Bristle has been mocked, but not “simply for being an unmarried parent.”  That’s Laura Donavan telling a little bit of a fib. What does your God say about bearing false witness, Laura? Don’t you burn in hell for all eternity?

Bristle has been mocked because she has been promoting that idiotic “abstinence” bullcrap when she herself is a perfect example of reality contradicting the abstinence crusaders.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html

Like her mother, Bristle is a parody of herself.

Conservatives live in a world of victimization once they are outside the Fox bubble.They are told that Matt and Katie are the equivalent to Hannity and BillO which is just delusional.

Thanks for your comment. She was in fact criticized by the media and commenters alike for her situation. Here are some articles on the matter: 
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/09/gov-palin-says/
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13050.html  
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/03/huckabee_backtracks.html 

These people are just chomping at the bit for any little bit of publicity…Funny that every time there is something about Levi, she has to make some kind of statement….People are just sick of Palins, go away….You are not interesting and have nothing to offer!!

I think you’re starting to pick up on why people dislike the Palin’s, it’s not because they are courageous or anything (they really aren’t.. why would they be?), it’s because they seek publicity by any means possible. THey live in weird fantasy world where they are some sort of heroes for Republicans, while.. doing nothing courageous.

They went on a TV show.. then trashed the show/media… for what reason? Publicity, victim complex. Maybe you’ll start to notice more.

I love how conservatives think they sound clever when they say “lamestream” instead of “mainstream”.

Just like you liberals are so titillated by using the teabaggers / baggers name which is pretty offensive.

NBC and MSNBC ripped her and her family apart and now they are using her as much as she is using them to get ratings. It’s about time they had a conservative voice on and call them out on their bias and double standards. For gods sake NBC just admitted to changing evidence in the Zimmerman case to make him look racist. Screw NBC/MSNBC.

I disagree, she wasn’t even calling the Today show hosts lame, she was making the point its possible for a person (Jake Tapper comes to mind) who works with and for a lamestream media company but doesn’t work that way himself (as far as I know).  I used to really despise the grandioseness of Geraldo Rivera, and he’s certainly emotional and liberal, but his early war reporting for NBC in Iraq was as courageous and honorable as anyone else’s, and he’s been consistent in that type of reporting since.   I now have a lot of respect for him.    Those who blush whenever they interview a liberal and flush with hostility whenever they interview a conservative do not get my respect, nor would someone who did the reverse.  To me its very similar to racism, where a person has a hatred for another for no other reason than they aren’t like themselves.

When Lauer was interviewing her at the beginning of the show, Palin just repeated her same old talking points.  All of her talking points could be put on one page.  If it wasn’t for her talking points, she wouldn’t have anything to say to add to the political dialog, and yet her fans think she’s intelligent.  And like others say, she’s vindictive to those who dislike her and question her qualifications.  But, if you noticed what she said on the Today show, she thinks she is more qualified than Biden and she still must not realize she lost the debate by a 2 to 1 margin according to polls taken that night and the next day.

I’m tired of seeing the Palins in the media.  Who really cares?  They are just another reality show group of people desparately seeking publicity.

But, isn’t this what Sarah Palin wanted all along?  It wasn’t to become VP.  It was to become a celebrity, something she heavily criticized Obama for during the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Tea Party members called themselves ‘teabaggers’ first.

We’re just reminding you guys as to how stupid you are just like those ‘(government) keep your  hands off my Medicare’ signs those old teabaggers were holding up at those rallies.

Poor, poor Simple Sarah.

She can dish it out but she sure as hell can’t take it.

The tea party originally used that term to describe themselves.  What I remember seeing were people wearing hats with actual teabags hanging down from them.  Once they found out what the slang of this term meant, then they took offense.

I actually rarely hear the term “teabagger” any more, but I hear the term “lamestream” media quite often, still.

Laura – not sure if the criticism originated from a blogger/pundit but I read a few post that pointed out how can Sarah Plain go on the Today Show, which is considered part of the ‘lamestream’ media and either not be one herself, hypocritical and all the other garbage that typically passes for discourse.

“My mom definitely proves you can be in the lamestream media without being of the lamestream media.”

How about I go all conspiratorial and state that Sarah Palin is taking a page from the Van Jones playbook (he is a media whore lately trying to sell a book, but no biggie there huh?)

Top down, bottom up, inside out… Sarah is participating in the inside out premise, changing the ‘lamestream media’ from within. Watch out for those different points of view, they can be catchy.

You respect Geraldo for giving away the position of American soldiers? 

