Conservatives: Candidates' Children Off-Limits (Unless Their Parents Are Dems)

Posted by Clif, Sadly, No! at 5:28 AM on September 3, 2008.

With all the right-wing finger wagging about the inviolate right of children of candidates and officials to be above comment, I thought we might fire up the flux capacitor and travel back to that distant time in the past when Chelsea Clinton’s parents were in the White House and see what the right-wing was saying about Chelsea:

John McTheusalah:

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Vicodin Rush Limbaugh:

Columnist Molly Ivins reported (Arizona Republic 10/17/93) this incident from Limbaugh’s TV show–”Here is a Limbaugh joke: Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is a White House dog?” And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is 13 years old.

David “Ho Ho Ho” Shuster:

Filling in for Tucker Carlson yesterday, Shuster gave his opinion on Chelsea's role in the presidential campaign, asking a guest, "Doesn't it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"

Immediately after the comment, Big Head DC has learned, people in the Clinton camp were angered -- and the network began receiving angry e-mails and calls from viewers suggesting it was an inappropriate way for a reporter to refer to a former First Daughter.

Amazingly, Shuster chose not to apologize, even when the Clinton camp expressed their outrage directly to him -- until MSNBC bigwigs forced him to do so

Alicia “The Suetonius of Staten Island” Colon:

Seems to me that she’s more of a pawn for her parent’s ambitions than a beloved child. …

John “Humbert Humbert” Derbyshire:

I hate Chelsea Clinton.

Be sure to read the rest of Derb’s mauling of the only female between 15 and 20 that he doesn’t find attractive.

And then bringing up the rear, of course, don’t forget Ed Klein’s claim that Chelsea was conceived when Bill raped Hillary.

So what’s all this now about privacy and respect and all that?

Tagged as: clinton, hypocrisy, palin

Clif is a blogger for Sadly No!