In more interesting recent news, it turns out that Sarah Palin pulled a “Bree” a la Desperate Housewives. This article clearly outlines
– the details of her fake pregnancy
– everyone’s astonishment at her supposed state
– announced at 7 months
– photos of Palin clearly not pregnantand an outline of how she supposedly started having amniotic fluids leak, then gave a speech, flew back on an 8 hour flight, left Anchorage, and gave birth to a premature Down’s Syndrome baby in a tiny small town medical center (Yeah right!)
– There are no records of the Down Syndrome baby’s birth
– And more!
At the exact same time, her 16 year old daughter (see photos of her, clearly at about 4 months pregnant) suddenly had to take eight months off from high school for “Mono” *ahum* *cough*. Eight months for mono? A common excuse to cover up teen pregnancies. Classmates have testified that they saw her pregnant!
What a pathetic excuse for a VP. I wonder if McCain’s been hitting the weed or something.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223
Just for the sake of comparison, here is a picture of Sarah Palin when pregnant with one of the previous children, just in case you thought she’s one of those women who just doesn’t show much. (And with each pregnancy, women show more, and faster, and their labor goes father thus making it implausible that she would have boarded a plane in the middle of it)
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So, which party is desperate now? The left-wing lunatic fringe is now claiming that Sarah Palin’s then 16-year-old daughter, Bristol, is actually the mother of Sarah’s newborn baby, Trig….
Opinionpolitics: As far as I can tell, the reports have not come from the ‘left wing fringe’, but from all over. I’m personally not affiliated with any party. I’ve seen no pro-left agenda thus far, only criticism of McCain’s choice of VP.
But perhaps Republicans are just sore losers, desperate to detract attention from their own hypocrisy, by pointing at those around them?
i believe she’s lying through her teeth and i can’t wait for the media to jump all over this!! pregnant my ass!
When is the picture from with Palin in the red shirt? How far is she supposed to be in her pregnancy there? Typically I’ve always heard that women get bigger with subsequent pregnancies not smaller and faster labors too (especially into the 4-5 range). But there are exceptions I suppose.
If she is lying, is it the family honor or a political opportunity to satisfy the pro-choice people? They do seem to be talking alot about the baby having downs syndrome alot in the media.
I voted for Bush previously and am absolutely livid at the arrogance of the McCain campaign, which apparently believes it can pull off a cover up of this magnitude. The dead giveaway that it’s true is that the McCain campaign hasn’t forcefully denied the rumor. It hasn’t even commented. Even if Palin didn’t want to talk about it…HOW EASY it would it be to send out a surrogate to say this is a pinko conspiracy theory…complete and utter lies…and voila, here is the proof that it’s all bs?!
In Alaska, where Ted Stevens thrives, maybe politicians regularly get away with lies and can put pressure on people to cover up for them using mafia thug tactics. Heck, I’d be scared if I was on the medical staff that delivered Trig from Bristol…they don’t want themselves or someone they love to suddenly disappear into the Alaskan wilderness! A freak accident like falling off a snowmobile or slipping under the ice of some lake after being stopped by a trooper….
Why isn’t Sarah making sure that lies aren’t being spread about her daughter and “son” if she’s such a supermom? This is no hockey mom…this is a football mom who knows how to punt!
Why didn’t her son Track appear with the family when McCain named her as his running mate? The campaign said it was because he’s going to Iraq soon…but then again, so is Beau Biden…and he was at the Democratic Convention.
Maybe Track, being a good American and no longer a minor child, can’t stand by his parents’ lies and opted out.
I used to think Hillary Clinton set the standard for using her family to advance herself politically…but I’m shocked that the Republicans may very well have found someone that is even more calculating and bald-faced.
I don’t know if senator mccain has been hitting the weed or not, but his current behaviour, and his well documented inability to control his temper (Shouting “Fuck You” at a fellow republican senator Conryn) not only make him seriously unqualified to be in control of military resources, but are also textbook symptoms of brain shrinkage and onset dementia. Consider all the spots mccain has on his skin, “age spots” are called lipofuscin, and are also often present in the brain. Consider also the weird inappropriate grin he always seems to have, another symptom of neural degeneration associated with aging.
Of course, this isn’t McCain’s fault per se, everyone gets older and he obviously can’t help it if he has some sort of neurodegenerative condition, but if that is in fact the case, wouldn’t the correct course of action be to drop out of the race and not potentially condemn the country to years of a president who is quite literally losing his mind? If he is half the patriot he claims to be, how could he do this to his own country?
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2530 <- Mccain shouts obcenities at fellow senator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipofuscin <- Wikipedia article about Lipofuscin
brighviolet: Just so you know, my post was sent as a trackback, but your blogger software interpreted it as a comment. (I say that only to let you know that I don’t normally trash people’s blogs in the comment section–the sentence that appeared as a comment is actually a snippet from a blog post).
If you read my post, you’ll see that while the rumor was indeed “all over” last night, it had it’s genesis at Daily KOS. And while you might not personally be affiliated with any party, surely you wouldn’t say the same about Daily KOS.
IF THIS IS THE BEST OBAMA CAN DO HE WILL NOT MAKE IT TO THE WHITE HOUSE .WITH ALL THE DIRT ON OBAMA NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO THROW SOME.IT WILL MEVER WORK.
IS THERE ANYONE IN THE OBAMA CAMP THAT EVEN KNOWS WHAT ** HONOR** MEANS.
Why would the topic of Bristol Palin be off-bounds since her mother is the V.P. running mate of McCain? Wouldn’t be a topic of conversation because there should be criminal charges (statutory rape) against the unborn baby’s father since Bristol is only 17-years old?
Why does Carl Rove, Sarah Palin, and republican’s blogging, say that it is a “personal issue” and Sarah Palin is not responsible for her daughter yet all they did was bash Obama for Rev. Wright. There is something wrong with this picture when they want Obama to be responsible for Rev. Wright’s actions yet they don’t want Sarah Palin to be responsible for her own daughter’s actions.
MEVER!
I’m a registered Democrat. With that said, let me be very clear that I am happily and joyfully voting for McCain/Palin in Nov.
Now to the person that actually wrote this article…bet you feel like a fool about now don’t you? Her daughter IS pregnant now; 5 months to be exact. So therefore could “in no way humanly possible” be the mother of said child. Sarah Palin is the mother..
Cindie: I can see why you would vote for McCain/Palin. I’m sure they’re very happy with your vote. They’re going to need a LOT of people as naive and gullible as you to win this election!
Dear Cindie,
I tried to find a delicate way to put this, but let us be frank here: You are an idiot.
This is nothing more than a feeble attempt to cover up. The announcement today by the GOP does nothing to address the actual charges being levelled against Palin. I am more than willing to admit that all the evidence of this is circumstantial, it is pretty damning circumstantial evidence, and the ridiculous way it is being handled by the Palin camp only further contributes to the appearance of guilt.
Even if this turns out not to be the case, consider Palin’s past attitudes towards abusing her power. Think about “Troopergate.” In which she allegedly attempted to have someone fired from their job, for a purely personal reason. I have seen some morons try to defend this because “the guy was abusive” or whatever. But if that is the case, it is still a personal matter, and what she did constitutes a criminal misuse of power. This is akin to a police officer using their authority as such to gain sexual favors from women, something that occurred not long ago in my own hometown. We put that guy away for a long time, and I hope the same happens to Palin, she deserves it.
Also to comment on the whole “leave the family alone” thing. Palin is a social conservative who believes in legislating her own ridiculously outdated moral norms to the detriment of society. She believes in “abstinance only” methods of birth control, and other family issues. The family IS HER POLITICAL PLATFORM, and therefore, her own family is going to be fair game for this kind of scrutiny, because she invites it with her own politics.
