Former reporter and current blogger, Julia O'Malley wants people to think that Sarah Palin was not always this way. (Spoiler alert: Yes she was.)

Here is a portion of O'Malley's revisionist history courtesy of The Guardian:  

There was a time when Sarah Palin was normal by Alaska standards. Way back before the hoopla, and way before she endorsed Donald Trump, she made sense as a politician here. That’s not the case any more. 

I’m told she lives in Alaska most of the time, but she’s invisible in public life. But back in the day, I liked her – and so did many in my community. I’m not conservative, but she grew on me when I worked as a reporter in Anchorage in the mid-2000s, and the reason had nothing to do with politics. She was a kind of regular person I recognized as of this place. Tough, funny, pragmatic. She loved Alaska like I did. If you didn’t know her then, it’s hard to explain or believe.

O'Malley then offers this picture, which shows Palin just hobnobbing with the locals and which she believes was NOT a photo-op, that there tells you that she does not understand Sarah Palin.

Above all, Palin was nice. If a reporter called her office, she called back on their cell phone: “Hi, this is Sarah.” Like most people here, she was religious, but didn’t talk about it publicly. Like most people, her family hunted and owned guns, but she didn’t talk too much about that either. She was fuzzy on policy details, but only insiders noticed. She made a big deal about government corruption. 

“She wanted to be liked and, as a result, was likable,” said a reporter friend of mine who covered her as governor. “Her only real enemies were white-guy boys club oil politicians who were getting indicted by the feds.”

Okay well there is some truth to this.  Palin absolutely was focused on her polls numbers and receiving positive coverage from media outlets.

So yes she returned calls fairly quickly, IF you were somebody that she perceived to be "on the team."

In fact at one time Dennis Zaki was one of those people, and broke into the news biz to some degree based on his access to Sarah Palin and the number of great photos he took of her and other politicians in Alaska.

However I was there when he lobbed the first criticism her way, and let me tell you the arctic winter has NOTHING on Sarah Palin when it comes to freezing people out.

O'Malley then documents when SHE thinks everything changed for Palin:

I rode along in the motorcade the day she came back to the state to vote. We whizzed out to Wasilla, and she emerged from her black SUV wearing a Carhartt jacket. The outfit was self-conscious. Alaska schtick. Not her thing. But she’d already recalibrated for an audience that wasn’t us. Then John McCain lost. She peaced-out on being governor. 

For many here, that was the end. 

It’s hard to keep track of what happened next. The internet Sarah-ploded. There was Fox News, reality television, the book, the steady stream of social-media snits, the house in Arizona, a family run-in with the cops and Bristol’s baby-mama drama.

You see the problem with this is that O'Malley seems to be basing most of her Palin-ology on her personal experiences with the then Governor who was seeking positive coverage.

It does not seem that O'Malley has done any real research into Palin's past nor that she has read any of the great books written about her including those written by Geoffrey Dunn, Joe McGinniss,  or even Frank Bailey.

Instead she bases it on her memories, which I find somewhat unreliable as O'Malley was also the reporter who swore up and down that she KNEW that Sarah Palin was indeed pregnant with Trig, and that there was no conspiracy: 

But, of course, there was no silence spiral. The journalists, including me, who covered Palin at the time believed she was pregnant because she was pregnant. Even before the announcement, she seemed to be putting on weight. She wore baggy jackets and scarves. Before the announcement, she acted nervous when photographers tried to take her picture. Later on, her face filled out. Her fingers swelled. She had a noticeable belly. And it wasn't made out of foam. 

Palin also ran all the time at the gym in Juneau. People I know saw her on the treadmill sweating in workout clothes. She had a belly. I repeat: she had a real pregnant belly. Are you going to tell me she was wearing a prosthetic abdomen on the treadmill?

For the record Palin has ALWAYS been a conniving opportunist who manipulated the weak willed around her and savaged her critics at every turn.

She used her feminine wiles to seduce male reporters and her girl power BS to win over the female journalists. And that seemed to work well here in Alaska, where let's face it journalism is not exactly breaking new ground.

However all of that came to a halt when a certain Katie Couric asked the innocuous question "What do you read?"

THAT was the beginning of the end, and THAT was when everybody started to see the true Sarah Palin.

Somebody it seems that Julia O'Malley never got the chance to meet.

Could this company have been inspired by Sarah Palin?

Courtesy of The Washington Post: 

“Need a bun in the oven?” says the Web site “Fake a Baby.com. “We can help.” Billing itself as the “Home of the $9.95 fake Ultrasound,” it purports to sell the “Best Gag Gifts on Earth.” 

The article goes on to describe how a Michigan teenager used the products she purchased from the website to fool her sixteen year old boyfriend and her whole family into believing that she was pregnant with triplets.

The website offers just about everything you would need to pull off a fake pregnancy: 

Its wares include the “Silicon [sic] Fake Pregnancy Belly-Twins,” reduced in price from $299.95 to $149.99; the “Silicon Fake Pregnancy Belly” for the “20 to 25 week stage to the 38 weeks stage,” and “Silicone Breast Pushups” in a variety of colors. 

And, of course, “Fake Ultrasound Sonograms, Personalized,” and “personalized fake prescription” bottles.

The only thing it does not offer is a baby, which is what eventually derailed the Michigan teen's deception.

If only she could have had the resources of a certain half term governor we know perhaps she would be living the dream right now.

But hey, babies don't grow on trees do they?

Sarah Palin in Juneau, March 26th 2008.

Nor for that matter in stomachs that are this flat twenty three days before supposedly giving birth.

Hey you know Palin does not have a lot going on right now, perhaps she could get a gig as a spokesperson for this website?

After all is there anybody on the planet who knows more about how to use a fake pregnancy to get what you want than Sarah Palin?

I think not.

Well it appears that there are other bloggers out there who do not think we should stop pursuing babygate either.

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars:  

Rumors, innuendo and inconclusive photographs do not a true story make, but the fact of the matter is that seven years after the birth of Trig Paxson Van Palin, there is no proof that right-wing sweetheart Sarah Palin is his biological mother and evidence he may be her grandson. 

If you believe that I - or anyone else - has no business pursuing the question of whether John McCain's 2008 running mate put over an enormous hoax on the American public because the whole idea is so . . . well, yucky, then you need read no further. Besides which, a kid with disabilities having a home with a family that has plenty of dough is enough for many people who are averse to questioning Palin's serial evasions. 

But if you, like me, remain curious about the evasions concerning her alleged pregnancy and Trig's birth, as well as her unwillingness to provide any proof to tamp down rumors that she faked the birth of the Down syndrome child, then stick around. Palin still will not even release a copy of Trig's birth certificate although she hectored Barack Obama to release his. 

This story deserves to have legs because the former half-term Alaska governor turned author and reality show princess and most recently Tea Party carnival sideshow freak not only has not gone away. 

She continues to inject herself into national politics, having campaigned early on for the 2012 Republican president nomination until even she realized that her brand was tarnished despite a small but hard-core conservative constituency that continues to cling to her every statement as if they were Biblical missives.

Gee all of that sounds awfully familiar to all of us here on IM. Nice to hear it said someplace else though, isn't it?

C and L then links to a post over at Kiko's House, updated from 2011, which does an admirable job of laying out Palin's birth story, as well as all of the reasons that it does not hold water.

The author, Shaun Mullins, also quotes from Geoffrey Dunn, Joe McGinniss, and Andrew Sullivan as well.

There are also a few quotes from Professor Scharlott, mostly a refutation of the two Trig's theory that many of you may remember he did not exactly agree with me on. (Actually I think I proved my point with this post, but let's not open old wounds.)

Interestingly enough the updated post was put up on Saturday, which was the same day that I wrote this post wondering out loud if anybody cared about the story anymore.

I have no evidence that Mullins was responding directly to my post, but it does answer the central question.

Apparently yes, it certainly DOES matter to quite a number of people.

Well, I guess it's time to roll up my sleeves again and get to work.

Happy 7th Birthday Trig Paxson Van Palin!

Most recent picture I could find courtesy of Bristol's Enjoygram account.

Seriously is there ANY seven year old on the planet whose birth, and the pregnancy leading up to his birth, has attracted as much scrutiny as Trig's?

I seriously doubt it.

And there are some who argue that after all this time, in the words of Hillary Clinton, "What difference at this point does it make?"

And that is actually a good question.

Personally I think that we here at IM have done a pretty admirable job of proving, beyond what I think is a reasonable doubt, that Sarah did not give birth to Trig on April 18th, 2008.

Some of that proof can be found here, here, and here.

I have just one more lead that I am chasing right now, and it is a humdinger. But to be honest it will still proof insufficient to convince those who simply refuse to entertain the possibility that ANYBODY, Sarah Palin included, would ever attempt to pull off such an audacious hoax.

And once again there are those who wonder does anybody really even care anymore?

So I put it to you my friends, do you think it is still worth the effort?

And if I do manage to gather a few last pieces to the puzzled which proves that she faked the pregnancy, what then?

Feel free to speak your mind. After all this is the place for it.

Here is video of Sarah Palin's press conference yesterday in Joplin. Bring two forks, as there is plenty of word sausage to go around.

Click authentic faux yellow leather biker old lady jacket to play video.

This is a press conference that Palin did concerning her speech for Lifechoices, an anti-abortion group masquerading as a sex and pregnancy resource center.

Palin pulls out all of the stops here.

First she refers to the "resiliency" of the people, undoubtedly referencing the tornado that devastated the area in 2011, and calls them "overcomers." Which of course makes them sound like habitual masturbators.


Then she goes on:  

"I was happy to be chosen, well invited anyway, because when we talk about less than ideal circumstances, I've been there. I've been there and I'm going to talk about that tonight and speak candidly about it. (Wanna bet?)

Palin then says how happy she is that Lifechoices has asked her to be candid, because most of the time her job is to be political and this time she gets to talk about what is near and dear to her heart. (Wait, she has a job?)

Palin then claims that her family's "hardships" were easier to deal with because of the strong and loving family "network" that is in place. (From what I have heard recently that may be the biggest Palin lie of all.)

