Bristol Palin's Sexy Performance on "Dancing With The Stars" (Video)

Bristol Palin shows off some curves and moves in her first appearance on "Dancing With The Stars" tonight. Her famous mom was apparently not in attendance.  Seems like only yesterday Bristol was a minor child; she is now 19 years old.  Eat your heart out, Levi Johnston!

The Media Bias Against Sarah Palin

National Review Online has a must-read editorial regarding the mainstream media bias against Sarah Palin.  They write:

This shameful but predictable media performance [of cynical politicking regarding Sarah Palin and her pregnant daughter] stands in marked contrast to the rigorous “hands-off” privacy policy dutifully honored by the press throughout the Clinton years for the president’s then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. Indeed earlier this year, though Miss Clinton was now well into her twenties and an impressively poised surrogate for her mother’s campaign, NBC News suspended reporter David Shuster for asserting that Sen. Clinton’s campaign was “pimping” her daughter — a classless formulation, to be sure. But where’s the hyper-sensitivity about a candidate’s child now?

When Al Gore’s son was arrested on narcotics and speeding charges in 2007, moreover, the national press was a model of sympathetic restraint. The muted coverage was devoid of calls for a national “teaching moment” on drug abuse or responsible driving. The message was plain and correct: No news here, move along.

The Republican base and other people of good will are angry over this grotesque display. It is obvious what the media and Democrats are up to here. They want to define Sarah Palin as a failure before she even has a chance to succeed. Hence the speculation that McCain will dump her from the ticket. How absurd. All we know about Palin’s performance as a candidate so far is that she gave polished performances at her unveiling in Ohio and at a rally the next day in Pennsylvania. The supposed embarrassments — about her alleged membership in the fringe Alaskan Independence Party and her woefully incomplete vetting — are concoctions of a media stumbling over itself to prove a conclusion it has already reached.

So far, it is the press that has embarrassed itself, not the governor from Alaska.

Read it all.

Obama Takes Principled Stand: "Back Off on Bristol Palin's Pregnancy"

From the Washington Times:

MONROE, Mich. Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama Monday afternoon issued a strong statement to "back off" reports of Bristol Palin's pregnancy, telling reporters families — and especially children — are off limits in this presidential campaign.

Mr. Obama, campaigning here, also noted that his own mother was 18 when she gave birth to him.

"People's families are off limits," he said. "People's children are especially off limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. "

"I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories," he added. "That shouldn't be a topic in our politics."

"We don't go after people's families. Our people are not involved in any way," he said.

That is exactly the right and principled stand. As I recall, Barack Obama himself was conceived out of wedlock by his then 17 year old mother. That is certainly no reflection on him and should not be a source of shame to him, and I said so in an earlier post in this blog.

Back when Bill Clinton was in office, I told many friends and colleagues that Chelsea Clinton was "off limits" and not a valid topic for scoring political points. She was just a little girl and some things, like someone's daughter, are sacred.

Bristol Palin is Five Months Pregnant

A breaking story from Reuters: Sarah Palin has announced that her 17 year old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant. Bristol intends to marry the father and keep the baby.

Reuters reports:

ST. PAUL (Reuters) - The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Senior McCain campaign officials said McCain knew of the daughter's pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, deciding that it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.

McCain officials said the news of the daughter's pregnancy was being released to rebut what one aide called "mud-slinging and lies" circulating on liberal blog sites.

It should be noted that Bristol Palin conceived five months ago, or around April of this year -- the same month baby Trig was born to her mother.

This is the final, definitive proof that Bristol Palin could not possibly be the mother of Trig Palin.

Of course, we can now expect Bristol's real and actual pregnancy to become a new source of hateful, vicious and salacious cruelty by the radicals at the Daily Kos and Democratic Underground.