Now, I’m not going to tell you who to vote for. I don’t care anyway, I think Obama is a giant douche as well, voting for continued spying against american citizens and the renewal of the patriot act. Personally, I hope to someday see videos of the patriot act supporters being beheaded. Nothing would please me more, as I have seen the freedoms that made the USA a great place dissolve away into a ludicrous police state for the last 7 years. I used to love my country, but I find that virtually impossible these days, with no end to the madness in sight. That said, I don’t believe you were ever a democrat at all, but are most likely a GOP shill, since no democrat would ever consider supporting 4 more years of Bush-like mismanagement. Things are bad enough already.
It is incredibly easy to become pregnant directly after giving birth because of your fresh circulation of hormones. Mono generally last three weeks to three months not five to eight of the last months of your mother’s pregnancy. She appears more pregnant than her mother in the pictures they haven’t been able to detract yet. Sarah Palin’s staff knew nothing of her pregnancy or any symptoms and stated this to the Anchorage paper. Her belly appeared flat when she should have been carrying a 6 pound child who was born just weeks after the picture of her in the brown jacket were taken. No sane woman would be slowly leaking amniotic fluid, put on a maxi pad, give a 30 minute speech on energy, take an 8-11 hour flight from Texas to Alaska without alerting any of the flight attendants of her condition, stopped off in Seattle then re-boarded to finish her trip to Alaska, left the plane and drove 45 minutes past two hospitals that were more equipped to handle premature, special needs births, and finally arrived at the small hospital in the town she used to govern as mayor for eight years. Then somehow, three days later she went back to work even though it was her courageous decision to have the baby she couldn’t wait to get away from. She never looked pregnant, didn’t announce it until four weeks before giving birth, her daughter was removed from school five (to eight) months of the end of her Trig’s pregnancy, she was capable of taking an extensive flight, back to work days after giving birth to a baby who needed all of her support. Come on why is it so hard to understand. Is it really so hard to use an abundance of common sense to realize what has happened. When the Anchorage Times reported the story of her pregnancy and the wonder that surrounded it long before Barack Obama even knew her name so halt before assuming that this is simply something to benefit him. Bristol had a car accident during her stirring bout with mononucleosis (one of three tickets during this time) in front of a Family Medical Center. This story is not just a question Sarah Palin’s judgment as a person who wants to alter the teachings of sex education. It is quite apparent that this woman seeks to be in a place of power where she can tell woman and girls that in the event of rape, incest or simple bad judgement their life should be controlled by the radical views she shares with her buddy McCain. They should be forced against their will by law to give birth to a child that she may not want and in turn may not love, nourish, support or even accept. One of the biggest problems with the denial of choice is that someone who feels that have no where to turn will go anywhere she can find assistance even if it’s a bloody mattress and a boiled hanger. In the event that Bristol truly is pregnant this time, scientifically it is fact that it is easier to become pregnant directly after giving birth. But a question lingers…didn’t she just have an extensive case of highly infectious mono. Who is this boyfriend that would subject himself to sex with a recently infected human? And most woman who gave birth to a 6 pound child wouldn’t have lost every bit of baby weight thus making this pregnancy viable as long as the fat remains. Once she continues to breast feed her son and her belly becomes smaller history will show that the poor girl suffers a miscarriage. I and many humans don’t wish any harm to this family. I wish Sarah Palin had chosen her family over power but as her rush back to office after giving birth to the person who gave birth to her special needs son and now her haste to attempt to succeed the oldest presidential nominee in American history despite her daughter’s national scrutiny shows she is a ruthless Caribou hunter. I feel for this girl and the embarrassment she faces as we look over pictures of the fat in her face and the bulge in her belly and watch the government change the dates as though people will continue to be stupid. Sarah Plain you are not a champion for women’s rights, education or parenting. You did not protect your daughter by telling the world three days after we’ve already made our own conclusions that she is now “pregnant” with belly fat. Why don’t