Bristol Palin Gets Married

[left-of-center2012]

(Well known abstinence advocate Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska’s former half term Governor Sarah Palin has finally tied the knot with her on-again off-again boyfriend and baby’s daddy Dakota Meyer.)

“Life is full of ups and downs but in the end, you’ll end up where you’re supposed to be,” Palin and Meyer told ET.
“Hard work and God’s grace are the foundation of our new life together ...”

Meyer and Palin announced their engagement in March 2015, but called off their wedding just one month later.
Rumors that the two had reunited began three months ago when they both started sharing pics of each other and their 5-month-old daughter, Sailor Grace.
Palin is also mother to a 7-year-old son, Tripp, with ex Levi Johnston.

(No word on if or when Bristol will continue her work as a paid spokesperson for abstinence.)

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/exclusive-bristol-palin-marries-dakota-194600013.html

[nruthie]

1. Who really cares.

[yeoman6987]

18. Nobody. Hopefully the marriage lasts.

[kwassa]

2. I care. My life is now complete.

[stopbush]

3. I guess she won't be having any more kids now.

[lunatica]

74. LOL!

[Gomez163]

76. With other men

[smirkymonkey]

80. At least not with her husband.

[gollygee]

4. I want to be mean

But I'm going to hold back.

[onehandle]

5. Grifter hypocrite does something. nt

[snooper2]

6. I give it 18 months till divorce...

[Botany]

7. I wish them well along with the 2 kids too

I also wish that for the rest of my life I never hear or read about any
of the Palins again.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. Wait till Trump picks the Kwitting Klondike Kardashian for veep....n/m

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Worse....he reportedly is focusing on our state's Howdy Doody reincarnation

Jeffery Beauregard Sessions. He and Lindsy Graham were separated at birth.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

25. LOL....a man who never met a veterans bill he wouldn't squash

Jeff Sessions is the biggest piece of shit in the Senate. That guy has a klan robe in his closet.

[gordianot]

31. I remember Howdy Doody, I liked Howdy Doody.

Buffalo Bob and even Bozo the clown. They were all superior to modern Republicans. I am sure a puppet is much better than Sessions at least you can see his strings.

[Va Lefty]

9. My sentiments exactly!

[demmiblue]

11. +1

[PoliticAverse]

10. Best wishes to them! n/t

[FSogol]

12. Good for her. Now she can stop her personal abstinence.

[braddy]

13. The author didn't think to mention that Meyer is the first Marine in 38 years to survive

the heroism for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor, and is the second youngest living Medal of Honor recipient?

Talk about non serving civilian America losing touch with it's warriors.

[Mariana]

38. This article isn't about his heroism or his decorations.

There are plenty of other articles that talk about that - perhaps you have read some of them since you seem to know all about it.

This article is about his marriage. His MOH and the circumstances under which he earned it are completely irrelevant to this particular story.

[braddy]

41. The article is about one of America's greatest living war heroes getting married, and it never

even mentioned what he is famous for, or that he is famous at all.

Meyer is in the history books, and always will be, our nation honored him with our highest honor.

[Mariana]

47. Exactly. He's famous and he's in the history books.

People already know why he's famous. You certainly do. I do. I bet every single person on this board knows, and the overwhelming majority of the readers of that article do, too. There's no need to go over his history every time his name is mentioned.

[braddy]

49. People don't know, and mentioning the MOH is not going "over his history", he is MOH awardee

Dakota Meyer.

Look how they describe Bristol. ""The 25-year-old daughter of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin""

This is just the way the modern media rolls for a shallow public.

[hfojvt]

66. that certainly IS worth mentioning

I did not know that

[braddy]

67. Sure, why would they deliberately leave out who Bristol married, a national war hero.

[hfojvt]

71. oh they mentioned his name

but that meant nothing to me.

it's a little bit like the SNL skit where one guy named Matt Damon finds a cure for cancer and the big headline that follows was "Matt Damon (the movie star) to get married". Meyer, even though he has real accomplishments, is less famous than his wife. He also is still kind of a young kid who has some issues, at least according to wiki.

