Why don't you interview the woman who delivered the baby from Sarah Palin.

[gratuitous vulgarity deleted]

I suspect Suss wrote this somewhat tongue in cheek.

The most obvious argument against this blatant and unfounded smear is that the child does have Downs syndrome, a condition that is about 1/3000 for kids born to 17-year-olds and 1/30 for kids born to 44 year olds. So if you're betting that Trig is Bristol's kid you're making a sucker bet.

Dave

My theory (supported by a wealth of evidence from Alex Jones) is that Palin (R-AK) is attempting to counter accusations that she is unqualified to be Vice-President by singlehandedly doubling the population of the state she governs.

Ba-doom-boom-tssh, and all that.

Matthew,

Grow the f-up.... goood Gawd almighty.... political discourse isn't about "hot grandma" & "VPILF"..... it's time to mature your writing capability....in effect you just "TURNED OFF" a whole bunch of potential readers of your "PIECE".... What is your point exactly? Aleinated your readership... or making a researched talking point....

You are coming across much less than hoped for.

Doc,

Glad to see you've upgraded your sources...:>)

"Grow the f-up.... goood Gawd almighty.... political discourse isn't about "hot grandma" & "VPILF"..... it's time to mature your writing capability."

Listen dude, I write for fun. Sorry you didn't like it but this is just my style.

If you want a serious political article, and the resultant discourse, might I kindly refer you to every other article in this section.
--Suss

Um, Condor. Lighten up man.

Suss. Maybe you should have tagged this under Satire?

Dave

Who is the Father of the child? When would they have found out about the pregnancy if it was due in May. One more question - when was it that Track suddenly decided that he was joining the army?

This is my favourite of the 4,000 Sarah Palin articles on this site. Nice job, Sussman.

Rumor back in Juneau has it that Bristol started smoking oxy off tin foil with the other douchebag kids there.
Some kid named DILLON KOLVIG got her pregnant.

The one thing I don't understand is why so many guys seem to think Palin is hot. They must either date some seriously ugly women or just not get out very often 'cos she is really rather ordinary looking. She is easier on the eye that her running mate though.

well written and very funny!!

Rose is right.

The one thing I don't understand is why so many guys seem to think Palin is hot"

She's not necessarily hot as far as women in general go but she's pretty hot for a politician. Did anyone see all of the horse faced women Reps and Sens speaking at the DNC?

Seriously Amy Klobuchar is the most hideous womn in politics since Janet Reno. My dog started crying the minute Amy opened her mouth. As hard as I tried I couldn't spot an adam's apple though so I guess she is a woman.....unless he had it removed.

Matthew (and Dave),
You might write for fun, but poking fun at Down's syndrome or the ordeal that the parents are put through is really mean spirited. You might call it over the top but making "fun" out of subjects concerning illness, suicide etc... aren't that humorous.

Show a little compassion (and class), it comes across better. Better yet, go voluteer a few times at clinics/homes/hospitals for those with dibilitating conditions and see for yourself.

Lighten up my arse.

Archie, Nobody, until you, said Palin was hot "for a politician", simply hot. She's not.

Never seen the other two you mention but, as a Brit, I did notice that Palin's voice is pretty grating on the ears too.

Sorry Condor but I don't see Dave, MAtt or anyone else on this post making remarks that could be construed by a reasonable person as making light of Down's Syndrome or the difficulty it poses for families.

Rather I see a bunch of people poking fun of the current situation of American politics that allows one side to make the most rediculous claims about the other while offering nothing but crazy, concocted theories about what actually happened as proof. While that sentiment is not explicity clear in the article it does seem as if that was Matt's take on it as well.

This is the left's version of what the right tried to do with the Michelle Obama Whitey tape rumor. Take a ridiculous accusation and spin the hell out of it with all kinds of so called supporting in an attempt to make it seem plausible and ultimately believable by a large number of people thereby damaging you opponent.

The danger with doing something like this is that if it false and you push it too far it will most certainly come back to take a big chunk out of your ass in the end. This weekend there have been scores of self proclaimed Sarah Palin experts on the internet telling us exactly hwat happend in the Palin's life around the time of this child's birth. Logic dictates that this story is most likely flase.........


1. As Dave Nalle pointed out, a woman Sarah's age is much more likely to have a Down's syndrom child.

2. If the family was trying to coverup the pregnancy why would they even allow the daughter to be photographed with what looks like a baby in her?

3. State politics are just as nasty as national politics yet not once in the Alaskan media was this story ever suggested. Either the governor's daughter went to school pregnant and no one said anything about it or they pulled her from school for a period of months to hide the pregnancy and no one said anything about it.


If the Daily kos continues to push this story Obama better hope none of his staffers are connected to them.

What Arch said...

