NY Post Reaches New Lows With Letter To Chelsea Clinton's Baby

Chelsea Clinton

The New York Post reached new lows publishing “an open letter to Chelsea Clinton's fetus” -- rather than simply reporting on Clinton's recently announced pregnancy or offering the couple well-wishes, the Post took the opportunity to attack the new baby and soon-to-be grandparents Bill and Hillary Clinton under the guise of “news.”  

The April 22 letter told the baby that “what makes you so special” is “you're going to live your whole life in make-believe.” The Post labeled the child a “campaign asset” and “stage prop” for “Lady Pantsuit” and non-“maternal” Hillary Clinton: 

Welcome to advanced gestation! Since you're new around here, I thought you'd like to know a little bit about what makes you so special. The reason is, you're going to live your whole life in make-believe!

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In two years or so, when most babies are just learning to crawl, you will be hitting the road! Grandma Hillary is going to need you to smile and coo whenever there are Sunshine Men around. So play nice and don't projectile vomit. Grandma is not what grown-ups call “maternal,” and was busy turning $1000 into $100,000 in the magical cow trading market when your mommy was a baby, so she will have to make believe she is really “helping out” with you. No crying if she gets the diaper on the wrong end!

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The best part of your make-believe Clinton-Mezvinsky life is that people will pretend you're good at things and give you gifts like high-paying consultancy gigs when you just got out of college, jobs reporting for NBC News when you have as much camera-awareness as a smoked flounder, and the leadership of the free world because you “deserve it.”

UPDATE: Sometime after the publication of this blog, the New York Post altered its headline to “An open letter to Chelsea Clinton's unborn child.” The Post promoted its story on Facebook and Twitter under the original headline before changing it: