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Consulting The Experts
The Talent Show — ... Hey Mom, former OB-GYN, can you take a look at this post and chime in with what you think in the comments? It makes a pretty compelling case that Sarah Palin isn’t actually the mother of her fifth child, but I’ll defer to you on this one. ...

DK Diarist Points To More Signs That Sarah Palin Is Not Trig Palin’s Mother
Comments from Left Field — ... Reader Sam Fisher linked this Daily Kos article from the Comments section. It’s pretty devastating as to who Trig Paxon Van Palin’s mother is — and is not. The article is very long and quite well-sourced. The links are to solid, reliable sources such as newspapers and well-regarded, credible professional sites. ARCXIX, the DK diarist who wrote the piece, also has included extensive pictorial evidence (photographs and videos) both of Sarah Palin’s appearance during the period she says she was pregnant, and of her daughter ...

Amanda Carpenter: Lefty Bloggers Go After Palin's Daughter
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — The lefty blogosphere hasn'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" ...

Things That Make You Go Hmmm
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... and the rumors buzzing across the Internets and the press corps are unfounded. There must be plenty of medical records and obstetricians and medical eye-wintesses prepared to testify to Sarah Palin's giving borth to Trig. And surely, surely, the McCain camp did due diligence on this. But the noise around this story is now deafening. So please give us these answers - and provide medical records for Sarah Palin's pregnancy - and put this to rest. ...

Veep candidate Palin lying about 5th child?
Preemptive Karma — McCain, Palin and age-related cognitive impairment | Main August 31, 2008 Veep candidate Palin lying about 5th child? It sure looks that way ( hat tip: Jack Bog ) Posted by Kevin at August 31, 2008 02:54 PM

A Smear?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... The job of a press is to ask questions which have a basis in fact. Read for yourself the full chronology here. See whether you are certain there are no legitimate questions worth asking. I have claimed nothing. I am asking the McCain campaign to resolve a factual question which they must already have covered in the vetting process. After all, 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. That's all. ...

Wonkette Official Statement On Palin Pregnancy Rumors
Wonkette » top — ... Plus didn’t everybody see The 40 Year Old Virgin? Hot grandmas are in. P.S. GODDAMMIT YOU ILLITERATE CRETINS IT IS “DOWN” SYNDROME, NOT “DOWN’S” SYNDROME. [Daily Kos] ...

Vile and Viler: Colmes and Sullivan
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Since I know you’re dying to know the kind of persuasive logic that the Kos diarist displayed that piqued Andrew Sullivan’s interest, I offer the following excerpt: ...

A test for our times
TigerHawk — This is the post at Daily Kos that alleges, with photographs, that Trig Palin is Sarah's grandson, not her son. It is persuasive enough that one has to allow for the possibility that it is true (partial refutation ...

Sarah Palin Might Be A Lying, Phony, Hot Grandmother
All articles at Blogcritics — Guess what I found out this week. Sarah Palin didn't have the Down Syndrome baby. It's her daughter's love child. How do I know? I heard it on Daily Kos! (There's your plug, Markos. I accept most major credit cards.) There's some pretty convincing ...

Judgment, Experience, Honor, Country: McCain’s Epic Palin Fail
Firedoglake — ... one, whose public service does not prominently feature a current public integrity investigation. Maybe choose based on more than one phone call? Choose honorably: respect those who stood in battle with you, tested you and made you a better candidate for the office you now seek. Think of your country first: completely research your choice, so that Americans are not embarrassed by rumors within hours of your choice, stories that reflect badly on your skills as a chooser of talent, someone who could face ...

Part of the Reason the Left Doesn't Get Sarah Palin
Sound Politics — Part of the Reason the Left Doesn't Get Sarah Palin They still think 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 loon's on the left think it's her oldest daughter's ...keep it classy Kossacks!). First things first, Ross Douthat takes a delightful hammer to Sullivan for acting like such a wanker. Second, this is what people who are actually conservative think about Sarah Palin : 17,000+ today for the ...

Trutherism is becoming a contagious disease
Classical Values — Trutherism is becoming a contagious disease This web site is a perfect example of why people don't want to go into politics. Such sliminess is unbelievable. But it's all in a day's work for the likes of Daily Kos , 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.

