The ‘Not So Secret’ Life of Bristol Palin
Kids are off limits! Remember?
So, Bristol Palin, one of those Palin children we were all admonished never to talk about because the former VP candidate’s family life was nobody’s damn business, is now going to star in a TV show. Yes, an actual episode that the whole country can see by simply pressing a button. It’s called “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” Secret? Presumably the creators of the show feel that the more people that watch and talk about this show the better. One button, and Poof! It’s Bristol in our living room.
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Are we allowed to talk about it yet?
“Why does anyone even care about this?” Bristol was purported to have cried to her mother over the phone when her pregnancy was discovered during the 2008 campaign and instantly became national news. The McCain campaign, in a desperate effort to “legitimize” the unplanned pregnancy, sent an airplane to pluck the baby daddy off a mountain where he was stalking sheep, hose him off and stick him in a new suit for the “we’re getting married” tour on the campaign trail. He wasn’t thrilled, but America was, and that’s all that mattered.
During all of this, we were left with the distinct impression that these two young lovers simply wanted to be left alone to live their lives. Bristol, we were told, didn’t like being the center of attention and would have preferred to just hole up in Wasilla on her very own self-imposed media blackout. Understandable.
But then, came “the abstinence tour.” Bristol, sponsored by Candies (see below), traveled the length and breadth of the land talking about the consequences of having sex when one doesn’t want a child.
Her former fiance and father of little Tripp, Levi Johnston, was disparagingly referred to as “Ricky Hollywood” by Sarah Palin for his various appearances on Entertainment Tonight, the Joy Behar Show, The Tyra Banks Show and Larry King Live. Clearly Levi was exploiting his accidental fame for even more fame, and fortune. Humph. And while he was at it, he talked about birth control and how abstinence doesn’t work, and how Sarah Palin quit being the governor so she could make a lot of money.
But back to Bristol’s TV show.
The episode will feature Bristol Palin as herself, friend to the show’s protagonist who is struggling with teen pregnancy. This brings us back to the whole uncomfortable narrative that nobody really knows how to deal with. It goes something like this:
Nobody should have to go through what I went through. It’s really hard, and I made a bad choice. But, I love my adorable baby and wouldn’t trade him for anything in the world, except that I’d do things differently if I knew then what I know now, even though I know that I love my child and wouldn’t trade him for anything except the chance to go back and do it again in which case I wouldn’t ever even have had sex. Or a baby. Did you see my People Magazine cover with my sweet little Tripp? And have I mentioned that I’m never having sex again because I learned that terrible terrible lesson and that’s the only way to make sure I don’t have another baby I didn’t plan for. Isn’t Tripp just the cutest thing? Gosh I love him.
“I am thrilled to be on this show and to be part of a program that educates teens and young adults about the consequences of teen pregnancy,” Bristol said in a statement.
And so, Bristol Palin will do her best to frame her child as something other than “a negative consequence.”
Yes, this is the same child who was supposedly going to be traumatized by having his custody battle open for the world to see. The Palins, who fought to have the proceedings sealed, feared that media exposure might come back to haunt the young lad as he grew, they said. Clearly, he did nothing to deserve this scrutiny and attention. And clearly it couldn’t do anything but make his life a little more challenging than it otherwise would be. How dare he be subjected to the magnifying glass, and all the potential psychological scarring it might bring!
After a judge’s ruling, the custody battle goes on in the light of day with the Palins filing motions right and left, and asking Levi for $1700 a month in child support.
So, I’d like to present once again that question that the younger and more innocent Bristol Palin asked all those months ago. “Why is this news?” And the answer simply is that it is not news. The Palins have not only crossed the line from news to entertainment, they’ve leapt across it with abandon.
Sarah is a commentator for Fox News, and best-selling author. Todd continues his status as Iron Dog celebrity. Levi is a Playgirl centerfold and pistachio nut spokesmodel. Bristol is a TV star and abstinence cheerleader. Trig is a press release topic, stage prop, and a tool for bashing bloggers and Hollywood media. Tripp is a “consequence,” a cautionary tale that has spawned a TV appearance by his mom, and a tool of irony to get back at his father for going on TV. The custody battle itslef is a reality show wrapped in Court TV wrapped in a soap opera.
The poor nation is doomed. Let’s face it. We have no choice. It’s like driving along the highway minding your own business and seeing something on the highway median – Look, it’s dancing dogs, and prancing ponies in spangles with women in bikinis standing on top, and shirtless men lifting giant weights, and a ferris wheel, and exotic creatures with stripes and spots, and a woman juggling bowling balls and hack saws, and fireworks and clowns riding around in small cars, and banjos and balloons, and guys swallowing swords and fire, and having someone in the back seat saying “Don’t look!”
The reality is that as long as the Palins continue to wear rainbow wigs and ride around in small cars, and take their shirts off, and juggle power tools, America will keep watching.
And after a couple seasons of “The Palins” when it’s all starting to get a little predictable, fear not. Willow and Piper are waiting in the wings.
Vicky Hollywood is just another Wasilla Hillbilly Hypocrite looking for big bucks.
Does doing meth turn people into hypocrites? Sure seems to be the case in the meth capital of Alaska.
Thank you for this! Great writing style again. Of course, the material is top notch. Yet, another generation of phailures embarrassing the entire state.
I especially liked the part about the Palins wearing rainbow wigs and riding around in small cars …
Exactly. The Palin Family Circus.
What will it take to get the show OFF the road?! It appears the current generation of Palin kids stand no chance at a normal life, and maybe the grandbabies are also doomed. How sad.
And Bristol is not an example of the consequences of a teen pregnancy for heaven’s sake! She has been rewarded with money, toys, and who knows what. She does not have to worry about rent, food, clothing – anything at all! She just needs to be Sarah’s daughter and keep all the secrets. What a total sham.
Just to clarify, she’s not getting her own show or starring on a show. She’ll be on The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family channel) in a bit part. Trust me, I find this to be completely ridiculous, hypocritical and pathetic, but rest assured that she is not going to be on TV every week or anything like that (yet – shudder).
Puke-worthy.
OK so my question is…. What if Levi does not want his son filmed for this show?
So according to her own mother, this makes Bristol now B!tchy Hollywood to perfectly complete yet another circle of Palin hypocrisy.
What a load of crap.
