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By: Mother of a 14 year old

Mother of a 14 year old — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:41:20 +0000

Another point that was left out. I heard about this from the conservative media (O’Reilly and Hannity) before Sarah Palin responded so I disagree with your statement that it would not have received attention if it was not for Sarah and that she was trying to draw attention away from her pregnant daughter. However, I do agree with you on the “rape” spin. I think Letterman meant consensual sex.

Now, you probably think I’m a strong conservative because of O’Reilly and Hannity. I like O’Reilly because I think he points out both bad and good and let’s you set your own opinion. Hannity, on the other hand, has good points but is driven by negativity and constant hounding which annoys me…..and yes I classify myself as a conservative on strong family values but children and young adults do make mistakes.

To me, the sad part is that all of this overshadows the fact of why Sarah Palin was at the ballgame to begin with. She was there as a fundraiser for autism awareness. Now, my 9 year old son is not autistic but instead has dyslexia and ADHD making my sensitivity to children with disabilities an area that hits home with me. My opinion…she was doing a good thing for a good cause (with no media attention) but instead received the blunt end of a bad joke (with lots of media attention). I think one area Sarah would have really been good as Vice President would have been the drive and push for children with disabilities.

This tells me once again that our society is driven by negative spins instead of positive ones. This I feel will be the ultimate demise to happiness and prosperity in America driven by negative media publicity.

By: Mel Ancholy

Mel Ancholy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:19:08 +0000

Wow Gryph! Put up your dukes I suppose

By: Mother of a 14 year old

Mother of a 14 year old — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:09:03 +0000

I disagree that having sex with a boyfriend at the age of 16 or 17 makes you a slut and I think that is stereotyping young naive girls. If it was multiple boys, yes I would say that. At that age, you think you are going to be with someone forever, nothing bad will ever happen to you and you have no clue about the realities of life and responsibility regardless of how well you have been taught by your parents. As far as Palin’s mothering be slammed….children don’t exactly come with a manual and they have minds of their own. Two can be raised in the same environment but totally different. You say that “Bristol has proven herself to have loose sexual morals”. I would like an explanation of your facts on this issue besides just a vague statement and her being an unweb mother (who’s to say she didn’t get pregnant the first time). Do you talk with Bristol often? As far as going by what the boy says, I don’t exactly trust his exploiting the media and getting paid to go on shows to do so. Boys at that age have also been known to say things not exactly true as a bragging right. My guess is that she really regrets her actions and as a result is left with a child (as a child) trying to raise. Her future plans before the pregnancy will be even harder to achieve.

Regardless of which daughter he was talking about….it was in poor taste and I don’t watch David Letterman either. He’s a has been in comedy and this joke explains why.

By: aj

aj — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:44:25 +0000

You mean she IMPLIED Letterman was talking about the younger daughter. The listener infers, the speaker implies. David Letterman is a horse’s patootie and not funny.

By: Mel Ancholy

Mel Ancholy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:50:25 +0000

But if Palin didn’t respond what in the heck would I blog about

By: Gryphon

Gryphon — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:37:33 +0000

I agree that he is a slut too. I am not gender biased. we are talking about her though and not him. A whore and a slut are different things. A whore does it for money, a slut because she/he has loose sexual morals. Bristol Palin has proven herself to have loose sexual morals. There is no requirement to relate all the facts when telling a joke. By definition a joke is non factual to begin with. If Palin had not made a big deal of this no one would be talking about it and the blogs would have one less drum to bang. It would have just been another bad taste joke told at midnight by a late show talk show host and would have been immediately forgotten.

By: Mel Ancholy

Mel Ancholy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:46:47 +0000

I didn’t actually watch Letterman. I heard and saw clips of what he said over and over by the conservative media.

I think I just get tired of the one way street with liberal media/comedians. They can say something and we are urged to take it as a joke but if the shoe was on the other foot the libs would be outraged. (not saying any of this against you by the way).

By: Mel Ancholy

Mel Ancholy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:43:50 +0000

She is a slut? She had sex with her boyfriend. She wasn’t prostituting herself for money. If she is considered a slut then so is her ex-boyfriend.