‘All over the news on Tuesday were clips of 18-year-old new mother Bristol Palin stuttering awkwardly in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren and saying what many Americans already know all too well: that the idea of teenage abstinence is unrealistic.
But more than just sound bites, Van Susteren’s interview with Bristol (and her “surprise-guest” mom) was a vivid reminder of how, sadly, this unremarkable high schooler got dragged into the spotlight by a Republican ticket anxious to paper over its party’s family-values inconsistencies with the addition of a just-folks clan led by an Alaskan governor determined to use her family as an illustration of her policies. It was also an embodiment of all that was frustrating and tone-deaf about those policies, and about the governor’s candidacy for the vice-presidency.’ via Salon Life.
Related:
- Bristol Palin: Abstinence Is ‘Not Realistic’ (Despite What Mom Says) [VideUhOh] (gawker.com)
- “Everyone should be abstinent . . . but it’s not realistic at all.” (americablog.com)
Rebecca,
Since our last name is quite uncommon, I am very curious to find out more about you and anyone else who shares my last name.
I am not a weirdo. Just into family and heritage, etc.
Would you please respond? I promise not to make a pest of myself.
Denise
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One more thing. I was born and raised in Battle Creek Michigan and there are a few Traisters running around that area. Other than that, I have never in my long life met anyone else with that name outside of the Michigan clan.
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You are not writing to Rebecca Traister when you reply here. This is Eliot Gelwan’s blog. I was excerpting from an article by Rebecca Traister in Salon. Rebecca Traister is a staff writer for Salon Life. I suggest you try to contact her through Salon.
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