"pimping someone out means you are making a direct comparison between a presidential candidate and a whoremonger."
no, not really.
"this is not suitable for any kind of actual political discourse."
Yes, this is true because their exsist people who love taking things the wrong so they can get more attention or push things in their favor. So a person in that position (political spokesman) shouldn't fall for such a simple trap.
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tell me what pimping someone means in this context.
TELL ME. if they are not directly comparing her to a whoremonger what is it? is it the style of dress? because I had no idea Hillary Clinton had a fascination with ridiculously long plumed hats and purple suits with leopard print.
this is incredibly offensive shit for a political commentator to say.
ps: did you know it's not a simple trap (are you fucking kidding me?) but that Hillary Clinton, who quite a few feminists like (NO REAL SCOTSMAN), has just taken a stance against the coopting of the word pimp to mean something good which would endear her to anyone even remotely feminist?
I don't see how so many people think that literally means PROSTITUTION, unless I'm the only person who has heard that phrase used the way he intended? People have begun to use pimping out and whoring out to basically mean USING SOMEONE for any reason, and even though the comments are completely unfounded and the dude should have known better than to say that on the news, she should be strong enough to not make a big deal about it.
edit: the part where it said chelsea is an obvious target if she is getting involved wasn't FROM chelsea, just about her, so i take that part back, but the rest stands.
it's a horrible term. you know, nigga isn't offensive, but I bet Russ Mitchell wouldn't address Barack Obama with "yo nigga, what's hood?" it's kind of offensive to ask a woman if she's whoring out her daughter for political reasons while using language that almost literally means whoring someone out, instead of asking a delicate question about delicate issues.
it has nothing to do with strength. it's an offensive comment and she has every right to be mad that she was compared to a pimp because her daughter called superdelegates. is she using her daughter, yes. can
I say Hillary Clinton is pimping out her daughter? sure why not. should a member of the press be allowed to say that kind of shit? hell no. members of the press should not comment on presidential candidates with coopted slang. I do not want to hear that John McCain is ridin' dirty with PAC money, for fuck's sake. you and I are nobodies in political spheres, but I'd like to think in serious discourse people don't call each other faggots like I do every other day.
it's a bad accusation, phrased in a kind of gauche way. I don't see how she's overreacting by demanding an apology from a network that used a term with very modern origins in WHOREMONGERING while describing the relationship between a mother and daughter.
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