“The reality is that as long as the Palins continue to wear rainbow wigs and ride around in small cars, and take their shirts off, and juggle power tools…. America will keep watching.”
this line really makes me laugh every time i read it. i would love to see a portrait done of the whole fandamily, each member wearing a rainbow clown wig, sarah’s the biggest and highest of all, of course.
does this mean that bristol will actually have to act? is it a reality show or is it fiction, or a little of both? i don’t mean to be negative, but every time i have seen bristol in front of the camera, she has appeared to be frightened and awkward, as well as unable to speak well (surprise?) when asaked questions. maybe she will be fed the lines like her mom. and there’s always the hand trick.
Hypocrit much there, Sarah?
Bristol should stick to the political consulting racket!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/23/jersey-shore-cast-talks-c_n_473222.html
Every time I think I have seen the absolute worst from the Palins… they do something else even more reprehensible… and in the interest of full disclosure, I was born out of wedlock many many many years ago. My mother never referred to me as a consequence, she called me her daughter. WTG Bristol. Can these people be that oblivious??? The series of connected tubes? Googling a name? It’s all here Bristol et al, and Tripp will find it one day. Again, WTG, save some money for therapy.
When is one of these networks going to develop a show about the wasila hillbillies? Its already written for them.
How will she find time to do this with college courses (?), two jobs(?) and her own consulting biz – in addition to being a single parent??
This show is about everybody screwing everybody else. the parents, the kids. It’s kind of racey for a good christian girl like bristol.
From: http://abcfamily.go.com/abcfamily/path/section_Shows+Secret-Life-Of-The-American-Teenager/page_Detail
Bristol Palin to appear on ‘secret life’
Posted Tue, 02/23/2010 – 10:58 — The Secret Life…
She may be the country’s most famous teen mom, and she’ll be on our show! Bristol Palin, eldest daughter of former Alaskan Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, will make her acting debut on ABC Family’s hit original drama series, “The Secret Life of The American Teenager.” The episode will shoot in Los Angeles and air this summer when the series returns for its third season on ABC Family. Said Executive Producer Brenda Hampton: “Bristol Palin is the most famous teenage mother in America. We’re thrilled to have her join us, and I think she will bring additional attention to the issues facing teen parents that we’ve been exploring for a couple of seasons now.”
“I am thrilled to be on this show and to be a part of a program that educates teens and young adults about the consequences of teen pregnancy,” said Palin from her home in Anchorage, Alaska. Palin will be playing herself, as one of Amy’s (Shailene Woodley) friends at a music program for teen mothers.
I watched american teen last night before I knew bristol was going to be on, one of the little comments they had was that when a teenage mother has a baby, she is likely to get pregnant again. hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
http://www.youngmommies.com/resources/stats.html
BigPete -
I believe that the “Jersey Shore” goombahs are on Leno with sarah. Gee , a combo platter of New Jersey white trash and dumb-ass Alaskan hillbilly.
The booking agent for Leno must have high fived everybody for a mile when they pulled that off !! Friggin’ hilarious !!
I never watched trash tv before..I’m going to start..NOW? NOT..bloody likely!
Let’s cut the crap for two minutes. If B. Palin wasn’t the daughter of a well-to-do family, the consequence of her ‘teen pregnancy’ would have been an abortion.
Don’t tell me her faith would rule that out, because her faith didn’t rule out dropping her knickers.
In any case, she couldn’t begin to comprehend the hardship some young mothers go through, lacking the family support, medical insurance and financial means to live as she has her whole life.
Oh wait, someone wants to pay me and my mom $100,000, for a cover picture on their magazine. What was I talking about, again?
AKM… I must have gone down the same side-( Show) street as you did.
I saw the same Circus in the “Median”…( Or would that be in the same lamestream ” MEDIUM ” )
When I drove by they had those two big searchlights , also too, criss-crossing the sky so that you wouldn’t miss the Show going on. (Sort of like that Bat-Signal thingy.) I think I saw the ‘ FaceBook logo ‘ shining upward to tell people where to go so they knew ‘ THE Bat-$h*t crazy Woman’ was on the prowl.
And who needs a BatMobile when you have the Tawd there driving the Snowmachine with an Artic Cat logo. Is there a secret underground Exit for it in the Wasilla Mansion Cave…?
This series to be followed by “Keeping Up With the Palin’s”, a rip off of the mess that is the Kardashian’s.
Sarah as Big Mouth Chris. Todd as hapless Bruce. Bristol, Willow, and Piper as the three untalented sisters Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe, Track as Robert, and the two babies acting as one little Mason.
But instead of the falling down drunk escapades and climbing all over every guy in sight, it will feature prayer circles and bible readings. Instead of posing half naked throughout the show there will be jackets adorned with logo’s of whatever company they wish to scam through product placement.
A guaranteed hit if you have the stomach for it.
What are the consequences for Bri$tol? At least to date?
Plenty of money. A house built for her. A cadilac Escalade, cover stories in Magazines, and some T.V. appearance. Of course the Candies gig was as hypocritical as anything $arah does.
For someone with the charisma of a soggy leftover dish of cornflakes that is pretty good.
Wait until silbling Willow gets going. I’m sure it doesn’t sit well for Bri$tol to be raking it in.
Whew! AKM, tell me is there a STOP EJECT button? (Love the writing.)
I was a teen mom,her lifestyle,the car she drives,the bank account,her parants home is gets to live in,That is not how teen moms live.This family just makes me sick
I would be glad to send $1.00 to Levi’s defense fund.
I wonder if Levi could stop the child from being shown on TV? You know pull a Jon and Kate plus 8. I would ask his lawyer to see how much money she is going to make from this deal. Levi should make sure that they put money in the bank for the child’s college education. But then again the Palin’s aren’t much on education.
Whatever happened to Paris Hilton? I am hopeful the Palin’s will be yesterday’s favorite flavor real soon.
#3
Joie Says:
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:47 PM
I especially liked the part about the Palins wearing rainbow wigs and riding around in small cars …
Exactly. The Palin Family Circus.
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http://www.arcamax.com/familycircus
There is already a ” Family Circus ” cartoon strip out there.
FlyinurEye ( or somebody )may have to adapt and start a regular Cartoon Strip of his/her own.
There is just wayyyyyyy too much material to work with now. It might even create a New blog just for THAT purpose.
The real story isn’t about the consequences of teen “pregnancy”, it’s about the consequences of unprotected sex. Those consequences can be far more dire than pregnancy these days. I am so tired of the discussion being about the pregnancy. People need to face up to the fact that having unprotected sex can result in a pregnancy that a young girl is neither prepared for nor able to handle (in many cases) or worse, a deadly venereal disease. Teens are going to have sex. That is a fact these days. Teach them to protect themselves and stop all of the drama.
