I agree, but I also think that everything the fat jerk has ever said was offensive. The fact that he is still out there spouting off offends me.
Uh… forgive me for not being in the loop, but what SNL Chelsea insult are we talking about? Not Wayne and Garth’s TOP TEN BEST THINGS ABOUT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION where Chelsea made #1 at the height of her gawkiness? That wasn’t an insult, it was comedy gold, especially since they admitted she could grow up to be a closet babe.
Interesting. I would think one wouldn’t need to be a torture victim to understand how horrible it is. Or do you not subscribe to the “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me” adage?
I’d just like to say that I got on this particular elevator at the ground floor, since I’ve had a thing for Chelsea since before her father’s first election. She’s just a year or two younger than me, and I found myself inexplicably attracted to her despite the awkward teen age thing, perhaps because I was an awkward teenager myself.
I shook hands with her on the eve of her father’s re-election, and I was struck at that time by how much better she looked in person. Now, well, you see the pictures.
It’s good to see a long-time crush finally get some respect.
Chelsea Clinton is no stranger to drinking. The difference is the Bush twins were underage drunks. Chelsea was just drunk. Underage drinking is illegal. Being drunk in public, is, on the other hand, wrong, but not necessarily illegal.
I remember seeing the pictures described below:
Friday, Dec. 28, 2001 9:53 a.m. EST
Pics Show Chelsea Drunk and Disorderly
Photographs showing former first daughter Chelsea Clinton staggering bleary-eyed into a popular London watering hole will appear in next week’s edition of the supermarket tabloid Globe magazine.
The Globe’s cover story headline, “Boozing Chelsea: Clinton Daughter out of Control,” appears over a photo of an unidentified friend grabbing Chelsea by the face in an apparent effort to keep her from passing out.
Other Globe photos show Clinton, eyes bloodshot and looking disoriented, reeling as she emerges from a car with friends, one of whom is steadying her by the arm as the group weaves its way into the popular London nightspot Groucho.
“I thought Chelsea was about to topple over,” a source who witnessed the scene tells the tabloid. “She was wobbling on her feet and a friend had to put her arm out to steady her.”
The Globe reprints one passage from a British media report that claims:
“Looks like Chelsea Clinton stumbled on a staggeringly good time when she hit London’s West End this week. And it took a firm pair of hands to stop her from actually hitting the pavement as she swayed happily into the trendy Groucho Club, where dad Bill - the former U.S. president - was partying with U2 star Bono.”
The drunken night out was not an isolated incident, according to others cited by the Globe, one of whom said the former first daughter is “spinning out of control.”
“Chelsea’s out on the town into the early hours every chance she gets,” a Clinton schoolmate adds. “She loves a good time, but everything seems to revolve around drinking.”
If the reports are accurate, Clinton’s problems with alcohol would mirror a family pattern that saw her Uncle Roger finally admit to a lifelong addiction to booze and drugs just last summer after entering an Arizona drug rehab center to dry out.
Last month another of Chelsea’s uncles, Tony Rodham, admitted that he was boozing and smoking marijuana with a neighbor before he ended up entwined on the living room couch with the man’s girlfriend.
In her younger days Clinton’s grandmother Virginia was a fixture on the Little Rock party scene, with one account describing her as a “barfly.”
According to one friend quoted by the Globe, Chelsea has turned to liquor “as a defense against jokes about her father and Monica Lewinsky and jibes about Hillary.”
“One night when somebody cracked a Clinton joke, she walked into the bar and ordered a double vodka on the rocks,” the source told the tabloid. “She downed it in two swallows and then walked out.”
Last week the New York Post’s Page Six reported that Clinton attended a New York party with sports stars Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter and Ahmad Rashad where “bottles of Veuve Clicquot and vodka” were consumed, but made no mention of Chelsea herself bellying up to the bar.
The Globe reported in April that the former first daughter was spotted boozing it up for spring break at several popular nightspots in Aspen, Colo.
http://www.newsmax.com/cgi-bin/showinside.pl?a=2001/12/28/85410
Whoa. I must say my initial reaction was “…the hell?! That’s Chelsea?!” She looks nothing at all like I remember her.
Not that I’m complaining, mind.
No. It’s 1 millionth as bad because he didn’t broadcast it over national airwaves and the Bushettes have no chance of ever hearing it (unless they read the SDMB, and then they have bigger problems than we thought).
The Rush insult controversy:
What was actually said-
On his TV show he was comparing/contrasting the Bushes & the Clintons-
“Bushes- Cute dog” (shows pic of Millie)
“Clintons- Cute kid” (picture of Millie stays up for a few more seconds, then pic of Chelsea)
Rush apologized all over himself for that & said it was a technical error. That was the ONLY possible insult committed by him against Chelsea. It was not a running routine on his show. Why would he pick on her when he had such great targets in Mom & Dad, anyway?
And the SNL Wayne’s World thing was funny & should not have needed an apology (tho they did). Another SNL bit was Madonna dressed as Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to Bill, then making “You + Me” hand signals which Bill (Phil Hartman) intercepted. She indicates it wasn’t to him. Then I think Hillary (Jan Hooks) intercepts it. Madonna indicates it wasn’t to her. And then Chelsea (Julia Sweeny) gets a grossed-out look “Me?” and Madonna grins & nods.
