Bristol Palin Receives Death Wishes Over Obama Blog Post

[Galraedia]

Source: Huffington Post

Bristol Palin has received death wishes in response to a blog post she wrote about President Obama's gay marriage announcement last week.

In a new post, Bristol shares a screen grab from some of the blog comments that did not make it up on the site. There are a couple of "kill yourself" requests, a "you're an argument for abortion" and worse. One commenter wishes death upon the whole Palin family.

"You all, including your son, deserve a slow, painful and miserable death," the commenter wrote. "Your backwards thinking is so sad because the world is moving forward and you will certainly be left behind. May death be upon you."

At issue was Bristol's take on Obama's decision to support gay marriage. Last week she criticized him for being influenced by his wife and daughters on the issue:

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/bristol-palin-death-wishes_n_1515114.html?ref=politics

[Enrique]

1. i guess her mom and dad don't have anything better to do

and we know Sarah knows how to use a computer.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Nah, it's Rebecca Mansour.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/17/nation/la-na-rebecca-mansour-20110317

[LynneSin]

2. First off, she didn't even write the blog

I mean how could she? She talks about how important it is to have the father in a child's life and yet she won't let Levi have visitation with the kid she had with him. So either she's a hypocrite or she didn't write the post.

Even still - why anyone would bother with death threats over a clueless person like that is beyond me. Really, we're better than that.

[secondwind]

3. This young lady is a Kardashian wannabe... she did NOT write that....

I don't think she even graduated high school........ the other one, Willow, is rumored to have been pregnant last summer....... her mom pulled her out of school before it was out.........

bunch of ignorant rednecks.

[Posteritatis]

4. People who make posts like that are assholes no matter who the target is. (nt)

[montanto]

5. Come on people. Why stoop to their level?

[atreides1]

6. Because

Sometimes it's fun to see the look of total shock on their faces, when someone gives them a dose of their own medicine...that's why!

[RZM]

46. Is Bristol Palin known for wishing death upon others in her blog posts?

Maybe she is. I don't read her. But if she isn't, how could such a death wish be construed as 'a dose of her own medicine?'

[PavePusher]

47. Civility....

Fuck that shit, eh?

[closeupready]

7. I think she's lying.

I'm not prepared to take ANYTHING she says at face value. That clan seems to be experts at playing victims so this is just more noise/light to get her name in the press to publicize her new reality show.

[treestar]

62. Amen

They would do it themselves or right wing trolls would do it.

[kurtzapril4]

8. I'm not defending her

ridiculous opinion, which I disagree with whole-heartedly. However, the opinion, as stated was not cruel, did not name call. It was "her" opinion. If people are thinking they're doing any good for their cause by wishing death or suicide on the people who disagree with them, they got another think coming.

[man4allcats]

9. Stupid bitch. What does she expect?

I don't say it's right, but when you act like a far right asshole, what do you expect?!

[alp227]

25. Calling women the B-word is like calling blacks the N-word.

DU should start having Zero Tolerance for the B-word. If someone similarly posted the N-word is a thread about Herman Cain or Colin Powell that user would be PPR'ed.

[emilyg]

35. The jury voted 3-3 to keep it. Ugh.

[rayofreason]

57. Too bad I was not on the jury. It is an execrable post. n/t

[emilyg]

33. I alerted on B word.

[BlueIris]

44. No one deserves to receive death threats.

A person has a right to expect safety, whether s/he decides to "act like a far right asshole" or not. Such as when they refer to women in crude, animalistic terms. You wouldn't think anyone had the right to threaten you for that, would you?

[PavePusher]

48. It's all O.K. as long as the target isn't on our side, eh?

Holy fuck....

[RZM]

49. That's a disgusting post on several levels

First off, 'stupid bitch' is pretty insulting.

But second, you seem to argue that death wishes are a fair response to RW opinions. That's a scary and wrong-headed argument. The proper response to a RW argument is a LW argument that counters it with facts. Resorting to hateful language and wishing death means the respondent is an asshole and also either too stupid or too lazy to refute the actual argument.