The hardships/tragedies of a teen pregnancy have been swept under the carpet by all of the hype. I know several women who had children in their teens and they have made a good life for themselves and their children but they have paid the price in so many ways (that Bristol has, and will, not) such as foregoing an education, having to take poor paying jobs for as long as their children live at home, being thrown out by their parents, etc.. I don’t know what they would say if you asked them about it now. I don’t think that they would regret the child but they might regret the other things they missed. And life certainly would have been easier if they had protected themselves. As for my friends who have died from AIDS….well, we can’t ask them, can we?
Hollywood needs to stop glamorizing this.
They are still trying to outdo Octomom, who appeared on a tabloid cover wearing a bikini. Dueling trainwrecks. Somebody get out the banjos.
Take another look at that Candies photo. Just where is that rocket headed? I’m sure that it is JUST a coincidence. THESE are the folks pushing ABSTINENCE? Exactly when and where does the abstinence message start?
Good summation of the whole Palin side-show/main-stage events. I wonder if they will ever get the point that they would be better off shutting up and staying home? Hmm, not likely, given what they keep doing.
So . . . how will Bristol justify going on a TV show and talking about her unplanned pregnancy as not being less harmful to Tripp than anything that Levi did?
Any you are right – Willow and Piper are just waiting for their chance. I fear that Piper is going to get the worst of it, since she’s always with her mother on all those media tours. She’s being taught early that the limelight is a wondeful place to be – as opposed to being in school or hanging out with firends her own age doing normal things, like playing or doing homework.
I dunno. I hope it’ll be good for her. At the very least, she’ll be out from under a certain thumb and exposed to other young girls that are living life in the spotlight, and who knows? Maybe some of them have normal mothers….
A little distance can make one see more clearly, ya’ know?
There was an unconfirmed rumor a week or so ago that Levi would have a guest role on the ABC show Desperate Housewives. Let the competition begin! I figure Sarah’s trying to book herself on 30 Rock.
I’m with flying pig ranch…let the Palins soon be be Parisized. We will get sick of them! We will get sick of them soon! We will!
Palin bankers – 1
Rest of World – 0
AND, that’s just the way sister likes it.. BUT, the LAWYER’S MAY WIN IN THE END !!!! Har…Har….Har….
This will get a few new law suits going….
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/02/tale-of-two-babies-by-sarah-palin.html
Will Bristol be reading her lines from a telepromter, or will she just write them on her hand?
I would love to see the Wasilla starlet in her debut performance, but I think I’ll watch paint dry instead. I saw this on another site & just have to repeat it….wet mop wants it’s vivacious personality back. The girl has always seemed completely devoid of personality. Although, the last time the dynamic twosome were interviewed there was a certain petulance & downright bitchiness.
If anyone finds a link to ABC or directly to the Producers of the Show will you post it here.
I am sure we all disagree with the ‘ policies’ of of the EX-Gov. , but I ASSUME this show is put on the air for the benefit of telling young Girls the truth and educating them about the issues. I don’t have Kids…. I am not familiar with this Program. It COMPLETELY goes against the message and image that I ASSUME the program was set up for and I will be letting them know it. EX- Gov can screw up her life… She is an Adult. Kids are vulnerable to what is promoted and seen by them. They SHOULD be protected.
SELLING this idea to the young Girls who will watch this Show is just morally wrong though. It’s the WRONG message. And lets not forget the message from this Palin Family for the younger girls by Piper. No need to be in school…. Mom says you can hang out with me. It’s More ‘ Fun ‘ anyway.
I will be letting ABC know that they have decided to ” hop in Bed ” with the ” Candies Corporation” with their ‘ $exually $ugge$tive ‘ ads for Young Girls. They endorse Bristol… and Bristol endorses Candies message.
To complete the $$$$ circle all ABC has to do is run commercials
for ” Candies ” during the Bri$tol episode. It’s all about the money… Right..?
I didn’t even notice the rocket in the Candies ad at first. Well, I’ll be. Candies promotes abstinence? Abstaining from what? The ad looks more like a pictorial instruction guide on how to have sex. I mean, if that young ladies legs were spread any wider, she’d be doing a split.
Everybody loves a freak show but, after a while it get very boring. And like Anna Nicole, Paris Hilton, Britney Spear, etc., etc. I’m sure most American are sick of seeing or hearing anything about the Palin Clan.
Pat–and already rather a diva at that…
We learned during the 2008 campaign that Wasilla was the “Duct Tape Capital of the World.” It’s time to buy out all the stores and wrap this ridiculous family and their spawn and side show freaks from head to toe. Leaving holes at the mouth and nose, optional.
Shut the hell up!! ALL of you. Palins. Heaths. Johnstons. Lawyers. Spokesbimbos. PAC rats. Ministers. Apologists. FOX buddies. Iron Dog partners. House Builders. Butchers, bakers and candle stick makers.
Shut Up!
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
“… sent an airplane to pluck the baby daddy off a mountain where he was stalking sheep, hose him off and stick him in a new suit for his “we’re getting married” tour on the campaign trail.”
BRAVO! That was good… LMAO
Will Sarah be traveling with Bristol to tape the show? Will the producers be able to keep her off the set when it’s Bristol’s time to play her part or will Sarah – like on the Greta Van S. show – insert herself into the scene. That would be a RIOT to see!
lol wavelength, that sort of reminds me of when Joan Crawford took the place of her daughter’s part in a Soap Opera, Mummy Dearest.
from ABC’s announcement:
“Bristol Palin, who became pregnant in high school, was thrust on the national stage with young baby in arms…”
from a post by OzMud at IM:
“Does this not sound as if the writers are confused – that they think Bristol was carrying her own son around on the stage?”
Wow, ABC is sure confused! They think the baby Bristol carried at the RNC convention was Bristol’s?
This was before T ripp was born! Yikes, whatever could it mean? ; )
Mary @ #5 – thanks for telling us that this is just a bit part.
My questions were centered around 1) was this just a one time episode? I just can’t see Bristol showing up week after week, with the same message (we’ve all heard it). 2) Like others have mentioned, she just doesn’t seem to have any personality or training for this. Sometimes she just answers in monosyllables, with almost no facial expression at all. In comparing the campaign and Oprah photos, there is almost no comparison. Earlier, she seemed a sweet, naive kid with a sweet smile. I don’t know what she’s done to her face (surely she is too young for surgery!!), but also, too, there is no smile.
