Reply #17: I'm as zealous for Chelsea's protection from the slime that seems to be natural

[Joe Chi Minh]

to the Republicans, theatrical grotesques every one, as the next man, but since I have a low opinion of the ploys and manipulations of ALL politicians, and given the trivial context, the pimping metaphor, while it may have been close to the line, strikes me as simply a vernacular parallel to the use of the semantically-associated word, "meretricious", literally "whorish", but signifying "cheap and venal" - at which nobody would turn a hair.

What does strike me as odd is that Schuster should have made such a big deal of it as to use such a metaphor. It seems very odd to me for a grown man, and very worldly commentator, I gather, to be so horrified by it. It reminds me a bit of when that gnarled old Republician Senator almost tearfully intoned on the Larry King show, during the Clinton impeachment farce, that he could never have the same complete faith in the honesty of politicians ever again! Shades of Little Red Riding Hood. Bill had single-handedly opened the old arch-worldling's innocent young eyes to a whole world of adult chicanery! It seems a lot of DUers have interpreted it far too literally and pedantically. Still it won't do any harm if it makes Schuster and other MSM figures a little more sensitive in their choice of words. Politicians may be fair game, but not their nibloes.