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Hillary Clinton ‘A Little Surprised’ About Chelsea’s New NBC News Gig

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Hillary Clinton spoke with NBC senior political correspondent Chuck Todd about her daughter Chelsea Clinton becoming his new news colleague at the network. “What – what did you think when she said, ‘I want to become a member of the fourth estate,’ this side of the line here?” Todd asked. “Well, I was a little surprised!” Clinton exclaimed. “But, you know, she -– she decided to go for it, and I’m very excited for her.”

RELATED: NBC News Hires Chelsea Clinton To Boost ‘Making A Difference’ Series

Chelsea will be working on NBC’s Making A Difference and will join fellow political offspring Jenna Bush and Meghan McCain in their journalism wing.

NBC News president Steve Capus said he had met with Chelsea and asked her ‘What are you interested in doing?’” She said she was fascinated in people volunteering their time for the greater good.

Watch Clinton and Todd talk about Chelsea below via NBC:

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  • Jon Lovitz

    Yeah thats the ticket

  • Of course she is ….

    LOL

  • Moderate

    Reasons for Hillary’s surprise:
    no reporting experience, a rocky history with news media, and NBC’s ongoing bet that attractive people reporting the news can attract viewers. 

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    everything in this womans life comes as a surprise. like Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Juanita Brodderick, Monica Lewinsky …

  • caconservative

    This is soooo interesting….NOT!!

  • Norbit

    Why don’t they save some time and money, and simply move the msnbc offices right into the White House?

  • Kid Dynamite

    In other news, Bristol Palin has started a job with SpikeTV, as host of “Spreading With the Stars.”

  • Anonymous

    Hillary is a conniving Leftist feminist shrew; whatever she says, the truth is 180 degrees the other direction (a la ‘vast Right-Wing conspiracy’, etc.)

  • SoThere

    Her Hubby is an executive for Goldman Sachs, one of those filthy rich 1% ers.  Her hubbies father (Ed Mezvinsky) was convicted of several dozen fraud charges and spent 5 years in prison.  Oh , and he’s a Democrat.  Send the OWS people over to NBC to protest Chelsea.  Ya right!

    “TMP”

  • Nick O’Teen

    You lost me at the “attractive people reporting the news” part.  Chelsea……really?

  • Anonymous

    Amazing what belonging to the lucky sperm club can bring oneself without having any qualifications.

  • SoThere

    NBC’s ongoing bet that attractive people reporting the news can attract viewers.
    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.  Bow Wow. LMAO

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    You missed the part about the bet.

  • Anonymous

    Rent free.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Uh oh KID you just upset Bristol’s mom Sarah! she posts under the name WC!

  • Common Sense

    Yea sure being a Clinton daughter helps, but its not like she doesn’t have qualifications….

    Clinton graduated Standford in 2001 with highest honors and a B.A. in history.[22][24] The topic of her 150-page undergraduate thesis was the 1998 Belfast Agreement inNorthern Ireland, for which she interviewed her father.[24][25] At the time of Chelsea’s graduation, President Clinton issued a statement saying, “Hillary and I are grateful for the friendships and great learning experiences Chelsea had at Stanford, and we are very proud of her on this special day.”[26]

  • Jon Lovitz

    The hateful intelligence of the left on full display here.

  • Anonymous

    Dont tell that to Norbit – his pinhead will explode!

  • Anonymous

    Hillary seems to stay in a constant state of surprise.

  • Moderate

    What about all those people with Journalism degrees, now working for Walmart, because there are no media jobs available, even at minimum wage.

  • cdnhawk

    Well at least we have intelligence which is more than I can say for the other side (Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Palin)

  • SoThere

    Don’t worry donow, the liberals and Unions are controlling the OWS people and protesting NBC would be like protesting the White House and Obama wouldn’t allow that to happen.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Meghan McCain has qualifications too. Doesn’t mean she knows anything about being Republican.

    I don’t have a problem with Chelsea and I think it’s fine that she’s working for NBC in the role that she will. The Bush daughters went into media and Chelsea is following. No biggie.

  • Nancy Baily

    You people must all be Republicans !!!!!!!!!! So sick, that girl does not deserve, your lousy good luck comments.This country is going to the dogs, because its people like you that hate, hate and more hate.
    What ever I think she will be good at her job, just like her wonderful father, and mother. I wish her the best.
    N.Baily

  • Rufus Danegro

    Are you kidding me? Sarah Palin is the smartest politician EVAH in the history of mankind.

  • Anonymous

    “A little surprised” my ass! Her & Bill brokered the deal.

  • Anonymous

    Last we all heard Chelsea hated the media and wanted to stay as far away as possible.

