Bristol Palin's memoir hits stores

[spanone]

(CNN) - 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.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/bristol-palins-memoir-hits-stores/?hpt=hp_bn4

[Javaman]

1. out of the mouth of babes then proof read by a grifter. nt

[CanonRay]

2. How does a 20 year old who hasn't done shit

except fuck write a memoir. This country is amazing.

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Who could possibly learn anything from her experience?

Why would anyone even care?

[izquierdista]

19. You forget how stupid Americans have become

Next up: "Potty training secrets from Trig".

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. Welcome to the 21st Century. nt

[chelsea0011]

3. She's accusing Levi of date rape if the post is correct about the memoir account.

[MineralMan]

4. Join the Pledge to Make GD a Bristol Palin-Free Zone!

Please.

[tabasco]

46. No.

[HelenWheels]

5. Best seller

The Repukes will buy this up in bulk so it hit the best seller list. They do this a lot. She has had plastic surgery. She has the chipmunk cheek look that gives the surgery away.

[MadHound]

6. Why are you giving her free publicity?

Ignore her, and her mom, and they will go away.

[spanone]

10. free publicity? you think du'er's are gonna go buy it cause i posted it?? bwahahahahaa

[MadHound]

11. As the old saying goes, any publicity is good publicity,

And considering that this board reaches people who aren't members, yes, you're giving her publicity. You are helping to keep her in the public spotlight. You are part of the problem.

Why are you so fascinated with her? Why not just ignore her? Let her, and her mom slide back into the cesspool of mediocrity they so richly deserve.

Instead you are bringing them back to the surface.

Stop it.

[spanone]

12. bullshit.....fascinated by her?....you funny

[MadHound]

21. And yet here you are, posting about her book, giving her free publicity,

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck. . .

[Goblinmonger]

24. I'm sure anyone not a DU member that stumbles across this thread

will come away thinking this is an endorsement from DU.

[spanone]

36. rrrrrrright

[RamboLiberal]

26. So what - everything on DU doesn't have to be serious political

discussions. The Palin grifter family are a whacky diversion. Sad that the chillbillies got rich off this crap but posting on DU I doubt has added $1 to their earnings.

I enjoy the diversion.

You know there is an ignore thread feature here?????

Some of you need to use it instead of lecturing posters.

[asjr]

7. A work of fiction. I have a 14 year old

grandchild and I know she could write a better and shorter biography.

[Azathoth]

9. These hillbilly hucksters are really milking the crazies for every penny

Methinks they know their "earnin' years" are fast departing...

[democrat_patriot]

13. Shallow comment: She looks like she's 40 and had too much work done.

sorry.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Tommy Lee Jones just held a press conference to discuss his reaction to the Bristol Palin memoirs

See it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEIPq_gewL0

[Wind Dancer]

31. Good one!

[sarge43]

41. Mr Jones' silent reaction to the Bristol Palin memoirs

[paparush]

16. She didn't inhale?

"I can't recall"

Gimme a break.

[lpbk2713]

17. The Palins keep the ghost writers busy don't they?

Sorry, but I've already seen the Beverly Hillbillies on TV.
I'm just not interested in reading about them.

[mwooldri]

18. Which store? Going straight to Dollar Tree by any chance? n/t

[northoftheborder]

20. Agree with #2 & 8.

I'm not interested in pseudo-celebrity, which is what this person is destined for. Totally shallow, not of the slightest importance even marginally. Please lets not give this person publicity in this political and current events site.

[The Wizard]

22. It makes a great doorstop (NT)

[Urban Prairie]

23. "she had succumbed for the first time in her life to the "woozy charms" of wine coolers"

Yeah, I am certain that her sexual escapade with Levi was solely caused by her "succumbing" to the lure of wine coolers and their "woozy charms"...



:eyes:

[bullwinkle428]

25. "Woozy charms of wine coolers" - yeah, those Bartles & Jaymes guys

are totally responsible for all of those losses of virginity!

[Name removed]

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[KittyWampus]

29. Thinking more along the lines of "to the rush of crystal meth".

[Bandit]

33. What's a seventeen year old doing drinking wine coolers anyway?

No one seems to bother with this little aspect..:shrug: It isn't as if she didn't know or understand the LAW on this matter. She chose to break the Law and now wants to cash in on it.. What a perfect example for our children...

[name not needed]

39. More like a Four Loko and a big bag of meth

[StarburstClock]

28. entitled" Zit Faced Teen Slut Gets Surgically Mutilated"!

Who wouldn't want to read it?

[theophilus]

30. She doesn't even look like the same person. Has she been replaced? n/t

[LynneSin]

32. So she was date raped and her mother didn't do anything about it

At least that's the way I read it? I mean maybe at first she didn't do anything about it because she was scared but I'm sure once her mom knew she had to fess up about the drinking. You'd think Sarah would have held a shotgun to Levi's balls - I know my mother would have done that to anyone who had date raped me when I was drunk.

I see she's jumped on the Restalyne Bee-stung lip bandwagon. She'll have nasty trout pout in about 3-4 years.

[ellenfl]

35. those lips! oh, the horror.

p.s. she looks dreadful.

ellen fl

[ImNotTed]

34. "Memoir"?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[FreeStateDemocrat]

37. Shame on the Washington Post for giving it a book review. Dumb-down is accomplished, like totally.

[LynneSin]

43. I read that story and clearly she's got alot of bullshit in the story

Bristol makes it sound like she was some goody-two shoes that never touched alcohol before and yet there have been many stories reported of her hard partying & drugs. I think it was the National Enquiror that first broke the story and yes, I know it's the National Enquiror but remember they were the ones that broke the John Edwards story too.

[onethatcares]

38. wtf?wtf?wtf?wtf?

and there I lay, a bit dishleveled, a slight steamy mist rising from my loins, the myriad thoughts of an ex virgin swirling through the regions of my psych. On top of that, what was I gonna tell Taud?? I mean, how was I gonna tell "that" guy about what happened?


well, I hate to say it but I'm outa reading material funds at this present time, but I do respect her take on "woozy charms". Ever drank Ripple or Boones Farm apple wine on an empty stomach?

[Canuckistanian]

40. Can't wait to hear Levi's account of the "deflowering"

I'm guessing it'll be somewhat different.

[jimmyflint]

42. She looks like hell.

In that picture she looks more like a 40+ year old woman to me. WoW.

[Raine]

44. I wonder how long before it ends up in the bargain bin at 99¢ store ...

:rofl:

[tabasco]

45. What a load of shit.

Anyone stupid enough to buy this shit, let alone read it, should be deported.

[jmowreader]

47. She needs to find a better stylist, for one thing...

If she'd shorten her hair by at least a foot, have it permed on the fattest rods they make, and get away from the "smokey eye, nude lip" look that doesn't work on her, she'd look far better.

The scariest part of that fourth paragraph: her "succumbing to the woozy charms of wine coolers" has given her a life she could never have dreamt of. Now let me see: she was what, sixteen years old when her boyfriend got her drunk and fucked her, right? She was sixteen and living in a town whose claims to fame are the vast amount of meth labs and the unbelievable corruption of the last mayor they had before this one. If someone would have come up to her and said, "Bristol, in three years you are going to be a very famous teenager. You'll be rich. You'll own a house in Arizona. You're going to go on television, wear beautiful clothes and fly around the country giving speeches to other teens," she would have laughed in that person's face. But that is exactly what has happened. Her plans probably involved getting a bachelor's degree, marrying her hockey-player boyfriend, taking a job as a teacher or nurse, and living a decent, unspectacular life. Given the choice of what she wanted versus what she now has, which would you take?