A letter to Bristol Palin
Jun. 19th, 2012 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richDear Bris:
Okay, I know Lifetime is shit TV, but I like Will & Grace reruns. But it also means I'm subjected to promos for your new reality show. I mostly ignore them because, after all, whatever. Enjoy your 15 minutes. I don't run cable.
But tonight's promo was more than my bullshit meter could handle. Whose idea was that Fosse-esque running dance around a spotlight on a dark set, throwing up your hands and dodging it, while you whine in a voiceover how hard your life has been since you were seventeen? I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended to make me burst out laughing - but good show.
Listen, kid, here's how it is: Your teenage problems with the public eye were a combination of your mother's fault for dragging you around to boost her image, and a moron press corps that should've treated you as off-limits while you were still a kid - a stupid kid, but hey, kids should get to be stupid. It's a perk of childhood. Even Obama criticized the press to leave you alone then. I'm sure it sucked, and I pitied you then. But you're an adult now, and if you want to do the famewhore thing, you've gotta take the lumps that come with it, with less whining and more guff. Quit bitching that being a Palin comes with all this unfair scrutiny - that's all your mother's doing, William Kristol's, and the Kochs.
After all, you seem content enough to be right there in the middle of it - it's easier than doing a real job, right? Your mom figured that out years ago. And you're well paid for your exposure. This is your choice, kid; enjoy it!
-Ver
Okay, I know Lifetime is shit TV, but I like Will & Grace reruns. But it also means I'm subjected to promos for your new reality show. I mostly ignore them because, after all, whatever. Enjoy your 15 minutes. I don't run cable.
But tonight's promo was more than my bullshit meter could handle. Whose idea was that Fosse-esque running dance around a spotlight on a dark set, throwing up your hands and dodging it, while you whine in a voiceover how hard your life has been since you were seventeen? I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended to make me burst out laughing - but good show.
Listen, kid, here's how it is: Your teenage problems with the public eye were a combination of your mother's fault for dragging you around to boost her image, and a moron press corps that should've treated you as off-limits while you were still a kid - a stupid kid, but hey, kids should get to be stupid. It's a perk of childhood. Even Obama criticized the press to leave you alone then. I'm sure it sucked, and I pitied you then. But you're an adult now, and if you want to do the famewhore thing, you've gotta take the lumps that come with it, with less whining and more guff. Quit bitching that being a Palin comes with all this unfair scrutiny - that's all your mother's doing, William Kristol's, and the Kochs.
After all, you seem content enough to be right there in the middle of it - it's easier than doing a real job, right? Your mom figured that out years ago. And you're well paid for your exposure. This is your choice, kid; enjoy it!
-Ver
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Date: 2012-06-21 06:37 pm (UTC)Ugh, seriously, I just.. I mean, I sympathize with someone who probably just wants to go out and not have to deal with people getting up in her face about her mom or politics, but the minute "you're a grown man arguing with a twenty year old girl!" left her mouth, I just... What self-respecting adult woman infantilizes herself like that? *shudder*
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Date: 2012-06-21 07:20 pm (UTC)