WTF is wrong with this country?? Bristol and Levi to get $300K for their baby pics!!

[mymessageboardid]

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.

MORE.....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28424559/

=======

I seriously want to fucking vomit.
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

Sorry if this has been posted already. I went back three pages and didn't see anything.

[Name removed]

1. Deleted sub-thread

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[NYCGirl]

2. Obviously, with the kind of Palin fascination everyone here has, People will sell

a shitload of magazines. Republicans will buy even more of them! People got a good deal.

[oldnslo]

9. My fascination with Palin is limited by her total lack of appeal.

I have to admit reading things about the family, if the article is short, but I'm still waiting to see the conclusion of one of the headlines about them to read, "lost in a blizzard hundreds of miles from civilization" or "indicted for crimes against the state", or "disappeared without a trace in an unreachable area of mountains in Alaska during a snow and icestorm."
So far, they're still pretty boring.

[oldnslo]

3. Betcha she takes the money. Her mom taught her well, I bet n/t

[NYCGirl]

4. And you wouldn't if you had the chance?

:eyes:

[oldnslo]

18. It's impossible to see things as she does. I'm over 50 years older than her,

and don't really need the money, and when I was her age, that kind of thing wasn't done, at least that I remember. Generally speaking, we did not exploit our children for fast cash, strange as that may sound in these modern times. The Palins are greedy publicity hounds, devoid of character. Grandma still wants to take her empty mind to the presidency someday. You betcha. God help all that reside here if she ever wins.

[NYCGirl]

19. The payment will be going to the kids, not Sarah Palin. NT

[dems_rightnow]

36. In a flash, my mom taught me well.

Sadly, it's the unholy fascination of "our side" with the Palins that made these pictures worth anything at all.

[emilyg]

12. You wouldn't?

Were you upset when Britney et al took her millions?

[oldnslo]

22. Upset? Nah...times change, people do what they want,

And what looked right decades ago is at best considered "quaint" today. Britney? What an unhappy, maladjusted person living a miserable life. Taking money for private pictures is standard fare for the disrespected like Britney. They don't have much left to sell. Britney has pictures of her most private, embarrassing moments and parts on the internet. What's to admire?
Trailer trash does seem to be bringing in higher than expected return, though. I would never have thought Tripp's pictures to be of any financial value at all, and noteworthy only because of Grandma being a pseudo-contender for VP.

[emilyg]

26. Trailer Trash?

I don't angree. I made lots of mistakes in my youth - perhaps you didn't.

[silverojo]

27. It's hardly just Britney

Many celebs--most far better-adjusted than Britney--have been offered megabucks for photos of their babies.

[hobbit709]

5. That's about $300,001.00 more than they're worth.

[navarth]

6. I think the word you're looking for is

S T U P I D.

[ecstatic]

7. Yeah, but be honest---you're going to look!

As will most people here on DU and elsewhere!

[Dukkha]

8. that will buy a lot of meth!

That much money in the hands of two idiot teens is never a good thing

[lib2DaBone]

10. Seriously..could she really see Russia from her back yard?

I think not. Then how does she know about foreign policy? Yet Americans line up to get he autograph..

Americans are a bunch of mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging morons. (Did I spell Moron correctly?)

[johncoby2]

11. What did you expect from compassionate conservatives? EOM

[KoKo]

13. Why not....???? Gotta make money where you can, these days...They know

"the scam." Their Mommy taught 'em well

[Tangerine LaBamba]

14. My head is pounding

I have this throbbing feeling that my idiot rightwingnut sister in West Palm Beach has probably already sent them a baby gift. Some cute little outfit.

And I bet she's not the only whackjob out there who does that.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

17. The was a thread a couple days ago about just that phenomenon.

It's considerably unsettling.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. Oh, man............

Really?

That is so disturbing, I'm going to have to turn to some sort of controlled substance to make this throbbing go away................

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

15. Everyone loves a trainwreck.

Makes 'em feel better about their lives.

[SmileyRose]

16. I'm very happy Bristol scored some moolah out of this.

Granted I'd like to see all these trash papers and magazines go extinct, but if they are going to exist then the person being exploited for stockholder profit should get at least some of the payoff.

[Ichingcarpenter]

20. Next they will do a Master Card Commercial

No High School Diploma...... $0

Unprotected Sex Teenage sex.................. $5...... saved on rubbers or birth control


Get paid ...............................$300,000 for the result of that?


PRICELESS.

[davidpdx]

32. Someone should make a YouTube video with that

[salguine]

23. Whenever some authority figure says crime doesn't pay, punch his fucking face.

[lynne]

24. Pocket change compared to the $$ for Pitt/Jolee and Tom Cruise's kids pics -

- and I have no idea why anyone would pay for those, either.

[dddem]

31. I'm no fan of celebs like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, but

correct me if I'm wrong, didn't they donate that money to charity? I've got to admire that. They are playing the game by their rules, and using the fact that Americans can't get enough of this crap to benefit those less fortunate.

[SoCalDem]

33. They are using the bulk of it to build "green" houses in NOLA

I used to think they were shallow movie-folk, but no more..

[Belial]

25. Just kind of funny..

[1]

28. every time a baby is born to some famous person, big money is offered...

that is not an american thing, check out newspapers around the world...

[Loudmxr]

29. I say take the money and RUN!! Get out of Wasilla before it Killsya!!

[SoCalDem]

30. correspondence high school & the GED cost more now..

yoobetcha..and Grandma needs a lawyer:)

[Vinca]

34. Add that to the 100,000 baby gifts they can sell or return for cash

and the daughter will be making a better haul off the dimwits than the mother. As for the $300,000 . . . good for her. If people are stupid enough to pay that much for pictures, take the money and run. I only hope she keeps it away from the future mother-in-law.

[rainbow4321]

35. Awww..Palin is pissed because Bristol and Levi are being called high school drop outs

So she had NO COMMENT on the birth of the baby but she feels a need to speak out about their drop out status?


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AK_PALIN_JOHNSTON_AKOL-?SITE=AKWTF&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that her future son-in-law is not a high-school dropout as the press is reporting.

Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, told The Associated Press that 18-year-old Levi Johnston is enrolled in high school through a correspondence program.

Palin said some media outlets also are erroneously reporting that her 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, is a high school dropout. The governor said her daughter is enrolled in regular high school and also has taken correspondence courses.

[pipi_k]

37. I just don't get it...

the fascination people have for looking at photos of famous people and their kids.

Especially newborn babies.

They look pretty much the same except for some minor differences.

What are people expecting? Newborn babies covered in glitter? Maybe they'll come out of the womb wearing designer duds, courtesy of some weird osmosis thing through the placenta...

Or maybe they'll pop out being able to sing or dance or do whatever the famous parents can do?


Must be me. I'm just way too self-centered to give a shit about famous people and their offspring.

:shrug: