Pimp Gate Update: MSNBC's Ethics Don’t Extend to Bush Twins

[Guest Guest]

MSNBC's reaction to David Shuster's "pimped out" Chelsea Clinton comment is an extraordinary example of the double standard that exists at this admittedly left-leaning cable network.

 

In fact, the goings-on since Shuster first made this remark last Thursday make it crystal clear that potentially insensitive comments directed at the Clinton family are thoroughly verboten by MSNBC, whereas derogatory statements concerning President George W. Bush are highly encouraged.

 

As another example of this hypocrisy, consider the following disgraceful report concerning Bush's twin daughters aired on MSNBC's "Countdown" November 28, 2006

 

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: It‘s rare when the world of politics and the world of entertainment fit together as neatly as they do in our number one story in the COUNTDOWN tonight. A tale of two pairs of girls, all of them in their mid 20‘s, all of them famous, all of them providing rich fodder for the tabloids with their latest exploits. In a moment the phenomenon of Paris Hilton and her new sidekick, Britney Spears.

 

But first Jenna and Barbara Bush. They have regained their party girl crowns thanks to reports from their 25th birthday celebrations in Argentina this weekend. After reports of lack security, a media frenzy and at least one lurid tale in the Argentine papers about the girls running naked down a hallway of their hotel, denied fervently by that hotel, by the way, ABC News reported the situation was so bad that the U.S. embassy asked the girls to leave, which the embassy fervently denies, by the way.

 

But even though the twins were meant to stay in Buenos Aires until Thursday, according to ABC News at least one, Barbara, is already back in the U.S. and that report, very flimsily backed up by the website Galkers Tip Line For Celebrity Spotting, GalkerStalker, which reports that Ms. Bush was seen with an unnamed man eating Oysters in the west village of New York City last night. No word on whether Jenna Bush is likewise cutting her holiday short or having oysters.

 

Perhaps she is heading to southern California where the ultimate party girls are now hanging out. Somehow, since she announced her impending divorce from Kevin Federline, Britney Spears has become B.F.F. with Paris Hilton, and yes, with the less hip, that is short hand for Best Friends Forever, they tell me. Hilton and Spears have been inseparable for weeks now, spotted at trendy nightclubs in Vegas and L.A., drinking, smoking, staying out all nigh, and apparently even making peace with Hilton‘s nemesis, the actress Lindsay Lohan.

 

Paris Hilton‘s P.R. guy says that the whole-what would the couple name here be? Parispears, Britris, anyway, he says, the friendship is real, telling the website TMZ.com that the two are like sisters and that Spears is extremely grateful for Hilton‘s friendship, that she considers the heiress to be a role model, which might explain Ms. Spears‘ new wardrobe, extreme cleavage, short skirts, underwear optional.

 

On that note, who better to analyze this strange confluence of girls behaving badly than television personality and author of "All the President‘s Pets," Mo Rocca. Good evening Mo, thanks for your time.

 

MO ROCCA, TELEVISION PERSONALITY: Good evening Keith, thank you.

 

OLBERMANN: We‘ll get to the new BFFs in a moment, but let‘s start with the first twins and this rampage through Argentina. You have met the Bush daughters and you know your White Houses. Are these the kind of women who would do things like run around in a hotel naked?

 

ROCCA: No, certainly not. Look, we have to remember the expression running around in a hotel naked in Argentina is an example of magical realism, a technique that‘s common in Argentinean literature and journalism. The translation here is they were running around topless. It is simply that. The same press account said that Jenna, the blonde one, was so beautiful that she exploded into flames of fire. Now, granted they were drinking a lot, so they were highly flammable perhaps, but this is hyperbole.

 

OLBERMANN: The embassy, the U.S. embassy has denied that anybody asked the twins to leave Argentina, but given that Barbara Bush has already been spotted back in the U.S., does that mean someone pulled the rug out from under the party? I mean, if not the Secret Service, then maybe their dad. Or is he blaming their behavior on al Qaeda in Iraq, or what?

