Video: Chelsea once more–Kiddie human shield flashes Clintonian indignance at question about Lewinsky
Rough week, eh, Chels? First, the Tuzla nightmare. Now, a stained blue dress flashback.
That’s what happens when you stick out your neck and serve as kiddie human shield for self-aggrandizing sufferers of Truth Deficit Disorder your parents.
Sigh.
Sorry to pile on, but listen up, hon. Seriously. “None of your business” isn’t going to cut it when you’re hammering the campaign theme that mommy has the judgment, guts, leadership, credibility, and steely grasp on reality to lead this nation under fire–imaginary sniper fire or otherwise:
Chelsea Clinton had a quick retort Tuesday when asked whether her mother’s credibility had been hurt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
“Wow, you’re the first person actually that’s ever asked me that question in the, I don’t know maybe, 70 college campuses I’ve now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business,” Clinton said during a campaign visit for her mother, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton had picked out the male questioner as she wrapped up a question-and-answer session at Butler University. It wasn’t immediately clear what statement by the first lady the questioner was referring to. Before she was fully aware of her husband’s relationship with Lewinsky, a White House intern, Hillary Clinton said the allegations about that relationship were manufactured by a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
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WISH-TV has the video report.
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John Riley at Newsday adds:
No doubt it’s a primal instinct for Chelsea to say “none of your business” when the name Lewinsky comes up. And for any crowd that has come to see Chelsea in the first place, it’s probably a pretty good political instinct, too.
But the fact is that her father had engaged in wrongful acts and lied under oath, and her mother — at best, ignorant of the facts — quite consciously put the issue on a political track that consumed the Congress and the executive branch and divided the country for a year.
From there, there’s a lot to discuss. But since when is a question about it “none of your business?”
Maybe it’s time to get off the campaign trail and get back to work. You know: The work that mom doesn’t think is “real work.”
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When it rains, it pours: Dad’s getting red-faced again.
And Mom’s trying to play the “I’m only human” card.
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How can someone who supposedly has a “real job” spend so much time on the campaign trail?
I mean – like – she’s been to, like 70 campuses….
I know with my real job I wouldn’t have time to visit 70 campuses…
The truth hurts, she can thank her hippie parents for that embarrassing moment.
The question was whether her mother’s handling of a scandal impacted her credibility. So, her mother’s performance under pressure is “none of your business”?
The question obviously pissed Clinton the Younger off. And rather than take it in stride and provide some neutral answer like “I don’t think it negatively affected her credibility”, she chooses to not only zing the questioner, but to draw more attention to the question by not allowing that to be the final question.
She is her mother’s daughter.
Classless question.
So her mother’s actions and intentions aren’t our business, eh? Wrong again, Miss Clinton.
Actually, this is the first time I have disagreed with your position. I think asking his daughter (even HIS daughter) about this was just out of bounds.
Even with the Clintons.
Wow, maybe that’s the first person actually that’s ever had the audacity to ask her that question in the, I don’t know maybe, 70 college campuses she’s now been to…
What exactly was the question?
Classless, snippy answer from the brat. The questioner didn’t ask who was prettier or performed better. He asked the brat to assess her mother’s handling of a PR crisis.
I disagree with your disagreement. Chelsea is out there stumping for mama. It isn’t like it’s me out there getting asked this questions-it’s the daughter of an ex-president and a wannabe.
Welcome to the real world Chelsea! If you put your head in the oven-expect someone to turn on the heat.
If you don’t like the questions-go back to work and keep quiet.
Why is she allowed to speak now?!
She can blab at campuses but not with that little girl reporter?
She reminds me of BOTH her parents and not in a good way.
Chelsea is no longer a child. She is an adult that has put herself out in the
public to campaign for her Mother and as such can and should be questioned
in the same manner as any other of her Mother’s spokespersons.
Her snippy answer was not appropriate. Lewinsky and Slick cost this country
millions and divided this country and now they want back into the WH. Of
course these actions are our business. If you don’t want questions about your
private ( well not private in this case) life, don’t run for president.
