Chelsea dissed 9 yr old Scholastic News "reporter"??

[rainbow4321]

I hope there is another side to this story cuz it has her coming across as a brat who is along for the ride only to show up as a shallow background prop for her mother and nothing more. If this is how it all happened, I think to save her rep (not that she cares probably) a full sitdown interview with this 9 y/o Scholastic reporter needs to be announced ASAP.



http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071231/D8TS58V00.html


It's one thing for Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign to turn down interview requests for the candidate's daughter, Chelsea. But can't a 9-year-old reporter catch a break?

Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they've campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response.

"Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?" Sydney asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside.

"I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute," Chelsea told the pint-sized journalist.

[Lex]

1. WTF? How is that a diss? She was trying to be nice to a kid.

She didn't want to give any interviews at all, even the kid's.

[yardwork]

7. Hi Lex! I was posting at the same time.

[JI7]

9. i agree, i can see her saying that

in a very nice sweet funny tone.

i guess Republicans miss bashing Chelsea. they have been doing it since she was like 11.

[NoPasaran]

2. Well, I guess Hillary can write off the nine-year old vote

[Catherine Vincent]

32. LOL!

[smalll]

66. No biggie. Obama already has that demographic. /nt

[yardwork]

3. Her response sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

I'm having trouble feeling outraged. Except by the scraping the bottom of the barrel smell to this story.

[Lex]

11. Oh good. My reaction was the same.

Can't work up to getting pissed off about that exchange.

[yardwork]

16. Let's get worked up about something else! LOL!

[Lex]

18. Seriesly.

:P

(PS--I emailed you earlier.)

[yardwork]

20. Oh good! I'll go find it! I've got mail - this is hugh1111

[rasputin1952]

4. This may have been a wise move, as anything she would have

said would have been all over the RW mob sites.

Sad that this is the way it is...:(

[Sanity Claws]

5. That's not a diss!!

She was polite and treated the kid the same as other media.

[baldguy]

6. I'd act the same way if the press had been trying to destroy my parents for most of my life.

[yardwork]

12. Not to mention the way the press has tried to destroy Chelsea herself.

Sheesh. Rush Limppaws calling her a "dog," photos of her drunk in the tabloids, I don't blame Chelsea for not talking to the press. How is it a diss?

[mth44sc]

8. Her reply was polite

whats your problem?

[Gormy Cuss]

10. How is that "dissing?" Sounds like polite declining to me.

Chelsea is well aware how easy it would be to say something innocuous and have it blown out of proportion. That this even became a news item is proof of it.

[Hoof Hearted]

13. OMG. We're Republicans now, officially. Going after candidates children is SLIMY.

At least you have the comfort of knowing you can share a table with Rush Limbaugh.

[Ravy]

14. I think she handled it very well. nt

[JDPriestly]

15. Hillary's campaign is overmanaged. And the managers probably

don't want Chelsea ad libbing without their guidance. Ridiculous.

[DURHAM D]

17. Chelsea has never talked to the press and the Clinton's

have never used the press on Chelsea's behalf.

[yardwork]

19. Who cares what Chelsea thinks anyway? It was a stupid question.

Why should Chelsea have to answer such an inane question? We'd all be better off if the candidates refused to answer more of the stupid inane questions that masquerade as journalism nowadays.

I'm not impressed by Scholastic or Weekly Reader or whoever it was sending out nine year old "reporters" and I'm not impressed with handwringing outrage when a relative of a candidate politely declines to respond.

[JDPriestly]

67. The experience is a great one for the nine-year-old.

Had Chelsea talked to her, the child would have remembered Chelsea's kindness forever. As it is, the child will have Chelsea's unkindness to remember -- forever.

It's a matter of thinking of the child's joy and putting that joy before your own rigid ideas about what you are and are not supposed to be doing. If Chelsea did not want to talk to people, what was she doing there? Was she just there for a photo-op? Was she just hanging out for laughs? Why was she there?

[yardwork]

85. Chelsea did talk to her - and was very polite.

If the child reporter is actually interested in being a journalist when she grows up, she'll have to get used to people responding with "no comment."

[xultar]

22. Fucking dumb ass post. I challenge you to find where Chelsea has EVAH talked to the press.

[yardwork]

26. You tell 'im, sister.

This is just stupid.

[Auntie Bush]

56. Hi xultar....where ya been? n/t

[ElizabethDC]

77. Chelsea has never given interviews. I'm sure the campaign would love it if she did

because she's a lovely young woman who reflects well on her parents. But I think Chelsea really enjoys her privacy, and her mom respects that.

