Bristol Palin posted this ^^ photo on her Patheos blog on Friday with the message “This is still how much I care about anything negative … #prolife ❤️ God is good, happy Friday!!” Which brings me to my biggest question: is Bristol Palin trying to squeeze her second unwed pregnancy for all of the publicity she can get? Part of me would have no trouble believing that particular conspiracy, but part of me doesn’t even believe Bristol is smart enough to be that conniving. I have a hard time believing that she’s thought through how she’s releasing – and not releasing – information and how that affects what we write about her.
As you know already, Bristol announced her second pregnancy last Thursday. Her announcement blog post did not sound happy at all – it included statements like “Honestly, I’ve been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one” and “I know this has been, and will be, a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you” and “I do not want any lectures.” Which led to many of us writing and believing that Bristol got pregnant “accidentally” yet again, meaning this pregnancy was unplanned. Over the weekend, we discussed some theories about WHY this was so unplanned and why we really haven’t heard a confirmation on the baby-daddy. The baby-daddy might be Dakota Meyer, or it might be…? Anyway, Bristol has written a new blog post about her pregnancy and she’s just being deliberately obtuse now. You can read the full piece here, I’m making some edits.
So here are the things you should all get straight before you continue to mock me, judge me, and talk about me. None of us are perfect. I made a mistake, but it’s not the mistake all these giddy a$$holes have loved to assume. This pregnancy was actually planned.
Everyone knows I wanted more kids, to have a bigger family. Believing I was heading that way, I got ahead of myself. Things didn’t go as planned, but life keeps going. Life moves on. But I do not regret this baby. This baby is not a disappointment, and I cannot wait to be a mom times two. Tripp is going to make the best big brother!!
Let’s get another thing straight, because I can’t tolerate all the talk on this subject. I have never been paid as an “abstinence spokesperson.” I was employed by the great people at The Candies Foundation…. In other words, they are a teen pregnancy prevention non-profit and I worked for them when I was 18 and 19 — when I could share first hand the challenges of being a teen mother.
I know you remember me most from when Mom ran for Vice President. However, I’m not 17 anymore, I am 24. I’ve been employed at the same doctor’s office for over six years now; I own a home; I have a well-rounded, beautiful son.
Here’s what I have spoken out about. Life. On this blog and at a few pro-life events.
When I realized I was pregnant, I knew I would be completely crucified. But I never even thought of aborting this child, NO MATTER WHAT THE CIRCUMSTANCE. (Sorry to the ghouls at Gawker, who said this baby is an argument FOR abortion. Not happening.) I am pregnant. This is not the ideal situation, but life is important even if it’s not in the most absolute ideal circumstance. This is more confirmation on what I’ve always stood for. I’ve always been pro-life and I am standing for life now. Deal with it.
A few things.
Bristol was paid as an abstinence ambassador, even though the Candies’ Foundation is a non-profit. According to the Candies’ Foundation TAX RECORDS, Bristol made $262,500 in 2009 alone. That figure comes from the Associated Press, not a tabloid. Bristol was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to shill her abstinence bulls-t and now she’s lying about it. Because she’s a lying grifter and a hypocrite.
“None of us are perfect.” And yet she has made a career out of mocking, judging and talking about other people. People in glass houses, darlin’.
“I got ahead of myself.” I guess she’s saying that Dakota is the father? But maybe she’s not even sure. If she got pregnant with Dakota and the “mistake” she made was agreeing to marry him…? I don’t know, why doesn’t she just come out and say it?
Choice is choice. Bristol is using her reproductive choice even as she advocates for taking away choice. Choosing to carry an unexpected child to term is choice. Choosing to become a single, unwed mother is a choice. This is reproductive choice in action and Bristol is too stupid to understand that. She’s also too stupid to understand that because she’s cloistered in her uniquely Republican white privilege, she won’t get “shamed” by her own party for choosing to become a single mother.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Bristol’s blog.
She may work at a doctor’s office, but she is making a career out of playing the victim.
This is all she knows how to do – and doesn’t have the brains to pick rich baby daddies! No skills, never graduated from high school, rewarded with fame and publicity for popping out babies. Everything she says is s lie, just like her mother
She learned from Mama Grizzly.
But didn’t she buy a house in Arizona and live there for a couple of years? How could she work at the same doctor’s office in Alaska for six years, while living part of that time in Arizona? That’s one heck of a commute…
The house was in my sister and BIL’s old neighborhood. I don’t think she ever actually lived there before selling it again…
I don’t understand the reaction to her pregnancy. I do not like her mother or their politics but I give her credit. She works, raises her child, and is having a second child under difficult circumstances. She is living by her values. That is more than anything the Kardashian clan can claim.
She’s NOT living by her values though. The values she spouts are children born in wedlock to a good christian mum and dad and she reserves the right to judge those who don’t live that exact same way. She would loooooove to take rights away from those who don’t fit into that narrow world even though she doesn’t practice what she preaches herself!
Girl, bye. Just because you always planned to have more children does not mean this was a planned pregnancy. People aren’t attacking you because you’re a Palin, they’re attacking because you’re a hypocrite.
Preach.
if every ‘unplanned pregnancy,’ could magically become ‘planned’ IF the woman over the course of her lifetime *wants* to be a mother – then almost ALL of the unwed single moms that Republicans tend to scold and blame (it’s usually just minorities they go after ) which her political party vilifies and attacks for society’s ills, could be said to, like Palin Jr., be having PLANNED pregnancies as well.
Give me an effing break.
This vindictive judge-y teabagging witch just needs to go away and have her 3rd child (heh)
I hope that ex boyfriend goes for sole custody.
She says, “When I realized I was pregnant, I knew I would be completely crucified,” but goes on to say the pregnancy was planned? You don’t “realize” you’re pregnant if you’re planning it, childbrain. Even as she parses words, she doesn’t even understand that she’s contradicting herself every time she “speaks.” Whom does she think she’s hoodwinking? And why is she online reading everything about herself? Vain and vapid are a destructive, deadly combo.
+ a million, Pinky.
Yes, the word-salad-covering-for-excuses seems to have been handed down from one generation to the next….
I had the same reaction Pinky, her words totally contradict herself and I was like – hmmm, maybe you need a PR person to edit this so your story matches up?
I still think it was an accident by cheating with some other dude. I don’t care for her ex-fiancé but he should request a paternity test on this one.
I read people commenting on her FB page and I did see ONE person write “you are the one who called this a disappointment, others have not. So she’s already back peddling.
+1 Tiffany. Please, someone get Bristol a copy of ‘where did I come from’. It’s suitable for elementary aged children.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Where_Did_I_Come_From.html?id=_PHHLf14JdgC&source=kp_cover&hl=en
Yes.
this whole situation has been handled so strangely. She Scarlet Lettered the hell out of herself then shrieked “No lectures!! at everyone. What a twit. Feel kind of bad for her kids.
Does anyone else get the sense of different voices behind each tweet?
The first sounds more honest but received a lot of negative press attention – whereas the second sounds like Mamma Palin’s damage limitation machine – and like Mamma Palin it makes no sense
Yes, I said below that I don’t think she wrote this latest statement, it smacks of spin. Although I don’t think Mama Palin wrote it either, it’s too articulate.
