Just know, I totally have qualms about this story. It’s not that I think it’s “rude” to speculate about Bristol Palin’s mystery baby-daddy – I have no qualms about that kind of speculation and I tend to think that Bristol is inviting us into a public guessing game. But I do think the story is totally sketchball – The Daily Mail basically tracked down Dakota Meyer’s grandparents and got them to half-way admit (sort of) that Dakota is the father of Bristol’s baby. As you probably remember, Dakota and Bristol got engaged after a very brief courtship in March, and they set their wedding for May, only to have Bristol pull the plug just days before the wedding. The whole thing is still shrouded in mystery and tackiness, even more so now that there’s a mysterious pregnancy. So, what do Dakota’s grandparents have to say about the situation? Ugh.
Bristol Palin has yet to confirm her former war hero fiancé is the father of her unborn child. But whatever the single mum decides to do in the future, she might not get the warmest of welcomes from the family of her ex, Dakota Meyer.
‘We don’t ever talk about Bristol Palin,’ said Meyer’s grandfather Dwight when asked about the pregnancy announcement. ‘We don’t ever discuss her in this family.’
Dakota Meyer has chosen to remain mostly silent about the pregnancy. The war hero later shrugged off the pregnancy controversy by going on a ‘mini break’ with a group of close friends and posting photos to his Instagram account. Meyer is understood to have headed for Destin, Florida, from his home in rural Columbia, Kentucky.
His family members have previously stayed silent over his latest break-up, with Bristol, but Meyer’s grandparents invited Daily Mail Online into their 150-year-old farmhouse.
‘We helped bring up Dakota and he has always been a very good boy,’ said 84-year-old Jean who accompanied her grandson to the White House for the Medal of Honor ceremony. ‘We try not to talk about Dakota but we are so, so proud of him. We helped raise him with his father Michael.’
A quick glance around the couple’s living room is testament to their pride. It is adorned with numerous photos of Dakota in his Marine uniform. Outside in the front garden a red Marine flag flies alongside the Stars and Stripes. When the subjects of Bristol and her pregnancy are brought up, the couple are less forthcoming. Dwight, 85, who uses a walking frame, makes it clear he has no desire to talk about her. But when Jean is asked if she is looking forward to welcoming a great-grandchild, she seems to confirm that Dakota is the father of Bristol’s baby. She said: ‘It will not be the first. I have other great-grandchildren.’
Basically, the Daily Mail reporter weaseled their way into the home of two octogenarians and started badgering them about their grandson possibly knocking up his ex-fiancée. Rude. And I think Jean and Dwight did their best to simply avoid the questions and we shouldn’t take “I have other great-grandchildren” to be some kind of awkwardly worded admission that Dakota is the baby-daddy. Even if Dakota’s grandparents believe that he is the father, that doesn’t mean they’re right! What a mess.
And of course Bristol keeps blogging. She loves the attention so much. This chick is PARCHED. She wrote another blog post called “Choosing Humiliation Over Convenience: “The Five” Comes to My Defense.” She writes:
How pathetic is it that the media would be more supportive of me if I had chosen to kill my baby? Instead, they mock me because I am willing to choose to do what is natural and right—keep my precious baby.
And as a reminder, I never worked or pushed abstinence down anyone’s throat! I have always promoted pro-life and teen pregnancy prevention over all. Never once has it been “abstinence only”.
I’ve messed up, but I’ve owned up to my mistake and am trying to move forward. I’m so excited to raise my little blessing and see all that God has in store for this precious life!
The lies flow like water. She did promote abstinence-only education, and this is what she said in 2009: “I’m not going to have sex until I’m married. I can guarantee it.” She also said that abstinence-only is a “realistic goal.” And yes, she’s also supported anti-choice issues throughout – obviously, because limiting reproductive choice goes hand-in-hand with abstinence-only sexual education. The message she was always selling was: “Don’t ever sex before marriage, and when you do have sex before marriage and get pregnant, don’t ever get an abortion, you dirty slut, I can’t believe you can’t find a way to grift your way into supporting yourself and your child by promoting the same kind of inane BS I’m pushing.”
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