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December 7, 2007, while on the MSNBC's program ''Morning Joe'', Shuster said that evangelical Christians "go to a revival and then go to Guantanamo Bay and torture some people just for fun."<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/12/07/shuster-imagines-evangelicals-going-gitmo-torture-people-just-fun</ref>
December 7, 2007, while on the MSNBC's program ''Morning Joe'', Shuster said that evangelical Christians "go to a revival and then go to Guantanamo Bay and torture some people just for fun."<ref>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/12/07/shuster-imagines-evangelicals-going-gitmo-torture-people-just-fun</ref>
Like the vast majority of personalities on MSNBC, Shuster is a strident supporter of Senator [[Barack Obama]] in the Democratic presidential primaries and like [[Chris Matthews]] has made personal attacks on the Clinton family. In February of 2008, he sparked new controversy when he attacked Chelsea Clinton for supporting her mother's presidential campaign; at one point saying, "Chelsea's sort of being pimped out."<ref>http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/hillary_campaign_goes_to_war_w.php</ref> NBC News later suspended him for that comment.<ref>http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/shuster_suspended_for_pimped_out_comment_77059.asp</ref>
Like the vast majority of personalities on MSNBC, Shuster is a strident supporter of Senator [[Barack Obama]] in the Democratic presidential primaries and like [[Chris Matthews]] has made personal attacks on the Clinton family. In February of 2008, he sparked new controversy when he attacked Chelsea Clinton for supporting her mother's presidential campaign; at one point saying, "Chelsea's sort of being pimped out."<ref>http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/hillary_campaign_goes_to_war_w.php</ref> NBC News later suspended him for that comment.<ref>http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/shuster_suspended_for_pimped_out_comment_77059.asp</ref> On February 9, 2008, sources at MSNBC revealed that Phil Griffin, senior vice president at the network, "screamed" at Shuster for not agreeing to immediately apologize to Chelsea Clinton for the comment. Griffin threatened to fire Shuster "on the spot," and it was only with intervention from Tim Russert that Shuster didn't lose his position.<ref>http://bigheaddc.com/2008/02/09/nbc-vp-wanted-to-fire-shuster-on-the-spot/</ref>
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