The first article you cite does not criticize Bristle in any way.  It criticizes $arah for being a finger-wagging abstinence promoter when her own daughter is an unwed teen mom.  That’s a fair criticism since it goes to the very heart of the issue.  Abstinence-only sex education DOESN’T WORK and the Palin family is a perfect example.

The second article again does not criticize Bristle, but refers to rumors that Trig is Bristle’s daughter, not $arah’s.

The third article you cite is about Huckabee attacking Natalie Portman, doesn’t even mention Bristle Palin, and is therefore entirely irrelevant. Again NOT a criticism of Bristle Palin.

Three strikes, you’re out.

True but not solely for being an unmarried expectant mother.
I remember one of the McCain campaign managers stating that he was hoping  McCain could have benefitted from an October wedding between Levi and Bristol.

“My mom definitely proves you can be in the lamestream media without being of the lamestream media.” 

Yeah, right. When you lie with dogs you wake up with a 20 bill in your hand and a note saying you were the best ever.

 I guess that means that FOX should back off ripping President Obama and his family apart. Or letting Sarah Palin spread her hateful messages about the president?

Go away idiot daughter of idiot mother.

Did you fail reading when you were in school?  Read those articles again, Laura.

Bristol is her momma’s daughter.  ANY attention is better than no attention at all.

Bristle is the perfect person to talk about Abstinence because she was the one that made the mistake.  She thought she was with someone that loved her but didn’t.  She was at an age where she was young, naive and trusting.   Mix in her using alcohol at an early age and big mistakes occur.   But what liberals cant stand the most about Bristle, is the choice she made of choosing life.  If Bristle was a liberal rebel wild daughter who had an abortion you wouldn’t have an issue with what she says.

Bristol isn’t very original…..and since she rode mama’s coat tails to get her celebrity status, she shouldn’t be too critical of the media…  What’s that old saying…don’t bite the hand that feeds you!

The irony is that Palin appeared on conservatives second most despised network, NBC,  trailing only MSNBC, and that it is part of the “lamestream” media she continually rails against.  Times must really be getting hard.

The irony is that Palin appeared on conservatives second most despised network, NBC,  trailing only MSNBC, and that it is part of the “lamestream” media she continually rails against.  Times must really be getting hard.

 why would they be??  She has a contract with foxnews till 2013 making more $$$ then you’ll ever make. 

People can learn from their mistakes and change. However I doubt if you ever will.

After the 2 month 2008 campaign Sarah takes it and dish it back right at the liberal media…its something they aren’t use to. 

Super, the perfect person to talk about Abstinence is someone for whom it worked as a method of birth control. Her mistake was actually depending on Abstinence as her only means of birth control. If she wants to put herself out there as a cautionary tale, in the “Learn from my experience” vein, then she should consider that people might learn from her experience that if you don’t want to get pregnant, you should be prepared to use an effective means of birth control when you have sex.

The problem with her position as a spokesperson for Abstinence-only birth control philosophy is that it smacks of hypocrisy, as in “do what I say, not what I do.”

bristol needs to get a life and stop trying to be a media sensation, she’s on a reality show, she isn’t, she moved to another state now she’s back in alaska. . she rides her mom’s fame. . and  hardly knows what she is talking about. . . take your baby, go to school, and make something substantive of yourself.. .and stop shooting your mouth off, its unimportant.  the sarah hosting proved to be positive to all involved, why start something where there isn’t anything to get your name in lights yet again. . .

“Watch out for those different points of view, they can be catchy.”

Just because someone has a “different view” doesn’t mean it’s legitimate. Sarah couldn’t debate her way out of a paper bag. She’s incredibly naive and that’s why she has to stay so close to script. She can’t ad-lib because she doesn’t have the foundation of political knowledge needed, and she barely ever talks unless it’s in talking points, which she studies.

The Pink Elephant in the room is that, if you asked her normal political questions, she wouldn’t know anything.. she wouldn’t know any specifics… she’d sit there blathering on with her talking points, repeating them over and over because that’s all she knows.

I think people have actually never seen or heard from the real Sarah Palin, she’s a PR stunt, she’s like the female version of Mitt Romney, except people don’t realize it because she’s a pretty woman. If Mitt Romney was a pretty woman there would be a lot less apathy for his administration… it’s just, Mitt can’t get away with saying stupid things because he doesn’t have the distraction of being a good looking female. Mitt Romney says dumb things, he gets called out. Sarah Palin says dumb things and people prop her up higher, mind-boggling.

