Just know, I totally have qualms about this story. It’s not that I think it’s “rude” to speculate about Bristol Palin’s mystery baby-daddy – I have no qualms about that kind of speculation and I tend to think that Bristol is inviting us into a public guessing game. But I do think the story is totally sketchball – The Daily Mail basically tracked down Dakota Meyer’s grandparents and got them to half-way admit (sort of) that Dakota is the father of Bristol’s baby. As you probably remember, Dakota and Bristol got engaged after a very brief courtship in March, and they set their wedding for May, only to have Bristol pull the plug just days before the wedding. The whole thing is still shrouded in mystery and tackiness, even more so now that there’s a mysterious pregnancy. So, what do Dakota’s grandparents have to say about the situation? Ugh.
Bristol Palin has yet to confirm her former war hero fiancé is the father of her unborn child. But whatever the single mum decides to do in the future, she might not get the warmest of welcomes from the family of her ex, Dakota Meyer.
‘We don’t ever talk about Bristol Palin,’ said Meyer’s grandfather Dwight when asked about the pregnancy announcement. ‘We don’t ever discuss her in this family.’
Dakota Meyer has chosen to remain mostly silent about the pregnancy. The war hero later shrugged off the pregnancy controversy by going on a ‘mini break’ with a group of close friends and posting photos to his Instagram account. Meyer is understood to have headed for Destin, Florida, from his home in rural Columbia, Kentucky.
His family members have previously stayed silent over his latest break-up, with Bristol, but Meyer’s grandparents invited Daily Mail Online into their 150-year-old farmhouse.
‘We helped bring up Dakota and he has always been a very good boy,’ said 84-year-old Jean who accompanied her grandson to the White House for the Medal of Honor ceremony. ‘We try not to talk about Dakota but we are so, so proud of him. We helped raise him with his father Michael.’
A quick glance around the couple’s living room is testament to their pride. It is adorned with numerous photos of Dakota in his Marine uniform. Outside in the front garden a red Marine flag flies alongside the Stars and Stripes. When the subjects of Bristol and her pregnancy are brought up, the couple are less forthcoming. Dwight, 85, who uses a walking frame, makes it clear he has no desire to talk about her. But when Jean is asked if she is looking forward to welcoming a great-grandchild, she seems to confirm that Dakota is the father of Bristol’s baby. She said: ‘It will not be the first. I have other great-grandchildren.’
Basically, the Daily Mail reporter weaseled their way into the home of two octogenarians and started badgering them about their grandson possibly knocking up his ex-fiancée. Rude. And I think Jean and Dwight did their best to simply avoid the questions and we shouldn’t take “I have other great-grandchildren” to be some kind of awkwardly worded admission that Dakota is the baby-daddy. Even if Dakota’s grandparents believe that he is the father, that doesn’t mean they’re right! What a mess.
And of course Bristol keeps blogging. She loves the attention so much. This chick is PARCHED. She wrote another blog post called “Choosing Humiliation Over Convenience: “The Five” Comes to My Defense.” She writes:
How pathetic is it that the media would be more supportive of me if I had chosen to kill my baby? Instead, they mock me because I am willing to choose to do what is natural and right—keep my precious baby.
And as a reminder, I never worked or pushed abstinence down anyone’s throat! I have always promoted pro-life and teen pregnancy prevention over all. Never once has it been “abstinence only”.
I’ve messed up, but I’ve owned up to my mistake and am trying to move forward. I’m so excited to raise my little blessing and see all that God has in store for this precious life!
The lies flow like water. She did promote abstinence-only education, and this is what she said in 2009: “I’m not going to have sex until I’m married. I can guarantee it.” She also said that abstinence-only is a “realistic goal.” And yes, she’s also supported anti-choice issues throughout – obviously, because limiting reproductive choice goes hand-in-hand with abstinence-only sexual education. The message she was always selling was: “Don’t ever sex before marriage, and when you do have sex before marriage and get pregnant, don’t ever get an abortion, you dirty slut, I can’t believe you can’t find a way to grift your way into supporting yourself and your child by promoting the same kind of inane BS I’m pushing.”
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Really, I’ve always kind of thought that Dakota was the dad. The statement he put out seemed like the self-serving words of a guy who seems like he might be kind of a d-bag. He doesn’t seem – from what I’ve seen of him in articles and online – to be the kind of person who would be silent in an effort to protect Bristol P’s reputation. Especially if he were the one cheated on.
Give me a break with her “the media would’ve been more supportive if I aborted” nonsense. I haven’t seen anyone say “oh she should’ve aborted”, they just mock her hypocrisy.
Hey, Bristol, “The Five” is part of the media. And could you identify the particular media that is mocking you? Had you chosen to do the normal thing after the 2008 presidential race and gotten an education quietly and started a career quietly and raised your son quietly, nobody would know anything about you or your current pregnancy. Instead, YOU chose to use the media to continually thrust yourself into the spotlight so knock off the stupid rants about the evil media. And nobody is mocking you for choosing not to have an abortion; they are mocking you for being an idiot, which is a very different thing.
