Don’t You Have To Be Mean to Snub a Nine Year Old Reporter

  •  December 31, 2007

Clinton rudeness holds no bounds:

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.

Hillary why is your campaign mean to nine year olds?

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  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    The only time I ever had a bad thought about Chelsea was completely by accident! Bill Clinton was being inaugurated and was standing next to Chelsea, who came us to about his shoulder at the time.
    In a group shot, the camera angle showing Bill’s head on top of Chelsea’s extremely curly hair (the back of her head, none of the rest of her) made it look like Bill Clinton was wearing a chicken suit to the inauguration!

    Go look for yourselves if you can find any of that video! The back of Chelsea’s head with Bill Clinton’s head atop it looks remarkably like a man in a chicken suit! :)

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    But why on earth should it matter what age the reporter is that she snubbed?

    I think the difference is that adult reporters are pretty sneaky and are ready to play the gotcha game. I doubt the nine year old was playing that.

    Being wary of adults is wise, but you don’t do that to kids.

    if Chelsea had something positive to say, why does mommy slimiest not want her saying it?

    I think it’s that the Shrillary campaign is totally controlling. They’ve issued their orders.

  • Anna

    Boones farm since I was underage.

    LOL.. Boones Farm and underage goes hand in hand apparently. When Carol mentioned it the first thing in my mind was a bunch of us high schoolers, sitting with our legs dangling off of the Jordan’s swinging bridge and drinking strawberry wine in the moonlight.
    Shoot.. my life could be a country song from the sound of that statement, just add a lil’ geeeetaw music and I got it made. ;-)

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Reality Bob… I am not nice. I’ve never thought of myself as nice. Sorry if I disappointed you! Sometimes I just can’t help myself when it comes to the Clintons. They are political piranhas. I feel bad for Chelsea having two parents that are such scum bags. BUT she does. I am sure she has a great personality and is very intelligent.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    So, threat or payoff?

    “Speak to our In House Media outlet or you’ll wake up with Barbie’s head in your bed.”

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Ok, Carol. Your house sounds good to me! Beer stays colder in North Dakota doesn’t it?

  • jpe

    You must have delicate sensibilities to think that’s mean. I’m sorry, writing that didn’t just hurt your feelings, did it?

  • 2Hotel9

    Toot, open it and jam the straw in quickly, before the freezing begins. And yes, I have extensive experience with this. In most cases it does not freeze till it is opened, if it is frozen already don’t try to open it. During the winter I leave cases of Miller Highlife outside, and usually only have 2 out of 24 freeze solid. Low alcohol content, low quality control.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    I heard that Boones Farm has formaldehyde in it… Surely not?

  • Carol

    Does Beer freeze? People tell me that Boone’s Farm Wine tastes really good (at a lefse making party) after its been in a snow bank all day. All I know is I had to drive home.

  • 2Hotel9

    Bud and Busch both freeze around 30. Coors Light and Michelob both hold out till around 25. Don’t know why Highlife does better, must be the formaldehyde.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Hey r-Gumby buddy, sorry I missed you.
    Excuse me, but is that a hate filled rightie questions?

    Did you find another Ace of Spades headline to “borrow” from yet?

  • 2Hotel9

    Contrary to FDA assurances I am pretty sure most beer has trace amounts of formaldehyde. I quit worrying about such a long time,,,,What were we talking about?

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Miller doesn’t have formaldehyde, does it? I haven’t had boones farm since I was underage either.

  • http://bezufache.wordpress.com/ Bezu Fache

    OR my house!

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  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    We were talking about how much we miss you. Mrs. WILLisms mentioned how funny it was when you would say something about Ron Paul how the weirdo’s would come out of the woodwork!

  • Neiman

    Zsa Zsa: Occasionally reacting emotionally to matters offensive to the heart does not mean you are not generally a nice person, it means you are human! I still think you are nice!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    HA!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Thanks man!

