Young Bristol gave an interview to Fox Scientologist reporter Greta Van Susteren, who has in recent months become the Palins’ BFF. It’s great stuff!

Read, as Van Susteren, without actually lettting herself use the word “abortion”—not once in the interview is the a-word spoken—tries to ask Bristol if she considered having an abortion.

VAN SUSTEREN: And in terms of your mother making you have the baby, I mean, the whole issue of, I guess, the right — the right to life and choice and things like that.

[Blogger: Say what?]

BRISTOL: Yes. Yes.

VAN SUSTEREN: But this is your issue. This is your decision.

BRISTOL: Yes. And would have — doesn’t matter what my mom’s views are on it. It was my decision, and I wish people would realize that, too.

Of course, this is nonsense. Bristol doesn’t say how her mom would have felt/done if she wanted to get an abortion, but since Sarah Palin supports making it illegal for a minor to have an abortion without parental consent, we can image the reaction would have been less than supportive.

(Greta, oh Greta, where was the follow-up? Here, let me suggest one: Bristol, how do you feel about the Alaskan law passed last year that requires girls 17 and younger to have parental permission to get an abortion?)

Here’s another good part.

VAN SUSTEREN: [Do you] have any idea how to raise a child?

BRISTOL: Yes, because I’ve been baby-sitting my whole life….

That’ll do it, then!

Like her mother, Bristol appears to stretch the truth. For example:

VAN SUSTEREN: Your parents know you’re doing this interview. You’re 18, so you make your own decisions, but do they know?

BRISTOL: I told my mom yesterday, so…

We are to believe that Bristol told her mother of the interview the day before it happened? Even, a minute or so later, when Sarah Palin joins the interview?

In fact, there’s something a little skeevy about this whole interview.

VAN SUSTEREN: I don’t want to pry to personally, but I mean, actually, contraception is an issue here. Is that something that you were just lazy about or not interested, or do you have a philosophical or religious opposition to it or...

[Blogger: A philosophical opposition to it?]

BRISTOL: No. I don’t want to get into detail about that. But I think abstinence is, like — like, the — I don’t know how to put it — like, the main — everyone should be abstinent or whatever, but it’s not realistic at all.

Sometimes, teenagers can be quite honest, too: Everyone should be abstinent or whatever.

That “whatever” shows just how seriously Bristol Palin takes abstinence—it’s a throwaway line, spoken with absolutely no conviction (whatever!), because Bristol clearly doesn’t believe it, but feels that it’s one of those lines that has to be spoken, to be gotten out of the way, before moving on to the truth.

Please, won’t the Palins go away?