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Best of FameCrawler - Week of May 22nd

Whit Honea — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Gosselins are Good for a Gander

Katie Holmes Sets a Bad Example For Suri

Mormon Marie Osmond Supports Her Gay Daughter!

Stars Come Out For American Idol Finale: Brad Garrett and Kids Max and Hope

Barbara Walters To Interview John Edwards' Mistress Rielle Hunter!?

Bristol Palin and Son Tripp Cover People

Angelina Catches Brad and Jen Aniston Together!

Kate Gosselin Blogs Her Troubles Away

Matt Damon: Bourne to Be a Dad

Pregnant Lauren London & Lil Wayne Will Raise Baby Together!!!

Kelly Clarkson Looks Like She's Pregnant!

Caption This, Julia Roberts (or Don't)

Did Sarah Palin Know That Bristol Was Sleeping With Levi?

Brett Singer — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:07:00 GMT

In an interview with Tyra Banks that will air on Monday, Levi Johnston says that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin "probably knew" that he was having sex with her daughter Bristol. Levi also tells Tyra that Mama Palin allowed the young lovers to sleep in the same bed at her home.

Well. As the Church Lady might say, isn't that special.

It's all well and good to scream and holler about how "the media" should "leave these kids alone," as Angie Harmon recently did on Fox News. But someone needs to tell these kids to stop doing so many interviews. I mean, Tyra? Really Levi? Why? If the reason is "because they asked," someone needs to point out to the young hockey player that "no thanks" is an acceptable reply.

Over at ParentDish, Susan Wagner writes that Bristol and Levi "clearly they haven't been getting very good guidance from the adults in their lives. It's our job as parents to help our teens mature into responsible people, and sometimes that means saying no -- to sex and to interviews." Funny how the advice from "the media" can be better than whatever these two seem to be getting from their own parents.

Source: US Magazine via AOL ParentDish

Image: FameCrawler

Madonna Adoption Denied, Appeal Filed

Family Awarded Millions For Circumcision Mistake

Woman Will Go Free If Son Comes Back To Life

Finish Line - April Fools And More

Judge to Mom: Spank Your Kid or Pay Up

Babble Talk: Do We Still Judge Women for Having C-Sections?

Best of FameCrawler: Week of January 2nd

Whit Honea — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Kate Winslet Looks Good Naked

Tripp Johnston Speaks Out: Take My Family, Please.

Is Jennifer Garner in Labor?

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony: It's Over

Josh & Anna Duggar: Premarital Sex

Charles Barkley - DUI, Gun and Oral Sex: Still Not a Role Model?

Public Sex and New Year's Orgasms with Jordan and Peter

Snow, Fur And Sarah Palin In A Bikini

Ani DiFranco Has a Trick Baby

Mariah Carey Eats Oysters, Therefore is Not Pregnant

When Baby Daddies Attack

Heath Ledger is Haunting Michelle for Closure

$7M Book Deal: More Rope for Sarah Palin to Hang Herself With?

JeanneSager — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:33:00 GMT

"You've got to hear this," a fellow Obamaniac insisted. A waitress at the diner where she'd been eating her breakfast had just spent a good portion of her service trying to convince her that Sarah Palin is highly intelligent - she only acted dumb because the Republican National Committee order her to "play the dumb broad to get men to vote for her."

My thanks go to that waitress. I have yet another reason to get down and kiss the pro-America ground I walk on because Sarah Palin won't be in charge of it. It's why I'm almost excited to read the results of a reported $7 million book deal expected for the former vice presidential candidate.

It's like my own daily affirmation a la Democratic Senate Candidate (and holding) Al Franken's alter ego Stuart Smalley. I'm good enough. I'm smart enough, and doggone it, she's not my vice president. Because, frankly (no pun intended), the idea of any woman throwing her support behind "a smart woman who's consented to dumb herself down" to win the approval of the guys who prefer the size of her rack to the size of her brain means women need a serious self esteem boost. It forces me to wonder how many women don't yet think they're good enough or smart enough to share their honest opinions with the world.

Want to feel better about yourself, smarter than someone else? Pick up a book that tells the tales of a woman who thumbs her nose at science and can't even read words strung together on a Starbucks cupholder that rests in her hand.You'll feel better in no time.

Image: Fox News

Kids Yell Assassinate Obama on Idaho School Bus

A Taste of Sasha and Malia's White House Rules: But Can They Paint it Pink?

From 52 to 48 With Love: When Families are Split Down Political Lines

Woman in Labor Holds Off Delivery Until After Voting for Obama

Trick or Treating With the Obamas: Scary or Too Cute?

