time to end “the politics of personal destruction.” Journalism has been jettisoned in pursuit of ratings.
It is time to reign in the likes of Fox News Bill O’Reilly, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews and rewrite the attendant philosphy, practices, and standards banning no-holds-barred slander.
It is time to call a truce between warring cable TV networks, and show hosts. New ground rules must be enacted to set clear boundaries governing appropriate and inappropriate on-air behavior, opinion and analysis.
The David Shuster incident is opening the door for network news management to collectively agree that enough is enough and declare a truce to restore television news to the level of credibility the networks – and viewers – deserve. To invoke a diplomatic term: peaceful coexistence.
Let us embrace the “civil” in civilization.
Marty Davis
http://www.chickaboomer.blogspot.com
Sinofinian – Not even worth wasting energy on..
Ginger
What a pleasant surprise to see Marty Davis posting here. Thank you Marty.
Now onto an important subject. Mr. Sinfonian is hilariously obnoxious that I had to get in the mud with him. Way to let off steam. The person is a nut job.
And for fun find out which Candidate you are akin to by clicking on this link and answering 10 simple multiple choice questions.
http://www.votechooser.com
This is fun too.
Sinfonian ??…okay, I must have spelled IT’s name incorrectly -a thousand apololgies, yeah, whatever..
Okay, Bruce.. I’ll check out that votechooser link.
Ginger
“apologies” –dang, I wish I could spell!
I’m gone…yall have a fun day.
Ginger
Ginger,
Why are you apologizing for goodness sake. I don’t rate comments on spelling, grammar or puntuation. I already got a “D” in that category. LOL
Sinfonian is too ridiculous to not pass up. He is crazy and now has his friends in there defending him. Oh well. Have better things to do today.
Reporter initially defended Chelsea comment
The Clintons are famous for parsing words, certainly they understand a word can have multiple meanings. There was no way “being pimped out” even suggested little Miss Clinton was part of some sort of sexual transaction arranged by her parents.
MSNBC should have defended Shuster, insisting on the alternate meaning of pimped but instead threw him under a bus to assuage the Clintons. This cable network is suffering from a serious lack of management.
Source: Politico Click Here
Marty
Good to see you and Ginger please no apologies necessary 🙂
Oh MSNBC reminds of a Nirvana song…All apologies. MSNBC The Apologists Network 🙂 I know I having way too much fun.
Bruce,
That’s doesn’t mean I won’t enjoy watching the “pig roll” as a spectator sport…:))
Sorry, Ginger. I didn’t mean to mislead about “Sin’s” name-spelling. It was a bad pun to set up the “made in China” wisecrack. I apologize profusely to the nation of China, to my Chinese-American friends, and to Chelsea. I am a good person who said a bad thing.
Sino- (s¨©¡än¨, sin¡ä¨)
Chinese, Chinese and Sinology
Etymology: Fr < LL Sinae < Gr Sinai, an Asian people
Frec –
LMAO, oh and David Shuster you can get up off your knees now!
Should have been David Shuster you can get up off of you knees N.O.W.
The Devil made me do it.
Ree:
I posted here some weeks ago, I believe after Hillary had won Nevada…that Obama led in delegates. I also pointed out towards the ultimate slap in the face of average people in this election, that even if Obama goes into the Democratic Convention with more states won, more overall votes, and more delegates:
He may be shut out.
All because of the 800 “Super Delegates”.
Who are these “Super Delegates”?
They are senators, congressmen and party officials.
They are not bound to their constituency. They can be bought, bribed…and they are, what, in an old political saying (in sports too!) the BIG wild card …the fix is in.
Hillary Clinton had amassed a huge surplus of money to run her campaign, but as of late, and looking at recent trends, it is my belief that she is taking the avenue of pouring her resources towards getting the majority of those “Super Delegates.
That MAY be the reason her cash flow is ebbing in regular primary efforts…but she is now looking (my own opinion) to circumvent the inevitable outcome by an end route.