I doubt that Eddy does as much cocaine as The Moosiah.

 who were these tea party members that called themselves baggers?  Remember the tea party movement unlike the coffeeparty and other leftists groups wasn’t created by the republicans.  Its many small uncoordinated groups in 2009 going under the teaparty banner all supporting the same ideals.  SO you might have gotten one or two old persons to say,,,,yeah you can call me that while %99.9999 never said so.  Liberals then claim hey they call themselves baggers.. I say, WHO?? 

Then even if 1 or two old people did call themselves baggers the Beavis and butthead style humor gets old after the 10th time doing it…they said baggers ….HEHEHEH..wow GROW UP already..jesus.

Barstool was pretty free and easy from a young age. Ask Dylan Kolvig. Ask the HS hockey team. Barstool even stated on her Myspace page that she ‘was a slut”. Someday hopefully she will break free of the crazy parenting she received and progress. Also hopefully she’ll stop mutiliating her face. Ya’ll know that Tri-G is her son, right? Sarah faked the pregnancy. This is all verifiable and soon to come out mainstream, lamestream, any of them, all of them.
Read Boys Will Be Boys (by Shailey Tripp) which details that Todd is a pimp and arah had a flat abdomen at a massage in march 2008and even stated “no” to medical papers at the spa asking if she was pregnant. oh, and she had lippodissolve shots also too.
Why is Barstools sencond kid named after her dad’s prostitute?
Why is her first son named after his Down Syndrome ? Tri-G
Sarah’s downfall is coming. And it will be spectalcular.   

Matt Lauer is lame. Palin speaks of how nobody’s making money in this economy, but is too lame to ask how badly Palin is doing.

Good thing, too as the amount of money she has to pay out each month to keep all her secrets hidden is pretty formidible. The overhead….she needs to keep dancing  monkey!

 they used teabags in reference to the Boston tea party.  Remember the teapart in 2009 was many small uncoordinated groups.  But actually calling themselves teabaggers..nope.  That was unless they were baited into saying it.  I do recall seeing a liberal reporter going…so would you call yourself a teabagger… pointing to the teabags they had and there message of sending tea bags to people that supported the stimulus.  A yes of one or two members of a small tea party group would fulfill your definition of them calling themselves baggers…right??

Sally Heath was pregnant before she married Chuckles. Sarah Heath was pregnant with Curtis Menard’s son when she got Todd to marry her. Bristle has been pregnant a few times and isn’t married. Britta Hanson got pregnant before she possibly married Track.
It’s pretty safe to say that abstinence ain’t workin’ for the Heath Palin clan.  

That’s fo sho. She spent most of her time as governor being a mean girl and getting back at her perceived enemies. What a sad sad way to go through life.

I think it was more than just one or two, and I have no idea who your “liberal reporter” was.  How do you know that reporter was “liberal?”

Maybe the entire group has not called themselves teabaggers, but my own recollection is that a number of them either called themselves or carried signs implying that’s what they were…..if they carry a sign that says “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems,” then that implies they are “teabaggers,” regardless of what the slang, vulgar meaning of the term means.
http://washingtonindependent.com/31868/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party

Look at this article in the very conservative National Review:
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE=
Conservatives did start using that term to describe themselves and/or to say “teabag” the liberal dems. 
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It does not matter what the vulgar term means because conservatives admit that they did indeed start using that phrase themselves, and that was my point.  Yes, it is true that when the left uses that term, it is used in a duragatory way.  But, yes, these people did call themselves this.

And, it is true that I personally have not heard that term used much lately, but I have heard the phrase “lamestream media” still in use often by conservatives.

Thought this is interesting:

http://washingtonindependent.com/67191/the-slur-that-must-not-be-named

Apparently, you could once buy buttons and perhaps stickers that said “Proud to be a Teabagger”!  Maybe you still can buy them.

There are a number of articles out there discussing the origin and proliferation of the use of the term “teabagger.”  So it’s more than just 1 liberal reporter and more than just a couple of tea partiers.

I believe it’s Bristol.

And like I said, the commenters criticized her, and I’m pretty sure they count, unless of course you believe private citizens don’t count as people.

Are you serious?

Sarah is still butt-hurt over the Katie Couric newspaper question.

Sarah is a simple woman with an inferiority complex.

If this weren’t the case she could have answered the question simply as—Well, Katie I have four grown children and just gave birth to a child with Down’s syndrome and I am a full time governor so I really don’t have much spare time to read.
But nooooooooooo Sarah knows that she  got to where she is on her  T&A so that is why the question irritated her so much.

True but most people aren’t able to profit from their mistakes like Bristol while telling others not to do what she did.

Laura Donovan, you must not have been paying attention to what activities Bristol Palin has been involved in since being “a pregnant teen”.

