In Touch has details from a tell all from a former campaign aid to Sarah Palin. It’s called Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin and was written by a guy named Frank Bailey. The parts that In Touch focuses on sound like the same thing we heard from Sarah’s daughter’s former redneck fiance, Levi Johnston, back when he hit the scene. (And before he reunited with Bristol briefly. That was hysterical.) There’s undoubtedly more in the book than just these few claims, including details on how Palin allegedly lied about Troopergate.

Apparently Sarah was pressuring Bristol to hide her pregnancy and let Sarah adopt the baby without revealing that it would be her grandchild. Sarah was worried (with good cause) that having a 17 year-old pregnant daughter would hurt her chances at the Vice Presidency. (As would being completely unprepared, defensive and unable to follow through on her commitments, but she didn’t seem to worry much about any of that.) Bailey also writes that Sarah told Bristol that abortion was an option for her, and didn’t rule that out. It’s surprising to hear that she was open about abortion, considering that her public stance is staunchly pro life. And Baily claims that Sarah and her husband Todd didn’t talk and were fighting, which we’ve also heard before.

Sarah’s relationship with her eldest daughter is totally dysfunctional, according to former campaign aide Frank Bailey, who says he witnessed Sarah mocking, berating and terrifying Bristol. And now, he’s finally speaking out in an explosive tell-all, Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin.

Abortion was an option
Sarah’s total disregard for her daughter’s well-being was never more apparent than when Bristol told her mother she was pregnant at the age of 17, Bailey says. Determined to minimize the effect on her political career at any cost – including her daughter’s feelings – Sarah apparently ignored her own pro-choice leanings [sic!] and gave Bristol the option of having an abortion. “I left the decision to her,” Sarah confessed to Bailey, “and Bristol wants to keep it.”

Sarah told Bristol to let her adopt the baby
But then, determined to bury the scandal, Sarah even pressured her to give the baby up for adoption – to Sarah herself. “Sarah kept mentioning this plan,” Bristol’s then-boyfriend, Levi Johnston, has said. “She didn’t want people to know that her 17 year-old daughter was going to have a kid.”

Sarah’s daughters suffered when she was away
Bailey says Sarah must accept her share of the Blame for Bristol’s pregnancy. With her eyes focused on political fame and fortune, she all but abandoned Bristol and younger daughters Willow, 15, and Piper, 10, who spent weeks without their mother.

And very quickly, Bailey explains, their lonely lifestyle began to take an obvious toll, as the girls’ grades suffered and they began to make tearful phone calls to their mom on the campaign trail. “I recall one day when Bristol phoned… crying while Sarah sat in my office,” Bailey recalls. “Sarah rolled her eyes. I felt pained for Bristol.”

On Sarah’s marriage to Todd
“This union for sure had its rocky side,” Bailey reveals, admitting that those around them were aware divorce was a real possibility. Sarah was rumored to have cheated on Todd, and he had a habit of hacking into her email account. Things got so bad, Sarah broke down and told Bailey, “We’re not like other couples… we don’t talk.”

[From In Touch, print edition, June 13, 2011]

All that stuff about how Sarah somehow neglected her daughters while she was working or was an absentee mom rubs me the wrong way. It’s hard to judge from just this blurb, but it sounded like she was necessarily off campaigning and not like she abandoned them or anything.

In Touch incorrectly wrote that Sarah “apparently ignored her own pro-choice leanings,” and that’s obviously a mistake on their part. In her memoir Going Rogue, Sarah noted that she actually considered abortion “for a fleeting moment” when she heard that her youngest son Trig, now three, would be born with Down’s Syndrome. She has stated that she’s opposed to abortion except to save the life of the mother, so if it’s true that she told Bristol she could potentially terminate the pregnancy I’m surprised. I would give Palin some credit for being open about that, but it sounds like it was more about her political career than any doubts she might have about being pro-life.

