Bristol Palin, America's favorite symbol of failed abstinence-only education, granted an interview with Fox News this week. I was so giddy about this story that I nearly crashed into Planned Parenthood as I read it on my way to work. Ah, irony:
Bristol Palin has a difference of opinion with her famous mother, saying teen abstinence is "not realistic at all."
"Everyone should be abstinent, whatever, but it's not realistic at all," the 18-year-old mom said in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, who pressed her on why.
"I don't want to get into detail about it," Palin said, before explaining that sex is "more and more accepted now... among kids my age."
She hopes other teens will learn from her story.
"You should just wait 10 years," she said. "It would just be so much easier."
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a strong advocate of abstinence-only education, a position that drew attention and sometimes scorn when the family announced, soon after John McCain named Palin as his running mate, that Bristol was pregnant at 17.
One of the things teens can avoid by waiting to have sex is a very awkward talk with their parents. Palin said she enlisted the baby's father, Levi Johnston, and her best friend to tell Todd and Sarah Palin she was pregnant. But getting the words out, she said, was "harder than labor." Eventually her friend "blurted it out."
The 18-year-old said her son brings her so much joy that she doesn’t regret having him at all. She’s engaged to Johnston, the baby’s father, and said her fiance sees their son every day.
She also said she didn't regret the birth of 8-week-old Tripp, and that the decision was hers, not her mother's.
"I wish it would happen in like 10 years so I could have a job and an education and be like prepared and have my own house and stuff. But ... he brings so much joy. I don't regret it at all."
She added: "I hope that people learn from my story and just like — I don't know, prevent teen pregnancy, I guess." -- From The Seattle PI
Well, so much for Sarah Palin's storied keep-my-family-out-of-it whine fest. Kinda hard to argue that the media are maliciously targeting your brood when your daughter volunteers for it.
Hilariously, Bristol Palin's intent was, like, to totally, like, inform America's troubled youth about the bummer of, like, teen pregnancy. In the process, I'm guessing she was hoping to help the abstinence cause. Then she dropped the bombshell: Abstinence doesn't work! Uh-oh. She must have a fundamental misunderstanding about which part of the interview the media would find more delicious: Her honorable efforts at informing America's youth, or her rejection of abstinence-only education, which as we know is a major part of the failed Sarah Palin platform.
And by the way, when your chief quality as a dad is that you bother to show up on a daily basis to see the baby, it might be time to reconsider the whole fatherhood thing. Any idiot can do that; it takes real skill to assure that the baby doesn't grow up to be a raving hick with a five-word vocabulary.
So pinch me now if I'm dreaming, friends, because this is almost too good to be true. I never thought these two words would ever appear in the same sentence: Bristol Palin, you're my new hero. Not only have you directly contradicted your own batshit crazy governor mom on a hot-button political issue, but you've slapped every last abstinence-only advocate right in the face with some truth. Nice work (no joke!).
4 comments:
No reason off hand to think Bristol would be a bad person yet, right. She just doesn't know anything because no one taught her anything. The abstinence thing is indeed hilarious.
Nah, I don't think she's a bad person at all.. I wasn't being sarcastic with the praise! It's probably hard to tell, given I'm rarely gracious on here. But the whole dad thing was in reference to her making such a big deal out of the fact that this Levi character comes by her house to see the baby every day.
It's gotta be tough growing up in a Republican family. Too much preaching, not enough reality.
If she can keep humiliating her mother, I'm her biggest fan :D
like was I was totally going to, like, comment, and wow, Aaron beat me to it!
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Marian: Thanks! I appreciate the kind words, and also the readership :)
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