First of all, Shuster was the guy unlucky enough to be the one sacrificed to appease the feminists. Chris Matthews for one has said a litany of anti-woman, anti-Hilary things over the campaign, and after there was a call to action about these comments I’m guessing the networks just wanted to make it go away and hence Shuster got offered up as a sacrifice.

Secondly, EVERY person on the campaign trail uses their family to make them seem more presidential. Is Michelle Obama being pimped out? Cindy McCain? Were the Bush twins pimped out? Did Stephen Harper pimp out his family when he brought them on the campaign trailer? He has a daughter, is he pimping her out for allowing her to come with him and speak to people her age? The main reason that the comment was sexist was not because the word ‘pimp’ was used, it was because a woman was being attacked for the common and even required practice of bringing your family out on the trail. Male ambitiion = fine, female ambition = perverse.

I though pimp was not a bad term anymore, with shows like Pimp My Ride. There was no need for Shuster to apologize, I don’t like that guy!

Remeber SNL got in trouble for making fun of Miss Clinton, but she was child then.