I dunno... That photo with Bristol looks like she has the typical adolescent muffin top. As the parent of a one-time adolescent, I can tell you that muffin tops among that age group are rather rampant. Not only that, but with the style of jeans that girls wear these days, if you're not the type to do a couple thousand sit ups a day, you're going to have that little bit of midriff bulge.

Just sayin'...

the hiking video, pictures, fluid leak, . . . nothing is conclusive. but her judgement in possibly not disclosing this if true, or returning home to have the baby is troublesome. mccains lack of process in her selection is also troublesome. be careful. that said, i am sure interested to know if the one pictue of her other pregnancy is true. further, i just find it hard that someone who celebrates another bundly of merriness waits so long for the announcemnt, there is not one conclusive picture of her pregnancy . . . sure there are rational explanations . . . but any cop would say too many coincidences -- guilty. within two days if a document or two and some pictures aren't forthcoming i'd wonder some more -- be careful, a careful trap??? it is odd not one conclusive picture -- BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT IS WITH ALL THE BLACK -- to make you look professional or struggling with emptiness???

i also want to state two other interesting points: why is the eldest daughter the only one holding the child in recent photos? why in the family picture with the blue sweather or shirt and bump is the eldest daughter the only one with a closed mouth? junk, yeah. but, there was no process by mccain, other questions, and alot of coincidences here.

I just heard on the news that Bristol is REALLY pregnant. She plans on marrying the baby-daddy.

Shades of Jamie Lynn Spears!

Shotgun weddings are done best when the parent belongs to the NRA.

All right, dammit. Gotta keep adding the story. Here goes:

• Palin is the one who's really pregnant. She's going to have the baby and give it to Bristol. Then they're going to find one of her classmates, the one with the worst chance of getting laid on his own, and say he's the father. The baby's name will be Spring Bagel William Palin.

Wrong Matthew...I have the real scoop. It's really Bristol that's preganant but in an a attempt to win over even more of the angry Hillary supporters she will be having a televised abortion.

Seriously............is this what our nation has become?

Track Palin is not really in the military. He's really a transgendered individual from Cicely, AK named Aubrey Audrey and is the father of Bristol's child. He She is currently in seclusion undergoing gender reassignment, and will resurface in two years, whereupon she will be presented to the world as VP Gov. Palin's long-lost half-sister. The only part I didn't make up is that some people will take this seriously.

It'll be on HuffPost and The Daily Kos within the hour, billed as Gospel.

Guess what? I was just listening to Hannity and he had on radio guy from Alaska. He blew Hannity away because he said everything we hear is TRUE! She a lying B*&(*! The taxes are the highest in the world and they are nearly 100% certain that the baby is NOT Sarah's but her daughters!

And what sane woman would get on a jet after her water breaks? I've had two kids and you do not want to expose the baby to stranger germs once the water breaks. You get your ass to a hospital ASAP. In my case I got in the bed and had my baby at home only 45 minutes after the water broke.

She is a lying B!

Heloise

So I guess that this announcement made today by the Governor herself about her daughter's pregancy is supposed to squelch the rumors. But suppose she did cover for her daughter... what is one more lie, and what if -- wonders never cease in this case -- it turns out that they later allege that this newly reported pregancy ends up in an alleged miscarriage? If that raises any eyebrows it will be after the election in November anyway, right? For me, if the original rumors are credible, this well-timed "announcement" is not evidence either way. In the original rumor, people at the local health center would have had to have been in cahoots with the Governor -- and that could still be the case. I'm not saying the rumors are true, only that this announcement has no bearing whatsoever on their plausibility -- unless of course you for some reason believe this new "fact" -- but then why would you have believed the initial rumor? On the other hand, if they lied then, they are lying now -- and the "beauty" of it (for them) is that the truth of this new revelation is unverifiable, unless Bristol, unlike her mother, is actually showing signs of being pregant.

Why is this whatever piece (good) under NEWS! I smell some male chauvanism here! WTF this should be satire or opinion at least.

Someone dropped the ball I think.

Heloise

Watch folks Sarah Palin will be resigning soon, aren't these Republicans great though pretending to be so family oriented and then they fall just like the rest of us sinners.

It's funny. I don't know how many kids Canada's PM has, nor do I know his wife's name. I think the same can be said for most of my fellow Canadians, although a quick Google could solve that.

Point being, why in the sweet blue hell do any of you care? American elections remind me of high school.

Ok, let's say Bristol was pregnant. Rather than have an abortion she gave her baby to her mother to raise. Isn't that the responsible, family values thing to do? It's a pro-life, pro-family decision and I don't see exactly what the big problem is. If the story is true (which I don't believe) they faced a problem which many famiies face and dealt with it in a responsible way that fits with their political ideology. So?

Dave

According to FAUX News, Bristol, 17, IS pregnant, and is marrying the father.

