Bristol Palin earns $262K for teen pregnancy work

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Tax documents show unwed mother Bristol Palin earned more than $262,000 for her role helping raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention in 2009.

The most recent data for The Candie's Foundation that's posted online by research firm GuideStar shows compensation at $262,500 for the now-20-year-old daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.

... Palin family attorney John Tiemessen and foundation officials did not immediately return calls for comment.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/05/state/n105834D65.DTL&tsp=1

[hobbit709]

1. Grifting pays well. Like mother, like daughter.

[aquart]

2. Funded by.....?

[Frank Cannon]

54. A fool and his money. n/t

[FSogol]

3. Grifters gotta grift. n/t

[ShockediSay]

59. EVEN WORSE! Group that paid Palin distributed only 35K to teen pregnancy clinics !!!

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/05/bristol-palin-profiteer-teen-pregnancy/

[lonestarnot]

73. .

[handmade34]

4. and some

bitch about a teacher making $50,000... wow

[closeupready]

5. As I recall, she and her mother did, didn't they?

In that video posted last year?

[handmade34]

19. video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9lA1s4LUYA

[closeupready]

25. There we have it.

Thanks.

[provis99]

6. great. Failure at family planning lectures on family planning.

And makes more money in one year than I ever will.

[PurityOfEssence]

68. Newt could make a mint on monogamy stumping, couldn't he?

Jesus loves a penitent.

[lonestarnot]

74. And Vitter can still do the Depends.

[gateley]

7. Well, I hope it can help other girls, but if she'd gonna preach abstinence, what a

waste of money and time.

There IS something to be said about a young single mother speaking to other young girls, but I just hope she encourages birth control and safe sex, not that it's easy for girls to get birth control these days with the attacks on Planned Parenthood.

[PatrynXX]

40. so where was Huckabee??

when he bitched about Natalie Portman? no? oh sure double standard of course.

[gateley]

53. Of course. Double standard is the rule for these slimebags. nt

[Dawson Leery]

8. Hustlers!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. She can't do the "teen" pregnancy shtik too much longer. She's getting old . . . .

[IrishBuckeye]

10. What did she do to earn this money? averages to $717.00 per day

Is she paid thousands of dollars for speaking engagements? How does she qualify for this kind of position? What do you have to do to make that kind of money!?

[Lochloosa]

11. She had unprotected, out of wedlock sex.

[Turbineguy]

28. So the key

is before you have unprotected out-of-wedlock sex is to have republicans pay you for it.

[JHB]

33. No, no, you need connections too..

Republicans have been paying for unprotected out-of-wedlock sex for over a century. But to get the big bucks for it, you need connections.

[Turbineguy]

45. Welll.....

There's another fun job that passes me by.

[JHB]

20. She has the only qualifications that count...

Connections and publicity.

[louslobbs]

24. You have to be a "crony" one of theirs, a part of the in crowd or have a father or mother with

CONnections. In this country, it's not what you know, it is who you know and it doesn't obviously matter how stupid, unconnected to reality or honest you are. You just gotta know the right people, share their ideology, their "values" lol, and their evil ways, and you're in. Sad huh? It makes me sick, just like the the Walker administrations hiring of that 27 yr old college drop out, two time DUI champion with no experience, to an $81,500 per year position in Wisconsin government. This is currently, and for the most part how the Republicon hiring system has worked with respect to cronyism. Doesn't matter if you beat women, lie every time you open your mouth, cheat or steal. And if you can't spell or have no experience that's even better so that you can easily be manipulated to do what you are told......... Republicons hiring for government position, must be college drop out and posses at least 2 DUIs, no experience necessary and you must have a parent or parents who lobby for our side and the ability to take "marching orders" without question.
Lou

[msanthrope]

46. What did she do to earn this money? I'd get banned if I told you, using the

vernacular.

[RamboLiberal]

52. She makes $15,000 to $30,000 per engagement

Opportunity knocks when you are America’s best-known teenage mom, and Bristol Palin has signed on with Single Source Speakers to give lectures at $15,000 to $30,000 a pop, more lucrative than her current job at an Anchorage doctor’s office.

The daughter is commanding less on the speech making circuit than mom Sarah Palin. The dropout Alaska governor reportedly gets $100,000 plus business or first class plane tickets for herself and “First Dude.”

When it comes to family and parenting issues, however, a bevy of Seattle speakers – covering the ideological spectrum – can be hired for much less than either Bristol or Sarah Palin.

Dan Savage, sex advice columnist (“Savage Love”), parenting author (“The Kid”) and editorial director at The Stranger, is priced in the $5,001-$10,000 range, according to the Keppler Speakers website.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2010/05/18/bristol-palin-gets-15000-to-30000-in-speaking-fees/

But a union worker who makes that in a half-year to a year is the enemy!