She then lists the "hardships" as her own pregnancy, her daughter's"unplanned" pregnancy,  the diagnosis that Trig had Down syndrome when she was twelve weeks pregnant, Track about to be deployed to a war zone, the fact that she was at the time Governor of Alaska, and then of course the call from John McCain to be the vice presidential candidate.

I found it interesting that of all of the "hardships" she rattled off, that really the only one that she did not actually plan was Bristol's pregnancy. All of the others she orchestrated in one way or another.

It is after the last question concerning what she plans to talk about at the fundraiser where some serious word salad gets tossed.

"I'll be able to, even though I'm not going to get political, it's kind of in my blood, I'm going to be able to relate to the tumultuous world that we are in today. People seeking real answers, real hope, they're seeking peace. They're...they're seeking solutions to things that they see and feel that are out of their control. Just like a young mother with that diagnosis you know of being pregnant unexpectedly. A lot of things that she would be feeling too, more centralized of course, more personalized. Being able to, through the experiences that we've gone through, experiences that your clients have gone through, being able to translate that into a bigger picture about what's going on in our world. Less than ideal circumstances how we handle'em. How we can make this world a better place by all of us making healthy choices as individuals, as families, as communities, and then as a nation."

Uhhhhh....WTF?

So if I understand that right, and I have no confidence that I do, Palin is saying that she is going to relate an unexpected pregnancy to a world at war, terrorism making us feel less safe at home, and how we can conquer all of that by following Michelle Obama's advice about making healthy choices?

Is that right?

Is it too early to start drinking?

Well in news that is easier to understand, the Daily Mail, Palin's favorite British newspaper, has posted an article taking note of the fact that she wore her wedding ring to the Roberts fundraiser, after earlier making a big deal over the fact that it was missing, and using that as an excuse to once again talk about the drunken brawl in Anchorage.

So it appears that, though there is little new to report, the brawl lives on in the minds of journalists around the world.

Gotta love that!

And oldie but a goodie. Sarah Palin walking briskly through Juneau, on icy streets no less, in February 2008. Update!

Click clearly non-pregnant belly to start video.

Remember folks this was less than two months before she looked like this.

Oh yeah, SO convincing.

And yet it was enough to fool thousands. In fact many of them remain fooled to this day.

Update: Here is some interesting conversation about the footage from back in 2010.

Here is my favorite portion:  

Here's what Kevin the cameraman had to say: 

"Regarding her pregnancy, all I can say is that it was not obvious to the three of us who were there during the filming" 

"Sarah did not drink much of the caramel latte we brought her, which if I recall was decaffeinated" 

"As for me and for the rest of us who visited Sarah back in February - I’m fairly certain we can say that we had no idea she was pregnant"

(H/T to Kajo.)

It's newly discovered Sarah Palin picture time, with a newly discovered Sarah Palin picture.

So the other day somebody sent me the link below out of the blue, which also featured the picture up above that was taken on June 22, 2008 right here in Anchorage. Which for all of you calendar fans would have been about two months after Palin "gave birth" to little Trig, and around two months before McCain officially tapped her to be his albatross, I'm sorry VP.

Here what was posted by the guy who put the picture online at the time:

On the port's viewing deck, I introduced Sam to former Governor Bill Sheffield, who now runs the port. Our present governor, Sarah Palin, was there, too. She had brought her own clutch of kids to see the ships; I overheard her tell Sheffield that she wanted them to understand where things came from.

People love to be around Governor Palin. She has an 80 percent favorable rating in statewide polls, is a model of rectitude, and has been featured in national magazines; her only detractors seem to be the old-guard Republicans she displaced and who now comfort themselves around the AM radio cracker barrel. 

And there she stood in the drizzle, holding her car keys and her infant son and engaging Sam about homeschool.

Yep everybody liked Sarah Palin, right up until they got to know who she was. 

Now days if Palin shows up in Anchorage she makes sure to have security with her and avoids open areas.

I posted this picture partly because the fact that her face looks a little fuller was why so many people believed that she was honestly pregnant and thought that those of us questioning that fact were crazy

Sarah Palin's face in those days gained and lost weight fairly frequently, so all she had to do was stuff a pillow up her shirt, eat a few extra Crunchwrap Supremes and she was ready to fake everybody out.

 Hell even the guy who took this picture up above on March 26, 2008 thought she was legitimately pregnant, and he worked out in the same gym that she did.

It was not until real scrutiny was finally applied that people saw through what turned out to be the sloppiest fake pregnancy ever. Sadly by that time it was already too late, and the damage to the country was already underway.

Kathleen Parker examines the importance of "fertility" to the Palin brand.

Courtesy of the Miami Herald:

Lately, a strange shift has occurred among female politicians as they have resorted to flexing their womb-manhood. Rather than try to out-man the men, women have begun to celebrate — or exploit in some cases — their higher purpose. 

This brings us unavoidably to Sarah Palin, who reminded us recently that fertility is the ultimate trump card. 