Others have brought up the question of whether or not Levi has any say in this. Like others, I also wonder when she will get the time. And, I don’t believe for a minute she is holding down 2 jobs and attending college. Correct if I’m wrong.
so can we talk about Bristol? she must be an adult by now. jeebus! but these people are just about the most annoying, just won’t go away folks in the world.
LOL wavelength. Now you know you couldn’t keep Sarah away from a tv studio with a 10 foot pole. This is all about her ya know. She’ll be there with bells on and a plate of cookies.
What puzzles me is that Bristol and her mother keep saying “the consequences of pregnancy.”
Shouldn’t they be talking about “the consequences of unprotected sex”?
I mean, I would have thought that it was common knowledge that a consequence of being pregnant is a baby, whereas the consequences of unprotected sex include not just possible pregnancy but STDs, not a few of which are incurable.
I just asked my teen daughter if she ever watched the show “The Secret Life of…..”
Her response: “No. Horrible show with bad writing and acting.”
At least Ms. Palin won’t feel out of place.
Maybe Sarah will be like Joan Crawford – when Joan’s daughter Christine had a role on a soap, Mommy Dearest took over when Christine got sick. Joan was 50 plus, and Christine was in her twenties.
Any coincidence this is announced the day before court proceedings in the custody case?
Sorry # 43 Ziggy – I wrote my comment before I read any of them.
Brilliant minds think alike!
….sent an airplane to pluck the baby daddy off a mountain where he was stalking sheep, hose him off and stick him in a new suit for his “we’re getting married” tour…. and I still can’t stop laughing
College!! Are there any Palins listening? It doesn’t matter that you’re all rolling in the dough, this young woman needs an education. Crickets…
“from ABC’s announcement:
“Bristol Palin, who became pregnant in high school, was thrust on the national stage with young baby in arms…”
Some poor schmuck finally slipped up ….
Oh to be a fly on the wall in the $pokemodel’s kitchen right now.
Argh. Ick.
That’s all I have.
Gasman @32 –
Take another look at that Candies photo. Just where is that rocket headed? I’m sure that it is JUST a coincidence. THESE are the folks pushing ABSTINENCE? Exactly when and where does the abstinence message start?
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I remember seeing this photo when Bristol was first named Teen Mom for the Candies ‘abstinence campaign’. Someone on a blog pointed out that the man’s leather (eeew) pants are a little – ahem – ‘tight’ in a particular ‘area’. Perfectly lined up with the rocket on the monitor, of course. I’m SURE this was just another coincidence.
And the design and color of the woman’s shirt, and how it exposes her ‘assets’ may suggest another of her ‘geographical locations’.
At least when Levi posed for Playgirl with his nether regions flying in the breeze for all to peruse, everyone was honest about what he was doing. This photo is darn near p@rn, and the abstinence campaign is just a sad attempt by Candies to divert attention from this type of ad which is apparently quite typical for the company. Sort of like Hooker Chemical planting a few marigolds in front of their factory in Love Canal and claiming to be responsible stewards of the environment!
Whew! I’m utterly exhausted from all the tap dancing around I did, trying to word this comment!! (I even had to recreate it when it got sent to Mod Purgatory for one of the words so I apologize if the original eventually finds it’s way to the post! This time I’ll copy it before submitting!)
Ok. I’m still laughing and laughing and laughing…
Karen Says:
February 23rd, 2010 at 5:05 PM
College!! Are there any Palins listening? It doesn’t matter that you’re all rolling in the dough, this young woman needs an education. Crickets…
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Karen, oh, Karen! Don’t you know Bristol isn’t interesting in going to college for 6 years? She’s going to take 10 yrs instead because there’s all this money to make first. Education is always last for the Palins, doncha know. You ALWAYS have to put the cart before the horse…
Hypocrisy runs in the Palin (and Heath) family, doesn’t it?
You know I thought the Palins were ALREADY a television show.
Do you mean THIS has all been really happening? AGH!
Have any of you ever seen this show? I have watched many episodes with my daughter (and yes, Lee323′s daughter is correct about the caliber of the writing and acting).
I am not kidding when I say that almost every conversation is about who is sleeping with whom, who wants to sleep with whom, who cheated on whom, and so on. It is ridiculous. These teenagers have absolutely nothing else to talk about. I really don’t think this show would fit Sarah’s image very well, but she is probably too clueless to know it.
As far as showing the “consequences,” it is a huge disappointment there. There seems to be no problems for the main character who had the baby as far as money and resources go. Plenty of time for friends and everything. The biggest bummer is when you don’t like the baby-daddy’s new girlfriend and you don’t want her to be allowed to hold your baby. I’m not making this up!
The one character that Sarah might sort of like is this girl who is little miss “sister christian,” but she did actually have sex with her boyfriend. Then she decided that they shouldn’t anymore, which led to their breakup and now she is again saving herself for marriage (sounds a little familiar- hehehe). The icing on the cake here is that she started this campaign at school called “Just Say Me,” which was basically about choosing masturbation over sex — seriously!
Gee, Bristol. You sure make some great choices here. If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were just a media whore. But then I guess the apple doesn’t really fall far from the tree.
Nothing in a Candie ad is a coincidence. I guess Sarah and Bristol can ride two horses at the same time. Because this circus started in Dayton, Ohio. Just another reason to hate the Buckeye state. GO BLUE. Makes my head want to explode.
Paula says:
Will Bristol be reading her lines from a telepromter, or will she just write them on her hand?
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Nah , prolly write the notes on her panties , since she can’t seem to keep ‘em on. Just sayin’………..
I don’t understand how this works. Levi was lucky to get a role in a pistachio advertisement, give a few interviews and pose for some pictures, and Sarah took every opportunity to condemn him and make fun of him by calling him Ricky Hollywood.
Now it’s Bristol’s turn in front of the cameras. Shall we spell her name Rickie Hollywood??
Levi should have some say in his son being the subject of a television show. The right thing would be for him to forbid it. What kind of mother exploits her child like that? Oh yeah….Sarah.
Once teen girls get to see Bristol the mother of illegitimacy staring on TEEVEE and getting paid big bucks again, I’m sure they’ll go home and sew their knees together.
Yeah. Right.
The Palins have no pride no shame and no dignity. They sell their sins to the highest bidder and are proud of it.
Does their church still acept them as members? Personally, I would not want my teen children in the same building as Bristol. Or the Palins.
Surely their congregation cannot continue to accept their unrepentant sins, lies and hatred being flaunted literally all over the world.