She’s participated in the job-blacklisting of the father of her child.  She’s played nasty “catch me if you can” games with his visitation rights and his child support payments (not cashing his checks, then complaining he’s not paying).  She’s sold pictures of her child to the tabloids without his father’s permission solely for her own benefit.  She’s followed her mother’s example in setting up a PAC to grift money for travel, buying homes in AK and AZ, and for filming so-far-unsuccessful pilots for “reality” shows.  She’s the only celebrity in the history of the show to inexplicably GAIN 20+ pounds on Dancing With The Stars (September to November 2010).  She gave the middle finger salute to what she termed “haters” towards the end of that DWTS season series.

She’s turned out to be a sarcastic, complaining, poor-me-the-victim mini-me of her mother, and that schtick seems to pay well for both of them.

It’s all about abortion to you, huh?

First of all most girls Bristol’s age aren’t fortunate enough to have an extended family or a mother who makes a good salary and then suddenly becomes a multi-millionaire and helps support you and your child.
And then Bristol rode her mom’s coattails and became wealthy by playing the victim of the media.

Heck she even moved to Hollywood.

You said “the media” criticized her simply for her “situation.”  I’m going to assume that you don’t mean her reality show appearance with “the situation.”

That appears to be another fib you told there.   Random, mostly anonymous commenters don’t count as part of the media. 

If you are now lumping in people who comment on articles as part of the “lamestream media,” I can see why $arah and her fawning toadies feel so besieged.

Same difference.

Pretty funny, “super”, that you, a Palin apologist, defends BRISTOL Palin’s promiscuity by calling her the same name as Henry Wood did, “Bristle”.  
You don’t even know who you’re defending, you’re just reacting in a typical RW knee-jerk fashion, stupidly.

I can see your face turning green from my house..:)

Just because some liberal blogs speculated that Bristol was pregnant that counts as criticizing her? She WAS pregnant! The truth came out that the Palins, who claim to be of the party of “Family Values” don’t stick to their own values after all. There’s some criticism for you. And that is directed squarely at the entire family, not just Bristol.

Bill Maher said she was “f—ed so hard a baby came out.” That’s not exactly nice. 

Her comments seems perfectly reasonable. Most people agree that while the majority of people in the media are lazy and unprofessional, there’s also many who are tough but fair and hard-working.  

I loved the Today Show segment on empowering teenage women, seemed like a good example of where women of every political viewpoint can get together with good idea about issues all care about.   

I’m pretty sure she blogs to earn income to pay her school bills, and more power to her.   

When you RWNJs/GOPwhiners stop with the “57 states”, “corpsman”, “TOTUS” stuff, get back to us mean ol’ libruls, we’ll talk about “teabaggers” then.

No, it isn’t nice.  Maher’s Bristle jokes were way over the top.

You know what else isn’t “nice?” Funneling billions of taxpayer dollars into failed abstinence-only education programs (right wing religious zealots) that are proven not only to be worthless, but actually show that they result in less use of birth control/STD protection.

One is a very rude remark, the other is an aggressively stupid use of taxpayer dollars to funnel money to political cronies.

Conservatives have a lot of political influence, but rarely are they culturally influential.   Truth is, Oprah has as much influence as anyone on the planet,  so it’s not about celebrity, it’s about a platform for your views.  All are about making the world a better place, when done well. 

Bottom line, if the plane ride wasn’t so far, she’d be on TV a lot more than she is, she brings viewers every time.  She beat Couric on GMA, she’s ratings gold.

 shouldn’t you be over on that stalker blog studying bristols ears? lol

Feel better??? Cheeze and bread people, get a friggin life…

Yep, Palin does bring in the ratings, and she knows she does.  That’s why she continues to want to be a famous celebrity……so she can rake in the bucks…..and, given her personality, I’m sure she just relishes in the attention she gets as well as the conflict she causes between people who watch her.

I don’t blame her for wanting to rake in the dough; but I just think it’s sad that someone like this gets so much attention.  I don’t think very much about her; I did not watch her yesterday morning (nor did I watch Katie Couric).

Again, I believe Ms. Palin is very much like a reality TV star, like Paris Hilton, the Kardashians, or Donald Trump.  I don’t watch shows like they have because I do not like them.  They do not entertain or inform me of much.

The main reason Sarah Palin has become such a monstrous bore in 2012 is that she’s hidden behind her Facebook, her Twitter, her pre-screened teleprompter-fueled Fox News appearances and taken potshots at President Obama nearly every day, without a scintilla of what she herself terms “common sense conservatism”.   The ultimate bore is constant repetition of the refrigerator-magnet/bumper-sticker one-liners she has used for the past 4 years.

