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Who Kidnapped David Shuster?

By Larry Johnson on February 8, 2008 at 9:22 PM in Current Affairs

Hillary pimping Chelsea?  Jesus Christ, David!  Are you on a sleep deprivation journey?  David’s top notch reporting on the outing of Valerie Plame earned him much deserved praise and respect.  But his latest shot at Chelsea Clinton is wrong on so many levels.

Taylor Marsh has the story:

Could David Shuster be any more unprofessional? Does he not realize that he’s talking about the daughter of a woman who is the first female candidate to be vying for commander in chief? One can only guess what would happen if he’d said something so heinous about Barack Obama’s daughter. It would have been Shuster’s Imus moment. Hey, but it’s just about Hillary’s kid, so she’s fair game, as is all things anti-Clinton. Evidently Shuster has decided to channel Chris Matthews  (read the rest here).

And now the rest of the story.  Someone got David’s attention and he apologized.  Taylor Marsh provides the following as well:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMwnheWpDn0[/youtube]

“Tucker” kicked off today with Norah O’Donnell. David Shuster nowhere in sight. Right after her intros, she threw it to Shuster, the results of which are above.

Afterwards O’Donnell talked to Andrea Mitchell, then had Hilary Rosen, an MSNBC analysist who is also a Clinton supporter, plus Jeanne Cummings, who writes for Politico.com.

The girls took the floor for the first fifteen minutes or so of the show, something you never see on MSNBC.

As for Shuster’s apology, I’ll let you be the judge. But considering he was dug in when this began I’d say this is a big win. Not for the political alone, but for what’s right and should be expected of media professionals, especially talking heads who think they have the right to smear anyone they want without paying a price. I’m glad he’s suspended, though we don’t know for how long.

The message has been sent and received. However, just like Chris Matthews, you’ve got to wonder how long it will take for another foot in mouth MSNBC frat boy to say something stupid. As we’ve seen, they’re pretty regular about these things.