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"Media Being All Over" Bristol

February 18, 2009

Fox News squeezed a second night out of Greta Van Susteren’s interview with 18-year-old Bristol Palin (mother of baby Tripp and daughter of Gov. Palin, who also made an appearance in the interview). Wasn’t much to it, but for a lot of talk about sleep deprivation and, maybe, this:

VAN SUSTEREN: But even now, you think of the difficulty being, you know, young, although, you know, Bristol certainly seems like a — you know, a very much more mature than I was at that age, I might add. But she’s got the pregnancy at an early age, and she’s got the spotlight, the media being all over her…

SARAH PALIN: It’s a double whammy.

VAN SUSTEREN: A double whammy…

…. said the Fox News anchor who has done her best to leave Bristol Palin and her family alone already.

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.