Happy Labor Day
The Latest on Air America — ... dealing with Gustav. While enjoying your day off, you may want to catch up on the latest reason why some are calling Sarah Palin, "John McCain's Eagleton". Seems like John McCain's ...

A picture refutes a thousand nutcase conspiracies
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... I’d like to share a picture of Governor Sarah Palin’s lovely young family, a photo that some may have already seen in connection to a despicable Internet smear against the Palins.  Here we have Sarah and Todd with their daughters Piper, Willow, and Bristol.  A few bloggers have pointed to the curve of Bristol’s stomach, rather typical for teens, as proof that it was she who gave birth to Trig Palin in April 2008, and not Governor Palin. [image] Here’s the caption from the ...

Looks Like Sarah Palin Due Some Apologies
The Washington Note — ... Like many, I have been sifting through the growing pile of circumstantial evidence that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's fifth child, Trig, might be her daughter's child rather than her own. ...

Palin Baby Mama Scuttlebutt
Hit & Run — ... that Sarah Palin's Down Syndrome child is actually her daughter's with the following less-than-confidence-inspiring comment: "Well, I don't...think so." He added that the whole thing, like ...

Daily Kos Hits Bottom, Digs
Little Green Footballs — I don’t even want to link to this sickening, depraved post at Daily Kos, but I suppose people should know just how completely lacking in decency these creeps really are: Daily Kos: Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother [Photos+Video].

The Sarah Palin baby rumor
Yourish.com — Oh, please. Any idiot can get a blog on DKos. And this ridiculous accusation is proof that many idiots do. Oh, wait. That was Andrew Sullivan’s link. Here’s the Daily Kos moron’s blog. These unerring detectives have Photographic! Evidence! that will shock you!! And they’ve been slammed to the mat by—facts. Unless Bristol was pregnant for fourteen months, the baby is Sarah Palin’s. And it’s been confirmed by Kos Kiddie “Red Pen”: Unless ...

BREAKING: Palin's Daughter Preggers...Again? Palin's Lies, McCains Gambling Problem, and The Big Brother Backdoor Strategy....
Brilliant at Breakfast — Breaking News: Sarah Palin just confirmed that her 17 year old daughter, Brillo, is 5 months pregnant and is gonna marry the father, Levi, and keep the baby. Supposedly McCain knew about this pregnancy before choosing Palin as his running mate. These people are so full o' lies that its mind boggling in its enormity. Read on for more on ungodly partnership of the dysfunctional Alaskan with the PTSD Gambler. (h/t to my Mom and her diligent monitoring of the Bill O'Reillys of the world...know thy enemy!) I'm looking at MSNBC's coverage of Gustav barrelling ashore in Louisiana and throwing Michelle Kosinski off camera, ...

Sarah Palin's lies
Citizen Crain — ... child into the world and it is laudable (and common) for a mother to save her pregnant unmarried teenage child embarrassment by claiming an out of wedlock child as her own, and this is usually a very private, personal matter. However, once you start making making it a public event and try to gain political mileage out of it as Palin did, then all semblance of privacy are out the window. You can read all the circumstantial evidence that the baby is really Bristol's, not Sarah's here. However, giving Sarah Palin the benefit of the doubt, let's assume her story is true and the ...

The Palin statement on daughter's pregnancy
Top of the Ticket — ... the statement refers to tackled head-on the speculation that swirled over weekend on some blogs about whether Sarah Palin was, in fact, the mother of a child born earlier this year or whether Bristol was the mother. According to the Reuters story, news of Bristol's current pregnancy "was being released to rebut what one aide called "mud-slinging and lies" circulating on liberal blog sites." ...

Goldfarb Doesn't Know Either
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... that Sarah Palin's Down Syndrome child is actually her daughter's with the following less-than-confidence-inspiring comment: "Well, I don't... think so." ...

Palin's Place
BAGnewsNotes — ... I've been trying to get a handle on the Sarah-Bristol-Trig story since the Kos piece came out alleging that Trig wasn't Sarah's baby. ...

Digest for August 30th through September 1st
The Republic of T. — Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for August 30th through September 1st: Transphobic Words and Deeds « Questioning Transphobia - Part of privilege is that the pain we cause is either invisible to us, or we believe that the target of that pain somehow brought it upon herself or deserved it. Another part of privilege is interpreting events in our favor whenever possible, and expecting the dominant social forces to support that interpretation. Rod 2.0:Beta: Some Thoughts on Sarah Palin - Sarah Palin has just as much “experience” as ...

