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American Nobility Alert: NBC Hires Chelsea Clinton

November 14, 2011 at 10:12 AM Leave a comment

The big news in the media world today is that NBC has hired Chelsea Clinton:

Photo: Adrian Grenier

Chelsea Clinton is going to work for NBC News.

The network said Monday that it has hired the 31-year-old Clinton to work on projects for the “NBC Nightly News” and Brian Williams’ newsmagazine “Rock Center.” She will do projects in the “Making a Difference” series, generally positive stories about individuals and companies.

The only child of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been working primarily as a business consultant.

NBC News already has another daughter of a former president, Jenna Bush Hager, doing work at the “Today” show.

So, if Chelsea has primarily been working “as a business consultant,” what journalist qualifications does she bring to the job?  Oh wait.  None!  She was hired because of who she is.  Kinda like Luke Russert, who also works at NBC; and Jenna Bush and Meghan McCain.

I love Glenn Greenwald’s sarcastic but accurate take on this:

I really don’t understand what those angry, lazy losers in the Occupy movement are so upset about. America is a meritocracy; if you work hard and prove your skills, you get ahead. The winners deserve what they have because they have earned it. And when all else fails, we have a media filled with insurgent outsiders who will be relentless watchdogs over those in power because that’s what our media outlets are: true outsiders there to check the most powerful factions.

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Thankfully, the American Founders waged a revolution to free us from the shackles of monarchy so that we’re no longer captive to the inanities of royalty (like those silly Brits). In The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine mocked and scorned aristocracies as producing “counterfeit nobles” — those bestowed with preorgatives [sic] not because of what they’ve achieved but because of the accidental fortune of their birth — and we are thankfully free of those.

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