New post up on the Daily Dish about the Trig Palin birth story.

(Photo taken on March 26, just eighteen days before Sarah gave "birth" to Trig Paxson Van Palin)


From Andrew Sullivan:

Trig's political salience is obvious, and critical to Palin's brand - in fact, the only thing, apart from her amazingly good looks, that keeps her in the game. For generations, pro-lifers have voted Republicans into office on a strong anti-abortion platform. For forty years, they have been largely let down. They understandably feel as if the leadership condescends to them, exploits them and does not really believe in the cause. This was true of Reagan, Bush, and the second Bush. So how does a Republican politician truly convince the base that he or she is a true believer on the life issue? Nothing does that like walking the walk of carrying a special needs child to term. (And indeed, if that is the case, it speaks enormously highly of Palin, in my view, as I have said from the very very beginning.) The way in which Palin has not let this speak for itself but has relentlessly exploited her story and child makes this an even more salient political issue - and one which deserves appropriate press scrutiny, as with any other core campaign platform.

But there has been no press scrutiny. In fact, there has been enormous pressure from the press not to investigate the story and to mock anyone who does so. No MSM interviewer of Palin has ever asked a single question about the bizarre stories that Palin has told about her political prop - not Oprah, not Couric, not Gibson, not anyone. Newsweek has reprinted minute details of Palin's story as fact with no independent confirmation but Palin's own words. No MSM newspaper has asked for or demanded easily available proof of the pregnancy and birth - except the Anchorage Daily News, after the election, which prompted Palin not to quietly offer proof to an editor keen to put the entire controversy to rest, but to explode in rage.

Excellent post! And I encourage all of you to click the link provided at the top and read the entire thing for yourself. 

I really appreciate that Andrew Sullivan still has the balls to pursue this story.  Sometimes it feels as if one by one, those of us who had doggedly pursued the real facts behind this story, simply dropped by the wayside from exhaustion leaving just a few hardy souls left to carry on the fight to reveal the truth behind Sarah Palin's mythological fifth "pregnancy".