This, according to a statement released by the Palin family.

Them American kids just can't keep their legs closed or zippers shut, can they? Yup, the American consumo-porn society. The home of the cash and the land of the free (chicks)....

Wow some of you guys are absolutely unhinged.

First.........the Daily Kos reported that the Down's Syndrome baby in the Palin family was actually Sarah's daughter and not hers and that Sarah said it was hers to cover for her. What the Palin family admitted today is that Bristol, Sarah's daughter is currently pregnant. Two very different things.

If the story about the daughter having the Down's Syndrome child is true then there are in fact some pretty creepy goings on in the Palin clan. If it is not true (which is most likely) then the folks at the daily KOS are some of the most despicable people on the plant (no bir surprise there)


The fact that the Palin daughter is pregnant now does not, at least to my way of thinking, cast a negative light on Sarah. There are millions of parents of teenage daughters out there and anyone one of them could easily see this happen to their family. Would that make all of those parents somehow bad people. I'd say no but because Palin is a prominent politician she's now going to be labelled as the world's worst mom by a bunch of nuts with a political agenda.

To be fair though both sides use this type of baseless character assassination as we saw rumors floating around weeks ago of an angry Michelle Obama ranting on videotape about "whitey." No tape ever turned up and the story went away as should this story if it is false.

No wonder why honest, decent people never get involved in politics and we end up with these egotistical, narcissistic, self-serving, power hungry lying SOBs. It's just not worth it.

Wow... it's like a real life Juno movie!

Arch conservative writes:

"The fact that the Palin daughter is pregnant now does not, at least to my way of thinking, cast a negative light on Sarah."

...Except for the fact that Gov. Palin is on record as being an adamant supporter of "abstinence only" sex education for public schools.

I don't have to bash any party to find that irony truly delicious.

--Cobra

Sarah Palin might also be anti-drug (I'd imagine she is), but that doesn't mean her kids won't sneak off into the Alaskan wilderness and smoke some weed. What's your point?

I guess it's just that Democrats are shocked when a Politician's kid up and turns out to be their own person, instead of a programmed droid that's good for mommy and daddy's career. (Please recall the Bush Sisters' little alcohol thing for past examples). It's also quite apparent that the Dems are shocked that Palin didn't immediately disown her daughter for doing something potentially embarassing.

I think it speaks to their REAL ideas on parenting, really...

When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrived backstage for our NEWSWEEK Women & Leadership Event in Los Angeles last March, John McCain had just wrapped up the GOP nomination. Palin had yet to endorse McCain--she liked Mitt Romney--and as we waited in the green room, I urged her to "feel free" to make some news on stage. She grinned broadly--looking back, I guess it was a grin of the Cheshire Cat variety--and thanked me for the offer.

Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat the state's entire Republican power structure, and her feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton. (She said she felt kind of bad she couldn't support a woman, but she didn't like Clinton's whining.)

I joked with her about being on McCain's short list for vice president, and we had a good chuckle. We also talked about the challenges of running a government while also raising a large and young family. At the time, I didn't know that Palin, clad in a loose, dark dress, was seven months pregnant with her fifth child. An aide called me the next day to tell me that Palin would be announcing the pregnancy at home in Alaska and that she had wanted me to know as a courtesy. She was sorry she hadn't mentioned it the night before.

Ok, despite the numerous real scandals out there... how about this one;

who the hell names their kids Bristol, Track, and Tig? Seriously, wtf?

Who cares?

#40

I dunno, a disaffected member of Generation X? a Hippy's kid might? um... I mean, "Bristol" strikes me as not much different from some of the names kids had when I was in grade school, and one of the kids I went to High School with didn't have a legal first name at all-he just has his last name. The weirdest ones all seemed to be kids whose parents used to be hippies, but rejected the lifestyle...

Figger'n Ms. Palin was a kid in the sixties and a teen in the seventies, she may have picked up some cultural cues from her parents...

WHY? The question is "why?"

Some wonder if its like the problem the Cheneys had, something totally unacceptable for a hardliner fundie family...

Then again, almost everyone thinks he'd be a great asset on the campaign.

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Really? Isn't that what you're doing? I'm seeing alot of type of slander on te internet. Maybe i can get rich by suing you assholes.

Who cares about photos or the baby? The real scary thing is, and I say this as a lifetime conservative, that we have a potential VP who is not qualified, cannot answer the simplest questions on politics, the economy or foreign affairs, and is without substance. It's a sad state of affairs all the way around. I won't vote for this ticket because it is insulting to serious conservatives. There were many other great and qualified conservatives whom McCain could have chosen for a running mate. Palin is a joke to be taken seriously. Our nation is too great, powerful and important to have such a dismal failure and neophyte as a candidate.