People believe what they want, hear what they want. You read something online, maybe hear something on a TV show and you interpret it through your bias, whether you are aware or not.
U.S. President Barack Obama could whisper sweet nothings all night during TV interviews and press conferences, telling you everything is gonna be alright. Whisper, whisper, soothe, soothe. If you don't like his ass, you probably won't believe him and decide he's lying or at least some sort of charlatan, no matter his hustle or choice of words. You don't like him. It's easy to convince someone who is already on your side, aka preaching to the choir, but damn near impossible to convince someone who isn't, whether they have their mind made up or not, it's hard to break through the barrier of bias.
So ... with this in mind ... what is the deal with the Palin Family Circus? Week by week, month by month, they become more ridiculous, yet people snort it up like cocaine through a rolled up dolla bill.
Perhaps it's because the public enjoys a good spectacle, especially Sarah Palin's interesting take on American history (Paul Revere ... hey, it's not her fault, it was a "gotcha" question, you know, meant to trick her ... yeah, right. Tricks on you tea lady). Spectacles are fine. You can't look away from a train wreck or car crash. However, it's the people attending Sarah Palin's speech events, thinking she is just what America needs, that has me frightened. Not only because there are no heroes, no knights in shining red, white and blue armor to come rescue America from its trouble, even though people want to believe it when times are hard, but also because Sarah Palin and her coven are just what America doesn't need.
The Palins are carnies trying to hustle a buck (or several million) with their family drama as the opening, main and closing acts. Why do people take them seriously when it's so obvious they are ridiculous, no talent, white trash? It's like the public turned a family from an episode of Jerry Springer into celebrities as they unleash their drama in the media. Smacking us in the face, time after time, with reality shows, out-of-wedlock children, hate speech, a blabbering and embarrassing ex-fiance, blah blah blah
Last year an attorney for Sarah and Bristol Palin filed applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark their names. Covering their asses as they build their political commentary and motivational speaking empire.
They didn't just stop there.
Bristol took great liberty with the term memoir and wrote her own, "Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far." This journey, all 20 years of it, deserves an entire book because it's so interesting, so detailed and groundbreaking ... too groundbreaking for an interview or two on the Today Show. She wants us to read her side of the story ... or perhaps she wants to remain in the spotlight and earn some moolah. Hmm.
Don't fret my pets. Levi Johnston's memoir, "Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs" (can't make this up) is due out this fall. Can't wait!
Sike.
Their baby-mama, he-said she-said drama is so important it deserves books so we, the public, can understand what's going on behind the scenes (even though the curtain is almost see-through when it comes to their lives) and finally get answers to the big questions. No, I don't mean big questions as in what happens after we die or is God real or if we are alone in the universe ... I mean, why did Bristol have pre-marital sex?
Well ... according to E! Online, don't let your teenage daughter drink wine coolers.
While on a camping trip with her then-boyfriend Levi, aka the gnat, Bristol drank a whole mess of wine coolers and did the deed ... although she has no recollection. Must have been a lot of wine coolers! Although the couple agreed to not bump uglies again, they did and Bristol, who was taking birth control pills to help ease cramps (likely excuse similar to reasons behind her nose job), got pregnant anyway.
Wow. Why did she think this was crucial to explain in a book? Does she have no sense of decency, no respect for herself? This is information you shouldn't tell people. Oh wait, yeah, she wants money. OK, sell your self-respect for some bucks.
Bristol wants to share her story so other girls don't make the same mistakes -- even though she's glamorizing teen pregnancy and could star in MTV's "16 and Pregnant." She promotes abstinence, like her mama which we all know didn't work out so well. Maybe she should promote safe sex with condoms instead of abstinence or waiting until you are ready for sex. Abstinence for teens is like putting a junk food junkie on a diet where they can't cheat at all and then letting them run free in a world filled with temptation -- cookies, candy, ice cream, pizza, pies, cakes, doughnuts. These people are sitting in the great cafeteria of life eating salads while watching Tom, Dick and Nancy eat deep fried Snickers bars. They are going to slip up and pig out. Teenagers are full of hormones ... combining this with immaturity and peer pressure, abstinence isn't always going to work out so well, a la Bristol Palin.
Yeah, she learned from her mistakes (easy to do with famous Mama Grizzly) and wants to help others so they don't make the same ones. However, to learn we need to fall down. We need to have life bitch slap us in the face. We don't need a teen mom lecturing us -- so she can earn more than $262,000 a year -- about her mistakes. Picture teenagers in a room, listening to Bristol. Do you honestly think the majority will listen to her and change their lives? Or will they see her celebrity, her baby and think hmm, I could be a teen mom just like Bristol. Or will they tune her out all together, leave school, go to a party, drink alcohol, do drugs and have sex?
Bristol charges between $15,000 and $30,000 for each speaking appearance so, obviously, she's doing it for all the young impressionable girls out there. Yeah, right.
Let's see what else ... Dancing With The Stars (where she fared well due to her fans, aka The Tea Party movement and Mama Grizzly Bear) ... appearance on "Sarah Palin's Alaska," where she got in trouble for posting homophobic and profanity filled slurs on her Facebook page to all the Palin haters out there (great role model!) ... appearance on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" (although she said she won't be doing anymore acting in the future because she likes her speaking engagements) and in a music video for Static Cycle (whoever they are) ... she's renting out her Arizona home for $1,400/month so she can relocate to Los Angeles to film her new reality show ... wait, I thought she wasn't into being an actress? What about the speaking engagements?
I could go on but, instead, please cue the circus music because if people are still fans of Bristol and Sarah Palin after gaining this knowledge, we are doomed.
Suddenly I feel bad for over-analyzing but then remember she's the one who puts her entire life out there to be scrutinized, in books, on TV, everywhere, she and her ridiculous family. Hopefully doctors can find a cure for Palinitis.
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