I agree.  The real story here is Bristol’s giggly reaction.  There are just some words you don’t use and this is one of them.  He is only repeating what he’s heard before.

Excellent point about it supposedly being funny on Modern Family when the child swore, but it’s not supposed to be funny in this situation. McKay Hatch was protesting Modern Family for using the same word to elicit humor. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-01-18/news/30641200_1_tv-profanity-modern-family-curse

Typical of Huffington Post to over sensationalize the event.

It would not surprise me if he learned the swear word from the camera crew.

So, the guy in charge of this awful show says that the kid didn’t say faggot.

Good enough for me. #suuuuuuuure

Com’ on.. kid was talking about a bundle of sticks.

Horrible parenting! She has some nerve criticizing other parents.

So, when the President of the “It-Gets Better” Initiative, an Anti-Bullying Gay Rights Organization, Dan Savage, uses the word to describe Gay Republicans, the Left Wing doesn’t bat an eye?

Shouldn’t the last name of Sarah Pay-Me-Lin’s bastard grandchild be Johnston?

Great this mouth breather is teaching hatred to her child probably the same way her mother taught it to her. To bad toddy is so light on the loafers he couldnt help.

Dear author; I don’t think anyone is judging or criticising poor Tripp himself. They’re criticising his godawful fame hungry money hungry mother and grandmother – both of whom are known bigots. It is a fact that the word – the worse one – is used in the Palin household with no consequence and even active encouragement from the ‘Mama Grizzly’ herself (the attack on the teenage boy that dared called SP’s reality show boring, in which that word and many others were employed and for which Sarah Palin appeared on Fox News and supported, with her cackling laugh at the people she and her disgraceful family bully.

Can’t wait to hear what Bill O. and Bernie Golgberg
have to say about this white family. I’m was not
saying white to be nasty or anything,it’s just
because last week Bill and Bernie were demeaning
the black family.

I love the selective outrage from this group of liberals that wallow in filth and depravity.  You guys embrace swearing at all times.  Now you are bent out of shape because one particular swear word is not PC.

Good point – should have used “queer.”  Come to think of it, that is another innocent word that has been sullied by being associated with homosexuality.  “Queer,” “gay” AND “fagg0t.”  All decent words.  Ironic that those who push the pink triangle agenda want us to divert our attention to the innocent words as if they are to blame.

The kid has been hanging around Sarah too much.  ”Grandma taught me a new word today!”

I don’t see anyone putting blame on a three year old, I think the blame lies directly on bad parenting skills.

 So you’ve never said F it? Riiight.

The fact that Laura, who I thought was a reasonable person, is even writing about Bristol’s show at all says that Dan needs some new material.

You mean, criticizing like learning how to spell criticizing? Also, your use of the word worse is wrong.  Why are you so obsessed with the Palins? It’s super-creepy.

 Because no one says f-it around kids. Riiiiiight.

” Bastard” grandchild.
I thought this was the 21st century. A new millennia.
You still call little toddlers by nasty names?

What does my article have to do with Dan? Do you honestly think he has time to assign every single story on his sites? Don’t use a story by me as an excuse to trash him. 

Yeah I agree with you on that. Why was the MF curse episode applauded but this slaughtered? Oy.

If you think that is acceptable language for very young children, I pray that you don’t have kids.

“Unmarried With A Child” would have been a better title for the show. And was Linda Tripp (‘member her?) the inspiration for his name? That’s right, “Trig” was already taken.

IMO, the issue is less that Tripp used a bad word and more that Bristol is just a terrible parent with no real interest in improving. 

Why taunt the poor kid, who’s been stuck in an airplane for hours and surely has plenty of pent up toddler energy, about there being a hotel pool… and then tell him he can’t splash around in it for a while before bedtime? 

The fact he’s so comfortable swearing and striking at his aunt and mother don’t speak well for him receiving any real boundaries. They look like three siblings, not a child and his mom and aunt.