To be fair, Jeb Bush started it. He was attempting to explain the need for immigration reform as an economic argument. That is, we need an influx of immigrants — WHO TEND TO HAVE LARGER FAMILIES — to counter native-born Americans’ low birthrates. Our current rate isn’t sufficient to keep our nation’s economic engine running competitively. 

This is a legitimate argument, most forcefully advanced by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Republican economic adviser and former director of the Congressional Budget Office under George W. Bush. Alas, Jeb Bush inartfully said we need immigrants because they are more “fertile,” which sounds an awful lot like, “Hotahmighty, those people can’t tie their shoes without getting pregnant.” 

One is permitted a certain number of verbal pratfalls in public life, a bit of latitude Palin should appreciate. But Mama Grizzly came roaring out at Bush during a speech at one of those confabs where faith-and-freedom lovers assemble to flex their moral superiority. She not only scolded the third Bush for speaking in such terms but reminded the audience of her own bona fides in the matter. 

“I say this as someone who’s kind of fertile herself.” 

As though anyone could forget. 

In an earlier speech in May at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Palin drew applause with a quip about her marital virtuosity. For Christmas, she gave husband Todd a gun, and he gave her a gun case for the four-wheeler, and … 

“He’s got the rifle; I got the rack.” 

Oh, chortle chortle. Palin is nothing if not fertile. 

Or perhaps more accurately, she is nothing if she isn’t fertile. 

This last line is the most important of Parker's article, because it speaks to the most important falsehood about Sarah Palin. That she was a forty something, still fertile female Governor, who found herself pregnant with a special needs child that she bravely decided to carry to term (Well almost).

Based on that mythology, Palin was able to attract support from Fundamentalists, pro-life groups, women, and horny old men who were amazed that she still looked so fuckable after recently giving birth.

And the whole thing was bullshit.

Sarah Palin on March 28, 2008, 3 weeks before the "birth" of her fifth child.

Which I believe I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt back in 2011.

In fact it was to prove that very fact that so many Palin blogs were launched in the first place, including my good friend Audrey's Palin's Deceptions, Regina's Palingates. and many many more.

In my opinion we did that. And with the help of Joe McGinniss we brought the story out from the shadows.

So to respond to Kathleen Parker's final point, no all evidence points to the fact that she is NOT fertile, and that same evidence indicates that, yes she IS nothing.

Now if only Kathleen Parker and her fellow journalists would, as Palin herself suggests, "get a still spine" we could finally prove that fact to the majority American people.

I think I, and others, have done the heavy lifting. So all that remains is for somebody with a larger audience to take our evidence and run with it.

Kim Kardashian not allowed to fly to celebrate her boyfriend's birthday due to pregnancy. Now why does this seem familiar?

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

Kim Kardashian wasn't there to celebrate Kanye West's birthday. 

While pals like Beyonce and Jay-Z were on hand at the party in New York City, Kanye's girlfriend of more than one year was noticeably absent - stuck Los Angeles because she is no longer able to travel by plane ahead of the birth of their first child next month. 

A source confirmed to Us Weekly: 'Kim isn't allowed to fly'. 

Wait, what?

Not allowed to fly?

But Kim Kardashian is only 32 years old, yet when Sarah Palin was 44 years old, and, according to her, ALSO eight months pregnant, SHE was allowed to fly.

Not only that but, also according to her, she was leaking amniotic fluid and experiencing contractions, yet she STILL got on a plane and flew ALL the way from Texas to Alaska and then drove out to Wasilla to give birth to a child with Down syndrome.

You know you would think that a woman as wealthy and influential as Kim Kardashian could get on a plane to celebrate with her boyfriend if she wanted to, despite a doctor's advice, wouldn't you?

I mean looking at it today it seems almost as if Sarah Palin either, did not care about the health of her child, did not check with her doctor before flying to and from Texas, or, and certainly this cannot be true, lied about being pregnant.

Lied to the American people for years, and years, and years, about a pregnancy? Why that would just be insane, right?

I don't know where this came from, but it MUST be shared.

Kim Kardashian does what Sarah Palin never could. Shows the belly. Update!

After all of those rumors started to swirl about Kim Kardashian faking her pregnancy she did what would seem to be the most obvious response.

She showed a picture of the naked belly bump. Good for her, speculation will now come to a stop.

However after all of these years, Sarah Palin has not ONCE done the same. Not once.

And why not?

Simply put, there is no  picture of a naked belly for her to share, because it never happened.

March 26, 2008.

The same thing goes for a birth certificate, a picture of her in the hospital right after the delivery, or of her breast feeding.

That is why there has NEVER been any doubt for most of us that she faked her pregnancy. Because, and trust me on this, if Sarah Palin could make us all look like fools, she would have done so many times over by now.

Update: For those who have been interested in Palin's speech at the Schiavo fundraiser, that video can be found here. 

And YES she tells the pregnancy story yet again.

Ever since Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy, now every famous pregnant person is suspect. Update!

Courtesy of The Hollywood Gossip: 

The National Enquirer screams on its latest cover that Kim Kardashian is faking her pregnancy because her "baby bump seems to change size and position… as she travels around the country." 