I just hit me that the video was from WISH-TV. I bet Chelsea was wishing she was somewhere else when that question was asked.
But Chelsea had nothing to do with that.
Fixed that…and, huh? “None of your business”…really? You want us to vote for your mother as to be leader of the free world, and it’s none of our business whether or not she is credible?
Let’s see now, who was it that has been telling us for 7 years that Bush lied, and people died? Oh yeah, the lefties. And what was the infamous statement mommy Hillary made to General P., about the suspension of disbelief…o-k-a-y.
Obviously, Chelsea has learned nothing from her parents foibles…or has she?
I must have missed this pearl of great price the first time through…Hello, #1, this is a Clinton; and #2, she is a Democrat. Have you not learned anything from participating in these blogs? The Democrats are NOT held up to any standards, since they have none.
Are you now saying the Clinton’s have class?
This question is only uncomfortable, and class-less to those who already know the answer, or who have suddenly obtained the ability to be discriminating. (DUH!!!!)
right_on (#18): It’s my hope that our side can show class, even when it’s little deserved. Asking that question of the daughter makes the questioner’s side look bad. It’s like the “protesters” (terrorists) in Chicago who threw blood on innocent children. How many minds that were undecided did they draw to their viewpoint? None! How many who might have had some sympathy to their side did they lose by being asses? Many! Let’s us not do that, please.
What I’m saying is that these are her parents. Yes, one was President and the other wants to be President but at the end of the day, they’re still her parents and it’s her father cheating on her mother in the most public and humiliating of ways. The question about credibility is fair game with Hillary but not with Chelsea. The only reason it was asked was to humiliate her.
Kreskin? Is that you?
Actually, being the child of Bill & Hillary has to be a continuing source of humiliation in its own right. So the brat ought to be used to it by now.
Come on. The reason the question hadn’t been asked before is that most people have enough common sense to realize that what happened with Monica Lewinsky and the way Hillary decided to handle it has nothing to do with Chelsea.
If Chelsea can shill for her mother’s presidential qualifications, then she can answer questions about her mother’s presidential qualifications.
Her parents are the one’s putting her out there! At 28 years old, she’s an adult, and has free agency. She obviously wants to be out there. Does she want to defend something nefarious her parent did while in public office? I quess not. She does have a choice, does she not. By the way, is she on the payroll…just curious?
This is nothing like throwing blood (or pies), but a tough question the Clinton’s obviously don’t want to answer. How in the world could they answer that question…honestly? RNR, I may be wrong, but I think a lot of conservatives are tired of just looking the other way, because if we didn’t “it would make us look bad’” How many times have the tough questions NOT been asked, only to find out later, that maybe they should have been?
I personally could care less about the question, since I already know Hillary has no credibility with me.
I do have a problem with C’s response…how condescending of her to say it’s “none of your business.” The incident happened in the “people’s house”, and according to records just released, Hillary was IN. As our employee, you better believe it’s our business! That’s my take on it, anyway.
Except that Chelsea is (probably) Hillary’s daughter. Bill cheated so much even Hillary isn’t sure if Chelsea is hers.
A better explanation would be that plants wouldn’t ask that type of question, but an emboldened Oh!b♥m♥-nation fan would.
That’s what I’m curious about. I wonder who the guy that asked the question supports? I’m sure someone will dig up his Myspace or Facebook by the end of the night.
I knew Ronald Reagan, and Chelsea Clinton is no Ronald Reagan.
This 28 year old authority on her mother’s good qualities (but not her bad qualities) should have counted to five and said, either:
1. “There you go again!” or
2. “In regard to my father’s horn dog behavior, and my mother’s less than forthcoming nature…I will not hold this questioner’s prude-like attitude and non-hipness against him.”
Or my personal favorite:
“Ummmm…whatevuuuuuuur!”
This is an imploding campaign. First, it’s an inexperience junior senator out there, making a fool of herself. Now, she’s got her really inexperienced daughter out there, making it worse. Plus, a husband who can’t seem to get anything going for him. The real surprise was the “I’m only human”. Gee, Hillary, really? Hmm. May have to look into that. Another “mis-spoke”?
