Like mother like daughter, Bristol learns to manipulate the truth for a paycheck.

The Daily Beast:

(Bristol) Palin's new chapter kicked off Thursday night in Visalia, where she spoke about abstinence—and breaking the news of her pregnancy to her shocked parents—to a supportive crowd at the Tulare-Kings Right to Life 15th Annual Making a Difference for Life Banquet. While promoting abstinence may not be new for the teen mom, who’s already a teen ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation, her Facebook recap of the Visalia event echoes the messaging of the pro-life movement, underscoring her increasingly public role as a pro-life advocate. It’s a message that’s right on track with the Palin brand: The former Alaska governor has always said it’s not just about talking the talk but also walking the walk, citing her decision to carry son Trig to term after she found out he had Down syndrome.

“There may be multiple forms of contraception, but I’m here to say that one fact remains. Those that practice abstinence have no chance of becoming pregnant,” Bristol Palin said Thursday, to cheers from the predominantly white and affluent audience. “Abstinence is not about morality, it is about reality. It is the only thing that works every time. My message is a simple one: Don’t make the same decision I made, just wait. Young ladies, please hear me.”

Organizers for the event did not allow members of the media into the convention center to record or photograph her appearance, and Palin, at one point in her talk, made reference to the “lamestream media.”

Bristol knows full well that the abstinence only approach to birth control is ridiculous when it comes to teenagers, hell she is the poster girl for how poorly that method works. (Of course as we learned from Sadie and her mom, Bristol was not even trying not to get pregnant back when she and Levi were canoodling.)

Do you remember back when Bristol was still being relatively honest?



For Bristol to now stand up before an audience of pro-life supporters and act as if back then she did not know any better, and has now seen the light, is a level of hypocrisy that must make her mother very proud indeed.

However even without access to the information that I have learned about Bristol's less than abstinent friendly activities recently, others are also seeing the glaring hypocrisy in the young woman's role as a pro-life spokesperson.

Palin’s abstinence-only message is attracting some criticism. “What is troubling is Bristol Palin’s role as a paid advocate of abstinence-until-marriage sex-education programs,” said Patsy Montgomery, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. “She is proof that these programs just don’t work. California recognizes that teens need medically accurate, comprehensive sex education to help them make responsible decisions about their bodies, and has banned abstinence-only programs in public schools. The result is that teen births in California continue to go down while states that embraced abstinence-only programs have experienced dramatic increases.”

It has become fairly obvious that this is the bone that Sarah threw Bristol to keep her out of trouble, and making her own money, so that Sarah can get back to planning her big campaign to show John McCain, and the Republicans, that without them holding her back there is nothing to stop her from finally getting the chance to redecorate the Oval Office.

Bristol is on the road with Ivy Frye at her side to keep her in check, Willow is on virtual lockdown, Track is self medicating and staying close to home until he decides what to do with the rest of his life,  Piper is connected to Sarah at the hip, and Levi has been completely discredited.  That leaves only Todd, and if the rumors about his lucrative deal with Sarah are true then he will gladly continue to hold her handbag and act like her attack dog, all while he fantasizes about the awesome new snowmachines and fishing boat he will be able to buy when this charade is finally over.

However Sarah, as usual, you have missed a few little details. Secrets in Alaska, are getting so hard to keep these days aren't they?