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| The good grandmother, Elizabeth Hanson, is the one on the left. |
In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Britta Hanson’s mother Elizabeth expressed her delight over her first grandchild.
“Kyla Grace is great. She’s beautiful,” the proud first-time grandmother said. “I’m very happy,” she gushed about the new baby.
Her daughter Britta, 21, gave birth to Kyla Grace on Saturday, August 6 just three months after marrying Track Palin, 22, Sarah and Todd Palin’s oldest child.
“I love my daughter and my son-in-law very much,” Hanson told RadarOnline.com about the overjoyed new parents.
Elizabeth Hanson spoke briefly about her family’s relationship with the Palins. “They’re their own people; we’ve known each other for a long time.”
Well I am glad that at least SOMEBODY in this screwed up family knows how to honestly share their feelings about this precious child. Good for you Mrs. Hanson!
It looks like Kyra will have access to at least some sane family members. You know Tripp could have had that too if Bristol and Sarah weren't such...well you know.
(H/T to Joe McGinniss.)
So are we going to have another magazine cover with the three (and counting) proud mamas exclaiming, "We're glad we chose life!"
ReplyDeleteHow's that abstinence-thingy workin' out for ya, Sarah?
"They're their own people". What the fuck does that mean?
ReplyDeleteYes because if it's not said publicly, it must not be true.
ReplyDeleteYou. Are ridiculous
Btw I am hearing more and more Alaskans say they miss Palin greatly, as Lisa and Sean are nightmares. Thoughts?
She DID give you guys a AAA rating.
8:59 - The trolls show up early, don't they?
ReplyDeleteI love what Mrs. Hanson had to say in regard to the Palins. What she could have said about her daughters inlaws but didn't spoke volumes.
ReplyDeleteNo, we are NOT missing Palin. I have heard no such thing in Wasilla.
ReplyDeleteThe bull shootist has arrived @8:59
ReplyDeleteGood for Mrs. Hanson for acting like a decent caring human being should. The other grandmother? Not so much.
ReplyDeleteibwilliamsi said...
ReplyDelete"They're their own people". What the fuck does that mean?
8:57 PM
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Remember when your mama told you, "If you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all?" Well as adults, we may try to do that, but the part of us that knows the truth about the other person, just can't live with "nothing" being interpreted as "OK." So we phrase it in such a way that...we haven't SAID they horrid people, or that we don't associate with them, but, it could certainly be interpreted as "those Palins are batshit crazy - they're their own people, not one of us normal folks, nor are they the kind of people we'd ever choose to hang around with if it weren't for our daughter's bad choice in baby daddies.
Nice job Mrs. Hanson, and I'd believe you a bit more if you hadn't smiled quite so broadly in that fake wedding photo - and you a preacher's wife.
Sarah's fingers are flying on the blackberry tweeting whenever Obama says or does anything.
ReplyDeleteBut silence when a grandchild is born?
Hmmm....
@8:59 Don't be ridiculous. She didn't give us a triple AAA rating, the price of oil did.
ReplyDeleteWhat she did was take millions of dollars of that money and hand it out like candy to everyone--another socialist act in a socialist state. That was her idea of an "energy rebate." Her other brilliant idea was to take cookies to villagers who were forced to decide between food and fuel.
You're not from around these parts, are you?
"They're their own people."
ReplyDeletetranslates to
"Those Palin idiots are the most fucked-up people we've ever been associated with!"
I'm back to thinking Sarah Palin won't run. I mean, come on, another baby born just under the wire? Does this family ever get engaged or married without an impending childbirth? How would Granny Lou cling to her family values?
ReplyDeleteFor the Pains, abstinence is an aphrodisiac.
ReplyDeleteanon @8:29 - You forgot WHY Alaska got the AAA rating - because Sarah raised taxes! Specifically - she raised taxes on the oil companies!
ReplyDeleteREVENUES! Get it?
The only thing she ever did that I agreed with - sarah the socialist.
in fairness, this is track's and his wife's child. out of wedlock or not they are both young adults- not high school teenagers, and young couples have children all the time out of wedlock.
ReplyDeletetrack has never seemed to search out the spotlight, or bask in his mothers goofy glory. in fact just the opposite seems true. it is possible that track has told his mother to stay out of his business and not use him or his family for her goals. and it is possible she has respected such.
let track and his wife be, ie pls think about just leaving them out of the sarah palin saga and blog posts... so far they just seem to be nice people who dont want the attention good or bad. and yes i know about track's past, we were all teenagers once, some got into more trouble than others.
"They're their own people"=they are whackadoodles and liars!
ReplyDelete@8:59 - you have Sarah Palin to thank for Sean, sweetums.
ReplyDeleteShe is holding a bunch of flowers in her hands in front of her belly in the picture. ...I suppose that's not an accident. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteYes because if it's not said publicly, it must not be true.
