Posted on 12/29/2001 12:11:29 AM PST by truther
Photographs showing former first daughter Chelsea Clinton staggering bleary eyed into a popular London watering hole will appear in next week's edition of the supermarket tabloid Globe Magazine.
The Globe's cover story headline, "Boozing Chelsea: Clinton Daughter Out of Control," appears over a photo of an unidentified friend grabbing Chelsea by the face in an apparent effort to keep her from passing out.
Other Globe photos show Clinton, eyes bloodshot and looking disoriented, reeling as she emerges from a car with friends, one of whom is steadying her by the arm as the group weaves its way into the popular London nightspot Groucho.
"I thought Chelsea was about to topple over," a source who witnessed the scene tells the tabloid. "She was wobbling on her feet and a friend had to put her arm out to steady her."
The Globe reprints one passage from a British media report that claims: "Looks like Chelsea Clinton stumbled on a staggeringly good time when she hit London's West End this week. And it took a firm pair of hands to stop her from actually hitting the pavement as she swayed happily into the trendy Groucho Club, where dad Bill - the former U.S. president - was partying with U2 star Bono."
The drunken night out was not an isolated incident, according to others cited by the Globe, one of whom said the former first daughter is "spinning out of control."
"Chelsea's out on the town into the early hours every chance she gets," a Clinton schoolmate adds. "She loves a good time, but everything seems to revolve around drinking."
If the reports are accurate, Clinton's problems with alcohol would mirror a family pattern that saw her Uncle Roger finally admit to a life-long addiction to booze and drugs just last summer after entering an Arizona drug rehab center to dry out.
Last month another of Chelsea's uncles, Tony Rodham, admitted that he was boozing and smoking marijuana with a neighbor before he ended up entwined on the living room couch with the man's girlfriend.
In her younger days Clinton's grandmother Virginia was a fixture on the Little Rock party scene, with one account describing her as "a barfly."
According to one friend quoted by the Globe, Chelsea has turned to liquor "as a defense against jokes about her father and Monica Lewinsky and jibes about Hillary."
"One night when somebody cracked a Clinton joke, she walked into the bar and ordered a double vodka on the rocks," the source told the tabloid. "She downed it in two swallows and then walked out."
Last week the New York Post's Page Six reported that Clinton attended a New York party with sportstars Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter and Ahmad Rashad where "bottles of Veuve Clicquot and vodka" were consumed, but made no mention of Chelsea herself bellying up to the bar.
The Globe reported in April that the former first daughter was spotted boozing it up for spring break at several popular nightspots in Aspen, Colo.
While she might be out of control even when sober, a publicly drunken young celeb and future politician is newsworthy. We need to know if she had blueberry pancakes today as well.
Sorry, but what are you talking about? The question was about the credibility or the lack thereof of NewsMax, Ruddy and Limbacher; it had NOTHING to do with anyone's moral judgments regarding drinking. Chelsea's PUBLIC drunkenness, in light of her personal and familial problems, is news, and NewsMax reported it accordingly. I asked "..why is that crap?" Sort of a rhetorical question, to be sure, since the original statement was certainly flippant and offhanded.
I will clarify my point in posting in the first place; The mainstream press's handling of this story is a perfect example of their overt and lopsided politically leftist bias. Little if anything is reported in the mainstream press regarding Chelsea's apparent serious problem with alcohol, and yet Jenna Bush's minor brush with the law via two incidents of underage drinking spurred headlines, stories, and columns for WEEKS. Likewise, unattributed and unfounded rumors and speculation regarding cocaine usage in the 70's by George W. Bush resulted in several weeks of articles, talk show and round table discussion, and outright political fabrications in the mainstream press; grand jury and other sworn testimony by five different witnesses to Bill Clinton's cocaine abuse, while attorney general and governor of Arkansas, and even while in the White House, got nary a line of mainstream press ink. After all this, NewsMax, a major segment of America's alternative to the mainstream press is summarily dismissed as "crap", and I would like to know why? Inquisitional? Hardly. A complete misreading and jump to conclusions on your part? Seems like it.
Too bad he is a left wing boob...great ballplayer...but he is from North Carolina. What could we expect?
MJ was born in New Yauk.
The lamestream media thought the Bush girls were prime targets.
Why should this media leave Web's daughter alone?
She sounds like a normal kid...
Was she sober when she helped negotiate between the Israelis and Palestiniens at Camp David?
How long before that's on Saturday Night Live AND MadTV? Which one will have the funnier skit?
I do believe there is some reasonable doubt there. Isn't Klinton unable to have children?
I agree with you IceCream (cute name, it would be even cuter if you would change it to IceCreamConservative!). I also don't think we should expect 20 year olds to run around denouncing their parents. These kids have all been thrust into the limelight with no choice in the matter. They should indeed be left alone, or even covered in Womens' Magazine puff pieces, not hounded by Brit Gossip Rags.
Jessica
The boozing of a 21-year old is tabloid material...the fact that the Presidents daughter was arrested TWICE in a 30-day period for alcohol related offenses is, arguably, much more fertile journalistic territory.
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