 

ROCCA: Well, no, it‘s true that Barbara, the brunette, has already been extradited. So once Jenna comes home the pullout from Argentina will be complete. The president is blaming, actually, Argentina‘s Democracy, because the former Peron regime, of course, was much more red-state friendly. They would have embraced the Bush twins and not let them go home, actually. You know, I would say that-let me also clarify that this sighting you‘re talking about on Galker, it did say, and I have it right here, that Barbara Bush was sucking down oysters and making out with some guy. This is actually in reference to former first lady Barbara Bush. Right, and we should remember that oysters, of course, are an aphrodisiac, especially after a couple of vodka stingers.

 

OLBERMANN: I don‘t have anything to say after that. No, in touch with Argentina, do we get the Falklands. Is there any kind of trade here?

 

ROCCA: Perhaps that would be great, I love that. That‘s great.

 

Argentina has great food. We should all make a trip down there.

 

OLBERMANN: One more on this thing here. Is the solution for the White House in dealing with the P.R. fallout from the first daughters‘ antics, keep them in Crawford until January of 2009?

 

ROCCA: Well, I have one recommendation, a one word recommendation, Broadway. As you said, I have met the Bush twins. They are both actually very, very nice. The blonde one, Jenna, is bubbly. She has an easy laugh. The brunette, Barbara, is a little bit more serious, a little bit brooding, I would say. And so it occurred to me that they would be great in a Broadway production of Wicked, the two of them together.

 

Jenna as the blond, sort of the good witch Glinda (ph), and Barbara as the brooding Elphaba (ph), who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, but of course is not all bad. Because they have very, very complicated lives. And it‘s a very popular musical, so it would run forever, and it would keep them out of trouble, except on Monday‘s when the theater‘s dark and then they could go ballistic, go nuts.

 

OLBERMANN: There is a tradeoff for the matinees on the weekends.

 

I ask you: If David Shuster suggesting that Hillary's campaign is pimping out Chelsea is so offensive that he should be suspended, how can this report by Olbermann not have met with similar disdain from the top brass at MSNBC and NBC?

 

Before you answer, this was NBC News President Steve Capus's official statement concerning the Shuster/Chelsea matter:

 

On Thursday's "Tucker" on MSNBC, David Shuster, who was serving as guest-host of the program, made a comment about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign that was irresponsible and inappropriate. Shuster, who apologized this morning on MSNBC and will again this evening, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology. He has also extended an apology to the Clinton family. NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks.

 

Consider that what was supposedly "irresponsible and inappropriate" of Shuster was "insulting" a family member of the former president.

 

Well, shouldn't it be just as irresponsible and inappropriate to insult a family member of the current president?

 

Or, is that okay if the current president is a Republican?

 

 

[Guest jeb]

MSNBC's reaction to David Shuster's "pimped out" Chelsea Clinton comment is an extraordinary example of the double standard that exists at this admittedly left-leaning cable network.

 

In fact, the goings-on since Shuster first made this remark last Thursday make it crystal clear that potentially insensitive comments directed at the Clinton family are thoroughly verboten by MSNBC, whereas derogatory statements concerning President George W. Bush are highly encouraged.

 

As another example of this hypocrisy, consider the following disgraceful report concerning Bush's twin daughters aired on MSNBC's "Countdown" November 28, 2006

 

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: It's rare when the world of politics and the world of entertainment fit together as neatly as they do in our number one story in the COUNTDOWN tonight. A tale of two pairs of girls, all of them in their mid 20's, all of them famous, all of them providing rich fodder for the tabloids with their latest exploits. In a moment the phenomenon of Paris Hilton and her new sidekick, Britney Spears.

 

But first Jenna and Barbara Bush. They have regained their party girl crowns thanks to reports from their 25th birthday celebrations in Argentina this weekend. After reports of lack security, a media frenzy and at least one lurid tale in the Argentine papers about the girls running naked down a hallway of their hotel, denied fervently by that hotel, by the way, ABC News reported the situation was so bad that the U.S. embassy asked the girls to leave, which the embassy fervently denies, by the way.

 

But even though the twins were meant to stay in Buenos Aires until Thursday, according to ABC News at least one, Barbara, is already back in the U.S. and that report, very flimsily backed up by the website Galkers Tip Line For Celebrity Spotting, GalkerStalker, which reports that Ms. Bush was seen with an unnamed man eating Oysters in the west village of New York City last night. No word on whether Jenna Bush is likewise cutting her holiday short or having oysters.

