Tripp Palin? With So Much Controversy Buzzing Around Bristol’s TV Show You’d Think They’d At Least Get the Kids Name Right

I have no idea whether Levi Johnston relinquished the surname of his son Tripp to the Palins or not – but I’m pretty sure that had this happened it would have been page one of every Palin-related blog from Alaska to Florida. So why these big-time television productions continue to refer to this child as Trip Palin is beyond my grasp. Do reporters not even bother to get their subject’s names right or are the Palins at the heart of the deceit?

But that’s not even the thing that’s bugging me the most this morning. Promo photos of Bristol’s new show (to air 19 June 2012 on Lifetime) purportedly taken between from last month and this have me chin-scratching.

See for yourself:

Now I know a kids physical appearance can change in a heartbeat and a haircut that removes all the baby curls can add a surprising amount of age to a young boys face – but really – my first impression was “Did they highlight his hair to make him look younger??? Had I not seen other photos of Tripp with the tow-head blonde curls (since 2009) I would have stuck with that impression too.

So let’s say (for the sake of argument) the photographer’s statement of having taken the tow-head photo in May 2012 is accurate (see below) and the unknown date shot was taken in June. That would explain the difference in hair. But it doesn’t explain the difference in size.  The little boy sharing a frosting kiss with his mom looks so much taller and bigger in his upper body than the small boy sitting on his mom’s lap I can barely keep from shaking my head in disbelief.

Then it occurred to me that the photographer’s statement actually reads this:

Bristol has been shopping her reality show for close to if not more than two years. If this ‘pose’ was taken during an earlier promotion, that would place Tripp’s age as three years old more than a year ago – and his new older look for the newer promos would then make perfect sense.

Did the Palins shanghai his real surname and his real age?

I’m guessing one way or another this reality show is going to bite Bristol in the ass.

 

The Not-a-Family Not-a-Vacation Not-a Campaign (something-something) Tour *pic added* *UPDATE*

I don’t mean to sound old-fashioned and I certainly don’t want to appear all nitpicky and semantical (if Sarah can make up words so can I) but – if Sarah wants to keep calling this bogus bus tour a family vacation wouldn’t it be prudent to actually include – oh I dunno – the family?

Ok Track’s a newlywed but in most big families just getting hitched wouldn’t be an acceptable excuse for not showing up for the big family road trip. The newlywedded (don’t bother spell-checking that one either) son would just be expected to bring along the newlywedded Mrs. So what gives?

Willow’s in schoo- no? uh yeah Sarah took Willow out of school so she could personally home tutor her. Umm how do you personally tutor a kid who is back in Alaska while you’re on vacation in New York?  And wouldn’t this ‘family vacation’ where the family is ‘tooling around educating folks on stuff like the constitution and liberty bell and statute statue of liberty and the Paul Revere ride to warn the British with bells and whistles’ be the perfect tutorial for your teenage tutoree? No, huh?

Bristol is worki – oh wait. Bristol isn’t working. Unless the filming of her new bogus reality show has started there’s actually no reason why she and her son couldn’t have gone on this family vacation with the rest of her siblings. Tripp would have been a great brother cousin uncle companion for Trig – wait – where’s Trig again? Not on the bus?

Well it can’t be that he’s too young because Sarah carted the poor kid around on her hip like a football just about 18 months ago during her book signing tour on that very same bus! So we know that can’t be the reason. Hmm…

Well Todd – wait – where’s Todd anyway? Wasn’t he there at the beginning of this trip? Sure he was we saw pictures of him and Piper riding a motorcycle at that pesky invite-me  invite-me-not Memorial Day rally. So where’d he go? He’s not out on the family fishing boat like he is every other year in June. He’s not on the slopes working a mine – where’s  dad? How do you have a family vacation without dad?

So the primary family unit of two parents and four five kids and two one grandsons plus new daughter-in-law and Sarah’s parents who by the way could easily all fit into this titanic-sized motorhome has dwindled down to Sarah, Piper, Grandma and Gramps?

Wow. A family vacation with only one of your five kids, no grandkids and only a cameo appearance by your husband. Doesn’t sound to me like the Palin clan got the memo about family values and sticking together. No wonder little Piper’s nose is so out of joint. All the fun people abandoned ship!

 Sarah – you might have at least let her bring a friend along, There’s no one on this bus her own age with whom to interact? That’s just really bad planning, bad parenting and I hope your peers in Alaska call you out on it. -Oz

============  UPDATE  ============

Sarah took a detour on Friday and landed in Arizona to ‘thaw out and regroup’. Watch video here.  (H/T to tm68 for the link.)

Sure because everybody takes a break from a family vacation less than a week in the making… must be nice to have that much money eh? Transporting the family bus from Alaska to Washington DC – then flying the family from Alaska to the bus – then flying people back to Alaska – then flying yourself, your daughter and parents to Arizona – in the middle of the vacation…

Oh wait – Sarah’s not paying for all this transportation her devoted fans are! You remember them – the people who donate to her PAC thinking they are contributing to making America better! Turns out they’re really just paying for room service and airfare.

Idiots.