Fake Beefs are so Passe.

Exploiting Bristol as an unwed teen mother didn’t stop with the campaign. Back in Wasilla, where Bristol could have been sheltered and given space to rebuild her life, the Palins arranged to send her out like a vaudeville act, traveling the country to talk about teenage pregnancy under the sponsorship of Candie’s, a clothing company known for sexually provocative outfits for tweens. The Bristol “do as I say tour” had a rocky start once she admitted that abstinence was not “realistic”—apparently she was against it before she was for it. Note to mom: When you become the ambivalent poster child for unwed motherhood, you attract off-color jokes.

~Margaret Carlson, Contributor to The Daily Beast & Columnist for Bloomberg News.




Last week America was subjected to a fake media beef involving Governor Sarah Palin and David Letterman. I like David Letterman because of his sarcastic humor. I don’t like Sarah Palin because she is Sarah Palin. I do agree that Letterman crossed the line with that joke about Palin’s daughter. But I don’t believe that he was talking about her younger daughter. I do believe he was talking about Bristol Palin (aka Levi Johnston’s baby momma). She is the only one that is sexually active (that we know of). After looking at Levi’s Facebook I knew he was hitting it. A guy like that doesn’t date virgins. Anyway…I’m all for leaving peoples children off the firing lines. So I will call a flag on David Letterman for aggressive on the field behavior. But I need to throw a flag on Sarah Palin for overexposure. She is going to ride this horse until it turns into glue. She is on radio and television crying about the injustice of it all. Someone should tell her that the line for complaints goes around the block (Native Americans are at the head). She ended the week by basically calling Letterman a pervert. Wow!! Really? Sarah Palin tries too hard to fit into the perceived mode of Republican presidential candidate. With the “Browning” of “Aging” of America the Republicans need to get a new shtick. Palin is trying to run on a 1980’s agenda and it shows every time she opens her mouth. The absolute worst part of this “Fake Beef” is her defenders. They are just as annoying as she is.

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