…and Obama knows it. If she succeeds…she will fracture the party and that will be all. There will be many bitter common people, who thought by being proactive in the process and winning by casting their votes as the common voters…to have been betrayed.
…and all those new enthused voters that have turned out en masse for these Democratic primaries?
The will be completely turned off, soured, disenfranchised…and may well rebel…meaning they may very well sit out the election.
Frec,
The devil made me do it.
Me: I am a smart ass, I say these things all the time 🙂
DonaldInks, I am not a Democrat anymore but I will be willing to enter the fray if this comes to pass.
If code pink can chain itself to the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Office. I figure the least I can do is chain myself to something for Obama!
Hillary Clinton’s rant: it isn’t right, it isn’t fair…answer, a black man’s left leg.
Marty:
That was an excellent post, and you are “spot on” as to the analogy of the movie “Network”, which was, in my mind…light years ahead of its time.
When Ted Turner first launched CNN…they were admirable, in fact: they just reported the news, gave the listeners a chance to hear both sides to any story…and let the viewer decide and analyze.
Now?…..You can not call ONE of the Major News outlets in Major Media unbiased. THEY have become the news. THEY tell you what to think.
And what do I think?
They ALL suck.
To all the wonderful posters here.
The Clinton machine is at their old tricks again. Everyone bows to them as if they were Gods.
Sweet Little Chelsea 27 years old. Why can’t she talk with the media? If she is shy why can she contact stars and super-delegates on behalf of her Mother. Or as I like to say. “Hiding behind her Mother’s Boxer shorts”.
Pimping is not a sexist term. Here is the other meaning of the word “Pimp” or “Pimping”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimp#Other_uses
Remember the term “Pimping my Ride” on MTV. Gussy up etc.
If innocent little Chelsea (A grown Woman) is going to contact these Super Delegates isn’t that sort of unethical?
Not sure of the election rules. But if it becomes a matter of having these Super Delegates go against us the common folks that vote for someone. What is the sense of this Primary and Caucus Voting? It is an exercise in futility.
I say parse – others parse
Gibson on Shuster.
http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/02/09/gibson-on-shuster/
Hey Bruce, I wish you would make that same argument on ICN whyShusters suspension was warrented or something like that blog. I was explaining to Arthur SUPER DELEGATES are not like Chelsea is just campaigning for her mother, a little more involved and serious not just Chelsea out glad handing the electorate.
Well – at least these postings have moved on from dogs & donuts. Albeit, to go back to bashing the Clinton family. LOL
Dogs and Donuts??? Must have missed that one Stdomsgrl.
Well I placed my reply on Spuds blog. We will see what reaction happens. Thanks for the heads up Ree.
Just heard Huckabee beat McCain in the Kansas Caucus. Good Grief.
Re: dogs & donuts – I got this site confused with the OTHER site. Yup – am getting old!
On the lighter side of things.
Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, almost exactly 61 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico . This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal Agencies and organizations.
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of March 1948, nine months after that historic day, the ollowing people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
See what happens when aliens breed with sheep?
I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you.
It did for me.
We are still into dogs and donuts on the other site. It’s nice to give ourselves a break from devilishness once in a while. Dogs, donuts, and I just added some daffodils into the mix… some of it’s wickedly tongue in cheek, folks, but mostly its good-natured camaraderie.
Bruce and Laree– I had this English teacher in high school who was so strict about spelling that I’ve never been able to shake the monkey off my back… LOL
Well, Bruce I’m actually glad you stood up to sino, fino, gino, whatever!
Yeah, frec, it’s all your fault. I had just been your reading post about it.. ha
I have used the pimpmyprofile myspace editor..The ad for it looks kind of naughty on my myspace site. LOL
Ginger
Yes Ginger,
I too use to be a stickler for spelling. But found out that I was the worst offender of them all. And my Grammar is horrendous.
By the way if I didn’t say this before. I never use the words that I used on Sinfonian’s site elsewhere. He just seemed to deserve that kind of treatment.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
well, actually, March would be 8 months after the crash. do we know if they were preemies? LOL