Bristol Palin – She is Her Mother’s Child (Obviously)

Every morning there is a consistent routine to Mo’Kelly’s process of news

gathering. First, Mo’Kelly looks for what the world is discussing, then what the U.S. is discussing; then sees what’s going on in the African-American community and the interrelation of all of the aforementioned. From there, The Mo’Kelly Report looks to find the stories missed by the media, further expands on the ones featured or simply takes it in an altogether different direction.

Today is one of those “altogether different directions.”

Mo’Kelly has never offered any extended commentary about conservative commentator and former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. In short, she’s Rush Limbaugh in a skirt and eight years on the Kathy Griffin bikini starvation diet. She’s Ann Coulter, just without the vocabulary, general intelligence or formal education; diet versions of Republican opinion-makers, masquerading as a political figure of import.

You get the point. You can’t take Sarah Palin seriously anymore than you would Rush, Ann or any other fringe, extremist conservative ideology and there’s no reason you should. Does Sarah Palin wield influence? Absolutely. There are millions of uninformed and uneducated Americans out there…her “audience.”  But never confuse influence with import and credibility. Crack cocaine and Justin Bieber both wield considerable “influence,” but neither crackheads nor teeny boppers are looked to for social commentary.  The same applies here.

Sarah Palin can’t be taken seriously. Any person taking political cues from the likes of Sarah Palin can’t and shouldn’t be taken seriously either. The popularity of the Palin persona is quite reasonable given the disproportionate influence of reality media and the dysfunctional nature of the relationship between actual news and tabloid journalism.

If Kim Kardashian can create a “television career” on the back of…hmm, let Mo’Kelly re-phrase…on her back in the form of a sex-tape with Ray-J; then yes, Sarah Palin can wrongfully be confused with being a political heavyweight and opinion-leader. Sarah speaks to a large segment of the American population, one disconnected from the knowledge of American or

world history. It’s explanative of why she finds consistent fault with First Ladies Barbara Bush and Michelle Obama. One founded a Foundation for Family Literacy (Bush) and the other is a Princeton-educated lawyer and has championed childhood obesity while serving as mother to two exemplary children. Palin has consistently taken issue with everything/everyone she is not or can’t be.

You will not ever hear of her taking issue with the uninformed masses or so-called political pundits who pedal thinly-veiled racism and homophobia.  Why offend her base?

Coincidence? Not likely. And speaking of “exemplary” children…Mo’Kelly will now go back to  the idea of teenage adolescents and taking them seriously.

Bristol Palin.

Named after a hotel in Connecticut, bounced between 3 high schools before becoming impregnated by high school dropout Levi Johnston. Her educational exploits culminated with her high school diploma from Wasilla High, not-so-coincidentally her mother’s alma mater and widely characterized as a “dropout factory.”  In other words, Wasilla High is not known for its commitment to education.

But Mo’Kelly digresses…

For Bristol’s exploits, she was rewarded with a career as a paid speaker on the sexual abstinence circuit and a spot on the ratings behemoth, Dancing With the Stars.

In a society in which getting knocked up in high school lands you a spot on TV shows (16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom, Dancing with the Stars), then yes, Bristol Palin is a “star” and her mother of also questionable educational background (5 different colleges in 6 years) is a “credible” political commentator.

These days, both mother and daughter are central figures in the NEWS media, usually surrounding controversial statements with the aromatic stench of racism and/or homophobia attached. The latest “news story” is that Bristol got loose on Facebook (again) and make some untoward comments about comedian Margaret Cho being a lesbian.

I will give my friend credit for creativity, and extra points for getting so many ‘facts’ wrong in so few sentences. Let me be blunt: my mom did not ‘force’ me to go on DWTS. She did not ask me either. The show approached me…

Anyone who watched the show could tell I performed better, and I felt better about myself, when they were in the audience. I wanted to make them both proud, but politics had nothing to do with it. Loving my parents had everything to do with it….

You say you ‘don’t agree with the family’s politics at all’ but I say, if you understood that commonsense conservative values supports the right of individuals like you, like all of us, to live our lives with less government interference and more independence, you would embrace us faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert.”

“Common sense”…did the formerly knocked up teenager, formerly engaged to the high-school dropout really undergird a point with the phrase “common sense?”

We as a society rewarded the teen mother with a TV show/career and at the same time expect her high school education and the parental stewardship of

Sarah Palin to guide her to a place of sexual tolerance and “common sense?”

Really?

Bristol Palin is inconsequential, as is her Facebook page and the comments expressed therein. It is indicative of the dysfunctional nature in which our contemporary news outlets operate. High school pregnancy is not, can not and should not ever be a pathway to stardom; neither should home sex tapes (Kardashian) or porn careers (Montana Fishburne).

Nothing which emanates from Bristol Palin’s mouth or social networking website should be taken to task and at best should be taken with a grain of salt. She is her mother’s child. Neither has earned the right to be taken seriously.

The moment Sarah Palin manages to conquer the issue of childhood pregnancy in a familial sense, is maybe…maybe the moment she can begin offering opinions about childhood obesity nationally. The moment someone in Sarah Palin’s family gains a legitimate education is the moment she should stop thanking Barbara Bush for her Foundation for Family Literacy and the work it does.  The moment Bristol Palin makes a meaningful contribution to society unrelated to unprotected sex, is the moment she should publicly comment about anyone’s sexual behavior; heterosexual or otherwise.

There has to come a point in which jokers, court jesters and clowns are characterized accordingly. It’s unfortunate that Mo’Kelly ever had to devote any time to anything Palin-related, but enough is enough. Let’s stop being “offended” at the semi-educated, homophobic, limited world-exposure people for acting true to form.

Sarah Palin is who she is, not who some present her to be. You can glue any number of chicken feathers on a chinchilla, but it still has no business in any 2-piece and biscuit meal from KFC.

She is who she is.

And Bristol is her mother’s child.