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Home Front: Politix
Lefty Bloggers Go After Palin's Daughter
2008-09-01
Members of the lefty blogosphere haven't stopped perpetuating the rumor Sarah Palin "faked" her last pregnancy and are now humiliating her daughter Bristol on the blatantly incorrect suspicion she is the real mother of baby Trig.

"Sarah Palin is NOT the Mother" is the title of this DailyKos blog that accuses Bristol, a completely fit-looking adolescent teen, of having a "baby bump" in a photo they allege was taken March 9th of this year.

"Sarah, I'm calling you a liar" wrote blogger ArcXIX. "And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better. " Photos of Bristol with detailed commentary about her abdomen are contained in the post.

Not only is the DailyKos disgustingly inspecting Bristol's midriff with all the fervor of LA paparazzi examining J-Lo's or Jennifer Aniston's washboard stomachs for evidence of a "bump," the DailyKos is wrong on when the photo was taken. It was taken, and published, by the Anchorage Daily News in 2006. Baby Trig, a child with Down's Syndrome, was born on April 18, 2008. That's a long time for a teen girl to be carrying a "bump" which looks nothing more than the curve of a tight sweater.

Shortly after Palin was announced as McCain's VP, bloggers at the Kos started ginning up the rumor Palin faked her pregnancy, allegedly to cover for an illegitimate grandchild, because she looked so fit and trim in photos taken a few months before giving birth.

This is only the latest in outrageous attacks against Palin as a mother. Fox News anchor Alan Colmes, of Hannity & Colmes, titled a recent post on his blog Liberaland "Did Palin Take Proper PreNatal Care?" In it, he wondered if she somehow was at fault for having a disabled child. Colmes took down the post after being attacked by the blog Wizbang and later reposted a screenshot of the blog to prove he "wasn't running away from what I posted."

Update: I originally mentioned this Kos rumor in a blog post about CNN's John Roberts's insinuation Palin would not give adequate care and attention to Trig if she became VP.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#70  In German we call that "Schubladendenken" (stereotyped thinking).

First you invent your own world view and then you try to squeeze people into it.
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-01 23:57  

#69  This fascinating bit from the Time article will be helpful to both Aris and Lonzo, as they attempt to understand those who think differently than themselves:

Sarah Palin is a longterm member of a group called Feminists for Life, which is not opposed to birth control . So you probably can't tag her for consigning young people to unwanted pregnancies.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-09-01 23:51  

#68  School curricula are set here as well but it will depend on the teachers how they communicate the topic.

We don't teach our kids that sex is "dirty" but that it comes with mature thinking and responsibility.

Teens will be teens though. A plan B is always helpful.
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-01 23:43  

#67  European Conservative, school curricula are established at the state level, eg Ohio, New York, Alabama, but executed by community school boards. In the public schools the trailing daughters attend (td#1 is now graduated and heading off to university in two weeks! We're very proud that she will start German at the third year level, thanks to two years in the Bad Soden Evangelische Kindergarten), parents were permitted to remove their children from the sexual education portion of the lesson. I did not, but then I'd been discussing such things with the tds from the first time each asked where babies come from (age 3 or 4, as I recall).
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-09-01 23:38  

#66  [.Aris Katsaris has been poop-listed.]
Posted by: .Aris Katsaris   2008-09-01 22:33  

#65  @trailing wife

I don't know how sex education is done in US schools. But I remember my daughter coming home from school rather disturbed one day. She was 12.

We took care of that and had a word with the teacher, too.
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-01 22:26  

#64  I dunno for most of you, but I don't wish to have a diseased Greek Pederast and Animal-Lover (*wink wink*) lecture me on my voting preferences, epecially since he's a known public masticator
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 22:26  

#63  Aris, if I'm correct she only disapproved of "explicit sexual education" at school.

Actually that dooesn't mean that she'll do the education herself.

Actually I prefer this, as well.
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-01 22:23  

#62  Aris dear, I'm sure that they have the internet up there in Alaska, too. Which means Miss Bristol will have learnt about not having babies. Not to mention that she has an older brother, and her older brother is a soldier. They get taught about things like that in basic training. I'm quite certain that he would have told his younger sister, given that she has a boyfriend, how things work -- or at least spoken clearly to the boyfriend about his ... responsibilities.

Lonzo, my darling mother-in-law dropped out of school at 15, married at 17 and had two children by the time she was 19. My in-laws will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday. They still like each other, and their descendants have done rather well as the world measures such things. The second generation all celebrated 25th anniversaries last year, and we are looking forward to the next round of weddings starting next summer. For some people getting married very young is a mistake; for others getting married ever is equally unwise for all involved. Just because you clearly judge yourself incapable of such things does not mean you ought be the measure by which others should.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-09-01 22:22  

#61  I need to tell you a secret.
Big secret.
Sssshhhhh

OK here it comes

There are millions of girls every year getting pregnant who DO KNOW how you get pregnant.

After all, that happens to millions of adult women, too.

I do not approve of "shotgun marriage" when the only reason is pregnancy and one (or both) partners do not actually love each other (one night stand etc)

But if they love each other, early marriage is not a problem, especially not with a supporting family.
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-01 22:21  

#60  Broadhead, that Palin opposes birth-control and any sex-ed (other than abstinence-only) is a matter of her claimed policy and values -- if you're telling me that she teaches her children differently that her claimed values, then you're accusing her of hypocrisy, something which I did and do not claim.

(I only accuse Palin of stupidity, I have no reason to believe she's dishonest about her values)
Posted by: .Aris Katsaris   2008-09-01 22:19  

#59  How times have changed. Years past, people would have known better than to talk about these things - voluntary self-censorship in the name of simple civility. But civility never did apply to the lefties. Perhaps horse whipping will make a come-back.
Posted by: SR-71   2008-09-01 22:14  

#58  "Her own daughter ended up the victim of her mother's failure to talk to her about birth control."

-and you have first hand knowledge of this how? Because you live in their home and are privvy to such things?

While I may or may not agree w/how the Palin's raised their kids I don't presume to know what goes on in their home. In any case, this is all irrelevant to the presidential race.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2008-09-01 22:01  

#57  like an outbreak of herpes, Aris returns where he is unwanted , unneeded, and must jive his name to get in. I bet your mom doesn't take your calls with Caller ID either, Aris?
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 21:43  

#56  Your side's suggested two options would be

The left's preferred option is birth control actually.

Sarah Palin opposes all birth control, all sex-ed, and all abortion (even in the case of rape).

Her own daughter ended up the victim of her mother's failure to talk to her about birth control.

There's nothing morally wrong with what her kid did. I feel sorry for the girl that ends up under the spotlight against her will.

But the repercussions of Palin's failure to teach her own daughter about birth control should have taught the governor the stupidity of relying on abstinence-only education.
Posted by: A.ris Katsaris   2008-09-01 21:39  

#55  I find it incredible that the dem attack machine is picking on a 17 year old girl to get at her mother.
This will not play well with the feminine voters, especially when it will come off as a personal attack on all women. Wait untill Olberman smirks into the camera with the 'had to get married' observation and some msnbc fool gets shot in Alaska annoying the locals.
Posted by: Muggsy Glink   2008-09-01 19:15  

#54  My mother and father got married when she was 15, in 1950. They are still married. My Father is a retired Southern Baptist Minister. Back in 1974 when he was still actively preaching my younger sister, 17, got prgnant. They got married, had the baby, and have had 3 more and are still married.
My point is people make mistakes but the mistakes don't have to destroy lives. We all delt with it, welcomed Pete into the Family, and have enjoyed the children, now grown. It seems there are a lot of people who don't know what love really is. It ain't lust, Lonzo.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2008-09-01 17:37  

#53  similar, but not as hunky...and more fu-manchu. I've got the full Al Hrabosky thing going on right now
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 17:25  

#52  Wahhahaahaha, excellent .5MT
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-01 17:22  

#51  Frank for some damn reason I always picture you as the guy on the right.
Posted by: .5MT   2008-09-01 17:21  

#50  Bush Derangement Syndrone... yes, appears I will die with it like the rest.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-01 17:20  

#49  awesome flick pic - The Man Who Would Be King
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 17:20  

#48  blah blah blahblah blah....
Olde olde olde

Punchline:

Sirs! Jimmy Smith, Sargeant!

Lawz... I know it got dino pee on it...


