Bristol, Tripp, and Todd Palin on The Today Show this morning w/link- Page 2

[supportivemom]

Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:26pm

On The View today they said she was getting paid for this gig. That makes my skin crawl more if it's true! Totally agree that it is her personal life that got her into this situation and she should be held accountable for it and answer questions about it. She is not the typical teenage mom. She's has money- her family has "power" and she has all the help in the world- except from the baby's father. Now she has managed to get a trip to New York and all over the country to promote her "agenda".

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:27pm

I guess her message is "don't have sex unless you have rich, well connected parents."

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:42pm

She was also on GMA. I turned the channel both times. On The View they were saying that she gets paid to do the commercials, but I am almost sure she got paid to do the morning shows. I think they get something like 2,500 bucks based on what I was told. On The Today Show, wasn't she preceded by the story on the face transplant? Meredith was prety rude with the doctor who was talking by just cutting her off to go to the next story.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:45pm

So she gets paid to be a hypocrite. Nice.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:53pm

Orangeskittles
I'm just saying that it is very hypocritical in girls (not just Bristol) saying stuff like that, when they are trying to tell others not to do it.

If they are going to say things like 'having the baby was the best thing in their life' and that they 'wouldn't have changed a thing', then IMHO they shouldn't be an advocate for the issue in the first place.

It sends out the wrong message, and for all the depressed teenage girls out there who think a baby will make them happy (and apparently there are a lot...according to Tyra Banks) when they hear the world telling them not to have a kid, but the teenage mothers, like Bristol, saying mostly positive stuff about being a teenage mother they will most likely side with the mother.

I just don't like it. If what they say is true about it being the best thing in the world for them, then I don't think they should be placed in a position like Bristol.

They need to say the truth, and if it was the biggest mistake in their life then they need to say it. If they don't want to say things that would potentially hurt their children (when they are older), then they don't need to be advocates.

Yeah it's complicated, but I don't think it needs to be complicated coming from the advocates, I think they need to get their message across.
Bristol was giving nothing but mixed and complicated messages in this interview...and in another one I saw where Sarah Palin was on the set with her.