Bristol Palin Slams Media for Duggar 'Double Standards'

[mystery-ak]

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Bristol Palin Slams Media for Duggar 'Double Standards'
Thursday, June 4, 2015 05:56 PM

By: Todd Beamon

Bristol Palin slammed the mainstream media for blasting Josh Duggar over his sexual molestation revelations while giving "a big fat yawn" to actress Lena Dunham, whose book last year detailed similar activities when she was 7 years old with her year-old sister.

"The double standards make me sick," Palin, 24, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said on her blog. "Liberals in today’s media can do no wrong, while conservatives can do no right."

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said last month that Josh Duggar, now 27, fondled four of his sisters and a family baby-sitter when he was a teenager and confessed to them. The actions were done over the girls' clothes and, except in two cases, happened when the girls were asleep, Jim Bob Duggar said.

Two weeks ago, Josh Duggar apologized for unspecified bad behavior when the story came to light and resigned as a lobbyist for the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group.

Duggar's parents were interviewed Wednesday by Megyn Kelly on Fox News.

Reruns of the family's TLC series, "19 Kids and Counting," were pulled — and network officials have said no decision has been made on whether the program will continue.

Arkansas authorities said last month that they had destroyed a record outlining a nearly decade-old investigation into Josh Duggar. No charges were filed in the abuse, which happened in 2002 and 2003.

Police began investigating the abuse in 2006 when tipped by a family friend but concluded the statute of limitations had lifted.

In her book, "Not That Kind of Girl," Dunham detailed various instances of sexual behavior with her younger sister.

"Remember the liberal media outrage?" Palin asked in her blog after quoting sections from Dunham's book. "Oh that’s right. It didn’t happen.

"The liberal media darling Dunham was praised for her 'honest and witty' book," Palin said.

[LottieDah]

Dear Ms. Palin:  While you are correct there is a double standard in the media, one might construe your comments as supporting the behavior of Josh Duggar.  While Lena Dunham is a pig, pedophile and pervert, she and her family never held themselves out as paragons of Christian behavior.  The Duggars do.  Sometimes, Ms. Palin, silence in golden and it is better to say nothing at all.  We already know there is a double standard in the media. 

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Sarah Palin Slams Media Double Standard in Duggar, Lena Dunham Cases
Friday, June 5, 2015 11:24 AM

By: Morgan Chilson

Sarah Palin slammed the liberal media Thursday for its handling of the Josh Duggar sexual abuse scandal, turning attention instead to HBO star Lena Dunham and the double standard she says exists.

"HEY LENA, WHY NOT LAUGH OFF EVERYONE'S SEXUAL ‘EXPERIMENTS’ AS YOU HAUGHTILY ENJOY REWARDS FOR YOUR OWN PERVERSION? YOU PEDOPHILE, YOU," Palin wrote on her Facebook page. "Radical liberals in media who have total control over public narratives are disgusting hypocrites, so says my daughter."

Palin directed her FB followers to read a post written by her daughter, Bristol Palin, for Patheos.com. The article is titled, "Let's Get This Straight, Liberals – What Kinds of Molestation Are Acceptable?"

The Palins appeared outraged that Dunham was not similarly villainized by the media when she wrote in her book “Not That Kind of Girl” about touching her little sister's genitals as a child.

The Thursday FB post came after Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar spoke to Megyn Kelly on Fox News about their son Josh, who admitted to fondling four of his sisters and a babysitter when he was a teenager in 2002 and 2003. Two of the victimized Duggar daughters, Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald, also spoke with the network.

"I’m not defending the Duggar boy's obvious wrongdoing over a decade ago. The main victim in any story like this isn't the perpetrator, it's the innocent ones so harmfully affected," Sarah Palin wrote in her Facebook post. "I’m not an apologist for any sexual predator, but I’m sickened that the media gives their chosen ones a pass for any behavior as long as they share their leftwing politics. Case in point, they suggest Lena Dunham's sexual assault on her sibling is cute, and she's rewarded for it with fame and fortune. Meanwhile, they crucify another, along with an entire family."

Palin said the focus now should be on how confidential police reports were leaked and the “media’s hell-bent mission to go after the entire Duggar family for one member’s wrongdoing.”

Reactions to Palin’s angry post were varied online:

Tyler Coates @tylercoates

I was wondering who'd be the first one to compare Josh Duggar to Lena Dunham but did not expect it to be Sarah Palin.
8:37 AM - 5 Jun 2015

"Go get her Sarah, people like her get away with it, disgusting!!!" one person commented on Palin’s FB post.

[LottieDah]

Those of us who care know that there is a double standard in the media.  What's next?  The Palins informing us that water is wet?

[raml]

Duggars do not put themselves out there as paragons of virtue. They put out the word of God and if we left that to people who have never sinned the word would never get out. God is not a God of love as people would like to think of him he has rules and standards to live by that we all every day fail to keep we are all sinners and the Duggars have always said they were too. I am sick of people saying Christians can't speak out against something unless they lead a perfect life. It is impossible to lead a perfect life what a Christian does is try although of course he fails being human. The only perfect human being was Jesus and he even blew up in the temple and destrpyed property not belonging to him.