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Vile and Viler: Colmes and Sullivan
Weekly Standard Blog — ... , Andrew stated that the rumor is “buzzing across the Internets” before calling them “unfounded and unseemly.” A full 41 minutes later, however, he characteristically disagreed with himself, inveighing, “This baby was a centerpiece of the public case for Palin made by the Republicans. They made it an issue - and therefore it is legitimate to ask questions about it.” ...

A test for our times
TigerHawk — ... for this. In fact, is there a chance that the story is true and that John McCain knew it was true before he selected her? In a strange way, Palin's choice (if she did in fact falsify her last pregnancy to save her daughter and, in many ways, her grandson) is the sort of sacrifice that McCain would admire and see himself making in a similar situation. He might well have decided that if the story came out it would strengthen his ticket rather than damage it. Brace yourselves. CWCID: Andrew Sullivan , who has more than a little Palin Derangement Syndrome and is to some degree ...

Part of the Reason the Left Doesn't Get Sarah Palin
Sound Politics — ... Andrew Sullivan counts as some sort of conservative. That would be the same Andrew Sullivan showing the mindless stupidity of trying to legitimize the utterly loathsome idea of questioning whether or not Sarah Palin's 5th child is actually hers (the ...

Trutherism is becoming a contagious disease
Classical Values — ... , Andrew Sullivan , and other gullible bloggers I once respected who ought to know better. I hope this poor girl gives a tearful press conference and reveals to the nation that she was never pregnant with her brother. Bastards.

Baby booms
The American Scene — ... propagated) rumors about a dubious recent pregnancy by offering revelations about a current pregnancy that, though not dubious, is probably a little unfortunate. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one pregnancy-related scandal trumped by another pregnancy before: “Hah! I couldn’t have been pregnant then because, you see, I’m pregnant now. Next time, buddy, make sure the person you’re accusing of having been recently pregnant isn’t currently pregnant.” ...

The Revolting Atlantic Two Step
The Next Right — ... Even Andrew’s normally supplicant readers smelled a rat, so Andrew tried to explain, perhaps even to himself, why his attacks on a 17-year-old girl and her four month old brother were fair game:  ...

Is raising questions about Obama's birth certificate a smear campaign?
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... . See whether you are certain there are no legitimate questions worth asking. I am asking the Obama campaign to resolve a factual question which they must already have covered in the vetting process. After all, Obama is running for president, and he is constitutionally ineligible to do so if he wasn't born on U.S. territory. Therefore it is legitimate to ask questions about it. That's all. (I'd say "Up yours, Andy," but it wouldn't exactly be an insult.) Posted by Jim Treacher at October 12, 2008 01:17 AM

Washington Post Columnists Ignore the Facts About Palin, Reagan
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... issued a statement, during the GOP convention, that Palin's teenage daughter Bristol was pregnant. I don't know what Kurtz considers a "mainstream outlet," but let's just assume we include the 151-year-old Atlantic, which Kurtz wrote about with great fanfare in August 2007. The magazine's most prominent contributor, Andrew Sullivan, was among the most rapid rumormongers about Trig Palin. There's plenty of evidence (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and ...

Andrew Sullivan is Right
Weekly Standard Blog — It doesn't happen terribly often, but I'm with Andrew Sullivan on the need to lay Obama birther-ism to rest— a subject on which he's been blogging with some energy over the last day. Indeed, it's almost as if birthers have allowed an intense and sometimes irrational dislike of a political figure to lead them to conspiracy theories while rationalizing the indulgence with concerns about the vetting process and rants about the failed responsibilities of a complicit media. It's almost like they continue to ignore evidence to the ...

Palin Truther-in-chief oddly skeptical of Birtherism
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... himself, who used to have as his tagline this line from Orwell: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Little did he know how constant. It doesn’t happen terribly often, but I’m with Andrew Sullivan on the need to lay Obama birther-ism to rest— a subject on which he’s been blogging with some energy over the last day. Indeed, it’s almost as if birthers have allowed an intense and sometimes irrational dislike of a political figure to lead them to conspiracy theories while rationalizing the indulgence with concerns about the vetting ...

Palin slams Atlantic; Sullivan fires back
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... on his widely-read blog, but specifically, his requests for confirmation that Palin was Trig's mother. Things got so tense last September that the McCain campaign ...