Now that this tell all is out and basically scoops Levi Johnston’s planned tell all (along with offering more details about other Palin scandals) what’s that poor high dropout going to do? Levi’s book doesn’t come out until the Fall, and I doubt it will be a success.

Sarah Palin is shown outside the Fox news studios on 6/1/11 on her “One Nation” bus tour. She’s also shown on 5/29/11 taking part in the “Rolling Thunder” motorcycle rally for POW/MIA. Bristol Palin’s new face is shown on 5/3/11. Credit: WENN.com

Bristol Palin, 20, showed up at an event earlier this month looking like a different, older version of herself. She had a much more prominent chin, higher looking eyes and a thinner face that could not be explained by weight loss. Bristol used to work at a dermatologist’s office in Alaska and would presumably already know doctors that could give her just about any nip and tick that she wanted. The work that Bristol had done was incredibly obvious, so instead of denying it or remaining quiet about it, Bristol decided to tell US Weekly that she had corrective jaw surgery that was “necessary for medical reasons.” Was the eye lift, chin implant and buchal fat pad removal medically necessary too? Surgeons have also noticed that she seems to have had a nose job. Next Bristol will be crying that we’re all picking on her for some jaw surgery that she absolutely needed to have.

Bristol Palin is trying to save face by insisting her new look is the result of a necessary medical procedure—not cosmetic surgery.

The 20-year-old daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she underwent corrective jaw surgery in December – just a month after placing third on “Dancing with the Stars.”

A slimmer Palin turned heads at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 30, debuting a thinner face, angular jaw and higher cheekbones. The appearance ignited speculation in the blogosphere that she had plastic surgery.

But she told Us Weekly the procedure was necessary so her jaw and teeth could properly realign.

“Yes, it improved the way I look, but this surgery was necessary for medical reasons,” she told the magazine for its May 23 issue.

Palin said while growing up she wore braces and a device to correct an overbite. But her dentist warned her there was a still a possibility she would need surgery one day.

The single mom declared she would never get plastic surgery “unless I got in an accident or something terrible.”

But New York-based plastic surgeon Dr. Norman M. Rowe had previously told the Daily News that her nose looked like it too had some work done.

“The tip of her nose is smaller and more feminine,” he said. “This gives [it] a less bulbous look … The bridge of the nose also appears lower. It’s not as wide as it previously appeared.”

Palin, who recently landed a reality show of her own, said she was happy with her new look.

“I look older, more mature and don’t have as much of a chubby little baby face,” she said.

[From The NY Daily News]

This is a 20 year-old girl who was so pretty before messing with her really lovely, very young-looking face and ending up looking like a 30-something. Maybe she did sort-of need jaw surgery and decided to go all out with a plastic surgery makeover to go along with that. The fact that she had so much work done to her face is just sad to me. She was so pretty and natural before and now she looks like a Beverly Hills clone. She’ll never be able to get her old face back. She doesn’t seem to care, though. She’s about to star on a reality show and will get a whole fake life to go along with her new look.

The last we saw of Bristol Palin she was looking almost unrecognizable with some very obvious facial plastic surgery, probably involving lipo to her neck, a chin implant, an eye lift and a blowtorch. It was ridiculous how fake and plastic she looked, as if someone melted her down and molded her back up again. Well now we may know why Bristol did that to herself. She’s reportedly set to star in a “docudrama” aka a reality show with a fancy name, along with her friend from Dancing With The Stars, Kyle Massey, and his family. Apparently Bristol will move to LA with her son, Tripp, and live with Kyle and his brother as some sort of staged plot for their show. It’s better than that rumored reality show she had cooking back when she briefly reunited with Levi Johnston.

You can’t get a more unlikely pairing than this!

Bristol Palin may not have won Dancing With The Stars, but being on the show led to a close friendship with fellow contestant Kyle Massey, which in turn has led to a ten episode docu-series starring the unlikely duo.

