Is it some sort of amazing, newsworthy revelation that teen romance is sometimes a rocky road? Is it news that family can be troublesome when it results in out-of-wedlock birth? The Associated Press seems to think it is, at least if one of those teens is Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol.
Do you care that punk Levi Johnston is bawling to the press that Governor Palin is supposedly a controlling Grandmother? Especially in light of the fact that this kid is an uneducated, immature, unserious lout? Well, if YOU don’t the AP sure as heck does.
This time we have punk Johnston whining that Grandma Palin is a bit cross with him and closely watches him when he is with the baby. All I can say is, can you blame her? I wouldn’t think much of a grandmother that let’s a jobless, high school dropout have unsupervised visits with a child he casually fathered without regard for his girlfriend’s future or family. Would you?
But, on the other hand. I just can’t find a reason to care about Levi OR Bristol.
Maybe it’s just me, but I am not much interested in the families of political figures. I didn’t find Billy Carter’s exploits particularly interesting or relevant. I couldn’t have cared less that some of Ronald Reagan’s kids were so boringly compelled to tell the world about their personal angst. I had no interest in Al Gore’s ner do well kids. Didn’t care that Bush’s teen daughters liked to party once in a while. I have no interest in a story about Joe Biden’s drug using daughter. Similarly, I’ve got no interest in Bristol Palin’s woefully bad choice of the punk Levi Johnston as the accidental father of her child. But our Old Media seem to think that these tales are hot news that we should all know about.
I have always thought that in a meritocratic society that prizes individual success and effort, to saddle any citizen — famous or no — with every last peccadillo of their family members is illogical. Every last one of us have at least one family member that embarrasses us. We all have at least one family member that is a drunk, a criminal, a fool, or an idiot. But what do they have to do with us as individuals?
But, let’s realize something about why this “report” — or any report about politician’s kids — is all in the news, shall we? It’s an effort by the Old Media to diminish our politicians. If it were up to me stories about the trials and tribulations of politician’s kids would be far and few between. Of course, in this particular case, it is especially interesting to media outlets because it is an excuse to further diminish Sarah Palin and her family.
Me… it just makes me tired.
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Bob_Frazier (Diary) Tuesday, April 7th at 9:53AM EST (link)I have to say I was very disappointed in Sarah Palin when her daughter was out there calling abstinence “not realistic”. I suppose one could not expect a better answer from a pregnant 17 year old KID. But Sarah’s silence was deafening.
I was also surprised to find that the two were living together under Sarah’s roof. Kind of an unusual situation. Levi says Sarah had to be aware of what was going on. You have to agree in a situation like that..
They both are immature, unserious louts. The answer to immature, unserious louts is not to give them a condom.
Should children be brought in to the polical debate? Probably not, unless you allow your pregnant teenager to go on Fox News and complain that abstinence is “not realistic”, and then stand there smiling.
Now, let's be fair, Bob.
randy streu (Diary) Tuesday, April 7th at 9:59AM EST (link)You know as well as I do that, A, Palin’s opinion on the subject had already been on record for quite some time. Would it have been helpful to reiterate her position in light of her daughter’s words? Maybe.
But you also know as well as I that, had she done so, the media would have simply gone on and on about how inappropriate it was to have a family debate played out in the national spotlight.
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hrh40 Tuesday, April 7th at 10:20AM EST (link)specifically the claim that Levi was living in Bristol’s bedroom.
So in this stupid, sordid affair I guess it comes down to if you believe the Governor or the 19-year-old, who agreed to talk down the mother of his child and her family on national TV.
I choose to believe the person whose actions speak louder than words, publicly standing by her daughter, supporting her and the grandbaby, and trying to be supportive of Levi – up until he does this.
You do all remember that she took heat in December for personally calling media outlets to ask them to stop printing misinformation about Levi and Bristol as high school dropouts. She specifically said he had a job.
It’s not her fault, her idiot enemies in AK then proceeded to lose him that job because he didn’t yet have his diploma.
So the Governor has tried to be supportive of him, put her reputation on the line to defend him, even though she and Todd seemed to know he was trouble when they sent Bristol to live in Anchorage with Sarah’s sister to try to separate them.
But after the pregnancy was known, they bent over backwards to try to help him and make him part of the family – only to be thanked by this tabloid show appearance.
Yep, I know who I believe in this stupid, sordid affair …
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Rod_Patrick (Diary) Tuesday, April 7th at 2:01PM EST (link)NAME THAT PARTY!!!!!
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Anyway, I have nothing to comment on. It’s Sutton’s private business.
What irritates me...
dmartin Tuesday, April 7th at 2:13PM EST (link)is that throughout the course of the primaries and campaign more journalistic investigative energy was spent on Bristol Palin than Barack Obama.
This is where my opinion...
kat (Diary) Tuesday, April 7th at 2:34PM EST (link)on the Ashley Biden story is coming from. Levi Johnston says something about the Palin’s teen daughter and it is front page news. Ashley Biden, A SOCIAL WORKER FOR THE STATE OF DELAWARE, is caught on tape sniffing coke and not a word is said anywhere other than one conservative leaning newspaper and a few blogs. Pathetic.
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Rapunzel46 Wednesday, April 8th at 12:47AM EST (link)Bill O’Reilly went out of his way to blip out what Ashley Biden did and then grilled the Townhall contributor on his show to see is the “Right” was trashing her (had no proof we were BTW) and then he covers the Tyra Banks thing about Levi and his family on his show Monday night. Either both are news or neither are news, I’m sick of this double standard, but what BOR failed to address and should have is Ashley Biden is an adult in a very sensitive career and what she did is news.