 

Perhaps she is heading to southern California where the ultimate party girls are now hanging out. Somehow, since she announced her impending divorce from Kevin Federline, Britney Spears has become B.F.F. with Paris Hilton, and yes, with the less hip, that is short hand for Best Friends Forever, they tell me. Hilton and Spears have been inseparable for weeks now, spotted at trendy nightclubs in Vegas and L.A., drinking, smoking, staying out all nigh, and apparently even making peace with Hilton's nemesis, the actress Lindsay Lohan.

 

Paris Hilton's P.R. guy says that the whole-what would the couple name here be? Parispears, Britris, anyway, he says, the friendship is real, telling the website TMZ.com that the two are like sisters and that Spears is extremely grateful for Hilton's friendship, that she considers the heiress to be a role model, which might explain Ms. Spears' new wardrobe, extreme cleavage, short skirts, underwear optional.

 

On that note, who better to analyze this strange confluence of girls behaving badly than television personality and author of "All the President's Pets," Mo Rocca. Good evening Mo, thanks for your time.

 

MO ROCCA, TELEVISION PERSONALITY: Good evening Keith, thank you.

 

OLBERMANN: We'll get to the new BFFs in a moment, but let's start with the first twins and this rampage through Argentina. You have met the Bush daughters and you know your White Houses. Are these the kind of women who would do things like run around in a hotel naked?

 

ROCCA: No, certainly not. Look, we have to remember the expression running around in a hotel naked in Argentina is an example of magical realism, a technique that's common in Argentinean literature and journalism. The translation here is they were running around topless. It is simply that. The same press account said that Jenna, the blonde one, was so beautiful that she exploded into flames of fire. Now, granted they were drinking a lot, so they were highly flammable perhaps, but this is hyperbole.

 

OLBERMANN: The embassy, the U.S. embassy has denied that anybody asked the twins to leave Argentina, but given that Barbara Bush has already been spotted back in the U.S., does that mean someone pulled the rug out from under the party? I mean, if not the Secret Service, then maybe their dad. Or is he blaming their behavior on al Qaeda in Iraq, or what?

 

ROCCA: Well, no, it's true that Barbara, the brunette, has already been extradited. So once Jenna comes home the pullout from Argentina will be complete. The president is blaming, actually, Argentina's Democracy, because the former Peron regime, of course, was much more red-state friendly. They would have embraced the Bush twins and not let them go home, actually. You know, I would say that-let me also clarify that this sighting you're talking about on Galker, it did say, and I have it right here, that Barbara Bush was sucking down oysters and making out with some guy. This is actually in reference to former first lady Barbara Bush. Right, and we should remember that oysters, of course, are an aphrodisiac, especially after a couple of vodka stingers.

 

OLBERMANN: I don't have anything to say after that. No, in touch with Argentina, do we get the Falklands. Is there any kind of trade here?

 

ROCCA: Perhaps that would be great, I love that. That's great.

 

Argentina has great food. We should all make a trip down there.

 

OLBERMANN: One more on this thing here. Is the solution for the White House in dealing with the P.R. fallout from the first daughters' antics, keep them in Crawford until January of 2009?

 

ROCCA: Well, I have one recommendation, a one word recommendation, Broadway. As you said, I have met the Bush twins. They are both actually very, very nice. The blonde one, Jenna, is bubbly. She has an easy laugh. The brunette, Barbara, is a little bit more serious, a little bit brooding, I would say. And so it occurred to me that they would be great in a Broadway production of Wicked, the two of them together.

 

Jenna as the blond, sort of the good witch Glinda (ph), and Barbara as the brooding Elphaba (ph), who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, but of course is not all bad. Because they have very, very complicated lives. And it's a very popular musical, so it would run forever, and it would keep them out of trouble, except on Monday's when the theater's dark and then they could go ballistic, go nuts.

 

OLBERMANN: There is a tradeoff for the matinees on the weekends.

 

I ask you: If David Shuster suggesting that Hillary's campaign is pimping out Chelsea is so offensive that he should be suspended, how can this report by Olbermann not have met with similar disdain from the top brass at MSNBC and NBC?

