“Pimped Out” Is Not Offensive February 10, 2008
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HILLARY NEEDS TO GET OVER IT
FITSNews - February 10, 2008 - In the hit MTV show “Pimp My Ride,” an amazing thing happens. Automobiles actually have sex with each other - for money. Seriously, it’s like an X-rated version of the Disney film “Cars,” except Lightning McQueen and Sally Carrera take their paint off and engage in all sorts of lewd and lascivious acts.
Of course we’re kidding, because everybody knows cars can’t hump each other. At least we don’t think they can. Everybody also knows that the term “pimped out” has taken on a number of different meanings in today’s society. In the case of the MTV show, it means “to make cool through ornamentation.” In the case of MSNBC anchor David Shuster - who used the phrase to describe the Clintons‘ (excessive?) use of their daughter Chelsea in Hillary’s presidential campaign - it means “to exploit.”
Yet in the bizarro, eternally-opportunistic, anally-Oprahfied world of modern day American politics, Hillary is intentionally playing the maternal victim and holding Mr. Shuster (and MSNBC, for that matter) to the most literal definition of the term.
From Reuters:
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she took “deep offense” at comments by an MSNBC anchor about her daughter Chelsea’s role in her campaign and said she still had not decided whether to participate in a debate sponsored by the network later this month.
“I am a mom first and a candidate second and I found the remarks incredibly offensive,” Clinton said at a news conference on Saturday at the University of Maine. ”I have sent a letter to the head of NBC expressing the deep offense that I took.”
MSNBC said in a statement on Friday that Shuster had apologized to the Clintons on-air for the remark and was suspended from broadcasts except to make the apology, but Clinton suggested in her letter to MSNBC that the cable network should go further to make amends.
“Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient,” she said in the letter.
Pressed on whether she would participate in the debate that will be hosted by the network on Feb. 26, Clinton said: ”We’re going to wait and see how this plays out.”
Jeez.
You know, we’re gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that when Hillary says “we’re going to wait and see how this plays out” what she really means is “we’re going to see how long we can milk this as a potential rallying point to bring females back to my flagging campaign.” Because as much as Hillary’s ideas suck, and as much as Barack Obama is kicking her ass all over the country lately, she’s still no idiot.
Hillary knows this guy wasn’t implying that her daugher was out working a Vegas streetcorner for campaign funds, and she knows most of you know that, too.
But there are plenty of stupid people out there, and plenty more people who aren’t stupid but for whatever reason seem to enjoy being treated that way.
And so we end up with yet another manufactured scandal built around calculated contempt and poll-driven outrage - all of it based on a remark that when you get right down to it is only offensive because we live in a country that’s so desperate to be offended.
So get over yourself, Hillary. Quit playing to the “Oprah common denominator” and get on with the business of losing to a guy you were supposed to have vanquished months ago.
Oh, just in case you were wondering, we’re not “pimping” for Obama here, either. Quite frankly we think his ideas suck, too.
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