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B LOOMINGTON, Minn. — Have American presidential politics become so hateful that a pregnant 17-year-old girl has to have the intimate details of her life exposed to the nation by character assassins? Ask the left-wing Internet haters, the anonymous propagandists who call themselves bloggers on ...
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Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... that bubbled up from the left wing blogs that John McCain had lifted his "cross in the dirt" story from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago only to discover no such passage existed in the book. Sullivan appears to want to justify his descent by arguing that trafficking in rumors perfectly appropriate for his blog. He's just asking questions, after all. But The Atlantic is not Daily Kos, though these days it's becoming harder and harder to tell the difference. UPDATE: See John Kass this am as well.

Sarah Palin's judgment is in focus, not Bristol Palin's
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... who are using Bristol's situation to attack the left should know this has nothing to do with a teenage pregnancy. To dispel the rumors of Bristol being the mother of Trig, it comes out that Bristol is pregnant now and is 5 months along. All Gov. Palin had to do was deny that Bristol is the mother of Trig, and prove she was the mother of the baby. But Palin didn't do that; she still hasn't shown any proof that she is the mother. Palin could have put the focus on herself, and left Bristol out of the equation. But her judgment was to throw her 17-year-old daughter into the ...

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