RadarOnline.com has learned the series will follow Bristol’s move with her son, Tripp, from her native Alaska to Los Angeles – where she’s living with Kyle and his brother Chris!

Slated to air on the BIO Channel in late 2011, the episodes will feature Bristol, Kyle and Chris working together on a small charity project.

“Bristol is the kind of personality BIO is drawn to,” Executive Vice President of Programming at A&E Network and BIO Channel, David McKillop, said.

“Her personal life has been playing out in the media for several years but this will be the first time she’s opening up her real life, with her son and her friends the Massey Brothers.”

Kyle, 19, starred in Disney’s That’s So Raven and currently voices Milo in the animated series Fish Hooks – and he narrowly beat Bristol in Dancing With The Stars, placing second while she placed third.

[From Radar Online]

I doubt Bristol will be the next Kim Kardashian, but she’s sure trying to look like her. Meanwhile Bristol has a memoir coming out this summer. I’m hoping no one watches her reality show, I mean I’ve never even heard of the Bio channel, but she has a built in fanbase with all those people who think her mom has two braincells to rub together. Plus I’ll admit she came across well on Dancing With The Stars, and Kyle seemed like such a nice guy on that show too. This is a logical next step for her, I’m sorry to say. As would be pulling a Heidi Montag and crying to the tabloids that plastic surgery morphed her into a Pinocchio-looking version of herself. There are no takebacks with plastic surgery, and when you’re 20 years old and perfectly cute it seems like an incredibly dumb decision. Just like doing a reality show. Just like her mom.

Chris and Kyle Massey are shown on 4/29/11 and 5/8/11. Credit: WENN.com. Bristol Palin is shown on 5/3/11

Bristol Palin told People Magazine last July, back before she went on Dancing With The Stars, that she was working as a receptionist at a dermatologist’s office in Alaska. (I said at the time that it was probably the same dermatologist who did her mom’s Botox.) Last fall, Levi Johnston’s sister accused Bristol of getting a breast reduction and liposuction in an effort to look “Hollywood.” It kind of made sense in light of the fact that she was working at a dermatologist’s at the time. It was hard to tell if she had anything done, but all that has changed.

Bristol, 20, showed up at a Candies benefit on Tuesday with a whole new face. She lost weight and she looks great, but the changes in her face look like more than just weight loss and overplucked eyebrows. Check out these before an after pictures.

As Maureen O’Connor at Gawker points out, she looks like a different person. One of their commenters offered up a photo of Bristol in 2009 when she was thinner, and it’s clear that the differences in her face are not from weight loss alone. Wasn’t she so pretty?

And here’s a photo of Bristol from February of this year. It’s just a screenshot of her on E!, but it shows how she looked after she lost weight.

Other commenters on Gawker speculate that the new look is the result of “Weight loss, lipo around the neck and lower face, chin implant, lip filler” and/or an “eye lift”. Commenter Francesletigre notes that Bristol could have had “buchal fat pad removal. We have these grape to worm size pieces of fat in our faces that can easily be sucked out through the mouth. This is the very hot, yet secret procedure to show your cheek bones and thin your face 5-10 pounds.” I would say it sounds great in theory, but I’m seeing the results and they look pretty plastic.

Let’s point this out again – Bristol is just 20 years old! Doesn’t she look like a 30 something who had a little too much done in an effort to look “fresh”?

TMZ has the news that young mom Bristol Palin, 20, made a jaw-dropping $262,000 in 2009 for her role as some kind of abstinence ambassador for Candies. She’s still working for them to this day and just put out an awful PSA a few months ago with The Situation. Bristol was paid quite a bit more last year for her long running stint on Dancing With The Stars and for speaking engagements, with her fee verified as at least $14,000 and rumored to be as high as $30,000 an appearance. She’s since purchased a home outright. This example of 21st century nepotism at its finest isn’t going away anytime soon. Bristol has a memoir coming out this summer.

