Bristol Palin Signs Deal For Up To $30,000 Per Speech

[Are_grits_groceries]

Bristol Palin has signed with a speakers bureau for a tidy sum of between $15,000 and $30,000 per speech, RadarOnline reports.

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Palin's listed programs include "Abstinence," "Conference," "Fundraiser," "Pro-Life," "Special Event/Holiday," "Women's," and "Youth" -- She also looks to be the relatively new bureau's highest-profile speaker to date, except perhaps for Drew Brees.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/bristol-palin-speech-30000_n_579545.html

And in other news, Piper Palin will be available to speak to elementary school assemblies for a fee of $5000. Her topics will include: Pre-abstinence, Grifting Tips for Youth, and Babysitting for Free.

That family makes Travelers look like slackers.
I think Levi should be off the hook for a very high child support payment. He should help, but not at the rate they wanted. Can he sue her for any type of support even though they weren't married?

With apologies to Sam Cooke:
http://www.youtube.com/v/jSoPeZMHMf4
Change one word and you have the Palin family theme song.

[pnwmom]

1. Feeling a little nauseous. n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Revolting...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[kdmorris]

3. I had my first child at 17

And it was a hard row to hoe. I was married at the time, though, so I guess I probably don't count for the "get money for nothing".

This family disgusts me. There are literally millions of girls that give birth before age 18 every year and for them, it's just a life of hardship. They aren't rich and they don't get "speaker's fees" (though apparently a couple of them did end up on some MTV special).

:puke:

[Skidmore]

8. I was married at 18, had my first child when I was

19, and was working a clerking job and going to college too. I remember what it felt like then feeling my way around trying to be an adult worker and mother with all the sheer exhaustion of trying to hold everything together in spite of a husband who still thought he should not forfeit any pleasures in life for the responsibility. I had come from a very poor family with no support beyond emotional.

While I felt a certain degree of sympathy for Bristol early on, I have come to the conclusion that she has learned nothing more from her mother than how to manipulate people. I truly feel sorry for these babies in this family. They don't stand a chance at learning anything beyond the art of grifting.

[kdmorris]

36. Amazing how much your story sounds like mine

Except I did it all a year earlier. Complete with the "husband who still thought he should not forfeit any pleasures in life for the responsibility". We divorced when I was 23.

I had a certain amount of sympathy for Bristol at first, too. I always do when someone so young gets pregnant. But then, she glamorizes it and uses it as propaganda, to push an agenda, and I lose all respect and sympathy for her. Then again, it really hits home how different life is for you if you get pregnant at 17 and are rich vs it happening when you are poor and have family that can only provide emotional support (and free babysitting).

[Skidmore]

37. Our stories are similar, except my divorce

came after sticking it out for 20 years. Your reactions to Bristol mirror my own. She's learned one thing from her mother--how to exploit her child for personal gain.

[mwb970]

4. What can Little Bristol possibly have to say that's worth $30,000?

And will it all fit on her hand? I imagine it will.

[Javaman]

30. what we are witnessing is the next wave of propaganda...

nothing but robotic prepared speeches.

She inherited her mothers intelligence (lack there of) and her love of money.

[dems_rightnow]

5. Levi sue for support???

Under what legal theory? Please note that "Do not like the Palins" fails the legal theory test.

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. **sigh**

I was mulling an option that I doubted had any legal basis. She is going to make a lot of money. If they were married now and divorcing, I believe this would be an option. I could be wrong.

[dems_rightnow]

7. I'm stupid

I thought they didn't marry. I don't follow the family lives so closely... because they do not interest me much.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. They were never married.

I was mulling the situation without that event. I also don't follow every move they make. I usually see the headlines which are enough. I'm not trying to squabble with you over this, although I seem to be doing a good job of it.
:hi:

[mkultra]

28. If they have joint custody

Then support is to be split 50/50. In my state, that means the add up both incomes, Compare that number to a chart to get the "base support" for that child, then split the base up based on the the percentage each person makes of the combined income.

If they have joint custody, then yes, she could be paying him.

[seabeyond]

9. america, undereducated, making poor choices and being paid for it. sigh. nt

[madmax]

19. A kick in the head, isn't it. nt

[seabeyond]

23. ha, that is exactly what it is. i teach boys, you gotta earn it.

well, not always

[hobbit709]

10. Just like her mother, she gets paid to blither about things she knows nothing about.

[arcadian]

12. Honestly, who would pay for such a thing?

Except maybe somebody trying to suck up to her mom.

[AndyA]

13. I wonder when her book is due out?

"How I Got Knocked Up and Became An Unwed High School Mother" should be wonderful reading. :eyes:

[lame54]

14. Forget BP - When is McCain gonna clean up this spill?

[SpiralHawk]

15. Abstinence? WTF? This is the end result of Republicon Family Values

Everything is totally frikkin upside down.

The wide-stance, diaper-sex, luggage-handling, faux-bondage. felafel-farting, pubic-hair-on-coke-can, loofah-boinking confabulists are lecturing us on SEXUAL DIGNITUDE.

Uhh hunhhh.

Ptooooey.

[madmax]

20. +1 rofl

[SpiralHawk]

24. Makes me laff, too, and kinda cry

that the Republicon hypocrisy is so thick and blatant -- and that the republisheeple lap it up.

[Mad_Dem_X]

16. .

:banghead:

[Obamanaut]

17. Several responses at this thread, also on first page.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8357156&mesg_id=8357156

[DefenseLawyer]

18. Good for her

If someone is stupid enough to pay her, that's $30 grand that's not going to attack ads and dirty tricks. Of course I can see the disappointment on the faces of the faithful "Hey we got Palin for the fundraiser!" "Wow, Sarah Palin?" "Uh no, Bristol Palin, but she's pretty good too."

[Are_grits_groceries]

22. What makes you think that the mamma grizzly

in the family won't route that money to her own funds?

[DefenseLawyer]

32. You don't think those grifters will actually SPEND any of their own money on anything do you?

Cash only flows one way in that racket.

[mod mom]

21. chronicling the downfall of this nation-disgusting!

[fishnchips54]

25. Bristol Palin on "Abstinence" ?

Oh the Onion ! My eyes are burning !

[lpbk2713]

26. The way they are going ...

no one in that entire family will ever have any idea what it's actually like to work for a living.

[peekaloo]

27. Willow's pitching a sitcom to the B&E Channel.

:sarcasm:

:dunce:

[Javaman]

29. The uneducated speaking to the uninformed.

meh. preaching to the chorus.

[The Damned]

31. What's she gonna say???

"My vagina has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R..."

[Crabby Appleton]

34. Show me the money! nt

[NoSheep]

33. I can't WAIT to see the videos!

[MilesColtrane]

35. Bristol Palin lecturing on abstinence

Ha ha ha, stop it. You're killing me.

[SoCalDem]

38. Perhaps she'll share with the baby-daddy?

:rofl:

Who's taking care of the little props while Mom & Granny are off gallivanting on the money-grubbing circuit?
I suspect that Tawwwd is off doing "his thing"....fishin'..huntin'..snowmachinin'..

How did that finishing school & goin' off to college thing work out for her? :rofl:

I have a feeling that Piper & Willow are doing babysitting/homemaker duties, and maybe planning for their own forays into GrifterLand..