Have to sneak in OT in re CPAC
Seismologists Identify Ground Zero for Underground Disturbance
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/grantcart/279
Really funny satire.
I wonder if the court will have Bristol paying Levi instead of the other way around.
63 maelewis Says:
Now it’s Bristol’s turn in front of the cameras. Shall we spell her name Rickie Hollywood??
I was thinking Bit..y Hollywood. But I won’t say that.
However you know the comedy shows and late nights will.
And this give all of them fair play for their knock knock jokes.
Of course the show’s producers would have to have given Sarah script approval, right?
AKM, thanks for using THAT particular photo to juxtapose with the abstinence spokes-monosyllablic-model. That was the first one I thought of when I read about this show on the open thread this AM.
Fellow Mudflatters, you don’t need a script for a Palin Reality show. All you need to do is follow them with a video tape camera and get a good editor. It worked for the p:mp/h00ker/ACORN thing that the NYTimes refuses to correct (see Brad Blog on the blogroll AKM has), even though the “h00ker” confessed there was a “B roll” video tape and they never went into ACORN offices dressed in that get up.
If it works for the Right-Wing Loonies, it would work for the Palin Family Train Wreck, IMHO.
Thanks for all the bloggers for getting the real story out there.
3 Joie Says:
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:47 PM
I especially liked the part about the Palins wearing rainbow wigs and riding around in small cars …
Exactly. The Palin Family Circus.
Except there is a horrible film noir aspect to it with all the hatred and hypocrisy, bodys under the bus, and stunning selfishness.
Sarah Palin is almost crossing a line, possibly making Bristol a laughingstock to the world. Is this deliberate? Or is she so blind that she thinks this is a perfectly normal path for her already overwhelmed daughter. Think about it. All of us, growing up as teenagers having to aspire to be like our beautiful mother, ambitious governor, vp candidate, having to be carted around the nation, 5 months pregnant. Boyfriend troubles, private and person life and speculations about her future discussed in supermarket tabloids.
Mom and Dad encouraging her to all of a sudden be jolted out of her normal life into a life of photo shoots, again people speculating on if she lost weight, put on weight, will she or won’t she, etc.
For anyone having had daughters, could or would they put their daughter through that? I would worry about my child’s sanity, about her maturity level, if she could handle so much change in the course of 2 years. These privotal moments, unwed mother, baby to adjust to, then having to discuss her personal sexual choices to everyone.
Grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, aunts and uncles are all responsible for this girl’s best interests and emotional state, but they in my opinion have failed her big time. It really is like a circus performance. Clown with big smiling face painted on it, but underneath the makeup, the clown really is crying.
“ABC News staffers got a memorandum Tuesday that promises to leave no part of the organization untouched, and will lead to massive personnel reductions by the end of 2010.
Although the memo from ABC News President David Westin specified no numbers, it was believed the goal for cutbacks is as high as one-quarter of the ABC News staff, which currently totals about 1,400.”
All so they could pay Bristol “Bit++y Hollywood” Palin….
That whole family is a mess, and I’d given up on ALL of them last year when Levi and Bristol broke up, unable to get away from the dysfunction of that household. All of those kids are doomed, IMHO. Watch how they repeat the same mistakes, over and over and over. One day, they’ll realize happiness comes from within, not from the money and trappings.
I left out my theory of the drug cartel, though. It’s just a theory, no proof at all.
What a fantastic post,AKM. Had me laughing OUT LOUD!
What lesson is there to be learned from Bristol? Hell, all she did was have an out of wedlock baby and she has a tv show!! Each and every day, my fellow travelers on the planet amaze and confound me.
I really never thought that Bristol would be her Mother’s mirror- but apparently she emulates all that is SP_
The man in particular had a thick build to him, long biker hair, greasy from living outdoors, but he couldn’t have been as old as he looked. Chiseled with a charcoal dapple to his face, cut by the wind and cured by the sun….
I agree that its a family circus, but with Sarah as the ringmaster. I think the last truly Bristol comment was that abstinence was not practical. The rest has been stage managed by Mama with Bristol having no choice. All of you who think she has it so good: she is raising pretty much single-handed three children. She is trying to survive in the madhouse that is the Palin family. For some reason she is being forced to go out in public where she is not comfortable. (I suspect it is easier to go along with Mama than fight it.)
Who has the silver bullet that will take this ridiculous road show down? The born-again virgin Bristol with her retread hymen and all the charisma of a door knob will display that she is as verbally challenged as her father (maybe) and her mother. This family whose only claim to fame resides is living in Fertile Crescent of Alaska and doing best what my rabbits use to do eat, s**t and breed is the laughing stock of America. This family stresses fertility over education, whining over discipline and hypocrisy over honesty.
Mommy Dearest and her new role as a common + tater for FAUX is a perfect example of America having been dumb-sized and forced to watch this Wasilla soap opera and to listen to her gibberish slinging one-note piccolo playing cult.
AKM, you nailed it. The Palins have have become tabloid fodder now and in my opinion none of them can ever have any credibility. All of Sarah’s protests about her kids getting picked on are out the window. I wish them all well, and I hope Sarah Palin is forever out of real contention for any future public office.
Great post!!!! (P.S. I love the visual of the rainbow wigs and the small car scenerio…..Hilarious!)
Who is funding Levi’s atty, Levi? Seems like a lot of atty fees, representing Sherry and Levi. Also, why do I get the feeling that maybe Butler, needs another atty in the first chair. Maybe we’ll know more come Thurs evening. Just seems to me that Levi should have the Palins on defense, not the other way around. Just saying.
Why do they keep saying “a consequence of teen pregnancy?” That is wrong. They are missing a crucial step. It should be “a consequence of teen unprotected sex”. What they are saying is that Tripp, or any other child born out of wedlock to an unmarried mother, is a consequence. The TEEN PREGNANCY is the consequence. The poor child who grows up to find out that he/she is a consequence will be in therapy a long time.
Oh my gawd. This family just canNOT get any more screwed up.
I am finally giving in to Palin fatigue, I think.
16 mattie Says:
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:18 PM
This show is about everybody screwing everybody else. the parents, the kids. It’s kind of racey for a good christian girl like bristol.
Lets hope Sarah doesn’t know that and is about to step into another steamy pile of Moose muffins.
Bristol’s bust in the RNC photo rivals the one on the Candie’s models. How odd Bristol didn’t keep that feature.
