Last night on CNN I said that Bristol Palin was the wrong messenger, that she was a joke, and that teenagers weren't going to be receptive to an abstinence message delivered by Palin. Looks like the kids—at least the ones ABC News rounded up—agree with me.

NYC Teens Chide Palin's Abstinence Call: Students Say Bristol Palin is 'Hypocrite,' a 'Celebrity' and 'Hasn't Been in Our Shoes'

New York City students who heard Bristol Palin's warnings against teen pregnancy say they might consider abstinence, but they wouldn't take advice on it from the young unwed mother.... "It's a big flop," said Jerry Kowal, a senior at Solomon Schecter High School in Hartsdale, N.Y., referring to Palin's campaign to get teens to abstain from sex.

"I don't think it's her real opinion," the 17-year-old told ABCNews.com. "She's just trying to help her mother. She said it herself that abstinence education doesn't work. I looked it up."

Maybe the people that teenagers need to hear from are adult men and women—but young enough that they can relate—who were sexually active as teenagers and didn't get knocked up or knock anyone up because they used birth control and condoms conscientiously and successfully. Let them hear from young adults who can talk about the satisfying sex lives they enjoyed as teenagers and the satisfying lives they lead now as young adults—off to college, got a good job, not living at home with mom—because they used condoms and birth control. Maybe these teenagers would respond to positive sexual role models, not negative ones, to young adults who aren't hypocrites and celebrities.