[rayofreason]

58. Shame on you. 'nuff said. n/t

[otohara]

10. What Did She Expect?

she's as crazy as her mom.
STFU and raise your son Jr. miss Palin.

[emilyg]

34. Death wishes are ok with you?

[otohara]

37. Did She Fall Off A Truck?

Come on, this is the internet we're talking about where death threats and wishes are common these days. You twitter something stupid, or blog something iffy, the ugly comments follow. It's shocking, but I will go out on a limb here and say the R's are much uglier at the threats, but going after the Obama girls was just palin stupid.

The Palin's love to stir up shit and then cry victim.

[snooper2]

52. Oh Jesus Christ on a jug of Iced Tea

You ever been anywhere on the Internet besides the sanitized DU?

[Puzzler]

12. I doubt if she wrote any of those blog posts

In Bristol's previous blog post, she started a paragraph with "Ideally, ..."

Yeah, I'm sure that's the way she really writes.

(sarcasm)

[nolabear]

13. Good God, people. Do you really feel okay about what you're saying?

I don't care if the girl wrote the thing or not, or if her parents are horrid or she's a Kardassian wannabe. Death threats are horrible, disgusting assaults on a person and they're frankly as harmful to the perpetrators and those others who read them as to the target. The Palins are pros at publicity. They will use it even as they might feel uneasy. But ragers cause harm all the way around and there are lines whose crossing creates all kinds of unseen damage.

On DU and elsewhere.

[nxylas]

14. +1

They sound like the wingnuts who defended the Tiller Killer ("Of course we abhor this terrible crime BUT...&quot

[aleidenberg]

22. Claire Bear

...and where's the right-wing condemnation of the Tea Baggers statement to "kill the Claire Bear..." As usual, "it's OK if you're a Republican".

[Posteritatis]

16. Apparently "we" do, going by most of the other responses. Stay classy, DU; ugh. (nt)

[DocMac]

23. Would it be ok if we

order Bristol voodoo dolls from Ebay?

[richmwill]

24. I agree fully

Sadly I've known people who would laugh at a Palin family member receiving death threats, they would say "Oh, they deserve it because they're just so... stupid". Death threats are not right and not defensible, no matter who it is.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

41. Palins are a danger to the nation

nuff said

[RZM]

51. Really? Bristol Palin is a 'danger to the nation?'

Her claims to fame are:

1) Being the daughter of an increasingly irrelevant political figure. Remember predictions that Sarah Palin would have power as a 'kingmaker?' How relevant was she in the Republican primary process? If you answered 'almost not at all,' you'd be correct. She has very little power or influence on the political process.

2) Having a child at a young age.

3) Being on Dancing with the Stars.

4) Writing a crappy blog.

That's your definition of 'a danger to the nation?'

[Great Caesars Ghost]

53. Yet people blindly follow her.

[RZM]

54. I think you may be overestimating her importance

And even if not, so what? She's not the only person out there arguing conservative positions. Who cares?

[Great Caesars Ghost]

55. And perhaps people are underestimating her influence

Nuff said

[RZM]

56. Wow. This shit again?

I was actually talking about Bristol anyway.

But I would still argue that Sarah is not particularly relevant. Her plans to be a kingmaker don't seemed to have worked out for her. She's not totally irrelevant, but she's not the player many predicted she would become. At least I don't think she is. I see little evidence that she has much influence on political discourse. She's one voice out of many.

As you know, there's never been the slightest connection established between Loughner and this map. Nor is using the language of war in politics at all unusual. You see it on DU everyday. But keep on repeating this nonsense if you like.

[Honeycombe8]

39. Ditto. nt

[denvine]

15. Death wishes or threats are beneath us

I agree, as much as I disagree with what the Palin family stands for, mostly publicity, it is counter productive to wish her and her child death wishes. How does that make us better than them. You can disagree with what she says and even make fun of the hypocrisy of it, such as fathers helping to shape their kid's worldview. That is hypocrisy in two ways, she's not with Levi, and does she think she has a world view? But to wish her death goes too far.