Here’s TMZ’s report on Bristol’s payday in 2009. It’s probably safe to assume she made more than this last year:

Bristol Palin BANKED more than $262 thousand in 2009, for her role as a spokesperson for a teen pregnancy prevention campaign.

The former “Dancing With The Stars” contestant became an ambassador for The Candie’s Foundation in 2009 when she was 18 … just a few months after giving birth to her son, Tripp … and according to tax documents, the job PAID OFF.

The foundation’s website says Bristol “plays an important role by helping other teens understand the incredible challenges teen parents face, and encouraging them to wait until they are socially and financially independent to start their families.”

According to the website, Bristol is still working for the organization.

[From TMZ]

So all you have to do to get rich is to have a famous controversial mom, an (arguably) likable personality and the gumption to believe you’re qualified to represent something you’ve publicly failed at. It also doesn’t hurt if you can dance, but obviously that’s not what led Bristol to this payday back in 2009. At least she’s going to college and aspiring for some kind of media career. She’ll have something to fall back on when her mom is no longer the poster girl for Fox News. I would say I’m looking forward to Sarah Palin fading away, but someone will take her place for sure. I learned my lesson from Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian. We thought Paris was annoying, but we didn’t know the half of it.

Photo credit: Fame Pictures and Harpers Bazaar

Bristol Palin, 20, was on E! News last night to presumably promote her upcoming memoir, which is out this summer. Bristol and her two year-old Tripp gave E!’s Giuliana Rancic a tour of her new house in Maricopa, Arizona, which she paid $172k cash for and found online. The house was sparsely furnished without any pictures on the wall and just a few decorations, but it looked big and open. It has five bedrooms and two and half baths. Bristol talked about how good it feels to own a home at the age of 20 and said that Tripp calls her mom Sarah “nana” instead of “grandma.”

The room with the most decorations and personal touches was Bristol’s bedroom, which was in a tasteful contemporary style and included a photo on her nightstand of her boyfriend Gino after he’d just bagged a deer. I sh*t you not. She had some animal print furniture in the living room but it wasn’t overdone and didn’t look tacky or anything. Her house was pretty bare overall.

Bristol also has an elliptical machine in her house and she looked like she’d lost weight since Dancing with The Stars ended.

On E! she didn’t say much of interest and mostly showed the house, but they have more from Bristol on their website, including Bristol’s denial that she was disinvited from that speaking gig at Washington University after students objected. She also trashed Kathy Griffin, who made some pot shots at her expensee during a comedy show entertaining the troops last month.

On how she was never disinvited because she didn’t confirm
Luckily, in the meantime she has a lucrative career in speech-giving to fall back on. Er, when they’re not canceled, that is. And about that…

“I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? Is this a joke?’ ‘Cause I never committed to it. So I couldn’t be uninvited or cut off as a speaker. But it was really strange,” she said of her Washington University in St. Louis brouhaha. “It was definitely politically motivated…I never wanted to do it really.

“I feel like I am being pushed around, but I know that I am strong enough to handle it. So if they are going to pick on me, then so be it, but I just hope they don’t do that to other people.”

On how she felt about Kathy saying Bristol had gained weight on DWTS
“It didn’t [hurt my feelings] because it was coming from Kathy Griffin of all people, and I think it just shows her immaturity. I don’t think that stuff’s funny at all. Just very strange.”

Still, Bristol can not only take it, she can dish it as well.

“She has a weird hate for our family, just like her coming to Alaska and knocking on our front door. And it’s weird, also, that she would pick on my weight. She’s had botched liposuction procedures and stuff like that, so…It’s just weird that she would pick on something like that for another woman.”

Bristol went on to say that she’s never met Kathy and would like to keep it that way.

“I think she would just not be an enjoyable individual to be around at all.” Still, like any good Christian, Bristol said she would be willing to accept an apology should Griffin offer it.

“She’s never going to, but yes, I would accept it,” Bristol said.

