Since last Friday, there have been rumors circulating around the leftard blogosphere, and in particular at the Daily POS (which is living up to its name), about Sarah Palin and her youngest child Trig. The Kossack rumor mill has been attacking the Alaskan Governor’s daughter in their questioning of the validity of the birth of Palin’s 5th child. The rumor mongers over at the POS have been claiming “proof” that Palin didn’t give birth to Trig, rather that Bristol, the Palin’s 17 year old daughter, had. And to protect Bristol, Gov. Palin claimed that the child was hers.
Now their “proof” is a picture of the Palin family where Bristol looks as if she may have a “baby bump” when in actuality the picture is from 2006. If that picture is proof that Bristol was preggers with Trig, then that was the longest pregnancy known to man.
Time for some facts campers…
Trig has Downs Syndrome (Trisomy 21) which has been known to occur at a higher rate when the mothers are over the age of 40. Gov. Palin is 44. So that jives.
Today Gov. Palin announced that Bristol is 5 months pregnant. If this is true, and there is no reason why they would lie about this tidbit of information, then Bristol became pregnant a month BEFORE Trig was born. Can we say – rumor quashed!
With today’s announcement, the big question has been did McCain know about Bristol’s pregnancy before choosing Palin? That question has too been answered.
Senior McCain campaign officials said McCain knew of the daughter’s pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, deciding that it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.
“The despicable rumors that have been spread by liberal blogs, some even with Barack Obama’s name in them, is a real anchor around the Democratic ticket, pulling them down in the mud in a way that certainly juxtaposes themselves against their ‘campaign of change,’” a senior aide said. SOURCE
In other words, the left has nothing to go after Gov. Palin about, therefore have nothing to go after McCain about, so they have to make up vicious rumors attacking an innocent 17 year old girl and drag her into the political mud because it gives them their jollies. The Clintons demanded that the media leave Chelsea alone and they did. Even after they paraded her out on stage to make speeches about her mother – the press wasn’t permitted to ask her questions. I think it only right that the same courtesy be afforded to Bristol Palin.
That said, what of today’s announcement?
Bristol’s decision to have and keep her baby is the admirable thing to do. Making a decision in line with her family’s stance of life would be expected. The only choice one has at this point is whether to keep the child or offer it up for adoption by another family. Bristol chose to keep her baby. It is one that she must have come to after a long conversation with her mother and father. Her decision to marry the baby’s father says a lot about him as well. He isn’t shirking his responsibilities in a day when men seem to think that it is acceptable to spread their seed throughout the world without consequence.
So now can we put this tabloid trash behind us and focus on what is important to this nation? Bristol’s pregnancy is a fact of life that is faced by millions of Americans each year. Dealt with.
UPDATE 9/1/08 1617 EDT:
From the Politico -
“I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits,” Obama said. “And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18 and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.”
On charges that his campaign has stoked the story via liberal blogs:
“I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us,” he said. “Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired.”
It’s about freakin’ time the Obamassiah chimed in.
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I read on the ScrappleFace web site that Obama has begged the Palins not to “punish Bristol with a baby.” Oh brother, how yucky of him. But it gets worse. As a “goodwill gesture” he wants to offer to pay for an abortion for Bristol at any time between now and the end of the pregnancy. How sick. How pushy and pressuring. If this sick offer is a “goodwill gesture,” I’d hate to see what he does when he feels ill will.
Bristol desperately needs to be protected from people like Barak Obama. Come to think of it, so does the rest of the country. Please, don’t punish the country by voting him into office.
Thank you for your website! I have been livid over the blatant bias of the MSM for decades! It is maddening and it makes me even madder when a “Republican” allows themselves to be torn down unnecessarily and not fight back. They just resign!
The cheating John Edwards knew this MSM would cover for him and that is why he just continued to do what he did! The Edwards story is despicable – so much more so than most stories these media outlets print about our side. The ‘Demon’crats, the criminal leftist media and all the leftist groups out there are all going to pay for this. We, the people, have no excuse not to stop them every way possible.