Now one of these scandals involves the family of the actual Vice President and the other one deals with a candidate who lost and went back to her home state.
The one scandal involves illegal drug use by the Vice President’s daughter and the other an unwise sexual relationship by the daughter of a Governor.
In a sane world which one do you think would get more media scrutiny.
Type in “Levi Johnston” and “Palin” into Google News and you’ll get a whopping 2,354 articles that have been written already about Levi Johnston appearing on the Tyra show to dish about his sex life with Sarah Palin’s daughter including the Washington Post, the Associated Press, NY Daily News, MSNBC and others.
Type in “Ashley Biden” and “Cocaine” and you’ll get 152 articles written. And many of them are mostly about Biden’s daughter being “framed” by a “friend” who set her up.
Now, I have stated before that I don’t believe the press should be all that interested in the Ashley Biden story because to me it’s non-news. As someone said in the combox, “Breaking News: Twenty Something Makes Bad Decision.”
But why the heck is the sex life of Governor Palin’s daughter fair game when the alleged drug use of the Vice President’s daughter is not?
April 4, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Unfortunately, a boy starved for attention is doing the “kiss and tell” route. I watched the trailer of the Tyra Banks show and it’s disgusting, he has NO respect for what’s happened in his life. If someone was badgering me to tell them if I used contraception every single time, come on… obviously one of those times they either didn’t or it failed. Than again, Bristol went on Sustern’s show but I think that was much more tastefully done.
April 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
The question isn’t whether it’s fair game because it’s not. All children of politicians (democrat or repub) should be off limits.
It has to do with who is more interesting: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin. Of course Palin’s family is going to get more attention than Biden’s. They’ve been in the spotlight more than Biden’s kids.
Ashley’s “scandal” isn’t talked about because
1) There is no indication whatsoever that she did snort cocaine. I mean, it’s been a week and there’s still no video/pics of her doing it so what news is there to go on? unfortunately the damage is already done. People are already calling Ashley a cokehead despite there being NO PROOF.
2) You rarely ever saw Ashley in front of the camera or give interviews during and after the campaign. If Palin didn’t want her family to be “put in the spotlight” then why are her kids doing interviews for FoxNews and going on the Tyra show?
3) Unfortunately, an average person probably can’t name the current VP (even if he/she did vote for Obama). How are they going to be interested in his daughter?
April 4, 2009 at 6:46 pm
What’s so hard to understand? Bristol is the daughter of Sarah Palin, Repub. Gov. and former Repub. V.P. Candidate running with Repub. Pres. nominee Sen. John McCain. Ahsley is the daughter of Joe Biden, for the time being democ. v.p. Why is it hard to understand that the msm would focus on Sarah Palin and ignore Ashley Biden. The answer is not hard to figure out. Given that the current occupant of the white house has a history of drug use, it might be sticky for the msm to address drug abuse by the daughter of the v.p. No, it’s not really all that hard to understand.
April 4, 2009 at 11:51 pm
There is no indication whatsoever that she did snort cocaine. I mean, it’s been a week and there’s still no video/pics of her doing it so what news is there to go on? unfortunately the damage is already done. People are already calling Ashley a cokehead despite there being NO PROOF.
If your daughter was falsely accused of doing illegal drugs, wouldn’t you have denied it by now? Especially if you had a long history of being one of the biggest drug-war advocates in Congress?
I’ll bet you didn’t see anything odd about John Edwards refusing to confirm or deny his illegitimate child, either.
April 5, 2009 at 1:14 am
I don’t know if the national media is covering Obama’s aunt who is an illegal alien living in public housing in Boston?
Are they?
Here from the Boston paper.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/04/02/immigration_judge_gives_obamas_aunt_an_extension/
April 5, 2009 at 2:08 am
“If your daughter was falsely accused of doing illegal drugs, wouldn’t you have denied it by now? Especially if you had a long history of being one of the biggest drug-war advocates in Congress?”
It’s called class. People who have it don’t address the garbage written about them or their family.
April 5, 2009 at 2:11 am
I’ll bet you didn’t see anything odd about John Edwards refusing to confirm or deny his illegitimate child, either.
…he DID deny it. Of course, you’re just a blind partisan douchebag so I’m not surprised you didn’t know that.
April 5, 2009 at 4:46 am
It’s called class. People who have it don’t address the garbage written about them or their family.
Are we both talking about the same Joe Biden?
…he DID deny it. Of course, you’re just a blind partisan douchebag so I’m not surprised you didn’t know that.
Not at first, he didn’t. Not for weeks. He was very careful not to confirm or deny it, until he was cornered. But if angry namecalling makes you feel better, go ahead.
April 6, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Well, Caroline, at least you signed a name to your statement.
Matthew, why do you ask questions to which you already know the answers?
R vs. D – check.
Scandal-mongering cash-in – double-check. If Levi Johnson is such a scum that he’s going to exploit their relationship and breakup for a little notoriety, at the expense of his child, then Ms. Palin is well-rid of him.