You. Are ridiculous
Btw I am hearing more and more Alaskans say they miss Palin greatly, as Lisa and Sean are nightmares. Thoughts?
She DID give you guys a AAA rating.
8:59 PM
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Nice try, but no, we are not missing Palin, not here in Wasilla and not anywhere else in the State. We've known that Sean Parnell (Captain Zero) was a loser since before he even got into politics; back when he was just a lawyer selling out Alaska to the oil companies. And Lisa M, well, she's a not-too-bright career politician that was able to win her write-in campaign because the alternative was so absolutely horrific.
We still have our AAA rating, without Palin, thank you very much. We have over $40 billion in the Permanent Fund and this year was a record year for that investment fund, gaining nearly 21%. I'd say we're doing okay without Palin. It looks like others may actually begin getting serious about a gas pipeline as well, instead of merely lying about it.
Now Gryphen, you know Sarah will express her delight at her new grandchild also...as soon as someone hands her a check.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that Britta's mom will incur the wrath of Palin for spilling the beans without a paid magazine cover (paid to sister Sarah)
ReplyDeleteI wish this young family good luck and strenghth to rise above (and move away from) the bat-shit crazy Palin clan.
I'm sure that Mrs Hanson will love her grandbaby like a grandmother should.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, Sarah the Fraud will be too busy loving herself and her blackberries.
true - nobody cares that they had a baby out of wedlock. Just like nobody cared if Bristol did either.
ReplyDeleteThe hypocrisy is what astounds people.
Surely, if Sarah hadn't plastered Track and Britta's faces all over the tabloids, nobody would know that they allegedly got married, nor would they care.
Hopefully, Track will get a job somewhere and Britta will get her nursing license. One can only hope.
Uh, oh...looks like Mrs. Pastor Hanson just earned a place on the Grandma Grizzly shit list. How dare she speak to the media without going through SarahPAC spokes people, and have Becky the RAM write a nasty retort to the press.
ReplyDeleteHansons, take your place under the One Fucked Up Nation Bus.
Anon 10:19. Totally agree times 10!
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin hadn't a thing to do with the AAA rating. She did more all-around damage as governor than good and struggles to take credit for things she could not possibly have accomplished. I am an Alaskan ... I don't know a soul from either party who would wish Sarah Palin back in a role of power in this state. Her replacement Governor Sean is a joke. Senators Lisa and Mark make a great team for us in Washington. They are both incredibly hard-working and smart, and each is a moderate in his and her party, something we really need today. I am a Democrat who would support Republican Lisa again, and certainly Democrat Mark. And if Anchorage Mayor Dan and Governor Sean think they are going to make a dash for Senator Mark's seat they have a bigger job ahead of them than they can imagine.
ReplyDeleteThe daughter or sister or whichever family member who keeps trying to convince us, in long paragraph format, that we should respect and leave alone the Palin family is hitting her head against a brick wall here. Get the message: Sarah is a dishonest, foolish, narcissistic woman who doesn't walk her talk ... there is absolutely nothing to admire about her. She tells lies and has from the start, and she is mean, childish, and vindictive. You can cuddle little Trig all you like ... big deal. Sarah Palin is a joke and she has, unfortunately, made a joke of her entire family. A real parent would never use her children as she has. i don't even know how many children most Alaskan politicians have, let alone what their names are or what they look like. True public servants work hard for their constituents and leave family out of it.
This new family that has been thrown into the Palin mix by marriage will need a strong backbone and a good sense of humor, along with not allowing Palin drama to drag them down.
ReplyDeleteWonder if already there's discord between the two grandmums because Mrs. H. independently gave a statement to a mag first. SP has to be "first" in everything, as the new grandparents will soon find out.
She said, "they're their own people". Well, I kinda wonder what exactly that all means but I think I already know.
ReplyDeleteSo Britta is 21 and has lived with the Palins since she was 18, okay whatever.
Tripp looks like he could be seriously related to Britta, just saying.
8:59 9m She did give you guys AAA rating.
ReplyDelete$arah did that, gee you must be uneducated and really stupid. There's help for that, ya know. Try going to school and learning something and try keeping your mouth shut so you won't show your ignorance Bristol Palin.
Hey Bristol, I hear Walmart is hiring, maybe you can get a job there as a stocker or cleaning person.
So a loving grandma from Silla contacts Radar Online instead of releasing a statement in local newspapers. Sure is the MO of the grifting famewhore family to contact media.
ReplyDeleteBTW, how did Grandma Hansom get Radars information, Jesus Christ.
"Neither Todd Palin, nor a rep for the Palin family responded to requests for comment."
ReplyDeleteWell right there People tabloid Magazine is letting the world know who their first contact is selling Palin family secrets to them are. Todd Palin, really, they have his personal number and he is not responding. Must be busy licking envelopes for SarahPAC.