Woman Auctioning Off Her Virginity Calls Herself a Feminist

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:15:00 GMT

And yet more proof that you can use feminism as an argument for anything. Today, 30 years after the women’s movement has achieved absolute victory (in much the same way we accomplished our mission in Iraq back in 2003), women are not only able to freely sell their bodies via the World Wide Web, but are able to intelligently discuss their prostitution goals with supermodels like Tyra Banks, who clearly insinuate that virgins shouldn’t dress so “sexy.”

Just like Palin, 22-year-old Natalie Dylan (pictured) is living proof that anyone with a uterus can brand herself a feminist, even as her actions risk setting the women’s movement back about 50 years. Speaking on the Tyra Banks Show, Dylan explained that her interest in making some big bucks at Nevada’s Moonlight Bunny Brothel by auctioning off her virginity (the highest bid so far is $3.8 million) is mainly academic, stemming from her commitment to feminist studies. Dylan is writing her college thesis on “the dichotomous relationship between virginity and prostitution.” That is indeed quite a dichotomy—just the kind of dichotomy that the friendly fellas over at the Moonlight Bunny Brothel will be very interested in, I’m sure.

Check out a clip of Dylan speaking to Tyra on Jezebel.

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Palin: Women Who Don't Support Other Women Go to Hell

Palin Mocks Autism Research

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:30:00 GMT

No one should be too surprised at this point to hear that one of McCain’s top advisers referred to Sarah Palin as a “whackjob.” Or that Alaska’s largest newspaper enthusiastically endorsed Barack Obama for president. But it remains fun (in that stomach-churning way) to take a peak at some of the myriad reasons why Palin is widely disliked and distrusted even among her own people.

Take fruit flies, for instance. In Palin’s recent speech on special needs children, one of her more awkward blunders pertained to earmarks:

"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up, anyway? [...] You've heard about, um, these -- some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"

As the Huffington Post points out, fruit flies have been essential to autism research, showing that a protein called neurexin plays a huge role in proper brain functioning. Considering that this speech was supposed to be about helping special needs families, it’s truly baffling why Palin would have chosen to bash research that is widely known to be integral to understanding and treating autism.

Furthermore, fruit flies are the basic research tool of modern genetics, as anyone who has taken a biology class knows. To sneer at such research displays either extreme stupidity or a dangerous lack of concern for the opinions of the vast majority of her would-be constituents.

Photo: wizbangblog.com

Palin: Women Who Don't Support Other Women Go to Hell

Palin Speaks Out on Special Needs Trusts

Dudes for Palin: Vote for the Hot Chick!

RNC Mailer Could Give Your Kids Nightmares

Anti-Palin Ad Targets Parents

Dudes for Palin: Vote for the Hot Chick!

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:30:00 GMT

It may not surprise you to learn that, according to the New York Times, “dudes” constitute Sarah Palin’s most vocal supporters. But it may disturb you to learn what these men have to say about her.

Although Palin was ostensibly chosen for her anticipated appeal to women, the former beauty contestant has (gasp!) won over far more men than women, with her initial approval ratings at 44 percent among men and 36 percent among women. (Those numbers have since dropped considerably, down to 31 percent among men.)

Even as many conservatives fault Palin for being, to put it nicely, not “serious” enough, Joe Sixpacks can’t get enough of her. One of Palin's female supporters acknowledged that Palin rallies are about “70-30, maybe 65-35, men to women.” Among the shout-outs that Palin routinely receives at her rallies are cries of, “You tell ‘em babe!” and “You rock me out, Sarah!” Some men sport “Proud to vote for a hot chick” buttons, while others carry “Dudes for Palin” signs.

Palin apparently loves the testosterone-charged rock concert atmosphere of her rallies. After entering a rally to the heading-banging tunes of AC/DC, she told the crowd, “That was kinda cool.” She has also introduced her husband as “Alaska’s First Dude.”

At least one Palin supporter interviewed by the Times admitted that he came to a Palin rally “just to look at her.” He wisely chose to remain anonymous. Let’s hope he realizes that, just as it’s embarrassing to admit to supporting a political candidate simply because of her appearance, actually voting an inexperienced, scandal-plagued woman into the White House simply because she’s “beautiful” at a time in which our country is engaged in two wars, is widely hated throughout the world, and is in the early stages of widespread economic collapse, would be an unforgivably inane decision.

Dudes, if you want to stare at hot chicks, watch Desperate Housewives.

