{"id":799,"date":"2008-02-14T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T21:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=799"},"modified":"2013-02-07T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:49:21","slug":"the-clintonshuster-affair-winds-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"The Clinton\/Shuster Affair Winds Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Word has it that David Shuster, who was suspended<\/a> for using a common colloquial that is even featured in the title of a popular television show on MTV, will be returning<\/a> to the air on February 22.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Hillary Clinton, who has been railing about Shuster’s comment, and threatening to boycott MSNBC, has confirmed that she will participate<\/a> in a debate on the network February 26 – the week following Shuster’s return. I always thought Clinton’s over-reaction was politically motivated, and I think this decision is as well. With her campaign teetering, she likely believes that the exposure of a nationally televised debate is more valuable than a few more days of righteous indignation.<\/p>\n

Throughout this affair, Clinton has narrowed the scope of her rage to only MSNBC, despite the fact that Fox News has been a far worse offender. While she was considering whether to ditch the MSNBC debate, she had already accepted one on Fox (Obama did not accept and its originally scheduled date has passed).<\/p>\n

\"C.U.N.T.\"It is unclear whether Shuster ever got credit for demanding<\/a> that right-wing Republican dirty-trickster, Roger Stone, take responsibility for a profane anti-Clinton organization<\/a> he founded called “Citizens United Not Timid,”<\/em> or C.U.N.T. Their stated mission is to “Educate the American public about what Hillary Clinton really is.”<\/em> Wow, those Republicans are really classy! Check out that logo.<\/p>\n

Finally, Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo<\/a> has confirmed that Shuster was never really Clinton’s primary target:<\/p>\n

“As dumb and clueless as Shuster’s “pimp” remark, this was never really about him. The Clinton campaign, while genuinely upset about what Shuster said, lashed out at the network because they were primarily irked by Matthews’ conduct…”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still wonder when they will become irked by Fox News’ conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Word has it that David Shuster, who was suspended for using a common colloquial that is even featured in the title of a popular television show on MTV, will be returning to the air on February 22. What’s more, Hillary Clinton, who has been railing about Shuster’s comment, and threatening to boycott MSNBC, has confirmed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[151,125,31,22,239],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-chris-matthews","tag-david-shuster","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-msnbc","tag-roger-stone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":788,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=788","url_meta":{"origin":799,"position":0},"title":"Hillary Clinton’s Hypocritical Pimped Out Rage","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/8\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"[Updated with new Clinton response] First things first. when David Shuster asked, \"...doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?\" he couldn't have been more wrong. 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