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BARCELONA, Spain -- Chelsea eliminated defending champion Barcelona and reached the Champions League final with a grueling 2-2 tie Tuesday night, winning the semifinal on 3-2 aggregate despite playing most of the game a man short.

<p>Then there’s Chelsea Clinton, the former first daughter, and NBC’s latest high profile hire.</p> <p>With Chelsea, it’s complicated.</p> <p>To get the TV gig, Chelsea’s team played off rival networks, holding a series of meetings in New York last fall with all the major television news outlets, including ABC, CBS, and CNN. “Her agent calls, asks if you want to meet with Chelsea Clinton, you take the meeting,” one network executive tells BuzzFeed.</p>

Most people in the US, especially Democrats, believe that the Obama Birther Movement was started by Republicans and or the Tea Party. They believe it is a smear campaign aimed to tarnish the image of their hero of change. But they may be shocked to learn that the Birther Movement was actually started by former President Bill Clinton and Hillary back in 2008. Bettina Viviano was a vice president with Amblin Enterntainment, Steven Spielberg’s company, before launching her own film production company in 1990. In 2008, Viviano was asked to produce a documentary about voter fraud within the Democratic Party....

Chelsea Clinton, Sandra Fluke Unite Over Rush Limbaugh Attacks Rush Limbaugh was uncharacteristically quiet today after Chelsea Clinton recounted how the conservative talk show host appeared to make fun her looks by comparing her to a dog when she was 13-years-old. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, however, had harsh word for Limbaugh when reminded of the incident saying, “We’re better than that.” Chelsea Clinton spoke last week about Limbaugh’s comments while on a panel about women involved in politics. The former first daughter made the comments while defending Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke who had been ridiculed last month by...

For a while there, we thought people had finally stopped talking about conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s unnecessary verbal attack on Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke…and then we were brought back to reality. Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton revived discussion on the matter during a Wednesday conference at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, where she introduced Fluke and said the two of them both had the unique misfortune of being made fun of by Limbaugh. “She and I have something in common. We both have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. She was 30, I was 13,” Clinton said...

Chelsea Clinton, moderating a panel on women in politics at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Wednesday, told the audience that she has something in common with Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke: their experience being the subjects of Rush Limbaugh attacks. Introducing Fluke, who entered the room to loud applause, Clinton said, "She and I have something in common: we both have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. She was 30, I was 13." Clinton was referring to the1993 incident in which Limbaugh said she looked like a dog on his television show ("Socks is the White House cat. But...

Media-Shy Chelsea Clinton Explains Her New Role As Television Journalist For One of America's Biggest Networks She was a young woman who long shunned the cameras, but on Monday Chelsea Clinton will make her debut in an implausible new role – as a television correspondent. By Philip Sherwell 11 Dec 2011 The once media-averse daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton begins a three-month stint as a contributor to the NBC network with a segment about a children's charity in Arkansas, where she grew up when her father was governor. Two days later, Miss Clinton, a keen ballerina, will host a...

The irony that Chelsea Clinton has spent much of her life avoiding the media but now she's about to join their ranks is not lost on fellow reporters, some of who covered Clinton when she stumped for her mother Hillary Clinton during her Senate campaigns and the 2008 presidential race. Responding to NBC's announcement that Clinton will report on-air for the nightly newscast, Politico's Glenn Thrush tweeted, "In '08, Chelsea Clinton (in N.H.) told me "Sorry, I don't talk to the media." I said, 'But you are all grown up now.' Now she IS the media." Jodi Kantor at The...

Chelsea Clinton is going to work for NBC News. The network said Monday that it has hired the 31-year-old Clinton to work on projects for the "NBC Nightly News" and Brian Williams' newsmagazine "Rock Center." She will do projects in the "Making a Difference" series, generally positive stories about individuals and companies.

NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News.Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg News Chelsea Clinton will be a special correspondent for NBC News. The appointment is immediate. Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices on Monday morning, said Steve Capus, president of NBC News, and will begin work on stories that NBC expects to use as part of its “Making a Difference” series, which runs on “NBC Nightly News.” Ms. Clinton has been a national figure since her father won the presidency in 1992, but...