I like the first answer, We don’t ever talk about Bristol Palin….We don’t ever discuss her in this family. It is some serious shade in the vein of “She, who shall remain unnamed”. It’s like scenes from “the Village”, “Do not get into conversations”. What was the line in that film about the thing that could not be spoken of?
^^^ exactly
Sounds like she was the one who did something wrong in the relationship.
“We don’t ever discuss her in this family” – yeah, that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement for Bristol. I’m betting the Palin’s are scrambling to get Dakota to publicly be the father, and it’s awfully telling that he’s getting out of dodge.
Or like the episode of “Fawlty Towers” where Basil is constantly whisperhissing or side-mouthing, “Don’t mention the war…!” Classic.
Bristol’s parents really should have taught her to recognise the times to know when to just shut up.
Her mother also can’t keep her mouth shut and frequently shoves her foot in it. They may think of themselves as important voices but the truth is they are both jokes, the media they complain about is the media they court and count on for their moments in the sun. The media is certainly not biased against them, but people are now biased against them because time and again they have shown what awful people they are in very public forums. It’s easy to pretend to be conservative and righteous but it is not easy to live that way. She and her mother complain about the media, although it’s everything they live for, and it is so obvious that they don’t understand the beast at all.
The apple didn’t fall far from the tree with this one.
And landed on its head.
“Natural and right?”
I thought the abstinence-only and anti-choice people thought fornication is a sin committed by humans who haven’t evolved beyond animal level.
It’s always ‘right’ and approved when right-wingers do something they tell other people is a sin and that they’re going to Hell and face the wrath of God and that they don’t have Jesus in their hearts and whatnot.
Also, if Bristol is saying what she did isn’t shameful, then why does it seem like it’s so hard for her to confirm to her baby daddy that it’s his baby or for her to be OK with the world knowing who the baby daddy is?
Why is she making the most out of her keeping up this mystery?
Right-wingers like her mom keep making a big deal about banning adoptions by gay couples because there’s no mom and dad in the home. But it seems like Bristol has made it so that her oldest child doesn’t have constant contact with his dad and maybe she’s trying to keep this new one away from its dad too.
Lol @ not ‘pushing abstinence down anyone’s throat.’ Perhaps if she’d kept to pushing things down her throat, she wouldn’t be choking on her own hypocrisy right now.
THIS x 1,000! 🙂
Exactly, she won my hypocrite of the year award! Well, so far this year anyway
She should’ve tried an amal experiment instead
If you could please not make me spit coffee all over my laptop! LOL
That’s Gold! ⭐️
Why do anti choice people always claim that pro life people celebrate abortions? So ignorant.
Because that’s the only way they can justify their position and paint the other side as inhuman monsters. Which is the key to winning any argument, of course. Logic be damned.
I’m pro-choice. I certainly don’t celebrate abortions and think it’s a serious decision that should not be taken lightly, but I fervently believe the choice should be available to EVERY woman. Being able to SAFELY terminate a pregnancy should be an available option. It doesn’t mean you have to take that option (hence why it’s called a “choice” and not a “requirement”). Don’t like abortions? Don’t have one. Decided not to having one and keeping the baby is the best option for you? Great! That’s your choice! Decided having an abortion is the best option for you? Great! That’s your choice!
Simple as that. But alas, that doesn’t lend itself to screaming rhetoric and being able to denounce the other side as gleeful baby murderers.
Exactly. I have never, ever met anyone who was “pro-abortion” or celebrates abortion, just people who know they want to choose for themselves, and don’t feel it’s their place to choose for anyone else. It disgusts me that people like Bristol jump to that nonsense.
I agree, it’s an easy way to demonize people who disagree. “Celebrating abortion”. Give me a break. I will say, I sometimes see here a little of the same demonization from those who are in favor of more gun control against those who are for lack of a better phrase gun enthusiasts. I mean, not every gun owner, even those who are carrying concealed weapons, is a yahoo survivalist loon. There are quiet gun owners who don’t blather on about their cold, dead hands.
There are plenty of people who believe abortion is a bad choice but they want the government to stay out of the decision. Pro-choice and pro-life are not incompatible beliefs. Most people really are pro- life in the real sense. Women often feel boxed into a corner with abortion as just the lesser of several evils.
People who really want to reduce the number of abortions need to work on the reasons for them, primarily economic. Contraception can fail for various reasons, but contraceptive measures need to be accessible and much more research and development is needed to improve both safety and efficacy. They need to talk with people rather than screaming at them. They also need to ponder the reality that most zygotes never make it to birth quite naturally. Meaning that God is the Great Abortionist…. Really, the path to birth is a very uncertain one.