Nancy French is the ghostwriter behind her blog, book, and anything else that involves an actual vocabulary. Sarah tells her what to write and Nancy goes off writing under Bristol’s name. This newest statement does seem to have a little more Sarah involved though.
Oh. Ghostwriter. The thought occurred to me that she might be bipolar-
This! She is yelling at people for judging, but she’s the one that wrote the first blog announcing her pregnancy and apologizing for disappointing everyone, keeping her chin up, I don’t want you to feel sympathy for me, on and on. There was no, I’m announcing some happy news. I’m pregnant. Dakota and I wanted this baby very much and it is a blessing. Our relationship at this point is off, but we are moving forward as parents.
Now she wants to forget she wrote the first blog that caused so many questions, and claim her excitedness over the planned baby and be defiant to all of us judgy people. She is the one who wrote the whoa-is-me first post and causing all the drama. And never a mention of the father of the child is bizarre. If she wants to live her life, get off social media like you are important, and just live your life privately. You are way up in Alaska. No one cares what you are doing unless you bring attention to yourself, as usual. The new post is damage control from your first post. The first post contained your honest feelings.
Bingo! She and her mother generated the publicity the past couple of months. Their lengthy announcements about the canceled wedding / reception still on (Sarah) and the whoa-is-me baby statement started the “a-holes” (lovely wording, eh?) talking.
I still say if someone offered her a reality show or other easy way to make a buck today, she’d likely jump at the chance. She wants the publicity when it suits her pocketbook.
The whole thing is very confusing if you just take her/their word for it. But if you start from the point of “oops, her fiance isn’t the father”, it all makes sense. The canceled wedding, the negative tone that comes from knowing you screwed up big time and being incredibly embarrassed about it, the lack of any mention of Dakota whatsoever, the weird nonsensical spin, the list goes on.
The only other explanation is that he is the father but he’s an abusive asshole and she only discovered this a very short time ago, after she was already pregnant and the wedding was planned. Buuuuuut she loves playing the victim so why wouldn’t she just say that if that were true? “Pity poor me, and look how strong and awesome I am for leaving him!” That would be great publicity for her, so why shy away from it?
So we’re back to Solution A where she got pregnant by a different guy and her fiance was not cool about it, they broke up, and now the PR Crazytrain is trying to do some strange damage control.
Dakota might be an abusive asshole, but he might be a sweetheart. We just don’t know. It does look really bad, though, that he hasn’t made a statement regarding the pregnancy IF he is the father.
It could also be that she got pg by him ASAP and he wasn’t interested in her until he found out and then they got engaged. Perhaps, he always just regarded her as a hookup and he’s been trying to get out of this situation from the start.
OR he isn’t the daddy.
He already made a comment to the extent of “Look over there!”. If it had been discovered that he was abusive, he likely wouldn’t have opened his mouth at all to defend her unless, of course he is as stupid as the Palins, which is possible (guilt by association). BUT, if he WAS ABUSIVE, why did Sarah Palin go to the non-wedding party, or whatever other shit they called it? Why would she feel compelled to keep peace with his family and him, if he was abusive to her daughter? Palin would have been upfront with her mommy grizzly routine of protecting her family against harm. Not buying THAT at all. She had NO PROBLEM maligning Levi whathisface the first go-round. Also, even if he was abusive, he still opened his mouth to tell people to pay attention to ISIS, but no word on supporting on his kid, that the kid will still have a father even though it didn’t work out for the parents?
Kiddo, Dakota is a MoH recipient. Sarah would never say anything bad about him. Think of her supporters. They would skewer her.
I am not saying that he is abusive, just that she wouldn’t go off on him like she would on Levi.
Jen43, going off versus attending a party that was in place of a canceled wedding are different things. I don’t care how many decorated awards this person received, you don’t play kissy-face with someone, and their family, who was beating or abusing your daughter. Even someone as erratic and unhinged as Sarah Palin wouldn’t go that far. There is nothing to be gained in it.
Considering the fervor with which they went after Levi when the relationship ended and/or he failed to tow the line, I have little doubt that SOMETHING bad about Dakota would have come out before now if it were his bad behavior that caused the wedding to be canceled.
True, Levi was a nobody, not a MoH recipient, but still. An “anonymous source” would be dropping badly worded smack to any media outlet that would listen. Levi was torn to shreds by that family and for all I can see the only thing he was guilt of was being young and stupid. If Dakota had treated Bristol badly (really badly, not just being a turd), we would have heard about it. All they could find was a first wife, which is hardly a big deal nowadays.
This.
Why hasn’t she named the father? Likely explanation: Perhaps because he is a married man?
Maybe Levi?
“I got ahead of myself”
Is like the best explanation about an unexpected pregnancy. Like you thought, “Hmmm, I’m gonna want a second child. I’ll just order it now and it won’t come before 2018.”
Lol…maybe the Palins actually don’t know how sex works? Maybe Bristol is still confused as to why a man peeing in a woman makes a baby?
I know. And as I wrote below, I don’t think she came up with that spin. She doesn’t seem savvy enough to phrase it quite that way.
And when you look at it as an isolated statement, it is completely ridiculous, and thoroughly unbelievable.
She got ahead of herself? Did she do this alone? The poor baby daddy and baby.
It defies ALL LOGIC, that a fertile 25 year old would be so worried about conception, that she would PLAN to have a child before wedlock, subsequent to Abstinence Tours, and then not a have a father included in the child’s life through matrimony. Especially since she previously had a child out of wedlock, with some other dude she never married. She spoke the truth the first time when she said she ‘disappointed her family’. NO ONE is THAT stupid to believe this tripe outside of the Palin crew. She took a page from Pee Wee Herman, for crissakes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNIX7V21pU
If you were engaged to be married and were planning to have children with your future husband – wouldn’t you wait until AFTER the wedding to try to get pregnant? This pregnancy was an accident, just like the first one. And I do feel for her ex-fiancé (assuming he’s the father) – he lives in Kentucky, where they had planned to live as a married couple, and she fled back to Alaska after the wedding was called off. Now he’s facing 18 years of child support payments for a child he’ll rarely, if ever see (remember how hard Bristol fought to keep her first baby daddy, Levi, out of their child’s life?).
That’s assuming it’s actually his child Montrealise, it seems more like she might have had hanky panky with someone else and once the fiancé found out the whole happily ever after fantasy crumbled to pieces.
Are Abstinence Tours actually an actual thing? Actually? Blimey.
Sixer, we have a VERY VERY STRANGE culture here in the US.
Kiddo, once again you’ve analyzed it perfectly.
My thoughts: First, the “I I I” “myself myself myself” in her last generated statement reeks of weird. Not “we” but, the exclusive “I” — when it comes to having kids. Yeah this is a sign a marriage can work.
Then the fact that no father is mentioned even in passing, even in two “official” statements made hours apart about a situation they’ve known about for at least days (my guess is weeks). Just a dance of angry, empty, said-and-recalled, said-and-denied words. This to me is a big bright flashing neon sign saying “the father is unknown, not Dakota, not who we wish it would be, yet to be paid off, yet to be hired, yet to sign, yet to be ascertained: pick one.”
