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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Pimping ain't easy
The Imusing of David Shuster continues, with NOW piling on with Emily's List, Media Matters getting into a full-on lather, and Camp Hillary appearing to hold out for nothing less than his eradication from MSNBC.

Huh???

Fired? Over using the word "pimping?" You mean, pimping, as in "Pimp My Ride," "pimping David Petraeus," "P.I.M.P" and "Pimping All Over the World?"

Why has Shuster become the target of so much acrimony? Isn't this the guy who famously quit Fox News and then told the world exactly who they are?

The feminist brigade can't seriously believe that David Shuster is the worst of the worst -- on some Don Imus level of daily cruelty and abuse (and the former was doing it to be funny ...) What they clearly believe is that this story is helping Hillary among her base -- white women -- and that they will respond to it in such a way as to get her back in contention at the polls.

That calculation is cynical, highly political, and about as disengenuous as it is savvy. At the end of the day, Shustergate will probably help Hillary get her vote out, but it won't win her friends in the centrist end of the blogosphere...

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