[IrishBuckeye]

12. LOL, didn't realize the foundation was by the Candie's, a company who push sex on kids

Nice lil write up about the story and photos of Candies ads...

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2011/04/bristol-palin-makes-nice-profit-from.html

[Sonoman]

18. I see young women in this shit all the time.

These teens come in my store with their parents, and the kids are wearing this outrageous shit.

Sometimes I ask the parents if they left the pimp in the car. I figure people who let their kids dress like that should hear the other side.

I am no prude (long hair, tats, ripped-up shirts - I was dressing like Lebowski before Lebowski) and have no problem wearing my bath robe (which I have on as I type) to the grocery store, but I have a problem with girls who look like 13-year-old hookers. I also have a couple of friends who are hookers (high-dollar).

Sonoman

[IrishBuckeye]

22. It's Generation; Girls Gone Wild

These kids were raised in a world where porn went mainstream and their idols are other girls who are famous just for having their sex tapes leaked. A Generation of little girls playing with dolls that looked like hookers (Bratz dolls). There is no question that the media is sexualizing children at a younger and younger age, there are profits to be made after all in doing so. But at the end of the day the blame falls on the parents because they sit back and allow it to happen, they want to be their kids friends after all.

[Sonoman]

39. Yep, it's the parents.

Kids do an unbelievable amount of damage in my store (a very high-end, design-and-art-driven garden gallery).

When I call them on it, the ever-present parent usually defends the kid's right to do whatever in the hell they wish.

Most common parental response?

"You should have a sign."

Sonoman's response?

"Let's go out to your car and see if you have a sign that reads 'Please Don't Jump on the Hood of My Car."

They usually call me an asshole or something.

I have even offered them money to help start a Legal Defense Fund for their Little Bastard. I have also told them to just sell the little bastard and give parenthood another try.

I have developed the ability to spot them as they walk through the door.

Sonoman

[tpsbmam]

75. I have watched my neighbor's 6-year-old kid, and now her little 3-year-old sister

making dance moves that horrify me. Really sexualized moves and, IMO, incredibly inappropriate for their ages. It's all thrusting and posing and crotch grabbing and I just cringe when they do it. They've picked it up off of kid shows, including Miley Cyrus, but they also once in a while watch music videos. Yeah, they've seen a couple of Michael Jackson's, hence the crotch grab. And they look at the way models pose and imitate that. The 6 yo started dancing in a store when I had her out with me one day -- I had to tell her to stop. A kid dancing in a store....no problem, pretty cute if you ask me. A 6 yo making moves that I saw coke-addled 20-year-olds make at Studio 54 back in the day definitely not okay with me! And their Mom doesn't see anything wrong with it. I dunno, maybe I'm just an old stick-in-the-mud, but dang.....creeps me out.

(Yes, you'd never know it knowing my staid old self now but I had my wild side in my 20's, the heyday of Studio 54. Never did drugs but I did go to work with a couple doozies of hangovers!)

[Mnemosyne]

44. Have you seen the pre-teen clothes? More like 6 to 12 year old hookers.

It's the sexualization of pre-teens that disturbs me most.

And just try to find a boy a shirt without skulls on it, difficult.

[Sonoman]

47. Oh, yeah.

Juicy

Writ en velour across a six-year-old butt.

I don't get it.

Sonoman

[Mnemosyne]

50. I am no prude, but that makes me sick. One bib I got in a package, read, 'Hottie'. Seriously? n/t

[msanthrope]

48. I call it "Baby Slut-Wear."

My daughter had a classmate last year who dressed inappropriately--in a school where 99% of the kids do not. It was painful, watching a 7-year old hobble on metal-heeled boots and wear belly shirts...

[Mnemosyne]

51. It's downright creepy and weird. "Baby Slut - Wear"; sad but true. And anyone wonders

how Jon Benet ended up dead? Toddlers and Tiaras?! Disturbing, to say the very least...

That poor little girl. My daughter decided she had to have this dress, in 1992 iirc, and it wasn't too bad for an older teen, but she was only 12. Rather than fight right out of the gate, I told her to try it on and we would see. She came back out carrying the dress, not modeling it. I sweated it hard until that moment. :)

[Javaman]

13. baby grift learned from her mother the pro. nt

[LiberalFighter]

14. Several things.

1) I hope she fails to file a tax return and ends up like Hatch from Survivor.
2) I hope she goes broke.