TWO statements have been out there by this Christian values, family values, every-kid-needs-a-dad education dropout abstinence ambassador and her Republican mom — and no father mentioned? Not once. Just spewing anger that people commented on her own choice of words. Like a little kid throwing a tantrum.
Apparently, it seems that while her ghost writer can string words together with the skill of a high school graduate writing a book report, she/he cannot strategize, or comprehend the way modern media and others can now easily parse phrasing in this day of spin, spin, spin. This most recent statement reads like a cheap blend wine: a little Bristol. a little angry Sarah, a little someone who is using Google.
Last: the “I am 24 not 17 and have worked in a doctor’s office….” Wow. Because that proves everything you’re doing makes sense. That shows adult common sense. Versus, I don’t know, getting a degree in addition to a chin job. Nice that you have this job, good for you. But girls without high school degrees working in local doctor offices aren’t pulling down $262K and writing books to protect their famous mom’s brand. So this is possibly a girl without education or self-awareness who feels pretty wise for cashing in on her name and is now very very confident in the power of her “we can spin anything for money” roots.
They are probably scrambling on ways to milk this and, hey, TLC is short a show. Maybe they can document her journey of making her family bigger, on abstinence foundation cash. The Biggers, instead of the Duggars?
Exactly. If a woman approaching or in her 40’s started trying early because she anticipated problems getting pregnant, i can understand that. I married at 38 and we stopped bc on our honeymoon. Defying the odds, I got pregnant right away. And I have to say that starting a new marriage with a pregnancy is the WORST way to start. If I had known that I was going to get pg so easily, we would have defiinately waited.
Of course, this assumes that Bristol is smart enough to know about fertility, birth control,etc. I sincerely doubt she is.
“I work in a doctor’s office”, as declaration of expertise is the spawn equivalent of her mother’s response to experience in international diplomacy, “”They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska”. Neither example qualifies either as experts in any field or realm.
What is means is this: I was open to someday having more kids but now I’m put in a certain position cause the rubber broke. At that my friends is how she “brought this baby forward.” Happens to millions of people each year.
I highly doubt she uses condoms, or any form of contraception.
So why not just say so? Accidents do happen.
Yeah there is no way she used a condom…she and her family are anti-birth control. They believe in abstinence only for pregnancy prevention. WHICH TOTALLY WORKS AM I RIGHT?!?! LOL that’s why all the places that practice abstinence-only education have WAY higher rates of teen pregnancies.
So yeah it was more like “I prayed to God I wouldn’t get pregnant…”
The frustrating thing is that abstinence totally works if she actually followed it. Only one rule; no math or science skills needed. And if you are going to break the rule, consider birth control. I always love it when someone says, “I was having sex but don’t use birth control because it is against my religion.” Honey, I am willing to bet that premarital sex is also against your religion. If you choose to break that rule, then take a pill.
Dena…. it happens to people, for sure. Yes.
……and then, they cancel their weddings? No.
It kind of makes sense to me? She was getting ready to get married and they wanted kids, so she went ahead and had sex with the guy. She wanted to get pregnant but thought she’d be married to him. When the marriage fell through, she was just…pregnant.
That is assuming it’s Dakota’s baby, of course.
It’s likely vice versa. They met, go all hot and heavy. She got pregnant while dating. So hence the engagement happening and a wedding planned for only two months from the engagement. Rarely, does someone get engaged and plan a wedding in two months. They already knew she was pregnant is the reason she got engaged and planned a quick wedding is my theory.
That’s complete and utter BS. The tone of the first post would have been completely different and would have included something about this MUCH WANTED, PLANNED baby. Not, “GIVE ME PROPS, ‘CAUSE I’M NOT HAVING AN ABORTION”. Please. Sense? NONE. It would have been more of a lament about it not working out with the fiancé, but she’s happy about the kid, nonetheless. Sarah was worried about how this affected HER. That’s why this crap shifted today.
If this was Dakota Meyer’s baby, that would be the FIRST thing she would be saying on her blog. She wrote this blog excerpt as a way to dispute all the “rumors” (which are actually more facts than rumors) yet nowhere does she come right out and say that she and Dakota were planning on getting pregnant, nor does she confirm that it’s Meyer’s child. Meanwhile, not a peep from Meyer. If it was his child, wouldn’t he have issued some sort of public statement about supporting his baby, even if he and Palin couldn’t make the marriage work?
The silence coming from Meyer and his camp is DEAFENING.
Kiddo, +1 —- they should have hired you.
Kitten — they should have been aware of smart, alert, savvy people like you out here in the world reading their little blurry blurps of nonsense. Heck, Dr. Seuss would have done a more sensible — hey, how about a little Seussian spin on this?
Do you like finger-pointers who scam?
We do not like them, Sarah-ma’am.
We do not like finger-pointers who scam.
We would not vote for them here or there,
We would not trust them anywhere.
We do not need them, TLC-fam’.
We do not like finger-pointers who scam.
As Jayna said, maybe she got pregnant and then they started dating. Mama Palin loved the idea of him being in their family so she encouraged it from the start. When she found out about the pg she insisted they marry bu Dakota was never really into Bristol. Or maybe she was pg when she met Dakota but didnt know. Mama assumed Dakota was the daddy and insisted they marry?
Everything she writes on her blog just makes this story more fun to talk about because she doesn’t clear up anything.
Jen43, None of those scenarios qualifies as “A Planned Pregnancy”.
Brilliant, Liberty!
I love how passionate (and snarky) you all are when it comes to the Palins. It’s why the threads about them on Celebitchy are my favorites.
I was just commenting on the one line making sense, not the rest of Bristol’s statement. It is VERY odd that she makes no mention of who the father is.
Kiddo, the ‘planned pregnancy’ part is an outright lie. I think it was written by someone else for damage control. I am surprised she hasn’t removed or edited the original announcement.
Samtha, yeah, not directed at you, at all, but to her ever evolving storyline.
Chiming in to agree, @Kitten. Dakota should have made a direct statement by now. The longer he is silent the more suspicious the whole thing becomes.
The other outright lie was about not being an abstinence advocate. Come on, the 262K from the Candies foundation, her guest lectures at 10-30 K a pop, the adamant statements to Oprah, the silly PSA w/ the guy from the Jersey Shore show, as well as all the statements shaming other people’s choices about their lifestyles and/or bodies. Does anyone in the Palin camp believe that they can magically make all that go away?
Sarah was pregnant when she got married.
Her sister Molly was pregnant when she got married.
Her son Track’s girlfriend was 6 mo. Pregnant when THEY got married. (And the marriage was woefully short lived.)
…and now Bristol is 2 for 2 with unwed pregnancies.
I could give a flip about the fact that they were all engaging in premarital sex. It is absolutely none of my business. Heck I wouldn’t advise anyone to get married without determining if they are sexually compatible. Marriage is a hard enough gig without the comfort of enjoying your partner. But what I do care about is lecturing others from your shining throne of hypocrisy and making it harder for teenagers (and others) to receive accurate information about pregnancy, contraception and sexuality, in general.
Nice try Samtha, but that theory won’t work, because it puts lil Palin in the same box with Kim Kardashian. This pregnancy wasn’t planned–look where she came from–she subscribes to the same mind set as her right-wing mother. Bristol is horrified and embarrassed by this pregnancy. She has tried to backtrack after reading the comments. She has now painted herself into such a corner, she need to tale a nap for 20 years.
