Originally Posted by Greger
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Bristol is eighteen. She is now promoting herself as a spokesperson for abstinence only contraception. She has chosen to make herself a public person. She is fair game.

A Knight, she never really chose to make herself a public person. It was thrust on her. She's just a kid. A very unfortunate kid. Not a particularly smart kid. Certainly not very worldly.
Because the media glommed onto her story and granted her notoriety, she was asked to appear on television, she was asked questions and she answered as she was taught.
Just because she's old enough now to be legally taken advantage of does not, in my mind, maker her Fair Game to be publicly smeared because of her views and opinions.
This aside, Letterman's joke was aimed directly at a 14 year old because he didn't know which daughter attended a ballgame with her Mom. Are all the children of Sarah Palin doomed to have sexist jokes made about them from now on? are they all fair game because their family doesn't meet your approval or your particular social views?
I don't believe children are Fair Game in any shooting match, even young Levi. Who has been pronounced a joke by one of the high and mighty among us. He's just a redneck kid who did what redneck kids do. Who knows, without all the left wing smears and ridiculous publicity forced on them by the Right those two kids might be happily married right now and on the way to making more little republicans. That's something else redneck kids do, they do what they think is right.
greger, i take full responsibility for my actions as an 18 year old on forward. really, i take responsibility for my actions as a 17 yr old too but the point is, unless we can all agree that bristol has been brain washed and is under control of her parents voodoo, the young woman does have a mind of her own. that said, me thinks too big a deal is being made of this whole affair. the only two people who are benefiting from this are gov. palin and letterman. they are reaping the publicity points here, regardless of what side of the issue it is coming from.

sure, you can talk to god, but if you don't listen then what's the use? so, onward through the fog!