Why would Kim possibly conduct such a hoax? Straight cash, of course. 

Alleges the newspaper: 

“A source close to Kim believes the star might have hatched a sensational scheme with her money-hungry momager Kris Jenner to fake her pregnancy while secretly having a surrogate mom carry a baby for her and her lover Kanye West." 

Well... sure. 

Asks the newspaper: “How convenient is it that Kim got pregnant just as she was making a mad push to wrap up her ongoing divorce from Kris Humhpries?” 

And also: 

“It also would be an insane coincidence that Kim just so happened to get pregnant soon after she learned the girlfriend of her ex-boyfriend Reggie Bush - Lilit Avagyan - is pregnant.”

Okay now I don't think that Sarah Palin was the FIRST person to fake a pregnancy, but clearly her  audacious, and successful, attempt to fool the public has meant that certain media outlets have scrutinized famous pregnancies with a particular eye out for frauds. (I have spoken to TWO different writers for the National Enquirer and they both accept as fact that Palin faked her pregnancy.)

Now as you know there was a lot of controversy surrounding Beyone's recent "pregnancy" as well.  In THAT case I am on the side of that being a potential hoax.

However in Kardashian's case I really am not convinced that she is faking it. After reading this I Googled some images and it looks like her entire body is expanding, and NOT like somebody simply strapping on a empathy belly to fool the media.

However I would like to say that considering the fact that Klondike Kardashian seems to have based her life after leaving the governorship on the business model laid out by the ACTUAL Kardashians, it would be rather ironic if Kim were returning the favor by taking a page out of the Palin playbook as well.

I'm just saying.

Update! You know the first thing I think of WHENEVER anybody questions the validity of a pregnancy, is that if the local press in Alaska had demonstrated even a fraction of that kind of skepticism about Palin's pregnancy she would have been quickly found out and it would have dramatically changed the face of politics in the country today.

Kind of makes you pissed off at the ADN all over again doesn't it?

The famous "Wild Ride" interview revisited, and analyzed. Let's see what we might learn, shall we? Update!

A while back a reader sent me this rather interesting e-mail which included the original interview with Palin concerning her "wild ride" accompanied by an analysis of her words. I found it rather interesting and thought I would share it with all of you today. .

Here it is in full (With the e-mailer's name removed, of course.) 

Hello Gryphen. I know you've covered the wild ride a hundred times, but I took part of Sarah's interview and applied statement analysis to it. I hope you can use it. Statement Analysis is the most accurate way of determining if a person is lying in a verbal or written statement. A person cannot give a lengthy deceptive statement without revealing that it is a lie. This is because people will always word their statement based on all their knowledge. Therefore, their statement may contain information they did not intend to share. This is the transcript from the Wild Ride interview with Sarah Palin. The statement analysis is in italics and the sensitivity indicators are highlighted red.

(Since I tend to put everything that I don't personally write in italics I decided to use quotation marks to identify the analysis instead.)


Transcript of Palin Interview 

Reporter: I was hoping you could walk us through a little bit about kind of what happened because he came earlier that you thought and not when and where. 

Palin: And, uh, he wasn’t due for 4 or 5 weeks later and um, while I was at the energy conference. I felt perfectly fine but uh, had thought maybe a few things were starting to progress a little bit that perhaps there was an idea there that he might come early. So I called my doctor at about uh four in the morning in Texas and um I said ya know I’m gonna stay for the day here at the energy conference - have a speech that I was determined to give at one o’clock that afternoon and, um, had Todd check on a couple of flights that were earlier than we had scheduled. I decided it would be ok to, um, skip the reception that night that we’d already by that time have taken care of our meetings and my speech. So Todd checked on flights. A flight allowed us to get out a little earlier than we had planned. 

" Her use of the word "I"-- I was at the energy conference. I felt fine. I called my doctor. I said I'm gonna stay. I was determined. I decided. This is distancing between her and her husband and leads an analyst to wonder if Todd was present with her during those times she described. When she changes the pronoun from "I" to "we" it indicates when they were actually together (after the meetings and speech). By repeating twice that Todd was checking on early flights, she shows us this topic is sensitive to her, which indicates deception. Sarah says, "I was at the energy conference, I felt perfectly fine." These are true statements; there are no unnecessary words added in and no effort made by the subject to clarify them as she feels the need to do with Todd checking on flights. Reader: note that she uses "he" to refer to Trig. She does not use his name or any kind of pet name or nickname, which suggests that she is not at this time close to Trig on an emotional level."

Skipped the reception and, um, called my doctor before I got on the plane to say, ‘Yea, we think that we will come home a few hours early,’ and, uh, she said ‘OK call when you land and I’ll check you out.’ But none of my babies had been early and being my fifth child I know what labor feels like (laughing) and if I had felt at all that I was really engaged in uh, labor activities I would not have desired to fly and, um, get back uh, to deliver in Alaska. But anyway, so no real huge labor signs. Landed in, uh, in Anchorage at about10:30. Got out to the valley at 11:30 and she met us at the hospital, checked me out and said, ‘Um, Yea you look, you may have it um tonight or in the morning.’ And it was smooth, it was relatively easy, in fact it was very easy, the easiest of all of them because he was so tiny. And, um, it’s just been absolutely wonderful. It was all, it just all seemed meant to be… the logistics and everything else just worked out so perfectly and to us he’s absolutely perfect, too. 

