Bristol Palin exploiting her child for a reality show...

[cynatnite]

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/05/coming-soon-bristol-palins-reality-show-124204.html

The article is basically a promo for her reality show called "Life's A Tripp" which chronicles her life with her young son, Tripp. If the show did not involve her young son, I would not care a bit one way or the other.

I have huge problems with these reality shows about Kate and her 6 kids, the Duggers and their 19 kids, and other reality shows which requires them to exploit children in order to make a buck. If it weren't for the kids, nobody would watch. No one would care. So they need the kids.

Bristol Palin is no different. She is exploiting her son for financial gain. If it were not for him, no one would give her the time of day. There would be no reality show.

The apple does not fall far from the rotten apple tree. She learned child exploitation from that worthless mother of hers.

This is pure child exploitation and I dare anyone to say it is not.

Edited to add: This is child abuse, IMO.

[asjr]

1. Tripp is a beautiful child.

[gratuitous]

2. Can't argue with that

Sincerely hope he's able to overcome any deficiencies in his upbringing.

[julian09]

3. Resembles his father

will he get a cut of the loot?

[tanyev]

5. But he's got Bristol's old chin.

[malaise]

6. He's the split image of his father

He is beautiful

[NC_Nurse]

4. Another grifter like her mom.

No surprise there. Too bad they won't go away.

[Amster Dan]

7. Like Mother, like Daughter

[struggle4progress]

8. I'm gonna sue m'dear Mimsy fer not runnin fer Vice Pretzledent!

Curse ya, Mimsy dear! I coulda binned rich an famous by now!

[mzteris]

9. what about the other one?

okay - that was snarky. And unproven, but . . .

there was definitely something weird about that whole deal. Not sure what exactly, but I'm pretty damn sure it's not as presented.

Okay I'm braced for the onslaught. . .

[Pool Hall Ace]

10. Will she still be attending classes at Arizona State?

Or making that that other reality show with Kyle Massey? Or is this the same show? I'm confuzzled.

[kskiska]

19. The Massey show fell through

Bristol rented out the Arizona house and built a new one across the lake from her mother in Alaska. In her new show she'll be living with her pipeline-worker boyfriend and baby in a "trial marriage" situation. So much for abstinence.

[Pool Hall Ace]

21. "Trial marriage" ????

What happened to the sanctity of marriage?

[JoePhilly]

11. Poor kid.

[LadyHawkAZ]

12. What a lovely, lovely little boy

My question would be: is he gaining at all for this or is Mom keeping all the proceeds and profits? I know the laws are pretty specific on how earnings for child actors are dealt with, but would that apply to a reality show as well?

[cynatnite]

13. I wrote a paper on kids and reality shows...

Child labor laws apply to kids working on actual movie and TV sets. It gets vague when it comes to reality shows. The same rules do not apply. I'm not sure how the money is handled, but the damage to kids on reality shows is much different than on movies and TV's.

The kids on reality shows get to the point where they do not know the difference between reality and TV. It's all blurred when TV cameras are present.

[LadyHawkAZ]

16. So the likelihood is that

he's going to be treated much like a child actor, but she's going to get to keep anything the series makes?

That's revolting.

[cynatnite]

17. A lot of what happens on reality shows is staged..

A kid is not going to know the difference. It gives them a skewed version of life.

But, yeah, the parents get to keep the dough.

[LadyHawkAZ]

18. Well, I will just have to say

that she's doing all possible credit to the name Palin.

[kskiska]

20. The laws vary state-by-state

I doubt Alaska has laws at all relating to reality shows. Have there been any there?

[LadyHawkAZ]

24. Discovery has a couple

Deadliest Catch and Gold Rush are both based in Alaska. All adults though.

[Odin2005]

14. Too bad that adorable kid has dipshits for parents

[joeglow3]

15. And she has this fame because so many of us post about everything she does

To be honest, I NEVER hear anything about her from people I personally know on the right. However, I hear about her ALL THE TIME from all the people I know on the left (and shit tons of people here).

WE need to ignore her and much of this will go away.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

22. My prediction: 1st episode wins its timeslot. After that; Tanksville

Bristol is even less interesting than her mother. The Palins are like a train wreck you can look away from. Lifetime must have been really desperate to fill a timeslot...

[Terra Alta]

23. What a cute kid.

Sad that his parents and grandparents are complete idiots.