The American obsession with fame is playing out with Ronan Farrow. He’s a bright, talented man especially for his age 26 but it doesn’t translate into anything special into broadcasting, and the show’s probably going to be yanked sooner than later…
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Two words: Luke Russert.
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Who’s Nichole Ritchie. Is she worth knowing about?
Just to busy with other things, picking brains across centuries and disciplines. Political thinkers even.
The atmosphere is so darned enriched here on the outside.
I think it’s an illustrative article. The way that pols, and in this case their family members, financially prosper above that which the ‘civilian’ population ever will is a draw to the most venal among us to enter politics in the first place. I’m not suggesting that Chelsea herself is culpable of anything, but we are ill served as a democracy when this kind of windfall, with its suggestion of future special access or consideration, occurs
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You got that right.
As if the proverbial 15 minutes means anything.
As if the cash isn’t just trash.
Gad’s it’s so hard to keep up without finding a reason for it.
Maybe Ronan Farrow is worth a look.
You could fill an empty building with books written by children and grandchildren and siblings and wives of exPOTUS. It’s what happens. The name gains them entree. Of course, that doesn’t mean anyone’s read the books, but there’s been a lucrative deal made for the author.
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Nevermind. Joan ruined my joke by editing out Thomas Hardy. 
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So? I really didn’t need to know any of this.
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Son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, although rumors have arisen that Frank Sinatra’s his father. So Ronan is awash in celebrity.
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Ah.
Kimye? Is that a Cardassian?
Do they still have those bony foreheads?
Them that gots, gets.
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Sure, but it’s not an “illustrative article”. It’s a shot at the Clinton family without mentioning any of the other cases where this happens.
Give just ONE other example. Make it easy and pick a Bush. Or a Palin. Or a Nader.
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“Kimye” is the star media’s cute name name for the union of Kanye West and Kim Kardasian. I swear I don’t pay attention, but it involves a marriage, a child, a very talented if megalomaniacal musical artist, and a person who comes from a family who’s famous for some reason I haven’t gotten to the bottom of.
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Nice work, if you can get it…
No, plastic surgery takes care of all that - yet ironically makes then less human.
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I stand by description, and while I realize that TPM is probably focusing on the Clintons because of their click-baitiness, I don’t think they are obligated in this here article to balance it out with R examples. And I do seem to recall their following of the media exploits of the talent-less scions of R families.
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What about this dork, son of a dork! They come much more dorky that Steve Doocy, with the exception of Brian KilmeadeQ
Peter Doocy (born July 21, 1987 is a general assignment reporter for Fox News Channel and the son of Fox News anchor Steve Doocy.
Sure, but I see this as being more accusatory than some BS story on Bristol Palin.
I think we all agree it’s a sweetheart deal.
That’s the way the world works. I don’t like it, but it’s the only place I’ve got to live.