In a February 10 article, Washington Post staff writers Michael D. Shear and Anne E .Kornblut wrote that Chelsea Clinton “is continuing to campaign for her mother despite the campaign's outrage over a remark made by an MSNBC host, David Shuster, that she is being 'pimped out' by the campaign on her mother's behalf.” Shear and Kornblut did not explain their suggestion that Chelsea Clinton's continued role in Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) presidential campaign is somehow inconsistent with the “campaign's outrage” at Shuster's comments.

During the February 7 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, while discussing Chelsea Clinton's work for her mother's campaign, Shuster asked, “But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?” Shuster subsequently apologized and has since been suspended by MSNBC for the comments. In a letter to NBC News president Steve Capus, Sen. Clinton wrote: “Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient. I would urge you to look at the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language.”

Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, and Don Imus are among the MSNBC hosts and reporters who have made controversial comments about women on MSNBC broadcasts in the last year, as Media Matters for America has detailed.

From the February 10 Post article:

Former president Bill Clinton also has stops in the D.C. area today, starting out by attending church in Southeast before visiting Upper Marlboro, Catonsville, Baltimore and Silver Spring. Chelsea Clinton is scheduled to appear at a “Hillary Speaks for Me” event at Ultrabar downtown tonight.

At the Richmond dinner, Clinton did her best to appeal to a crowd filled with Obama supporters in a state that her campaign has not given up on but is bracing to lose. Asking the audience to envision the day a new president is inaugurated in 2009, Clinton said: “Our task tonight is to make sure that president is a Democrat.”

“Because after seven long years of George W. Bush, seven years of incompetence, corruption and cronyism, seven years of government of the few, by the few and for the few, the next president will face tremendous challenges,” Clinton said, eliciting boos as she mentioned President Bush. “As the president walks into the Oval Office, waiting there will be two wars, an economy in trouble, the health-care crisis, the energy crisis, all of the problems that I hear about every day from all across America.”

The former first daughter is continuing to campaign for her mother despite the campaign's outrage over a remark made by an MSNBC host, David Shuster, that she is being “pimped out” by the campaign on her mother's behalf. Shuster apologized on the air and was suspended, but yesterday, Clinton sent a letter to NBC News President Steve Capus complaining about a “pattern of behavior” on the cable network.

Clinton's campaign has launched a coordinated effort to discredit Chris Matthews, the host of “Hardball,” and has also criticized “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert for his aggressive questioning of the candidate during a Democratic debate earlier this year.

“I became Chelsea's mother long before I ran for any office, and I will always be a mom first and a public official second,” Clinton wrote.