Bristol keeps whining about not having a husband to discipline the kid. Three years of beating the single mom drum and she’s never bothered to pick up a book about parenting or ask an expert for advice? She’s just going to wait around until someone slips a ring on her finger before she actually parents her child? 
That girl has more resources than any single mother I know and she acts like she’s helpless and alone without a dime in her pocket. But we’re also supposed to believe she writes this highly political blog posts. 

As the kids say, “Whatever.”

Yes, a bundle of sticks used to burn witches and sometimes enhanced with the bodies of homosexuals… thus, the association.

Oh, please. 

Gay is because of Gay Street in NYC, where many homosexuals would associate.

Faggot is as I explained above: bundles of sticks, yes, but famous for being used to burn witches alive. The fires were sometimes increased by throwing live homosexuals into the mix; thus, faggots. 

Queer means odd, so I’m not sure how gays ruined that one. 

Yup, but the Palins are doing everything they can to erase Levi from his son’s life. Notice that even though he said he would not appear on Bristol’s latest fame grab, she made a point of writing him into the script so she could make him look bad to their son?

A clear violation of their parenting agreement, btw.

So now only liberals think toddlers shouldn’t be spewing hateful language at their elders? Only liberals think mothers should parent their children instead of waiting for a man to do the job for them? 

Funny how things that used to be bipartisan are suddenly all about “liberals” and “conservatives” these days, with the liberals invariably being depicted as “wallowing in filth and depravity” while the conservatives are wholesome and pure… even when their toddlers behave inappropriately. 
Had this been a single black mother and her sister, I’m confident your views might be different. I suspect you’d call them the filthy liberals while you point out all their shortcomings. 

I don’t care whether he said “faggot” or “fucker,” it’s not a habit he needs to be encouraged to continue. 

Good parents don’t say it so often around toddlers that they not only pick it up but know when to use it, feel completely safe using it on relatives, and know that the adults in their lives will just giggle and make idle threats. 

It’s not just the word, it’s how the adults in Tripp’s life respond to his use of it. Bristol acts more like a big sister than a mom.

 Hey clown, criticising is an accepted spelling of the word.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/criticise

 Gays didn’t ruin the word queer. It was ruined by people who chose to use it as yet another slur against gays. The gays who use the word queer now do so to undermine the power of the slur, and instead turn it into a word of empowerment.

 … and where did you learn it? You are all disgusting. Leave her alone. I guess you are all a bit more then 3years old, but acting worse, then a three year old. And at your age saying such things is a lot worse and shows either you had bad parenting or there is something wrong with you.  And who prob. paid for your PC , the one who was “what?”, mother 17, not married, despite, grown up around “what?”, language terrible, behaviour terrible, eating habits terrible, smoking, drinking and on and on and on. So what happend to him today for at least a few more month, paradise. Therefore leave Tripp alone, he is ok. So is his mom, she has done for sure more good in her life then all of you “bastards” (your words).
And Dona L. you have a low standard as well. Make an elefant out of a mouse and your constant belitteling of Palin or her daughters.
You think badmouthing others makes you a special reporter, wrong, if you cant find something better to write you are lower then the one you write about because you think that they are low.

My motto is all people are equal, and if they don’t hurt somebody, then leave them alone. And once more both of them, Tripp is not living off your money, Bristol isn’t, and Sarah isn’t either. So don’t blame others for your failure, that you have to creep around forums and badmouth people, you don’t know and haven’t done anything to you.

And I am not partisan, I don’t even live in your country. I just find it disgusting how most of you people here fall over other people. And I don’t like your foul language. And then complaining about others. Clean your house first, then maybe you could help some needy persons. You can do that on welfare as well. Doesn’t cost anything to help and be nice.
Wake up!
 

 Disgusting!!!

Good Lord, Laura Donovan.

People aren’t criticizing the child.

They are expressing surprise (even outrage in some cases) that Bristol is probably guilty of not instructing the toddler that the f-word is offensive and should not be used – at least not by children.