Bristol will soon graduate from teen mom to twenties-something mom with a record of demanding high child support and accompanied by the mother-in-law from … Wasilla. A bit part in a dismal sit-com is not much compensation for being a dud in her social set.
BTW, I love the image of the side-line circus. Hope it prompts a visit from flyinureye (sp?). Who are the guys swallowing swords and fire? The Alaska legislators? The McCain campaign? The local school board?
Pat Washington St
Piper is going to get the worst of it, since she’s always with her mother on all those media tours. She’s being taught early that the limelight is a wondeful place to be – as opposed to being in school or hanging out with firends her own age doing normal things, like playing or doing homework
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_piper_palin_finger.htm
Hi I’m Sarah Palin and I’m just such a wonderful and loving mother and an inspiration.
If my parents had ever seen me do that I would have been ground meat within seconds. Apparenly Sarah thinks its OK to teach that to her young children. Wonder what other genteel manners she teaches them –
That we haven’t found out yet.
O lord AKM….Thanks..Only you can make this one fascinating read…
you did good girl…LMBO…
…. just to play devil’s advocate for a moment… Sarah has demonstrated that you DON’T need a meaningful education to make Big Bucks….doesn’t make it right, but she DOES have a Big Bank Account, …and Pac Funds, and Trust fund for her to spend $$… the poor fools that just GIVE her money will eventually ise up, or run out $$ to give.. but She’ll have plenty ot sit out the rest of her life with….
She’s also been very good at working the loopholes as far as real estate, goverment benefits, building codes and who knows what else….She is INDEED the Conservative Capitialist Dream Girl….work the system for all you can get, and give nothing back… Face it…on THAT Scorecard, she’s successful…and now she’s teaching Bristol how to do it…
So many good comments here. Love the voices of sanity and decency, Mudpups. I suppose it’s a logical step from making ignorance into a virtue when you’re so ignorant you don’t know what there is to know, to making shamelessness into a virtue when you can no longer imagine being ashamed of anything.
It is sad to see where Bristol is heading…….as so many have said, she will be a laughingstock with her dull personality and all the baggage she carries with her.
It is also disappointing that there appears to be so much incriminating information that would have brought down most people by now and some would already be behind bars. Yet the Palins seem to just keep getting more and more free passes, more publicity and money-making gigs.
Has anyone actually alerted the IRS to the questionable PAC and the trust fund? What will the tax assessors ultimately do about the Palin’s failure to notify them of the *cabins* on the vacation property? I haven’t followed much of the discussion of who the DS child actually belongs to, and if there was more than one involved. If there is fraud and deceit there, it is a minor legal problem for the majority, compared to her other fraudulent dealings – like all those —gates listed at Palingates, which seem to be prosecutable.
There are a few in the MSM who try to cover something on her regularly, but there are so many critical issues affecting millions of us. If Palin ever made it to the White House, it would certainly have a negative affect on millions, but for the moment, they are small potatoes compared to health care, jobs, the economy, etc. I just keep wondering……..WHEN will she start paying her dues?
i don’t think that it is a coincidence that this has come out now. The Palins are trying to manage the news before Bristol’s gig was discovered by Levi’s attorney. The fees for her appearance will no doubt be paid to her Public Relations LLC.
Those pointing out that “a consequence of teen pregnancy” as a lesson learned when applied to B.P. are spot on IMO. The truth is probably more at what I’ve read about teen girls who intentionally choose pregnancy: a cry for attention, to love and be loved.
I imagine B.P.’s thoughts and emotions are intense and confused, perhaps like a trapped animal struggling to survive. While I can’t image S.P. as my mother, I can imagine justifying doing anything possible to provide for me and my baby.
Not that long ago unwed mothers and their babies would have been isolated and condemned by our culture; now there is a certain celebration. Sex truly is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and has been for at least centuries, if not eons (or is that ions?) later for human sensibility. I don’t know the answer, but I believe the Palins don’t have it.
@Marnie #84: Do you think Piper knows about the ‘two-finger salute’? That page and snopes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/piper.asp#photo2) both say that’s a doctored image. (I hope your parents wouldn’t give you grief for flashing a peace sign.) That being said, SP’s parenting skills are still atrocious. Family Values, eh?
As for Bristol appearing in the show, it’s just a cameo, probably won’t go beyond 1 scene, maybe a line or 2, thankfully it’s not going to turn into the Bristol Palin Hour(can you imagine?!). I think the comments here get quite carried away sometimes. Understandable, but not necessarily accurate.
I do feel for the Palin kids, because they have no choice in families. I’m sure they see “normal” life around them, they’re no-doubt enjoying the money their Grifter mother is raking in, but they’re still victims of their parent’s poor choices.
Any show with a Palin in it will be cancelled due to lack of viewer and sponsor interest… count me among those who will not be watching (I do have higher standards!) and who, if he does watch, will be watching only to identify the stupid sponsors of the program.
Yes, I am an activist television watcher!!
lovemydogs @ 30 & R’ipley in CT @ 81~ you both are so absolutely right! Thank you, thank you, thankyou!
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“Bristol Palin, who became pregnant in high school, was thrust on the national stage with young baby in arms…” ~ Lori in Los Angeles @ 44
*****
I remember that introduction by the McC campaign *very* vividly.
It was so creepily odd…almost surreal. The trooping out of the P and Mc families wasn’t the odd part ~ announcement of a running-mate calls for the whole family to be on stage/present for the photo-op announcement. So far, so good…
But I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out *why* the eldest daughter had a really big receiving blanket draped ‘casually’ over her front while holding her infant brother that *entire* day. Her holding the baby seemed perfectly logical…she’s the eldest daughter ~ but *why* the large blanket? And *why* was it not on the infant, but ‘on’ her? Incredibly odd…
Was it 4 days?, a week? later, we were all ‘let in’ on the fact that B was pregnant? So THAT was the reason for the blanket’s placement. [I have visions of Cindy and Piper, backstage on 'introduction day', adjusting it 'just so' so as to hide B's belly... ] In any event, the blanket was there to keep quiet/secret the fact that B was ‘with child.’ It still rankles me that there was a *deliberate* attempt at deception on that day! Had the blanket *not* been so big and so precisely placed, I don’t think I’d've given it a second thought; I certainly wouldn’t have been so ticked (and disgusted!) when I discovered ‘they’ had deliberately set out to deceive the public about Bristol…
But, to me, the corker of the whole debacle was the VP candidate’s response to questions about the parentage of the infant. Why in the hell didn’t the woman respond with: “Yes, Trig is my child; I gave birth to him 4-months ago at the Mat-Su hosp. No, we hadn’t exactly ‘planned’ him, but our family is SO blessed that he’s a part of our lives. [yawordsaladda, yawordsaladda, yawordsaladda about DS children, children in general, and balancing motherhood and public office.]” That’s what was called for: A simple, heartfelt, no-nonsense statement about her youngest son and how she planned on balancing being mother and being VP.