 

Before you answer, this was NBC News President Steve Capus's official statement concerning the Shuster/Chelsea matter:

 

On Thursday's "Tucker" on MSNBC, David Shuster, who was serving as guest-host of the program, made a comment about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign that was irresponsible and inappropriate. Shuster, who apologized this morning on MSNBC and will again this evening, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology. He has also extended an apology to the Clinton family. NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks.

 

Consider that what was supposedly "irresponsible and inappropriate" of Shuster was "insulting" a family member of the former president.

 

Well, shouldn't it be just as irresponsible and inappropriate to insult a family member of the current president?

 

Or, is that okay if the current president is a Republican?

 

 

 

 

i think the reason there is a double standard is because the bush twins are drunken DELETED. just a guess.

[Guest Guest]

i think the reason there is a double standard is because the bush twins are drunken DELETED. just a guess.

And because the Clinton pimped out girl has a DELETED for a daddy and a DELETED for a mommy and all liberals love the minorities.

And I think it was the Clinton girl that had her pic in the tabloids drunk and puking about 2 years ago. See the tabloids don't discriminate

[Guest jeb]

And because the Clinton pimped out girl has a slut for a daddy and a dyke for a mommy and all liberals love the minorities.

And I think it was the Clinton girl that had her pic in the tabloids drunk and puking about 2 years ago. See the tabloids don't discriminate

 

she's not pimped out by anyone. i do agree with your assessment of her parents, though. that's not her fault.

i think you're mistaken about her drunkeness in a tabloid. might wanna double check that one. maybe dick cheney's daughter could help you out.

 

[Guest Guest]

THere is ahuge difference. THe Bush twins want nothing to do with politics.

However, Chelsea has injected herself into the political arena.

Chelsea is a fair target.

 

[Guest jeb]

THere is ahuge difference. THe Bush twins want nothing to do with politics.

However, Chelsea has injected herself into the political arena.

Chelsea is a fair target.

 

 

ok, she's a target. what has she done that was wrong? the bush twins don't want anything to do with anything, except jello shots. they have the maturity of a 2yr old, like their father. i hate the clintons, but i have seen nothing but class and maturity from their daughter. the same can't be said for the olsen, i mean bush DELETED.

[Guest Guest]

ok, she's a target. what has she done that was wrong? the bush twins don't want anything to do with anything, except jello shots. they have the maturity of a 2yr old, like their father. i hate the clintons, but i have seen nothing but class and maturity from their daughter. the same can't be said for the olsen, i mean bush DLEETED.

The point is Chelsea is a target because she has put herself there.

[Guest Guest]

Here are your "pimp" shots of Chelsea. Notice the see thru dress she is wearing. She looks like a hooker.

 

http://www.zpub.com/un/Chelsea.html

 

 

[Guest jeb]

The point is Chelsea is a target because she has put herself there.

 

 

yea, heard you the first 3 times you said it. but what has she done wrong? act like a woman and not a DELETED?

target her all you want, you only make yourself look bad.

[Guest Guest]

ok, she's a target. what has she done that was wrong? the bush twins don't want anything to do with anything, except jello shots. they have the maturity of a 2yr old, like their father. i hate the clintons, but i have seen nothing but class and maturity from their daughter. the same can't be said for the olsen, i mean bush DELETED.

OK Lets get this straight I have nothing against parting and having a good time .But don't put yourself out there as the next mother Theresa when you have the same habits as those that you chose to slander in the bush girls. The following is from a couple years back also directed to the DELETED that thought it would be cute to throw cheney's daughter in the mix.

 

The Globe's cover story headline, "Boozing Chelsea: Clinton Daughter Out of Control," appears over a photo of an unidentified friend grabbing Chelsea by the face in an apparent effort to keep her from passing out.

 

Other Globe photos show Clinton, eyes bloodshot and looking disoriented, reeling as she emerges from a car with friends, one of whom is steadying her by the arm as the group weaves its way into the popular London nightspot Groucho.

 

"I thought Chelsea was about to topple over," a source who witnessed the scene tells the tabloid. "She was wobbling on her feet and a friend had to put her arm out to steady her."

 

The Globe reprints one passage from a British media report that claims: "Looks like Chelsea Clinton stumbled on a staggeringly good time when she hit London's West End this week. And it took a firm pair of hands to stop her from actually hitting the pavement as she swayed happily into the trendy Groucho Club, where dad Bill - the former U.S. president - was partying with U2 star Bono."

