Palin livid that McCain camp ‘glamorized’ teen daughter’s pregnancy

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 -- 10:05 am
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firstdudepalinhusband Palin livid that McCain camp glamorized teen daughters pregnancyFormer Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says she was "shocked" when the McCain campaign revealed that her daughter Bristol was pregnant and then declared that the Palins were happy to see their daughter have a child.

Appearing on Good Morning America to promote her book Going Rogue, Palin continued on a theme she touched upon in her book: The tensions between herself and the McCain campaign during last year's presidential election.

News of her daughter Bristol's pregnancy "was released to the media before I could talk about it and before Bristol could talk about it, and that was unfortunate because teenage pregnancy is a problem in America and we did not want it to be glamorized," Palin told ABC's Barbara Walters. "And the McCain team had sent out the message that Todd and I were giddy happy to become grandparents, and I was shocked when I saw that statement. I said 'no, no, no, that's not the message that we want to send.'"

Palin made similar comments during her interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired on Monday.

"If we [the Palin campaign] had been given that allowance to deal with the issue in a more productive way, we perhaps could have sent a better message about -- this is not to be glamorized," Palin said. "It's not to be emulated."

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Palin also told Walters that the father of the child, Levi Johnston, doesn't have any dirt on her as he now claims. Late last month Johnston told CBS News that he knows things that could "hurt" Palin, but wouldn't divulge them because he didn't want to go "that far."

"He doesn't have anything on me," Palin said.

Johnston also alleged that Palin referred to her son Trig, who has Down syndrome, as her "retarded baby."

"That's heartbreaking, to know that he would say such a thing, and that's not true," Palin told Walters.

On Monday, NBC News reported that Nicole Wallace, a former aide to the McCain campaign, said all the conversations recorded in Palin's book are "fabricated," because Palin never recorded or took notes of conversations with McCain staffers.

This video is from ABC's Good Morning America, broadcast Nov. 17, 2009.



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  • RadicalCaveman
    She is lying through her teeth. She was enthusiastically on-board with McCain on this all the way. Now she's trying to rewrite history to her advantage, and who cares who she has to slur to do it, even within her own party. America's family values?
  • dennycrane
    Here is how these dumbasses work: they throw the "shit" on the wall and then draw the target around it.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    My father used to say his father used to say throw enough shit at the wall and some of it's bound to stick.
  • sixhundredsixtysix
    I've added to this saying just recently because the technique involves more then just what sticks...

    It goes: "... and whatever doesn’t stick to the wall just ads to the stinking pile"

    I believe this is a more accurate depiction of what the gee-o-pee does on a regular basis.
    Even if the shit doesn’t stick it still adds to the stinking pile.

    Pass it on ...
  • gr0o
    Reason 54654136515448 why she was a bad pick. She was too naive to realize that every single aspect of her life would be spun to reflect the values of the Religious Right, The NRA voters, Anti-Womens Rights groups, and female voters. As a symbol, she was perfect. As an actual contender for VP she was a joke. I'm not entirely convinced that she didn't singlehandedly hand the win to Obama.
  • edwards_com
    SHE glamorized & exploited her family long after the election was over. When do Conservatives begin taking responsibility for their own behavior?
  • gr0o
    You're absolutely correct and I'm pretty sure the book is one lie after another. I've asked here on Rawstory (rhetorically) whether she actually believes the things she says or if she thinks WE believe the things she says...
    Regardless, in the context of the book as written she makes herself sound like an ill-prepared ninny.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    D/R = two sides of the same coin. Republicans are always aggressors, Dems are always apologists. Clinton got impeached over a BJ. Bush2 illegally invaded a foreign country that had nothing to do with 9/11 but he walks free.

    it all fits the 'shadow government' agenda. When I say 'shadow government' i mean... I don't know who I mean but notice 'they' convicted Saddam of murdering 144 Kurds but they chose a charge that did not involve the US like Reagan selling WMDs to Saddam in the 80s for their war against Iran.

    Of course Iraq had WMDs... Reagan sold them some!

    They invaded Iraq for the oil, plain and simple, and they allowed the 9/11 perps into the country, they gave them flight lessons, etc, specifically SO they could use it as a pretext to invade Iraq.

    The Bush family has a long (3 generations) history of making money off killers of Americans:

    Bush Family's Partnership w/ Killers of Americans: tinyurl.com/carlylegrp
    thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns.html
  • the thing is, what wmd they did have had been used or destroyed, rotted, had broken or otherwise useless delivery systems and were, therefore, unusable. unusable weapons are not weapons and the inspectors had said so.

    now the whole place, soil, water and air, is poisoned with DU. watch the birth defect rates of returnees and iraqiis ....

    americans have to get used to the fact that the usa is and has been a rogue nation governed by criminals long before prescot bush. lots of blood on our hands ...

    btw, palin's 15 is running way overtime ...
  • kucinich2012
    THIS SITE IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE SARAHPALIN.COM! Why so much exposure to keep her in the news?
  • godistwaddle
    Hey, a hot teen who's been pullin' the train for the local hockey boys and is gonna birth a bastard grandson of a typically hypocritical fundamentalist chritian V.P candidate. Better expect a little attention.
  • kkey22
    WHY DOES SARAH PALIN ALWAYS HAS HER KIDS WITH HER ????
  • bizmark
    That has to be one dysfunctional family. Those kids should be in school and having a normal life playing with other kids instead of dragged all over the place as props. I feel sorry for them.
  • saraswati
    oops! There goes Palin's backers for abstanance only! She believes in birth control, she said. Oh, boy! We will soon be reading about the fundamentalists backing away from her. She lied during her campaign! Why didn't she and Todd use birth control? Stay tuned!
  • pierrebrennan
    On Bristol's pregnancy: "Wasn't trying to keep it secret, and, and WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ANYWAY."
  • Diggykris
    Hahaha her kid is named after paper.
  • lacywood
    Palin forgets that she was all over our TVs in a rush job to reveal her daughter's pregnancy on a Monday I recall very well. You see, there was a mention in Kos of an unaddressed rumor that was all over Alaska that the daughter had actually had Sarah's baby born in late Spring 2008...so Sarah HAD to reveal that Bristol was pregnant "since she couldn't have had Trig and be pregnant that soon"...and LIBERALS FORCED HER TO DO IT.....And the job had to be rushed because Kos had already retracted the story. Truth...She was a willing participant in the worst part of that sordid affair...Throwing her daughter under the bus to fabricate a distraction accusation against "liberals".
  • therealjoeschmoe
    I'd believe that Levi's secret stuff on Palin is that they had a thing. I mean, come on. She is so the type...
  • Phil E. Drifter
    Hey Palin it was YOUR slutty daughter who got pregnant because YOU refused to let her learn about condoms.

    Stop blaming others for your failures, Sarah.
    Stop blaming others for your failures, Sarah.
    Stop blaming others for your failures, Sarah.
    Stop blaming others for your failures, Sarah.
    Stop blaming others for your failures, Sarah.
  • damixaustex
    So, wait, I'm confused now.

    Did John McCain camp make her carry the other baby to all the speeches?

    What a jerks they must be, using babies to attract attention of potential voters.
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