Bristol's Book

[beth]

Bristol Palin's memoir hits stores


At 20-years-old, Bristol Palin already has a memoir. In her tell-all book, titled "Not Afraid Of Life: My Journey So Far," which hit shelves Tuesday, the oldest daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin dishes on pregnancy to politics.

The memoir details Bristol's unplanned, teenage pregnancy, her days on the 2008 campaign trail with the McCains, and her on-again, off-again relationship with Levi Johnston, the father of her child. (Levi has his own book set to release this fall.)

Bristol starts off her story with the night her virginity was "stolen" by Johnston, saying she had succumbed for the first time in her life to the "woozy charms" of wine coolers while on a camping trip with friends. She woke up the following morning next to Johnston's empty sleeping bag in a tent and found out that the two had slept together–an event, she writes, she couldn't recall.

"I could tell by the evidence in the tent that all of my plans, my promises, and my moral standards had disappeared in one awful night in a series of bad decisions," Bristol writes, concluding that she immediately felt obligated to marry Johnston, a boy she had a crush on since the seventh grade.

Bristol recounts her older brother, Track, growing furious when overhearing on the phone what his sister had done with Johnston. Track allegedly stormed off to Johnston's house, seemingly determined to settle the matter violently.

"Let's just say Track was an 'abstinence only' advocate when it came to his sisters, and he was ready to enforce that philosophy with his fists," Bristol writes, although she doesn't fully disclose what happened at Johnston's house.

The book describes Johnston as a disloyal boyfriend who had "occasional romps with other girls."

To make up for it, he showered Bristol with gifts, including Coach purses, Abercrombie clothing, and designer rain boots. In return, she forgave Johnston and started sleeping with him again with the hope that he would stop cheating.

"It was part 'thank you,' part 'security deposit," she writes.

Later, Bristol, who was 17 at the time, realized she was one month pregnant–a fact confirmed by the eight home pregnancy tests she bought with her friend. Bristol was shocked by the results, claiming she had been on birth control.

And her boyfriend's alleged response? The baby "better be a f****** boy."

Her book also features stories about the 2008 presidential race, including drama between Bristol and Meghan McCain, the daughter of Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Bristol described Meghan as a demanding diva who constantly complained and compared her family to the Palins. The book also reveals moments of Meghan being openly rude to campaign staff and family.

Meghan responded on Twitter to Bristol's accusations Tuesday with a link to a video from 2008 that shows her excited about her father's choice for vice president.

And in the book, Meghan's mother, Cindy McCain, had her own words of comfort for Bristol. While waiting for John McCain to arrive at a Minneapolis airport for the 2008 Republican convention, Cindy pulled Bristol aside on the tarmac to have a little chat, the book said.

"Bristol, I have three things I want to tell you," she said. "I just want you to know that I want to be one of the first people to hold your baby. Also, I want to go to your wedding when it comes together, and lastly, [...] John and I want to be godparents of your child."

Bristol was left speechless by their conversation.

"I had just met her, and I wondered why she wanted any type of guardianship over my child," Bristol writes.

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[trubble]

Ack! Faux moral standards. The worst of all.

[fretslider]

"Track"? What kind of name is that?


"Later, Bristol, who was 17 at the time, realized she was one month pregnant–a fact confirmed by the eight home pregnancy tests she bought with her friend"

I'm shocked to hear she can count. Maybe her friend kept count.

[sadie]

Wow.....she's a bright girl, isn't she?

Let's insult the McCain's......that should do wonders for her mom's political ambitions!!!

Fret....I'm sure the girl used her fingers and toes to get to the number 8. Unfortunately she probably only took 5 tests.

[fretslider]

Jun 27, 2011 11:37:30 GMT -5 sadie said:

Wow.....she's a bright girl, isn't she?

Let's insult the McCain's......that should do wonders for her mom's political ambitions!!!

Fret....I'm sure the girl used her fingers and toes to get to the number 8. Unfortunately she probably only took 5 tests.