 

The drunken night out was not an isolated incident, according to others cited by the Globe, one of whom said the former first daughter is "spinning out of control."

 

"Chelsea's out on the town into the early hours every chance she gets," a Clinton schoolmate adds. "She loves a good time, but everything seems to revolve around drinking."

 

If the reports are accurate, Clinton's problems with alcohol would mirror a family pattern that saw her Uncle Roger finally admit to a life-long addiction to booze and drugs just last summer after entering an Arizona drug rehab center to dry out.

 

Last month another of Chelsea's uncles, Tony Rodham, admitted that he was boozing and smoking marijuana with a neighbor before he ended up entwined on the living room couch with the man's girlfriend.

 

In her younger days Clinton's grandmother Virginia was a fixture on the Little Rock party scene, with one account describing her as "a barfly."

 

According to one friend quoted by the Globe, Chelsea has turned to liquor "as a defense against jokes about her father and Monica Lewinsky and jibes about Hillary."

 

"One night when somebody cracked a Clinton joke, she walked into the bar and ordered a double vodka on the rocks," the source told the tabloid. "She downed it in two swallows and then walked out."

 

Last week the New York Post's Page Six reported that Clinton attended a New York party with sportstars Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter and Ahmad Rashad where "bottles of Veuve Clicquot and vodka" were consumed, but made no mention of Chelsea herself bellying up to the bar.

 

The Globe reported in April that the former first daughter was spotted boozing it up for spring break at several popular nightspots in Aspen, Colo.

[Guest jeb]

the globe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the globe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are you serious? is that where you get your news? the globe!!!

it's even more pathetic that you would post something from the globe. wasn't that the issue that reported a woman gave birth to alien twin babies? from now on, stick to real journalistic periodicals, like the national enquirer. the globe!!!!!!!!!!!

anything new on brad and angelina? keep us posted!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LunaC]

the globe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the globe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are you serious? is that where you get your news? the globe!!!

it's even more pathetic that you would post something from the globe. wasn't that the issue that reported a woman gave birth to alien twin babies? from now on, stick to real journalistic periodicals, like the national enquirer. the globe!!!!!!!!!!!

anything new on brad and angelina? keep us posted!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hahaha...the Globe. Why not post some news from the "National Enquirer" or some other credible news source? What a joke.

[LunaC]

OK Lets get this straight I have nothing against parting and having a good time .But don't put yourself out there as the next mother Theresa when you have the same habits as those that you chose to slander in the bush girls. The following is from a couple years back also directed to the DELETED that thought it would be cute to throw cheney's daughter in the mix.

 

The Globe's cover story headline, "Boozing Chelsea: Clinton Daughter Out of Control," appears over a photo of an unidentified friend grabbing Chelsea by the face in an apparent effort to keep her from passing out.

 

Other Globe photos show Clinton, eyes bloodshot and looking disoriented, reeling as she emerges from a car with friends, one of whom is steadying her by the arm as the group weaves its way into the popular London nightspot Groucho.

 

"I thought Chelsea was about to topple over," a source who witnessed the scene tells the tabloid. "She was wobbling on her feet and a friend had to put her arm out to steady her."

 

The Globe reprints one passage from a British media report that claims: "Looks like Chelsea Clinton stumbled on a staggeringly good time when she hit London's West End this week. And it took a firm pair of hands to stop her from actually hitting the pavement as she swayed happily into the trendy Groucho Club, where dad Bill - the former U.S. president - was partying with U2 star Bono."

 

The drunken night out was not an isolated incident, according to others cited by the Globe, one of whom said the former first daughter is "spinning out of control."

 

"Chelsea's out on the town into the early hours every chance she gets," a Clinton schoolmate adds. "She loves a good time, but everything seems to revolve around drinking."

 

If the reports are accurate, Clinton's problems with alcohol would mirror a family pattern that saw her Uncle Roger finally admit to a life-long addiction to booze and drugs just last summer after entering an Arizona drug rehab center to dry out.

 

Last month another of Chelsea's uncles, Tony Rodham, admitted that he was boozing and smoking marijuana with a neighbor before he ended up entwined on the living room couch with the man's girlfriend.

 

In her younger days Clinton's grandmother Virginia was a fixture on the Little Rock party scene, with one account describing her as "a barfly."