Chelsea Clinton will not run for Congress, her spokesman said, squelching a simmering rumor that the scion of the famous political family will follow in her parents’ footsteps and seek elected office. “This is 100 percent false. She’s not running for Congress in the 18th District or any other,” spokesman Matt McKenna told New York’s Daily News Wednesday. The New Rochelle, N.Y., blog “Talk of the Sound” wrote Tuesday that the young Clinton was considering a run to replace Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., in 2012. Clinton had been “approached by the right people” in the state Democratic Party to consider...

Handicapping IAC’s Investment in Chelsea ClintonBy STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF October 4, 2011, 8:20 pm Chelsea Clinton as a corporate director? Really? Ms. Clinton was appointed last week to the board of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet media conglomerate controlled by Barry Diller. For her efforts, Ms. Clinton will be paid about $300,000 a year in cash and incentive stock awards. Not bad for a 31-year-old in graduate school. Is IAC also getting a good deal, or is this another eye-rolling celebrity appointment? Ms. Clinton appears to be a smart, capable individual. She worked in her 20s at the consulting firm McKinsey &...

...Saturday night was, by all indications, the last night that the Chelsea Hotel on West 23rd Street would be open to guests, though the duration of the closing, the first in its history, was unknown. The building is to be sold for over $80 million to the developer Joseph Chetrit, though the deal had not closed as of Sunday, according to someone close to the matter, who asked not to be named because the negotiations were confidential. Extensive renovations are expected to take at least a year. The hotel’s 100 permanent residents will be allowed to stay, but they have...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been rather busy lately, but she’ll certainly take the time to smile when she reads her daughter Chelsea’s latest quote. At a benefit for Friendfactor, a social networking site focused on LGBT rights, Clinton told New York magazine that she hopes to have children one day with husband Marc Mezvinsky. The two were married last July. Said Clinton: "I certainly believe that those of us who are straight cannot expect our gay friends to do this on [their] own. … And I certainly expect our straight friends to help us achieve that for all...

Well, former Democrat congressman for starters... Edward Mezvinsky (1.17.1937) represented Iowa 's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for a full two terms, 1973 to 1977. Following several unsuccessful attempts at winning a US Senate seat in the 80s, Mezvinsky's political career was shelved while second wife Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky entered the US House herself in 1993... A typical career-path from there led to greedy, corrupt Democrat Ed Mezvinsky indicted and eventually pleading guilty to 31/69 charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud in 2001. Nearly $10 million was involved in the Ponzi scheme and "Nigerian email" scams he shamelessly employed to fleece so many......

Is Chelsea Clinton's husband headed for a breakdown? Friends claim Marc Mezvinsky needs mental care By Daily Mail Reporter 23rd February 2011 Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky have made a huge show of togetherness since rumours of a split rocked their marriage earlier this month. But it seems the couple's efforts have been in vain, as friends are now claiming Mr Mezvinsky, 33, is on the verge of a breakdown. A source who claims to be close to the couple told the National Enquirer: 'There's fear Marc is headed to a mental hospital. 'In public, Chelsea is taking Marc everywhere...

According to American tabloid the National Enquirer, Marc Mezvinsky sparked fears for his mental health after he abruptly quit his cushy job with a Wall Street investment bank and headed to Wyoming to be a ski bum. “Marc has us ALL worried. I think he’s clearly undergoing a crisis,” said Marc’s first cousin, Andrea Mezvinsky. “He’s known Chelsea for a long time, but I think he’s having trouble coping with the pressure of being in the spotlight.” Recent reports claimed Marc walked out on Chelsea after a fight about starting a family.

CHELSEA CLINTON's new husband walked out on her after a knock-down, drag-out fight over starting a family, sources say, and now the former first daughter wants an annulment! Just six months after marrying into the Clinton clan, Marc Mezvinsky has quit his cushy Wall Street job to be a ski bum in Wyoming, leaving a devastated Chelsea behind in their New York apartment, insiders say.

Chelsea Clinton's husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is taking a break from his banking job to concentrate on being a ski bum. The investment banker is forgoing work at New York-based hedge fund G3 Capital to hit the slopes for a few months in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Sources told Page Six that Mezvinsky, now married into America's most ambitious political family, left his position right before the holidays and took off for Jackson Hole.