She looks so different in the header pic. Did she get a nose job? She looks like a different person from the pic with the glasses and the pic of her with the book.
She had a nose job several years ago and with it also a chin implant I think.
OMG that header pic, she’s morphing into Kartrashian!
“Shrouded in mystery and tackiness”- writing that takes my breath away! It makes reading about these morons such a joy!!! On the other hand, however, that selfie of her makes me want to smack a baby. 😕
Naaaah, no one wants to be smackin’ babies! Now if you said smack a spoiled little media ho bimbo with an overinflated sense of self importance…I could get on board with that.
Goes without sayin’!
She looks like a Kardashian in that selfie. And yeah, totally shady to hit up the possible great-grandparents-to-be. I also can’t help but read her drivel and feel that she is 100% pandering to her ‘base’ by dropping all those little anti-choice/religious nuggets in there. All of her ‘precious blessing’ talk feels incredibly fake and forced.
I can’t stand her. She is a mini-me with her whining and martyr statements and blaming the liberal media for everything. It’s always the Palins’ go-to response.
The grandparents’ reaction says it all. She dumped their grandson at the last minute before the wedding, humiliating their grandson. Bristol is probably playing games with him regarding the pregnancy. And now their grandbaby is going to be raised so far away they will barely have a relationship with it.
I still suspect that if he were the father, she’d have said so by now. You know she and her mother love to play the victim, so they’d be crying about how this happened in a committed relationship that just fell apart, blah blah.
I believe that Dakota isn’t sure whether or not he is the father. He is silent because under those circumstances, what could he say? His silence speaks volumes.
I cringe that the Daily Mail went looking for his elderly grandparents. Does anybody believe they would know the real story?
I agree. I think the reason the marriage was called off is because there is a possibility that he is NOT the father. I think he is being a gentleman by keeping mum. The fact that his family don’t discuss her speaks volumes. All will be reveal upon the birth of this child and a DNA test is requested. I doubt he want to pay child support for 18 years for a child that may not be his. Unless her family pays him big bucks to keep quiet and accept the child as his own.
So thirsty and tacky just like Mama bear. If you don’t want the attention…cough, cough, STFU!
She looks like Kim K. in the cover pic. TL:DR the article as I don’t give a crap about the Palins.
I think she’s stumping for a “pro-life ambassador” gig now that her “abstinence ambassador” job is out the window. I’m sure she’d rather do anything than actually work for a living.
I think you’re right that it might be a possibility that she’s looking to be that kind of ambassador next, since the abstinence ambassadorship went up in smokes and she screwed that one up royally even to the point where she’s now denying she ever was one regardless that there’s evidence that she got over a quarter of a million dollars as a lecturer on that topic and she’s listed herself on a speakers’ job site as an expert on abstinence.
And here she is, constantly pushing on social media that she isn’t going to have an abortion as if she had been pressured to do so by pro-choice groups (which never happened), and act as if it was a hard decision even though she’s got enough financial and familial resources to raise both her children in relative comfort without the same level of difficulties other single mothers may have.
She’s trying to make herself out to be some kind of hero.
Dakota may be waiting for DNA testing or just know from the timing that he isn’t the father. Nothing his grandparents said confirms he is the father, just that the family can’t stand Bristol or the Palins and think he dodged a bullet… They were asked a speculative question about how they would feel about another great-grandchild, and they simply pointed out that they have others, a completely non-committal answer. Honestly, they don’t follow Dakota around. How would they know, anyway?
The one person out of this mess I think I like is Grandpa. Grandma is a close second.
She’s loving this, she gets to be judgmental and preachy and the victim all at the same time. She’s a horrible person. You can tell right off the bat, people who use language like “kill my baby” for abortion? There’s no GD empathy in anyone in that family. Scum of the Earth!
Wow, I just listened to the audio of their meltdown at the party in South Anchorage- Bristol is one hot mess! Sad.
I wish I could feel something for this young lady, who is only in the public eye because of her mother but can’t seem to figure out how to not be there anymore. First she says she wants her privacy respected, then she posts a sonogram. She’s a mean girl who likes to play victim, and in that she is unfortunately like Sarah.
Today is the Fourth of July and instead of posting something about pride in being American, she thinks it’s a ripe opportunity to tell us all that people in red states are American, and everybody else is not.
I do not think Dakota is the father. I think no matter their relationship, if he had been the father, this would have been a joint announcement. They were so proud of getting a Medal of Honor recipient in the family. She does not seem to be including the father at all in her plans, which is interesting considering how she goes on about marriage wasn’t for gays because kids need both a mother and a father. What a hypocrite.
I hope this young woman grows up, opens her mind to other views, learns to read varying news sources, and takes herself and her children out of the public eye. I don’t think the Palin offspring know how to respect their *own* privacy. I feel sorry for the children being born into it.