I have many grand nieces and nephews who are exposed to bad language but who have parents who have ensured that the little tikes never emulate their older relatives.

Ms. Donovan’s take was really off message and a baseless defense.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised to read something like this on a right-leaning website like Mediaite.

So true.

Laura Donovan twisted this around so she could defend a Palin.

As the person points out for me, there’s nothing wrong with spelling it with an s. Wow, wasn’t that embarrassing!

Lots of words are spelt with Z’s in America but S’s in other English speaking countries. I know because we constantly have to fight with spell checkers to spell words like ‘organisations’ correctly (I had to fight with the auto spell check change to write that). The world isn’t ALL America, WC. You don’t rule the world. There’s a whole other world out there, full of non-Americans! All with no American accents, no American flag on their porch, no care about the silly things you get all riled up about. You should step outside the country and see us and learn from us. Thin people that don’t watch Fox News and like vegetables and fruit and hardly attend church. It’s a wonderful world!

Btw I haven’t written a comment on the Palin’s in months. Here I am defending a small child from his misfortune of birth and you attack me. I think all her wrongdoings should be prosecuted, frankly. That’s what I want. There is ample evidence that she broke the law whilst Governor and I know part of the reason she quit is because the possibility of impeachment and total humiliation was upcoming. Because she quit impeachment proceedings never happened but she still needs to be stopped from her poisonous deranged quest for power. I’m pleased for John McCain’s sake that they did not win because I do not doubt for a second that Palin would have been pleased for something terrible to happen to him as President. Her supporters are deranged lunatics almost exclusively and have a devotion to her not unlike yours, and I would fear greatly for his life to be honest. I know for a fact that at least one of Palin’s chaplains or religious supports told Palin of a ‘prophecy’ that she will fulfill. She told Palin that they would win and early on in the presidency McCain would be killed in a terrorist attack and Palin becomes President. This religious nut was speaking of this as being a heroic, great moment in which god is blessing Anerica by allowing Palin to lead. Instead of firing this horrible woman, Palin was pleased with her prophecy and still sees her as a spiritual leader of hers. This same woman celebrates the fact that she gave a ‘witch’ woman terminal cancer, and Palin too celebrates this moment of celebrating someone’s death because they stupidly think witches are real things. A real life woman suffered not

*not only the cancer but was driven out of her town by so called ‘gods’ people that decided she must be a witch because the poor woman had several
Car accidents near her house. WC, I care enough about your country and the world that I try all I can to educate people about her true self so that she will never hold another position of power. Luckily the GOP has learned their lesson and despise her now. But she must be kept on top of.

How do you defend the fact that when she was elected Governor, one of her first decisions was to fire all the minority employees in the Governors office? That although they campaigned for her not even one was kept, even though her chief of staff insisted they should keep one or two of the 30 or so ‘so it wouldn’t look so bad’? That she refused even that and explained to him that she was just uncomfortable around them and they all needed to go immediately.

So I see you miss the point , no one is putting blame on on 3year old kid, he hears this language from the people in his life, and yes when I hear 3 year olds sprouting that kind of language it is the parents responsibility. Your problem is that you find this acceptable. This was done on her TV show, which she easily could have edited out, but this seems like a badge of honor for Palin that her son would use this language. Maybe you should get your head out of the sand.

But in the black community where 71% are single mothers, that’s acceptable for sure, AND we’re told that we need to keep money to those communities because of all the single mommas–who keep having babies, BTW. But yes, let’s dog Bristol Palin. 

Agreed, but as others have said, it’s totally acceptable on sitcoms like Modern Family. In fact, it’s considered hilarious. Bristol admitted that she made a mistake and is doing a bad job of disciplining her son. If she continues to screw it up, shame on her, but at least she admitted her faults. 

Oh, and the conservative v. liberal connection: Hollywood is easily a majority liberal. Get it?