Blogger Ace of Spades takes a critical look at the graced way Chelsea Clinton’s career has emerged.  You thought she landed a job at NBC because she wants to be in broadcasting?  Look at the bigger picture.  Chelsea’s preparation has all the hallmarks of a young woman being prepared for a career in…politics.  First, congratulate the classiest member of the Clinton family on her outstanding grades:

B.A. in history with honors, Stanford University,  Master of Philosophy in International Relations, Oxford,   Master of Public Health, Columbia University and currently pursuing a doctorate in Public Administration at NYU.  Very impressive accomplishments.

Now read how blogger Ace of Spades interprets her professionally-guided internships:

On Her Way.....

“First of all, I’d take the master’s in public health seriously if she’d done any clinical work of consequence. Instead, she wound up working for a think tank called McKinsey and Company- they’re officially a consulting group for public administration- and then wound up with Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund. She wound up on the board of the School of American Ballet (she’s got a ballet background), and is now on the board of directors of IAC (a significant Internet company).

Now, I’m living proof that you can do really well in journalism without a degree in it, but the contrast is that I started in a small market (Lake Charles, LA), then made a jump to market #30 (Nashville), and had a chance to move on to a top-ten market (Dallas/Fort Worth) before deciding to get out. Clinton, on the other hand, abruptly has a key feature reporter gig with the NBC Nightly News with zero experience in journalism.

Digging a little bit further into the work experience- the hedge fund management (and I can’t find any details on how much real work she actually did on it) sets her up financially quite well. The ballet gig gives her a tax shelter- she can make big contributions and use them for tax deductions. She’s on the board of directors at the Internet company- is there a qualification I’m not aware of that made her the right person for that gig?

Some folks in the industry are taking note, as well.

Brian Stelterat the New York Times notes some serious discomfort in the industry about someone devoid of experience jumping right into the national stuff.

The Family Trust

So what are we seeing? Simply put, NBC is helping groom Chelsea to run for office. They may teach her to write for television a bit, but she’ll have a whole production crew all to herself, and that includes writers.” This is an effective use of the liberal infrastructure- four degrees from a who’s who list of Ivy League schools, a Wall Street gig, a gig at a liberal think tank, and now charm school at NBC. I say this with no bitterness- the Clintons are using the assets they have at their disposal to build a potent political weapon (and that includes the facial work Chelsea had done in her late teens and early 20s). Take note of this- this is what it currently takes to be part of the aristocracy. This, ultimately, is why you see kids of otherwise conservative politicos going to ivy League schools. Is the education any better than they’d get at State U? Debatable. But it’s still the ticket into the big club.

More on the aristocracy to come…”

Hmmmmm…the one compliment we can pay the unknown Chelsea Clinton, is that she is smart enough to keep…quiet.

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Filed under: Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Nov 18, 2011