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 I agree the press and the Taliban wing of the Dem party were too hard on the Bush children, I don't see the point of hounding this adult for tieing one on - as long as she didn't break the law, leave the Clintonspawn alone.
This family never changes, and neither do their enablers. It's always someone else's fault, and there is never an end to the number of excuses they will come up with to explain their behavior.
As for Chelsea, she deserves some sympathy for being the daughter of her parents, but she's old enough to take responsibility for herself.
Besides which, has she turned out as she has because maybe 5% of the media reported the truth about her father and mother, while the other 95% adulated every move they made? Or is she like this because, unlike what the liberal, excuse-mongering liars in the media constantly try to tell us, that's what her father (and mother) actually are like?
Imal
She's not attractive. She is sensitive to criticism of her parents. She's going through a fairly common stage of partying that shouldn't be unfamiliar to many college families.
The 9/11 story stretched credibility, but that was more than likely orchestrated by her mother...for political gain.
There's a lot more to pity than there is to dislike.
Yes, I do the same on Friday nights when I see all the Clinton jokes on FR. Except I only go to the 'fridge for a cold beer....yes, those Clinton jokes are responsible for my heavy weekend boozing....it's all the vrwc's fault!
That being said, however, I hardly find it strange that a person in her early twenties is "out of control" and drinking. If this kind of action were printed for every late-teen/early twenties kid in the nation, we'd run out of trees to print the newspapers that they were written in.
So what if she drinks. She was not elected to office and has every right to pursue whatever life she chooses. I don't like the !@#@#, but she has the right to be her own person, regardless of how "immoral" that may make her in other people's lives. Its called Liberty folks, get used to it.
Uncalled for.
Hey you whaddya talkin about... [hic]
Do you feel the same way about the Bush twins..........Leave them alone,too??
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