Elmsworth Grammar Skool! Sirs!
India, China, Sudan, Egypt Sirs!
Unmarried Sirs!
4 Children Male! Sirs!
All Brigadiers! Sirs!

themanwhowouldbeking
Posted by: .5MT   2008-09-01 17:18  

#47  but not BDS, that appears incurable
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 17:04  

#46  Would it not be interesting to fast-forward 50 years and discover that Bristol Palin's son or daughter grew up to be a doctor who discovered a cure for AIDS, heart disease, alzheimer's, or MS?
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-01 17:03  

#45  "Getting married at 17 is just silliness."

Well of COURSE it is, lefty troll.

/sarcasm off

Your side's suggested two options would be:

1) perform the most blessed sacrament of the left, abortion, or

2) leave mom and dad's, go on welfare, become dependent on the state, thereby insure income stream security for hacks like you and the rest of your public sector hack colleagues and promoting your model of the family (state, child, mother instead of husband, wife, child), while simultaneously dragging down the mom and kid.

Getting married is the honorable, intelligent, mature, and sensible thing to do. Beyond your ken, therefore.
Posted by: no mo uro   2008-09-01 16:55  

#44  damn, now I see lotp beat me to the Time linkin another thread...
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 16:20  

#43  They've all had a TV Series or film made about them?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2008-09-01 16:19  

#42  With the exception of #7, "famous" bastards all.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-01 16:17  

#41  Time (!) actually has a very nice story about the people of Wasilla and Bristol's pregnancy (not a secret in Wasilla)

I know...Time???
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 16:16  

#40  I haven't a clue, but there's some impressive people on that list.
Posted by: Mike N.   2008-09-01 16:15  

#39   looks like we've been assigned one of Obamas overseas gomers.

They're just doing the jobs Americans won't do for themselves, I guess.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-09-01 16:13  

#38  The following all have what in common?

1. Confucius (ca. 551–479 BCE)
2. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1
3. Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
4. Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804)519)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1888–1935)
6. Eva Perón (1919–1952)
7. Besoeker (1950- )
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-01 16:01  

#37  Gentle? Gawd amighty, next you'll threaten us with anti-wuz.
Posted by: .5MT   2008-09-01 15:53  

#36  Mario, You aren't doing any better than Pliny the Vulgar. Worse, perhaps.

You're on piece rate. And don't think your efforts to date will pass QC. If you don't clean up your act, you'll be replaced by Gentle.
Posted by: Your supervisor   2008-09-01 15:48  

#35  
Another Grandmother story:

During the Depression, she took in a friend's child for a year after the friend's husband died.  One day she was riding the trolley in San Franciso with her two tall blond children and this smaller, snubnosed freckled redheaded girl.     One better dressed woman looked them upand down and smirked to Grandmother:

I've been admiring your children.  But one of them looks quite different - does she perhaps resemble her father?

The implication being, of course, that she was illegitimate.  Grandmother replied serenely:

I don't know - I've never seen him in the daylight.

And with that she calmly led the children off at the next stop.  She was much too well-bred to lie or to insult that woman back. In fact, she never had met her best girlhood friend's husband - in daylight or not - as they had lived several hundred miles away from her home town.
Posted by: lotp   2008-09-01 15:37  

#34  Must be a holiday: we're getting the minor-league Canadian trolls.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-09-01 15:39  

#33  If nothing else her ACTIONS speak so much louder in confirming her own Christian beliefs

If only they were HER ACTIONS, but I doubt it, and you know it. Getting married at 17 is just silliness. This is all about not alienating the Republican base, which is the very reason why McCain picked Palin to begin with.
Posted by: Lonzo   2008-09-01 15:39  

#32  Indeed badanov.

That recurring tendency of the contemptuous left reminds me of a comment made by Mr. Lotp's grandmother back in the early 1970s. Grandmother was a true lady, reduced in financial circumstances but never compromising her morals or her good manners. One imagined she was wearing white gloves wherever she happened to be.

When Mr. Lotp and I were engaged and I was meeting the extended family, Grandmother commented about the hippies in Haight-Ashbury not far from her apartment:

Your generation seems for some reason to believe you've invented sex. I've forgotten more about sex than those people in the Haight have discoverd so far.

