You know when you’ve crossed a line when even a Clinton stands up to you as a bully.

New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait wrote a facetious tweet putting Barron Trump as a potential candidate for White House Chief of Staff.  The advantage of selected Barron, according to Chait, was that he can’t be tried as an adult for whatever imaginary crimes this “journalist” believes are happening at the White House.

He tweeted:

Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton — daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — just wasn’t having it.  Jumping in to defend the First Son, she told the media to leave Trump’s child out of this.  “Please leave Barron Trump out of “jokes” & analyses,” she tweeted. “He’s a kid and private citizen and deserves to be left alone. Thank you.”

Weirdly, Chait wouldn’t back down from his tweet, saying that it was making fun of the President, not his son. However, Chelsea precisely dealt with this issue:  she warned him not to include the child in this sort of political joke…  not that he shouldn’t make political jokes.

I guess they don’t teach critical thinking skills anymore in journalism school.

But we knew that before this stupid tweet.  Way to go, Chelsea for standing up to the bullies in the media!

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About The Author

Mark was a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, and served as the national coordinator. He left the organization to work more broadly on expanding the self-governance movement beyond the partisan divide. Mark appears regularly on television in outlets as diverse as MSNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox Business and the BBC. He’s highly sought after for the tea party perspective from print and electronic media outlets, from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Examiner, Politico and the The Hill. Mark blogs at MarkMeckler.com, and his opinion editorials regularly run in many of the leading political newspapers both on and offline. Mark has a BA in English from San Diego State University and graduated with honors from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1988. He practiced real estate and business law for almost a decade. For the last eleven years of his legal career he specialized in Internet advertising law. When not fighting for the future of our nation, Mark is an avid horseman, and lives in rural northern California with his wife Patty and two children.

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