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Chelsea Clinton stepping into NBC Nightly News; With privledge comes opportunity
Topic Started: Nov 15 2011, 12:37 AM (418 Views)
Pat
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I wonder why the occupy Wall Street crowd never has lashed out at the elitism that exists in the Democrat party hierarchy? Being born into privilege has afforded Chelsea Clinton unfair advantages at every step in her life. Would Stanford University ever turn down the admission of a presidents kid? Oxford? How about an investment bank hiring a greenhorn college grad at a hundred grand starting salary in a field she knew nothing about?

Remember all the snide remarks about GW Bush receiving an MBA from Yale? Or his assumption of the managing partner position with the Texas Rangers baseball team? His rise in politics on the shirttail of dad? Not a peep from the far left occupy crowd on the Democrat royalty. Why is that? People claiming that there is an uneven field out there and they want equality, yet a greenhorn with no broadcast experience jumps to the head of the line.

At least here at Fire & Ice the left will raise hell over this favoritism of Clinton's daughter and the injustice that prevails. Right gang?



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/chelsea-clinton-nbc-correspondent_n_1091992.html

Chelsea Clinton, the 31-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is stepping into her own spotlight.

According to The New York Times, NBC has hired Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News. Her feature stories will reportedly be used in the "Making a Difference" series, which runs on "NBC Nightly News." The segments spotlight people who volunteer to improve the lives of others in their communities.
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One difference here is Chelsea Clintons mom and dad are both extremely intelligent. She would have gotten in either way. At least you never heard stories about her drinking and boozing it up like you heard about the young shrubs
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Pat,

Do you have some credible hard evidence to support the assertion that Chelsea somehow unfairly got her job? Such evidence would probably add to your hand waving and wringing of hands. JMHO
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Colo,

I think you are being extremely naive to think a college graduate without a finance based degree could hire in at a major Wall Street investment firm at a salary of $100,000 without strings being pulled. Investment banking and international finance is my area of expertise, and believe me when I say, this just doesn't happen with a very powerful connection. A hire like this would be a favor not out of a need.
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Joe,

I'm not doubting or denying that intelligence runs in the family. but when this girl was young, she was very well connected, which leads to the ability to leap frog ahead of the line. Do you know how hard it is to get into Stanford and Oxford? Outside special considerations such as this, it's very, very hard. Like Harvard, around 5-9% of applicants are accepted.
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Pat,

Does your post mean that, other than your personal insult about my being "naive," you have no credible hard evidence that Chelsea somehow received her job unfairly?
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Per google in relation to Stanford admission of applicants:

"Roughly 2,000 bright intellectuals out of approximately 20,000 applications."
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Her undergraduate degree from Stanford was in history not finance or business. Through connections, she parlayed that into acceptance to Oxford where she studies international relations.
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Nov 15 2011, 01:19 AM
Joe,

I'm not doubting or denying that intelligence runs in the family. but when this girl was young, she was very well connected, which leads to the ability to leap frog ahead of the line. Do you know how hard it is to get into Stanford and Oxford? Outside special considerations such as this, it's very, very hard. Like Harvard, around 5-9% of applicants are accepted.
Didn't her dad go to Oxford? Was his dad a POTUS?
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And still absolutely no hard reliable and/or credible evidence that Chelsea Clinton was given an unfair advantage in getting the job at NBC. Or, for that matter, no credible hard evidence that she received any unfair advantage at any step in her education or career. As
Ad Hom would say6 just emotional hand wringing and hand waving.
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