From page 90 of the book "Unlimited Access" by former FBI agent Gary Aldrich: Another close source, this one in the Secret Service, told me that Hillary had ordered her Secret Service protective detail to "stay the f--k away from me!" and to keep at least ten yards of distance between her and them at all times. The Secret Service agent told me that it was much harder to protect her from a distance of ten yards, and she was told this, but she didn't seem to care what the Secret Service said. He also told me that it was ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves beside her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton as they arrive for an after-party for their daughter Chelsea in Rhinebeck, New York July 30, 2010. Tourists and reporters from all over the world have descended on the picturesque Hudson River Valley village to catch a glimpse of Chelsea, the former first daughter, who is set to marry longtime beau Marc Mezvinsky on Saturday. On the other hand...good for Chelsea....Congrats to her and her new husband!Marc Mezvinsky (L), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L), Chelsea Clinton and former President Bill Clinton (R) pose...

He comes from a crooked family. His father stole at least $10 Million from investors and still owes at least $9.4 Million. I guess birds of a feather......

The New York Times has published a few photos from Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to Marc Mezvinsky, held this evening at a private ceremony in Rhinebeck, New York.

Concerning Right to Life - As America kills its offspring in the womb, we hear about it being a "social issue". It is not a "social issue". It is the violation of an important founding principle. Now, if someone were to do a study of whether it was Bill or Hillary Clinton who had the most venereal disease (if any), THAT would be a "social issue"! Come on, Democrats, media, and others, - let's get it right!

Chelsea Clinton through the years

RHINEBECK, N.Y. – Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend under extraordinary security at an elegant Hudson River estate late Saturday. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton announced in a statement that their daughter wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky after weeks of secrecy and buildup that had celebrity watchers flocking to the small village of Rhinebeck for the evening nuptials. The site of the wedding, a Beaux Arts riverside estate called Astor Courts, was sealed off from the general public. "Today, we watched with great pride and overwhelming emotion as Chelsea and Marc wed in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts,...

"...[Wedding] presents for Chelsea Clinton have been arriving at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, New York, according to the Hudson Valley News. "...[P]resents that arrived at Astor Courts were accepted by security away from the house and the gifts that were okay were driven to the site."

It's "royal." It's of "historic proportions." It's Chelsea Clinton's wedding, and CBS apologizes for letting actual news get in the way of its breathless coverage. Anchoring the coverage in Rhinebeck, Early Show weekend co-host Erica Hill, after referring to the event as "America's royal wedding," threw it back to a remorseful Chris Wragge in the studio, who promised to get back to Erica in "just a couple of minutes" after a couple of news items "we have to address." When she got the ball back, Hill described the wedding as being of "historic proportions. View video here.

RHINEBECK ­— The eagle has landed. The day before his daughter Chelsea’s wedding to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, former President Bill Clinton strolled through and ate lunch in the Northern Dutchess village on Friday, drawing hundreds of excited spectators. The former president got out of a sport utility vehicle near the village’s main intersection, Montgomery and Market streets, around 1 p.m. and walked about a block north to the restaurant Gigi Trattoria with a throng of media types, security and excited onlookers in tow.

Friday's CBS Early Show devoted a six-minute segment in its 7:30AM ET half hour to the Saturday wedding of Chelsea Clinton. Correspondent Elaine Quijano reported on the event having "Eva Longoria's florist" and "presidential party planners." Entertainment Tonight correspondent Diane Dimond added: "...they have porcelain port-a-potties for all of the guests....with music piped in." Dimond went on to mention how the guest list would feature Hollywood liberals like Barbara Streisand and Steven Spielberg. Concluding her report, Quijano declared: "Now tonight the rehearsal dinner is reportedly set to take place nearby, at the 500-plus acre Grasmere estate. We are told,...

It seems Democrats these days are expressing their anger by not inviting those one would normally expect to attend. What caught my attention was a piece on Jamie Dimon, the highly competent CEO and Chairman of JP Morgan Chase, and a former supporter of Obama. But he has become a major critic starting with the after-the-fact pay and dividend restrictions for accepting TARP funds, calling them a Scarlet Letter. For this and objecting to provisions of the financial reform bill, he was rewarded with a non invitation to Obama’s bill signing ceremony. To show insults can work both ways, Obama...