The whole thing is just weird. The fast engagement/marriage (that never happened) – she sold her home and was planning on moving to Kentucky with Tripp, then it’s called off days before? Sarah Palin attends the “celebration of life” barbecue instead of a wedding reception. Bristol’s girl’s weekend with her “video vixen” friend where she’s sort of childishly giving the middle finger to Dakota (look at me! I’m out having fun with my friends!). Her jumping in to let people know that the wedding was NOT called off because of a secret wife (“we both discussed our prior relationships before getting engaged”). Her depressing “everyone is disappointed” pregnancy announcement which only mentions “MY baby.” No mention of a father. Dakota not making any kind of confirmation or announcement. He could at least say something like, “Even though Bristol and I couldn’t work things out, I’m really excited about becoming a father and looking forward to co-parenting this miracle God has blessed us with.” IF IT’S HIS BABY. Now we’re getting this word salad which I totally believe came from Mama Grizzly as spin control. Still ZERO mention of the father. Hinted at, but not stated.
I think she cheated, got pregnant and doesn’t know who the father is. Or she does and knows it’s not Dakota’s and so does he, which is why the wedding was called off. You would think he would say something about the baby.
Some commenters on a previous thread here on Celebitchy about Bristol posted some interesting links: Bristol’s old boyfriend’s instagram where it features his dog, then Bristol’s girl’s weekend photos with her friend and a dog that looks identical to the old boyfriend’s dog.
https://instagram.com/junker907/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3098542/Bristol-Palin-speaks-time-called-wedding-Dakota-Meyer-saying-son-Tripp-beginning-rebuild-lives.html
Weird.
Yep, that was me with the photos of Joey Junker’s dog, Lucy on her cancelled-wedding-weekend photos, Sherry! I see that as a hidden signal to someone–Dakota? Or even Sarah? Since Willow Palin is also a friend of Joey’s on Instagram, her whole social circle in Alaska would recognize the dog as his–and maybe Joey is the one we don’t see, taking the photo? 😉
@Julaine-
Bravo for your family history briefing ( someone read a certain book or website)!
I would just add that Track (snort) and what’s her face never really married. It wa just photos and a declaration on social media.
@LizzyFizzy – I think he might just be the one taking that photo! BTW – Good detective work!
“Bristol Palin, Hypocrites, Lies, Pregnant, Stupid”
If you were a Britisher, Kaiser, I’d go to the Post Office and fill out the MBE forms for you, just for that list of tags. Services to comedy, dontchaknow. I’m still going to be laughing tomorrow. Go Kaiser!
I have to give Kaiser props for that, and for the awesome header title, “Bristol Palin, liar.”
Hahaha. That is what defines her.
Why stop at MBE? Dame Kaiser
hahahaha, all this. You are on a roll again today. Yeah, that headline is a classic.
I didn’t even have to continue reading. Kaiser’s tagging made my day.
The dog she posted two photos with IS Joey Junkers dog (or the look alike dogs have the same name)… A friend of Britol’s commented on the photo she posted of the dog with its nails painted saying it was a “cute photo of Lucy.” Joey Junkers dog is also named Lucy. I have a feeling that’s where you can find the mysterious baby daddy…
Semantics. I plan on being rich one day, but if it does happen, doesn’t mean it was intentional. Just because she planned on having another kid in the future, doesn’t mean that this pregnancy was a planned intentional one. Especially when most of your income is made telling others to wait until marriage. She must think people are really stupid and that she has people fooled.
Em, yeah, right. Attention whores gonna whore.
I believe she didn’t think through what she said/released last week but this statement is completely calculated and very carefully crafted, I’m guessing by someone other than her. “I got ahead of myself.” Um, yeah.
‘Carefully’? It’s as stupid as the Summer day is long. Just go away Bristol, no one believes the new narrative about you and your baby ‘Frig’.
Oh I agree that it’s completely stupid, I just think it was careful and deliberate vs anything spontaneous and/or genuine.
Of course it was deliberate. But it was also nonsensical, which does have an element of Sarah in it.
TOOTHPASTE OUT OF TUBE: too late, deal with it.
It was both deliberate AND stupid. She’s like a fish out of water… flip-flop, flip-flop.
The whole Palin family seems to be lacking in self-awareness, humility and common sense. They rank up there with the Duggers as some of the dumbest Christians I’ve seen.
I just want to call her out on courting the fame she so obviously craves and then angrily lashing out when it doesn’t serve her purposes. Can’t have it both ways, lady.
NUTBALLS, Agreed. What the hell is so hard about admitting that contraception failed or she neglected to use contraception at all?
Or she got ahead of herself by assuming the real baby daddy would step up and propose so she would not be an unwed mother agaiin. I doubt Dakota would abandon her at the altar if it were his baby. Perhaps she orchestrated her engagement and wedding with Dakota hoping to pass off the baby as his, but he discovered math and figured out he was not the father.
We shall learn his identity eventually. She will want child support from someone, I am sure.
Nailed. It.
Meanwhile, Levi is happily married to the mother of his two daughters, and is probably sitting back laughing over how this whole thing is playing out.
I’m also interested in when this baby actually arrives. Timing might be interesting.
Also:
“This is how much I care about negativity”
I thought about the negativity. Then I took a picture in response to the negativity. (Well I took a bunch, but I only chose 1) Then I went on my Instagram account to give that negativity a piece of my mind. (I chose a really cool filter too) Then I posted this picture, so there negativity!
I pity her because I believe her family is a deadly mix of genuinely stupid as well as proudly ignorant and that doesn’t wash away when you turn 18, but seriously she’s batty with the way she handles the press.
“Look here! No, don’t look here! Look I don’t even care if you’re looking but if you are I just want to put out a statement explaining WHY you’ll be looking soon. But once again I don’t care if you’re looking.” Whaaa…?
“Her family is a deadly mix of genuinely stupid as well as proudly ignorant.” What a perfect description of the Palins. Her new statement is such a contradiction of the first one that I believe the wise thing to remember is to never trust a Palin. I am waiting for Sarah’s word salad with great anticipation.
*clap*
After I wiped coffee off my screen upon reading the your paragraph, I have to add to/ agree with your description of these narcissistic idiots- although I have used ” arrogantly ignorant” to describe them- but maybe “ignorantly arrogant” is at times more apt.
Nah, I’ll stay with arrogantly ignorant. Like your proudly ignorant!
And Brisdull ( and Willow and Sarah)- since we all know you rabidly read any and everything written about yourself/-selves, let me speak for many- No one with an IQ over 120 believes- wait- has *ever* believed a word out of your lying, grifting, ill-mannered mouths. Ever.
In our family, we call people like the Palins aggressively stupid. And IQ over 120? Sweetheart, Forrest Gump isn’t buying this lie!
@HoneyBee Blues-
Duly noted! I stand corrected!
