Do as I Tell You

Last night, I was up late, and I turned on Fox News, I don't know what possessed me! Anyway, Gretta Van Sustern was interviewing Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin's teenage daughter, you remember, during the election she was the pregnant one. Now, she the one with the new baby boy. Bristol was discussing how she was going to be an advocate against teen pregnancy, and she wants to tell girls to just wait before they have babies because it isn't glamorous. I commend her for wanting to get this message out. But, isn't it a tad presumptious for her to assume that she is somehow qualified to speak out against teen pregnacy when she was a pregnant teen? Why would any teenager listen to her? Further, I would argue that if she goes around talking against teen pregnancy and keeps getting interviewed and so forth, that her campaign against teen pregnancy may actually prompt more teens to want to have babies. She may make it seem glamorous, even though she says it is not. It's like the old, "don't do as I do, do as I tell you." Nobody wants to hear that crap!