"The crude conventional wisdom is that Bill Clinton craved adoration and Hillary Clinton craved power. But Chelsea Clinton seems to have a more crippling want: fashionability—of the sort embraced by philanthropic high society. So you tell The New York Times that your dream dinner party would include James Baldwin, Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jane Jacobs, and Jane Austen, and discussion would be about how “people and communities can evolve to be more inclusive, more kind, have a greater and broader sense of solidarity, while still respecting individual liberties; what provokes or blocks those changes; and what stories might resonate today to encourage us toward kindness, respect, and mutual dignity.” You almost have to bow down before someone who could host Shakespeare for dinner and make the agenda wind up sounding like a brochure for the Altria Group. At least Kafka would be on hand to capture the joy of the evening.

To find fault with the former First Daughter is to invite the wrath of thousands. Love of Chelsea correlates closely with love of Hillary, toward whom her fans have long felt an odd protectiveness, as if she were a stroke survivor regaining the power of speech rather than one of the most influential people in the world. That goes even more for Chelsea, who is often treated less like an independent 37-year-old multi-millionaire and more like the 12-year-old who still deserves to be left alone."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33133567)

"I wrote a letter to President Reagan when I was five to voice my opposition to his visit to the Bitburg cemetery in Germany, because Nazis were buried there. I didn’t think an American president should honor a group of soldiers that included Nazis. President Reagan still went, but at least I had tried in my own small way."

she certainly is her mother's daughter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33133602)

Good line.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33133616)

It'd be hilarious to imagine all of those writers turning on her vision, each from their own historical perspective, and savaging her

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33134242)

lmao. he had to sneak in something absolutely retarded in the second to last sentence. what a shame. was almost a 180 article.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33133803)

*trust fund multimillionaire finding it difficult to care about money*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33133820)

edit: it was $600,000

What did NBC News’s Chelsea Clinton do for her $600,000 salary?

By Erik Wemple June 13, 2014

What’s the pay scale for a rookie network news correspondent with no news experience whatsoever?

Six-hundred thousand bucks!!!!

That’s according to Politico’s Dylan Byers and Maggie Haberman, who report that a prospect who came on board NBC News in November 2011 snared just that level of annual compensation. She was hired to do feel-good stories as part of NBC News’s “Making a Difference” franchise. Her name is Chelsea Clinton.

If that name hadn’t been connected to American royalty, she could have expected to rake in between $100,000 and $200,000 as a first-year network correspondent, a job that people from less-high-profile families snare only through years and years of tireless work covering the news. That salary range is confirmed by several people familiar with the compensation levels at major network news outlets.

“I’m sure that that salary figure is going to make other NBC correspondents’ heads spin right off their shoulders,” says one of those sources.

A spokeswoman for NBC News declined to elaborate on a statement released to Politico, which, of course, refused comment on contractual arrangements.

Life for an NBC News correspondent can be hectic. Events mess with your life. Television and the Web are demanding. Have a look at the recent work of Tom Costello, a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for NBC News. According to Nexis, Costello:

• On June 10 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on the diabetes epidemic.

• On June 10 did a story for the “Today” show on a fatal limo accident in New Jersey.

• On June 9 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on the New Jersey accident.

• On June 5 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on the General Motors safety scandal.

• On June 4 did a story for the “Today” show on news regarding missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

• On June 4 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” about people pointing lasers at aircraft.

• On June 3 did a story for “NBC Nightly News” on food-borne illnesses.

Here’s a look at some of the stuff she has done.

She interviewed the Geico gecko, asking the little creature, “Now gecko, do people recognize you on the street?” And, “Is there a downside to all this fame?”

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

When not helping her employer make nice with corporate America, Chelsea Clinton has done a bunch of “Making a Difference” pieces on, for example: A woman who lifts up children “surrounded by crime and poverty in Pine Bluff, Arkansas” (December 2011); a World War II veteran who “supplies service dogs to wounded soldiers” (January 2012); a “woman who realized horses have the power to heal and bring hope to people who struggle” (July 2012); the Maya Angelou Academy in Laurel (July 2012); a woman who rescues young elephants orphaned by poaching (August 2012); a man who hands out hearing aids to the needy (October 2012); the Foster Grandparent Program (October 2012); Rick Warren (December 2012); folk music traditions in the Ozarks (December 2012); a man who opened a boxing gym in Detroit (March 2013).

A key platform for Clinton’s inspirational stories dried up in June 2013, when the network canceled “Rock Center with Brian Williams.” Even so, she has been on the nightly news every now and again. Her $600,000 deal came up for renewal this year, reports Politico, but the network decided to place her on a month-to-month arrangement in case her mom, Hillary Rodham Clinton, should declare for the 2016 presidential race.

NBC News refers to Clinton as a “special correspondent,” a title best interpreted literally. What unspecial correspondent, after all, gets paid more than a half-mil to do puff stories and travel to Nairobi to check in on elephants?

At the time of Chelsea Clinton’s accession to NBC News, the New York Times cited a “person close” to her as saying this:

The person also said that Ms. Clinton had said she intended to donate most of the money she earned from NBC to the Clinton Foundation and the George Washington University Hospital in the name of her grandmother, who died this month.

When asked if she’d indeed made such contributions, Kamyl Bazbaz, a spokesperson for Chelsea Clinton, responded, “With regards to your question, Chelsea has given generously to causes and organizations she cares about (including The George Washington University Hospital and the Clinton Foundation).”

Whatever she’s done with her paycheck, this whole Chelsea Clinton-NBC News saga is awful. Awful because it’s an affront to hard-working broadcast journalists. Awful because any NBC News reporter or anchor who hustles for an exclusive with Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton has to live with the suspicion that the network’s familial ties to the Clintons facilitated the “get.” Awful because $600,000. Awful because her chief of staff said that the NBC News job was part of Chelsea Clinton’s plan to “serve in the public good.” Awful because the conceit for Chelsea Clinton’s interview with fashion designer Stella McCartney — woman with famous father (Bill Clinton) interviews woman with famous father (Paul McCartney) — was awful:

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33134235)

Hillary - W

Chelsea - Jeb

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33134564)

I would love to see Chelsea Clinton try to get by on $1850 a month.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33136601)

Apple doesn't fall far from the tree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33137758)

She should do like Barbara Bush (the younger) and just lead a quiet life devoted to the good works she can afford by way of being born into considerable wealth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33138138)

XO Illinois Bar

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33147573)

The last decade or so has seen the definition of feminism shift to accommodate UMC college educated white women. There are a ton of poor man's Chelsea's who would vote for the real thing if given the chance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33141251)

...your dream dinner party would include James Baldwin, Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jane Jacobs, and Jane Austen, and discussion would be about how “people and communities can evolve to be more inclusive, more kind, have a greater and broader sense of solidarity, while still respecting individual liberties; what provokes or blocks those changes; and what stories might resonate today to encourage us toward kindness, respect, and mutual dignity.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33141269)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33143916)

this is chickenshit "oh, look, we can criticize liberals! when it is of absolutely no consequence!"

you could say all of this and far worse about FAR worthier high-profile targets. but Vanity Fair would never have the balls.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33143527)

The mere idea that people who profess to care about "equal pay" parade her around as some thought leader is honestly sickening.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33143845)

This is AA black level English.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3592044&forum_id=2#33143915)