Precisely. And I think it’s telling that the answer was ‘none of your business’. Did she even hear the entire question, or did she go into scripted MYOB mode at the mention of Lewinsky. Either way, the woman was not thinking on her feet, blew her cool, and looked silly. Thoroughly Clintonian.
Mookie,
Chelsea should be asked hard questions about her parents integrity.
Let us not forget her mama blaming the blue dress on a “Vast right wing conspiracy”.
The young Clinton beast must be exposed for the genetic liying mutation she inherited, before the beast has a chance to blossom.
I’m surprised this is the first time this question actually came up. I don’t think it was from a Republican like some would like to suggest but instead an Obama fan.
Hippies smell.
Bill’s chickens…are coming ho-o-ome….to roost.
Yes, the sins of the father seem weigh heavily here, but I’m a bit ambivalent on this one.
Although Chelsea is campaigning – yes she should – I believe that question should not be asked of her. Not only was she very young at the time, but as thier daughter, don’t you think she was hurt enough to know her father is a rapist and philanderer? And of course her mother is — Hillary?
Seems to me Chelsea is just learning the family business. When caught, embarrassed or put on the spot, choose one of the following: (a) tear up; (b) lie; (c) blame a vast, right-wing conspiracy.
It was a ridiculous question, and even Chelsea Clinton shouldn’t have been asked it.
Sorry, but this is above and beyond the she is sticking her neck out for her parents.
Michelle, your family reaps the benefits of your career, and in no way was it ever justifiable that your kids be harmed by those that came looking for your home and made you move.
You want to ask policy okay, but that affair hurt that girl and at the end of the day, those two are still her parents.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there. The truth of the matter is, she should have been prepared to address this question. I can almost guarantee that it will be asked of her again. Hopefully, next time she will be prepared. Isn’t that what this is all about. Showing that your mother has what it takes to be the next Commander in Chief?
There is a great difference between the usefulness of the question, and the tackiness of it. In and of itself, the question has merit, but to ask the daughter to respond to it is, to me, uncalled for. We are all humans, and we conservatives claim to hold ourselves to a higher standard? Cut her a break on this one.
She really can’t help it. She’s genetically predisposed to lying and subterfuge.
My first impression was to be amazed at what a spoiled brat the child is. How old is she? Isn’t she an adult by now? Yet the Clintons want her treated like when she was in grade school.
It was a very good question. Last time I checked, we don’t have royalty in the United States that questions are off limits to.
It is actually an apt question. The Bush administrations gets questions from a hostile press all the time, and they don’t whine and say, “It’s none of your business.”
As the godfather said: don’t ask me about my business!
MM should have more class than to rub her nose in it – it was not an appropriate question. MM is just stirring the hate pot here – some of the comments here are really nasty and in the gutter. Is that the audience you want for your blog MM?
Peetz,
Despite what the MSM wants you to think, Chelsea is not a “girl” anymore. She needs to grow up. If she thinks it was a ridiculous question, then she needs to have a grown-up answer ready, instead of “It’s like none of your business; I’ve been like to 70 campuses and like nobody has like asked me that question.”
The question is good. I lived in South Korea in the late 1990’s, and the Lewinski scandal tarnished our image. Countries no longer respected America, thanks to President Clinton, his wife, and his numerous affairs that his wife knew about.
Contrast that with President Bush. Hostile, jealous countries may now hate us, but they sure respect us.
If the “wife of Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend” becomes President, we will lose all the respect we now have around the world. Therefore, it is a good question.
mlnciosa,
Please point me to the comments that are really “nasty and in the gutter?”
Some of us may have taken a few jabs at Chelsea but hyperbole really isn’t necessary.
Besides, I always find it interesting that people take the time out of their day to denigrate the hostess of this blog. You have other options…
Why should she answer tough questions? After all she is just a child (who earns 6 figures.) Stick to questions about being against global warming and for protecting the children. Much more her speed.
I have to agree that Chelsea is open game as long as she is out front working for her mother trying to woo the brain washed college kid vote.
