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A wingnut activist named Robert Morrow trolled Chelsea Clintons book signing in Austin, Texas Friday. Imagine being approached with these sordid personal attacks in public, and you begin to understand why she and her mother don't often favor being spontaneous or unguarded:
Has your mother ever told you that youre the daughter of Webb Hubbell, and not Bill Clinton, he said while Chelsea was looking down, signing a copy of Its Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going.
The question was in reference to a long-time rumor alleging Chelsea was the result of an affair between the Clinton lawyer and Hillary.
Looking up, smiling, Chelsea responded, I am so proud to be my parents daughter, without actually naming her parents....
Referring to Clintons book being geared towards kids, Morrow asked, Would you say Bill Clinton also targets teenage girls, except for sexual reasons?
I would say my book is really resonating with kids, Clinton responded. I was at the Ann Richards School earlier today and Im so grateful that its resonating to the young girls and the young boys that Ive been talking to across the country.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/creepy-conspiracy-mongering-stalker-two
riversedge
(70,310 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)clicking on that link.
He is a vile pile.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Imagine how humorous you find this if it was instead about Bristol Palin?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Plain Chronic Victimhood cult?
Your response is what one would expect of a Tea Partier--Democrats don't think like that.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Indeed they don't. I've seen the tenderness with which Palin's spawn are handled.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)to do with them.
Are you that upset by people being mean to Bristol?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)nature to be more accepting and tolerant, and far less hostile and aggressive.
I felt sorry for Bristol Palin when I learned she was pregnant after she had first stood before cameras looking like a deer in the headlights. Would you understand that? A whole lot of conservatives, especially social conservatives, do not.
Trajan
(19,089 posts)Creepy is creepy, and liberals tend to be concerned about anybody under a threat like this ...
Only the most cynical among us would assume the worst of us ...
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)...Only the most cynical among us would assume the worst of us
Guilty as charged.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141127349
You were saying?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Your obsession with how awful it is that people say mean things about the Palin family is bizarre and a pathology normally associated with the rightwing.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Of being outraged when Chelsea Clinton is treated in this fashion while ignoring (at best) or participating in (at worst) similar behavior towards the Palin offspring, in particular Bristol.
It seems to me that an objective response might be to point out the ways in which they are not similar, and there ARE differences in the two situations. Furthermore it would be proper to acknowledge that Bristol often is on the receiving end of commentary that would make most of us blanch if it were our daughter. One might argue that Bristol invites a good deal of the criticism she receives through various actions on her part, such as putting forth her opinions on matters such as birth control and sex for profit.
However I don't think misrepresenting the posters point in order to paint them as some sort of Palin fanbois is particularly effective, nor is it intellectually honest.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Darb
(2,807 posts)from title to message.
Jussayin.
As for the Palin's, they haven't had one one-hundredth the amount of stalking and conspiracy and outright lunacy aimed at them as have the Clinton's. So your comparison is not relevant, nor is it valid.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)No doubt, Chelsea had a child prior to a wedding, yet after preaching absolute abstinence?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Not the same at all. And Democrats don't stalk Bristol asking her insulting questions about her parents. That is troll-like and unacceptable.
Pathwalker
(6,599 posts)Yes, I "suppose" Chelsea could have done the more respectable thing like Bristol, like being an Abstinence only spokesperson, while having two children without the benefit of marriage - so much more "respectable" than being married, then having a child. Yessirree, that Bristol Palin is a perfect spokesperson to make shitloads of money for abstinence only. After all, it works so well for her!
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)No doubt you own imagination will supply you with all the validation of an unsupported premise you require, regardless of how you rationalize it otherwise...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)But then I'd have to give a rat's ass about Bristol Palin to care either way anyway...
R. P. McMurphy
(836 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)I think you meant "DEM Presidential Front-Runner" as Chelsea, FWIU, is Hillary and Bill Clinton's daughter.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)From the link in the OP:
Stone, we're told, either quit the Donald Trump campaign or was fired in August. He had been a top Trump adviser. Nevertheless, he seems to be making quite a few media appearances on Trump's behalf.
Morrow, Stone's co-author, wasn't acting out of character when he approached Chelsea Clinton at that book signing. As Eric Hanaoki of Media Matters noted last month in a post, making wild, baseless, and tasteless accusations against the Clintons (and some other politicians) is pretty much a full-time job for Morrow.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)I wanted readers to see my first concern was for Chelsea's safety.
Trump's team has all sorts of connections to the seamy undersides of low lying snakes and such. For instance, Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy's right hand man and a famous right wing nutjob in his own right, showed Donald the ropes.
The guy did his part to make the GOP into a preserve for idiots, greedheads and warmongers.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Is Hillary having an affair with some dude or is she a secret lesbian?
Chelsea handled herself very well during this encounter--I would have probably stabbed him with the Sharpie.
Pathwalker
(6,599 posts)with Vince Foster. I gave her the chance to rethink it, and now she refuses to discuss it.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Oneironaut
(5,525 posts)I bet this dork has a future on The O'Reilly Factor.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)key word: stone is a FORMER trump staffer. and just because morrow wrote a book with him doesn't mean they're BFFs.
that said, Morrow sounds like a major skeeze and repugnant excuse for a human being. Then again, he is a Republican.
Warpy
(111,359 posts)and I felt like taking a shower after, Morrow is just that smarmy and hateful.
The comments, however, were great this time.