{"id":6874,"date":"2014-10-24T20:11:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6874"},"modified":"2014-10-24T20:11:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:11:13","slug":"no-fan-of-mama-palin-but-bristol-doesnt-deserve-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6874","title":{"rendered":"No fan of Mama Palin, but Bristol doesn't deserve this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As a proud and vociferous non-fan of Sarah Palin, I must declare my disgust at the way some media talking heads have portrayed her daughter, Bristol, in the wake of a brawl that erupted in Anchorage that allegedly involved several members of the Palin family.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2014\/10\/cnns-costello-apologizes-for-palin-remarks-197534.html?hp=r5<\/p>\n

The chief culprit in this disgraceful display of disrespect is CNN news anchor Carol Costello, who declared a recording\u00a0of Bristol’s\u00a0telling police of\u00a0being attacked by someone at a party to be\u00a0“quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we\u2019ve ever come across. Well, come across in a long time anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Costello has apologized for her on-air remark. But the damage is done.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred in September at a party in suburban Anchorage. Several of the Palins arrived and apparently an argument ensued. It got out of hand. One of Bristol Palin’s sisters got involved in a shoving match or some form of physical contact with another party attendee. Then it got nasty.<\/p>\n

So, what’s the issue here?<\/p>\n

The Palins — including Bristol’s mother, Sarah — blame the “liberal media” for making fun of Bristol’s involvement in a violent altercation. Bristol wrote in a blog post that the media would react far differently if Chelsea Clinton had been attacked in a similar manner and would have proclaimed her to be a “feminist hero” had she defended herself or someone else.<\/p>\n

Well, my strong hunch is we’ll likely never hear of such an incident involving the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the former president and a potential future<\/em> president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Whatever. The Palins are right to be angry over Bristol’s treatment.<\/p>\n

I’ll be brutally candid. My initial reaction to the story when it broke was one of disgust — not that Bristol was involved in a violent altercation, but that the Palins would get caught in such a ridiculous situation. Here’s what I wrote at the time:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2014\/09\/12\/palins-were-punchin-em-out\/<\/p>\n

I now get why the family is angry.<\/p>\n\n

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As a proud and vociferous non-fan of Sarah Palin, I must declare my disgust at the way some media talking heads have portrayed her daughter, Bristol, in the wake of a brawl that erupted in Anchorage that allegedly involved several members of the Palin family. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2014\/10\/cnns-costello-apologizes-for-palin-remarks-197534.html?hp=r5 The chief culprit in this disgraceful display of disrespect … Continue reading No fan of Mama Palin, but Bristol doesn't deserve this<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[626,751,940,4119],"class_list":["post-6874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bill-and-hillary-clinton","tag-bristol-palin","tag-chelsea-clinton","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}