[From E! Online]

So Bristol is saying that she never was really scheduled to do that gig, but that she was still being pushed around and picked on. Then she goes on to say that Kathy Griffin has it out for her family and that Kathy had botched lipo so she shouldn’t be talking smack about her. This is pretty much how her mom handles detractors too.

According to E!, Bristol has an offer to host a morning radio show in Arizona.

Here’s a segment that did not air on E! last night where Bristol talks about her new boyfriend. They’re going to air more of her interview tonight on E! News.

This news doesn’t seem surprising, but it still made me roll my eyes. Bristol Palin, mother, advocate for teen abstinence, highly paid (but controversial) speaker, and former Dancing with The Stars contestant, has penned a memoir at the ripe age of 20. As Radar Online points out, Justin Bieber has a memoir out and Palin has a whole four years on him. Radar forgot to mention what a true piece of crap Justin Bieber’s memoir is and how he has a nation of tweens eating out of the palm of his hand. Bristol has the (assumed) assistance of an arrogant ghost writer who makes pop culture references that only a 35 year-old can appreciate, so maybe her memoir will reflect a level of bitter maturity beyond her years.

Heck — if Justin Bieber can pen his memoir at the age of 16, why can’t Bristol Palin?

Bristol’s still-untitled memoir — all 304 pages of it — will be hitting bookshelves June 21, the book’s publisher William Morrow & Co announced, RadarOnline.com has learned.

From her baby daddy drama with ex Levi Johnston to life as a Palin, the memoir should be an interesting read for fans of the 20-year-old Alaskan abstinence advocate.

Bristol follows in the footsteps of her mother Sarah with her foray into the publishing world, as Sarah’s penned best-selling books such as America by Heart and Going Rogue: An American Life.

[From Radar Online]

There’s goes my assumption that Bristol would keep her head down while she went to broadcasting school at Arizona State. She bought a house there and everything, but she’ll be all over the place this summer when the book comes out. Maybe she assumes she can promote her memoir this summer and then head off to school in the fall. At least she’s going to college. With the bank she’s pulling for capitalizing on her fame she easily could have skipped it.

Bristol is shown on 11/24/10. Credit: Fame Pictures

I put this story in the links earlier, but there have been even more developments, and now it’s become a “thing”. Ugh. I can’t even describe how much I hate writing about Bristol Palin. To me, she’s worse than Kim Kardashian. At least you know what you’re getting with Kim Kardashian – a cat-faced famewhore who got famous for a sex tape. With Bristol it’s all lies and hustling and the grift. So, the basics of the story: Bristol Palin was invited by a student group at Washington University to be part of a panel discussion on abstinence and teen sex and such. Bristol wasn’t making an appearance on the panel out of the goodness of her heart, though – it is rumored that Bristol’s speaking and appearance fee would be more than $10,000. When the Washington University student body was informed of Bristol’s potential appearance (and it was “potential” as it does seem like no appearance contracts were drawn up), the students revolted, mostly over the idea of their money being spent on Bristol. So… Bristol was dis-invited. And of course she’s a snot about it.

One thing Bristol Palin is NOT abstaining from is engaging in a war of words with the university that dumped her from a paid speaking engagement about abstinence. The 20-year-old single mom was dumped by Washington University after a student uproar over her invitation and speaking fee, which was not revealed but estimated to be as high as $20,000.

Now Bristol’s lawyer has release this statement to RadarOnline.com, slamming the university and even suggesting the Palin name is the real reason she was dumped.

“Bristol was invited to speak with college students as part of a panel. Evidently she has now been disinvited because of apparent concerns by some vocal members of the undergraduate community,” the statement reads.

“Bristol is deeply disappointed that an institution that publicly claims to “listen to diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives, to contribute rigorous academic standards and unbiased scholarship to discussions, and to encourage a civil discourse in which a pluralistic society can respectfully address complex and difficult issues” would withdraw an invitation to a speaker because of “uproar” over their assumed content of her message or even worse, because of her last name.”