But could SP do that? Oh, no!; not Sarah. Instead she had to set about to ‘prove’ Trig was her son, by ‘outing’ Bristol!
To this day, I shake my head over ANY mother insisting that their daughter couldn’t *possibly* be the mother of a 4-mo old child *because* that daughter was [now] 5-mo pregnant!
Sure, everyone would’ve eventually found out that B was pregnant, but in that way? in a ‘confirmation’ of Trig’s parentage from SP? And yes, it would’ve been shocking and great fodder for the media and bloggers to [eventually] discover/uncover that B was pregnant, but for her *mother* to *use* her as ‘proof’ that she [the mother] had birthed the infant? How incredibly insensitive, icky, and cruel is that? I mean, truly, wt holy f?
Yes, those couple of days in August are still very vivid in my mind: SP, to ‘protect’ her own a55, willfully, methodically, deliberately, and utterly trashed her *own* daughter!
That SP was (and is) okay with doing that, boggles my mind to this day. It’s a wonder Bristol doesn’t live her life in a ‘medication’-induced stupor in an effort to numb the pain/damage inflicted by the Wasilla Witch; I know I’d want to be in a continual hazy-daze to deal/cope with the on-going mental cruelty and abuse. beth.
‘Introduction Day’ – Bristol, Trig, and the [yards of] blanket: http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/files/2009/05/bristol.jpg
I’ll bet I know SOMEONE who will talk about Bristol going on a TV Show…
and she is coming to Alaska March 5th for 1 Show. Kathy Griffin.
I was just reading the story on ” Bent Alaska “.
I’ll bet if AKM or Gryphen asked for an interview… she would give them one..?
Kathy Griffin ‘ unedited ‘ about Sarah…THAT would be fun.
God I am soooo sick of these freaks. I am on weirdo wasilla-hill-billy overload. I am so disgusted with all of them. It’s beyond perverted, and it’s beyond mentally unstable. The whole lot of them are serious weirdos!
have you guys watched any of these episodes? Gah, just from watching one lead up……..
High school politics over relationships.
And, there is one family so similar to Scarah it’s weird. The high school daughter gets prego, the mother finds her husband is or had an affair, they separate, she starts dating someone and gets prego, BUT, surely it could not be the old hubby’s baby, he had a vasectomy, or did he, was he lying about that? so now whose baby is this? the hubby and wife fall back in love (I think) and decide the baby is from them, but gosh is it really.
I stopped watching…….this is SO teen soap tv! The teens love it. Do you remember afternoon soaps? These are the same drama but updated and made for the teens.
I also wonder whether there is a connection between Brenda Hampton, writer, director and producer of the show and Rebecca Mansour? Ram as she is called, is a paid facebook and possible speech writer for Scarah, since before or around the time Scarah quit her AK gov job, but I wonder how long their relationship goes back.
Ram lives in LA, which is apparently where Scarah went to ‘write’ her book. Ram has dreamed of being a screen writer. Now Bristol is going to LA to film this show.
Oh yeah, just about forgot……there is a “Ricky Underwood” character, who is a bad boy from the wrong family.
It makes ya just go, huh,……seriously. The series opened 2007……just sayin.
Anyway, check below for past episodes of “The Secret Life of an American Teenager, it’s really rather interesting…….. oh yeah, originally it was written to be titled ‘ the SEX life of american teenager’.
http://community.abcfamily.go.com/watch/secret-life-american-teenager/full-episodes
Remember what Levi said after the election loss, Scarah was obsessed with wedding shows. Was she cooking this up with Mansour from the earliest get go? Is this what Levi knows about? Dang, I think Bree may be onto the wrong TV program.
BELOW……Does this not sound like Scarah? (published Dec. 08)
“Hello all! Sharing some fabulous news with you people. The Secret Life of the American Teenager would be back in less then a month with its twelfth Episode, The Secret Wedding of the American teenager. I am so delighted that it’s finally coming back. I really miss watching this show. It was a kinda of routine, I always stuck to. No matter where I am, what am I doing, I need to watch this drama. It’s simply fantastic. And now that the show is taking a break, I am enjoying the reruns of the previous episodes by downloading them from this site. Guess what?? Am addicted to the This secret life of the American teenager. Ummm….Reminds me of my teens … Yeahhh!!!”
Bristol is just a Mini Me! Next thing ya know, she’ll have four kids and a fake set of turrets of her own.
Sorry Bristol – I actually have a big soft spot for teens and young adults after having worked with this group for several years in recreation, sports and outdoor activities. At the rate you are going with snarky and poor choices, you are doomed to a life of drama sandwiched between mediocrity. You no longer have my sympathy for having a sociopath for a parent, and as far as I’m concerned you are courting disaster by giving yourself up to your mother as so much dumb clay.
Sitting in the back seat here, just trying to look away, but LMAO! Too funny.
Family Circus or rather, the Dysfunctional Family Circus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/scott-meets-family-circus_n_441198.html
The insane clown posse, Bristol starring in “Sh^t’s Fecked Up Hospital” – @ 1:42
NSFW [language] [Not Safe For Work]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkC7dcxZ5_Q
Comedy gold. The timing is impeccable.
Unexpected, unplanned pregnancy…sounds like a lack of sex education from absent parents or misinformed, uneducated or Evangelical misguided parents. The show doesn’t address a fundamental core in the development of any person — the uncharacteristic, unhealthy relationships with the immediate family and their effects on teenagers. A Chucky the rapist spoils things for many, for instance.
why is my post in moderation?
gawd……why don’t you give us a list of words we cannot use.
So, to those who do not know, do not spell out the name of the RAM person.
Most words that end up in moderation for approval are pre-programmed by WordPress. I’ve set the level to PG-13 and you get what you get. I don’t know what words they are. Rebecca Mansour will put you in moderation because a while back people were posting personal information about her on this site, and I felt it was inappropriate. I was in contact with Ms. Mansour and told her that I would keep her name in moderation to protect personal information about her and her family members from being published on my blog. She was appreciative. I would do that for anyone.