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Well to be honest Zsa Zsa I kinda regretted leaving WILLisms.com the moment I left. I had taken over Will’s blog really, and I felt bad about that. I turned it into KENisms! When Will and I were blogging together it was great, kinda like Senator Palpatine and Darth Maul!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Just the fact that she is the product of Bill & Hill makes it hard for me to see the beauty in her. The Clintons are one of my least favorite people. Hillary is not a nice person. She has been known to be rude to the White house staff. Bill is a liar. I am sorry I have been so unkind about Chelsea. It is not her fault.

  • 2Hotel9

    I have left them out there when it was a sustained 0 for a week and they were OK. Though I have to open them outside and pour it into a glass. If I bring them in and open they freeze just about instantly.

  • auctiontip

    If you were as ugly as Chelsea Clinton was when she was small, wouldn’t cute kids piss you off.

  • Lestat

    I remember how careful everyone had to be not to make offensive remarks about her.

    I remember Rush Limbaugh holding up a picture and calling her a dog on his shortlived TV show.

  • 2Hotel9

    ZZ, NoDak don’t use beer can huggies to keep it cold, they keep it from freezing.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    She must have a really great personality?

  • 2Hotel9

    I love using a straw to get the alcohol out of frozen beers. Bypass all those empty calories annoying water.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    I love freezing cold beer! I am not a big fan of the warm beer.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    This is silly. Chelsea is not Hillary's "campaign". She's probably tired of being hounded by stupid reporters. And she knows that if she answers a 9 yo, the rest will hound her.

  • robert108

    She is a private citizen and that is her perogative.

    It's a shame that the Bush daughters aren't afforded the same treatment by the leftie MSM.

  • robert108

    I also think there was no convenient PC answer for Chelsea to give, so she wisely kept silent.

  • Robert Haag

    What bothers me is that Chelsea was rude to the child and her mother is still voting for Hillary.

  • nash

    I hope you all are joking because this story is stupid and makes you look foolish. Chelsea was neither mean nor rude to the cub reporter.

  • Andrew

    I absolutely despise Hillary. That aside, I have to agree with others that this is such a stupid story.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    What's stupid is having kids do this in the first place- I don't give a crap about listening to questions asked by children who were put up to doing it by their parents in order to generate some cutesie publicity. It's Barnum and Bailey bullshit!

  • http://lifetrek.blogspot.com/ LifeTrek

    I don't have a problem with her not giving interviews, or telling the kid that – she wasn't even rude or mean, just sticking to the idiotic, "zero tolerance," mentality that has entered society that prevents common sense from allowing you to do something that would impress a 9 year old.

    What gets me is this:

    Tall and attractive, Chelsea cuts an impressive figure on the campaign trail; she plunges enthusiastically into the crowd after her mother's speeches, shaking hands and posing for pictures while asking, "Are you going to caucus for my mom?"

    Seriously, is BETH FOUHY from the AP trying to get a date with Chelsea or what?

    I haven't heard such sucking up since, well, Bill Clinton was running.
    DKK

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Gosh I hope we won't have to have the Clinton's in the White House again! Imagine the Tax Payers having to pay 2 Presidential retirements and all that goes with that to protect these white trash idiots? Hilary and Bill had there time and blew it. Why on earth would we subject ourselves to these idiots over again? Yuck!

  • Eneils Bailey

    HRM has been the most scripted and has conducted the most controlled public appearances in my life time.

    She calls Bush a "Cowboy." What's wrong with Bush calling her a "fat-ass political whore" who went out as a Northeastern liberal to climb the social ladder and married a hick politician from Arkansas.

    Note to Chelsea Clinton, if you stand on stage, at a public appearance, campaigning for your mom, expect those really hard questions from those ten-year- old little girls.

  • Hoss

    Care to demonstrate your dumbassedness any more?

    J,
    Don't worry. Socialist proves it time and time again in every posting.

