The 17-year-old daughter of the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, is pregnant, Palin said 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 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 Senator John McCain.
Bristol Palin made the decision to keep the baby on her own, McCain aides said.
“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us,” the Palins’statement said.
“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support,” the Palins said.
They asked the media to respect the young couple’s privacy.
“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, respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the statement concluded.
Senior McCain campaign officials said that McCain knew of the pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, and that he had decided it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.
Wow this thing is being spinning so fast I have vertigo!
How convenient is it that Bristol is now five weeks pregnant, which of course would make it impossible for her to have given birth to four and a half month old Trig? Could anybody have even hoped for a better coincidence?
Here is a question I started asking myself yesterday. If you knew somebody doubted that you had given birth to your most recent child, why would you have the photos from that time removed from your website? I mean wouldn't you post MORE pictures of yourself looking pregnant to kill the rumors? What would taking them down make most people assume?
If the right wing thinks that this makes the story go away then they are totally fooling themselves! Now the real fun begins.
I just read this on another blog and had to share it.
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Go Gryphen!!! Great work, stick to it. I love the questions you are coming up with and the logic you've got working in them. This stinks to HIGH HEAVEN and I am in shock that someone would use their daughter this way!!!
ReplyDeleteGryphen - The story says that Sarah's daughter is 5 months pregnant not 5 weeks. This whole deal is definitely strange none the less!
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ReplyDeleteI'll bet the polar bears are up there laughing their big white asses off over all this drama.
ReplyDeleteThis Palin baby story is getting stranger and stranger by the minute...
ReplyDeleteDynamite stuff if true that she lied to cover up for Bristol -- why cover for your young teen-age child's pregnancy, not the end of the world!
Lying about it IS or WILL BE might prove the end of the world for Palin.
show the birth certificate!! only way to prove trig is Sarah's baby and not a coverup.
ReplyDeleteTruly bizarre stuff. Bottom line, the truth hasn't emerged yet, despite all the convoluted explanations the McCain campaign is pumping out.
ReplyDeleteGood job, Gryphen.
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I'm going out on a limb here to say that it's a lie to cover up the first lie. Allow me to explain. Sarah Palin is seen 2/20/08 walking (in heels) w/a reporter from the governor's mansion to the capitol bldg. All the while talking about the burn of exercise (I paraphrase) and clearly not 5 months pregnant in this video footage.
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The first conspiracy theory leaked that Bristol is actually the mother of Trig, not Sarah. The newly appointed VP candidate spins it further to say that Bristol is 5 months pregnant NOW, therefore could not have been pregnant with Trig as late as April 18th (B-Day). Never mind her prolonged absence from school last year due to mononucleosis. Right.
That being said, Gov. Palin never appeared to be pregnant and even appears in a photo with the newborn in the hospital standing dressed and wearing shorts and a hoody. The caption of the photo says "mommy in law."
Bristol appears on the campaign now, constantly holding the baby and looking much heavier than the other photos. The campaign attributes this to her being 5 months pregnant. Personally, I attribute it to her having not lost the baby weight yet and still breast feeding.
Stay tuned for the nationally mourned (staged) miscarriage. They will blame it on the stress of the media's relentless scrutiny and everyone will finally cower in shame, leaving them alone.
McCain will blame it directly on Obama (despite his statements on Monday) and, Presto...
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ChemicalWake: You are TOTALLY RIGHT!! To further elaborate on what you said, it is known Sarah's "water broke" while in Texas. Ha. I was pregnant when 15 and went to a home for unwed mothers in Texas named Edna Gladney Home...it is known for its confidentiality rules and they go to the extent of legally changing the mother's name while there, so I'd bet money Sarah had arranged for Bristol to attend a place such as that while supposedly away for months "sick with mono..." The fact that Sarah Palin was in Texas at all during that time, and that we are now finding out she never gave any kind of speech in which she said she did, sounds promising for a hoax and coverup. A place such as the Edna Gladney Home in Texas (which we affectionately coined the "Egg Home") is liable for suit should anyone break confidintiality - so I would bet this is why they were in a place in Texas at all around this time. Also, the pic of the person holding the baby and Sarah leaning over it, captioned "mom-in-law" this is obviously in a hospital room of some sort...I'd also bet that their initial intention was to consider adoption of Bristol's baby?, but if the child was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, they may have possibly changed their mind to keep the baby (as was common if babies had disabilities, as adoption less likely) or they may have just gone to a place as that for their confidentiality and strict guidelines. Otherwise, why Texas? But what a tragedy this is that they truly chose to cover it up by saying SARAH HAD HER OWN DAUGHTER'S BABY!!! HOW CRAZY SILLY SICK - I woul dhav emuch more admired them all had they just outright said Bristol had the baby, end of story. And you are right, I do think her "weight" is just lingering pregnancy weight, which will of course end, as you said, in the mysteriously sad miscarriage. How terribly burdensome for Bristol to have to learn to act, and in front of the entire world to boot. This is all too surreal.
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