[TacoD]

40. Why do you think that Meyer's military accomplishments should be part of this conversation? (nt)

[braddy]

42. Are you kidding? A famous war hero gets married and it isn't mentioned what he is famous for, or

that he is even famous at all?

[LanternWaste]

43. Much as Amal Alamuddin is rarely referred to as a Human Rights Lawyer

Much as Amal Alamuddin is rarely referred to as a Human Rights Lawyer, conscientious worker at the International Court of Justice, and lead counsel to the 2013 Drone Inquiry-- but simply as a Holywood actor's wife.

No doubt, the discrepancies become even more obvious when the roles are reversed, and we take exception to the male being overshadowed.

[braddy]

45. So our greatest living war heroes are not even mentioned as such when marrying Bristol Palin?

Not even during the wars?

Modern America really is shallow, Bristol is only a minor, low level celebrity, not an enduring national figure like a Medal of Honor awardee.

[Mariana]

50. Why don't you write about it then?

You can frame your essay exactly the way you like. You can emphasize his war hero status. You can describe why he received the MOH. You can make it about his history instead of about the marriage. You can write it up however you want to.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe Meyer and Palin wanted it published this way?

[braddy]

51. ET's Desiree Murphy wrote about it, and the writer seems incredibly ignorant and shallow to

leave out a MOH, or perhaps the writer and ET feels that this best suits their audience.

[Mariana]

60. Meyer and Palin provided the information and the quotes.

Most likely they reviewed the piece and approved it for publication beforehand.

[braddy]

62. So Meyer imposed a strange censorship on ET mentioning who he is? I don't think so.

Bristol Palin gets veto power over stories that ET writes about her and wants her husband's MOH kept from it's readership? I don't think so.

I think I just don't understand the ET "celebrity" audience as well as ET does.

[Mariana]

63. I suspect Meyer can handle his own publicity just fine.

Do you really think he needs you to be checking after him to make sure he's doing it right?

[braddy]

64. I don't understand this hardcore push back, ET wrote a story and left out the most relevant

identifier, in fact the only identifier, of the most significant figure of the couple.

This indicates that their celebrity obsessed audience doesn't care or know about the real world stuff, and really only wanted to hear about Sarah Palin's daughter who appeared on DWS.

[Mariana]

68. Perhaps Meyer only wanted to be identified as the groom

in this piece. It could be that he considers his status as a husband and a father to be more important than his status as a war hero. I don't know and neither do you.

I'm sure that if it was important to him that the military background be put in there, it would have been.

[braddy]

70. Why do you keep pushing the idea that Bristol and Dakota had veto control over this ET mention of

the wedding?

Why are you so upset by me pointing out that they left out who he is?

[Mariana]

77. Because it was an exclusive interview, not a "mention".

Meyer and Palin decided to be interviewed by ET for this piece. They were probably paid for it. I don't believe Meyer would be so stupid as to negotiate an interview for an article without allowing for him and Palin to approve the article before publication. But, I don't know him. Maybe you're right and he is that stupid.

[braddy]

78. This was an exclusive interview? What interview? ET wrote this "ET exclusively confirmed"

Negotiated interview?

I don't get why you are fixated on denying that ET failed to mention the MOH.

[lancer78]

69. He isn't that famous

A LOT more people know who Bristol Palin is. Mr. Meyer is the only CMOH awardee that I can name now because you mentioned it. Go ahead and go around and ask people to name a CMOH awardee, I bet very few people can. Then ask those same people who Bristol Palin is, and most of them should be able to tell you.

That is why his CMOH got left out of the article. He is not what will attract eyeballs. Bristol Palin is the one who will attract eyeballs and advertisement dollars.

[braddy]

73. That isn't why, it took nothing for them to say MOH awardee Dakota Meyer, the author either

didn't know since she is a TV celebrity following type, or she did it on purpose.