And later, when I saw the stunning photo of her at 20 during the Roaring Twenties, I could well believe she had. I did love that woman. ;-)
Posted by: lotp   2008-09-01 15:35  

#31  This is one of the more absurd elements of our leftists acquaintences. They think because Christian have high moral values, they don't have sex and when they do, it means they no longer live their beliefs.

That would be true if Christians subscribed to Lonzo's moronic view of Christian morality.

The fact is Bristol had sex, got pregnant, is going to have the baby and is going to be married.

If nothing else her ACTIONS speak so much louder in confirming her own Christian beliefs in life and in love, than Lonzo's criticisms.
Posted by: badanov   2008-09-01 15:18  

#30  Yeah, but it's priceless when the holier-than-thou crowd has to eat crow.

After shooting it with the guns we cling to.
Posted by: badanov   2008-09-01 15:11  

#29  Yeah, but it's priceless when the holier-than-thou crowd has to eat crow.
Posted by: Lonzo   2008-09-01 15:07  

#28  So that's what it's like when you take a torpedo amidships.

And only the politest torpedoes available. ;-)
Posted by: ExtremeModerate   2008-09-01 15:05  

#27  That's why I professed my love for TW some time ago, Bad!

Besides, I sure dont't want to pi$$ her off...
Posted by: Bobby   2008-09-01 15:03  

#26  So that's what it's like when you take a torpedo amidships.

Thanks TW!
Posted by: badanov   2008-09-01 14:59  

#25  My dear Lonzo, Governor Palin's husband and soldier son are both registered as Independents, not Republicans, which shows that the family doesn't have silly prejudices about what party registration implies about worthiness as human beings. Miss Bristol Palin is engaged to be married to the father of her child, which they plan to keep, according to a family announcement today.

Please stop being a rude ass about adolescent sexuality. The Democratic party is supposed to be for such things, so long as nobody is hurt and the parties involved act responsibly.

Posted by: trailing wife    2008-09-01 14:56  

#24  looks like we've been assigned one of Obamas overseas gomers.
Posted by: Mike N.   2008-09-01 14:44  

#23  Hope she didn't have sex with a Democrat! Oops :)
Posted by: Lonzo   2008-09-01 14:21  

#22   I suppose they will say she decided to pack on 40 pounds on a whim, then lose it all in 2 weeks.

I know how to pack on 40 pounds, probably in a week. Does she have instructions on how to lose it all in 2 weeks? It could clinch the election.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-09-01 14:06  

#21  From the very start they have been awfully confident about their charges -- never mind that the pictorial proof they relied on was 2 years earlier than the supposed event. Maybe they have known all along that something was up -- leftycrat oppo research at its finest (i.e. some dirtbag lobbed a call into the Bama campaign, which in turn tipped off their droogs in the blogosphere).
Posted by: Iblis   2008-09-01 14:02  

#20  It sounds like the disgusting bottom feeders at Kos did the Palin family a favor. It turns out that the daughter is prego now, (not back in 2006) and now it is out in the open. The family issued a statement that they are dealing with it and are moving forward. What's not to like about the fact that they can deal with a family crisis in such a healthy and loving manner?
Posted by: Betty Grating2215   2008-09-01 13:42  

#19  I suppose they will say she decided to pack on 40 pounds on a whim, then lose it all in 2 weeks.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-09-01 12:50  

#18  Problem is that the picture they were using to "prove" the daughter was pregnant was taken in 2006. And they completey ignore pictures like this:

Posted by: OldSpook   2008-09-01 12:49  

#17  Didn't Obama attend the Yearly KOS? I think people need to be reminded of that.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-09-01 12:34  

#16  The left will now go "see we were right!" The left and MSM need to tread lightly on this issue. Personally, it does not change my support for McCain/Palin at all.
Posted by: djh_usmc   2008-09-01 12:34  

#15  whoops. Fox just said the daughter is pregnant and going to marry the father
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-01 12:21  

#14  If those at DailyKos would ever come out from under their rocks and look out their windows, they might see that most teenage girls look like if they are not anorexic. It shows a decent amount of exercise without obsessing. Most girls I see on a daily basis look like that. I'm fairly certain they aren't all pregnant.
This is a completely normal teenager. I'm disgusted that they would bring this up. But not surprised.
Posted by: sjb   2008-09-01 12:16  

#13  AlanC

What did the crabs ever do to you?
Posted by: Hyper   2008-09-01 11:52  

#12  All those Kiddies need to be taken out on Todd's boat and used for Crab Bait.
Posted by: AlanC   2008-09-01 11:17  

#11  Uh, like NO ONE would EVER have seen Bristol preggers, if she was? How idiotic. Yes, if Palin is athletic, the abdominal muscles are most likely very developed, holding the child closer to the spine, and less visible as a pregnancy.

