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A post from guest blogger Lauren Bans:
The media, it’s not doing so well. Maybe you’ve heard? Judging from the number of B-list celebs who snagged highly sought-after media jobs this week, it seems like the favored editorial solution to such trying times may be: Don’t merely write about undeserving famous people, hire them to work for you ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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Geez, Juliet, I hope you don't believe that Republicans are all cold-hearted greedmeisters while Democrats are all selfless philanthropists! I bet I can think of a few greedy Democrats and, if I try hard enough, a generous Republican or two.
I can see the apparent contradiction you cite, but I don't know, in the case of the first daughters, that either apple has fallen that far from the tree. Hillary Clinton wasn't doing pro-bono work all those years at the Rose law firm. (And thank goodness, since the Arkansas' governor's salary was reportedly $35,000!) As for Jenna, well, it's hard to read a profile of the Bush family without coming across the term noblesse oblige. Sometimes that means serving in government, other times maybe it means heading down to Latin America to work with AIDS patients, as Jenna did. And let us not forget that Laura Bush is a former schoolteacher and librarian-her influence is apparent in Jenna's choices.
It's easy to sympathize with the children-even young-adult children-of presidents. Chelsea had to watch her parents' marital issues morph into a constitutional crisis, and lord knows the Bush twins didn't do anything in college that I didn't get away with quite anonymously. But one of the fringe benefits has got to be how well-connected you are when ready to enter the workforce. So in some ways it's probably easier to branch out and try something that defies expectations.
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