Oy: Palin’s daughter is pregnant
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Supposedly McCain knew. Did he? The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain… Senior McCain campaign officials said ...

Bristol Palin Pregnant; Will Marry Father and Keep Child
A Blog For All — ... has more. UPDATE: The NY Post reports that the McCain campaign knew about Bristol's pregnancy before they went ahead and proffered her name as his running mate. I don't see this being a problem for Gov. Palin. It remains to be seen what the left does with all this news. ...

Palin Daughter IS Pregnant, will marry the Father
The Discerning Texan — According to the report in the New York Post, McCain knew this last week before he picked her. It was released to counter the despicable rumors that the Left has been fast and furiously putting out since Palin's Friday announcement. Here is a portion of the Post report (emphases mine): ...

Breaking: Sarah Palin’s daughter is 5 months pregnant
Sister Toldjah — ... baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support. “Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.” The NYPost reports that McCain knew about this before he made his ...

The Daughter Of Sarah Palin is Expecting a Baby
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... Bristol Palin, the seventeen year old daughter of Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin is five months pregnant and plans to marry the father of her baby, it was announced today. John McCain knew about Bristol’’s pregnancy before he selected Sarah for veep. ...

Breaking: Bristol Palin Pregnant!
Stop The ACLU — McCain knew when he picked her too! The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain… Senior McCain campaign officials ...

Bristol Palin chooses life. Now leave her alone.
Michelle Malkin — The Palin family values the sanctity of life. They talk the talk and walk the walk. It is driving the Left absolutely insane beyond the farthest reaches of unhingedness. Now comes the news that 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant. “News” that wouldn’t be news but for the nutroots P.D.S. conspiracy theories that won’t die. NYPost : The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. ...

Sarah Palin announces her teenage daughter is pregnant.
Think Progress — ... of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents.” McCain officials said the news of the daughter’s pregnancy was being released to rebut what one aide called “mud-slinging and lies” circulating on liberal blog sites. ...

Bristol Pregnant; watch “tolerant” & “intolerant”
The Anchoress — So, it seems that Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, age 17, is pregnant , and wants to marry the father of the baby. The politics of the uterus continues. Let’s see who can be be bigger, and who can be smaller on this issue. It is going to be incredibly interesting to watch the shredding of caricatures, here. We’re going to watch the “tolerant” left, champions of sexually active teenagers, who believe that teenagers should be able to have an abortion without parental notification, and who routinely refer to Christians as “uptight, sex-hating judgmenta, moralizingl prudes” ...

Sarah Palin’s Daughter Is Pregnant
Flopping Aces — ... Team McCain put out the news today that the 17 year old daughter of Sarah Palin is pregnant, will keep the baby, and will marry the father: ...

Quite the Catch
Hoffmania! — ... Meet the guy. [Levi] Johnston, 17, who is entering his senior year at Wasilla HS, plays on the school hockey team and was once teammates on a youth squad with Palin's older brother, Track, 19, who is now in the Army. Despite suffering a cracked bone in his shin last season, Johnston scored 24 goals in 24 games. "We don't want to talk about this," said a woman who answered the phone at the Johnston home. On his MySpace page, Johnston boasts, "I'm a f - - -in' redneck" who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes. ...

Levi Johnston: Bristol Palin's Baby Daddy Revealed
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... been together quite a while, more than a year," she said. "I hope everything comes out well. These are local kids." Johnston, broadchested and wearing a No. 15 jersey, can be seen in photographs hitting the boards as a Warrior in action. A closeup shot shows the handsome teen with a light dusting of whiskers on his chin - his dark brown hair curly and wet. "Levi has got huge potential," Jennie Johnston said. "He's a smart kid." The New York Post has excerpts from Johnston's MySpace page: On his MySpace page, ...

New York Post Offers Up Odd Details In Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston Story
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... I realize that we are deep, deep in the weeds where this Bristol Palin is concerned, but I'm nevertheless surprised at the strange and seemingly unrelated details that the press has brought out of the ether. Consider these paragraphs about Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's child, from the New York Post: ...

Meltdown
Shakesville — ... If there's any political point to be made here at all, it is about the very real possibility that the McCain campaign did not know about this pregnancy, despite reports to the contrary. There is ...

Bristol Palin shocker: baby’s father revealed!
HorsesAss.Org — ... In other news, the New York Post has found God’s MySpace page, where he describes himself as a “fucking redneck” who “lives to play hockey.” He also claims to be “in a relationship,” but states, “I don’t want kids.” ...

There's a pain where there once was a heart
Lawyers, Guns and Money — I wonder if anyone actually consulted with Levi "Fuckin' Redneck" Johnston about whether he's cool with suddenly being drafted to make an honest woman out of Bristol Palin? It sounds as if all this wedding talk may be taking him by surprise.

Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Tuesday
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — What are the most popular stories around the web this morning? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. CNN: Palin’s Teen Daughter is Pregnant New York Post: Palin Admits Her 17-Year Old Daughter is Pregnant Politico: New Palin Details May Help, Not Hurt Wall Street Journal: Palin’s Family Life Moves to Center Stage Los Angeles Times: With Palin Revelations, McCain’s Gamble is Clearer Time Magazine: In Wasilla, Pregnancy Was No Secret Chicago Tribune: Surprise Pregnancy Has Republicans off Balance Slate: Sarah Palin, Web ...

Red Neck Nation
DownWithTyranny! — ... Levi Johnston, the nice-looking young man who knocked up Palin's 17 year old, Bristol, is a senior at Wasilla High School. On his My Space page he brags about being a red neck-- and then proves it. ...

A Pregnancy We Can Believe In!!
WTF Is It Now?!? — Yeah yeah, the kids are off limits.....if they are a Rethuglican, whatfuckingever. This isn't about Failin' Palin's kids, it's about uhhhhh rednecks and the success of abstinence only sex education: ...

Family is Not Off Limits
Balloon Juice — ... Here’s what’s happening. Bristol Palin gets knocked up. Her family announces she is keeping the baby and marrying the father. Bristol Palin is 17 years old. She is not getting married because she is in love with the father – someone who “don’t want kids“. She is getting married because the “values” she was brought up to believe in tell her that she must marry the father. ...

Johnny, You Got Some Splainin' To Do!
All articles at Blogcritics — Forget the juicy if ultimately irrelevant story of Bristol s pregnancy, Sarah s responsibilities as a mother versus her responsibilities as a worker bee, and the horrible My Space page carried in the New York Post , among other places,where future son-in-law Levi Johnston expresses less than enthusiasm about birthin babies --although that's what happens when one advocates abstinence-only education, it seems. (Why on earth didn t anyone in the vetting process get the kid to take his page down, or at least clean it up a little?). Forget even, Palin s wonderful interview with ...

Bristol’s Baby Daddy: Levi Johnston’s Myspace Madness
Barack to the Future .::. A Barack Obama Blog — Homey’s got issues (and not just McCain getting creepy on him). From the New York Post: On his MySpace page, Johnston boasts, “I’m a f - - -in’ redneck” who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes. “But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s- - - and just f - - -in’ chillin’ I guess.” “Ya f - - - with me I’ll kick [your] ass,” he added. He also claims to be “in a ...

Kurtz: No Mainstream Media Outlet Published Trig Trutherism Until McCain Brought It Up. Oh Really???
Patterico's Pontifications — ... It was not until the next day, September 1, that Palin made her daughter’s pregnancy public. I imagine the campaign felt compelled to respond because someone blogging on the site of a mainstream media outlet was chasing the story and giving it an undeserved aura of seriousness. ...