"Note that her narration changed from her deciding, her coming home has changed to "we." Also note the missing pronoun for "skipped the reception and called my doctor." This indicates deception because she has skipped a large chunk of time. She is not being led by questions, she is free-editing her own story and for some reason decides to go straight from Todd checking on flights to skipping the reception and getting on the plane. Judging from her use of pronouns, we can determine that she was not alone when she arrived at the hospital. However, she gives no indicators as to who she was with."

"She refers to her other children as"my babies," not "our babies, which is very telling. She then refers to Trig as her "fifth child." For those well-versed in Statement Analysis, when someone uses the word "child," it is associated with risk, danger, harm, and abuse. It is not called baby abuse/kid abuse, it is called child abuse. Trig is not her baby like her other children have been, he is simply her fifth child. She starts out by describing her labor as relatively easy, and then corrects herself by saying it was not just easy, not just very easy, but very very easy. When the subject uses these qualifiers, she is telling us she wants us to believe them. From this sentence we can say that his birth was not very easy." 

Reporter: Of course you’re back to work already today and actually signed a bill that day, right? 

Palin: That day, yeah, staff came out to the hospital and I signed a bill there so I could uh make sure we transmitted that in time and then uh here today also yeah, we have some energy updates I didn’t want to miss so that was good. Look at him he’s just doing so well and it’s been easy and relaxing and again it all seems just meant to be this way. 

"Please note that any use of "so, since, therefore, because" shows a reason why something did or did not take place. This indicates sensitivity. She had no reason to explain why she signed the bill but offers us a lengthy response as to why she did. Again, Trig is mentioned using only he/him pronouns. He has not yet been mentioned with a name/term of endearment/nickname by his mother. "Meant to be" indicates that God is controlling the situation (freeing her from all guilt) and that God is the only person who can judge her alleged actions." 

Reporter: You said you felt some signs of labor, what were those signs? 

Palin: Well not contractions so much because I had Braxton Hicks contractions for months as every pregnant woman does, and nothing real painful but just knowing that, um, it was feeling like, I may not um, be able to be pregnant a whole another four or five weeks knowing that it would be not a bother to call our doctor and let her know. 

"And um she’s delivered how many babies over the year did she say? Extra words in describing that not just she, but all pregnant women have Braxton Hicks for months. This indicates sensitivity concerning her labor. She says she was not in pain and not having contractions which would have alerted her. She goes on to say knowing that she may not be able to be pregnant and corrects herself halfway through by saying it was feeling like she may not be able to be pregnant for much longer. Her first response indicates that she knew Trig was close to being delivered. She gives no indication as to what alerted her to this. This is also the first time that "my doctor" has been referred to as "our doctor," why the change? Sarah then asks how many babies CBJ has delivered over the year; it is a specific time frame (the year) that she changes to a couple of decades in her next breath. 

Todd: Lots 

Palin: A lot. It’s been a couple of decades of her delivering babies. We knew to call her and just get her advice and, um, from there we again decided to skip the energy conference reception and come on home and get checked out. 

"She says "we knew to call her" but in her first paragraph she said that she called the doctor herself. Usually the person dialing the phone makes the statement that they were the one who called. In her whole paragraph she indicated she was alone when she called to talk to her doctor. Was the decision-making in reference to phoning the doctor made over text messaging? She also says "we again decided to skip the energy conference." Who is "we?" In her first paragraph, she describes herself as making the initial decision, indicating that Todd had nothing to do with the decision. Her priorities are also telegraphed by her saying "come home and get checked out." Getting back home was paramount to her getting checked out." 

Reporter: So did your water break? 

"Readers note that this is a very straightforward question. It is a yes/no answer. The strongest statement Palin could make to answer this truthfully would be to say "Yes, my water broke" or "No, my water did not break." She does neither of these." 

Palin: Well, if you must know more of those type of details, but, um… 

Reporter: Well, your dad said that and I saw him say it so that’s why I asked. 

Palin: Well that was again if, if I must get personal, technical about this at the same time, um, it was one, it was a sign that I knew, um, could lead to uh, labor being uh kind of kicked in there was any kind of, um, amniotic leaking, amniotic fluid leaking, so when, when that happened we decided OK let’s call her. 

"This response is incredibly sensitive to Palin. She telegraphs this by repeating words: if if, personal technical it was one it was a sign, amniotic leaking amniotic fluid leaking, so when when that happened. This shows she does not want to answer the question and indicates deception. Her use of synonyms with regards to "personal, technical" also indicates sensitivity. Is the question personal or is it technical? One implies she shouldn't have to answer it and the other implies it's too difficult to answer it. She was asked, did your water break and answered that "I knew [amniotic leaking] could lead to labor being kicked in. When that happened we decided OK let's call [the doctor]." She again states that "we decided" to call CBJ, although she does not indicate that anyone was with her when she called, only that there was another person who helped her make the decision to call. 

