I think Trig looks happy, but I am a little surprised that supposedly new glasses fit so poorly.
Still I am not going to say anything negative at what appears to be a genuine moment between a father and his son. (Yes I know what you are thinking, but despite how it all came to pass this IS their little boy.)
At least we can see that Trig is doing well and appears well cared for. And how long have we been wondering about that?
My first thought at seeing the picture was 'what a wonderful photo'. He has a good hold on his son and the whole cheek to cheek grins are lovely. They look happy. Good picture, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteIf he just got those glasses a day or so ago they weren't fitted very well at all. Most kids that age would be advised to wear croakies (eyeglass retainers) to keep them on and closer to the face.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see him looking happy.
Um, I just returned from Walmart and had to purchase new reading glasses since I sat on mine earlier today. There were $12 and they are the SAME EXACT ONES that little Trig is wearing, I swear! Those are NOT glasses made for a child. Period. Sarah Palin, you are such a pathetic human being. Just take him to an eye doctor for cripes sakes.
ReplyDeleteTodd has a creepy smile.
ReplyDeleteThe question is, which Tri-G is this? This one has much lighter brown hair (in the dead of winter) than the previous Tri-G in picture with Tripp ( the picture where Tripp had his boots on the wrong feet)
ReplyDeleteHe's not as cute as he used to be. I can see why Palin left him behind on her last trip. Much easier to hide behind her daughters.
ReplyDeleteI've only seen true affection displayed between Todd and Trigg.
ReplyDeleteHi Todd, Welcome Back!
ReplyDeleteHey maybe you know the answer to this one...
Where's Trigs Birth Certificate?
No way those are his glasses. She prob told The toad be sure to put some glasses on him, anyglasses!
ReplyDeleteAnd that there is "Blue"TriG. Notice the tongue in the mouth.
Well at least the Toad loves the kids got to give him that.
As Baldy b/c more masculine the Toad is looking more feminized?
I just know she is stealing his low-T meds!
That is not the RNC TriG or "Iconic" TriG.
Blue TriG.
Self promotion using the kid again. Poor guy is a prop and won't ever know. She's pulling out all the stops so the money river must be running dry and she's starting to panic.
ReplyDeletesarah palin style glasses
ReplyDeleteIt may not be the fit so much as squeezing against his dad's head.
ReplyDeleteGlasses are easily displaced.
As McGinnis and others have indicated it appears Todd is the parent, regardless of whose genes the child has.
When have we ever seen Sarah hugging her less than perfect child like this?
I remember a couple of days ago she got a half Nelson around Willow's neck and about threw her to the ground. Adoring mom's always hug that way.
Awww, Trig is such a handsome little cutie!
ReplyDeleteOK, Todd Palin, you may be a jerk, women say that about you, but you are a good “father” to that little boy; bless you for that (and I’m not even religious anymore).
ReplyDeletetotally inappropriate glasses. Plastic would be a better choice as well as straps to hold them on his face.
ReplyDeleteFail.
Those don't look like a child's pair of eyeglasses: the frame is too fragile and thin, and the whole affair is sliding down his nose.
ReplyDeleteMy own children's glasses were much sturdier; less wide, to fit a narrower, child's face; and didn't move around easily.
I think a parent, not Willow, should have gone to get these specs with Trig. She must have plopped him into a seat at an optician at an Anchorage mall, and left him there while she went to scout out some friends in the food court. An hour later: voila! He's all set and ready to go. He can't make himself clear that this new toy, these glasses, don't fit and don't help him to see.
At least we can see that Trig is doing well and appears well cared for.....
ReplyDeleteThanks to the folks who gave their rent money to SarahPac.
How touching, grandpa with his grandson.
ReplyDeleteQuestion is what happened to Ruffles?
Is Ruffles happy?
No snark on a child, here. He is beautiful, and bless him. He is innocent.
ReplyDeleteIt is a relief to see Trig. Can anyone tell if he has his hearing aids in? I hope he is as happy as he appears here.
ReplyDeleteBut, it does make me wonder, what is going on with the other baby that was presented as Trig?
How come Sarah Palin gets imported expensive Japanese designer spectacles and her grandson gets Walmart blue light glasses that doesn't fit him?
ReplyDeleteAs much as I can't stand the Skank from Wasilla, I prefer to leave the subject of Trig alone...period.
ReplyDeleteGive the kid a break, we don't need to ruin a happy moment between father and son. Save the bitching about who Trig's dad is for another time, kay?
ReplyDeletewhoever you think trig's biological dad is, i agree with gryph that trig is in fact their kid, and theres no reason to spoil this moment. thanks for sharing gryph, it made me smile
Looking at the picture it's nice to know that Tri-G is not afraid of strangers.
ReplyDeleteSince Tri-G has his new glasses they will probably keep him away from Wasilla High's new statue of Bristol's vagina.
ReplyDeleteThey don't Tri-G running up to the statue hollering out "MOMMY!"
I must say that I agree that this is a genuine moment of love and affection between father and son, and Trig is a handsome little guy.
ReplyDeleteHowever, those are not appropriate glasses for a four year old. First of all they are way too big for his face, and obviously dont fit the bridge of his nose at all. The style is something a middle aged woman would wear.
My neice has been wearing glasses since she was an infant, and is the same age as Trig now. She only wears plastic frames , and my sister told me they do not recommend wire rims for kids under 8...they bend and break too easily. There are so many cute colorful frames for kids, there is no excuse for getting glasses that look like Walmart readers.
Hi Todd, Welcome Back!
ReplyDeleteHey maybe you know the answer to this one...
Where's Trigs Birth Certificate?
4:19 PM
@AJayKen Knotstirred
I love you! Keep up the pressure!
I know I'm going to be attacked for saying this, but I can take it. I think Trig looks just like Todd. His eyebrows and the shape of his face are the same. I still don't believe Sarah gave birth to Trig, though.
ReplyDeleteAdorable little boy. I don't have a snarky remark to make other than this "Sarah, it's about time you start taking care of that little boy" and this "now, make sure he gets all the therapy he needs to bring him up to speed. You can say thank you to all of us for making you finally do the right thing." There.
ReplyDeleteRemember:
ReplyDeleteTrygve means "brave victory" in old Norse.
Tri-G means TRisomy G, Trisomy 21, Down Syndrome.
Sarah, why did you name "your" child with Down Syndrome antoher name for Down Syndrome?
That's just sick.
Damage control
ReplyDeleteHe is incredibly cute! Growing up, for sure. Anyone who writes anything negative about this child cannot possibly be on "our side". He is not being used for promotion here, either. Jeez, people are fanatically entrenched in their viewpoints sometimes.
ReplyDeleteDon't know what to say about the glasses because they are kind of squished there as he leans against Todd.
There is only one Trig - this Trig, I mean. The whole notion of switchable children of this age makes people sound like crackpots.
As for his parentage, that's an entirely different matter. Also, who is raising this child now?
If people take my comments as supportive in any way of the Palins, you're misinterpreting my meaning.
Awwww, my SonicWall is blocking the pic.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have another link to it?
Anon @ 4:26: No, if you 'dare' to go to $carah's FB Page, you can see that those glasses are sitting at the tip of his nose, not back against his cheeks, where they belong...
ReplyDeleteAs much as I can't stand the Skank from Wasilla, I prefer to leave the subject of Trig alone...period.
ReplyDelete4:36 PM
Really, really hard to do because without Tri-G there'd be no VP candidate Palin. See, it's all pretty interrelated.
Sarah bowed to the pressure of the IM bloggers and finally got her grandson a pair of Walmart's Dr. Dean Edell glasses for $9.99.
ReplyDeleteNot as nice and fashionable as Sarah's imported glasses but hey at least she finally listens to us.
Now if we can just get Sarah to buy Trig a pair of hearing aides!
Don't give up on us Trig, we are working on your grandma.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI know I'm going to be attacked for saying this, but I can take it. I think Trig looks just like Todd. His eyebrows and the shape of his face are the same. I still don't believe Sarah gave birth to Trig, though.
4:47 PM
I'm of the school of thought that thinks Todd is Trig's daddy, and one of Todd's 'friends' is Todd's baby-momma.
What if $arah was covering for Todd. America could understand covering for a daughter... but, Todd?
Why else would Todd put up with her $hit?
There is only one Trig - this Trig, I mean. The whole notion of switchable children of this age makes people sound like crackpots.
ReplyDeleteAs for his parentage, that's an entirely different matter. Also, who is raising this child now?
If people take my comments as supportive in any way of the Palins, you're misinterpreting my meaning.
4:48 PM
Nobody is questioning this Trig but we do question about Ruffles, the baby with the deformed ears.
Kids' glasses are often difficult to fit, especially if there isn't much nose to hold them in place. They look fine to me, a glasses-wearer of way too many years.
ReplyDeleteThey do not look like toddlers' glasses, but they do remind me of the glasses Sarah wore when she was visiting soldiers of the Alaskan National Guard in Kuwait on July 24, 2007. You can see them here:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
I think it's a nice picture too, and it has absolutely nothing to do with Sarah. (I imagine it's no coincidence that she's not in it.) Todd seems very affectionate with Trig for which I am thankful.
ReplyDeleteShailey Tripp's "Boys Will Be Boys" what a title.
ReplyDeleteThat must chap Sarah's wrinkly old hide knowing she gave Shailey the bullet (title) to put into her gun (book) that has its crosshairs pointed at her husband...
That's my girl Shailey, the Palins may have been successful getting the Anchorage Police to destroy evidence even though you publicly made it clear numerous times that you wanted your property back and still they refused court orders and destroyed it,
Don't Retreat! Reload!
Hey Sarah,
Shailey loves her Palins... right next to her mash potatoes!
I could have set my watch by predicting when this photo would be released.
ReplyDeleteTrig hasn't been spotted in MONTHS?
PAC filings indicate he has full time hired care providers?
A very unflattering movie about Sarah is about to hit the airwaves?
Look here! Look here! Look at my SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD! That's it, get distracted by the shiny object........
Trig Palin, serving his egomaniacal mother's psychotic attention whoring needs since 2008. (or possibly late 2007. Who the hell knows, right?)
And it's not even Trig's Easter Break visit yet? Go figure...
ReplyDeletePHOTO OP!! Tri-G and Todd actually get along, so of course SP would have the photo with Toad. Gotta give cred to Toad, seems like he really digs being a Dad.
ReplyDeleteHOWEVah, those glasses are absolutely adult readers and NOT prescription glasses AT ALL. Fake photo op! Tri-G, "Hi Daddy haven't seen you in awhile." Toad, "Hey Tri-G be a good boy and put these glasses on for a picture. Big hug!" These people are the biggest FAKERS!
We saw "Iconic RNC TriG" before with cokebottle glasses!!! And hearing aids...I wish I could find the pic but I believe it was posted on this blog.
ReplyDeleteShe is lying again. Game change has her "rilly" worried!
GOOD!
I do wonder how old those frames are. They are bent out of shape as well as too big for the little guy.
ReplyDeleteWhen I see how young that cute little guy is and so happy with a parent, I can't understand how his mother could leave him so much after he was born.
ReplyDeleteI personally couldn't leave my infants, later turned babies, toddlers, even pre-schoolers for more than a couple of hours. I wanted to be the one caring for them. Sarah had the option of staying home, instead of traveling so much, but she chose to do her marketing of herself at a time when he needed her in those precious years.
At least he seems very content with Todd.
Oh anon 4:18pm, really? That's just cruel. She deserves it. Trig does not.
ReplyDeleteThose glasses are way too big for that kid. Look at how far down they are on his nose. The earpieces are way too long! No way were those glasses made for Trig.
ReplyDeleteAnother Palin lie exposed again.
In the facebook photo of Trig looking at Todd wearing a helmet, the picture is a side profile shot.
ReplyDeleteThe glasses are way oversized and too big for him. Even if he raises them to avoid looking at the top rim, they will simply fall back down his nose. It's a big fail for an optometrist to not adjust the nosepads so you you can look THROUGH the glasses instead of over them, croakies or not. And wireframes?? WTF??
Zoom in on the glasses if you can. There is no light refraction. I don't think these glasses have any kind of prescription.
They are not sized to fit his face at all.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150572725263435
Come on, people!
ReplyDeleteTodd adores Trig, you can tell - and Trig lovers his daddy.
Who cares how his glasses fit? I am happy he is wearing them at all.
I hope he's verbal by now - he's a sweet little boy.
What dumbass insufferable hick would buy glasses with those frames for a toddler?
ReplyDeleteYes, an adorable child being hugged by an affectionate man. Lovely. It truly is.
ReplyDeleteBut this photo is being used as political propaganda.
That's what makes these comments legitimate: the bottom line is that a small and innocent child is indirectly being used to troll for money.
Say whatever you want about Todd, but that picture says, loudly:
ReplyDeleteI love my son.
His wife...I won't go there and spoil the mood.
I dare Sarah to have a picture taken of her holding Trig that close.
ReplyDeleteRemember when "me again" was posting comments? He/She said that Trig didn't like her very much...hmmm...wonder why.
She must be getting kind of edgy because the HBO Game Change movie will be aired soon.
(Yes I know what you are thinking, but despite how it all came to pass this IS their little boy.)
ReplyDeleteIt is still sad that his real mother gave him up to his grandmother then went off and produced another one.
To the bot about TriG glasses...
ReplyDeleteUmmm does this TriG (RNC TriG with cokebottle glasses) look like the Blue TriG?
http://bit.ly/yIMEO0
NO!
That is a different KID!
That is the RNC TRIG who is Bigger and has no control over his tongue and Hits Baldy b/c he is so frustrated.
Now they have a different TriG.
Blue TriG.
If y'all can't see the difference your BLIND!
ManxMamma said...
ReplyDeleteI've only seen true affection displayed between Todd and Trigg.
4:19 PM
As should be between granddad and grandson!
The question I have is who spends more time with their kids, Levi or the Palins?
ReplyDelete"There is only one Trig - this Trig, I mean. The whole notion of switchable children of this age makes people sound like crackpots."
ReplyDelete---------
Interesting notion.
Regards,
A Crackpot
I think Palin picked trendy frames for his glasses rater than practical ones for a child. I'll bet the optometrist shook his head when she picked them. I don't think it was the girls who picked them, as he would have pointed out how inappropriate they are for a child.
ReplyDeleteThose are not kids' glasses. They are metal, meaning they can be bent. A child wears sturdier plastic frames and an elastic strap to hold the glasses in place.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that uncommon to see small children with glasses. These are all wrong. But she mentioned that he had glasses a couple of weeks ago- evidently forgetting that she'd already said he got them at eight months- and somebody remember that and stuffed a pair on him.