Everything she promotes enriches the people who support her, oil barons and corporate media.  Ironic, isn’t it, she hates on the media, but it’s the (mostly conservative-owned) media that supports her?  It’s all about clicks, hits, tuning in, ratings, money-money-money.

As far as I can tell, her only accomplishment has been to give birth. Today gave her mother an opportunity to be a guest host, wtf is she whinning about.

Are you serious? Get a life about what? You’re the one supporting Palin, lol.

I could care less about this woman and her daughter. But I also have absolutely no reason to hate, deride, inslut, whatever this woman either. It’s call freedom to do what one wants, to speak ones mind, to earn a living how one chooses.

I was curious about the post, decide eh another Palin post with a tepid, mild dislike bent, not too bad though. I decided to take a dump and bingo, you smelled my turd. It is hilarious to read how apopletic you people are about these two.

You got two likes also, frig, the rocket scientist you three must be.

Ok, that was fun and a waste of 15 minutes of my life I won’t get back.

So WHO’S “…a media whore lately trying to sell a book, but no biggie there huh”?

Like Mitt Romney? “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”
Like Rick Santorum? “It Takes A Family”
Like Newt Gingrich? “To Save America”, and he’s already churning out one on climate change, tentatively titled “Environmental Entrepreneurs”
Like Herman Cain? “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, and soon, “9-9-9 An Army of Davids”
Like Mike Huckabee? “A Simple Government”
Like Scott Brown? “Against All Odds”
Like George W. Bush? “Decision Points”

Disclaimer: Granted, Chris Matthews is touting his JFK book, Dylan Ratigan touts his “Greedy Bastards” book describing the corporate takeover of Wall Street and the country, and Rachel Maddow just came out with a definitive book on military spending, “Drift”.

But none of the aforementioned three are presidential candidates or possible VP candidates sucking up campaign dollars from small and large donors.

ctshar:  She blogs to earn money to go to school. . pleez. . .what school, what is she taking? How do you know that for a fact. . . . why not try getting a real job if that’s the case. . .

Ain’t it the truth!

She’s also been hidden behind her YouTube channel, if it still exists.  While she was running for VP, on several occasions, I wrote replies on her YouTube channel.  I did not use foul language; I did not say anything derogatory about Ms. Palin; yet every single one of my posts were deleted within 24 hours.  Maybe the reason they were deleted was because I told the truth!

I am a liberal, but I do respect some conservatives.  Sarah Palin is not one of them. 

They are all media whores there Karen and you would be too if you were crafty enough to write a book. You would also try to get on whatever show to sell your book.

Running for office, string a couple of red meat phrases together and watch those campaign dollars roll in.

They then spend convincing people like you they have a plan to protect you from the evil conservatives. The sad part is that you and your ilk just suck it up.

Take a step back, take off the filtered glasses, put down the Kool-Aid and SEE what is going on. These people are not the evil barons you have been manipulated to believe they are.

There are three certainties in life:  Death, Taxes, and Laura Donovan writing a screed about one of the Palins.  One of these days, Donovan will either grow up and write something worthwhile, or she’ll decide to get a real job and do something productive.

“But I also have absolutely no reason to hate, deride, inslut, whatever this woman either”

Freudian Slip?

You can’t debate with someone who is from a different planet…that is PlanetWood to be exact.

Sometimes a spade is a spade…

If I didnt suck at spelling I would agree with you. I am not that imaginative.

 So if Im reading this all correctly, only those who never made a mistake are qualified to teach anyone anything.   Just where in the hell are you going to get all those teachers to replace those mistake riddled UN Qualified loosers we find in every school in America?  I have no report to quote but Im guessing we are talking  at least 85% currently unqualified.  Can anyone say 100%?

 Hahaha how Laura managed sanity through that should be award-worthy.

 She should be. It was an idiotic question.

Hey Obama – What’s your favorite pant style?

Here is another dump for you Palin hating losers… she beat the perky one Katie Couric in the ratings games. Let the psycho spin begin…

“For Tuesday: TODAY averaged 5.497 million total viewers, +356,000 ahead of GMA (5.141 million). TODAY averaged a 1.8 in A25-54 rating (2.209 million), +2 tenths (+292,000) ahead of GMA.”

From an outsiders view I guess you are the “Tommy Christopher” over here.

Good luck…

I’m sorry that I have made you two so angry at me by making you look foolish.  

Uhhh…when was Bristol Palin every abstinent?  From what I heard, her high school nickname was “Fries”, as in “Do you want fries with that?”