Todd: There’s a lot of new doctors out there on the streets in the last couple of days. 

"This is a sarcastic remark. It would seem to be aimed at the interviewer, since she was asking personal/technical questions." 

Palin: Yeah, that’s significant too. Todd said, uh, after getting a couple of comments he said that he said wow everybody’s a doctor, Everybody’s going to tell us what we could have should have done and even though these folks - especially the critics- they’re not doctors. They didn’t know the situation. They don’t know the situation. They, they certainly don’t know our doctor and the consultations that we’ve had with her. So we did nothing to put our child nor anyone else in danger, uh, going through this five times I know what labor is and, uh, I am not a glutton for pain and punishment. I would have never, um, wanted to travel if I had been fully engaged in labor. 

"That's significant too, she says. What is it significant to, especially since it was a facetious remark and not intended to be serious? The timing of this remark in this interview suggests that the doctor comment was significant to what she was just talking bout: her water breaking. This implies that she does not think discussion of her whether or not her water broke is significant. She states that "they didn't know the situation, they don't know the situation;" there is only one situation being questioned which is her labor. She indicates that there is not just a past situation, but also a present situation that people are unaware of. Presumably because they are not doctors, don't know CBJ, and were not present during consults. Consultations is plural, meaning they had more than one need to consult her. A consultation is not a prenatal appointment or testing." 

"Conclusion: there is marked deception indicated multiple times throughout her story. She does not refer to her newborn as her baby, a baby, by a nickname-- only as her "fifth child" or "child." She uses pausing fillers like "um, uh, yeah" more than thirty times in this section of the interview, this indicates she is not recalling an actual memory but has to think of what she's going to say. Her ums and uhs stop entirely when she gets defensive and angry about people acting like doctors. She is genuinely upset. They start up again as soon as she mentions that they did nothing to put their child in danger. Does this interview give proof that Sarah Palin did not give birth to Trig Palin? Sadly, no. It does indicate that she is lying throughout the entire interview concerning the Wild Ride, however. Does it give proof that Sarah has a poor relationship with her husband and her fifth child by using distancing language? (Skeptics please remember that if Trig was adopted, he's legally a Palin) Yes. I know that many mothers, nurses, doctors, and Trig Truthers have already decided that the Wild Ride was a load of Palin crap. But hopefully this analysis gives us a few more clues as to certain nuances in the Palin clan."

Now I did not conduct this analysis myself, so I a cannot vouch for its accuracy, but in my opinion it makes some rather striking points that I thought would be interesting to discuss.

So what did you think?

P.S. Here is a video of the interview courtesy of Palingates for you to use for reference.

Update: Apparently this analysis has already been posted at Sarah's Scandals a couple of weeks ago. I apologize for not providing a link, or giving them credit, but I was not aware of that fact when I posted this. This does happen from time to time, and since I don't get the chance to visit everybody's blog I really have no idea.

Anyhow it certainly cannot hurt to have something like this show up more than one place.

Why did the 2008 overthrow of the Alaskan Republican Party fail? Or did it?

Yesterday we received confirmation from one of Schaeffer Cox's co-defendants, Coleman Barney, that despite the defense attorney's attempts to blame FBI informant William Fulton, the notorious "241" plan was indeed the brainchild of Cox himself, and that Barney had serious reservations about the plan:

A member of the Mormon Church, Barney told the jury he believed in advancing the militia's freedom-minded aims but worried for his soul. He told fellow militia members that enacting the notorious "241" plan to kill two government officials for each fallen militia member was more likely to make them the objects of ridicule rather than martyrs, Barney testified. 

"I don't know that this would accomplish anything in God's plan other than we'd be dead and we'd be labeled as loonies," Barney told jurors, summarizing statements he made to other members of the volunteer force.

That plus the rantings from Cox himself in the courtroom will undoubtedly prove more than enough to put Francis "Schaeffer" Cox away from quite some time.

However I have found myself somewhat more fixated on the previous revelation in court that the people who introduced FBI informant Bill Fulton to Cox in the first place were none other than Joe Miller and Palin Chief of Staff Frank Bailey, and what that had to do with the recent coup within the Alaska GOP by Joe Miller and Cox disciple Russ Millette.

So I did a little digging and came up with some rather interesting, if not startling, information.

According to sources the reason that Cox, who was a Fairbanks acquaintance of Joe Miller's from way back, was brought into the hotel room to meet Fulton was because of his ties to the Ron Paul campaign.

You see even back in 2008 the plan was to use the Ron Paul smokescreen to provide cover for the REAL individual behind the takeover, and that was Sarah Palin herself. Essentially both Joe Miller and Frank Bailey were working as her surrogates to finally oust Randy Reuderich, and take the party out of the hands of the old guard, which included Ted Stevens, Don Young, and  Lisa's dad Frank Murkowski.

Sarah Palin despised these men for a variety of reasons and wanted to wrest control of the Alaska GOP out of their hands. And though her few remaining supporters would argue she wanted to "clean up the corruption" that was not her true motivation.  (Though it did make a handy bumper sticker for her gubernatorial campaign.)

