Channeling Chelsea

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July 2008
- First Kids Are Kids First
  
  Associated Press | Jul 8, 08 5:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Whether the Obama girls or the McCain brood move into the White House next, all eyes will be on the new presidential offspring. Saturday Night Live 's infamous dig at 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton and Jenna Bush's public underage drinking are reminders that nothing, from braces to boyfriends, escapes the spotlight. Some First Kid highlights from AP: More »
May 2008
- How About President Chelsea?
  
  ABC News | May 22, 08 4:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Bill Clinton hasn't given up hope of a Clinton woman getting into the White House—but it may be his daughter rather than his wife, ABC reports. Clinton says he would never have thought Chelsea would consider running for office—until she proved a natural on the campaign trail this year. Clinton calls his daughter's emergence the second-best thing of the campaign, after his wife's amazing endurance. More »
April 2008
- Chelsea Swings Through Philly's Gay Clubs
  
  pennlive.com | Apr 19, 08 5:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Chelsea Clinton met with wild and drunken support on her “gay pub crawl” through Philadelphia last night, the Patriot-News reports. “Chelsea, the gays love you!” cried one supporter. “We love your highlights,” shouted another. “Thank you, but that’s not why you should vote for my mom,” said Chelsea. “I grabbed her ass!” one woman shouted. More »
- Chelsea Faces Campaign's Rough Side
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 18, 08 8:34 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Until recently, the campaign trail has been a generally hospitable place for Chelsea Clinton. She never talks to reporters, and her rallies generally attract fawning Clinton supporters lobbing softball questions. But as the race heats up, the questions are becoming more pointed, as is the scrutiny, the Los Angeles Times reports. Some of the stories Clinton tells on the campaign trail strain credulity. More »
March 2008
- Chelsea Draws the Monica Query
  
  Los Angeles Times | Mar 27, 08 10:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - “Presumably, the question had to come at some point,” write the LA Times ’ Andrew Malcolm and Mark Silva, but Chelsea Clinton dealt with an audience query on Monica Lewinsky “quite neatly” yesterday. The question came at the end of an Indiana college appearance when a man asked if Bill’s notorious affair had hurt Hillary’s credibility. More »
- Chelsea Shows Best of Both Clintons
  
  New York | Mar 1, 08 6:23 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Chelsea Clinton has come into her own on the campaign trail, “self-assured, soothing … at once affable and urbane,” even “the ideal amalgam of her parents’ political talents,” glows Lloyd Grove in a New York profile. Bill and Hillary have adroitly managed their daughter's public persona, obsessively keeping the press away from her—even making comedians sorry for Chelsea jokes—but she is now orchestrating her own political coming-out, Grove says. More »
February 2008
- New Kid Works Old Clinton Mojo
  
  Newsweek | Feb 10, 08 1:38 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Chelsea Clinton is the hottest ticket on her mom's campaign, but it's taken her a while to come into her own. Just last December, the media-shy Stanford grad waved meekly beside Hillary at an Iowa rally. And while she's still not giving interviews, the former first daughter isn't shy about stumping solo across the country to bolster mom's support among women and young voters. More »
- MSNBC Anchor Apologizes for 'Pimped Out' Jab at Clinton
  
  Washington Post | Feb 8, 08 6:22 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - MNSBC suspended anchor David Shuster today after he drew fire from Hillary Clinton's camp for saying former first daughter Chelsea was being “pimped out in some weird sort of way” by her mother’s campaign. Shuster apologized on air earlier tonight, though he at first stood by the comments, made yesterday, even after a spokesman called his remark offensive, the Washington Post reports. More »
January 2008
- Chelsea Hits Road on Mom's Behalf
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jan 18, 08 3:20 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Chelsea Clinton has put aside her quiet life as a Manhattan hedge-fund executive to hit the campaign trail solo in California and Nevada, hoping to bring her mother's message to young voters—the crucial demographic currently enamored of Barack Obama. Chelsea, 27, is pressing the flesh everywhere from sororities to farmer's markets, the LA Times reports. More »
December 2007
- Chelsea's Lips Are Sealed
  
  Associated Press | Dec 31, 07 2:05 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Chelsea Clinton has strictly maintained press silence while campaigning with her mom in Iowa, turning down even a “kid reporter” for the Scholastic News, the AP reports. "I'm sorry,” Chelsea told the 9-year-old yesterday, “I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute." More »
- Hillary Joined by Chelsea, Mom
  
  Washington Post | Dec 8, 07 10:42 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Clinton campaign, in a dead heat with Obama in Iowa, is pulling out all the stops to bolster Clinton's support among the group long considered her core constituency: women. Along with appearances by influential women such as Madeleine Albright and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Hillary Clinton's mom and daughter, Chelsea, have joined the trail, the Washington Post and Politico report. More »
November 2007
- Better 1st Kid: Chelsea or Jenna?
  
  New Republic | Nov 7, 07 3:03 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Conventional wisdom that puts Chelsea Clinton at the front of the class and Jenna Bush at the back is undergoing a makeover, as the current first daughter charms in public life while her predecessor hits the upper-crust party scene. The “closer I look, the more I like Jenna,” writes the New Republic ’s T.A. Frank, and “the less I like Chelsea.” More »
July 2007
- Campaign Trail Awaits Chelsea Clinton—Again
  
  New York Times | Jul 31, 07 8:04 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After nurturing a low profile for years, former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton, 27, is back in the public eye, stumping for her presidential candidate mom. During her mother's 2000 Senate campaign, she was little more than set dressing. She has reprised that role this time around but may play a more prominent part later, reports the New York Times. More »
June 1998
- A joke too bad to print?
  
  Salon | Jun 25, 98
  
  During the last few months, many established media outlets have decided to report innuendo and rumor about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, as long as they have a source they can cite (at least anonymously), or another media player has reported the same.But this new standard in the practice of journalism seemingly does not extend to other political figures, at least not media darlings like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Earlier this month, at a Republican Senate fund-raiser, McCain told a downright nasty joke making fun of Janet Reno, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton.