The Post.

First a little background.

A good friend of mine called me the other day and told me that he had stumbled on a potentially huge story and that he was going to send me a picture to look at. I was kind of intrigued so I told him I would look for his e-mail. This is what arrived.

The only description he provided was this word: Bristol. (To see this more clearly it helps to save it to your computer and then blow it up)

I called my friend and asked him just what I was looking at. He replied that those were pictures he took of Bristol Palin on February 8, of this year at the Iron Dog. And that she was pregnant.

To say that this made my head explode was an understatement to say the least.

How is that possible? We had just seen an interview with Greta Van Susteren where Bristol held a tiny baby that we were told was Tripp Palin who she had given birth to on December 27, 2008.

And hadn't the video shown Bristol with no baby bump? To be honest I was not sure so I went back and watched the interview again.

These two embeds show Bristol from the side and have the best chance of revealing anything amiss.





The first thing I noticed is that Bristol never stood up. (And didn't Greta say to Bill O'Reilly that she did not see Bristol AT ALL except for during the interview?) I also noticed that she is wearing a very dark and loose fitting sweater or sweat shirt. In other words it is impossible to tell anything about her current state by watching these two videos. And I was also struck by a picture of Levi holding Tripp (Trig?) that was plastered onto the screen when little Trig is brought into the room. It does not fit the narrative and so I have no idea why it was placed there, but now another possibility occurs to me.

I then decided to send these pictures to two of my trusted blogging pals for them to look over. Am I missing something? Do you see what I see?

The response was mixed. One said that this could simply be post-partum weight that had not yet fallen off. (Let's see Tripp was born December 27, picture taken February 8, that is 43 days or six weeks later. She is an eighteen year old woman having her "first" baby. Could she still look THIS pregnant that much later?)

My other friend said that this might be the "nail in the coffin" picture. And I needed to publish it.
So I did some research and found that post partum bellies come in all shapes and sizes. And that it is conceivable that this is how Bristol's stomach still looks after giving birth only 6 weeks ago. However I also found that it was even more likely to be that size if the birth was more recent or if it was not the woman's first baby. (Things that make you go hmm.)

So does this picture PROVE anything? Yes in my opinion it proves that either Bristol is pregnant now, or has recently given birth. (This may seem silly to point out but remember that there are still a lot of people who believe that Bristol gave birth to Trig and then the McCain/Palin team faked this second pregnancy to cover it up.)

What does it mean for those who have followed this saga for lo these many months?

It means that we need to keep an eye out for Bristol. If she shows up in a few weeks with a slimmer figure then we can accept that this was no big deal, and that she did indeed have a baby recently, and the Tripp Palin birth story is much more credible.

If she disappears and nobody sets eyes on her for six months or so then our tinfoil hats can stay firmly in place.

But remember this one fact. Sarah Palin and her people are reactive. They respond to stories that they consider damaging by releasing red herrings.

When the internet was abuzz over the question of Trig's parentage, Bristol was thrown under the bus in lieu of a birth certificate. When the Troopergate investigation came back and found Sarah culpable, she launched a new investigation to find herself innocent. When questions about the mysterious Tripp Palin started to become impossible to ignore, Greta of Fox News was called in to quiet us down. But the question is have any of these responses ever been honest, or transparent? Not from where I am sitting they haven't.

And one more little tidbit that I feel I must share. The friend who took these pictures is NOT a "babygate" believer. He has said consistently that he saw Sarah Palin and thought she looked pregnant to him. So for him to see Bristol and feel compelled, not only to take her picture, but to send it to me and ask me to post it, means that he was pretty convinced by what he saw.

So feel free to provide feedback. I encourage you to take a good long look at the picture and then make up your mind as to what you see. I also have no problem with others "borrowing" this photo for their own use. It would be nice if you left my blog address on it however.