On Father's Day, hypocrites are all in the family (Palin has no FamValues cuz Levi's ma does drugs)

The Washington Post ^ | 6-19-10 | Colbert I. King

[TitansAFC]

Family, marriage and the contribution of fathers come together as topics for reflection on Father's Day. So I'd like to know why Barack Obama, a husband and a father in a family structure that encompasses bonds deemed essential to our society, is constantly and savagely attacked by conservative leaders whose personal circumstances undermine the family values they espouse?.......

[TitansAFC]

"....But what would a Father's Day discussion of the nuclear family and a moral society be without bringing into the picture Mrs. Family Values herself, Sarah Palin..."

"...Her sister-in-law, Diana Palin, half sister of the former governor's husband, got a 15-month sentence this year. Burglarizing the same Alaska house three times for money to satisfy a drug habit is the kind of thing that can get you arrested. Thuggery? How about Sherry Johnston, the mother of Levi Johnston, the high school dropout who fathered Palin's grandson? She was arrested and charged with selling drugs; after pleading guilty to one count with intent to deliver the drug OxyContin she was sentenced to three years.

Because of her medical condition, the woman who was once Bristol Palin's future mother-in-law was released from prison to home confinement, where she wears an ankle-monitoring device.

And the whereabouts of 19-year-old Levi on this Father's Day weekend?..."

"...Conservative family values?

Levi can be found on the cover of Playgirl magazine, his nude body blocked from full exposure by his strategically placed arm....."

[edpc]

What was it Obama was doing when he was young? Convenient amnesia from WaPo.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Colbert I. King is an idiot who really needs to get a life...geesh.

[avacado]

"....But what would a Father's Day discussion of the nuclear family and a moral society be without bringing into the picture Mrs. Family Values herself, Sarah Palin..."

When has Sarah Palin ever preached purity of family values? I have heard her discuss the trials and tribulations of raising a family but haven't heard her preach some holier than thou attitude. This is just another case of the MSM/Libtards making something up, and then arguing about it.

[skeeter]

I may throw a kneejerk insult at one of our goofy marxist politicians on this forum from time to time, but I truly would be mortified to see my name on such a childish POS as is this article.

When will the left ever grow up.

[SandRat]

You left the Barf alert.

[grey_whiskers]

Colbert -- we're not voting for Levi.

Nor yet is Levi endorsing Nikki Haley and other candidates.

Levi, however, *was* the "flavor of the moment" for the left: and continues to be, for so long as he allows them a way to attack Sarah Palin.

Cheers!

[lonestar]

I’m glad I have to answer only to the things I’ve done and NOT responsible for people related to me by marriage...and almost marriage!

[Qbert]

What's Vera Baker been up to lately? It's really weird how she just disappeared off the face of the earth.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sarah has stayed faithful to Todd and vice versa. I guess this is too boooooring.

[pallis]

Just out of curiosity, wasn’t Obamao’s father a drunk? Didn’t one of his brothers get into difficulties for sexual harassment or some such thing? Didn’t Obamao use drugs in college?

We have a Marxist radical who hates America in the White House, destroying our economy, burying us in debt, acting like a gangsta prez running his thugocracy, and I’m supposed to blame Sarah for her sister-in-law.

Liberalism is a mental illness.

[silverleaf]

I guess Colbert is overlooking the fact that none of Sarah Palin’s family or extended family are living on US/English taxpayer welfare like obama stepmamas and grandmamas or in grass huts like obama half bro’s-

[FrankR]

I am an individual, I am NOT my brother's keeper.

We can choose our friends, but we're pretty much stuck with the relatives we have...warts and all.

Colbert King is probably one of those nerds who doesn't have a father, and is therefore angry at anyone who does.

Sarah Palin is NOT kin to Levi Johnston.

So her sister in law is a druggie and a thief...I know plenty of families who have such lineage...but that's doesn't mean everyone in the family shares those values.



But this is the same kind of guy that would say that because the prisons have many blacks, that one persons mistakes shouldn't be held against others.

But, I doubt that Sarah Palin gives a hoot about what ol' Colbert is bellowing about, so I won't either. He can't touch her anyway.

[Sister_T]

This guy is for real, isn’t he?

Was Obama married at the time he was being “serviced” by Larry Sinclair? What about all these rumors about him and some Vera Baker?

Let’s look at some DemocRAT “family values”:

Bill “I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” Clinton, who may have raped Juanita Broderick (sp?), groped Kathleen Wiley, cheated with Gennifer Flowers and sexually harassed Paula Jones.

The so-called “Lion of the Senate”, the late Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy who left a woman to die in his car before he decided to call the cops (so much for ‘do unto others’).

John “Two Americas” Edwards who used his wife’s illness (and she probably went along with it) to try and get the nomination but his cheating was exposed.

The former governor of New Jersey, James “I am a gay American” McGreevy, Kwame “Text Messages” Kilpatrick, Eliot “Client Number 9” Spitzer, Al “Global Warming hoax profiteer” Gore, etc.

I know Republicans have emphasized family values but really, the DemocRATs are in no position to use that club against them, especially if they try to point out how they uphold those values better, supposedly.

[RichInOC]

Okay, you can’t say “let’s talk about Palin’s nuclear family” and then start bringing in the inlaws and the would-have-been inlaws and Ricky Hollywood. What kind of nonsense is that?

[Jim Scott]

Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, to my knowledge, have never impugned Obama’s marriage or his fatherhood, so the complaint is baseless, as usual. Colbert King’s whining is nothing more than a distraction from the very substantive accusations of Obama’s incompetence that has been raised by both men as well as quite a few leftists.

Colbert King is attempting to smear Sarah Palin with guilt-by-association, as if Sarah Palin condones or can control what her husband’s half-sister or her daughter’s ex-boyfriends mother does. The left resort to it as a first impulse because they can’t defend Obama - so they try to change the subject. As for Levi Johnston, he’s a world class loser and certainly beyond the control of Sarah Palin. Allowing him to live in the Palin home was very likely a well-meaning attempt to protect him from his dysfunctional family, but it backfired on the Palins, big-time. Levi Johnston thanks them by impregnating their underage daughter then dumping her as quickly as he could and bad-mouthing the Palin family while desperately grasping onto their name to make a cheesy buck.

The left looks at morality as a big joke but they love to play this lame game of accusing those on the right of being hypocrites when their criticisms of Obama have nothing to do with his family structure. They’re preaching to the choir, again.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The only thing I find disturbing about this article is the fact that King is probably proud of it.

[gundog]

I thought he went by Colby. Now it makes sense. Same dumbass that shoots his yap off on Washington Week and Inside Washington.

[RichInOC]

And honestly, whatever problems I have with Teh Awesome (and they’re legion) his family life isn’t one of them.

[pepperdog]

I’m sure Ms King has no embarrassing relative, nor family skeletons....of course not, no one but Sarah Palin has such.