Photo: New York Times

Anti-Palin Ad Targets Parents With Teenage Rape Victim's Plea

JeanneSager — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:36:00 GMT

In a chilling video for any parent of a little girl (and those of not-so-little girls too) Women Against McCain Palin have struck hard at the "unapologetically pro-life" vice presidential candidate.

Watching the sniffling teenage girl relate the tale of being raped, without a choice, made a lump form in my throat. I'd like to see any parent - pro-life or otherwise - watch this one stone-faced.

"I was raped, and then I got pregnant," the girl (whose identity I haven't been able to determine - is she an actress?) says. "Sarah Palin believes the government should be able to force me to carry the pregnancy to term. Sarah Palin believes that the government should make that choice. Not me. Governor Palin, I didn't have a choice about being raped. But I should have a choice about this."

The words coming out of an adult woman's mouth would have been striking, but this campaign ad is going straight for parents. It's a reminder that no matter what decisions we make for ourselves, we have to be making them for our kids too.

Does it change your opinion?

GOP Shows Obama With Fried Chicken and Watermelon

Palin's Ohio Rallies Reveal Frightening Misconceptions about Barack Obama are Alive and Thriving

Video Gamers Find Obama in Xbox 360

Does PSA Blame Parents for their Daughters Being Raped?

Palin Urges Voters Not to Forget the "Right to Life"

Hey Sarah Palin, Make Your Kids Go to School

JeanneSager — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:03:00 GMT

I've got one question for Sarah Palin: Do your kids ever go to school?

That Bristol Palin has essentially been glued to her mother's side since the news broke that she's got Levi Johnston's bun in the oven has made me wonder if the Republicans have dropped all pretense of subtlety and are outright telling us they really don't think a girl needs an education once she's fulfilled her duty of making babies. Then Johnston announces he's opted out of school too and gotten a job in the Alaskan oil fields.

Why? The baby won't be here until December, yet no one thinks these teenagers should be spending the precious days left before the birth in a school building? Sarah Palin expects us to put her a heartbeat away from commander in chief because she's in charge of the Alaska National Guard, but has she forgotten she's also head of that state's education system? Not exactly a shining reference for becoming second-in-command to the guy overseeing the nation's department of education.

One quarter to one third of female dropouts in this country say pregnancy played a role in their decision to leave school before graduation. But a study by the Gates Foundation found the girls who dropped out of high school due to motherhood were more likely to say they would have stayed and done well if they'd had a little support. They were more likely to have been on track to graduate, many with higher marks than their peers.

So what happens to them? The National Women's Law Center report, When Girls Don't Graduate We All Fail, says dropouts have lower paying jobs, higher health risks and lower access to quality healthcare. Then - surprise, surprise - their kids turn around and drop out of school. Another shocker? Many end up living off the state. The NWLC report surmises that every student who graduates from high school saves the state as much as an average of $40,500 in total publich health and $3,000 in welfare expenditures over his or her lifetime.

Yet Levi Johnston has decided to forego his senior year of high school, and the woman who told us she's from a family of school teachers during the debate is OK with this? She's OK with her pregnant 17-year-old daughter spending days flitting around the country instead of sitting inside an Alaskan school building? No, there's been no official announcement that Bristol is droping out of school, but there's little evidence that she's actually attending. Considering the chunk of time she spent playing hooky last year that helped fuel (untrue) rumors that her baby brother was really her child, there's no sign her mother really cares.

Let me explain something to you Governor Palin, your job as a mom is to prepare your kids for their future. Want what's best for them and your grandchild? Tell your daughter to get her hind end back to Alaska and go to school. And call the Johnston family and tell them to do the same. Unless you want the people of Alaska to be stuck supporting them too.

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Teen Marriage: It Can Last a Lifetime

Preventing Teen Pregnancy, One Tick at a Time

Palin: Women Who Don't Support Other Women Go to Hell

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:49:00 GMT

It's not a good sign when a potential president fouls up a famous quote, particularly when she's reading it off of a piece of paper and when she picked it up from a Starbucks cup earlier that morning. At a California rally yesterday, Sarah Palin told an enthusiastic crowd, "There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women."

She was misquoting Madeline Albright, who once said, "There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't help other women." In this case, "help" and "support" may be polar opposites.

Palin goes on to wonder how "a comment like I just made, how it will be turned into whatever it will be turned into tomorrow in the newspaper." Well, I'm going to let you, the people, turn that comment into whatever you turn that comment into after you watch this video.

Photo: mlive.com

National Organization for Women President Endorses Palin

Should We Raise Little Democrats or Republicans?

JeanneSager — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:13:00 GMT

My grandmother spent weeks trying to teach my toddler new words: Barack Hussein. Muslim. Kenya. Can you tell she's a Republican?

