the "pimp" chronicles

[Benjamin Zimmer]

There's much buzz about MSNBC's suspension of anchor David Shuster for
suggesting that the Clinton campaign had "pimped out" Chelsea Clinton.
Among the more informed commentary:

http://www.slate.com/id/2184211/
("A History of Pimping" by Jesse Sheidlower)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4274500
(article quoting Jesse, Barry Popik, and Univ of Chicago's Michael Silverstein)


--Ben Zimmer

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