At least it's nice to see he's looking good. But I'm sure whatever professionals are taking care of him know their job.
I think Todd is a bully, etc, but you can tell he loves and accepts all the children in that family, even the ones he may not have biologically produced. Considering how self centered and cold a mother Sarah Palin must be, at least they have one adult in the house who gives them affection. Of course, he doesn't monitor them and he hasn't stopped the insanity that is his wife, but at least he loves and accepts all the children who have been assigned to him.
ReplyDeleteYou know how Sarah likes to think she's relevant and endorse sports events, well has Sarah endorsed anybody in the Irondog yet?
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard her endorse anybody yet.
Maybe a certain someone told Sarah Palin not to put her fucking bad joo joo on him like she has done to Tebo and Lin?
Those glasses look like Piper's!!
ReplyDeleteAnd of course Baldy doesn't have any pictures of herself with Trig...she didn't want the cameras to catch Trig slapping the shit out of her!
Wow....Baldypac must be REAL low. Baldy is desperate for her bot's loose change...better turn over those couch cushions bot's....the "Hooker from Wasilla" is getting tired of dancing on the pole!
Lot's of glass fitting experts on this site, but I wonder how many have ever had to fit glasses on a child with Down syndrome whose morphological features (low-set ears, flat bridge of the nose, etc) make it more difficult for a good fit with standard glasses and may require using less than ideal solutions (like glasses that are too large). As the parent of a special needs child, I am always bothered by the rush to criticize Sarah Palin for things that may legitimately not be within her control. It's hard enough to deal with the challenges inherent in these disorders without having to deal with the complete lack of experience and understanding of strangers, who nevertheless feel qualified to comment on what they perceive as failures in parenting.
ReplyDeleteThere are probably about a hundred thousand legitimate reasons to criticize Sarah Palin. This is not one of them.
Great photo.
ReplyDeleteSarah, look at Todd. He is showing how a child should be held. Good for Todd.
You, Sarah, on the other hand, have always been awkward, ill-at-ease, and rather repulsed-looking when trying to hold Trig. Why couldn't you ever hold Trig like Todd is doing in this photo?
I hope Todd is the one spending quality time with Trig. That poor child needs and deserves it. If this photo is any indication, Trig will grow up feeling loved - by Todd at least.
Oh, and Gryphen you are a classy guy. Thanks for a good photo and a great post.
Those glasses are not fitted for Trig's little eyes. The lens are not centered at his eye level. They don't allow him to see straight ahead, only to gaze his eyes downward, as if with reading glasses.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to say someone needed to post a photo of him quickly with glasses on and these don't belong to him.
In fact, most frames with prescriptions are sent away at a factory that cuts the lens to fit the frame and it takes at least a week before they're ready. Sarah just told her audience that Willow was picking them out just recently. Have they already arrived so soon?
I think Palin picked trendy frames for his glasses rater than practical ones for a child. I'll bet the optometrist shook his head when she picked them. I don't think it was the girls who picked them, as he would have pointed out how inappropriate they are for a child.
ReplyDelete5:54 PM
You've obviously never been fitted for glasses. Well, I'm pushing 60 and been wearing glasses since I was 9 years old.
Therefore I state unequivocally: No optometrist ever went near Trig with those frames.
Come on, people!
ReplyDeleteTodd adores Trig, you can tell - and Trig lovers his daddy.
Who cares how his glasses fit? I am happy he is wearing them at all.
I hope he's verbal by now - he's a sweet little boy.
5:30 PM
You have got to be kidding. If the glasses don't fit right, the kid can't fucking see out of them.
I have a six yr old whom I am very often taking to the optician's office for adjustments because she bumps her glasses a lot. Thankfully they are close by.
ReplyDeleteI did a bit of googling, and it turns out that it can be difficult to fit glasses to people with Down Syndrome because of their flatter nose ridges.
Hopefully, someone in the Palin family will take him back frequently until the fit is right, but, from my experience, he'll have to go back frequently to tighten them up, get the bridge pieces replaced from time to time, and generally just make sure the eyes are seeing through the lenses properly.
But then Sarah probably knows all this already since she owns so many pairs of glasses.
They do, however, look too big for him, like they didn't get sized right from the get-go.
In my case, we try everything to ensure our daughter's glasses last as long as possible, plus we always have a pair of backup glasses in case there's an accident on a day the office is closed.
Sarah and Todd won't have to worry about money issues, though, they could order tens sets of glasses for him that are all properly fitted, and then just toss them or donate them when they get out of whack (no, seriously, she's loaded with money, and who better to spend the money on?)
I agree Trig looks very happy their with his Dad/Granddad.
Considering 0bristol posts pics semi often of Trig, I'd sa we've known he's happy for along time.
ReplyDeleteThere's no difference between him and his siblings. All areloved. No reason to think different.
I had a baby with eye problems who needed glasses from 6 months of age. It was always difficult to fit him correctly....even using kid frames..and they were generally plastic frames similar to the ones Trig is wearing. So....although I believe SP is the WGE and WME....I don't think anyone should read too much into Trig's glasses.
ReplyDeleteThere is an unusual amount of photos for the seemingly wonderfully happy and traditional Palin family released recently.
ReplyDeleteAs Gryphen stated earlier, Palin is "economically starving"...
Anon 4:48, give me a break! It's obvious who you are.
ReplyDeleteYou never give up. If you aren't getting paid ALOT, you are a real fruitcake.
Todds always shown great love for children. The other kids have always looked ecstatically in love with their brother. Lovely all around.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason Sarah is the least seen publicly with trig is because she knows the few truthers would question her everytime. I don't doubt she loves trig. I understand her hesitancy to publicize it. Though she does support DS orgs publicly.
ReplyDeleteTodds always looked soooo freaking sweet with trig. Gah love!
ReplyDeleteTodd is in 10th place afther the first day's racing, and looks to be WAY behind. Sarah may not show up at all!
ReplyDeleteIt is so good to see Trig so happy and it appears that Todd really does love this child.
ReplyDeleteBut, this is not the same Trig that we have seen in so many pictures.
Everytime you bring up an adopted kid's bio family, you offend every adopted child in the world. Their family is the people who raise them. The Palins arelovely people who know family love. End of story. These are children. This is a family. Stop fabricating shit about them to feed your political bs.
ReplyDeleteTodd may only have 4 biological children, but he was 5 children. He and Sarah raise 5 children.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely photo. Every picture I can remember with Todd and Trig, there seems to be real affection. Sarah may only use him as a photo op, but Todd really cares.
ReplyDeleteYou call this propaganda yet you were BEGGING to see Trig today. You call this propaganda but remark positively when Gryphen posts a staged Obama photo op with crowds and bs.
ReplyDeleteDouble standard. You can't condemn one and not the other. Displaying true love isn't propaganda.
Who's adopted?
ReplyDeleteThere are probably about a hundred thousand legitimate reasons to criticize Sarah Palin. This is not one of them.
ReplyDelete6:12 PM
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Really Brooklyn? Look at this pic This is not the same child~
http://bit.ly/xLutr6
Do any of you think this is the Same Child?
ReplyDeleteThis is not the same Child!!!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XckT2h8g80s/SwbivfDnBfI/AAAAAAAAANY/T0r010UQqoo/s1600/Sarah+CI+-+2.jpg
Everytime you bring up an adopted kid's bio family, you offend every adopted child in the world. Their family is the people who raise them. The Palins arelovely people who know family love. End of story. These are children. This is a family. Stop fabricating shit about them to feed your political bs.