*waves to Bristol*
If you blog and instagram, you clearly want attention. If you actually had confidence and life-smarts, you would go in to hiding and figure out who you are (clue: you are not your mother) and how you’re going to put your life on the right track. Unfortunately, your whole family is such a f*cked-up mess that I doubt you’ll be able to see how ridic you look to the rest of us and learn to make better life choices. You’ll just keep lashing out at those who point out your lies and hypocrisy and remain in your cycle of ignorance. I feel sorry for you and your poor children, who are likely to follow in your footsteps.
The Eternal Side-Eye, I salute you.
Every word she writes just adds to the gossip because she explains nothing. It’s all lies and contradictions. i bet she spent all weekend online reading every word written about her. Her mama must be having a stroke. She needs to take Bristol’s blog away from her before she does more damage.
“…a deadly mix of genuinely stupid as well as proudly ignorant.”
Perfect. Also: one of those a la carte Christians who choose which hierarchy of rules – “thou shalt not lie,” “don’t have sex out of wedlock,” and “never have an abortion” – to actually follow themselves.
Her smug touting of herself as a champion of the last – coupled with her martyr complex about being a victim of self-generated piety publicity – make my stomach roil. Get off the cross and get off the social media if this isn’t a desperate bid for more wood & celebrated victimhood.
Very, very awesome truth telling. not something with which the Palins are at all familiar.
She’s lying. Everything she’s typed up is a lie.
She WAS paid by Candies to promote abstinence.
She has NOT been employed by the same office for 6 years. Girl has been living in Arizona for 3.
She did NOT plan to get pregnant OR she DID plan it but she didn’t plan on her fiance finding out it wasn’t his.
Her son is NOT well rounded. He’s a complete and utter brat being raised by a complete and utter brat.
The pregnancy IS a disappointment because it adds yet another black mark against her horrible family and gives her yet another reason why she can’t go breaking into houses and throwing parties like her sister Willow, or getting into drunken fights again like they did last year.
Lies and nonsensical Palin logic. Please, just STAHP TALKING!!!!
No! No! No!
Stop reading what daisyfly wrote and her mean use of fancy number things like “3” and “6” which is just like meaningless and and and – uh — look over there at at at — Russia! Yeah. Russia!
Bristol: Russia is where Rush Limbaugh lives right?
Bristol: look, 3 is half of 8, because when you rub out the left side of 8 it looks like 3 (not 6)?
Well, it has to be Candies fault. When they hired her to advocate for the abstinence form of birth control, they forgot to let her in on the definition of abstinence–To follow this method, you have to abstain from having sex. Maybe that was too much for her to grasp or she really and truly does not know where babies come from. Her other problem with the English language and syntax is also interesting. How exactly do you “plan a mistake”? Both terms used when describing her situation.
If she wants a baby and no husband, I have absolutely no problem with that. It is about choice and she made hers. However, she should shut it when telling others how to live their lives and criticizing those women who are trashed and told they are horrid for doing exactly what she is doing.
And the ultimate irony: She and mama are unemployed. Maybe they can apply for Obamacare subsidies since they might need some help with health care insurance.
Okay, so why did she make such a depressing pregnancy announcement? An announcement that this unborn child may hear about someday and be crushed by? Still no mention of Dakota being this baby’s father, that raises some big red flags.
This pregnancy was planned like Bristol said, except it was supposed to be with Dakota as the father
This girl makes no sense. Not even a few weeks ago she was tearing into Lena Dunham for damn reason to defend the Duggars, and now here she is lying. If she planned this pregnancy then why break off her marriage? Unless, it wasn’t her groom’s baby.
A lot of this statement sounds like her mother, not her (although I suppose it’s way more coherent than Word Salad Sarah usually is).
I felt dead sorry for her in 2008 when she was dragged into the spotlight and forced to act like she and Levi were Twoo Wuv 4-ever, but by now it’s obvious that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. What a shame.
By “planned” she meant the publicity was planned, not the pregnancy
I am just too distracted by her terrible chin implant. It looks like it’s misshapen, right? And the schadenfreude on this one is strong. I am sitting here, eating my popcorn, waiting to find out who the daddy is.
I don’t think her ex-fiancee is the dad.
I definitely think there’s something off about the ex-fiance. I kinda think too that he was hoping to get into politics by getting on the Palin train which is why they were hyping his veteran status and he’s so Murica! Murica! that it’s almost a parody. I guess he thought he could handle the crazy and then found out different.
We are dealing with it … By laughing our asses off in your stupid plastic face
You can see the anger fuming out of her work salad. A person with good sense would make the announcement and lie low or just flat out go away. What is the point of all of this as it is all over the place.
She used the word crucify…because people were laughing at her. Maybe she should look up what that word really means?
Interestingly, too – would Bristol Palin use the word “ghoul”? And actually spell it correctly?
Things that make you go “hmmmm”…
Precisely.
This whole clan of Alaskan hillbillies needs to go away.
I agree!! Put them all on an ice floe and send them out to sea!!!!
I don’t know why, AntiSocialButterfly, but I sang your scomment…
They rhyming was unintentional, but I’m glad you had fun with it!
She needs to call Melissa Rivers for help with this one because their Celebrity Life Swap showed that Bristol doesn’t discipline or teach Tripp anything.
It also showed she likes to play the victim and she hates to work and yes, her parenting approach with Tripp left a great deal to be desired.
I could not watch more than a few minutes of that show due to how completely bratty that child behaved, with his mother and aunt completely ignoring it. Watch for the headlines about her kids, given enough time. They’ll be brawlin’ and squawlin’ just like their relatives.
I really don’t care what the Palin family has to say and their words don’t affect my life decisions. So, I am choosing to not continue the judgmental cycle. If someone judges others life, it doesn’t mean it is OK to judge them (or others) too… Same argument people use to continue racism, discrimination, etc…
I wish her good luck on her second pregnancy (and stay away from social media)!
Why claim that you “don’t care” when it’s painfully obvious that you do care-and someone cares even more than you do? This second statement is totally written by someone else. And doubt there will ever be any request for child support- bec then paternity would have to be established, and given that Meyer’s guy total silence, he doesn’t believe he is the father.
Very unstable, just like the mom.
Had to get it from someone
People who genuinely don’t care about negativity tend not to comment on it. Let alone over and over.
Oh Bristol.
It must be so easy to preach your pro life stance with the money and opportunities that have fallen into your lap from your mother’s political “career”.
Not all pregnant women have a support system to fall back on. Or money. Or shelter. Some are being abused. It always baffles me that some people completely lack the ability to relate to others in less fortunate circumstances.
That must have been one hell of a commute from her home in Arizona to that doctor’s office in Alaska. But she clearly has a great vacation package with all that time off to do Dancing with the Stars twice and Celebrity Wife Swap and that Life’s a Tripp thing or whatever it was.
Here’s the thing, Bristol. Nobody has to know anything at all about you or your private life if you keep your private life private, which means no more crappy reality shows, no more blogs in which you display your homophobic bigotry and stupidity to the world, no more speaking engagements, no more flame wars with people who don’t agree with your angry, hateful view of the world. Go silent. Listen to that advice Joan Rivers gave you years ago and stop playing the victim in your own life. But you won’t. Because you stupidly crave the spotlight.
This makes me sense. If she wanted to have a baby so soon then why didn’t she elope? Or move the wedding date up?
Why would you plan a pregnancy before marriage when you know the backlash you will receive once people do the math?
Lies, lies, lies.