you try holding your baby without a cellphone in your hand and maybe we’ll believe that you wanted this child despite his disability. Why didn’t your husband hold your child when you were introduced? Was it to hide what’s protruding under Bristol’s dress? It didn’t help. What would is acknowledging that you have agreed to join a campaign that at times has been bitter, personal and ruthless with the assumption that the American people (cautious of their futures and that of a 2 time melanoma survivor who just celebrated his 72nd birthday making him older than my grandmother will be in five years) should have no questions about holes in stories that all seem to lead to one stellar conclusion. Should we ignore the very papers that reported on Sarah when the world didn’t even know they could pronounce her name wrong. No one knew about you and your own town was asking questions. Your state was asking questions. Now the world is asking questions. Do not presume the right to tell my unborn daughter’s that it is you and your policies and like-minded folly who should tell my children what they might do with their bodies. Your daughter didn’t crash in front of a Family Medical Center because she was gonna chill with her friends like this was the place to be. Who is this boy she has to marry right after recovering from mono? Just keep lying. It’s almost corny…and a little insulting. Sarah Palin’s belly was flat during the announcement of “her” pregnancy at 7 months and then suddenly she looks like Elaine on Seinfeld trying to hide behind that giant mattress just a week later. How’d he grow that fast if he hadn’t grown the whole pregnancy? Why didn’t her staff remember any of the many doctor’s appointments you should have been scheduled throughout her pregnancy? They never noticed her throwing up in the middle of meetings? The flight attendants didn’t even notice she was pregnant. In fact she didn’t look pregnant at all considering giving birth 11 hours later. And how interesting that her amniotic fluid was leaking (as she so enthusiastically told the only media who cared at the time) for eleven hours (add ALWAYS endorsement here cuz they’re the only pads that can cork a leak like that) so she drove past the two bigger, better hospitals just to get induced? But she felt this was safe and normal. Why did a premature child have to be induced if you had already sprang a leak if this in fact wasn’t anything to worry over? I don’t care how many children you’ve had when your water breaks at 6 months you go to the best hospital in Texas if that’s the sate you’re in (after all her husband was there) and you make sure everything is okay and then if necessary you fly. No medical staff was even on the plane in case an emergency should arise though fake pregnancies usually hold up well to flying. You can have fourteen children in ten years and still not be able to convince the world that you know that going into labor with a baby with Down’s Syndrome three months before he is due to be born is an extremely predictable process because “I know”. No, Mrs. Palin. That was so ludicrous and dangerous that if it were in fact true I would consider contacting ACS and getting a petition to have your children removed. What better way to practice pro-life practices than to go to the hospital anytime something odd happens in your already at-risk pregnancy. Not to simply assume you know what you’re doing by driving to another less equipped town to give birth to your daughter’s child. I’m ranting…I know but this woman’s lack of judgment is astounding. She should have said “thanks but no thanks” to Senator McDesperate and saved your dysfunction for Wasilla and taxidermists. This is going to come back to haunt her once Bristol has her arranged marriage and takes baby Trig with her. I wish Bristol all the best and we all know well enough that Barack would not want to bring harm to these two children who are innocent to their parent’s deceit. If the story had no merit, the pictures wouldn’t paint such a vivid image of truth. The government wouldn’t have removed pictures that would prove or disprove who in the family was pregnant. Bristol’s friends wouldn’t have seen her pregnant while she suffered from her prolonged illness that cleared up in time for her to have sex with someone in Alaska where you see a moose before you see another human being. It’s not the intelligent public’s fault she has so many holes in her story. If she had simply started stuffing her shirts when she was supposed to instead of waiting until no one believed you and thought you had some trick to make yourself seem so slim and then a week later you look like a blimp even though you actually looked bigger than she should at that point in her pregnancy. She looked nine months pregnant when she was seven months and when she made the announcement her belly was completely flat. It was her story. She should’ve planned it better. Instead of giving her child a disease