Posted on 12/29/2008 7:37:14 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin confirmed that her teenage daughter, Bristol, and boyfriend Levi Johnston were expecting a baby, the celebrity weeklies knew that the first photos of the Palin-Johnston baby would incite a bidding war. Baby Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, born Dec. 28, proved those editors right.
According to one source, bidding for the baby photos began at $100,000. People won out in the end, but In Touch was the only other weekly to make serious bids, according to several sources involved in the process. The price didn't soar immediately, according to the sources, because Sarah Palin stories just didn’t sell all that well for the weeklies on newsstands.
“Sarah was on the cover of People, Us Weekly, and OK! the same week, and really only People saw a bump in sales," says a source.
The drug-related arrest of Johnston's mother, however, caused the price tag for the photos to go up.
“The bidding started well before the baby was born, but once Levi’s mom was arrested — well, then you had a story,” says one editor.
As for how much teen parents Bristol and Levi made from the deal — most estimates hover around the $300,000 range (none of the magazines would confirm the exact figure in the end, which is standard).
No word on whether the money will go to charity, as sometimes happens in a celeb baby deal.
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That is because, for the most part, our media is pretty anti-American. I watched the first ten minutes of Rachel Maddow last night... she was giving her audience an “education” on the history of the Israel-Arab conflicts — HER version was not complimentary to Israel. She also managed to throw in a ding at Bush for being in Crawford on vacation and not giving a flip about the carnage — something I’ve come to expect from all the commentators at MSNBC... pretty sad IMHO
Re-reading what I wrote I can see I was using short hand again, in re the mortgage I was referring to the government paying people’s mortgages like that woman was praising when she voted for Obama.
[The media is missing a great opportunity, if only they could get their bias out of the way.]
The media doesn’t want her to be ‘liked’, but we like her and will continue to support her.
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