That’s a laughable thing to say and it absolutely obliterates any credibility you might have had. You can find “commenters” who will criticize anything, anywhere on the internet. Those people hardly count as “media.”

“making more $$$ then you’ll ever make.” What’s your point there? That someone who makes a lot of money is somehow a better person than someone who doesn’t? Man, you’re f—ed up.

Yet she still appeared on Fox’s mose detested enemy. Wonder what the mouth Hannity will have to say about her temporary defection.

Sorry clown boy but as a 67 year old retired civil engineer I spend my money on golf not drugs. The Moosiah? Do your parents know that their little boy is playing with their computer again?

Daughter like mother. Apparently stupid is genetic.

Bristol is not going to school now.  Willow is homeschooling beauty school.

TODAY has been the number one morning show for 15 years.  This is sweeps and they are doing sensational guests in order to stay on top.  GMA has been catching up.  TODAY needs to do better to be satisfied.  

Laura, you go girl!  WTH is up with this Bristol”s trial marriage and cohabitation with Gino Paoletti and doing it on camera yet.  You may do better communicating with Nancy French on this Reality program mess up.  I can’t get straight answers.  Have you seen the name of the new program with Bristol and Gino?  What about Tripp?  He is so cute.  Is this going to happen in Arizona.  The messages on all this is so confusing.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2125137/Bristol-Palin-enter-trial-marriage-cohabitation-boyfriend–reality-TV-cameras.html

Uh ok. What’s your point? I thought you hated all “liberal” media.

I wouldn’t call that an accomplishment.

I agree, he was waaaaay too soft on her. I expected her to walk out like she did on the Alaskan people.

Scumbag Palin daughter:
 
Does advertisements for abstinence :: has never practiced abstinence.

You got it backwards again…your foolish comments don’t make me angry they just don’t get a thumbs up !

Why is Bristol ‘s second kid nmaed after her dad’s prostitute Shailey Tripp?

“the commenters criticized her”

My oh my. Using commenters as part of your argument and tying them in with “the media”?  Laura, perhaps you should really think about a new profession if you are going to form ridiculous attempted arguments like that.

Let’s cool it with the character assassination of Palin’s kids. It’s got to be hard enough for them just trying to defend the stupid things their mother says all of the time.

This is the actual conversation that WCinWI2 is objecting to:

Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?

Palin: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.

Couric: What, specifically?

Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.

Couric: Can you name a few?

Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, “Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?” Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
Then it’s off to the bus where Palin sits down for a wide-ranging interview.

Even if one agree that the question was indeed somehow “stupid”, it wasn’t a particularly difficult one for anybody to answer. WCinWI2 apparently does not believe Palin had any responsibility for her pitiful performance. It is all Couric’s fault. Yeah right.

I actually provided examples of both.

The same ‘lamestream media’ gave Bristol a gig on a crappy reality TV dancing show, as well as a deal for a ghost-written book.
oh, when will this persecution of the Wasilla Hillbillies ever end?

Bristol, you can’t have it both ways. Your mother decided to co-host the show. What’s your gripe, or are you all about getting attention like your mother. It was funny that Palin said that she had not seen Game Change and had no intention of seeing it, yet, she gave a thumbs down for Julianne Moore’s performance. Other than to take a dig at GMA having Katie Couric co-hosting the entire week, I don’t get why the Today show invited Palin to co-host the 8 AM hour. I think Matt has been dissolussioned for years having to put up with 3 women who act like high school giddy teenagers. The show is becoming more and more holloywood with a lot of tabloid crap. I switched to the CBS early show, it has more serious programming. If I want entertainment I’ll go to access hollywood or one of those shows, but I just don’t give a damn about what going on in hollywood. The best actors are either dead or retired. All you have left is young trash pretending to know how to act.

Could NOT have said it better myself!

Absolutely….the hypocrcrisy of her taking money from the Candies foundation to promote abstinance…it’s like having a drunk promote sobriety because no one wants to end up like the drunk!!!!  I mean, and what’s her poor little son going to think if he finds out she was promoting abstinence…won’t he think that she regrets having him?  You can’t have it both ways, Bristol. 

What is troubling is that you apparently saw the need to backup your feeble argument with remarks from the comment section. For one, they are not reflective of any opinions other than anonymous or semi-anonymous people on the internet. They may even be part of a false-flag operation. The point is that you have no way of knowing one way or the other how genuine these comments were. You have no idea if the people that run the website condone such remarks or not, but you associate them together nonetheless as if there is some kind of connection.

