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Thread #108489   Message #2258507
Posted By: GUEST,Guest
10-Feb-08 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Pimpin' Chelsea
Subject: RE: BS: Pimpin' Chelsea
This reporter is from the younger generation, and isn't a boomer. Honestly, I think he was going for the politico reporter hot shot thing--he was appearing as a guest on the tragically unhip Tucker Carlson show. Now, I know for Repubs Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter is as hip as it gets. Hence their tendency to use popular vernaculars of the youth culture inappropriately, in the same way Imus got caught up in using the nasty boomer racist vernacular inappropriately.

Bottom line is, the American public is fed up with the shock jock mentality, and the spurious and scurrilous attack game against some of the finest young women (who are perceived as innocents in both cases) in the country, as happened in the case with Imus, and with the 'well bred, well heeled' Chelsea case.

As far as I'm concerned, it is time to hoist the media by their own damn petard, and I think a lot of other folks see it that way too.

In other words, the fact that it is Chelsea Clinton this time isn't the most relevant corollary here. That it is being done as a repulsive partisan attack against the Clinton campaign, by going after her kid, is what disgusts most people, including me.

If that is the length the media is going to go to stir the shit pot, then, I think, people want the media to suffer the consequence, including their corporate network daddies who keep encouraging this sort of shock mock journalism for the ratings.