Chelsea Clinton has come a long way since right-wing hacks savaged her for perfectly innocent teenage awkwardness. These days, she’s working for a hedge fund, serving on the board of the School of American Ballet … and locking horns with Nino Selimaj, a Manhattan restaurateur known more for his $1,000 pizza than for enraging international celebrities.
At the crux of the dispute: The restaurant Osso Buco, which Chelsea Clinton frequents, displays a photo of the former (and future?) first daughter with Selimaj. CBS reports that a harsh letter from Bill Clinton’s lawyer, on the former president’s letterhead, demands that the photo be taken down. Not surprisingly, Selimaj has seized the opportunity to publicly pump up his connection with Chelsea, cannily seeming to agree with the request to take the photo down while not actually, uh, doing so:
‘I was really, really heartbroken because I have four daughters and Chelsea is like my daughter,’ Selimaj said. ‘She doesn’t want to be there. If that comes from them directly, definitely, I will remove it. If she really insists to remove it.’
Ironically (or is it all part of a devilish plot?!), all the attention that Chelsea is stirring up by dragging her dad into the dispute is likely to put Selimaj and Osso Buco into papers from Far Rockaway to the Presidio.
And if the CBS news poll is to be believed, public opinion is running 17 to 83 percent in favor of Selimaj. Looks as though irritating American royalty has its perks. And you have to applaud Selimaj’s wisdom for choosing a Clinton daughter over a Bush daughter; Guantánamo Bay offers very few franchise opportunities.
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, did you mean to say “Hillary” instead of “Chelsea”?
i think that the Clintons are the phony of phony.they are elitist pigs.they live in white landia they try to look humble and for the people but we know who they are.how many people have the money to sue someone because of a nice picture of his daughter hanging in a well respected and well know restaurant.their legacy hangs in the balance. ha ha after the last Clinton impeachment.and all the sex and scandals of his administration.poor Chelsea had to call on daddy to make things better. Chelsea most people would be proud to have a face like yours hanging anywhere . maybe she found out the the owner of the restaurant is a republican.
Yeah, Cohen, because GW Bush the torturing war criminal and destroyer of the Bill of Rights isn’t a phony at all.
Maybe the point is the worst thing that can be said about the Clintons is Bill got an extramarital BJ and Hillary is unpleasant and Chelsea was an awkward teen.
As compared to the entire administration full of war criminals, war mongering draft dodgers, Iran contra scandal felons and sundry dunces.
So, we haven’t had another 9/11 since GWBush took away our rights? Funny thing… we didn’t have a 9/11 BEFORE him either.
The day Bill Clinton left office we knew that our national nightmare of peace and prosperity was over.
I don’t understand – did Chelsea ask them to remove the photo or is her father just doing all this on his own.
Smells like political publicity to me.
Or is her mother doing it under her father’s name? I have issues with her.
If I had to spend eternity with Bill Clenton, Hillary Clinton, or GW Bush, I wouldn’t have to hesitate a nanosecond before I chose Bill.