I don’t see how anyone with their head on straight can have respect for this girl. She wrote a book smearing her child’s family, she has repeatedly defied the agreed upon custody arrangement given in the Alaska court, and thus the child’s father, aunt and grandmother rarely if ever see him. She showed her true colours on DWTS by actually flipping the bird at anyone that dares to criticise her, she public ally attacked Margaret Cho in a homophobic manner, she and Willow used homophobic slurs on Facebook at an innocent person who disliked her mothers stupid tv show that was clearly fake…and then she made it perfectly clear these were not slip ups but a pattern of rude nasty behaviour when she called a man at a bar gay because he hated her mother (both were morons).

And her book was even worse than that. She implied that she was raped by Levi despite evidence to the contrary and friends willing to say so. She even altered her own former information on the subject given in the years beforehand! You must have very low standards to have any shred of respect for this hateful, vicious, cruel and mean spirited girl.

Not to mention as dumb as a box of hair, and FAIR GAME because SHE chose to become a public figure. Yes, her choice. She’s an adult and can therefore be called out for repeated bad behaviour. I actually think the opposite of you Laura because I think the media (with the exception of Maher) have handled her with kid gloves and never questioned her constant bratty behaviour. No matter what one privately thinks of their child’s other family, to put it in the public record AND lie about it, is utterly disgraceful. What will her poor son think when he’s old enough to know about it and heaven forbid, read the horrible things his hateful mother says about his father and his family? Imagine what sort of lies he gets behind closed doors.

And why does no one listen to the countless people in Wasilla close to the Palin’s that are willing to go on the record and state Sarah is a terrible mother and Bristol still a high school mean girl? Plenty of people state that they use their connections to intimidate and bully.

Ms. Donavan, I believe that your article was refreshingly fair and unbiased. But when I actually read the blog post, I had expected a biting condemnation of the “Lamestream Media” for asking her mother questions or something. What I found was just a friendly congratulations note to her mother with an acknowledgement to a few comments made by fans. I think the media line was mainly in jest, because, you must admit, since people became aware of her decision to do the NBC Program, the running meme was that she was now “part of the Lamestream Media.” I think the line was just tongue and cheek, personally.

Reality shows like ‘little people, big world’ actually are valuable, showing how you can live highly productive lives by adapting to challenges.   Other reality shows are simply vapid and useless.   I think you can take ANY platform where people pay attention to you and use it for good, such as Angelina Jolie building houses in New Orleans after the rest of the world forgets.

Whomever uses the spotlight for good causes, I’m glad they do.   Our celebrity-obsessed culture is sad, that we can agree.  

If $arah were crowned “Lame$tream Queen” she wouldn’t even stop to blink in accepting that title, you betcha.

I think we agree on everything you said.  When I hear the phrase “reality show,” I do think of the vapid and useless ones, such as the ones I mentioned, the “housewife” ones, etc., etc. 

Those shows aimed at actually helping people are fine in my book.

I think it’s funny that Bristol’s ghost writer Nancy what’s her name created and writes “Bristol’s” blog. What a great way for Sarah to further comment on herself. Kind of like she did earlier writing fake support letters to editors.

Bristol does not write her blog. Her ghost writer was outed the very first day the blog went up.

I don’t think those numbers mean much. Another article said that there was a spike in teen female viewers and that was because heartthrob Ryan Seacrest was scheduled to be on the show but cancelled out for a trip to the doctor.

Sure you can. Sarah Palin was extremely gracious, even though Matt Lauer, et al, continuously took digs at her. I’m sure this was not lost on Bristol. So she had her say on her new blog. Good for her! She is very protective of her family. She’s not going to let something like that go by without comment. Bristol is definitely her mother’s daughter.

look at all the hatred you have towards her kid all because shes Palins daughter. 

Now unlike you i am not a religious extremist that demands 100% percent devotion to someones religion.  That any failure must be punished via public humiliation for the rest of her life. 

 exactly, however shes can show the consequences of her decisions.  Being a single mom at a young age and why it should be avoided through abstinence.  The liberal solution is abortion.

She’s turned out to be a sarcastic, complaining, poor-me-the-victim
mini-me of her mother, and that schtick seems to pay well for both of
them.

http://www.sky-fx.com/
 

 there attacks just show how low a human being they really are.  They cant attack with substance regarding a specific issue.  All they have left is mud. 

You might believe sarah says stupid things.  However you probably hear those same words from many other conservatives.  What you have really is a political disagreement and that’s it. 

 NO actually you are 100% wrong.  You can show someone who is happily married with there perfect mate that waited to marriage.  However the lesson of someone who took the other path and now is unmarried with a baby and regrets her choices at premarital sex is far more powerful. 

liberals who actually believe these things are just as demented as those Obama birth certificate hunters. 

or having someone from the scared straight talk to kids about not making the same mistakes they have made.  I remember in high school making the class trip to a prison.    This is a very simple concept used for years when teaching  teenagers.  Just liberals have there political blinders up and cant see anything except Palin hatred.

 what secrets from your imaginary friends??