I remember too much TV L
Btw, I always thought Chelsea had Babe-potential & I was right (I do think Hillary is a babe), she was my favorite Clinton, I figured she was owed at least one drunken spree considering what her parents put her through.
And the Bush twins are hot, reportedly smart & now socially responsible (Barb is Skull&Bones & I think planning to work in pediatric AIDS), and past their wild drinking days (Grandma Barb did a smackdown on them).
I never said anything about it not being horrible. I don’t think it rises to the level of personal offensiveness that his Chelsea comments did, though. I doubt any torture victims who heard him making such a generalised comment would have been hurt in the same way that I expect she would have been, at that age.
FriarTed, as I recall the insult was that Rush held up a picture of Socks and said “Here’s the White House cat”, and then held up a picture of Chelsea and said “Here’s the White House dog”.
The Rush/Chelsea/Dog stories have been going on for a while. If you go to the very bottom of this page there is the transcript of the incident posted by a rabid defender of Rush. I am not a fan and thus never watched the show, however, a ditto-head I work with did & claims to remember it. He says that when it happened, he thought the insult was intentional & the apology less than sincere.
IMO, she doesn’t look different enough to jump to the plastic surgery conclusion. She looks like she finally grew into her teeth. I had a similar problem growing up. That’s why there are only closed mouth smiles in any pictures of me from age 8 to 16.
I went back and opened the pic and now EVERYBODY knows I’m not working.
She’s a fox! In French she would be called le renard and she would be hunted, with only her cunning to protect her.
I’d hit it. Oh, crap. This ISN’T Fark 
I love the typical assholish Rush remark in his apology
Damn, I forgot to mention that she still looks a little weird in the profile shot.
Last addendum: Bush looks funny in that picture too.
If she were a president, she’d be Babraham Lincoln!
Obviously, you’ve never been a thirteen year old girl. When I was thirteen, I once broke my mirror I felt so hideous and if I had had someone call me the family dog on tv, I think I would have been absolutely devastated. And MY father would have wanted Rush’s head on a platter.
I’m not surprised to see her looking so lovely-I’ve thought she really grew up to be beautiful since her father left the office. For all those who made fun of her-NOW who has the last laugh?
And I don’t think she should have a nose job-she should keep the one she has-it makes her look prettier, in a not-cookie-cutter way.
Rush is lucky that Clinton wasn’t Truman. (If you’ll recall, Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry, was a professional singer/pianist or something like that, and someone said some not so complimentary things about her talents. Truman threatened to punch the guy out. Heh!)
No, it was another skit where they said she looked like the lion from The Wizard of Oz.
My opinion of Rush Limbaugh was already at the subterranean level. Now it goes beneath the Earth’s crust. Rush Limbaugh an ugly, pudgy, drug-addicted, draft-dodging sissy that has now broken up with a third wife? This piece of excrement wrapped in human skin had the temerity to insult a 13 year old girl? And nationally? I think Rush rates right down there with that dipshit baseball fan who took the foul ball away from the 4 year old kid. Doesn’t Rush remind you of some lily-livered twerp who was just barely above the dork level in high school? He’d be the one “brave” enough to pick on members of the Chemistry Club. He’s the 98 pound weakling picking on the 97 pound weakling.
I believe the insult from Saturday Night Live was a Wayne’s World sketch in which Chelsea was referred to as a “babe in waiting”. Definitely not complimentary but I believe that was only shown once and never repeated (and was never shown in those reruns in syndication and on cable).
I love the way Limbaugh “pretended” they put up the wrong picture. Just like the time (I think it was Rep Dick Armey) referred to Barney Frank (an openly gay Congressman) as Barney Fag. And later Dick Armey said it was an “accident”. Oh, and I’m sure his ‘apology’ was said most sincerely.
So Chelsea has blossomed into a beautiful babe. (Hey I thought she was a cute kid too). In a great many instances, a person’s adolescent years are NO indication of their adult life. Think about it. Haven’t some of you gone to high school with a football hero who, a few years later, has blossomed into a blimp? Or maybe your senior class president is now 38 years old, unemployed and living in his parents’ basement? Or “most likely to succeed” just made the headlines for being arrested for armed robbery?
So, best of luck to Chelsea. And here’s some consolation for her. I believe she will receive Secret Service protection for life. She could have loads of fun by going to her 5 year high school reunion throwing a pair of panties at some girl that previously taunted her and say “my Dad told me to return these to your mother.”
And should that girl decide to fight back, the Secret Service will beat the living shit out of her.
Ahhhhh I think Chelsea’s going to have lots of fun in adulthood !!!
Isn’t it a shame that kids from celebrities always get the whole press running after them. Happens everywhere. I mean; they didn’t ask for all that attention, right?
Our King-to-be is trying to protect his daughter by showing her to the press at regular intervals. If the press doesn’t go by his wishes, they will be excluded at the photo-shoots and will be sued when publishing unauthorized photos or stories.
I hope it’ll work, but I don’t really think so.
Anyway: Good for you, Chelsea.