I refused to take the bait. My husband and I haven't decided if our daughter will skew Democrat or (eeek) Republican. Because it's not really our decision to make. Although a Michigan State University study recently showed most Americans cast our ballots based on party rather than issues, we're all about raising an issues child.

We're pro-choice (although not really pro-abortion). We're pro-gay marriage. We're fiscally conservative. And we've been known to vote on either side of the fence - chiefly in local elections. In other words - we're fiercely independent (or neither party would want us, but that's another story). And we'd like to think our child will be too.

So what's the problem? A study back in the 1970s by Kent Jennings and Richard Niemi found that parents are "more effective at transmitting their political party affiliation than their beliefs on specific political issues." A piece called "Ask the Kid" in a New Hampshire newspaper proved their point this week. Asked if they'd pick Biden or Palin, the 10-year-old asked which was a Democrat, which was a Republican. When he got the answer, he said Palin. "Because our family usually votes for Republicans."

So beliefs = bad; party politics = good? The fact that the last substantial study on the issue is three decades old gives me more than a litte pause - despite the piece in the Concord Monitor. I don't know what party my parents belong to, even today. I was always told that asking a person "who did you vote for" was akin to asking a woman her age - you don't do it. And yet, the values that drive my vote come from my parents. They too are pro-choice. They too are fiscally conservative. They never needed to tell me to check the box for "independent" when I signed my voter registration card. I simply did.

To be raising a child to think as a "Democrat" or as a "Republican" seems almost counterintuitive to our job as parents. You want bi-partisanship? Then I believe you raise a child to fight for what's right rather than a particular side. You raise them with good values - the sort that mirror our own. And on the day they turn 18, we should march them over to the DMV or the voter registrar's office and say, "You're ready. Register however you feel, but just register."

Image: Proud Brand

What Bristol Palin Can Expect, After Baby Algebra

Are your kids aware of the election?

Biden Chokes Up Discussing Family Tragedy

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:01:00 GMT

This was one of the most poignant moments of last night's vice presidential debate. When talking about what it's like to be a single dad raising two kids -- his wife died in a car accident -- Sen. Joe Biden nearly came to tears, revealing he wasn't all facts, figures, brains, experience and, what's the word? Prepared.

Trig and Bristol: Palin Family Names Run Amok

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:05:00 GMT

Leaving aside the grueling importance of Arctic Refuge drilling, unemployment, and high food and gas prices, has anyone else (other than Crabmommy) noticed how bizarre several of the Palin family names are?

Let's review and ponder their possible significance:

Track, eldest son - very focused?

Trig, ~~son grandson~~, son - serious math love?

Bristol, eldest daughter - Jolly Olde England?

Willow, middle daughter - parents snapped out of bizarre naming trend.

Piper, youngest daughter - see above.

Ok the last two are kind of pretty, but the themes are all over the map here, especially when compared to the lilting beauty of the Obama kids or even Joe Biden's daughter (Ashley). Of course Biden's middle name is Robinette, so perhaps once bitten twice shy.

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Best of FameCrawler - Week of May 22nd

Did Sarah Palin Know That Bristol Was Sleeping With Levi?

Levi Says Sarah Palin KNEW He And Bristol Were Being Intimate

Madonna Adoption Denied, Appeal Filed

Family Awarded Millions For Circumcision Mistake

Woman Will Go Free If Son Comes Back To Life

Finish Line - April Fools And More

Judge to Mom: Spank Your Kid or Pay Up

Babble Talk: Do We Still Judge Women for Having C-Sections?

Best of FameCrawler: Week of January 2nd

$7M Book Deal: More Rope for Sarah Palin to Hang Herself With?

Ad Against Al Franken is Comic Book About Rape, Porn

Kids Yell Assassinate Obama on Idaho School Bus

A Taste of Sasha and Malia's White House Rules: But Can They Paint it Pink?

From 52 to 48 With Love: When Families are Split Down Political Lines

Woman in Labor Holds Off Delivery Until After Voting for Obama

Trick or Treating With the Obamas: Scary or Too Cute?

Woman Auctioning Off Her Virginity Calls Herself a Feminist

Palin Mocks Autism Research

Dudes for Palin: Vote for the Hot Chick!

Anti-Palin Ad Targets Parents With Teenage Rape Victim's Plea

Hey Sarah Palin, Make Your Kids Go to School

Palin: Women Who Don't Support Other Women Go to Hell

Should We Raise Little Democrats or Republicans?

Biden Chokes Up Discussing Family Tragedy

Trig and Bristol: Palin Family Names Run Amok