ReplyDelete6:36 PM
Really? Why then did Sarah risk Trig's life before he was born by flying from TX to AK after her water broke?
Waiting.
This is a family. Stop fabricating shit about them to feed your political bs.
ReplyDelete6:36 PM
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Brooklyn, so your are admitting Baldy didn't "Birth"TriG?
Nice to have confirmation on THAT!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XckT2h8g80s/SwbivfDnBfI/AAAAAAAAANY/T0r010UQqoo/s1600/Sarah+CI+-+2.jpg
BTW this is not the same TriG in Gryphens pic.
This is RNC TriG.
Where is he now?
They both look pretty happy when Twitchy McScreech is not around.
ReplyDeleteSuper cute. Timed perfectly for the release of Shailey's book, too!
ReplyDeleteOh barf, the mentally ill troll is here writing post after post. Do you think people don't recognize your nonsense.
ReplyDeleteYou need help! One post of your BS, maybe 2, but one after another???? Do you have OCD?
You have a right to your opinion but to write so obsessively? You need your meds adjustment or another obsession. I truly pity you for your illness and delusions about the loved, happy well-adjusted, Palin family.
Because it's pure bullshit and anyone who REALLY knows them, knows that. And so do the people here. It has nothing to do with politics. It's about the truth and Sarah lying and fleecing the public. It is disgusting that she cons the people who are her supporters. It's sick. And I'm sorry and sad that you don't see that.
Everytime you bring up an adopted kid's bio family, you offend every adopted child in the world. Their family is the people who raise them. The Palins arelovely people who know family love. End of story. These are children. This is a family. Stop fabricating shit about them to feed your political bs.
ReplyDelete6:36 PM
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So tri-g IS adopted! Thanks for the confirmation Palin family member! Oh and I'm sure that has nothing to do with the adoption records fire at a church in wasilla. Nah just a coincidence I'm sure. Now tell us who's the bio mom.
Aaahhh, those smiles are genuine and those two really do care for each other. This is a side to Todd that I admire, despite all the dysfunction. Trig looks happy which makes me happy. I was very worried about that little guy.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteTodd is in 10th place afther the first day's racing, and looks to be WAY behind. Sarah may not show up at all!
6:34 PM
I betcha Sarah is keeping her endorsement trap shut.
Kodak moment!
ReplyDeleteCute kid, glad he's alive and happy.
And thats NOT the trig in the Trip with boots on the wrong foot photo, either.
Todd's good at carrying kids and purses properly.
Those are toad's glasses on trig's face.
ReplyDeleteYou call this propaganda yet you were BEGGING to see Trig today. You call this propaganda but remark positively when Gryphen posts a staged Obama photo op with crowds and bs.
ReplyDeleteDouble standard. You can't condemn one and not the other. Displaying true love isn't propaganda.
6:43 PM
The last time I looked, Barack Obama was President of the United States. That's President Obama to you. He's a legitimate news story.
It is propaganda for the husband and child of a once-upon-a-time politician, who's begging her followers to donate to her Super PAC, to be displayed on her own Facebook page to promote her interests, and to dampen bad press when a critical movie about her is to be released in a couple of weeks.
But thanks for your opinion, Sarah.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteTodd may only have 4 biological children, but he was 5 children. He and Sarah raise 5 children.
6:37 PM
What do you mean "He and Sarah raise 5 children"?
Don't ya mean the 4 oldest raised themselves and SarahPac's nanny is raising Tri-G?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThey do not look like toddlers' glasses, but they do remind me of the glasses Sarah wore when she was visiting soldiers of the Alaskan National Guard in Kuwait on July 24, 2007. You can see them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
4:58 PM
I was thinking the same thing, that Trig has been outfitted with an old castoff pair of Sarah's glasses. Most of her older ones had heavier black frames or half-frames, but this one you found looks very very close to what Trig's wearing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sarah_Palin_Kuwait_Crop2.jpg
Maybe they saved money by recycling the frames.
BTW, has anyone else noticed that on the Palin Wiki page, the featured picture has been updated to the hooker red satin blouse and weird bra picture from CPAC?
I remember his glasses from that video Palin spoke of Special Olympics -- the glasses were extremely thick -- like bottom of coke bottles.
ReplyDeleteThe glasses he has on now - don't fit. The frame is so flimsy, the first fall he takes or drops -- they'll break as they are not children's glasses.
I call it bullshit that they're his. She once again stuck her foot in her mouth that he was getting new glasses and therefore had to take a pic of him wearing somebodies glasses -- not his -- just to prove it as if it was truthful which we know it's not.
@6:36 PM Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteEverytime you bring up an adopted kid's bio family, you offend every adopted child in the world. Their family is the people who raise them. The Palins arelovely people who know family love. End of story. These are children. This is a family. Stop fabricating shit about them to feed your political bs.
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Hi Sarah!
I know you love the word BS and if anyone is an EXPERT in that area, it's you!
Thanks for verifying that Trig was adopted!
I'm very happy to see Trig is doing well in spite of you.
Good laugh -- a tweet on Santorum's trend page. Makes you go Hmmmmmm???:
ReplyDeleteAnyone ever see @RickSantorum and @SarahPalinUSA in the same place at the same time? #justsayin
Very cute picture.
ReplyDeleteTrig's glasses are probably Specs4us frames. They're designed especially for Down Syndrome children.
ReplyDeleteI enlarged the picture and they look exactly like a pair that Specs4us has on their website.
Good on ya Gryphen! Lord knows I'm no Paylin fan- actually not many I have less respect for- but that is one cute kid. I'm feeling a small sense of relief that there may be affection for these kids from time to time. With all the nastiness spewed by Ma Griz, its heartening to see a genuine smile on that boy.
ReplyDeleteYeah 4:26 - I caught that half Nelson to the daughter. Sweet.
This is Sarah attempting to get out in front of Shailey's book coming out. Period.
ReplyDeleteI think even the trolls are admitting (or spinning the least-evil cover story) that Trig was "adopted," so as long as he appears happy - people will leave it alone. (even our troll tried the line about offending adopted people everywhere !) How many times has someone here commented that she'll have a sympathetic cover story ready to confess if things look like they're gonna break??
Shailey has her massage records and knows she did something that would have harmed a pregnancy. Sarah doesnt know how harsh the upcoming book may or may not be.
For what its worth, I used to take care of a toddler who had similar-looking glasses. some of the thin metal frames these days are totally pliable. They can be sat on and folded and still bounce back. Also, some that look like metal are really plastic.
Even so, Sarah still makes me sick.
and I'm not a troll.
I am SunnyVee, mofos :)
4:54--I agree Todd is Trigs father with another women..and Sarah is making sure Todd is the one raising him, not her. Bet that other women is having fun with the hush money.
ReplyDeleteI guess that all of the comments about "where are Trig's glasses?" finally got to the Palins. However, those thin frames are not suitable for children. My guess is that Trig does not have fine motor movements, and when he tries to put his glasses on and off, there is going to be trouble. There are suitable kids' glasses with thicker frames and a strap. Oh, those Palin photo op's. Where are Trig's hearing aides?
ReplyDeleteOoh look at Todd he's so good with kids.
ReplyDeleteHe is such a good father as seen by the four uneducated juvenile delinquents he has already raised.
Todd the pimp did such a wonderful with his other kids he now has at least 3 grandkids before his kids even got married.