Tents costing £400,000 have been set up, £70,000 is going on tables and crockery and a staggering £320,000 is being spent on flowers, thought to be Casablanca lillies and orchids. Miss Clinton’s dress, designed by Oscar de la Renta or Vera Wang, is rumoured to be a cool £16,000, and the jewellery she wears on the day is worth £160,000. The cake alone will cost £7,000 and security a further £130,000. Estimates put the cost at between £1.9million and £3.2million, far more than most celebrity weddings. When Liza Minnelli and David Gest tied the knot, it cost £1.6million, while Tom...

CHELSEA CLINTON in full meltdown mode after severe panic attacks - that new hubby will be a cheater. Panicky bride-to-be Chelsea Clinton is secretly undergoing emergency prenuptial counseling ordered by her mom Hillary, insiders say. "Chelsea is a nervous wreck as her wedding approaches. She's terrified that she'll disgrace herself and her family," a Clinton family friend told The ENQUIRER. The 30-year-old former first daughter is set to wed Wall Street-er Marc Mezvinsky in a $1 million dream wedding on July 31 at the Astor Courts, a 50-acre private estate in Rhinebeck, N.Y. But now she's having second thoughts. "Chelsea...

Here comes the bride. There goes the cash. On Saturday Chelsea Clinton is set to marry her investment-banker boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky at a posh private estate 90 miles north of Manhattan. The hotly anticipated, highly secretive affair has been called the Wedding of the Decade and of the Century. Extravagant and notable events like that don't come cheap. Experts in all things nuptial ballpark the cost of Bill and Hillary Clinton's little girl's big day at anywhere from $3 million to $5 million. "This will definitely be the biggest wedding of the year." But this is different from your garden-variety...

If reports are true that Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky are considering marriage, the father of the groom won't be able to attend the wedding until he is released from prison in November 2008. Ed Mezvinsky, a former Democratic Congressman from Iowa, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud after getting caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams. Initially, Mezvinsky became the victim of "just about every different kind of African-based scam we've ever seen," federal prosecutor Bob Zauzmer told 20/20 for a report to be broadcast this evening.

So, just what does it take to score an invitation to the hottest — not to mention most secretive — political wedding of the summer? More than a cross-country ride on a private jet, apparently. “I’m good enough to borrow a plane from, but not good enough to be invited to the wedding?” complained one Clinton friend, who remembered the times he handed over his jet and his pilot to take Bill Clinton around the country but had not landed a coveted invitation to Chelsea Clinton’s nuptials. Next Saturday, Ms. Clinton, 30, and her fiancé, Marc Mezvinsky, 32, are expected...

The wedding date was booked two years in advance, the dress purchased, the expenses covered. Nothing was going to rain on Emn Haddad-Friedman’s wedding day. Except Chelsea Clinton. The other bride getting married on July 31st in the Rhinebeck area has a message for the former first daughter: It's her day too. But to Rhinebeck and the rest of the world, it’s not. “I know she’s not doing it on purpose,” says the Brooklyn-based school teacher. “But Chelsea Clinton has taken what was supposed to be a special day for me turned it into hell.” Chelsea Clinton and boyfriend, Marc...

(Reuters) - Chelsea Clinton's hush-hush wedding may as well be classified but one thing is no secret: There will be tears. The only child of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will marry longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky this month in a ceremony that has withstood leaks better than many secrets in Washington. "You should assume that if he makes it down the aisle in one piece it's a major accomplishment," Hillary Clinton said of her husband in comments to NBC broadcast Monday from Pakistan.

Chelsea Clinton’s wedding—now dubbed “the wedding of the century”—is such an exclusive event that HUMAN EVENTS had not been able to find anyone who is actually attending the July 31 wedding. So many of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s friends and supporters are not invited to the wedding that feelings are getting hurt and egos bruised.

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton and his wife who is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will marry investment banker Marc Mezvinsky in Rhinebeck, New York on July 31, 2010 with neither Al Gore or Tipper Gore in attendance. In fact, it isn’t even certain if the Gores have been invited to the wedding ceremony and celebration, though it is assumed they were. The press, undoubtedly have been keeping their eyes on how the Gores were going to handle this social occasion since they are close to the Clinton family. Chelsea's wedding is sizing up to be the...

