Chelsea Clinton
The Associated Press

The Clinton campaign didn't like David Shuster's comments about Chelsea.

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The 'pimp' comment: Is MSNBC sexist?

MSNBC correspondent David Shuster has been suspended for suggesting the Clinton campaign had "pimped out" Chelsea Clinton on the campaign trail. The suspension follows by a few weeks the Chris Matthews apology for his comments about Hillary Clinton's political campaign -- and activists are starting to suggest there's a pattern of sexism at MSNBC.

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Ben likes: It's hard out there for a Clinton

James Poulos/The American Scene

In a world where pimping out your ride is a great honor, ‘sort of’ pimping out your daughter would appear to be less of an honor primarily on account of the ‘sort of’ qualifier. Of course, Shuster was trying to be less-than-honorable, obeying another cardinal rule of MSM Edginess: degrade obliquely.

But he was under marching orders — probably not written in neat hand by an MSNBC intern, but certainly uploaded into his hard drive over many years spent in moving through a high-budget industry devoted largely to making itself comfortable with the great American lowbrow.

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Joel likes: Missing the forest for the tree

Andrew Golis/Talking Points Memo

Put in the context of his un-punished colleagues, I find Shuster's suspension deeply absurd. Shuster, for anyone who missed the hubub yesterday, said that Hillary Clinton was "pimping out" her daughter Chelsea because Chelsea is campaigning for her. Stupid on the merits and an obviously gross and sexist metaphor. But worse than the persistent misogyny that comes from Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, and Tucker Carlson? Worse than, hour after hour and day after day, laying out a sexist worldview that might actually persuade viewers?

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