Todd the peeping tom is so nurturing that his 18 year old junior not in high school is graduating a year earlier.
Todd the bully is such an inspiration that his oldest daughter who had a baby as an underage student in high school is now being compared by the town of Wasilla to a $100,000 statute of a vagina.
Some have said that is nice that professionals who are taking care of Trig know their Job. No Ophthalmologist would prescribe those glasses to a child that age. It is clear someone took him to Walmart (or some other medical establishment) and got him a pair of reading glasses or even worse, picked up a pair of reading glassed left around the house. Doesn’t make much difference, they won’t help him see and learn about his environment
ReplyDeleteThat is a very happy picture of father and son, yes I do believe Todd is the father..mother?? not Sarah!
ReplyDeleteThose are not the type of glasses you put on a 4 yr old boy..they would be wreaked in 1 day..kids that age wear glasses with bendable frames, not metal frame glasses that are sliding down his nose..what good are they doing for his sight if he's looking over the top of them!
I think this is the same Trig we have seen since the 2008 RNC. I looked at the picture that anon is posting all over the thread, and it looks like the same child to me. Children change a lot in 3.5 years, and sometimes due to angle and perspective of the camera, lighting, etc., people may look slightly different.
ReplyDeleteOnly one Trig, only one Tripp.
I'm sorry, but, when did Trig get Bristol's new chin?
ReplyDeleteThat little boy looks just like Todd!
ReplyDeleteI don't think fishing was all Todd was doing in Dillingham...
He actually looks like Toad in this pic.
ReplyDeleteAnon 8:29, take your slander to your basement and screw it. You need to relieve the tension that your lack of a life is causing you.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor has a 2 year old baby and has a picture of me holding her baby who has a smile from ear to ear.
ReplyDeleteI guess the baby's smile must mean I'm the baby's pappy according to some people here?
wow, Brooklyn/Avacado/Guacamole aka the Palin stalker is ALL over the comments.
ReplyDeleteFor someone who claims to be a wealthy, educated along with children of politicians and lawyers and judges and bankers at some elite private school in the middle of flyover nowhere country, successful mom, businesswoman,NYC dogwalker, all-around better-than-others, Brooky sure has a lot of spare time on her hands.
Is it safe to say the Sarah does patrol Gryphen's IM blog.
ReplyDeleteMany people here have commented on not seeing Trig for a long time and voila... here he is. Absolutely no doubt that Sarah does read IM.
Is this part of the damage control to portray her as a good caring mother, prior to the upcoming showing of HBO's game change?
Good to see the little boy again but his glasses seem a bit large for him. The bridge (distance between lenses) of the frames are more suited for adults. Good fitting glasses require the eyeball to center on each lens. The wide bridge defeats that purpose.
Ric
I think Trig looks just like Todd.That could either mean he is the father or grandfather.But in any case I personally subscribe to the scenario of Scarah trying for a fundie abortion with Trigs prenatal care anyway.
ReplyDeleteHey Tawd how's that Sarah Palin Iron Dog endorsement thingy working out for ya?
ReplyDeleteAre you in 1st place?
By the way how come when your wife was making her governor's salary she was parading around the Iron Dog like an Artic Cat billboard on hooker street wearing her designer glasses and now that she is a multimillionaire, Sarah is no where to be seen.
I'm guessing Iron Dog aint paying much now a days for Sarah's taste.
So glad to see Lil Trig with glasses, hopefully next time he will have earing aides too.
ReplyDeleteMe Again said Trigg was now Chubby; and see photos show him as being chubby...
ReplyDeleteIf Sarah is out and about and is too busy to support her house husband at Iron Dog and the house husband got a day pass to participate in Iron Dog then who is watching Tri-G?
ReplyDeleteThe 24/7 SarahPac nanny?
Help me out Sarah Palin I'm trying to figure this out:
ReplyDelete1) 3 year old Trig (whatever Bristol's boy's age is) who is mentally handicap and is a DS baby is wearing delicate wired frame glasses.
2) This DS baby who can't even tie his own shoe laces or feed himself is wearing his brand new metal framed glasses that he is not used to on the tip of his nose without a tether or restraint to secure it on his head.
3) I'm 50 years old and am constantly breaking or misplacing my plastic Dr Dean Edell Walmart reading glasses.
I guess Triig must be advanced like his almost 18 year old "junior in high school" sister who is not in school who is graduating a year early.
Those Palins just amazes me.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteMy first thought at seeing the picture was 'what a wonderful photo'. He has a good hold on his son and the whole cheek to cheek grins are lovely. They look happy. Good picture, thanks for sharing.
4:06 PM
You're welcome Sarah. Hurry home Trig misses his Grandnana Sarah.
He will only be at the Dead Lake Lucille residence for a couple of days before he has to go to his SarahPac nanny's home until his Easter Break visit.
SunnyVee,
ReplyDeleteI think you may be right about the "adopted" child story. I have been seeing this narrative in troll comments at the palin place for a couple of weeks now. The last time I saw it there, the troll even wrote that the child was adopted because the biological parents were unable to provide care for the child. On this thread is the first time I have seen the troll posted "adopted" story of Trig at Immoral Minority. Come to think of it, the adoption story started to show up about the time the Game Change trailers started getting aired. Coincidence???
It would be kind of funny if it turned out that the child's biological mother (Bristol) is really the one providing his care. Trig's adoptive mother does not seem to provide much care for him.
But if they do have to come out with the adoption story, how is Sarah gonna walk back all those lies she has told about his birth, that she told again and again onstage, and wrote in her books? Boy, has she ever told some whoppers! How will she manage to blame all this on someone else? Because we all know she will.
Nice picture. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteBut yet they named him Tri-G.
ReplyDeleteCruel beyond words.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThat little boy looks just like Todd!
I don't think fishing was all Todd was doing in Dillingham...
8:55 PM
According to Sarah all ya have to do is ask Todd was he fishing in Dillingham.
Sarah: Hey Todd were you just fishing out there in Dillingham?
Tod: Welllll I I I I was doing some trolling and and and threw my worm out there and and and caught some stuff and and ....
"Fuck the kid. My fans need me, they want me...they adore me"
ReplyDeleteSteve Schmidt stated on 60 minutes that he was NOT part of the vetting process. He was tasked as an adviser to the entire McCain campaign including whomever was picked to be VP. It wasn't until Palin opened her mouth that he knew they were in trouble. He had to work with her and try to do his job which was to give political advice.
A reminder of how Sarah "cares" by dragging along a special needs child on her campaign is seen here on youtube where Anderson Cooper interviews Schmidt. The interview is 10 minutes long. At the 9:06 mark, Sarah disembarks off the bus and is more concerned with her adoring fans than Trig held by Sally Heath? or a babysitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Cqn12Y8RCSg
Good to see the little boy again but his glasses seem a bit large for him. The bridge (distance between lenses) of the frames are more suited for adults. Good fitting glasses require the eyeball to center on each lens. The wide bridge defeats that purpose.
ReplyDeleteRic
9:24 PM
Trig wearing those large glasses kinda reminds of the times when Piper was parading around the kitchen wearing her mother high heels that were too big for Piper.
I guess its okay to Sarah for kids to wear her glasses and shoes.
You have to admit its fun to mention something on IM and have Sarah and her family respond to it.
ReplyDeleteExamples:
They stopped mentioning Willow is graduating a year early after we made fun of her being almost 18 years old and still a junior in high school.