    So what qualifications does she have that allows her to leap frog in front of all those who have worked all their lives in the media to a have a chance at a job she is allowed to waltz right into?

  • Moderate

    If we wanted to be nasty, we would have wonder if she was warned about bosses with cigars.

  • Anonymous

    So this intelligence invested in a failed stimulus, green projects and high unemployment? Too funny.

  • Anonymous

    or we would say something to her like…”This country is going to the dogs, because its people like you that hate, hate and more hate.”

  • Anonymous

    You must have had an extra glass of Kool-aid.

  • Cisco

    Lying is a Clinton family value.  Here’s is one of her best lies.

    “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some
    kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran
    with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

    –Hillary Clinton, speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.

    She also lied about being named after the noted New Zealand climber, Sir Edmund Hillary.  Hillary climbed two years after Hillary was born.  When caught in the lie, she blamed her mother for telling her the story.  What a condescendingly arrogant women who deserves to die in a fire.

  • Cisco

    Get up off your knees, Hillary wouldn’t approve of you giving Bill a Lewinsky.

  • Holistic

    The only shock would have been if Chelsea took a job at some other network than NBC.

  • Anonymous

    George Soros is paying for the Occupy protests  through bag men and front agencies, he  doesn’t want his flunkies protesting NBC+ MSNBC- his propaganda units-  while he is trying to break America’s currency.  Chelsea is trying to be big time politician, she is learning tv ins and outs for political future -not to be a fact based honest newsman.

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    NBC´s ongoing bet that attractive people reporting the news attract viewers

    cough!! cough!!  Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson and whatever all the other blonds on Roger Ailes network they all look the same…

  • Anonymous

    I’m looking back to find your similarly outraged comment from when Jenna Bush was also hired by NBC News 2 1/2 years ago for a very similar job to Chelsea’s -  A job as an NBC News and Today Show special correspondent.   

    I just know I’m gonna find that you were also displeased to see that hire, because your comments are never based on partisan pettiness.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Hillary is surprised that even a hate-filled, lowlife network like MSNBC would hire a girl as skanky as her daughter

  • AliveStillKickin

    Maddow: Now that you no longer let Bill  pop your junk….Don’t you ever get horny?
    Hillary: Sure I do….but I can control it.
    Maddow: What do you do?
    Hillary: I just suck on a Lifesaver.
    (silence)
    Maddow: Who drives you to the beach?

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    This is outrageous! Here is a person who has no journalistic background, Chelsea gets to to the top of the hill, bypassing journalist with a lot more experience.  Talk about aristocracy privilege.

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    And I thought you had some Christian morals.  I guess not.  

  • AliveStillKickin

     Shut up…..Kurt

  • Anonymous

    It is my understanding that Chelsea will only do reporting on people “making a difference”.  She is also attending Oxford for her doctorate.  She will not be doing political stories.

  • Anonymous

    I find your malicious comments right in step with the hypocritcal republicans who claim to be Christians.  I’m certainly not surprised to instead see the hate and vile remarks coming from anyone supporting the likes of men who sexually harass women or wife cheaters like Gingrich.  It’s okay if a republican solicits a prostitute and remains as a Senator but you somehow can’t forgive or forget other people’s mistakes if they are democrats. My vision for you has to do with HELL

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if they ever kick people off these comment boards when they make such inappropriate remarks as yours.

  • Anonymous

    What exactly did you post when Jenna Bush and Meagan McCain were hired as Special correspondents???????????????

  • ROTFLMAO

    Now that was funny, I don’t care who ya are!
    With aplogies to Larry. lol

  • ROTFLMAO

    Lighten up!! lol

  • Cisco

    It’s a foregone conclusion that Chelsea didn’t screw her way to the top!

  • Cisco

    I fervently believe that Meggy McCain has the best pair of hooters in journalism, and whenever she travels the roads a follow-on truck displays the sign Wide Load.  

  • Cisco

    So true, and the inappropriate comments must stop. By the way, as a footnote it should be stated that Bill and Hillary practiced birth control after Hillary birthed Chelsea.  They kept a picture of Chelsea above the headboard.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    Someone lost that bet.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    Apparently you get all the good news first when you’re Sec. Of State.

  • Yukon Jack

    Don’t be surprised, Madam Secretary!

    Do you honestly think that if you had not been the wife of serial rapist and woman-abuser – to which you turned a blind eye – you could ever have been a Senator? Or a member of the President’s cabinet  – the President whom both you and your husband disparaged, time after time??

    Don’t be surprised that your daughter got preferential treatment! You did! 

  • SoThere

    As usual.

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