Let's pretend for a moment that she was covering for Bristol. So what. Good on them (if that were the case, which it's not) that the family stepped up and will help raise the child and help Bristol through whatever problems would exists.

BUT, the chance of a teenager having a down-syndrome baby is about nil, compared with a woman in her 40's.

I'm so sick of the banchee collective (i.e. the Democrat party).

And the sweater picture--can you imagine how a a teenage girl will feel about people looking at her body and saying she looks pregnant in the photo? That is just a mean, mean thing to do.

Posted by: ex-lib   2008-09-01 11:15  

#10  Blogger comments that might be answered by an rotary table chain to the brain housing group if uttered on a at Prudhoe Bay.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-01 11:01  

#9  In a proper world, these shitbag cocksuckers would all be beat bloody for this trash.

We need a picture of a Kos effigy for these articles. All beat to crap and bloody looking
Posted by: Mike N.   2008-09-01 10:20  

#8  Well, it is Kos, right? Chances are, they haven't seen too many pregnant women, unless they were walking into an abortion clinic.

(In all honesty, it does give me a reason to hate Palin. I didn't look pregnant either for the first six months. I looked really fat, instead. Grrr.)
Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields   2008-09-01 09:19  

#7  Ann Althouse:

. . . Pictures are posted, with captions like: "Sarah's waistline never changed. Her wardrobe still remained tight and professional." Note the gratuitous insult to pregnant working women. They can't possibly dress in a professional manner. There are also enlarged photos of the 16-year-old daughter with comments about the shape of her abdomen. The whole world is invited to talk about that teenager's body.

Despicable, sexist trash. Shameful.

AND: ArcXIX displays a huge blowup of the picture of the 16-year-old and issues a faux-scientific opinion: "Bristol is pregnant in these pictures. She is not carrying belly fat, which grows outwardly wide, and does not become dome-shaped. That's because fat is generally evenly distributed around the abdomen and a fetus is not. Bristol's chest is sticking out, a normal body reaction when sucking in stomach muscles." Belly fat grows outwardly wide? Nonsense. People come in all different shapes, and female abdomens tend to protrude. If the girl was pregnant and inclined to hide it, why would she be wearing tight clothes and standing in proud half-profile? I apologize for asking that question, but I'm hoping to shake some sense into those who are pushing this story. They should be ashamed to stoop so low for the sake of politics. I doubt if the Obama campaign wants this kind of help, not that it's likely to be any help at all.
Posted by: Mike   2008-09-01 08:08  

#6  The photo was taken in 2006, making the timing for the daughter being the parent impossible.

Also, the daughter has Eskimo lineage, and ON AVERAGE Eskimos do not tend towards long and lanky as often as those of European stock. This body shape may be her genetic programming and nothing else.

Perhaps the inmates at kos, moveon, etc., are trying to draw attention to her body shape and call her fat, but she looks well within normal limits.

Posted by: no mo uro   2008-09-01 06:15  

#5  Reason 36,843,725,098 to despise anyone who claims to be a member of the Democrat Party. Forget Obama, he's just the false front; Kos and Hamsher are the real faces of that party, and they show exactly what Dems think and believe.

They're a pretty disgusting lot, Dems.
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-09-01 05:11  

#4  Wife, who works with the mental ill... says "Democrat" should be added to the DSM4
Posted by: 3dc   2008-09-01 03:38  

#3  By the time this is over, about 13 women will vote for Obama, none of them with children.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2008-09-01 03:35  

#2  No real surprise coming from the slime of humanity.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-01 03:14  

#1  Disgust-High. Surprise-Zero.
Posted by: tipover   2008-09-01 02:46  

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