[From Radar]

Every day brings a new martyrdom for this family of grifters. Here’s an idea, Bristol: Instead of nailing yourself to the cross at every opportunity, why don’t you OFFER TO SPEAK FOR FREE? Wouldn’t that quiet your critics? That way, if they still didn’t want you to come even when they weren’t paying you, THEN you might have a reason to don your crown of thorns.

Nevermind.

Thankfully, Radar was able to get a statement from an outraged and well-spoken student:

As RadarOnline.com previously reported Palin’s scheduled appearance was cancelled following protests. One student claiming there were 563 signatures on a petition against Bristol and just 7 students standing in favor of her. One student, Ryan McCombe, 20, who is studying economics and strategy at the University, explains why he took an anti-Palin stance.

“The issue meant a lot to me because I am a registered Republican and my vote went to Sarah Palin, but most of this didn’t have anything to do with politics – this isn’t about it being Sarah Palin’s daughter,” He told RadarOnline.com. “This is about paying an exorbitant amount of money to someone whose life has improved because of teenage pregnancy. Bristol got pregnant at 17 and is cashing in on that, she’s not someone we should be hearing from. I want to hear from someone who had dreams and goals that were put on hold by teenage pregnancy – instead, her life has been improved financially and publicity-wise. It’s very interesting how a 20-year-old who has only a GED can afford a 5-bedroom house. We don’t want our student union money going to her mortgage, we’re promoting responsibility.”

“She’s promoting ‘do as I say, not as I do,’ and I don’t agree with that. The story she has to tell doesn’t line up with the reality of the situation. She may say ‘I had all these dreams and they weren’t realized’, but she has been way more successful simply because she got pregnant at such a young age. She wouldn’t have been invited on Dancing With The Stars if she hadn’t gotten pregnant as a teenager. I have no intention of funding Sixteen And Pregnant or Teen Mom either!”

When it comes to Palin’s agreed fee, student government sources say they were ordered not to disclose the exact amount, just that $20,000 was allocated to cover the costs of the ENTIRE panel. However, it’s unlikely that the other panel members, Planned Parenthood, the Catholic Student Center and the Student Health Services were being paid for their appearance on the panel – leaving a sizeable chunk of change for Palin, even after all other costs, such as venue rental, were met.

But not every student was against Bristol – Scott Elman was one of the student representatives that were campaigning on behalf of Bristol speaking, and he explains to RadarOnline.com: “The Student Health Advisory Committee promotes safe sex goals and trying to reduce unwanted pregnancy, we thought no issue could be discussed fully without talking about abstinence.

“We thought that having Bristol, would attract a lot of students to come to the panel and promote discussion about safe sex and abstinence. We didn’t want to do as it was a publicity stunt, but thought someone who has gone through teen pregnancy and an ambassador for Candie’s Foundation, which promotes abstinence would be more than qualified to talk. Our goal was to engage the student body as much as possible. We were surprised by the reaction, we expected some controversy but never expected it to get so out of hand. We think people hear the name Bristol Palin and just think of her mother.”

“Some people don’t think she’s qualified just because she had a baby as a teen but I don’t think they realized why she actually is qualified or why we chose her. We expect students to be open to another point of view and we’re a little disappointed in the way they reacted and the overall message was getting lost. Bristol, her agent, I and the committee decided that it wasn’t the best time to have her speak. I think Bristol is upset but she understands the message that she’s trying to promote is more important than her personal feelings. I am very disappointed that she’s not coming. No contract was signed we were just in talks. I totally believe that Bristol has a strong message to share and that she has turned her story into a positive message that people deserve to hear in a balanced environment. I personally don’t believe in abstinence and we’re not telling people to think that but there are people who do and they’re unrepresented on campus.”