They finally put glasses they found around the house on Tri-g after we hounded them.
It looks like they got rid of Tripp's pacifier after we made fun of him sucking on it all day.
Bristol and Willow stopped their homophobic rants after we got on them about that.
Sarah started dressing better after we started ragging on her red bathrobe she wore on FOX.
Sarah responded and cleaned up after our comments about the garage sale mess and bondfire and electrical outlet showing in her studio as soon as we mentioned it and there are plenty more examples.
Sarah Palin is like IM's little puppet!
Dance Sarah dance......
Thanks Anon 4:46 PM.
ReplyDeleteI believe Trigs Birth Certificate is her Achilles/Smoking Gun.
C'mon Sarah, Show us your best forgery! Or did it burn in the church fire?
Quick question, When was the last public sighting of CBJ? You know...
The Doctor who delivered Trig. And signed the Birth Certificate.
That Doctor.
Trig's glasses are probably Specs4us frames. They're designed especially for Down Syndrome children.
ReplyDeleteI enlarged the picture and they look exactly like a pair that Specs4us has on their website.
8:03 PM
I looked at their website. Trig's glasses do not match any of their products. Specs4us glasses are by design, patented with the temple piece hinged near the horizontal center line of the lens to better facilitate the glasses to ride higher on the nose bridge. Their frames are also wider by design with hinge pieces that arc further outward and lenses oriented closer together to better fit kids with down's.
http://www.specs4us.com/purchases.html
Here's their FAQ:
Children with Down syndrome have easily recognizable facial features, including very small noses, shortened depth from the eye socket to the ear and especially close set eyes with wide faces. As a result, “typical” glasses slide down constantly, fall forward and bow out at the temples.
Trig's glasses in the photo have temple pieces hinged near the top rim, are too wide for him, ill fitting and upon magnification
lack any kind or presciption grading. Too bad the pictures don't show how long the temple pieces are since they are covered by his hair or his hood.
Sarah said these are his "new" glasses. BS. She mentioned it to get cred and made sure he was pictured with a pair on his face.
Since Sarah reads this blog, you can bet the next time you see Trig he'll have a different pair on.
Oh, BTW.. he doesn't look like Todd. He looks like Levi.
Toad grosses me out. He talks like he has a dick in his mouth.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor has a 2 year old baby and has a picture of me holding her baby who has a smile from ear to ear.
I guess the baby's smile must mean I'm the baby's pappy according to some people here?
9:21 PM
umadbro?
I won't respond to this picture in a favorable way because that is exactly what Palin wants and is the whole point of her posting the picture, It isn't for Trig, It is for Sarah and her never ending quest for relevance,
ReplyDeleteSantorum gets alot of attention with Bella. And so Palin pops up with a Newsweek article about Trig and now these pictures. Palin is a sick woman who plays sick media games, and I refuse to fall in her trap. I believe she is competing with Santorum. I fully expect her to start dissecting his conservatism as opposed to hers.
I might be interested in seeing pictures of Trig if it wasn't a media stunt. But it is what it is. If I sound cold, it may be true --in the sense that I will always be cold to a parent so blatently using a child to satisfy her ego and for monetary purposes. As for Todd, he's a kept man and goes along.
Only an ignorant bot would say that it doesn't matter how Trig's glasses fit. The lenses need to be centered so he can see through them. Idiot.
ReplyDelete"Everytime you bring up an adopted kid's bio family, you offend every adopted child in the world."
What we're saying should actually "offend" the very small population of people who claim to have had a child biologically but secretly adopted him. Luckily that isn't a large group of people.
I like how well Trig and Todd seem to get along.
@ 10:35 your link has an extra space after the ? and cannot be viewed. Here's the correction:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqn12Y8RCSg
Saw it. Powerful stuff. Palin would have been provided the nuclear codes if she was elected VP.
Thank god, it being God's plan, she wasn't.
Trig looks so happy because he just ate the baby food that Todd made him.
ReplyDeleteHaving worked for an ophthalmologist (an eye specialist MD) years ago, I can say that we always recommended that small children use a strap to keep glasses on, not just DS kids. Glasses that are not sitting correctly on the face are simply not working for the patient.
ReplyDeleteThat said, glad at least that Trig is getting some attention from someone. He does get attention from his real mother, too, from time to time--she has a photo of herself and her 2 sons on her FB page.
I am always amazed at how subjective things like photos or stories can be. Everyone sees or hears the same thing and we all come up with a different interpretation. We only need to take a look at Sarah for real evidence of that: She talks, we cringe, and her fans go wild.
ReplyDeleteI have never really bought the idea that Tripp is the biological son of Bristol and Levi but in this photo, Trig looks like Levi to me. I know that there are many here who have posted that he looks like Todd - and I can buy that too. But, when I first looked at the photo I saw Levi. Regardless, it is a good photo. The photo must have been taken and posted by the "love" troll. You know, the one that keeps telling us how much love there is in the family like that's an exceptional thing for a family (or is it a reaction-formation?!).
There really is no good outcome to the Sarah-Trig story: Either she faked the pregnancy or she was wildly irresponsible (getting on a plane after he water broke).
Lot's of glass fitting experts on this site, but I wonder how many have ever had to fit glasses on a child with Down syndrome whose morphological features (low-set ears, flat bridge of the nose, etc) make it more difficult for a good fit with standard glasses and may require using less than ideal solutions (like glasses that are too large). As the parent of a special needs child, I am always bothered by the rush to criticize Sarah Palin for things that may legitimately not be within her control. It's hard enough to deal with the challenges inherent in these disorders without having to deal with the complete lack of experience and understanding of strangers, who nevertheless feel qualified to comment on what they perceive as failures in parenting.
ReplyDeleteThere are probably about a hundred thousand legitimate reasons to criticize Sarah Palin. This is not one of them.
6:12 PM
Nice try. I have cared professionally for many DS children. They have plastic glasses with straps to hold them in place because of the dysmorphic DS facies.
You should know that.
But you don't.
Now WHY is that?
Everytime you bring up an adopted kid's bio family, you offend every adopted child in the world. Their family is the people who raise them. The Palins arelovely people who know family love. End of story. These are children. This is a family. Stop fabricating shit about them to feed your political bs.
ReplyDeleteYour argument would be fine if every adoptive family's mother figure stuffed a pillow in her panties and called it a baby before adopting a baby.
Sarah lied and made a ton of money off this lie. Why can't you and people like you see this point??
if I were sarah I would not want trig to be able to see & hear things
ReplyDeleteThe cynic in me says this photo opp was completely orchestrated. Sarah Palin even made sure that she would not be there with her 'visiting' departing troops in Indiana story.
ReplyDeleteI do think Todd has a real relationship with Trig for which I am thankful, Sarah not so much.
G -
ReplyDeleteThose glasses do not look like appropriate glasses for such a young child. The frames look a bit too fragile for everyday wear and abuse that youngsters give glasses. He should also have the little stretchy thing running around behind his head to keep them in place. Whoever picked these glasses out did not know what they were doing.
Also wondered about this child. In some earlier photos I recall the tongue protruding much more.
Pat Padrnos
SunnyVee...yeah, a nice little revisionist cover story...except for that Wild-Ride-I-chose-LIFE crock of sh*t story she told a million times to make herself the darling of the fundie crowd...
ReplyDeleteAlso too, if she cops to an adoption, how does she explain the scarves, etc, without spilling the rest of the babygate beans?
why is he wearing adult glasses? and what happened to his coal black hair that we saw in the pictures last summer. Was his hair dyed then?
