If there ever was a reason for "planned parenthood", here it is!
Posted on 04/07/2011 8:59:44 AM PDT by FreeManDC
Many high school-educated, twentysomething mothers struggle to make ends meet and lack sufficient funds to provide for their children. This isn’t the situation for 20-year-old Bristol Palin, a Candies Foundation representative and advocate for teenage pregnancy prevention.
The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Dancing With the Stars finalist cashed in $262,000 in 2009 for her role in raising awareness about ending teen pregnancy.
Palin and former boyfriend Levi Johnston are the parents of a 2-year-old boy named Tripp, to whom Palin gave birth when she was 18.
Last year, Palin told the AP that most girls would probably think twice before engaging in sexual intercourse if they understood how hard it is to take care of a child.
“I don’t think anyone realizes how difficult it really is until you actually have a screaming baby in your arms and you’re up all night,” Palin said.
In addition to giving speeches about teen pregnancy prevention and serving as an abstinence ambassador, Palin has even worked with Jersey Shore star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino to produce a safe sex campaign ad. Palin also has a memoir titled Not Afraid of Life due this summer.
Some aren’t so pleased about Bristol’s massive paycheck. Celebrity gossip fiend Perez Hilton blogged Tuesday that Palin shouldn’t be given lots of money for having a baby.
“As it is, she’s rolling in dough despite getting knocked up in high school, but its [sic] BECAUSE she got preggers that she’s as rich as she is,” Perez Hilton wrote. “Yes, this girl barely made it out of high school, has no college education and has no life experience except giving birth at a young age. Yet, she is making more money than most us [sic] will see in our lifetimes. Teachers sure as hell don’t make that much. Neither do nurses or police officers or fire men [sic] and women.”
According to an E! News report published Tuesday evening, a source close to Palin said her earnings are “not out of the ordinary for a celebrity.”
“But because it’s Bristol it makes news,” the source told E! News. “She shot PSAs, print and Internet ads and did town hall meetings as well, and the money she made was an accumulation of all of that. This is not out of the ordinary for a celebrity to make an income off of a charity they represent. If you do your research you’ll find that most nonprofits compensate their celebrity spokespeople and Bristol’s no different.”
“I just gave a FREE hair cut to an older shut in”
I’ll bet she had an old TV with rabbit ears, that being the only source of her news, which if network news is all you watch, anyone would have the impression all is peachy with Obama.
That figure doesn't even sound like a reasonable. But I'll bet she made more than that from Dancing With The Stars. Good for her.
...He's a sad little insecure putz who gets his kicks and 'so called' celebrity status by insulting other people....
He's to be pitied.
I doubt Bristol Palin is losing sleep over his comments.
Funny how there’s never a mention of how big name “charities” like the United Way spend millions of dollars on things that have nothing to do with helping people. I guess like anything else, it is only bad when someone linked to a conservative does it.
If there ever was a reason for "planned parenthood", here it is!
Good for her!
Sure wish I could make that much for part-time work.
I know the left will feign a lot of outrage at the monetary aspect of this story but that amount of cash is pretty much the standard rate for a “Spokesperson” contract for a product or cause.
And all at the taxpayer's expense!
“As it is, she’s rolling in dough despite getting knocked up in high school, but its [sic] BECAUSE she got preggers that she’s as rich as she is,” Perez Hilton wrote. she is making more money than most us [sic] will see in our lifetimes.
typical libtard Hussein voter so filled with envy that he can hardly function.
She received the money from a 501c3. As such, they're financial records must be disclosed per IRS regulations. Payments like this celebrity spokesmanship, would be discernible if someone were to examine those publicly available financial disclosure forms.
Who needs enemies when your 'friends' stab you on a 'conservative' show.
“You know you are starting to act just like another pissant. May you share his fate.”
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It’s good to know my fellow conservatives are tolerant of others’ right to free expression.
Good for her. And, as a bonus, I’m sure it really makes that Levi punk angry to see her succeed.
SO WHAT!
Yeah, Perez, that’s how it works.
And, your mother could go on tour speaking about “How to raise an Azalea” (a “The Man With Two Brains” reference :) )
A petty comment, from a petty man (although, you certainly don't act like a man, so who knows what you are).
This is a political discussion forum - a place where like-minded conservatives discuss political issues. It's not a place for mindless, sycophantic idol worship, although it's pretty you would love it to be just that.
I’d expect to hear stuff like that in a high school cafeteria, not on a conservative website.
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