First off, I'm not sure how Bristol Palin, with her record of failure in that area, gets to be the spokesperson for a campaign to stop teen pregnancy. Usually when I want advice on something, I go to a person who's been successful at it, but maybe I've been approaching it wrong. If I wreck a bunch of cars, can I get a safe driving award? If this kind of "earn from your mistakes" marketing really works, I suggest the following scenarios:
- Donald Trump for Supercuts
- Charlie Sheen for Narcotics Anonymous
- GG Allin for Irish Spring
- Andrew Dice Clay to warm up the crowd at Lilith Fair
- Rush Limbaugh for the American Negro College Fund
- Michael Vick for the ASPCA
- Glenn Beck for the American Mental Health Counselors Association
- Lou Dobbs as the Grand Marshal of the Cinco De Mayo parade
- Jesus Christ as Slayer's new tour manager
- the cast of Jackass for the National Association of Safety Professionals
- Ted Kaczynski should be selling his manifesto on the Kindle
- And Charlie Sheen again for abstinence education #winning
And I think Snooki should at least be considered for the NBA and the guy who wrote that "Friday! Friday!" song on YouTube should be looked at for America's poet laureate. And for the rest of the diary I'd like to be referred to as the Pope, if you don't mind.
But, anyway, somebody thought Bristol would be good for their teen pregnancy foundation. But here's the interesting part...
The organization paid her seven times what it actually spent on its cause.
Today, the Associated Press reported that the Candie’s Foundation released its 2009 tax information, revealing that Bristol was paid a salary of $262,500.
But a closer examination of the tax form by ThinkProgress shows that the group disbursed only $35,000 in grants to actual teen pregnancy health and counseling clinics: $25,000 to the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Center and $10,000 to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
Now, I'm not blaming Bristol for this (and if she had to spend much time talking to "The Situation" she definitely earned somethin'). It's a little on the grift-y side, taking a quarter mil for nonprofit work, but, hey, they paid her and she was just morally bereft enough to take them up on it. She does nothing and they throw money at her for it, it's the new American way, I guess. But she's not responsible for what the foundation does, but it sounds a helluva lot like this company is a scam operation, doing a lot more self-promotion than it is actual work.
Anyway, it's yet another example of the bizarro world in which the Palins orbit... and, to a degree, mold and shape.