A story making the rounds today involves Chelsea Clinton on the campaign trail. She shows a lot of poise here — I guess you learn a thing or two when your parents pimp you out.

But what interested me most about the report was how Brian Williams and MSNBC framed it.

Here’s the gist of the original story:

Campaigning in Indianapolis for her mother, Chelsea Clinton had a quick retort when asked a question she had never had before. When a male student asked her if her mother’s credibility had been hurt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Clinton quickly responded. “Wow, you’re the first person actually that’s ever asked me that question, in the, maybe 70 college campuses that I’ve been to,” Clinton bitterly said at Butler University. “And I don’t think that’s any of your business.”

And an update:  Read more 

Congratulations to msnbc on its impressive victory against Hillary Clinton last night!

Tim Russert and Brian Williams entered the debate with a firm lead over Clinton, and by starting with a one-two punch of calling her a hypocrite and a slime merchant, this thing was over faster than Tyson vs. Spinks.

Ungracious loser Hillary Clinton has yet to respond to calls for a concession speech.

Brian Williams turns up his nose at citizen journalists:

“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years” — Brian Williams, anchor of the “NBC Nightly News,” speaking before New York University journalism students on the challenges traditional journalism faces from online media.

If only Vinny had as nice a home as Brian does and a fancier wardrobe, he might…  Read more