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I don't believe children are Fair Game in any shooting match, even young Levi. Excuse me. Levi Johnson went on the Tyra Banks Show and spilled his guts. He choose to become a public figure. He's fair game.
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I'm seeing a lot of dysfunctional enabling on this thread.
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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.
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Okay, 2wins, fess up. You have admitted previously to being some manner of journalist. I am struck by the similarity in conclusion between the "post" above and this item in the "Post". Is your cover blown??? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/15/AR2009061503131.html?hpid=topnews
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sure, you can talk to god, but if you don't listen then what's the use? so, onward through the fog!
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OK, now that your cover is fully blown, I assume that the Bilderberg group is coming after you... 
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. --Bertrand Russel
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OK, now that your cover is fully blown, I assume that the Bilderberg group is coming after you...  they got me a long time ago. that's why i live in a backwater town writing for a small daily paper.
sure, you can talk to god, but if you don't listen then what's the use? so, onward through the fog!
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Excuse me. Levi Johnson went on the Tyra Banks Show and spilled his guts I don't imagine Levi called Tyra and asked for the chance to spill his guts. Quite the other way around, in fact, and they even offered to pay him to do it. Pretty much everybody is fair game to you, Rick, women, children, lesbians, Hispanics, unwed parents, single parents, parents in general, anyone that's down on their luck, anyone who has less than you do. I'm okay with that, why exactly did you bring Levi into this thread anyway? Just because he's fair game so you took a cheap shot at him? Anybody else you'd like to bring into the thread and snipe at? 2wins, Why must we all agree that the kid was brainwashed? She was taught not to have sex until she was ready to have a baby, she still believes this is good advice. Perhaps you encourage your children to have sex as soon as possible but to use birth control, different strokes for different folks eh? Abstinence only works though if you actually abstain. Condoms only work if you use them. No one is scoring any publicity points from our little discussion of this here. Mostly we're talking about whether it's right or wrong for Letterman to make sexually charged jokes about the children of politicians. I think it's wrong, apparently you and others think it's right. The age of the children is really of no importance.
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I'm seeing a lot of dysfunctional enabling on this thread. And I'm seeing a lot of ugliness and mean-spirited cruelty in this thread. 
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Yep. Let's all just take a breathe and relax a bit. If anyone has anything new to bring to the thread topic, nicely summarized by Greger: "whether it's right or wrong for Letterman to make sexually charged jokes about the children of politicians" then go ahead and post. Let's not hammer at each other, though. 'Kay?
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