David Schuster’s unfortunate choice of words leads to his suspension from MSNBC:
NBC News President Steve Capus sent the following statement to Media Matters for America:
NBC NEWS STATEMENT REGARDING CHELSEA CLINTON COMMENT:
On Thursday’s “Tucker” on MSNBC, David Shuster, who was serving as guest-host of the program, made a comment about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign that was irresponsible and inappropriate. Shuster, who apologized this morning on MSNBC and will again this evening, has been suspended from appearing on all NBC News broadcasts, other than to make his apology. He has also extended an apology to the Clinton family. NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks.
What Schuster actually said was that using Chelsea Clinton to make phonecalls on her mother’s behalf was the equivalent of ‘pimping her out’.
SHUSTER: But doesn’t it seem like Chelsea’s sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?
I understand why Schuster has been suspended. That comment was way out of line. I think a lot more people should be suspended for the things they say, especially on talk radio. For example:
Summary: On The Savage Nation, a caller identified by Michael Savage as “Kojo” asked Savage: “[D]o you know how the AIDS got there [Africa]?” Savage responded: “It got there because it was spread from eating green monkey meat, my friend. If you study the science — but I don’t think you have the capacity to understand science, my dear friend Kojo.” Later, Savage stated: “See, we don’t live in Africa where people settle arguments with machetes. We live in a country where we settle it with arguments. Something you apparently don’t know anything about. … Couldn’t use the machete so his mind went blank. There, that’s what we got. There’s multiculturalism for you. There’s immigration for you. There’s the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can’t reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.”
This isn’t to question Schuster’s suspension, but just to point out that not everyone has the kind of pull to get idiots suspended from their jobs when they says intolerable shit.