Boy that's a ringing endorsement for the Palin's! They're their own people and we've known them for a long time. Ha-ha!
ReplyDeleteThat's what you say when you have nothing nice to say.
Thanks for providing my morning chuckle.
@Ratfish: Good point about Sarah tweeting about Obama, yet she can't say a word about her new grandchild.
ReplyDeleteBut that's a narcissist for you. More concerned about the reflection on her.
I know a 40-something year old woman who wouldn't let anyone know about her 4 grandchildren, because she didn't want people to think she was old enough to have grandchildren, and wanted to project the image of a sexy young thing. She got boudoir photos taken and hung them up in her cubicle at work! Sarah reminds me of that with her cheesecake photos in a Jane Russell pose with a Jane Russell bra strapped on, albeit in Carhart's, LOL.
Bet if Kyla's other Grandpa (Curtis Menard) were still alive and not the victim of tainted gasoline causing his plane to crash, he'd have some nice things to say about his grand daughter as well. But since his life was cut short (hi Todd) he won't be able to enjoy his son's first child. Indeed not, right LuLu?
ReplyDeleteibwilliamsi said...
ReplyDelete"They're their own people". What the fuck does that mean?
TRANSLATION: They are not like us or anybody else I know.
Best wishes to the new parents and Kyla.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Sarah is not proud to be a grandmother for a second time? Maybe Sarah is not proud of her son who serve in the military for having a baby after wedlock? Maybe Sarah is only proud of grandsons and not granddaughters?
Bristol-
ReplyDeletePeople "miss" your mom like they'd miss toenail fungus, parachute pants, or a good dose of the clap.
"They're their own people."
ReplyDeleteSpeaks volumes.
Wrong, 10:19. If there had been no fake wedding and no picture, perhaps. If Britta hadn't worked for $carah, perhaps. If Track havd been completely absent from SPAK, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteAs it was, they were not = fairgame.
As for the babies out of wedlock - that would be non-news:
If $carah hadn't run around touting herself as a "family values" uber Christian candidate.
And if his sibling Bitchtol hadn't been a grossly overpaid abstinence speechreader.
But since $carah and Bitchtol chose those routes, hypocrisy is always fair game.
Now go back to your cave under the bridge.
I doubt Palin's silence about the birth has anything to do with love of this baby. It has to do with Palin's self image and another baby conceived out of wedlock on the heels of family abstinence poster family.
ReplyDeleteI pity children who's parents lie, exaggerate or distort them for it rejects who they are as if not good enough or unacceptable.
There is something I do not understand about Alaska.
ReplyDeleteTrack is supposed to be the son of Curtis Menard Jr.,Tracks wife, is the granddaughter of the same Menard.
Just how does this relate too inter family marriage? That is a pretty close relationship, to be married to each other. Then I forget, the Palin's are above all laws,even blood line laws.
Hopefully, the Hansons can provide a slightly more stable family influence to balance the Palin lunacy than what the Johnstons have been able to provide for Tripp.
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that the Johnstons love Tripp very much, but they have a lot of their own issues to deal with and don't seem to be allowed much contact with Tripp, if any.
I hope that the Hansons will be able to have a greater part of their granddaughter's life and show her the love and support of a normal extended family since she clearly won't get that from the other side of the family!
Sarah is not interested in Track's baby unless you can push the baby's belly button and retrieve emails.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure all Sarah can think about all this is that at least she is hotter and thinner than Britta's mom.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 8:59 a.m.
ReplyDeleteWhat Alaskans are telling you that we are missing Sarah?
Yes, some of us are missing her, with our spitballs.
Preacher's wives know all about PR.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 8:59
ReplyDeleteSeven hundred and forty million. $740,000,000 is what it cost Sarah to purchase her 80% approval rating when she added $1200 to our annual Permanent Fund Dividend. This is a State that has no income tax or sales tax.
Where did she get this money? Why, this financial windfall came about from her taxing the snot out of the only job creators (other than her Administration for all her HS BFF's and donors) in the State - oil producers.
She tripled Oil Company taxes; told citizens that we knew what to do with this money better than the State; therefore she bought half the state's flat screen tv's, snowmobiles and trips to Hawaii that year.
In 2007, Governor Palin used line-item veto powers to cut $231 million in capital projects from the Legislature's spending bills (this is where Todd and Sarah, drunk on their inexplicable rise to power, sat down with a crayon and read through the line item budget proposal that included projects in the works for as long as a decade, and arbitrarily cut projects out with their three-seconds worth of executive education on what constituted a "State Responsibility") and that Spring, she rejected proposals totaling $250 million while allowing a substantial increase in the state's operating budget -- up 33% since the 2004 fiscal year.