Ah sadie, fingers and toes - that's how she keeps track of it

[Erasmus]

So she's a whore. She didn't want sex, the nasty male brute did, she was sharing a sleeping bag purely (and I mean that most sincerely, folks) because she was cold. Nice self-respecting traditional and feminist girls don't give it away to men - they sell it, and she sounds quite proud of the price she got, even if it wasn't the ideal one with a golden ring. Like Olive Schreiner said in 1915 (and repeated often since) A wife is a socially acceptable prostitute. What she did not say was that that arrangement suited women far more than men and women always have been the ones to enforce it and condemn any who dares to step out of line and admit to not regarding men as dominators, whether those women selling sex on the sly without admitting to it call themselves Christian virgins or Feminists. It's exactly the same exploitative suppression of one's own sensuality in order to sell sex as any streetwalker, while claiming moral superiority over honest whores and even more so over women who do not regard themselves as inferiors to men unable to make sensual demands of their own. Pretending she was not an equal participant makes women look sexless inferiors and taking the pay-off shows she's a whore.

[Jessiealan]

Why would she take off on the Mecain daughter. It makes her sound envious and bad-tempered. Obviously she did not pen this herself. Her mother and her ghost writer and the advisors must have known so why did they go along with it? There has to be a reason.


I don't want to be unkind, but does anyone else think her lips have been pumped up in that picture?

[Erasmus]

This is how somebody Fox News calls a psychiatrist shows that Bill Maher's comments about the virginity issue reveal his love of death and hatred of women. I must admit that even knowing that it came from a list resident right-wing raver, I thought it must be parody until the reference to Fox convinced me that it is absolutely genuine. Which I guess, also says something about the state of American psychiatry - or maybe he was taking time off from his horoscope column. You should see the response the beauty of the birth experience got from a woman who's had a couple! No - probably you shouldn't

I can't find the Youtube but here is a page with Maher's clip embedded from another service. I thought him quite funny.

“[L]ook, this guy needs his head examined so it’s good that you called me in,” Ablow said. “Bottom line is here’s a guy you have to understand, [Bristol Palin’s] book is called ‘Not Afraid of Life.’ Here’s a guy who never saw a life that he didn’t question. For euthanasia, for the death penalty, for abortion – this is somebody who is not affiliated with life at all. No children. So you have to look at him and say you know what, why is he so hostile towards women? He has a deep-seated, it seems, hatred to some extent of women. Frequents the Playboy mansion, all the girls that he dates, the women he dates, they have to be supermodels. The bottom line is you really got to wonder is he projecting on to her?”

Ablow also examined Maher’s strong atheist beliefs and suggested these problems back to his upbringing.

“Anti-religion – don’t forget, he said that suicide bomber at 9/11 were more heroic than American servicemen,” Ablow said. “This is someone very closely affiliated with not loving the birth, not having regard for life and therefore, I would say, having it in for women. He says elsewhere in the tape that basically the way that people are born is that babies drop out of them. He’s very much divorced from the beauty of the birth experience. He doesn’t say Bristol admit it – you had feelings for this young man. No, you were horny. See, he wants to think women are sluts. That’s his view of the world. Interestingly, his mother who happened to have been Jewish, denied her religion until his teen years. Do you wonder what kind of ascendance was in operation in that family. Was the male so far above the female that he’s internalized this?”

Ablow concluded the issues Maher should overcome have to do with his view of women and how he seems to favor death over life.

“Has it in for women, doesn’t like the notion of birth, embraces death, likes suicide bombers – very simple,” Ablow said.

[beth]

FOX is afraid of Maher. He has a good many fans from their ranks as he will invite right leaning guests and is not afraid to tackle a great many issues, social and political. FOX exists to attempt to smear all who are not conservative, far-right wing. From all indication, it must be Rupert's fantasy to drive American media.

[Erasmus]

I've said this before. I don't think Rupert gives a living damn what he supports as long as it sells. He endorses the popular side whatever it is and has supported Thatcher, Major, Blair, Obama and Gough-Whitlam as the price became right. His Sky satellite TV did badly until it merged to become BSkyB but the contrast between Sky News and Fox is way beyond, because the British attitude to news separates it from commentary and even while it may not be too liberal, it dare not be as biassed as some of the newspapers. Even between the British and Irish Sun there is a big difference reflecting that the tradition of Irish emigration is much more favourable to immigration than the British, and sex scandals matter far more then financial corruption there and vice-versa here.

The man's a whore keeping the customer saatisfied. If there is any consistency, it is that he will always go for the lowest common (very common!) denominator. His media will savage Obamacare with Death Panels and Abortion Trips in the US and scream against creeping privatisation and threats to public service here and in the UK because he knows what his clientele want.