  • http://www.neofascist.org/ Socialist

    They've both employed Bush twins in third-world nations–UNICEF sent Jenna to Central America to teach, and IPAI sent Barbara to Africa to work with AIDS patients.

    Yep, that's another great public relations stunt. Prop up the Bush twits as doing something for their country. But it has very little to do with what we were talking about. Typical rightwing tactic – change subjects when you can't come up with anything else and then lash out with stupid insults.

    Care to demonstrate your dumbassedness any more?

    I have no dumbassedness, but I just demonstrated YOUR dumbassedness.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    She is a private citizen and that is her perogative. (sic)

    But she is campaigning publicly, and thus a public figure. How insecure you must be about your candidate and your positions if you feel a nine-year-olds softball questions may cause a campaign faux pas! :)

    Typical rightwing tactic – change subjects when you can't come up with anything else and then lash out with stupid insults.

    Rightwing? Consider the following:

    Oh, yes, those poor little Bush twins. When will the "liberal" media (owned and controlled by rightwing corporate scum) ever leave those poor little Bush twins alone? Boo hoo, oh it is so sad, the poor little Bush twins suffer in poverty (born into Bush family wealth), and it is sooo sad that they have to sacrifice for their country (didn't see them volunteer for their dad's disastrous Iraq war).

    It was Socialtwit who made the big deal about the Bush twins. (I think sarcasm counts as stupid insults. And scum probably isn't a word it uses to describe its mother!) As far as changing the subject, it was Socialtwit that made stupid, nasty and above all, unfounded statements about the Bush twins and cries "Boo, hoo, hoo! Don't call me on my bullshit! You're changing the subject!" :) Two words: "Pa" "thetic"!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Good morning hate filled r-Gumby.

    Have you chosen an Ace of Spades headline to "borrow" from today yet?

  • robert108

    Chelsea is obviously not as an accomplished a liar as her parents are; she didn't have a talking point ready for a 9-year old's question, and the public has the right to know that. Whether or not you call it "mean" is irrelevant. An informed public will decide about her treatment of that little girl. If she is going to campaign for her mother, she should have her script memorized.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    So much hate r-Gumby, even this at this early hour?
    Lets have lunch and have another nice chat about it.

  • robert108

    Rush tells the truth.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    Lestat is right again.

    On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, "Did you know there's a White House dog?" Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    No adult should pick on a thirteen old kid if you can help it but she's fair game now. Go ahead and make up your own mind.

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  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob
  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    When Carter was in office was there a big todo over remarks about Amy or the rest of his family?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    When Carter was in office was there a big todo over remarks about Amy or the rest of his family?

    Mostly I remember that Jimmy did a speech where he had asked Amy what the most important issue in America was. I believe she answered "nuclear power."

    Hence the weight and power of the American government was set in motion against a crucial industry.

    The environuts must hate Amy for messing things up.

    Aside from that Amy got the Cartah's tons of puff pieces.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I'm informed by Wiki that she was talking about nuclear arms. Never mind.

    I should know better to look it up before I submit.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd
  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    There you go bringing up the UGLY word!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    LBJ's daughters were hounded. BUT not because they were ugo's.

  • Andrew

    There's the double standard. It's OK for the MSM to report on the Bush twins(otherwise we wouldn't know what they were doing), but can't mention Chelsea's looks(and her partying, for that matter).

    Perhaps the Bush twins put themselves in more situations where the media could portray them in a bad way (i.e. partying, underage drinking, etc). Maybe Chelsea didn't party as much, or in as many public places (I could be wrong. If you have any info to the contrary, I'd be more likely to agree with you). And as I mentioned before, it's fair for the newspapers to criticize someone's actions (as in the case of the Bush daughters), but not someone's physical appearance (as with Chelsea).

