All posts tagged "Bristol Palin"

You'd think that someone who had her first child as a teenager and then managed to get pregnant again by someone else out of wedlock would be a staunch supporter of birth control. But Bristol Palin never ceases to amaze the public with her ill-advised blog of buffoonery, where lessons are rarely learned.

Bristol Palin just revealed that she's pregnant with her second child out of wedlock, and as suspected, she's being ridiculed for being a hypocrite on quite a few social issues. While she is on the record against gay marriage and reproductive rights, the most laughable component of the story has to do with how Palin made hundreds of thousands of dollars working for the Candies Foundation, an organization that attempts to prevent teen pregnancy through abstinence education.

While we were absolutely not at all very interested in what Mark Steyn (noted reviewer of No, No, Nannette) had to say about modes of masculinity when comparing a rugged backwater hillbilly duck destroyer with a fey cocoa-latte-sipping metrosexual homosexual mansexual-childsexual, we found ourselves oddly, deeply, passionately drawn to the musing of noted thought leader and accidental baby momma Bristol Palin on l'affaire Duck à l'Outrage because, if anyone knows about Let's Talk About Sex, it is our Bristol who made serious  bank speechifying about something that eluded her like a high school diploma.

As someone who thinks pop culture actually matters, even I have to say that the winner on "Dancing With The Stars" has no larger importance, and like Atrios, I wouldn't be "pissed" if Bristol Palin won. My main emotions would be that mix of amusement, contempt, and pity I feel for the people who decided to show Wingnut Pride by stuffing the ballot box for someone who was routinely described as being not up to the task. It's a poor kind of pride that drives you to reward mediocrity. It's interesting to see conservatives embracing values they believe liberals have and denounce them for, such as promoting mediocre people because of identity politics, whereas in my actual world, I tend to see a lot of liberals who have no patience for hacks or mediocrity in general. We will eat our own for it, rest assured.

Yesterday, at XX Factor, I blogged about what may be a new low for culture warriors: making it their mission to stick it to the liberals by keeping Bristol Palin on "Dancing With The Stars". My point was that this proves how much it's just culture war for them. Bristol is unpopular with the judges and the fans not because of any personality traits or anything she's done wrong, but because she doesn't work hard and she sucks. If she wasn't considered a member of the wingnut tribe, she would have been gone a long time ago. But due to extensive conservative online organizing and possible cheating, Palin in hanging in.

[rebelmouse-image 24748792 original_size="475x296" expand=1]Hard as it may be to believe, but the wingnut sense of entitlement reached new levels this week. No, it's not when Dr. Tiller's assassin Scott Roeder called the AP from jail and complained about getting treated like he was in jail for murdering someone, which is just an extension of the attitude you get from "pro-lifers" who go into clinics for abortions and demand to wait in a separate room from all the trash who got there by fucking. It came from this bizarre episode, where David Letterman made a joke about Sarah Palin bringing her daughter to a Yankee game, where she got knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.