[russspeakeasy]

31. I hope she gets knocked up again...

[HughBeaumont]

15. Well ain't that just the cat's ASS??

Hustler word I pull the trigger long
Grit my teeth spray till every nigga's gone
Got my block sewn armored dope spots
Last thing I sweat's a sucka punk cop
Move like a king when I roll hops
You try to flex bang another nigga drops
You gotta deal with this 'cause there's no way out
Why? Cash money ain't never gonna play out
I got nothin' to lose much to gain
In my brain I got a capitalist migraine
I gotta get paid tonight, you muthafuckin' right
Taking my grip, check my bitch, keep my game tight
So many hos on my jock, think I'm a movie star
Nineteen, I got a fifty thousand dollar car
Go to school, I ain't goin' for it
Kiss my ass, bust the cap on the Moet
'Cause I don't wanna hear that crap
Why? I'd rather be a New Jack, Hustler
Hustler
Hustler
Hustler
Hustler
H U S T L E R
Hustler

Ease back, or muthafucka get beat down
Out my face, fool I'm the illest
Bulletproof, I die harder than Bruce Willis
Got my crew in effect, I bought 'em new Jags
So much cash, gotta keep it in Hefty bags
All I think about is keys and Gs
Imagine that, me workin' at Mickey D's
That's a joke 'cause I'm never gonna be broke
When I die there'll be bullets and gun smoke
Ya don't like my lifestyle? Fuck you
I'm rollin' with the New Jack crew and I'm a hustler

H U S T L E R, hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler

Here I come, so you better break North
As I stride, my gold chains glide back and forth
I care nothing 'bout you, and that's evident
All I love's my dope and dead presidents
Sound crazy? Well it isn't
The ends justifies the means, that's the system
I learned that in school then I dropped out
Hit the streets, checked a grip and now I got clout
I had nothing, and I wanted it
You had everything and you flaunted it
Turned the needy into the greedy
With cocaine, my success came speedy
Got me twisted, jammed into a paradox
Every Dollar I get, another brother drops
Maybe that's the plan and I don't understand
God damn you got me sinkin' in quicksand
But since I don't know and I ain't never learned
I gotta get paid, I got money to earn
With my posse, out on the ave
Bump my sounds, crack a forty and laugh
Cool out and watch my new Benz gleam
Is this a nightmare? Or the American dream?
So think twice if you're coming down my block
You wanna journey through hell? Well shit gets hot
Pregnant teens, children's screams
Life is weighed on the scales of a triple beam
You don't come here much, and ya better not
Wrong move
Bang
Ambulance cot
I gotta get more money than you got
So what, if some muthafucka gets shot?
That's how the game is played
Another brother slayed, the wound is deep
But they're givin' us a band-aid
My education's low but I got long dough
Raised like a pit bull, my heart pumps nitro
Sleep on silk, lie like a politician
My Uzi's my best friend, cold as a mortician
Lock me up, it's genocidal catastrophe
There'll be another one after me a hustler

Hustler
H U S T L E R, hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler
New Jack, New Jack, New Jack hustler
Ne-Ne-New Jack hustler

[russspeakeasy]

32. Thanks Hugh

[TygrBright]

16. Great. There went my military-grade, high-capacity irony meter. They ain't cheap, yanno. n/t

[Hannah Bell]

17. jeez. that is sick.

[onehandle]

21. Fake celebrity makes money. nt

[Roy Rolling]

23. good example

The moral of the story is, you can get paid $262,000 a year if you have a baby out of wedlock. That is a great message the Candies foundation sends to young girls. How about revoking their tax-exempt status?

[Wait Wut]

26. This family makes me sick and Bristol is an ass.

As a former teen mother myself, I had always wanted to help other teen moms learn how to be loving and productive single parents. The LAST thing I would ever do is tell those teen moms that they should be ashamed of themselves and resent their child. The pic of her in one Candies ad was sick. She's sitting there holding her kid in her lap and has a look on her facee that screams, "I hate my life and child". One day, that little boy will grow up and ask his mother, "Why did you hate me so much?"

AND she comes from the side that wants to FORCE other young girls to become teen moms! This bitch would do better service by helping these young girls cope with the lifestyle changes and stop being such a friggin' whoring bitch like her mother. How about telling these young women about educational opportunities? Support groups?

Stupid bitch.

[freshwest]

27. The cause of inflation and financial misery for the masses for dummies.

These folks are making our money worthless. And we worked hard for those pieces of paper.

[benld74]

29. DAMN! There goes another keyboard , nfie02-0r-wef-k

[Frisbee]

30. Earned is an interesting choice of words. eom

[Quasimodem]

34. You've got to pay to be Number One!

That’s about thirty-five cents a head for the 750,000 unwed teenage mothers Bristol helped create in America during 2009 through lack of proper birth control information — the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the industrialized world.