[From Radar]

Let the ass-covering begin. Honestly, it warms my heart that students were able to wage a successful campaign to dis-invite Bristol. I also love that a 20-year-old student was capable of making a well-reasoned, thoughtful and rational argument for dis-inviting Bristol. MSNBC should hire that kid.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

When I was growing up, my parents taught me to ignore other kids who bothered me, as long as it wasn’t serious. We teach our son not to get involved with teasing, not to let it get to him and to tell the teacher when necessary. It’s clear the Palin family doesn’t use that common strategy, because they’re quick to fire back responses that show just how much comments can get under their skin. Case in point: Bristol’s latest statement about a stupid and arguably mean joke that Kathy Griffin made about her weight. While entertaining the troops on Friday, Griffin said that Bristol was “the only contestant in the history of [DWTS] to actually gain weight… she gained like 30 pounds a week… she’s like the white Precious.” The servicemen and women booed Griffin, and that should have been enough. Instead, the Palin camp has issued yet another statement.

Just yesterday Bristol made a self righteous and defensive statement on her Facebook about how fellow DWTS contestant Margaret Cho was wrong when she claimed that Bristol’s mom Sarah forced Bristol to compete on the show. As many of you pointed out, it’s clear that the statement was not written by Bristol, given the advanced vocabulary and older pop culture references. I think it’s safe to assume the same about this statement. At least Bristol’s mom’s ghostwriter didn’t make another uncalled for reference to gay people.

Kathy Griffin hosted the VH1 Divas salute to the troops this weekend, but her “jokes” about Bristol Palin being “fat” fell flat.

“She’s the only contestant in the history of the show to actually gain weight,” Griffin said in reference to Bristol’s trip to the finals on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Even after the troops’ loud booing, Griffin continued the attack.

“No, come on, come on. She gained like 30 pounds a week, I swear to God, it was fantastic,” Griffin said. “She’s like the white Precious.”

But Palin, 20, isn’t letting 50-year-old Griffin’s digs bring her down.

“The audience’s reaction to this ‘comedian’ spoke volumes, and the decent people I know would probably have booed her, too,” Palin told Pop Tarts in an exclusive statement. “I hope people didn’t have to pay money to hear her negativity and criticisms.”

The annual VH1 show, which was taped at San Diego’s Miramar Marine base and presented by the USO, also featured a slew of young performers such as Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and Paramore. So could Griffin’s comments be potentially dangerous to the young viewers who tuned in to watch their idols on stage?

“Calling Bristol Palin fat is inappropriate and distasteful, even under the guise of humor,” body image expert and author of “Love Your Body Love Your Life,” Sarah Maria, told Pop Tarts. “The problem is that people, and particularly young people, easily absorb the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes that are presented to them. [It's a problem]
when someone makes critical comments about someone else’s body and weight, beliefs such as ‘fat is a horrible thing,’ ‘I am no good unless I am thin.’”

According to PopEater’s Rob Shuter, VH1 producers considered editing out the awkward dialogue and response, recorded Friday night, but given the attention it generated, decided to leave it in Sunday’s television broadcast.

VH1 and a rep for Griffin declined to comment.

And while Griffin strutted in a bikini in what she called her “starvation body,” the comedienne wasn’t always so willing to flaunt her figure.
Just last year, the “Suddenly Susan” star admitted that she fell prey to some serious body image issues while seeking out her “big break” in Hollywood. Not only did Griffin get a nose job at the age of 26 in an attempt to improve her appearance, in addition to liposuction that she claims almost killed her, she also reportedly exercised obsessively, starved herself during the day and binged at night.

Having experienced the pain and pressure of show business first-hand, might one think Griffin would be a little mores sensitive to such issues?

“It is quite surprising, given her own experience,” Maria said. “One would hope that her own difficulties would awaken a sensitivity, understanding, and compassion regarding the difficulties of body weight and image in today’s culture.”

