Sen. Hillary Clinton

Landing in hot water with her daughter, Chelsea, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is backtracking from a comment that young people today "think work is a four-letter word."

Clinton made the comment early this month to a gathering of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., the Associated Press reported.

In those remarks, the senator said young people have a sense of entitlement after growing up in a "culture that has a premium on instant gratification."

Yesterday, giving a commencement address at Long Island University, Clinton explained that her daughter phoned her after hearing of the comment – and the senator apologized.

"[Chelsea] called and she said, 'Mom, I do work hard and my friends work hard,"' Clinton is quoted as saying.

"I said, 'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to convey the impression that you don't work hard.' I just want to set the bar high, because we are in a competition for the future."

According to the report, 26-year-old Chelsea Clinton was hired in 2003 by McKinsey & Co. as a consultant, reportedly for a six-figure salary. She received a master's degree from Oxford University after graduating from Stanford University in 2001.

"It makes her sound like a nagging, whining, finger-shaking mother," said radio host Rush Limbaugh, who discussed Clinton's remarks today.

"Why won't Hillary say this to everybody wasting their life, sitting around, waiting around for the welfare check ... waiting for somebody to come help them out of a problem? ... She has to identify a specific group, but she leaves out that portion of the population that she has targeted and her party has targeted to live exactly that way. That party has been out creating as many victims as possible. They want 'em unproductive. They don't want 'em earning enough that they don't need government and don't need people like Hillary."

Limbaugh also noted Hillary seemed hypocritical based on legislation she's pushing on Capitol Hill.

"She sponsored this bill with some other congressman to go out and build 15,000 low-income homes that had fully wired high-speed Internet in them. So while she's out there complaining about this creating a bunch of lazy slobs that expect everything handed to 'em, she's gonna go out and build 15,000 low-income residences with high-speed Internet so that they can also join the instant-gratification crowd at the lower end of the spectrum."

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