that everyone can find the healing time for and see that she had an exceptional case and would probably need bed rest. She should’ve said she had a rare blood disease and had to go to Thailand for treatment. Or anything other than something that can be easily disproved by going to wikipedia.com/mono. Or she could have just come out and said she is extremely offended by the comments being tossed around about her children and there are extensive documents and photographs that reveal the details of the pregnancy. Not just because it’s great gossip but because she believes strongly that a girl or woman who has been violently raped and left to die deserves to keep the baby her attacker left her with. That is the reason this story is relevant dinner conversation. And I’m not being harsh or liberal. She believes literally in any and all cases the woman despite her ultimate decision should be forced to birth a child she might not be ready to care for while the republican’s seek to end all welfare programs, which might otherwise help these poor young ladies to survive once their future have been decided for them. Come on this lady wants to teach creationism to elementary school children as an either or to be compared and debated with evolution. Literally “God said let there be light and there was light”. This is beautiful but it is the individual right of the parents to teach their children whatever they might feel is truth even if we are in the 21st century and microscopes are real. This is not the person we need making us feel guilty about perhaps not keeping a child we know will be sick and hurt and cannot receive the love and attention he might need. Children with less than a spine are not all the rage in the world of adoption. It’s a hard enough choice without this woman touting her invisible-to-the-naked-eye pregnancy and subsequent not holding of her baby unless there is a camera and a cell phone nearby as if she is the Ambassador of Special Needs Babies and the Reasons Why We Love Them. This is not her child and she is doing a sucky job of not hiding it. She’s not a very good grandmother either it would seem considering how she’s running around the country trying to get people to vote for an old man because she’s a woman, with breasts, just like Hillary Clinton (who she called a whiner because of her inability to stand what she considered unfair media scrutiny) instead of assisting her daughter with her shotgun wedding and you know the world obsessing over her vaginal hobbies. This woman will never be my vice president cuz I’m not ready to move out of America. Get your story straight lady and stop abusing your children.
Amber, thank you for your thoughtful analysis of the situation. I wholeheartedly agree both with your conclusion re: the pregnancy, as well as your opinion of Sarah Palin’s decisions, and their implications.
I believe it is a cover up- show me the birth certificate
Gracious, if the wildlife in Alaska procreated as voluminously as the Palins, we would need a whole lotta culling goin on. I am bothered by her “pro-life” label, given that she is enthusiastic about killing bears and wolves from a helicopter. Where is the sport in that? But for one so bloodthirsty, is “pro-life’ really an accurate moniker? This woman is truly scary and Rovesque. In that she seems to ‘create her own reality’.
Trouble is, she wants to create everyone else’s reality. I have been lucky enough to have my own life saved twice, by obstetricians who did a d and c on me when my period was a little late and the tab had a “plus” sign. Many years later, after I was well educated, well travelled, and much wiser, I was able to make a brilliant decision about marriage and am now the proud parent of a stellar 17-year-old. And she knows I will never pry into her personal life, as I trust her judgement very much, and she was informed of the facts of life at age 5. But if she were to come to me with a “mistake” that needed to be taken care of, I’ll be so grateful that there will still be places in the world where she could have a safe abortion. Whether this Palin woman comes into federal power or not. I believe poor Bristol was too afraid to tell her parents she was pregnant till it was impossible to hide the fact. But when you’re raised in an atmosphere of strict religious dogma, secrecy and deception are necessary; even among family members. By now, Sarah Palin is a master at deception. But this particular one just may bring her chickens home to roost.
Absolutely hilarious if it is true, which from judging the actions of Palin and the photographic evidence, I’d give about 95% chance.
And to echo other posters, yes Cindie, you are a complete moron! I’d like to seriously slap you and the other morons that voted for Nader in 2000, and got us 8 years of the worst president in US history.
The repub’s need Rove and Cheney to get on this case ASAP, those two slime bags are truly world class at coverups and obfuscation.
