The Hypocrisy Is the Point
When Britney Spears’ younger sister, Jamie Lynn, got pregnant at 16, Bill O’Reilly routinely assailed her parents on Fox News and slammed her as a “pinhead.” It was evidence of Hollywood’s moral rot, the godless left, the collapse of American values. There was a particular relish to it — the kind of gleeful condemnation that suggests Bill O. had been waiting years for some ingenue to make exactly this mistake.
A couple of years later, Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter, Bristol, showed up pregnant on the 2008 campaign trail. As John McCain’s running mate, the Alaska governor brought new fire to his sagging campaign against Obama with her religious-right fervor (and penchant for pricey stilettos).
So when it came to Palins’ predicament, O’Reilly demurred that teen pregnancy was “a personal matter.” Bristol was showcased at the Republican National Convention as proof of her mother’s wholesome, pro-life, God-fearing values. A beacon of morality for shunning abortion. Proof that America still had its soul.
Because the Palins were in the club, what used to be considered a sin was recast as virtue.
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