Or, you know, just not say what a disappointment it is to her whole cave-clan. For starters.
I hate that she’s making us have this conversation in 2015. Congratulations on having sex in your twenties and getting pregnant by choice.
This is the problem with the Christian zealots…no one is perfect and everyone makes mistake, ie life, but they demand perfection from everyone else. However, when they make the mistake they preach about they fall to see the hypocrisy. Finally Bristol is not very bright.
On the one hand, it sounds like she was saying she got pregnant by Dakota on purpose while she was engaged “heading” towards marriage. But why would she say when she realized she was pregnant she knew she would be crucified. Unless it took her several months to realize she was pregnant…
I wanna see how her supporters and fellow Republicans rationalize that:
1. The baby is not even Dakota’s.
2. She tried to pull off a shotgun wedding and pass it off as his.
3. She must’ve cheated sometime before or during the engagement.
If all this had happened individually I could see the spin doctors pulling something off, but all at once? On top of the fact that she’s a pro-abstinence shill gone rogue? Good luck.
Her ‘statements’ cannot be all true, unless she is truly so unbalanced that she changes the narrative every 48 hours.
The only interesting part of this will be to see which guy steps up (if any) to assume he’s the father. If the guy has any sense at all, he will wait for DNA evidence. I feel sorry for the child, yet there is no way any person with common sense would want to join this family circus for 18 years.
There will never be any need for rationalization from them because 1) they will not question it because Brisdull and the strange one will stick to their respective scripts 2) like Triggy, no birth certificate +/- DNA will be produced. It will be quietly swept under the rug.
Secrets will always be whispered about them in their hometown. There is quite a tenacious blogger there who regularly writes about behind the scenes issues ( those which do not make national media).
I would be interested in reading. Would you mind sharing the blogger/website?
the immoral minority d0t blo0gsp0t d0t c0m
Sorry, sixth attempt to get through m0deration, which stuns me as other hyp3rl1nks are posted. Several email requests to retrieve from filter unanswered.
from the blog whose link you had trouble posting-.
“While Palin insists that her focus, and that of the organization’s, was simply to prevent teen pregnancy, her statements in those years were stridently pro-abstinence.
“In 2009, she told Good Morning America, “regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only … 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy,” and promised a magazine in that year, “I’m not going to have sex until I’m married: I can guarantee it.”
“And when Palin made an appearance with the head of the Candie’s Foundation on Greta Van Susteren‘s On The Record in 2010, Van Susteren introduced her by saying, “”Bristol is promoting abstinence for the Candie’s Foundation.” What’s more, her listing on the webpage for the Single Source Speakers Agency lists “abstinence” as the very first topic of her expertise.”
Interesting reading! Thanks antisocial butterfly.
He’s spot on when it comes to the Tundra Grifter, and has been since her city council days. I hope his bl0g gets more exposure; he deserves to hve his hard work better known.
Dear Bristol –
You are an utter moron. Deal with it.
Signed,
Mich
But it’s not her fault!!! Her mommy is mean and Bristol is a victim of a cult!!!!
😉
It is the fault of the liberal media
Actually that hand gesture is the way she plans to show students at her abstinence lectures that she finally figured out where the boy’s part goes into the girl’s part to make babies.
Yup. Right in her mouth.
‘Cause that’s what she done been told!
I know I am a terrible person, but I assumed she was demonstrating her HJ technique in that first pic since we know she ABSTAINS from actual sexual intercourse! Oh wait, no she doesn’t. :-p
Frankly, Bristol, that is NOT a good way of illustrating that you have zero f{#^s left to give. And don’t take selfies and post on the web while driving!!!
Judging from what we’ve seen of her son Tripp, she had better not let him around the baby unsupervised.
I think you’re confusing Tripp with her brother Trig. Trig was the one standing on a dog.
She had 4-5 year old Tripp on Celebrity Wife Swap and he was an undisciplined brat, who had no bedtime and liked to scream and throw food around in restaurants.
No, I mean her little Tripp. Lilacflowers is correct. She’s been raising Tripp the way she herself was raised- quite chaotically. It’s turned out even worse because he’s been the only kid. The baby really is likely to be in danger. Plenty of firstborn children have trouble with the newcomer under much better circumstances. I suspect Tripp is going to have a lot of problems with it, and he isn’t used to restraining his impulses even a little bit.
Bristol honey, no matter what you think or say or instagram, you cannot polish a turd. It’s like putting lipstick on a pig, at the end of the day it’s still a pig. You cannot turn your abject failure into anything positive no matter how much you blame, dissemble and spew out stupid word salad defenses. Take the f*cking chip off your shoulder and get off social media before you completely pillory yourself.
wow….. she’s such a idiot on so many levels.
How do you “plan” a pregnancy before you are married? Isn’t that against the Republican rules? That would mean you were having sex outside the bounds of holy matrimony. *Gasp* *Clutches Pearls**
Being from the other side of the Atlantic, I had no idea about the site where Bristol’s blog is hosted.
So I looked it up.
Per Wiki
“Patheos is a website providing information about various religions.” … “Patheos is used for learning about other religions” … “In mid-2010, Patheos invited many religious figures and scholars to contribute to a series on the future of religions. … On January 3, 2011, Newsweek listed Patheos as one of ’21 Ways To Be Smarter in 2011′”
Bristol is neither a scholar/religious figure, nor smart. If I aspired for my site to be credible in any way, shape, or form, last Friday would have been the last chance to distance myself from her.
I actually enjoy Patheos and was really surprised to read that Palin had a blog there.
Contrasted with much of the writings on that site, her blog is painfully amateurish and very much lacking in any sort of depth or intelligence IMO.
BTW, Patheos has an atheist forum as well: http://www.patheos.com/Atheist
And how did she get a voice on issues? LOL. She’s uneducated and has accomplished nothing in life besides being Palin’s daughter and because she had a teenage pregnancy getting a book deal which was I’m sure ghost-written,, being on a dancing show, and being on a reality show, her own that failed, and mom’s. Yet she gets a blog on Patheos to post opinion pieces. Too funny.
Right? I have no idea..she is not qualified by any stretch of the imagination.
Just another example of this woman’s privilege.
UGH. The mind. It boggles.
I think it would be best if she just shut her pie hole.
Arguably if a certain part of male anatomy had kept her pie hole busy instead of another one of her orifices, she would not be in this situation. So I think she had best put all openings in lock down now!
Hm. Didn’t Fox News just recently dump Sarah (again)? I wonder if someone over there got a tip that this was coming and decided they didn’t want to deal with another Palin baby circus during election season.
Palin makes incoherent, over-the-top statements even for them on Fox at times. Her luster is tarnished and Fox realized it didn’t need her anymore. So why pay out some big salary.
I was actually surprised to find that the Candies Foundation statement on this was… not bad? It was essentially “We were so grateful that Bristol used her experience as a pregnant teen to help in our work to prevent teen pregnancy, and now that she is a grown woman of 24, we support her in whatever path she chooses…” I think Bristol is attempting to spin their statement herself in referencing her age and that she has worked at a doctor’s office, but as is usual for the Palins, it just comes out as an aggressive-defensive jumbled mess.
