Here is the full text that Hillary sent to Steve Capus, president of the news division at NBC regarding the degrading remarks made by David Shuster:
Dear Mr. Capus,
Thank you for your call yesterday. I wanted to send you this note to convey the depth of my feeling about David Shuster’s comments.
I know that I am a public figure and that my daughter is playing a public role in my campaign. I am accustomed to criticism, certainly from MSNBC. I know that it goes with the territory.
However, I became Chelsea’s mother long before I ran for any office and I will always be a mom first and a public official second.
Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half hearted apology is sufficient.
I would urge you to look at the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language.
There’s a lot at stake for our country in this election. Surely, you can do your jobs as journalists and commentators and still keep the discourse civil and appropriate.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sing it sister! It is remarkable to me how often people seem not to realize that Hillary and Chelsea are actually real people. I was at an event once when someone asked HRC if any of the remarks people make hurt her feelings. She looked startled and said, “Of course, they hurt my feelings, I am a person, you know!”
In fact, I think we should all send letters to Capus; here’s his email address: steve.capus@nbc.com.
Tags: David Shuster, Hillary Clinton, NBC, Presidential race 2008
February 10, 2008 at 10:11 am
According to the demographics, I should be voting for Hillary Clinton: I’m a white, 60-year-old, highly educated woman from the Northeast. But I’m voting for Obama. I’ve waited all my life for a viable woman candidate for the presidency, but this is not the right woman. I want a woman of the highest ability and virtue, who would serve as a glorious role model to all young women. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
She rode into power with her husband, and together they’ve acquired a long and seriously flawed history of self-serving and secretive financial and political dealings. The most cursory research will prove that true. She started out her political life supporting the racist Barry Goldwater. She is as comfortable with deception and trickery as George Bush. When I hear woman saying, “Oh, but that’s how you get things done in Washington,” I literally cringe.
I am passionately supporting Barack Obama. He can beat the Republicans; she cannot. Obama has attracted Independents and even Republicans to his camp, and in a general election they would vote for him, but not for Clinton. Clinton voted for the war, and has never apologized for it. Obama has spoken out against it from the beginning. Obama brings us hope–and not just that. Take a serious look at his ideas and experience.
Please, I beg of you, Sisters young and old: wait for the right woman. Then we can be proud.
Diane Wald
February 10, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Thanks for your comment. I’m glad that you have a choice that you’re excited about, really I am, what I find curious is the need for so many Obama-ites to denigrate Sen. Clinton in the process. Oh, and by the way, when you find an Obama policy that’s fantastic, let me know.
February 12, 2008 at 3:53 pm
The Clinton campaign didn’t have a healthcare plan befor it felled and they don’t have one now. Well to be honest, if everyone is a goverment employee, then the Clinton healthcare plan will work for everyone. Unfortunately some are self employed, independent contractors or work for private employors or small business. Under the Clinton healthcare plan these people would be penalized if they don’t pay for their healthcare. This means that most of your family members and friends will have their paychecks garnished. We all know that it doesn’t stop there if it is a goverment enforcement. There will be fines and then misdemeanors which is a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony. Why did Ms. Clinton decide on this approach? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out. Big business, big Corporation call it what you will, they want their money back and in order for Ms. Clinton to get their support in her race to presidency she is giving victory to one side (the healthcare providers) by promising to them that she will have the poeople wages garnished if they continue to give healthcare. Thus allowing her to shout the words “UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE” This is a shady tactic and makes fools out of every american that falls for this trick. The Obama healthcare plan is for the people. Poor people, middle class and rich people can rest assured that there is no tricks or penalties in the Obama healthcare plan. VOTE OBAMA!!
February 14, 2008 at 4:22 pm
NO one is talking ‘garnishment” except the Obama folks ; who are consistently negative and, dare I say POLARIZING! Why this need to be nasty to Senator Clinton in their response and campaigning? Is this the “change” they are advocating?
Anyone who knows anything about health care policy knows that universal health care reform will not work unless everyone is in the plan- and Obama sites list either his support for ‘universal’ health care or the single payer system. Which is it?