The other most common reason are multiple links in a post. I’ve set the parameters to allow four links before it goes into moderation. But it doesn’t listen to me and it does what it likes. It goes rogue.
Hope that helps. AKM
At 43, Palin failed to protect against getting pregnant. She really should keep her mouth shut about abstinence or anything that has to do with sex. I think it is sad that Bristol promotes Tripp as a consequence. There also are many young girls who have babies and love their babies and never talk about them as “consequences.” Sarah and Bristol are both making money off of their children.
Bristol Palin cannot be representative of middle class or poverty stricken teens who get pregnant out of wedlock. Even though Bristol has had to deal with the psychopathic antics and lies of her mother, she or her baby have never had to live in a homeless shelter or go without food, clothing or the necessities of life. Of course Bristol was not ready for a child, but she will never have to go through the horrors of average teen Moms. She is a multi-millionaire, via her grifter parents. She has a house, a business and now she’s in a tv show , to teach young teens, what?? I’m baffled! Is she representative of what out teens are to do, without the aid of millionaire parents? I think the wrong message is being sent to our unsuspecting teens.
Candies: Decades-old maker of slutty footwear and sponsor of the Abstinence Tour starring Bristol Palin. Oh, the hypocrisy!
“I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby,” Obama said.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/obamas_punished_with_a_baby_comment_sparks_protests/
The Christian Defense Coalition demanded Obama apologize for the remark.
I see no difference between what Obama said and Bristol Palin saying her son, Tripp, is a consequence of teen sex.
When I was 17 I got pregnant. The (now) husband and I were thrilled, if for no other reason than he was told he could never have children, so he took the whole thing as a wonderous blessing and we committed to having a family/life together (that was more than 25 years ago).
The husbands parents, who claimed to be devout Catholics, felt abortion was surely fine in “this case.” They were horrid to me (us) for years, until we just broke off relations 100% about 18 years ago. They were blue collar, who thought we were ruing the family name- like anyone even KNEW their name. It was all “image.”
My family, on the other hand, also devout Catholics, were not thrilled with the age/unmarried thing, but felt a life should always be celebrated regardless of how it is conceived. They supported our efforts, bought us a crib, had a baby shower and have been fine examples of what true followers do.
The Palins remind me SO much of the inlaws, blue collar trash who care more about image than reality, religion, morals or ethics. It’s sad.
One day her kids will run like heII and leave her all alone. As it should be.
The Christian Defense Coalition wants to hear an apology? I got one for them.
This non-practicing Catholic is truly ashamed of the statements and actions of the church, supposedly in the name of Christ. From failing to promote contraception in areas of famine and drought, to missions to convert people of older and equally valid faiths, for failing to confront and show genuine concern for crimes commited by their clergy.
I could go on, but let me provide a personal example. My mother attended mass at the same parish, almost everyday from 1963 until she took ill in 2008. Needless to say, she gave them money every Sunday for 45 years. It’s February, 2010, and after two years, she still hasn’t received a visit at her seniors home from her parish priest.
Needless to say, he won’t see another dime from my mother, and the church can go f**k themselves.
@ 107. Jcos
I have to, not sure what to say, very difficult. My Mom and later my Dad ended up in a Jewish Nursing Home in Phx. Treated like pure gold. Given the last Medicaid beds.
Good Christian people Mom & Dad, not Catholic, they were evangelicals. But never ONCE did a Christian preacher ever bother to visit or darken their doors.
The Rabbi sure did, visited weekly & brought jigsaw puzzles . At the end, we asked the Rabbi (YES the Rabbi!) to conduct the memorial and he gave such a beautiful service, clearly thought out and researched. Even the kitchen Helpers came out to hear the very personal Memorial.
@ 107 JCos Says:
I TOTALLY (guess I’m supposed to say ITA) with your feelings. Just wish I could have a big boxing bag to punch that would make me feel more like thing.. well, I just so wish it would have been different.
I was taken in by an End Times church in my early teens. (Mother had died, I was vulnerable) and to prevent it happening to my daughter, we send her to Jewish summer camp so she thinks she is a Jew! Hubby is, but a secular, non-practicing Jew.
I used to think that the Palins were guilty of incredible hypocrisy. But actually, I don’t think this has anything to with hypocrisy, as such. I think it is a stunning lack of self-awareness–a complete lack of the ability of introspection. It appears to be a genetic predisposition in this family. A columnist, whose name I don’t remember, noted some time ago that both Karl Rove and Sarah Palin would say or do anything that would give them an advantage for the next five minutes. This fits, too.
Jeanne, I’ve been following your blog for over a year now (as well as palingates, bree, gryphen and the Daily Dish), and you’ve really hit the nail on the head about the circus nature of the Palins. I’ve been having an ongoing debate with a friend who feels that by reacting to Palin with indignation, hate and anger, we are just empowering her and her “message.”
Of course she’s right, but as you so eloquently described here – it’s impossible to look away. Still, the proper approach is laughter, which deflates everything about her. A little more John Stewart, a little less Andrew Sullivan when it comes to Palin. That’s my task for the day.
Hey Muddy….. GREAT piece….
Great blast on Aunt Meg today all over the press… what will sister do now for a mouthpiece???
To Rationalist:
Excellent, excellent point!
Yeah, Bristol Palin is the perfect spokesperson for the consequences of teen pregnancy – “You make national headlines and get a job on TV!”
That’s the message kids are going to get. How bad can it really be?
At some point we will see, on TV, one or more of the Palins living in a house with Ron Jeremy and Flavor Flav and it will finally all be over then.
Terrific: moral rectitude from the daughter of a millionaire media whore. The vapidity is astounding.
It is certainly a case of mass ambivalence when Bristol can bemoan the AWFUL effects that having a baby at this age can have on her previously free-wheeling life, how it is enough to drive her to complete abstinence for fear of it EVER happening again. That sounds like it is the worst thing that could happen and then…I love this wonderful baby so much?
The 2 together do not compute.
It looks like the girl has no mind of her own at all. Everything she is guided to say and do comes from her mother, even the “contracts” for being a spokesperson and appearing anywhere. Her actions in the child support case were all Sarah and still are.
Bristol tried honesty when she first reported that abstinence was unrealistic. Then BOOM, Sarah landed on her and re-wrote everything she was to say from then on.
Really, it is almost as if Sarah “set up” her daughter with a live-in boyfriend, knowing what would result…and that she would be able to use that to control her daughter for as long as she needed to. Pushing her onto the national stage in her condition was the icing on the cake, the unkindest cut too. Talk about eating her young.