LOL. Saying “I wanted more kids someday” is NOT the same as this pregnancy being planned.
How has she been working at a doctor’s office for 6 years? She’s been on speaking tours, she was on Dancing with the Stars in Los Angeles twice, had another reality show in LA, and I thought moved to Arizona for a while. Generally if you work in a doctor’s office, they like you to show up now and then.
She’s now trying to paint herself as some normal working mom who is happily pregnant again, when in reality she’s a professional victim/fame-hog (just like her mother) who probably got busted cheating on her fiance. She’s begging for attention and screaming “don’t talk about me!” at the same time. It’s pathetic.
Yep, yep.
Well seems to be more to this tea. Since Sara hasn’t said anything about it. If it was planned believe me she would have come out with two loaded barrels of jigiry pokery to defend her cub. Sara is likely .38 hot about her cub ruining any political strategy she had planned to run for president this time around. There goes the family value slogan, the fact that she can’t really talk about other Americans that don’t practice abstinence and just want to have babies out of marriage and feeding of the government and birth control without sounding like a hypocrite herself. (Oh I’m sounding just like her with my run on sentences) Also she would have been in heaven with a MOH son in law to show the masses that her family is full of Patriots and real American heroes. Mama grizzly has been feld not by the liberal haters but her own cub. I don’t see her forgiving Bristal for this and again where the hell is Todd?
For the baby’s sake, I just really, really hope this one is another boy. I dread to think how Bristol would raise a daughter.
I am always bewildered by those who put their personal life out there… like, on a blog, for example… and then say “don’t judge me.”
You put your personal life out there for the public to read. What did you think was going to happen?
It’s super disappointing to read all the hate filled messages.
Why does it bother so many people that a teenage mother received money to speak to others about their experience as a teenage mother? Of course Candies would select a high profile person as a sponsored speaker. Who should they have selected, Farah?
The message that it is still hard for her even with privileges that others don’t have should have been a powerful message.
She should receive money to provide for herself and her son. Any of speaker would have as well.
It’s super ridiculous to shame a 24 year old adult for admitting the situation isn’t ideal, and but taking responsibility for it.
It’s not like she is a teenage mother again, with no income, creating additional financial burden on taxpayers.
I guess if you oppose her religious morals or wherever she posts her blog, don’t read it, don’t be an audience member where she speaks, etc. – that’s the beauty of the choices we have!
Personally I applaud her for her choice (that’s right, I am pro-choice) and for taking responsibility for her actions and for providing for her family.
I guess you missed the part where she openly attacks and trashed others who don’t agree with her judgemental ways. Also, I guess you’re okay with being lectured and looked down on by someone who does the exact opposite of what they preach.
I’m enjoying watching her go down in flames.
Because if she was truly committed to reducing teen pregnancy or making teen parents lives easier she would have advocated for real methods of birth control and/or special benefits or programs for teen moms. (There are numerous studies and examples showing why and how abstinence-only education doesn’t work.)
Instead she became a talking head for mother’s political ambitions and went as far as to say she would never have sex again until she was married AND children should always have a mother-father home. And yet today she’s still in the same position except that now she’s an adult.
So when Bristol, who has said hateful things to everyone who does not fill her moral values, ends up doing the same thing she condemns others for I think it’s fair that she’s going to receive some hate back.
Also fyi, the original announcement was the farthest thing from taking responsibility I’ve seen in all my 17 years. Felt more like the “responsibility” a pre-schooler feels when he’s forced to apologize for something.
Her first child received Medicaid benefits, courtesy of my federal tax dollars. My religion and my morals oppose the death penalty, which she supports. She has repeatedly shown herself to be a bigot, which I don’t find very Christian at all
Because she’s a hypocrite. How are you going to tell people not to have sex when you’re doing it? And then she has a 2nd!!!! Unplanned pregnancy!!! Did she not figure out her mistake the first time she got knocked up? No birth control (even though you can get it for free) and doing the exact opposite of what you preAched to other people? She is a lying, stupid hypocrite who is now pretending it was planned because she can’t take the consequences of her stupid actions. I’m 39, never been pregnant because I’m pro choice. I choose to use birth control. Don’t get why it’s so hard for her, especially when her bullcrap will be outed by her pregnancy. Can’t fix stupid, I guesd
I can’t speak for my fellow Celebitches, but in my opinion the most galling thing about her second out of wedlock pregnancy is how her fellow Republicans have painted unwed mothers as welfare queen losers whose children are doomed if their fathers are absent (and many want to prevent the same girls and women from having access to accurate sex ed, contraception, and abortion services) but Bristol’s situation is DIFFERENT somehow. So although she is pregnant AGAIN – presumably by a different man and without the benefit of a ring on her finger and no sign of how involved this new father will be – she should not be lumped in with the women whose life choices they judge totally mercilessly and publicly denigrate to win political points.
No, no, no. Bristol should not get a free pass because her mother ran unsuccessfully for VP 7 years ago and raises a lot of money for Republican candidates. In fact, as far as I am concerned Bristol deserves harsher judgment because of her hypocrisy and repeated condemnation of other women’s life choices…when their lives were none of her damn business.
She is not taking responsibility for her actions either because she is unwilling to face up to the reasonably foreseeable consequences of her poor decision-making: namely, public censure and shaming. Sorry, but she cannot have it both ways. She cast the first stone, and now it has boomeranged around to hit her in the face.
It’s not hate, it’s disgust. With a tinge of delight. And for what it’s worth, Candies also had Maci Bookout doing appearances or talks or whatever. She also just had her second out of wedlock baby, too.
Speaking of Farrah, that lying grifter would have been an excellent choice.
I don’t know what will enrage her mothers fan base more, the fact that she’s pregnant again after shilling so hard for abstinence, or the fact that she supposedly ‘planned’ a pregnancy outside marriage. Oh wait, neither will because her fan base is the same as Duck Dynasty and the Duggars and they will find a way to excuse it.
Well here comes another child she will raise well, since she’s such a great planner and all.
I was just thinking about that ultrasound picture, since those are usually taken at 18-20 weeks. She has to be at least 4.5 months along, which means she got pregnant early to mid February, BEFORE the engagement. Sooo (putting on my tinfoil hat)………
Bristol found out she was pregnant and “encouraged” him to propose, quickly planning a wedding in two months before she started showing too much and looked like a pregnant bride. Fiance either mentioned it to someone who questioned the timing, or he figured it out on his own. After questioning Bristol, either he called off the wedding, or made her call it off, but either way the wedding between them wasn’t going to happen. When Bristol told Sarah the wedding was off, she probably didn’t tell her ALL the details (as in, she said she was pregnant, but not who the father actually was) which is why Sarah announced the BBQ/Party would still happen, hoping that she could get Dakota to change his mind. The paternity is definitely in question, which is why the silence from Dakota and Sarah herself, and the explanation with not explaining anything from Bristol.
I think your explanation is probably what happened. It would also explain why Bristol noped the F out of there and didn’t stick around for her BBQ party. Probably she was afraid Dakota would let everyone know right there that she was pregnant with another man’s child and wanted to be as far away from him as possible.
Now WHO is the father?!?!
If I was Dakota I would say something. Don’t let association by Palin ruin your rep anymore than it has.