[Skittles]

20. what is this '"US"?

there are all kinds of kooks on the internet - just because they hate this vapid girl doesn't make them liberals

[Blue_Tires]

45. +1000

to say nothing of the longtime innernettes axiom of "If you're going to go trolling, expect ten times the trolling to come right back at you"

but she accomplished her mission -- people are actually talking about her for a brief moment while she plays the 'victim' card

[Great Caesars Ghost]

61. Sometimes venom works

[Ian David]

17. That wasn't helpful. I wish people wouldn't do that. n/t

[hlthe2b]

18. Umm hmmm. ANything to stay in the press...

Sorry, I'm not buying it.

[closeupready]

19. I object to the use of Royal "us" here - there isn't even

the accusation that anyone here did this, so why are members here saying "we" and "us"?

For all we know, she's lying, it's a RW sock puppet stirring up mischief, who knows? This isn't DU's doing, it's a story circulating in the media and we are commenting, that's it.

[julian09]

21. She is trying to grab headlines again.

Let it go, she'll have something else next week. Prabably never happened anyway.

[sulphurdunn]

26. The Palins

have learned to make a handsome living by baring their fangs and crying wolf as they bite.

[AlbertCat]

27. IMPORTANT BEAKING NEWS!!!!!!!

There are stupid people on every side of an issue!





Well, at least they weren't death THREATS....

[AlbertCat]

28. fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

So, did Todd give her pointers on how to please Levi?

[onehandle]

29. Lots of talentless reality show stars like Bristol and Snooki get death threats.

Let the authorities deal with this.

[xfundy]

30. Smells like a setup/PR opp to me

This ignorant fool means nothing, and started a fight in a gay bar last year just to push out a story claiming her 'victimhood." I don't buy any of this for a second. They're trying to prime her to get into repig politics as a future candidate, and this will be part of her "famous courage" and "surviving libruls' attacks.

Last I heard she was living in SIN, outside of marriage, while pushing "traditional 'values'" for everyone else.

[Scout]

31. well that's uncalled for. stupid or not, she doesn't deserve that. n/t

[yurbud]

32. how many of those threats or death wishes do you suppose really came from

gays or their friends and family?

[DRoseDARs]

36. Not to be dimissive of the inappropriateness of such comments regardless who makes them, but...

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[PavePusher]

50. So you think the children should bear the "sins" of the parents?

How... fundamentalist... of you.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

60. no, she should bear her own sins of bigotry though

[wordpix]

38. yeah, right---who really wrote "Bristol's take" - Sarah's speechwriter, maybe?

[Marie Marie]

40. No need to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage??

Well then, by that logic, I guess the world is flat and the sun revolves around the earth. Stupid logic from stupid people.

[Ash_F]

42. For thousands of years, marriage was about signing away women..

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...as property. That really only began to change with the women's rights movement of the last century. Hasn't really changed all the way yet.

So yeah sometimes you should change your thinking.

[Javaman]

43. So she writes a screed then gets shit for it.

welcome to the fish bowl of celebrity.

Bristol grew up in a dysfunctional family. One which she will never ever be able to leave. And now has to live with, right or wrong for the rest of her life. One could argue that she could be her own person and break away from failin quitter. That's a nice fantasy but the reality is and I think we all know this deep down, all those who orbit the planet of failin quitter are forced to be an enabler. Bristol isn't the brightest bulb in the lot and frankly, with no education, the inability to grift like her mom and her very limited talent level, she really has no other recourse than to be a water carrying tool.

Sadly, she's a train wreck and not even 25 years old yet. She can thank her parents for that.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

59. if they were death threats, i'd be concerned

as such, i don't see the HUGE problem when people say "go jump in a well"

i feel like this is manufactured shit to make people feel sympathetic for this bigot