[Capt. Obvious]

54. Who?

[handmade34]

15. Congratulations to the newlyweds!!

her misfortune is in choosing the wrong mother (that was my misfortune as well)

she is still young and people can gain wisdom with age

[tabasco]

32. Yes, but that takes will and effort.

which she appears lacking and likely to avoid.

[Javaman]

16. grifters gotta grift. nt

[liberalhistorian]

17. I couldn't care less about her

love life, which is her own business. But WTF would she know about "hard work"? When the hell has she ever experienced it a day in her life?

[truebrit71]

19. "Hard work"?....that family wouldn't know hard work if it fell on them...

[bemildred]

20. Good luck to her. nt

[Zippyzagnut]

21. Bristol Meyer?

Will Mama Grifter expect free stuff from the company now that Daughter Grifter sports their name? Snorft.

[PADemD]

24. If they have a son, they can name him Squibb.

[Lizzie Poppet]

30. Since he probably won't be a wizard!

[SwankyXomb]

57. Still not the strangest name in the family

[malaise]

35. DUzy

Very good

[dembotoz]

37. she did not gain a husband, she gained a logo

[livetohike]

22. Good. Now go away and enjoy your family while it lasts. n/t

[packman]

23. Alaska Reality Show - Bristol and Dakota Alaskan Family

You betcha some TV guy is pitching the idea as we read this.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. By the way, is Todd dead yet?

Mama Grizzfter probably keeps him on life support so when Donnie dials her up like a backpage escort she comes a runnin'

[peace13]

28. Probably want to rethink this one!

[mainstreetonce]

27. Finally

She can give up her abstinence pledge.

[malaise]

36. WTF???

She never followed it anyway

[smirkymonkey]

81. And hopefully finally shut her pie-hole about it now.

Go away Bristol!

[lpbk2713]

29. I hope that fella is prepared for the baggage that comes with her.

In the form of a MIL who has never learned when to butt out and keep her mouth shut.

[Major Nikon]

33. It's good that she can now legitimately have sex, but hopefully only for procreation purposes

Not just for biblical reasons, but because that woman is so fertile she could get pregnant just sharing bathwater with the opposite sex. One can only hope her family maintains a zero population growth if not less for the sake of the planet.

[Yavin4]

34. Well, now finally, she can have sex.

Good for her.

[Act_of_Reparation]

39. What the fuck is with these names?

Track? Tripp? Piper? Trig? Who the fuck names their kids with imperative tense verbs?

"Uh, yeah, this is my son Run. And my grandkid Calculate. Boy's got another one on the way. If it's a boy we're gunna call him Juxtapose. If it's a girl, we're thinkin Accrue."

[libdem4life]

75. ....

[Mendocino]

44. A week from now

the headline will be Bristol Palin pregnant. Wonder if mother moose put her foot down "You gittin hitched this time, nuttin standing between me and being named VP ".

[Nitram]

46. And in other fascinating news, paint is drying.

[struggle4progress]

48. I hope they're happy and wish them much anonymity

[SheilaT]

52. I think we should start some sort of a pool

betting on when they'll divorce.

And at the risk of offending or even just annoying some here, not everyone is fully aware of who is a living Medal of Honor winner.

If he sticks with Bristol for any length of time he'll probably deserve a second one.

[aikoaiko]

53. When's the baby due?

I tease. It doesn't bother me or is none of my business whether or not kids are conceived in wedlock, but the hypocrisy of the Palin clan is fair game for ridicule.

[IADEMO2004]

55. Health and Happiness to the newlyweds and family.

[nolabear]

56. May they have a long and happy marriage.

[Ilsa]

58. Married, divorced, shacked up, I don't care as long as she

Stops preaching morality to teenage girls and goes away out of the public eye, never to be heard from again.

[840high]

59. I wish them a happy life.

[cleanhippie]

61. Who gives a shit?

[linuxman]

65. Best wishes to the both of them.

[book_worm]

72. the Wasilla Hillbillies fifteen minutes be up!?

[Sunlei]

79. shes pregnant again.