NYT Columnist Frank Bruni Picks on 21-Year-Old Bristol Palin: Hypocrite, Bad Mother
New York Times columnist (and former White House correspondent for the paper) Frank Bruni gets nasty and personal again in his Tuesday column "The Right's Righteous Fraud," picking on 21-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of Sarah, for blogging about gay marriage, even throwing out a date rape reference. Judging by the time stamps at Bristol's blog, Bruni has stirred up another round of hateful lefty comments to Palin's original May 10 blog post, some of them simply regurgitating Bruni's bile.
In March, Bruni devoted a column to a former classmate providing a pat liberal morality lesson that seemed a lot like an invasion of doctor-patient privacy, then attacked Newt Gingrich and insulted Gingrich's wife. Today Bruni, who is openly gay, goes after Palin's oldest daughter for hypocrisy and being a bad mother, after Bristol had the audacity to blog her opinion on gay marriage (she's against it):
Say what you will about Bristol Palin, she’s a quick study. It didn’t take her long to master the ways of her elders on the censorious right and decide that personal circumstance and past error needn’t prevent someone from claiming righteous leadership. Uncle Rush must be proud.
Soon after President Obama stated support for same-sex marriage, Bristol publicly weighed in. Because, you know, the world was on tenterhooks.
In a blog post she focused on the reference that Obama made to his daughters -- and to the same-sex parents of some of the girls’ friends.
“It would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends (sic) parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage,” wrote Bristol, making her heady debut as the new Dr. Spock for a nascent millennium. She added that “in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.”
Fathers like...Levi Johnston? It’s with him that she conceived her child -- out of wedlock, at the age of 17 -- and by most accounts, his relationship with her and the Palin family isn’t any warmer than Juneau in January. A mother/father home is not what he and Bristol have succeeded in creating.
What’s more, she has made sure that their son, Tripp, will at some point be treated to a worldview-shaping image of Dad as something akin to a date rapist. That’s the description of him immortalized in her memoir, one of her many efforts to monetize her surname. It recounts the loss of her virginity as a result of getting drunk and blacking out in the company of Levi, who pounced. What a gift that narrative is to Tripp, now being hauled into a TV reality show, “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp,” already in production. Little children are known to thrive in such environments.
I hesitated before picking on Bristol because she’s an easy target. It’s like shooting moose from a helicopter flying low over the tundra.
But she so perfectly distills the double standards and audacity of so many of our country’s self-appointed moralists and supposed traditionalists: hypocrites whose own histories, along with any sense of shame, tumble out the window as soon as there’s a microphone to be seized or check to be cashed.
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Within its uppermost ranks are many champions of small government who squirm at the small-mindedness of the scowling theocrats in an increasingly uneasy coalition. These fiscal conservatives take advantage of the religious right’s political muscle but have reservations about its hectoring piety, and their own views on social issues are often moderate or somewhat liberal. Recall that Republican money played a pivotal role in the successful campaign for same-sex marriage in New York.
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Sounds like another whiner with a problem
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 9:28am.
His CHOICE of lifestyle is his problem and no one elses.
Since he feels inadequate in his choices in life he feels obligated to attack others simply because he has been given the position and 'ink by the barrel' to attack others to soothe his own petty little ego.
Sounds like another liberal loser in lifes big lottery game that liberal play.
Note to losers, life is not a lottery where you might win if you get lucky.
LIFE is a goal, where IF you make the correct decisions in life, and respect others as you proceed through life, your success will be guaranteed.
Feeling sorry for yourself because you're stupid is the best way to guarantee your own loss 'in lifes lottery'.
MORON!!!
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
I'm no Psychiatrist
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 9:28am.
I also have NO time ever spent in a college classroom, but I have been a friend of Bill Wilson for 23 years this Sunday.
I am more convinced than ever that homosexuality IS a mental disorder along the lines of alcoholism or drug addiction. It is a self-chosen, self-destructive lifestyle and not a genetic trait.
These truly hateful homosexuals, like Bruni & Savage are at the far end of that spectrum. They are the ones with a "phobia" of normal human relations. One only need to look at life and nature as it exists to see that the normal path is for a man and a woman to seek an intimate relationship with the other. Homosexuals are afraid of this.
I'm not saying it makes them bad people any more than anyone else. But I'm also not going to say that they are normal. And normal is the word I chose to use, because it has a definition and is part of our language.
These hate-mongers are exhibiting far worse behavior than any classroom bully. Their words affect thousands of people at once. I'd say millions, but doubt their readership or viewers number that high.
Congrats Tug!
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 9:49am.
Quite an accomplishment!
Congratulations, Phil!
Submitted by NOLAgirl on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:25am.
My sister got 10 yrs last month- and I can tell you we could not be more proud of her and all of you that fight this fight! You have given your family and yourself a most valuable gift.
Gee, another gay bully.
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 9:31am.
It's amazing how liberals fault someone for not living up to the perfect standards that they strive to acheive. But rather than be forgiving of them and achnowledging that they are promoting a virtue that they are finding hard to attain, they instead imply that there are no virues and that all standards are useless and should be abandoned.
Is it hypocrisy to promote family values while living in a situation, through no fault of her own, that is less than her optimum?
