Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was cutting in his disapproval after Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old sister of pop star Britney, announced her pregnancy last year. So plenty of sharp-eared bloggers were ready to call him out when O'Reilly cautioned this month against judging the family of Sarah Palin in the wake of her teenage daughter Bristol's pregnancy.
If O'Reilly considered young Spears' parents "pinheads" who have "little control over" their daughter, what made Palin's situation different? Well, the host himself gave a strange answer today ...
Asked in this week's Time magazine whether "you take back what you said about" the Spears pregnancy, O'Reilly said:
When I talked about the Spears parents, I said the parents were pinheads because they didn't supervise their young daughters. I stand by that remark. There's no evidence that the Palins did not supervise their daughter or their other children.
Without pulling the younger Palin back into any campaign discussion, I can't help but wonder: Is O'Reilly saying teenage pregnancy is fine as long as it's parentally sanctioned?