If these secrets existed how do you know about them?

guess they aren’t very secret, secrets :b

the accusation he made was times were getting tough for Sarah.  Now unlike the rest of the American people suffering through the Obama recession she has a contract till 2013. 

 lamestream media again is shorthand for ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC NYT that have one standard for conservatives and no standards at all for liberals. 

 so now Hillarys daughter is also now fair game too???  Ya want to have the same standard right?/  Or wait it gets changed the moment we talk about liberals and there family members?

on the news paper..it was covered by Chris Mathews  http://www.mediaite.com/tv/matthews-to-palin-expose-author-offstage-is-she-still-the-glittery-person-with-the-nice-hand/

Now other things that occurred during the Couric interview i would look into what Frank Luntz said about it.  There were many inside baseball things he can detail that were done against palin in that interview.  It demonstrates what an amateur McCain campaign staff for allowing such basic camera tactics to be done in that interview.  Its why most conservatives only want to do only live interviews.

Henry,

I wish that “Burn in H…. ” was evenly applied.   

“Commenters” are often:
1) trolls begging for attention,2) political hacks seeking peer approval by getting as vitriolic-ally creative as possible, without a care for honesty or accuracy, just to upset as many people as possible.

Chelsea Clinton does not go out and seek public attention, nor goes publicly insulting people.  Therefore, it is unfair to compare Chelsea with Bristol.

What?!? Abstaining from abstinence is getting the Heath/Palin clan indefinite extensions of their 15 minutes of fame, and a wealth of unearned income.  Wonder if it is all reported to the IRS .. .. .. Just saying’ .. .. ..

The Liberal Solution is to Love the Sinner and Hate the Sin.  Abortion is a solution to involuntary servitude, as outlawed by the 13th amendment to our Constitution.  Another solution would be castration of the male element (guaranteed to prevent recidivism!), should he ever fail to provide adequate financial support for the baby and mother through traceable legal work with all revenues reported to the IRS.  Forcing a female to carry an embryo to term and risk her life, career or anything, is slavery to the embryo and the impregnating male.  She may be encouraged to carry the embryo to term and offer this new soul to be adopted by good parents.

However, if we can not love her almost the same regardless of her choice, then we are manipulating her to do our wishes, and we might not be doing God’s will.  Us mortals are not omniscient.

Good!

And they deliberately and with twisted strategy displayed poor pregnant Bristol hand in hand to a reluctant Levi, and Sarah’s new baby (who never should have been physically exposed to such a large and noisy crowd) at the GOP convention. Seriously? in your face and anyone who questions the motivations or the parenting on display are the aggressors?

Palin herself writes in Going Rogue that Todd was on the North Slope working nine months before Track was born! Her own admission by accident coz she’s too dumb to realize she gave away the dates and her ‘secret’. I put that in quotes BC it’s not a secret and is widely known in Wasilla. After all; a quick comparison of photos of the late Menard Jr and Track have the truth written ALL over them! Lol! The similarity is startling.

This isn’t an attack on Track, but on Sarah and what a disgusting hypocrite she is with her ‘family values’ this and that and her constant moralizing and ongoing inferences that she is somehow superior because she’s a conservative ‘Christian’. She needs to be called out for the fraud she truly is! Not only did she cheat but she manipulated and lied to Todd to get her own way with him too. How old was Track when Todd finally twigged? Or has the whole thing been a sham from the start?

 wasn’t she actively campaigning for her mom in 2008 and also got a job with nbc news?  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/business/media/chelsea-clinton-hired-by-nbc-news.html?_r=1

 so how many months does one need for a baby to be born??? about 9 months.  So before he left to the north slope he got her pregnant. 

the campaign was to send liberal democrats little tea bags.   Then the liberals started getting the bevis and butthead style sense of humor..they said teabag…funny…the first 10 times you said it.  The 100th time its no longer funny. 
Lamestream media is short hand for liberal bias media of NBC,ABC, CBS, CNN, NYT

to: super

yes, it is still funny, but, as I already stated, you rarely hear the term “teabag” any more.  I think Beavis and Butthead are pretty funny myself.  It’s a shame conservatives don’t have a good sense of humor.

As far as the “lamestream media” is concerned, that’s a lame phrase.  It’s tiring.  Nitwits like the Palins use that phrase, hoping they’ll get applause from their ever shrinking number of fans. 

me too.