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Posted on 01/30/2011 10:28:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What I heard here locally was the total budget was $20,000, and that Bristol wanted $17,500. I’d have cut her too, if she’s more for the money than the message.
You’re right.
They object to the $20,000 cost of the event, which - as I understand it - is not a fee given to Palin, but the total cost of the event - but would probably not flinch in shelling out $50,000 to Clinton or Olbermann.
The story doesn’t say that Palin was given a $20,000 speaker’s fee. It says that the cost of sponsoring the event, including bringing in other panel speakers, was $20,000.
The Progressive Leftist Motto:
So Wash. U enlighten us with who your past speakers have been and how much they’ve been paid.
I totally agree with you!! They invited her not the other way around. How is she riding her Mom’s reputation? Leave her alone! I don’t see her going out and giving her political opinions about ever thing and everyone like that loser Megan McCain who is riding the coat tails of her Daddy big time!
What idiots! The horny frat boys and round-heeled sorority girls would rather have STD’s, AIDS, abortions, sterilizations, infertility later on, suicides and mental illnesses than hear about abstinence!
They all deserve whatever filthy diseases they pick up...and barren wombs later on!
Just looked up what it costs to send your kid to this cesspool: $39,400 for tuition alone. Add in $10-12,000 more for room, board, and incidental expenses.
To produce loose women, mind-numbed robots, and alcoholics.
What a bargain!
For someone with stature like Thomas Sowell, I think it's about right.
Hey, this is America, and other groups and people can do what they want.
I'm just tired of all the family members who ride the gravy train of their political parents. The Kennedys made a career of this. And who could ever forget Billy Beer?
20K is too much I am sure we could all agree on what would have been a 'fair' amount for any negotiated contract between two parties. Socialism has its good points...
/end sarcasm
Naw, those who are running down Bristol Palin are just jealous that they can’t make $20,000 for a speaking engagement. If they could, they would be extolling the vitures of capitalism. LOL!
Bristol Palin is identified as an ‘abstinence advocate’. Now, we can smirk at that title but how different is it from some minor Hollywood actor who got into trouble with the law for being high on cocaine, did rehab successfully and goes around colleges using his/her fame to advocate for abstinence from drugs? Bristol Palin isn’t spouting idiotic political opinions like Meghan McCain or dissing her famous parent like Ron Reagan. She is telling kids her age (20) that having sex before marriage and risking pregnancy is a bad idea, no matter how cute the guy is or because he pledges his undying love if you’ll just ‘prove’ you love him, too by having sex with him. Whatever fee Bristol was asking for is really between her and the Student Association. To slam the young woman because she was scheduled to speak to college students and use her experience as the nation’s most famous unwed mother as a cautionary tale seems unfair. If you want to be against Bristol’s mother on a political basis, that’s one thing, but Bristol, for all her faults, is not doing anything terribly wrong here. In fact, in this instance, she isn’t doing anything at all. The deal is off.
You and Washington University of St. Louis.
Really? When did Loughner admit that it's wrong to massacre people?
Wow, we're now comparing Bristol Palin to Loughner.
We've reached new depths of PDS.
There are a few factors here ... at first blush, I’d agree: she isn’t worth $17,500. But it was no doubt calculated that if they spent $17.5K and she attracted a very large crowd, garnering publicity, it was worth every penny. The $17.5 figure is probably middle range for a ‘name’ speaker at any college.
The regrettable lesson here is that it pays to become a ‘celebrity.’ Frankly, I think Bristol has milked her celebrity for all it’s worth. Now it’s time to mother her son and get back to school as a student. Let her study hard, earn her degree, work hard, get some experience in the real world (like her mother did), then come back and let’s hear what she has to say. So far her expertise is restrict to being born to the right mother and becoming pregnant at 17. Not worth $17.5K for one night at WUSL or anywhere else.
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