“Bristol Palin has been featured on ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ but Sarah Palin has a few words for Fox’s ‘American Idol.’ She refers to ‘talent-deprived’ contestants who suffer from ‘the cult of self-esteem… No one they have encountered in their lives — from their parents to their teachers to their president — wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth,’ she writes. ‘So they grew up convinced that they could become big pop stars like Michael Jackson.'” [AP, via Political Wire]

WPVI-TV, Philly:

School officials hope her appearance in the end will bring in several hundred dollars. Palin’s appearance fee, thought to be $75,000, was reportedly covered by private donors.

Philadelphia Inquirer:

Palin, who was paid for her appearance, spent the day with students and participated in a $750-a-person fund-raising dinner for the school earlier in the evening at the Cock ‘N Bull restaurant in Lahaska. Tickets for her presentation cost $75 to $250.

Neither reports the actual amount raised for Plumstead Christian, “a K-12 school founded as a Mennonite school in 1948.” But we’re left wondering whether it would have been more efficient to just hand over that 75 large direct to the school, and cut out the middlema’am.

Her new Bending-Reality Show debuts: “She and husband Todd use their kids as props, even staging a cute little scene in which teenage daughter Willow tries sneaking a boy upstairs — without, notably, any reference to how that scenario turned out for Bristol.” [Variety, via Sully]

“Bristol Palin admitted Tuesday that she failed to vote in this year’s mid-term elections… Palin, currently competing on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ said this may disappoint her mother, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R). ‘I’m going to be in trouble. Sorry, mom!'” [The Hill]

We apologize for the Talibunny Twofer today, but really, the lady’s on a roll.

At least, that’s how we read this. Air America crashed last January.