[From Fox News]

Of course Sarah Palin’s people gave “Bristol’s” statement to Fox News, and of course Fox News went on in that article about how Kathy Griffin has her own body image issues and how she should know better. She’s a comedian and she makes rude jokes for a living. People who are in the spotlight should know better than to respond to every criticism. Then again, maybe they’re doing it on purpose. The more they complain about what a target they are, the more they get picked on. We tell our kids not to get caught up in that, but it seems to have a distinct advantage for people who want to be talked about as much as possible. I do have to give Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter some credit for holding back this time, though. They could have gone on about Kathy’s eating disorder or her plastic surgery. Instead they let Fox News do that for them.

I’ll say something nice – I don’t blame Bristol for any of this. She’s 20, and when I was 20 I also would have taken credit for any statement my mom asked me to.

Bristol Palin has responded to Margaret Cho’s blog post claiming that her mom, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, “forced” her to compete on Dancing with the Stars to further her political career. Bristol penned an open letter to Cho on her Facebook page, (the same outlet through which she and her sister responded to some ‘haters’ by personally attacking them) denying those claims. Bristol stated that the DWTS people approached her, and in no way did her mom force her to compete on the show. The post from Bristol has since been removed. That might have to do with the way Bristol ended it, by cracking wise about gay women.

In a post she called “Pistol Whipped” she wrote that “the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly . . . for not winning the election,and so she told Bristol she “owed” it to her to do DWTS . . . .” Let me shamelessly steal from Saturday Night Live: “Really, Margaret? Really?”

I will give my friend credit for creativity, and extra points for getting so many “facts” wrong in so few sentences. Let me be blunt: my mom did not “force” me to go on DWTS. She did not ask me either. The show approached me. I thought about it. I made the decision. After first worrying for me in terms of being exposed to those who hate us for what we believe in, both my mom and my dad became my number one supporters. Anyone who watched the show could tell I performed better, and I felt better about myself, when they were in the audience. I wanted to make them both proud, but politics had nothing to do with it. Loving my parents had everything to do with it.

It saddens me that people would think that my mom would “blame” me for anything that occurred in the 2008 election–much less “harshly” and “openly.” I think that canard (there, I said it again), has been floating around since then also. I will set the record straight, though my mom already did in her bestselling book “Going Rogue”; there were a number of reasons President Obama won in 2008, but the primary reason was that the economy was starting to falter and the majority of voters thought Obama could do a better job than my mom and John McCain. It turns out, two years later, the majority of voters were wrong, but we can talk about that another time. The point is, I seriously doubt anyone who considers herself a student of American politics truly believes I impacted even one vote in that election.

There you have it. Why do I want to set the record straight? Because it is this type of hurtful and false narrative that people promote to make my mom look bad. For 20 years my mom had my back–and for the rest of my life I will have hers.

To my friend Margaret Cho, if you ever have a question, call me girlfriend. Don’t ever rely on “sources” who claim to know me or my family. You will be taken every time. And we need to talk. You say you “don’t agree with the family’s politics at all” but I say, if you understood that commonsense conservative values supports the right of individuals like you, like all of us, to live our lives with less government interference and more independence, you would embrace us faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert.

[From Bristol Palin's Facebook via Queerty]

This whole thing would have come across decently if only Bristol (or more likely the people who wrote this) left off the last paragraph. As far as jokes go that was pretty tame, but it was also completely unnecessary and tells you quite a bit about Bristol’s politics and how “supportive” they are of non-heterosexuals. (Margaret is married to a man but describes herself as bisexual.) Remember when Bristol’s sister Willow called someone the anti-gay “f” word on Facebook? They never apologized for that remark but did say something about how they shouldn’t have gotten all worked up on Facebook. And as opposed to this lengthy missive, we know that Bristol and Willow are the ones who fired off those insults.

Bristol is shown on 11/24/10. Credit: Fame. Margaret is shown on 9/17/10. Credit: WENN.com