 

According to one friend quoted by the Globe, Chelsea has turned to liquor "as a defense against jokes about her father and Monica Lewinsky and jibes about Hillary."

 

"One night when somebody cracked a Clinton joke, she walked into the bar and ordered a double vodka on the rocks," the source told the tabloid. "She downed it in two swallows and then walked out."

 

Last week the New York Post's Page Six reported that Clinton attended a New York party with sportstars Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter and Ahmad Rashad where "bottles of Veuve Clicquot and vodka" were consumed, but made no mention of Chelsea herself bellying up to the bar.

 

The Globe reported in April that the former first daughter was spotted boozing it up for spring break at several popular nightspots in Aspen, Colo.

 

Can I live in your trailer park? We could share our Globe, National Enquirer, Daily News....you name it! That could be fun! We could also run to the store in our rusty pickup truck (with no muffler) for beer and HoHos. I'll wear a pink Mumu, and you wear a purple one.....with big ole floppy slippers. When the welfare check comes, we can splurge on more beer, Basic smokes, and baloney and cheese sammiches. I can't wait!!!!!!!

 

 

 

[Guest jeb]

Can I live in your trailer park? We could share our Globe, National Enquirer, Daily News....you name it! That could be fun! We could also run to the store in our rusty pickup truck (with no muffler) for beer and HoHos. I'll wear a pink Mumu, and you wear a purple one.....with big ole floppy slippers. When the welfare check comes, we can splurge on more beer, Basic smokes, and baloney and cheese sammiches. I can't wait!!!!!!!

 

 

befur we git all dressed up and go into town, call the kwik fill to make sur they gots the latest editione of the globe. it has the hard hitting nes sturies that i loves. that's where i learnt that during a fire somewhere, a large cloud that looked like rip taylor appeared overhead. it was the spittin' image of him. he be my faverite actor in the world. he arouses me more then larry the cable guy, although they both are really talented. forget time magazine, we wants the globe.

[Guest Guest]

 

Ok Obama, you better up the stakes and pimp your wife out.

 

[Guest Guest]

MSNBC's reaction to David Shuster's "pimped out" Chelsea Clinton comment is an extraordinary example of the double standard that exists at this admittedly left-leaning cable network.

 

In fact, the goings-on since Shuster first made this remark last Thursday make it crystal clear that potentially insensitive comments directed at the Clinton family are thoroughly verboten by MSNBC, whereas derogatory statements concerning President George W. Bush are highly encouraged.

 

As another example of this hypocrisy, consider the following disgraceful report concerning Bush's twin daughters aired on MSNBC's "Countdown" November 28, 2006

 

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: It‘s rare when the world of politics and the world of entertainment fit together as neatly as they do in our number one story in the COUNTDOWN tonight. A tale of two pairs of girls, all of them in their mid 20‘s, all of them famous, all of them providing rich fodder for the tabloids with their latest exploits. In a moment the phenomenon of Paris Hilton and her new sidekick, Britney Spears.

 

But first Jenna and Barbara Bush. They have regained their party girl crowns thanks to reports from their 25th birthday celebrations in Argentina this weekend. After reports of lack security, a media frenzy and at least one lurid tale in the Argentine papers about the girls running naked down a hallway of their hotel, denied fervently by that hotel, by the way, ABC News reported the situation was so bad that the U.S. embassy asked the girls to leave, which the embassy fervently denies, by the way.

 

But even though the twins were meant to stay in Buenos Aires until Thursday, according to ABC News at least one, Barbara, is already back in the U.S. and that report, very flimsily backed up by the website Galkers Tip Line For Celebrity Spotting, GalkerStalker, which reports that Ms. Bush was seen with an unnamed man eating Oysters in the west village of New York City last night. No word on whether Jenna Bush is likewise cutting her holiday short or having oysters.

 

Perhaps she is heading to southern California where the ultimate party girls are now hanging out. Somehow, since she announced her impending divorce from Kevin Federline, Britney Spears has become B.F.F. with Paris Hilton, and yes, with the less hip, that is short hand for Best Friends Forever, they tell me. Hilton and Spears have been inseparable for weeks now, spotted at trendy nightclubs in Vegas and L.A., drinking, smoking, staying out all nigh, and apparently even making peace with Hilton‘s nemesis, the actress Lindsay Lohan.