Red faced is OK with me (maybe he might have that heart attack he’s been working on a graduate to statesman), but you know hell is coming to breakfast when he bites the lower lip and starts wagging the finger of doom.
You’re exactly right! Chelsea is not a child anymore, and she’s had to have known this question was bound to come up long before she decided to hit the campaign trail for mom, so for some here to say it was “out of bounds” is just wrong.
As to the fairness of the question, apparently what they say about the sins of the father being visited on the son, goes for the daughter as well.
Nice double standard chelsea…If I recall Dick Cheney’s daughter wasn’t out stumping for her father, but the media couldn’t resist making her sexual orientation an issue to the Bush/Cheney campaign.
The American people have a right to know what they are going to get with hitlery and her past doesn’t speak to glowing (and this is just the stuff we know)-I would like to see what files she refuses to release from the presidential library.
In short: she has no foreign policy experience, no managarial experience, is unable to make the hard decisions, cries at the drop of a dime, and I challenge anyone to name ONE piece of legislation &/or policy that has made this country better. Sorry, no co-sponsoring a bill.
As for me; I am going to buy a new firearm if a democrat is elected to the WH. Who knows, might even buy some more 15 round clips
GSP
False equivalency.
The first involves threats against a public figure (non-elected) and her family (which includes two small children) due to completely legal statements written in the course of doing a job.
The second involves a grown woman who is, of her own volition, in a public forum fielding questions about the behavior of adult members of her family: her father, the POTUS, who engaged in behavior which could charitably be called abuse of position and then lied about it; her mother, the former First Lady and now Presidential candidate who knew about her husband’s hound-dog ways and who is touting her experience as First Lady as qualification to be POTUS.
Kind of not the same thing.
Yes, the affair hurt Chelsea. But that lies at the feet of her parents, not the person who asked the question. And certainly not at the feet of the author of this blog.
Not false at all. Hillary is a public figure, just as Michelle is. Both chose to be out in the public. The question was ignorant, and so is trying to say that Chelsea should answer for it.
Chelsea should summarily remove herself from the campaign trail if this question was to hot to handle. Tough and/or inappropriate questions will be asked of her regarding her mother’s experience. I agree with ArmoredCav with respect to the usefulness of the question, but I’m not surprised that it was asked nor I am surprised that she didn’t have an answer for it. Whether or not the question should or shouldn’t have been asked is moot.
I agree with all of what you said except for the usefulness of the question. How Chelsea feels about her mother’s handling of the situation makes absolutely no difference. Chelsea makes no difference at the end of the day..If a voter is looking to her for answers, that party is in worse shape than I thought.
did you read my entire post?
how so?
I would love to see EVERYBODY ask her about Lewinsky and the 8 episodes with her father. I also want to know why she did not go to public school.
Hillary Clinton tried to blame the scandal on the “vast right wing conspiracy”. She added to the divisivness in this country. She does not belong in the White House. It was a perfectly valid question, no doubt asked by an Obama supporter to hi-light Clintons divisivness.
I’d bet dollars to donuts that if it had been a female questioner she’d have given an answer….
Your analogy falls pathetically short.
Michelle’s children are not public figures, Chelsea is and by her own decision.
Chelsea is also not a child. Seriously, how many other 28 year olds with graduate degrees do you protect as if they were children?
And since you like throwing the word ignorant around, perhaps you should consider what the word really means. Not asking a question would be a sign of ignorance. Choosing to turn a blind eye to Hillary’s character as defined by the scandal which captivated this country for a year is ignorant and short-sighted.
Let’s not pretend that Sen. Clinton has not used that situation as a means to draw pity and support for her campaign. The whole “stand-by-her-man” crowd has used it to portray Hillary as someone of deep loyalty.
So what would make the question off limits?
There were several adult answers that Chelsea could have answered with that would have served her much better.
On March 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am, Salt said:
Chelsea is always going to be the child of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Michelles children will be called to answer for some of her stances whether they ask for it or not..Neither situation is acceptable.
Chelsea is out there as the child of (adult child) a candidate..she is nothing but a symbolic figure on the campaign trail.