Rich
Read these two new articles from Alaskan newspapers and if you can accept human nature, it is pretty much a slam dumK that Salin is a LIAR and committed a huge HOAX on the Alaskan people and made a huge error in judgement by trying to do the same on the american public.
Secret’s out: Palin pregnant (03/06/08)
http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html
Palin says she felt safe flying to Alaska to have baby
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/apr/22/palins-flight-labor-falls-under-scrutiny/
SLAM DUNK CHECKMATE > Leave town Sara
What a bunch of partisan left-wing douce bags…..vote for your dirt bag coke head racist messiah if you want, but not content to LEAVE it at that, you have to come up with THIS conspiracy theory garbage! Nothing like leftist ratfucking is there? I can’t wait to watch you assholes go back on your anti-depressants when Sarah Palin becomes VICE-PRESIDENT!
First, Mac, you are a complete idiot. Bush/Cheney and the Republicans who back him, will go down in history as the worst administration ever. Can you spell conspiracy?coverup? how about cheater, murderer? Anyway, back to the story.
The fact that Sarah Palins daughter is pregnant, simply reflects the irresponsibility of many parents acrossed this country. We don’t know if her daughter conceived, as do many kids, under her own ROOF. To me, I can’t accept an irresponsible parent as a VP and no one else should. In fact, parents who contribute to this, as in many parent irresponsibility crimes, should also be also be held responsible for this reckless type of parenting. If they can’t keep track of their own kids, how are they going to keep track of yours?
Most of these post are ridiculous, I know families who have raise their children, always did all the right things, said all the right things, gave incouragement and did it knowing they can only walk them on the correct path so far. I have 4 children all very good 3 girls are in thier twenties and no they were not pregnant at 17 or 18, 19 or 20. But they had constitly expressed thier fusteration over peer pressure and yes sometimes they even did the wrong thing its a part of life..to be curious, explore and sometimes use bad judgement…….get over it………. its a part of life and sometimes your discission can change your life dramtically…Do you really think a 18 year old high school kid it going to ruin this last year in school, destroy his reputation and his life and ly about prenating some girl, and for all you who think he would do it for money you need to question your morals.
I don’t like any of the canidates and will have to pick the least of the two evils at election.
Down syndrome is more common in babies who moms are in their 40’s, it is also possible for any one to have a baby with down’s. I have a step daughter and her husband in their twenties who have a down syndrome baby.
I personnally dont want someone to be V.P. who looks down on people because their kids don’t fit a perfect mold. No one is perfect..Not even Obama with this drug use in this past nor his extreme Muslin friends or the fact that no one know were he lived at for about a year..Hmm I bet he had pre-marital sex, it just didn’t produce a baby. His mom was pregnant at 18 and unmarried, but she still brought up a man who did some wrongs and is know running for president.
Sarah Palin is a LIAR. We should have had enough of liars in the White House after the past 8 years. We don’t need to hire Donkey and Bush in Boots to continue the same wretched policies.
It is quite obvious that Sarah Palin shows no signs of prregnancy at seven months. Pictures taken during her previous pregnancies show that she does indeed carry large.
Furthermore pictures taken of her daughter do show a remarkable swelling around the stomach area. That plus the fact that said daughter disappeared from public life for five months.
Why is it that none of the news people are covering this? There are so many questions here and the republicans have put family “off limits”. Obama is an attorney and should know about cross examination. They introduced a “five month” old pregnancy making the subject fair game if and only if to verify the veracity of the candidate. Why would they lie you ask, to cover up the 16 year old daughter getting knocked up.
I have to chime in about the idiot who bought into the “5 month” pregnancy. Do WMD and mushroom clouds not ring a bell or are you one of the idiots who believe only democrats lie? At least when we lie it is to protect our private lives not to cover-up professional malfeasances. Neither Nixon nor Bush were ever accused of cheating on their wives. I will take Marlyn Monroe and stained dresses over cheating the constitution any day of the week, just don’t tell my wife.
Hard to believe that Palin could have any I.Q. higher than 80.