 

Paris Hilton‘s P.R. guy says that the whole-what would the couple name here be? Parispears, Britris, anyway, he says, the friendship is real, telling the website TMZ.com that the two are like sisters and that Spears is extremely grateful for Hilton‘s friendship, that she considers the heiress to be a role model, which might explain Ms. Spears‘ new wardrobe, extreme cleavage, short skirts, underwear optional.

 

On that note, who better to analyze this strange confluence of girls behaving badly than television personality and author of "All the President‘s Pets," Mo Rocca. Good evening Mo, thanks for your time.

 

MO ROCCA, TELEVISION PERSONALITY: Good evening Keith, thank you.

 

OLBERMANN: We‘ll get to the new BFFs in a moment, but let‘s start with the first twins and this rampage through Argentina. You have met the Bush daughters and you know your White Houses. Are these the kind of women who would do things like run around in a hotel naked?

 

ROCCA: No, certainly not. Look, we have to remember the expression running around in a hotel naked in Argentina is an example of magical realism, a technique that‘s common in Argentinean literature and journalism. The translation here is they were running around topless. It is simply that. The same press account said that Jenna, the blonde one, was so beautiful that she exploded into flames of fire. Now, granted they were drinking a lot, so they were highly flammable perhaps, but this is hyperbole.

 

OLBERMANN: The embassy, the U.S. embassy has denied that anybody asked the twins to leave Argentina, but given that Barbara Bush has already been spotted back in the U.S., does that mean someone pulled the rug out from under the party? I mean, if not the Secret Service, then maybe their dad. Or is he blaming their behavior on al Qaeda in Iraq, or what?

 

ROCCA: Well, no, it‘s true that Barbara, the brunette, has already been extradited. So once Jenna comes home the pullout from Argentina will be complete. The president is blaming, actually, Argentina‘s Democracy, because the former Peron regime, of course, was much more red-state friendly. They would have embraced the Bush twins and not let them go home, actually. You know, I would say that-let me also clarify that this sighting you‘re talking about on Galker, it did say, and I have it right here, that Barbara Bush was sucking down oysters and making out with some guy. This is actually in reference to former first lady Barbara Bush. Right, and we should remember that oysters, of course, are an aphrodisiac, especially after a couple of vodka stingers.

 

OLBERMANN: I don‘t have anything to say after that. No, in touch with Argentina, do we get the Falklands. Is there any kind of trade here?

 

ROCCA: Perhaps that would be great, I love that. That‘s great.

 

Argentina has great food. We should all make a trip down there.

 

OLBERMANN: One more on this thing here. Is the solution for the White House in dealing with the P.R. fallout from the first daughters‘ antics, keep them in Crawford until January of 2009?

 

ROCCA: Well, I have one recommendation, a one word recommendation, Broadway. As you said, I have met the Bush twins. They are both actually very, very nice. The blonde one, Jenna, is bubbly. She has an easy laugh. The brunette, Barbara, is a little bit more serious, a little bit brooding, I would say. And so it occurred to me that they would be great in a Broadway production of Wicked, the two of them together.

 

Jenna as the blond, sort of the good witch Glinda (ph), and Barbara as the brooding Elphaba (ph), who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, but of course is not all bad. Because they have very, very complicated lives. And it‘s a very popular musical, so it would run forever, and it would keep them out of trouble, except on Monday‘s when the theater‘s dark and then they could go ballistic, go nuts.

 

OLBERMANN: There is a tradeoff for the matinees on the weekends.

 

I ask you: If David Shuster suggesting that Hillary's campaign is pimping out Chelsea is so offensive that he should be suspended, how can this report by Olbermann not have met with similar disdain from the top brass at MSNBC and NBC?

 

Before you answer, this was NBC News President Steve Capus's official statement concerning the Shuster/Chelsea matter:

 

On Thursday's "Tucker" on MSNBC, David Shuster, who was serving as guest-host of the program, made a comment about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign that was irresponsible and inappropriate. Shuster, who apologized this morning on MSNBC and will again this evening, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology. He has also extended an apology to the Clinton family. NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks.

 

Consider that what was supposedly "irresponsible and inappropriate" of Shuster was "insulting" a family member of the former president.

