Huh? Politico, via AP, reports this morning:
In the tradition of Meghan McCain, Liz Cheney and other daughters of prominent Republicans who’ve waded into the media waters, former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager will try her luck in broadcast on NBC’s “Today,” AP reports.
The 27-year-old teacher at a Baltimore charter school, who has already penned two books, will serve as a once-a-month contributor on topics such as education, Jim Bell, the show’s executive producer, told the wire.
He said the show decided to give Hager a spin after she’d come off as a “natural presence” in two previous appearances on “Today” to promote her book for young adults, “Ana’s Story,” about a young woman born with HIV/AIDS the former president’s daughter met while working as a UNICEF intern in Latin America.
Her first story for “Today” is expected to air sometime next month.
The cited AP story states:
A first television job on “Today” is, in her father’s world, sort of like a run for president as a first attempt at elective office. Hager said that people on the show “have always made me, whenever I’ve been there, feel very comfortable.”
Bell said Hager won’t be covering politics. He said he didn’t consider the job as a down payment for a future interview with her father, who has been living quietly in Texas since leaving office earlier this year. Attacks on NBC News by conservatives for the liberal bent of MSNBC also had nothing to do with it, he said.
“I hope to focus on what I’m passionate about because I think I’d do them best job on them — education, urban education, women and children’s issues and literacy,” Hager said.
What she doesn’t plan to do is talk about her experiences as the daughter of a president.
“I don’t think it’s that interesting,” she said. “I’m pretty normal.”
I too think that as long as politics is kept out of the equation, Jenna will be OK. The last thing I’d like to see happen is for Jenna to become some punching bag for Bush-hating media liberals at NBC. I actually wonder how she feels about the media, considering what they did to her father for over eight years.
She’s not like Meghan McCain, who, like her father, became such a sell-out to the GOP and its core principles (which is why the MSM loves her so much). On the flip side, she’s definitely not like Liz Cheney either, whose business on TV has been dicussing politics and her father.
What do you think? Good idea or not?
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