ReplyDeleteAnon at 9:21 PM, we are both on the same page. Bet most of us can hold a baby/kid and capture the same picture.
ReplyDelete@ 5:13PM "I do wonder how old those frames are. They are bent out of shape as well as too big for the little guy."
ReplyDeleteexactly - they are bent to fit this little guy's face - they were not custom fit for him. Another sad lie to fit the image SP is trying to flout.
TriG had the correct glasses in the special needs video SP presented us with when he was allegedly one year old.
ReplyDeleteWhy did he go so many years without wearing them? Why doesn't he have the same thing now? They were fitted to his face, looked really cute and had a band to keep them on his head.
Anon at 6:52,
ReplyDeleteMy name is not Brooklyn, it's Michele Manion. I run a nonprofit for disabled children, like my daughter (you can Google me if you are interested). I'm also a progressive activist and have been for more than 30 years. I'm willing to put a name to my post that simply points out how petty and ridiculous this string of commentary is. I'd appreciate if you would do the same, rather than hiding behind your anonymity while taking potshots at others who actually agree with you politically but feel you are out of line on this issue. I have no love for Sarah Palin or for her political views on raising a disabled child, as evidenced by my post published in the Atlantic (http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2010/07/why-does-trig-matter-ctd-2.html), so I really must object to your baseless attempts to diminish my point by falsely accusing me of trolling.
I'll come right out and say it. It is ugly behavior and beneath those who have true problems with Palin to pick on such petty issues related to topics YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. It's possible that she is engaging in lousy parenting. We know she is certainly capable of that. But it is equally possible that there are issues related to Trig's disability that could be contributing and by minimizing what this family has to contend with daily, you diminish yourselves, not them.
I will always advocate for disabled children and it does not matter to me one iota who their parents are. When uninformed people make thoughtless comments that demonstrate their complete lack of understanding/sympathy for the challenges of the disabled, I will come out swinging. That's my job. I care more about this issue than I do about political posturing and believe it is entirely and profoundly wrong to politicize the needs of the chronically ill and disabled--especially if the only real goal, as appears to be the case here, is to assert some falsely presumed sense of moral superiority.
Sarah Palin the politician is a problem for us all. Trig's glasses are not.
Anon 8:29, take your slander to your basement and screw it. You need to relieve the tension that your lack of a life is causing you.
ReplyDelete9:17 PM
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You sound like an idiot. Did you not graduate high school? I can tell by the way your write. Quite pathetic. Why did that post upset you sooo much? I don't understand.
Todd IS a pimp. Fact.
Todd IS a bully. FACT.
Todd IS a perverted peeping tom. FACT!
Here's a free hint since you obviously need it: slander is not someone saying something you don't like.
My neighbor has a 2 year old baby and has a picture of me holding her baby who has a smile from ear to ear.
ReplyDeleteI guess the baby's smile must mean I'm the baby's pappy according to some people here?
9:21 PM
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Uhhh no one is saying that being photographed with a smiling baby makes your its father... ROFL
Better work on your reading comprehension & logic skills because you sound like an idiot and are embarrassing yourself with every post. Only someone as stupid and pathetic as sarah palin sounds likes this or uses this type of backwards retard logic. You know our puppet sarah? The one we OWN here.
Todd seems to genuinely care about the kid.
ReplyDeleteGood.
Gryph --
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this picture. Trig is such a beautiful little guy. He looks so healthy and happy.
I know there's been speculation about "two Trigs" but I would respectfully disagree.
(The video below is the Special Olympics PSA with Sarah, Piper and Trig.)
http://www.viddler.com/v/8fa55903
Gryphen, the glasses appear to fit him poorly because they are not likely to be his glasses.
ReplyDeleteThis child is what? 3-4 years old? What parent and optometrist puts a child in thin, metal framed glasses?
Children are either fitted in flexible poly,almost rubber like glasses, or in break resistant plastic frames.
This is nuts. There must be a lot of dangerous scuttlebutt about care of Trig in the media recently to make these hillbillies sit up & take enough notice to give a shit and scrounge up a pair of (inappropriate)frames for a photo op.
They are so incredibly stupid.
Hammer & a feather:
ReplyDeleteI completely think the same thing- Trig is Todd's, but not Sarah's.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDelete[...]
A reminder of how Sarah "cares" by dragging along a special needs child on her campaign is seen here on youtube where Anderson Cooper interviews Schmidt. The interview is 10 minutes long. At the 9:06 mark, Sarah disembarks off the bus and is more concerned with her adoring fans than Trig held by Sally Heath? or a babysitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Cqn12Y8RCSg
10:35 PM
I'm glad you posted the link to that video -- it's a great accompaniment to the trailers and previews of HBO's "Game Change" (I've put it into a Tweet)...
...but the portion of the video you pointed to above is actually during Palin's jet/bus book tour in Nov-Dec. 2009. As you can see in that part of the video, she looks frumpy and disheveled, something her handlers never let happen during the 2008 campaign.
I haven't read all the comments, just enough to see lots of concern that Trig's new glasses are of an inappropriate style/size for him.
ReplyDeleteIt is possible that this is just round 1. If he has not been accustomed to wearing glasses, it would likely be easier to get him used to a lightweight pair. Once he becomes used to wearing glasses and recognizes the value of improved vision, then he could be 'progressed' to a sturdier pair more appropriate for the rough and tumble life of a little guy.
Or, this is a temporary pair immediately available from the optician while a custom age appropriate pair is being manufactured just for him.
Or, Willow could have just made a very poor decision to go for the cute Harry Potter look. Time will tell.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteTrig looks so happy because he just ate the baby food that Todd made him.
2:31 AM
Yeah, right, Todd whipped up some pureed food right there in his Arctic Cat transport trailer.
The Trig that Todd is holding looks like he could handle a hamburger with all the fixings.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteG -
Those glasses do not look like appropriate glasses for such a young child. The frames look a bit too fragile for everyday wear and abuse that youngsters give glasses. He should also have the little stretchy thing running around behind his head to keep them in place. Whoever picked these glasses out did not know what they were doing.
Also wondered about this child. In some earlier photos I recall the tongue protruding much more.
Pat Padrnos
4:01 AM
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Pat like this?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XckT2h8g80s/SwbivfDnBfI/AAAAAAAAANY/T0r010UQqoo/s1600/Sarah+CI+-+2.jpg
Its a totally different baby! The baby TriG in the photo above can not even hold his hand up!
But in the most recent pic smiling and no tongue sticking out. Facial structure is much different.
Anon@11:12pm
ReplyDeleteGreat analysis on the glasses. Comparing the frames shown on the Specs4Us website (especially those shown on the About Us page on little Marina) to those shown on Trig reveals that the hinges for the "arms" and the bridge are all placed incorrectly for his needs.
More from the website mission: "They will be able to explore the world freely and clearly without wearing glasses that are too big or are constantly slipping down their nose." Both of those things are obviously happening in the Trig photo.
Hi Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI see your point, but it's the circumstantial chronology of the events that makes the posting of these pictures part of what Sarah Palin has chosen to make public and political. And thus discussable.
We see photos without glasses. for years - photos primarily posted as personal political propaganda by Sarah and crew.
IM posters notice it (lack of glasses) and post about it. Suddenly, Palin brings up the glasses topic on a TV show she chose to appear on, and then a mere day or two later, these photos appear.
