Sounds like a riveting story. Personally I’ve been dying to know more about who the real Bristol Palin is and what she believes in. Who won’t want to line up to drop $25 on this?

It’s official: Bristol Palin has a book deal. The daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has signed with William Morrow to publish “Not Afraid of Life,” to come out this summer. Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, announced Tuesday that the memoir would provide “an inside look at her life.” “Bristol gives readers an intimate behind-the-scenes look at her life for the first time, from growing up in Alaska to coming of age amid the media and political frenzy surrounding her mother’s political rise; from becoming a single mother while still a teenager to coping as her relationship with her baby’s father crumbled publicly — not once, but twice,” according to Morrow.

NOTE FROM JOHN: Let’s face it. Bristol’s claim to fame is having had premarital sex with her boyfriend and then getting pregnant out of wedlock. If that’s what counts as a life worthy of a William Morrow memoir, then it’s an indication of how low our country has sunk both culturally and politically. (Nothing wrong with teen moms, but they certainly haven’t earned memoir status simply because they got pregnant – oh, that’s right, Bristol also appeared on “Dancing with the Stars. Let that girl into Mensa.)

It’s not entirely clear why Sarah Palin, who’s been playing generally to the far right, would push her daughter (and does anyone doubt that mommy was behind this?) to become the next Murphy Brown, queen of unwed momhood. Then again, so long as it gets the family name in print, Palin never met a news story, or a scandal, she didn’t like.

It’s the perpetuation of the Republican fetish with ignorance and trash. The Jerry Springer-ization of the GOP is near complete.