Joey Junker!!! See somewhere above ^^ where someone pointed out some Instagram stuff!
I agree about the ultrasound photo being about mid-term (judging from the detail).
As for the missing ingredient in her multiple word salads — who is the daddy? I think another scenario is multiple partners around the same time and not being sure who the father is. Don’t doctors sometimes bounce around the due date, which if mother is a party girl could put the true answer into question.
I’m due in October. At 18 weeks you do the anatomy scan to make sure everything is as it should be. My images from that scan look very much like Bristol’s. Note that there is no date on the scan. It could have been done a month ago.
There is also a scan at 8 weeks that looks very different from Bristol’s scan. I also had a scan around 12 weeks that looked very different from Bristol’s.
Due date is initially based on the first day of the last menstrual period. It is imprecise because most women ovulate about 14 days after that date, sperm can live in the woman’s system for up to five days (I think), and implantation of the fertilized egg can happen a week after ovulation. So then they look at the size of the fetus during the scans to estimate due date.
So if Bristol had sex with more than one guy after the date of her last menstrual period and before her first missed period, she would only know who the father is if she used a condom with one but not the other and the condom didn’t fail.
The fact that Dakota hasn’t directly said “I am the father and will do everything in my power to support, provide for, and nurture this baby” speaks VOLUMES to me. This would be his first child, right? And he has political ambitions? He can’t afford to let the Palins make him look like a deadbeat.
And that no rationale was really given for calling off the wedding? Bristol specifically said she knew about Dakota’s first marriage. And now she says the pregnancy was planned? And she called off the wedding? Things would have to be pretty awful for me to not at least give it a chance with the father of my unborn child. And downright intolerable for him to have walked away, if he knows that’s his baby.
And then there’s the whole ex-boyfriend dog photo business from immediately after the breakup. Saying “I always wanted more children” does not mean that this particular one was planned. And from dissapointment to defiant in 24 hours? All so very shady.
I think the poor girl has amnesia. A few years ago Britol and her mother was on Oprah’s show and she swore she would save herself for marriage. Oprah asked her, “why would you set yourself up for that?” yahoo posted the interview on their website.
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/news/bristol-palin-defends-herself-pregnancy-actually-planned-200441863-us-weekly.html
I know I haven’t always been on board with your articles but lately I really enjoyed them and especially your coverage of Bristol liarface Palin. I agree with every single word every single one
I always planned to have a big family with numerous fathers who I will not marry.
There, I fixed it for ya Bristle! Now she can go and keep her fake chin up.
“Abstinence bullsh*t” — OK, I take issue with that. I do not want my teenage daughter having sex. I just don’t. IF she is going to do it, obviously I would want her to do it safely. But all things being equal I’d rather she doesn’t do it at all. Sometimes I think that teens don’t hear enough that it is OK not to have sex. For instance, take the recent posts on slut shaming. If my teenage daughter read those she’d think she was abnormal for not having sex. So an abstinence message mixed with safe sex precaution instructions wouldn’t be a bad thing for teenage girls to hear.
Yes abstinence should be taught BUT it should never be the ONLY thing that is taught.
It is completely okay for your teenage daughter to not have sex however I think it is setting her up to fail if you don’t also teach her how to prevent pregnancy and STIs as well.
I think part of the problem is when religious beliefs only allow for abstinence to be taught knowing that some percentage of the teens will have sex. There is no additional education on how to avoid unplanned outcomes. It seems like Bristol is of that camp. So not only are they not going to teach you how to not get pregnant they’re going to shame you out of your choices if you do.
“Abstinence bullsh*t”, I think refers to the fact that she wasn’t practicing what she was preaching. The abstinence part WAS absolute bull. And having someone LIKE Bristol speak to kids will have the opposite effect, because she has proven to be a liar. It’s like DARE programs, crying wolf and saying pot is the equivalent of heroin. Kids find out they are being had by someone, and then they throw the baby out with the bathwater, altogether (pun intended), and DO everything. Better to be honest, open and sincere, even if you make a mistake.
Someone – “So an abstinence message mixed with safe sex precaution instructions wouldn’t be a bad thing for teenage girls to hear.”
I think this is EXACTLY what should be taught, to both boys and girls! Promote and encourage abstinence outside of marriage, but make sure they know what the precautions are and where they’re available.
I was raised in a very strict Catholic household and attended Catholic schools, and my sex education was minimal from school (don’t sin so abstain until marriage) and non-existent from my parents (If we don’t talk about it, she won’t know about it). So it wasn’t surprising when I found myself young, unmarried and pregnant. I married the father and immediately got pregnant again, so by age 23, I was married and raising four kids – not exactly what I had envisioned for myself when I graduated from high school only five years earlier! I definitely discussed birth control with my kids, and encouraged them to wait until marriage; but I knew firsthand that doesn’t always work out and I wasn’t eager to be a 30-something grandma or have them contract a preventable disease (I always made sure they had all their vaccinations, there’s no way I wanted them to get an STD/STI!) Oh, and getting married just because you’re pregnant or have a baby does not always end well. My poor parents – first their daughter gets pregnant out of wedlock, then she marries a Protestant, and finally ends up divorced!
I love the “I got ahead of myself.” That sounds like she started to tell a joke, but said the punchline first.
Oh my sweet lord, is she kidding? Does she think people buy this BS? What a horrible liar.
If her pregnancy was planned, then why come out with such a depressing message to announce it as if it were a mistake?
Even though she’s obviously lying, I would be able to have sympathy for her if she and her family weren’t so eager to tell everyone else how to live as a family…And most important, making a ton of money doing it.
So. . .extramarital sex (aka, in Palin language, “fornication” or “sin”) is okay if you “planned” it?
That this family — http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/08/31/581256/-Palin-Anti-Choice-Anti-Birth-Control — subscribes to such a downright medieval RC sexual culture leaves me flabbergasted.
It’s ironic. Palin doctrine is even harder to accept than plain, faith-driven pro-life stuff with its visions of murdered fetuses suffering in Limbo etc. If you sincerely say, “I believe this & stake my afterlife on it,” that’s one thing (you scare the pee out of me, but we’ve no ground for conversation). Quite another matter, though, when Palins & their ilk overtly LIE about bc & abortion to force women into Godly (tho none too Gospelly) subordination under men. “You’ll get cancer!” Fair enough, in some cases: so get busy, & agitate to reform the shameful FDA pharm screening system.
WHAT-EVER, TRICK.
The real (and only imho) question is: WHERE IS DAKOTA and WHY ISN’T HE TALKING?
Because, I’m sorry but, from the day the two of them called off their wedding with the incredibly bizarre, thinly veiled reason behind it being that he “used to be married to another woman YEARS AGO and never told Bristol about it” not a lick of this had made any sense. I’m seriously wondering what type of threats Sarah could have made to cause this guy to go full radio silent. She must have one hell of a hold over the guy because this whole thing reeks of some seriously crazy, undercover sh*t going on. (My personal guess? Bristol cheated, got knocked up with her “planned” pregnancy, was unsure of who the father is, told Dakota and the wedding was immediately called off, like, the day before. But then, I’ve never known a single Palin to be forthcoming or truthful so…it’s highly unlikely that even if my theory were true, she would have told him about her behavior 😒)