No. But that doesn't stop big-hearted and oh so tolerant Bruni from decalring that it is. Bruni goes on to point out her life-choice mistakes of having a baby out-of-wedlock at 17 and then implys that she can not tell others of that mistake simply because she made it. In fact, many of the younger generation will be more apt to pay attention to someone who has made the mistake than someone who hasn't. It's why they use ex-fat people to sell weight-loss products rather than supermodels.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Excellent point!
Submitted by Name on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 9:54am.
It's why they use ex-fat people to sell weight-loss products rather than supermodels.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/comment/reply/55877/1692645#ixzz1v2ZryWp1
This is a perfect response to anyone that thinks it is hypocritical to speak out against something you've done yourself. If we aren't allowed to learn from our mistakes and try to help others not make the same ones, what it the point?
Like other bitter homos,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 9:35am.
Bruni will never get over the fact he was wasn't born a woman.
This, I believe, is the root of their seething hatred, so to speak.
Why is this 50 year old NYC
Submitted by forest on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 9:46am.
Why is this 50 year old NYC food critic obsessing over the 21 year old daughter of a former VP candidate? Maybe he has a crush on Levi or something.
anybody got a spare can of Raid?
Submitted by Barabbus on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:12am.
What a cockroach. Some days are harder than others to refrain from using foul language on this site. A shame really, since I have some real choice ones for this creep.
The Gay Community Hurts Itself
Submitted by katiejane on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:27am.
when they use only angry wussified men as their spokesmen. There are gay men who don't flounce and twit about how "mean everyone is to them" but for some reason they always have the petty whiney ones presenting their positions on things. People like this guy just support the stereotype of gay men - how does that help them go mainstream?
So let's see
Submitted by chiefpayne on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 11:48am.
This guy is GAY and has NO children...yet he feels QUALIFIED to say Bristol is a bad mother??? Sounds MORE like he's JEALOUS of her to me.
Oh and as for the idea of hypocrisy, my advice to him is he should start with himself before going on to others...or in other words "Physician, HEAL thyself!"
And hey Frank...how is that bulimia problem going? You know, patients who have bulimia are often linked with having impulsive behaviors involving over spending and sexual behaviors as well as having family histories of alcohol and substance abuse, and mood and eating disorders. Sounds like YOU have more issues than Bristol, huh.
Well said, Chief Payne ...
Submitted by WilliamW on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 3:38pm.
The author of that screed against Bristol Palin, Conservatives, etc., betrays his sick mind, his deep seated hatred, his overwhelming cynicism, his vindictiveness, his intolerance, and his foul disposition.
Could all of that, and more, be the result of is sickness, the sickness of the deviant behavior, the disorder, the perversion, which is homosexuality?
Our nation, our culture, should NEVER have allowed the camel of homosexuality, lesbianism, transsexualism, transgenderedism to push his nose under the tent. Now the populace is harassed, tormented, demonized, dictated to, and bullied by the homosexual-lesbian-transsexual-transgendered sodomy lobby.
One thing that people must understand, Homosexuals, etc., and their advocates, are among the most intolerant, disrespectful, rude, violent, vicious, careless, in-your-face, coddled groups in the USA.
The author's envy at Palin and her family, his disgust with his perverted life style, his sickness, and his hatred, is a prison that he must live with, and all the tortures which come along with it, a fitting punishment for such a demonic, vicious creature.
Muslims, men hating women - AKA Feminists, or "Femi-NAZIs," Illegal invaders-immigrants, Blacks, and Hispanics are also quite intolerant and vicious as groups, all while scoring special, preferred status, and special treatment, here in the USA, often at the expense of law abiding citizens, and their children, along with Asians, who are frequently on the receiving end of racism and "reverse discrimination," in which certain sub-groups in the USA cannot stand success, and hence hate Asians, resulting in Asians singled out for discrimination in college admissions and in other areas, as well as the brunt of vicious, vile "jokes" and other forms of "humor" and hate filled, condescending comments, often vomitted by black "comedians," and other black celebrities, such as Chris Rock and others, as well as the likes of many "Hispanic" self righteous, ethno-centric celebrities.
For those of us who are involved in interracial marriages, who have extended interracial families, etc., with "Legal" immigrants, we understand the difference between Illegal, law violating, sovereignty violating, security risking invaders-immigrants, and legal immigrants. We have full Carte Blanche Moral Superiority in condemning illegal invaders-immigrants-trespassers, ripping off our resources, economy, jobs, etc., and putting us and our families in danger.
In regard to the bigoted, venomous, mentally deranged homosexual, obsessed with hatred, who wrote that vile, hate-filled attack against Bristol Palin, Conservatives, and supporters of True, authentic marriage - male and female, he is nothing more than a psyche ward inmate on the loose, spewing his hate mongering, intolerance, bigotry, and misogyny. In a sane world, such a person would be shunned and disparaged. Now the inmates have taken over the asylum and now get away with bloody murder.
The sick, demonic creature, who wrote that hate-filled, vicious piece of tripe against Palin, Conservatives, etc., is living in a prison of his own making, living a life of perversion, his heart tortured by his own hatred, bigotry, and intolerance, a fitting punishment for such a vile person.
He's just pissed.......
Submitted by Qtaug on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 5:00pm.
he blew his interview to replace the tooth fairy........