Don't ever take Sarah's dare, which she's throwing down against Romney and Perry today, to look at her 21 month fiscal record as Governor, because it exposes her for being the most wasteful, socialist and government-growing "CEO" around.
Wait....I have to get my mind around the comment at 5:30....Britta is a Menard granddaughter???!!!! Does that mean her mother was a Menard? If that is true..it is really really sick and I thought illegal in all states. If not, that is a vicious thing to say. I know there is a troll who keeps telling us that he is not Menard's son, but if you go to the Serpent's Heart blog today and look at the picture, it removed all doubt about his parentage to me.
ReplyDeleteI think Track has tried to stay out of the Palin limelight as much as he can. I remember when his unit came back and Sarah was there to welcome them..and he chose to not attend. There she was, passing out flowers and her own son passed on the big photo op.
I didn't watch SPAK, but I have read that he did appear in it, but from the sound of things, he was clearly not there willingly or happily. I wonder if he didn't do it for the money. Since he doesn't seem to have a job, that would be a good incentive.
I really don't care when or if they are married. That is not an issue any more..except when you wear a big assed cross around your neck and act like a religious zealot.
I truly wish this young couple all the best but think it is going to be a very hard road for them...with that name Palin, they aren't going to be able to hide.
8:59: IIRC, the reason Alaska's credit rating is so good is that Granny LuLu raised taxes on the oil companies, then increased the permanent fund dividend. That sound a little like tax and spend, or maybe even socialism. In any event, it's just more Palin Hypocrisy!
ReplyDeleteWhat sounds nicer, Granny LuLu or Hypocrite Sarah?
"Wedding" pictures sold to People tabloid - who collected on that? Isn't Radar basically a gossip tabloid also, too? This could go on for year$? It remains to be seen.....
ReplyDeleteGuess who's going to be real real jealous when the baby gets babysat by Britta's mom? Guess who's going to plague the nice young couple's peaceful home with demands and proof of their love towards her?
ReplyDeleteStarts with S and ends with H. Of course, she'll be all nice at first and care for their financial needs. But payback will come knocking at their door. And, yes, she'll harp them til she gets what she wants.
They'll find out soon enough that moving far far away is the only option.
Abstinence is enough for a Palin-bot, until you're single and you get pregnant. THEN not having an abortion is enough for a Palin-bot so long as you get engaged.
ReplyDeleteWhen will "Birth Control" ever be enough for a Palin-bot?
Thanks to all for the definition of "They're their own people". I thought that was what that meant! I'm sure that Mrs. Hansen will make a lovely grandmother. I hope Mrs. Palin doesn't set her sights on her.
Those Palin girls sure don't dither around gittin' pregnant.
ReplyDeleteHow's that abstinence thingie workin' out fer ya, Sarah?
Track's wife is a Menard? These people a nucking futz.
ReplyDeletenext in line willow, can someone pl. pass her a condom .
ReplyDeleteIf Track Palin's biological father was Curtis Menard Jr then how closely would Britta and Track be related by blood?
ReplyDeleteWho said Britta's a Menard? Now that it's out there, the pictures sure look that way. She looks like Curtis. And in the 'wedding photo' Track looks like Britta's mom. Lord have mercy!
ReplyDeleteI think it would *perfect karma* if Britta kept baby Kyla's visitation to the Palin's very very limited or non-existent.
ReplyDeleteMake a run for it Britta & Track, run! Take Mom and Dad Hanson with you and get the hell away from Palins. Think of your baby's future.
Anonymous @ 12:59am said...
ReplyDelete"Now Gryphen, you know Sarah will express her delight at her new grandchild also...as soon as someone hands her a check."
Bingo !! You win the prize. That's Palin alright - both hands out, fingers quivering, looking for money.
5:30 am
ReplyDelete" Track is supposed to be the son of Curtis Menard Jr.,
Tracks wife,
is the granddaughter of the same Menard."
If that's true, that would make Track Britta's uncle.
And Britta his niece.
Some states define relatives marrying each other as consanguinity ,
others define it as incest.
Could this be why Palin is silent on the birth ?
You would think a mother would call a halt to kids dating if there was a hidden bloodline.
Oh wait-we're talking about Sarah Palin.....
It's comforting to see a sane first time grandmother's love for her granddaughter. Kyla needs to know she was loved and wanted by at least one of her grandmoms.
ReplyDeleteSarah's too busy with her two blackberrys blaming Obama for the economy, s and p 's faulty math, defending Bachman, etc to even realize the common decency and respect this new life deserves, no matter how soon she got here.
Mrs Hanson's comment about the Palins makes me like her a lot. "They are their own people" is like saying "They're beneath our standards, but we'll be the better people and just tolerate them". Real Class!
Maybe Sarah's waiting for God to write a letter, put it in her heart, so she can write in his name, you know, just like she did for Trig months before his presentation.