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    Bristol, Poster Girl for Truth

    Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:42 PM | By Hanna Rosin
    Sam, I found that Bristol interview one of the most honest and moving political interviews I've ever seen, if we can call it a political interview. And it would have been totally ruined for me if she had pulled out some party line abstinence stats, or some church agitprop, or whatever half-baked policy solutions she's now dreamed up. She seemed utterly shell-shocked and nervous and humbled, even before the ever-friendly Greta Van Susteren. She described telling her parents about the pregnancy as being like a scene from Juno, with her so "sick to my stomach" that her best friend had to say the words for her. It's clear that she's freaked out and not at all ready to be a mom ("I wish it had happened in 10 years"), but also clear that she won't drop the ball. She was very endearing, I thought, and a real poster girl for teenage screw-up.
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