US secretary of state says she has been kept up-to-date with plans for daughter's upcoming wedding via email Juggling weighty issues of global diplomacy on a whistlestop tour of eastern Europe with tricky decisions about flower arrangements is not the average dilemma for one of the world's most powerful politicians. But the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, admitted to Polish television today that her paramount preoccupation at present is not missile defence or good governance in the former Soviet bloc but preparations for the forthcoming nuptials of her 30-year-old daughter, Chelsea, who is tipped to be married at the...

Al And Tipper Gore To Skip Chelsea Clinton’s Weddingby Frances Martel | 10:43 am, July 3rd, 2010 More sad news from the Al Gore camp, who is starting to look more and more like the new John Edwards every day: Gore and his soon-to-be ex-wife, Tipper, will not be attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, and event they had reported been “looking forward to” a year ago, before the Gores hit this recent unfortunate patch of events. New York’s Daily Intel blog reports that a rep for the Gores announced the sad news, and added that “they both wish Chelsea well, believe...

Clinton told to trim up for wedding * By staff writers * From: NewsCore * April 29, 2010 7:17AM FORMER US President Bill Clinton was told to shed 7kg by daughter Chelsea in time for her summer wedding, he revealed today. Mr Clinton, speaking at a fiscal summit in Washington DC, told the anecdote after being asked by moderator Bob Schieffer if he was in shape to handle giving away his only daughter. "She doesn't think I'm in shape to handle it. You know, she told me the other day, she said, ‘Dad the only thing you gotta do is...

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton will not be having a traditional Christian wedding but are planning a Jewish wedding since her future husband, Marc Mexvinsky is Jewish. The bride and groom announced their wedding in November and are just now talking openly about the groom’s Jewish religion. Much of the talk that is circulating is coming from Jewish Community Centers who are looking eagerly to having a member of President Bill Clinton’s family join their Community. The talk might have started since gossip is that Chelea has been looking for a Jewish rabbi to...

Is A Jewish Wedding Ahead For Chelsea Clinton? Few details are known about ceremony, but speculation is running rampant Chelsea Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky got engaged last year on Thanksgiving and announced it in an e-mail to friends, according to a spokesman for former President Bill Clinton. March. 4, 2010 NEW YORK - Her mother is a churchgoing Methodist. Her father is a Southern Baptist. Yet could Chelsea Clinton be planning one of the biggest Jewish weddings of the year? The 30-year-old graduate student and her Jewish fiancé, Marc Mezvinsky, 32, announced their engagement in November and told...

She's known for making tough decisions, but top US diplomat Hillary Clinton divulged Sunday that she is still trying to decide what to wear to daughter Chelsea's wedding later this year. "Well, if you don't tell anybody... we're still looking," the secretary of state told CNN's "State of the Union" talkshow. "I don't have a dress yet, no, and Chelsea doesn't either. But we're working on it," Clinton added. [Snip] Hillary Clinton pronounced herself "very proud" to be the mother of the bride, but admitted planning the wedding was almost as tough as Middle East peace talks.

Animal lovers be warned - this report is not for the squeamish. Abel Aguirre, 38, of Chelsea was convicted yesterday of animal cruelty for having sex with his roommate’s rabbit, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said. He faces up to 2 years in the House of Correction and a $2,500 fine at sentencing today.

Wedding bells for Hillary's daughter 6 Dec 2009, 0431 hrs IST, ET Bureau Days after her daughter Chelsea got engaged to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is very excited about their marriage next summer which would be a private affair. “I am officially an MOTB, a mother of the bride. I’m very excited about it,” Clinton said. “It’s, for me particularly, an extraordinary moment to see how happy my daughter is and to have such a wonderful young man who will become my son-in-law,” she said. At the same time, Clinton acknowledged that...

Washington (CNN) – Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is engaged, a spokesman for the former president confirms to CNN. Chelsea Clinton will marry longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky, said the spokesman, who added that reports earlier this summer about the engagement and wedding had been "completely false."

Another Goldman employee marries into the power-borg The former First Daughter and her investment banker boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky became engaged before Thanksgiving, ABC News' Jake Tapper reports. Via Tapper's "Political Punch" blog: The two sent out an email the morning of Friday November 27 saying: "We're sorry for the mass email but we wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! We also wanted to share that we are engaged! We didn't get married this past summer despite the stories to the contrary, but we are looking toward next summer and hope you all will be there to celebrate with...