Sarah Palin, her daughter's pregnancy, and Barack Obama's reaction
BlueOregon — Hurricane Gustav may turn out to be the worst possible thing for the Republican Party. While they're busy trying to organize a patriotic telethon to support hurricane victims, the cable TV talking heads have airtime to fill and nothing to talk about. So, naturally, they're turning to talk about the latest internet rumors about Sarah Palin and her four-month-old son. And beyond the crazy rumors, the Palin family has now acknowledged that Bristol Palin (age 17) is five months pregnant right now (and thus couldn't have given birth four months ago). And while the partisan hack in me delights in watching the other side ...

Misogyny Watch: Liberal Bloggers Sink to New Low, Reveal Sarah Palin's Teen-Age Daughter is Pregnant
Tennessee Guerilla Women — Well, kudos to the sexist vampires over at Daily Kos. Thanks to their unwavering efforts to bully and shame and humiliate 17 year old Bristol Palin and her family, Sarah Palin was forced to announce that Bristol is pregnant. We're sure the sexist progressive posers are disappointed that their soap opera fantasy is not true. Bristol is not secretly the mother of her baby brother. But who really cares other than a bunch of twisted low-lifers who imagine that they have a progressive bone in their foul misogyny infested bodies? Thanks to the 'progressive' kossack creeps and their followers, all of ...

Barrack Obama's Link To the Palin Baby Lies
Wizbang — Back in 2005 freshman Senator Barrack Obama joined Daily Kos and indicated that he was a lurker prior to becoming a poster. He only ended up posting twice ( 1 , 2 ), preferring to do his blogging on his Senate site alone, but at the time he was directly engaging the Kos community about the John Roberts confirmation hearings. Fast forward to today's statement about the lie-based rumor campaign conceived and propagated by two Daily Kos diarists. The diarist who set off the firestorm that has reverberated across the mainstream media (ArcXIX - possilbe bio ) had, at the time of his first duplicitous fantasy ...

Yet Another Daily Kos Hate Blog Down the Memory Hole
Little Green Footballs — That Daily Kos diarist who’s been posting vile smears against Sarah Palin has suddenly vanished down the memory hole: Daily Kos: Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother [Photos+Video].

AP Claims Liberals' "Belittling" Palin -- With No Evidence
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Here's the lede from an "analysis" piece from the Associated Press: Liberals sound like conservatives; the right sounds like the left. John McCain's surprise choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate has upended conventional wisdom and brought about a seeming role reversal. Many liberals are belittling the choice, suggesting that as a mother of five children -- including an infant with Down syndrome -- she has neither the time nor the experience to become vice president. Naturally, with such a strident accusation -- that "liberals" are actively ...

You can call a woman a bad mother for not forcing her daughter to have an abortion, and claim that the same woman didn't actually give birth to her own son...
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — You can call a woman a bad mother for not forcing her daughter to have an abortion, and claim that the same woman didn't actually give birth to her own son... ...but don't you dare ask what a community organizer actually ...

Finally, An On-The-Record Confirmation From McCain
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — The Washington Post yesterday asked the McCain campaign on the record whether Trig Palin is Sarah Palin's biological son. Howard Kurtz, one of the most prominent media journalists in the world, asked that question. By answering the Kurtz question on the record, McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb is indeed saying that this is a legitimate factual question, as it is. Here is the answer, the first on-the-record confirmation of Sarah Palin being the biological mother of Trig, courtesy of the Washington Post: "These rumors are false. It is her baby. The whole thing is absurd. All of this rests on ...

Palin And Lauer
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — More inconsistencies and weirdness about the $150,000 clothing allowance, then this: LAUER: What was the biggest misconception that you would have loved to have corrected at the time? S. PALIN: It started off with the rumors, the speculation, even in mainstream media, that Trig wasn’t actually my child, that Trig was somebody else’s child and I faked a pregnancy. That was absolutely ridiculous. And it took days for that false allegation (inaudible) be corrected. And then rumors right off the bat, too, that, you know, I was some -- some wacko. That as city manager I tried to ban the books in our local ...