While MSNBC correspondent David Shuster has been suspended indefinitely for suggesting the Clinton campaign was "pimping out" Chelsea, with her making private phone calls to superdelegates and even The View gals, consider this: Keith Olbermann made a very similar comment on Sept. 20.

While Shuster's comment drew the venom, according to some reports, of SVP Phil Griffin, who wanted him fired, Olbermann's suggestion that President Bush was "pimping" General David Petraeus got a free pass.

But Mr. Bush, you have hidden behind the General's skirts, and today you have hidden behind the skirts of 'the planted last question' at a news conference, to indicate once again that your presidency has been about the tilted playing field, about no rules for your party in terms of character assassination and changing the fabric of our nation, and no **right** for your opponents or critics to as much as **respond**.

That, Sir, is not only un-American — it is dictatorial.

And in **pimping** General David Petraeus, Sir, in violation of everything this country has been assiduously and vigilantly against for 220 years, you have tried to blur the gleaming **radioactive** demarcation between the military and the political, and to portray **your** party as the one associated with the military, and your opponents as the ones somehow antithetical to it.

Meanwhile, everyone's favorite foot-in-mouth-er and homophobe John Gibson, of Fox News, had this to say on his radio show:

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