Trig, in general, is discussed only because Sarah chose to make him part of her "Look at me, I'm a heroine" narrative. Problem is, there are two narratives that contradict each other: Caring mom of disabled child versus tough Alaskan wild ride taker.
Is this relevant for the voting public to consider - yes. Taken at face value it shows a recklessness and lack of judgment that would be disastrous in someone holding political office. If it's a fabrication - not on a "did she birth the kid" or not level, but on an "is she lying about being in labor" level. Since she is the one who has promoted it and repeated it many times, it clearly shows a person willing to USE her disabled child to further her own false narrative- that's despicable.
She's clearly still doing it! Supposedly she is "busy" in Alaska - with her family. Supposedly she is "just like us." Yet here she is on a whirlwind week of national shows, her souse is at the IronDog, on a schedule that's been known for months, but she lets an 18 y o take her disabled child for something as important as eyeglasses? Does not add up. Heck, my kid isn't disabled and I wouldn't not be there for an eyeglass fitting unless there was a medical emergency on my part. And then, likely I'd cancel the appointment until I or my spouse could be.
Her actions contradict the caring mom narrative. Her actions contradict the "family keeps me from running" narrative. She's a liar - not in the political field, but about her family. If she'll use her family in this way - what will she do if she ever gets in office?
So that's why pointing out those contradictions are fair game. It isn't critics who have put Trig front and center - Sarah Palin has.
I hope you will use your position to communicate your displeasure to her and her entourage and fans, too. That is where it would be properly directed.
Looking at his glasses, I wonder how it is possibly the correct prescription (if it is one at all...!) - compare these with the bottle-glass type he once wore when $he played 'patty-cake' (wayyyy too early for his supposed age IMHO) with him.
ReplyDeleteEither that, or he had corrective eye surgery, which I very much doubt at this early age.
“Everytime you bring up an adopted kid's bio family, you offend every adopted child in the world. Their family is the people who raise them. The Palins arelovely people who know family love. End of story. These are children. This is a family. Stop fabricating shit about them to feed your political bs.”
ReplyDelete@6:36 PM
So, you’re admitting Trig is not $arah Palin’s biological kid? Thanks a bunch! Had $arah Palin stayed her ass in Alaska, and not exploited her family (especially Trig and Bri$tol)to feed her political bullshit, we wouldn’t be talking about them. End of story.
To the "all the Palin children are loved" troll:
ReplyDeleteTrig's glasses still don't fit.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteGryph --
Thanks for posting this picture. Trig is such a beautiful little guy. He looks so healthy and happy.
I know there's been speculation about "two Trigs" but I would respectfully disagree.
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6:21 AM
I would respectfully disagree with your respectful disagreement.
In this array of Trig photos, there are at least 2 Trigs -- the physical differences really stand out -- first one, then the other, then the first one again.
http://bit.ly/x92ZDs
“You call this propaganda yet you were BEGGING to see Trig today. You call this propaganda but remark positively when Gryphen posts a staged Obama photo op with crowds and bs.
ReplyDeleteDouble standard. You can't condemn one and not the other. Displaying true love isn't propaganda.”
@6:43 PM
President Obama’s photo-ops with adoring crowds are not staged. According to polling, people actually like the man. It’s the opposite with $arah Palin. Crowds aside, I’ve seen pictures of President Obama with his own children. The president, and his children seem to have a genuine love for each other, as well. And, the president doesn’t need to exploit them, or use photo-ops to prove it.
Trig is such a cutie pie. I am just happy to see his picture. I think the glasses may be cockeyed because Todd is hugging him to his face, knocking them off a little bit. That's just my take on it.
ReplyDeleteI never doubted Todd cares about Trig. I do doubt Sarah Palin sees him as anything except a photo op.
ReplyDeleteIn this array of Trig photos, there are at least 2 Trigs -- the physical differences really stand out -- first one, then the other, then the first one again.
ReplyDeletehttp://bit.ly/x92ZDs
10:15 AM
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Kajo, Thanks!
A treasure Trove! And yes So many different babies "playing" as "TriG"!
2:32: Is that you, MeAgain? If so, WELCOME BACK, and please pray tell who the birth mother is as you say she has a picture of her and her two kids on her FB page!
ReplyDeleteAnon 12:25 --
ReplyDeleteI think Anon 2:32 may have been referencing Bristol -- she has photos of both Trig and Tripp on her FB page.
Hey, KayJo... Anon 6:21 here.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your comments on IM and other sites as well. I appreciate your linking to the many photos of Trig. I will study them.
Isn't Palin's sell-by date long since expired? She is just such a poison.
wow to the speech writer at 5:35AM...
ReplyDeletetake a chill pill
nobody is dissing TriG - most are critical of the faked picture - fakes are SOP for the Palin family.
It's not real. They never are. It's staged. Most of the released photographs don't even have the correct years.
Willow is not yet 18 - why would a minor take a toddler to an eyeglass appt? It's unusual for anyone other than the mother or a parent to do so.
Why was Trig's hair coal black last summer? Piggy back photo. How come he looks totally different? Did Willow practice hair dye procedures on the DS child? Did it wash out? Was that photo a lie? Was that a different child?
Dance Biotch Dance!
ReplyDeleteYou are our puppet.
See how we all pull your strings and you do a little idiot dance for us?
It's truly awesome. We control your life.
We OWN YOU! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sure the glasses on Trig are just Sarah's old ones, she is just too cheap to actually buy him new ones.
ReplyDeleteI am curious to know what Samuel Louden (sp?) looks like these days...remember, Gina's adopted son who was at one point "mistaken" for a toddler Trig?
ReplyDeleteI still think he was used to confuse things in some way. Just a thought...
I have a child with Down syndrome who wears glasses ... I can assure you, the way Trig's glasses slide down the end of his nose is par for the course.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the shape of the nose and position of the ears they tend to slide down to the tip of the nose. Particularly if you have heavy lenses from bad nearsightedness. In my son, we partially corrected this by getting cable temples (the flexible wire ones that actually loop behind the ears).
There is a website for specialized frames for kids with Down syndrome, designed by a optician with a DS child. I forget the name of the site, but it shows the difficulty with fitting these kids in a number of ways. One other difference with these frames is the bridge between the lenses is set MUCH lower than in regular specs ... almost like the glasses are being worn upside down. These fit my son much better, but because of his heavy lenses he still slipped.
Maybe someone should let Sarah know they have special frames? Hell, the optician might even let her have a free pair for publicity.
Careful... it's really riding the line to make comparisons to this picture of Trig and older ones (it's sad that there are so few, because I am suspicious that there was a stand-in at one point or another). Kids around that age can change *drastically* in their appearance. I visited my sister once to see my nephew when he was 2.5 or so (?) and she sent me pictures of him 7 months later--- I was shocked because I didn't recognize my own nephew. Kids look different with more hair, more/less weight, longer faces, and teeth :(
ReplyDeleteAnd I think Sarah is using that to her advantage. Maybe that's why no one saw him for months at a time.
One thing that I thought was odd... just how badly does Trig need those glasses? (I honestly don't remember) Because usually with more severe prescription glasses, looking through the lens to the person distorts them a bit. When you look at Trig in the picture, the contour of his face doesn't alter at all. His eyes don't seem any bigger. Is this a very weak prescription? Does anyone know?
This boy is supposedly not even 4 years old yet... I think he looks a good deal older than that.
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