    But overall I think we can both agree that media should have left both the twins and Chelsea alone in the first place. And I definately don't disagree that the MSM is guilty of numerous double standards; I just don't happen to see as much in this case.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Zsa Zsa…I use to think you were a nice person.

    Zsa Zsa: When rbb calls you names, it's like being called ugly by a monkey!
    Anybody in their right minds here at SA would rather sit down with a beer with you than bob any day of the week! (And that includes the tea-totalers !) :)

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    rbb: You don't tug on Superman's cape!
    You don't spit into the wind!
    You don't pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger
    and you don't mess around with Zsa Zsa!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Mmmm…Beer!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Wouldn't that be fun to get a bunch of us together and have a party?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    At Carols!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Wouldn't that be fun to get a bunch of us together and have a party?

    Only if we could leave the 2 yr. olds with a sitter!
    (And you know who you are, rbb!) :)

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    OR my house!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Whistler: Since you posted that picture, I've been trying to remember where I've seen that expression before. Is it possible that she and the Lady Tottingham were separated at birth?
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  • Paulie B

    It's NYE, and I'm heading out the door after this post, but I want to clarify.

    YES – Chelsae is ugly. People can scream it at the tops of their lungs. (however, I hardly find something like that news worthy… just as a couple of college girls going out drinking is less than news worthy…)

    But why on earth should it matter what age the reporter is that she snubbed? Had she snubbed an adult would someone cry foul for whatever other reason? (race, religion, sex, whatever…) If children are untouchable, why don't we throw them into the mix all of the time? (Other countries do it by giving their children hand grenades and rifles.) If a child is going to play adult, then the child has to expect to receive adult treatment – and if that means getting snubbed, then so be it.

    Having a child work in an adult world is similar to people who use wives of dead soldiers to voice their political agenda.

  • 2Hotel9

    Obviously her dad didn't advise her on this, he would have coached her in how to schmooz and dazzle. Mom is the one that runs from the press, even the ones on her side.

    You have to wonder, if Chelsea had something positive to say, why does mommy slimiest not want her saying it? Could it be she is a less than willing campaigner?

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Ok, Bezu! Now I just have to figure out when. It would be interesting to see if everyone is what we imagine.

  • Viking

    "It was a bunch of lies," Sydney said of the television coverage and the blogs. "Chelsea didn't shun me, and she was actually really nice, but they put on that she was really mean."

    New York Times, December 31, 2007

  • Carol

    At my house!!! I'll be ready. I'll make the food… you guys will have to buy the beer.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Uh oh!

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    How do you get said straw to the unfrozen alcohol?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I haven't had Boones farm since I was underage.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Somehow I think leaving it outside in North Dakota is going to freeze 24 out of 24.

    See, 2H9? Frosty cold one refers to more than just the women in ND! :)

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I have left them out there when it was a sustained 0 for a week and they were OK.

    I'll try that in the spring.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Come to think of it, it could refer to Hillary! :)

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Anyone else figure that 2H9's family is going to save a lot of money on embalming charges?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    my life could be a country song from the sound of that statement,

    Just as soon as we find out what you and Billy Joe McCallister tossed off that bridge! :)

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Uh oh… Ken? Do we need to get your eyes tested? Bad Zsa Zsa!

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    I shouldn't have said that. I think Eleanor Roosevelt was beautiful. Most people disagree.

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken
  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    I think you need to get back to WILLisms.com. It is kinda like Pine valley.

  • 2Hotel9

    She does resemble her father more than Hillary. Now if they would just acknowledge Webster Hubble and free the poor girl from her servitude to Willie Jeff and Billary she could possibly live a normal life.

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Bike Bubba

    It's stunning to think that the Hillebeast campaign would refuse to let her Stanford-educated daughter field such softball questions from the press. I don't know if it speaks to how bad education has become, or how vicious the press has gotten.

    I'm guessing a bit of both.

    I'm also told that drinkable beer doesn't freeze until quite a bit colder than Bug and Bug Light will tolerate.

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