Based on your rantings of her, it is Hillary that should be answering your questions, not her daughter.
Who is turing a blind eye to the scandal? Again, ask the questions to the people that should be answering them..That would be Bill and Hill.
I agree w/30 pcs silver and peejz who both make good points. I see it as a golden opportunity for Chelsea to score some big points by saying how Hillary was able to continue her “extensive duties” as First Lady while undergoing a very difficult situation! HA! HA!
I noticed how the press doesn’t cut the Bush Twins any slack at all for any little thing they do. Chelsea is a target as long as her parents use her on the campaign trail. So, no sympathy from me. Her answer was harsh,whether the question was appropriate or not.
The young man who asked the question meant no harm…
Oh well…maybe next time.
I disagree and we will likely have to agree to disagree on this.
By campaigning for her mother, I believe that Chelsea has become her representative/agent. Why else would she go around speaking for her if she does not also have the ability to answer questions about her campaign?
What would be the point of that? No one cares whether or not Chelsea would be first daughter or not, right?
So, unless Chelsea is willing to take challenging questions about her candidates position, why should we be willing to listen to her glowing endorsements?
Again, it’s not as though Chelsea has tried to remove herself from the political life. When she was refusing to answer questions, I would have sided with your viewpoint on this. However, once she decided to be an active member and an agent for her candidate, she opened herself to being asked questions.
The fact that she also happens to be her daughter is immaterial in my mind. The questioner didn’t attack her thoughts and feelings, he asked her candidate’s reaction to an event.
Then she should be only that. Her opinions on her mother’s campaign and political positions should be only that, symbolic.
The notion that she gets all of the positive with none of the potential negative is just a bit silly, I think.
1. I am not ranting, honestly. That implies an emotional value that simply isn’t there despite what you might have inferred.
2. I believe that Hillary (and anyone that represents her) should be asked any question that speaks to her character.
As someone else mentioned, since when do we as Americans shy away from tough questions? If it was Hillary’s chief of staff, would you say the same thing about the question?
I agree. Asking the question was tacky and classless.
Actually, if Clinton had simply said “none of your business” rather than committing perjury, suborning perjury, obstructing justice, and lying to the American people in general, I’d have a lot more respect for him. Any, in fact.
I would agree if his intention was only to embarrass her.
Did you see 30’s post above? Looks as though he was trying, albeit poorly, to give her a soft pitch.
For the record, I probably would not ask the question myself. I just disagree that Chelsea should be considered “off-limits” given her active participation in the campaign.
Bad taste even if Chelsea is part of the campaign. She was NOT part of the Monica affair. This jerk should have taken it up with the parent Clinton’s if it was so important to him.
It is a just question and one asked of many people who spout the attributes of Hillary. When Cankles rolled out Chelsea to pander for votes, she opened the gates for all questions.
Would you rather have question and answer sessions with plants. Or interviews with all the questions vetted by Hillary?
#49 Leave MM’s family out of this as she nor her family are on the tax payers dime which is entirely different from being a public figure.
The little twit needs to be grilled all the time about mamma and daddy. She could be the next dem leader.
Under normal circumstances, I’d support the “leave Chelsea alone” camp. Instead of “none of your business,” she should have said something like “I’m sorry, but like most children you can’t expect me to comment on my parents’ personal life…”
There was a win here, under normal circumstances.
Unfortunately, this is a Clinton and these are anything but “normal” circumstances. The primary reason a reporter has the gall to ask such a humiliating question is *because* of her father.
Remember Bill “Boxers or Briefs?” the candidate?
or Governor “Jennifer Flowers” Clinton?
Or how about how he graciously addressed the whole Paula Jones situation? Two words: Kiss It. Or, if you prefer, two other words: Trailer Trash.
Notice how we haven’t even MENTIONED that Monica person. And yet you know as well as I do, there’s MORE!
Katherine Willey anyone?
And these are just the *sexual* peccadilloes of her dad.
The insult here isn’t that someone put Chelsea Clinton into a “difficult situation.” The insult is that after what her parents did to this nation, they still have the audacity to be seen in pubic.
Err… I mean “public….”