[madrchsod]

21. i guess they don`t want her to say anything

yes the right wing would beat the crap out of her....it`s really a sad comment on political discourse in this country

[xultar]

23. Who is 'they'? She's never talked to the press. Especially after what they did to her dad.

[madrchsod]

40. they -her parents and she has talked to the "press"

during the 2006 kerry campaign

i agree with her parents since she would be a target of every right wing talker in the country but i`m sure she could hold her own against any of them. she is a very intelligent lady

[xultar]

58. yes her parents have. she hasn't. not that she can't hold her own. i'm sure

she doesn't want to as a personal rule.

[Bitwit1234]

24. I am so sick of all the crap being posted about any thing Hillary

now they are starting on Chelsae. It is one thing to support a candidate but the vile hatefulness, lies and manufactured crap being circulated is horrendous...What kind of people do stuff like this...is rove still around and making up his dirty filthy stuff. Is this why he said he resigned so he could go into hiding and do all this. I am sickening and disappointed by the stuff the people find out there, and put on this board. This used to be a good place to come to but it is getting terrible.

Look at all the emails about her not supporting the 9/11 widows, a lie. Look at the emails about her great uncle who they said was hung for being a horse thief, a lie. What in the devil are they going to come up next.

BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. THE LIES, THE SWIFTBOATING AND HATE AND VILE HAVE BEEN AROUND SO LONG REAL AMERICANS ARE WISE TO TO IT NOW AND DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION...

[emilyg]

73. Amen.

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[yardwork]

29. It looks like the responses are running 95% in agreement with your opinion.

Who knew that the one thing that would unite DU - Clinton supporters and non-supporters alike - would be this single OP?

[xultar]

I wish I could recommend your reply.

[Lex]

50. Your caps have convinced me.

nt

[AlCzervik]

27. pulling her hair and taking her lunch money would have been a story.

[Garbo 2004]

54. Or at least tripping her. LOL. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

28. At least she thought the girl was cute. :)

[Redstone]

30. Gee, let's attack Chelsea Clinton? Is that you, Rush?

Redstone

[Auntie Bush]

31. If she has a rule not to talk to the pres...then she was just following the rules.

What's she suppose to do...go ask mommy if she can talk to the press if they are only nine?" Be real! Anything to disparage a Clinton. Shame
on you!

[xultar]

35. I bet it is her own personal rule not some campaign rule.

[Auntie Bush]

43. Do you honestly think she'd be allowed to go around and talk to reporters?

I'm sure she's been forbidden.

[xultar]

57. I challenge you to find where she's talked to the press. She's never talked to the press.

[JohnnyLib2]

33. Chelsea -- 2016!

:evilgrin:

[peekaloo]

34. Oh, I was expecting something nasty like "Beat it ankle biter, I gave Fox an exclusive".

:shrug:

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[madrchsod]

36. chelsea did speak to the press-remember this--->

Chelsea Clinton speaks at a Kerry-Edwards rally as Caroline Kennedy, left, and Vanessa Kerry, right, look on in Tampa, Fla., on Saturday. Former first daughter Clinton, shielded from the public during her years in the White House, delivered her first political speeches on Saturday as she campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. — AP/PTI

i remember that at the time some were surprised she was out on the campaign trail with caroline and vanessa...

[Lex]

37. appearing at a political rally = giving a press interview?

Hmmmmm.

[madrchsod]

41. ya i admit that`s a stretch

and i agree with her parents. i think she`d be a better president than either one of them....

[yardwork]

42. to a nine year old "reporter" no less. A travesty!!!!!

Chelsae cassed asparagus on that gril. Off with her hed!

[Lex]

53. LOL!

:rofl:

[ElizabethDC]

78. I was at that event. It was a small political rally, not a press conference.

she spoke to the crowd for about two minutes from the stage, and then talked to people one-on-one afterward. But she didn't talk to the press (though I did get to talk to her and she was lovely).

[Marrah_G]

38. Now Chelsea is being attacked here? This is getting absurd.

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[Lex]

51. You must be craving pizza tonight.

nt

[Kurovski]

39. That's not a diss.

Unless I'm missing something? Did she give the kid a titty-twister while saying it?

Goodness gracious.

[yardwork]

45. A swirly in the nearest port-a-potty. The freepers have it on cell phone.

[College Liberal]

44. So being a prop is ok?

:eyes:

Can a 9 year-old kid catch a break?...

[yardwork]

46. I don't know. The one in question is nine. Who's the seven year old?

[College Liberal]

49. Corrected

Thanks for pointing out my mistake....

