<![CDATA[Jezebel: david shuster]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: david shuster]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/davidshuster http://jezebel.com/tag/davidshuster <![CDATA[MSNBC Brings Birther Circus Into Full Public View]]> David Shuster and Tamron Hall had Birther Queen Bee Orly Taitz on MSNBC this afternoon, and, after Taitz tried to prove her points by talking constantly without saying anything, Shuster and Hall dared to ask questions.

Halfway through, where we pick up, Taitz calls Shuster a brownshirt, at which point (having lost relatives in the Holocaust), he pronounces himself offended. Then Tamron Hall comes back to try to ask her to respond to questions which, in true Sarah Palin fashion, Taitz refuses to do and, instead, says she's going to have Hall fired. Finally, an exasperated Shuster asks her if her motivation is simply a hatred of people with Muslim-sounding names (while a crew member audibly laughs in the background) and after denying it, Taitz claims that one's parents have to both be U.S. citizens for their child to be one (untrue) or for their child to become President (also untrue). It's a whole steaming pile of delicious, Schadenfreude-y crazy, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the thought that it's on this woman's veracity that Lou Dobb has staked his journalism "career".

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<![CDATA[ So remember last week when MSNBC reporter...]]> So remember last week when MSNBC reporter David Shuster caused a Clinton ruckus by saying that Hillary was "pimping out" daughter Chelsea by bringing her on the campaign trail? Well, writer and former call girl Tracy Quan, who knows from pimps, has a different take on the situation: Hillary isn't the pimp... it's Bill: "If you've experienced the American pimp scene - even peripherally, as I have - you'd recognize Chelsea Clinton's dad right away as pimp material. Long before Bill turned post-presidential as Hillary's hands-on helper, the Clinton marriage was settling into a pattern, starting with Bill's seductive charisma and moving right along with Hillary's decision to provide the financial support. In the 1990s, when feminists were casting Bill as an "equal partnership" spouse, he struck me as a quasi-pimp. Not a gigolo, you understand. That's not Bill's game at all. He was never there to be window-dressing or to keep Hillary amused, and he's too formidable a player to be taken for arm candy." [Guardian]

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