[southernyankeebelle]

35. Evidently being a whore is great business for 17 yr olds. Goes to show you can have rich white trash

[TygrBright]

42. No, 17yo whores are only doing so-so. It's CARELESS 17yo whores that clean up, apparently. n/t

[sadbear]

36. EARNS is not the word I would have used

for how she got that money.

[bongbong]

37. I agree

I agree with a lot of the comments here. PLEASE change the title of the thread to something more appropriate, like:

"Bristol Palin grifts $262K for teen pregnancy con"

[alp227]

38. another one of those "what's wrong with society?" stories

the government blows trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan (and can't even account for billions), Bristol Palin can make 6 figures from her life story, but poverty and inequality still persist in America not to mention the millions of people who lack health insurance. I was listening to Thom Hartmann today and heard about how welfare contributes to obesity because most of the recepients are in poorer areas that lack fresh groceries or can't use food stamps in health stores.

big money now goes to sucking it up to the corporate machine or having good connections

[lanlady]

41. Another Palin family money-making con scheme

Bristol Palin’s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention:

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/05/bristol-palin-profiteer-teen-pregnancy/

[lanlady]

43. I'm sure Candie's is real serious about preventing teen pregnancy

It would have to be, given this is how it advertises to girls:

[jmowreader]

56. They are absolutely serious about preventing teen pregnancy

That's because you won't fit in what they sell if you're pregnant.

[sofa king]

49. Hey! Who says irresponsibility doesn't pay?

[jmowreader]

55. Isn't that going to send the opposite message?

"Hi, I'm Bristol Palin. I want you to study hard, graduate from high school, go to college and promise to swear off sex until marriage. That's because if you get pregnant while you're 16 like I did, you might squeeze me out of my sweet $262,000 gig."

[daleo]

57. She received $262K, but she didn't earn it. n/t

[JackRiddler]

65. How does one "earn" $262K in this world, anyway?

"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

[daleo]

77. Best selling (good) book?

Nobel Prize?

If anything truly deserves a significant amount of money, I would say it ought to be an important contribution to science or culture. The irony is that those accomplishments don't take a lot of money to motivate people, as the love of knowledge or art is what really drives the process.

[Crowman1979]

58. I think those teens who attended her speeches, should get their money back if they get knocked up.

[CBHagman]

60. Man, I know people who barely made more than 10 percent...

...of that per year over the course of their careers, and they had earned degrees, were in the military, etc.

But I guess you can't put a price on the quiet heroes who serve their communities.

[emilyg]

61. Good for her.

[Blue_Tires]

70. You have a point...

As long as the suckers keep the Palins in the spotlight and drive dump trucks overflowing with cash to their doorstep, what are they gonna do? Say, "We're sorry America, but taking your money for our fake causes through shell foundations is fraudulent, misleading and unethical?"

It's a sweet racket requiring no work, and I have a thousand times the anger at the Palins' enablers, shills and pimps than I do for the Palins themselves...

[emilyg]

71. Excellent point. If someone offered me that

kind of money I would be glad to speak.

[emilyg]

72. Excellent point. If someone offered me that

kind of money I would be glad to speak.

[RamboLiberal]

62. Paid her 7 times what they actually spent preventing teen pregnancy

Only spent $35,000 on that.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/05/bristol-palin-profiteer-teen-pregnancy/

[EFerrari]

66. That should be the headline, right there. n/t

[Hotler]

81. Wow! Isn't that rich? You do know that....

to the teabaggers, if it's not on FOX News it isn't true.

[shanti]

63. bovine excrement n/t

[JackRiddler]

64. This is just so wrong, but Fuld's 400 million is still 1500 times wronger.

[No Elephants]

67. Who?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

69. The Candie's Foundation tax form is here.

From Guidestar.org:

Form 990, Return of Organization From Income Tax

Please scroll down to page 27 of the .pdf document.

[tpsbmam]

76. And the total she was paid was $332.5K

when you add in the subsequent $70,000 she "earned." Putrid.

[classysassy]

78. Where are all those self righteous TV preachers?

Oh I forgot they are all republican con artist.

[ProudDad]

79. It's about time someone promoted teen pregnancy...! (n/t)

[IrishBuckeye]

80. This is how she made her money! (real video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyWKlxNAh30

This is not a skit for SNL but a real PSA that Bristol was paid to do.

[Jefferson23]

82. Money is all it's about for her and her Mom. How pathetic an individual who failed

is given the opportunity to advance a message and compensated on this level. Candie's choice is unnerving,they
couldn't find within their group a young woman who did not fail, and who could also use this kind
of money for her education? Bullshit on who funded this charade.

[fascisthunter]

83. another rich fraud