[Freddie Stubbs]

47. So, she is treating the kid reporter just like the adult reporters?

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

60. and if she did do the interview she's be accused of pandering or being fake.

the whole story is ridiculous.

[LiberalFighter]

52. Put the blame where it belongs... on the reporter Deb Fouhy

[RB TexLa]

55. I don't see anything wrong with it

[seriousstan]

59. This is the face of future campaigns. No questions and no remarks. Totally scripted.

No news is good news. Why would a candidate subject themselves to questions or offer remarks that could later be used against them?

[tammywammy]

61. That's not a "diss"

I don't think I've ever seen where Chelsea spoke to the press. She was polite while telling the girl no.

[Prefer]

62. I am for Edwards,

but i have to call this out as a pathetic attack.

[donheld]

63. So your little hit piece on Chelsea bombed.

Good enough for you.

[Redstone]

65. Good enough for him (/her?) Probably not. I'll expect more of the same, shortly.

Redstone

[live love laugh]

64. GMAFB

Give.Me.A.Frickin'.BREAK

:eyes:

[Xenotime]

68. SHOW ME where you find disrespect?

She handled it very well.

[TheWraith]

69. Huh? I don't see how that's dissing the young lady. NT

[smoogatz]

70. Another one for the "you'd have to be an idiot to give a fuck" column.

Sheesh. Where's that un-rec button when you need it?

[eridani]

71. Way over the top. This is not disrespect at all

And as you have probably figured out by now, Clinton is my last choice.

[KaptBunnyPants]

72. Seems more sweet than anything else...

nm

[emilyg]

74. What a dumb op.

[gateley]

75. I'm guessing she said it in a sweet way -- and wasn't dissing her at all. nt

[ElizabethDC]

76. Chelsea has been in the public eye for 15 years and has never given an interview.

I think her privacy is really important to her, and she knows that once she gives one interview, the floodgates will open.

[huskerlaw]

79. What I don't understand

is how she can willingly campaign for her mom and still claim immunity from any press questions. Either she wants to be in the public eye or she doesn't. Clearly her choice, but if she doesn't want to be in the public eye, she probably shouldn't stand on a stage next to a presidential candidate.

[cali]

80. What part of "she doesn't give press interviews" don't you understand?

She talks to the public and campaigns for her mom. she has NEVER been available to the press. And sorry, those are not conflicting positions- much as you'd like to make them out to be.

[huskerlaw]

81. That's what I'm asking about

if she puts herself out in the public and campaigns for someone, she should be willing to answer questions about her positions. She has every right to her privacy, but if she's going to stand up at a campaign event to which the press is invited and publicly join the campaign, then for that instant, she is choosing to be a public figure.

I would expect the same thing from Cate Edwards and any other ADULT child of a presidential candidate. Nobody else in the campaign has the ability to say that nobody can ask them questions. Why can she?

[cali]

82. Why? Because you say so?

She does answer questions- from the public. She is not obligated to answer questions from the press because she's campaigning for her mother. And why the hell should she answer questions about her own positions on anything? She's not running for office.

As for Cate Edwards, she's hardly the focus of interest that Chelsea Clinton is, but should she choose not to answer questions from the press, that's her business

And it's dishonest to say that Chelsea Clinton doesn't answer questions: she does- she just restricts the question asking to the public at events in which she's campaigning for her mother.

[huskerlaw]

83. No, not because I say so

but because that's typically how it works when someone chooses to put themselves in a public spotlight. I never said she HAD to, I'm just questioning why she doesn't take questions from the press. She's an adult. She has made the CHOICE to stand up with her mother at public events, at events to which the press was invited by her mother's campaign.

No, she is not running for office, but she has CHOSEN to be a representative of the Hillary campaign. I know of no other representative of any other campaign who refuses to answer press questions. That's all I'm saying.

Also, don't call me dishonest. I was clearly talking about press questions, not the general public.

[Bright Eyes]

84. Thats not all that bad.

It would been cute to sit down with a 9 year old reporter(I doubt he could ask tough questions, seeing that he probably doesn't know his multiplication tables), but she wasn't really rude about it.

No outrage here. Move along, nothing to see....

[NNN0LHI]

86. You are demanding a full sitdown interview with this 9 y/o Scholastic reporter?

Do me a favor and hold your breathe until it happens.

Don

[LanternWaste]

87. That's a "diss"?

That's a "diss"?

Which part was the 'diss'... telling a reporter that she doesn't do press interviews, or telling a nine-year old that he's cute?

Yeah... she's just ruined her 'cred'. Campaign's in flames! Flood! Fire! Famine! :eyes:

[book_worm]

88. Not a diss if done nicely, though "I think your cute" stuff is patronizing.