 

Well, shouldn't it be just as irresponsible and inappropriate to insult a family member of the current president?

 

Or, is that okay if the current president is a Republican?

 

I read the entire thing and nowhere did I see them say that the twins were pimped out

 

[Guest Guest]

I would do both of the twins (maybe even together) but not chelsea. that is the difference

[Guest Guest]

the globe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the globe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are you serious? is that where you get your news? the globe!!!

it's even more pathetic that you would post something from the globe. wasn't that the issue that reported a woman gave birth to alien twin babies? from now on, stick to real journalistic periodicals, like the national enquirer. the globe!!!!!!!!!!!

anything new on brad and angelina? keep us posted!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your a DELETED idiot they are one of the few papers of any kind that up until the last couple of months that would print anything negative about father bill or mother hill. The events in the article were common knowledge and discussed at the time but like a lot of other events in the Clinton world quickly swept under the rug to not dare be mention again. And the pictures that accompanied the article were of a very obviously drunk partied up saint Chelsea.

[Guest Guest]

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?

Because her father is Janet Reno."

[Guest Guest]

Your a DELETED idiot they are one of the few papers of any kind that up until the last couple of months that would print anything negative about father bill or mother hill. The events in the article were common knowledge and discussed at the time but like a lot of other events in the Clinton world quickly swept under the rug to not dare be mention again. And the pictures that accompanied the article were of a very obviously drunk partied up saint Chelsea.

 

That sure gives them all the credibility they could need.

 

Your typing belies someone who's main source of "news" is grocery store gossip rags.

[Guest democrat]

Why not worry about real issues. Why aren't we worrying about terrorists and people with n ojobs and leave Chelsea and the Bush twins out of it. Bob Dole just said Obama is like a cult leader. What is that about? That should scare people into taking this whole process seriously. There is a woman and a black man. Big deal. Get past the nonsense and figure out who will help the country and get rid of the others. Can you imagine cults and pimps in our election process.

[Guest Guest]

Why not worry about real issues. Why aren't we worrying about terrorists and people with n ojobs and leave Chelsea and the Bush twins out of it. Bob Dole just said Obama is like a cult leader. What is that about? That should scare people into taking this whole process seriously. There is a woman and a black man. Big deal. Get past the nonsense and figure out who will help the country and get rid of the others. Can you imagine cults and pimps in our election process.

 

Because, if the papers and the main stream TV stations just printed facts and where the candidates stood on the issues, advertising revenues would dry up.

 

For a typical 30 second Gault commercial, they might get paid $50 to $100. Before the elections, the spots are bid on and a 30 second spot could go for $1,000. So it is in the media's best interest to keep the races tight or say that they are tight, publish lots of worthless polls, put scandals on the front page and thereby make themselves a lot of money.

 

It is all about MONEY.

[Guest Guest]

THere is ahuge difference. THe Bush twins want nothing to do with politics.

However, Chelsea has injected herself into the political arena.

Chelsea is a fair target.

 

 

Not only is chelsea involved in politics, but the clintons called this kid who is a superdelegate and asked him if he wanted to have breakfast with chelsea. Check out the story and video, it is on ABC.com called what are superdelegates. If this is n't pimping I don't knwo what is

[Guest Guest]

Not only is chelsea involved in politics, but the clintons called this kid who is a superdelegate and asked him if he wanted to have breakfast with chelsea. Check out the story and video, it is on ABC.com called what are superdelegates. If this is n't pimping I don't knwo what is

 

OMG!!! You mean to tell me she had the audacity to go and campaign for her mother!!!??? how freakin dare she!!! show the helll does she think she is???!!! If she has the audacity to campaign for her mother, then she is wide open to be called a DELETED, tramp and worse!!!!

[Guest Guest]

OMG!!! You mean to tell me she had the audacity to go and campaign for her mother!!!??? how freakin dare she!!! show the helll does she think she is???!!! If she has the audacity to campaign for her mother, then she is wide open to be called a DELETED, tramp and worse!!!!

You are being stupidly sarcastic. When whe was just a clumsy 12 year old in the White House then yes, she is off limits. But as soon as she sat in her father's security council meetings and now that she is campaigning for her mother, she is a target.

 

She needs to grow up and realize that she is playing in the big leagues. The gloves are off.