Are the Palin Girls Cyberbullies?

Slate.com ^ | Nov. 17, 2010 | Emily Bazelon

[Artcore]

While the premiere of Sarah Palin's reality show was pulling in record ratings for TLC Sunday night, her daughters Willow and Bristol Palin were apparently going to the mat on Facebook. The girls, who are 16 and 19, were defending the show from posters who said they didn't like it.

[al baby]

The poster how cute

[MWestMom]

I think this goes beyond a Liberal/Conservative issue. There was a piece on the news last night about a local teenage boy's memorial page on FaceBook being trashed. The boy was killed when hit by a school bus. The family had started a memorial page on FaceBook where friends could leave comments and stories about their son. The social networking “pirrahna” swarmed in, making comments that just simply broke my heart. After hearing some of the comments, it dawned on me that there seems to be an entire generation of sociopaths out there. No feeling, no empathy, a seeming inability to understand the family's grief or why it would be inappropriate to trash a memorial site. Stunning indifference.

[onyx]

It’s in their DNA.
LOL.

[darkangel82]

LOL. Stupid is as stupid does.

[forgotten man]

On a non political note, don’t these kids care about their privacy. It is amazing that anybody would put anything on the internet that can be traced back to you.

[al baby]

Tell that to John Edwards

[kiryandil]

Are the Palin Girls Cyberbullies?

I dunno, but I got a question:

Does Emily Bazelon need to get slapped till snot comes out of her ears?

[Americanexpat]

I was surfing channels during commercials on Fox News and hit the Joy beyer show and they were discussing this. My God, there isn't any real news or issues out there that grown people have to discuss the Palin kids and how their mother raises them. These people are so scared of Palin they have to attack her family daily.

I wonder if the celebrity families of beher, Woopi Etc. were investigator they would be half the mothe Sarah Palin is?

[onyx]

New genetics:
a gullible gene that wants to believe the worst.

[EyeGuy]

You DO understand that my quotation marks were a parody of the FR Concern trolls, don’t you?

They disgust me.

Here’s another:

I’m “concerned” that “Palin” is “damaged goods” after her “poor performance” during the (legendary) Couric interview.

I’m “worried” that the media has trashed “Palin” and that she won’t be taken seriously by.....get ready.....Independents and Moderates.

[al baby]

Wow! How about a courtesy ping? I believe nothing I hear and Half of what I see.

[Fundamentally Fair]

I’m “concerned” and “worried” about what this says about “Palin” as a mother.

I’m “concerned” and “worried” about your excessive use of “quotation marks” on FR.

[KC_Lion]

Yes of Course! I thought my picture of concern troll I stole from Photo bucket would be enough to show I wasn't serious But No worries Brotha I knew what you meant

But for the record I AM one of her biggest supporters I just love her to death and these people who think that the Precious,Immaculate and Holy "moderates" (which how you can be moderate with communists is beyond me) will just run back into Obama's loving arms after these 2 years are complete TOOLS!

[Artcore]

What these idiot leftists don’t seem to get, is that they’ve inoculated Sarah Palin! They tried in vain to destroy her and it didn’t work.

Attacks on her family now will only strengthen Palin. As another astute poster noted, these people have no problem with abortions at the third trimester, but calling someone a mean name on Facebook...well, that just crosses the line! ;)

[UCANSEE2]

It is amazing that anybody would put anything on the internet that can be traced back to you.

Well, it has made many website owners rich. So somebody is doing it besides the Palins.

[UCANSEE2]

I wonder if the celebrity families of beher, Woopi Etc. were investigator they would be half the mothe Sarah Palin is?

Not sure they even have families.

[Catsrus]

Our economy is in the ditch. Americans are being sexually assaulted at airports, and people are concerned if the Palin girls are cyberbullies?

I friggin don’t care one way or the other. We have bigger fish to fry,but, the lamestream media has to devote its time to savaging Bristol and Willow.

Sarah is a mama grizzly, and I think she’s about ready to bare her bear claws! I know I would!

[EyeGuy]

“I’m “concerned” and “worried” about your excessive use of “quotation marks” on FR.”

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And just why would that be?

They were deployed in the most traditional and accepted of uses; to convey sarcasm.

[heye2monn]

I’m a big admirer of Sarah Palin — a political genius and hero of the Tea Party.

But I sure wish that someone — Todd or Sarah — had raised the young ladies better. The use of such foul language in a Christian home is inexcusable.

[EyeGuy]

No worries.

Some, even allegedly on our side, have a suspicious double standard across the board,when it comes to Sarah Palin, holding her to a higher level of inspection than every other potential candidate.

Sorry KC, I missed the fact that you were posting to my response to Artcore.

Coincidentally, I just fired off a nasty email to some liberal fool of a Sportshow host here in St. Louis who was taking uniformed, puerile potshots at Sarah Palin, her family and her supporters.

I let him know that outside of his Leftist comfort zone of similarly deluded lockstep fools,that Conservatives are once again on the march, and despite their delusions, Governor Palin enjoys MUCH, MUCH more than a cult following of alleged “far right” zealots.

I also reminded them that it is GAME ON against the liberal monopoly of the old, dying mass media.