And in fact with Miller's help, the groundwork her minions had done leading up to the convention, and Cox's ties to the Paul campaign,  Palin pretty much had all of the elements in place to take over the Alaska GOP that March. There was a fairly significant split among the delegates, but my understanding is that Palin's people had a plan in place that they thought would successfully oust Reuderich and put Vice Chair Cathy Giessel in his place.

However something happened, and the next day plans had changed. Instead it was decided that Sean Parnell would run against Don Young, and Reuderich was allowed to remain the party chairman for the next four years.

Here is what the AP reported took place the next day:

A state Republican convention that could have unified a troubled party descended into infighting Friday, with the lieutenant governor announcing his intention to unseat a congressman and the governor calling for changes in GOP leadership. 

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell said he would challenge U.S. Rep. Don Young, the 18-term incumbent who's the subject of a federal investigation that includes his campaign finance practices. 

"The days of unquestioning loyalty are gone," Parnell said a few hours later after filing candidacy paperwork. "It's time for principled leadership." 

Gov. Sarah Palin escorted Parnell into the Division of Elections office and immediately endorsed him over Young. She gave no thought to the protocol of an endorsement months before the August primary, she said. 

"When something's right, it's right," she said. "There's no time like the present to state your case and speak candidly about what you believe it. And I believe in his candidacy." 

Palin announces her endorsement of Sean Parnell

But what happened to convince the group to abandon their carefully crafted plan?  What new information was revealed that suggested that this was small potatoes and that there were bigger things ahead for Palin and her merry band of trouble makers?

Now this is where it gets interesting.  According to my sources the reason they put off the coup was because it was revealed that Palin had something more important on her plate. The VP nomination.

Apparently the word came down that Palin was no longer interested in taking over the Alaska GOP because she was all but certain that she was going to be on the Republican ticket.  Remember this is less than a month after her first meeting with John McCain, one month before the birth of Trig Paxson Van Palin, and about seven months before she was officially trotted out as John McCain's running mate.

We have been led to believe (Even though I have ALWAYS known better) that McCain picked Palin at the last minute, but in fact, according to my sources, Palin was certain enough that she was on the ticket as far back as March of 2008 to walk away from the overthrow of her arch nemesis, Randy Reuderich. Something which she had been planning for years!

Now this is also rather interesting because in his book, Frank Bailey, who as we all know did not seem shy about outing Palin's numerous lies, only says this about Palin's chances at the VP slot:


"While none of us believed Sarah to be a sure thing for veep--or necessarily even a front-runner--by midyear we understood that it was a possibility, a development that raised anxiety and excitement."

So since Bailey was DEFINITELY around during the time that this news was shared, are we to believe he did not take it seriously? Or is there some other reason that he did not share with his readers just how far back Palin was certain she was McCain's choice for VP?

This might be a good time to remind all of you that Palin had only just announced she was pregnant eight days earlier, on March 7, the day AFTER John McCain officially won the nomination as the Republican candidate for President.

By the way I was also told that Palin had no intention of finishing her first term, ostensibly because she figured she would have a new job as VP in Washington, DC.

Which only goes to remind all of us once again WHY Palin hates President Obama so much. He is after all the man she holds personally responsible for destroying her carefully laid plans to someday sit in the Oval Office.

So having that dream stripped away, it appears that Palin and her minions have returned to plan B, and are now firmly in charge of the Alaska Republican party.

Beyonce's claim that she dropped sixty pounds since the birth of her baby, has reopened speculation that she faked her pregnancy.

Apparently while on stage in Atlantic City Beyonce recently claimed the following:

“Y’all have no idea how hard I worked. I had to lose 60 pounds. They had me on that treadmill. I ate lettuce!”

Beyonce gave birth in early January, after rumors started to swirl that she was not actually pregnant.

 After the arrival of the baby, named Blue Ivy Carter, interest in the possible faked pregnancy began to wane.  But now with Beyonce making such unbelievable claims of this incredible weight loss tongues are once again wagging:

People only just started letting this “fake Beyonce pregnancy” thing go. And then girlfriend had to open her mouth about this half-a-person weight-loss garbage. Maybe girl should keep her damn mouth shut and let sleeping dogs lie, you know?

Now for the record THIS is what Beyonce looked like weeks before she gave birth.

 THAT is sixty pounds of baby weight? On what planet?

And this is what she looks like now.

You know to me it looks like her arms, legs, and face are relatively the same size.  The only difference I see is in her stomach.

Hmm now where have I seen that kind of bizarre weight gain during a pregnancy before?

Oh yeah, that's right!

And speaking of rapid loss of baby fat, here is Palin only five months after Trig's "birth."

Palin in September. Five months after supposedly giving birth.

I know that some of you consider the Beyonce pregnancy story to be a distraction, but in my opinion if she is ever called out publicly for faking a pregnancy, than we have very fertile ground for informing people about Palin's faked pregnancy. Don'tcha think?

Oh if ONLY the American media had followed Canada's example back in 2008.

Every time I see this clip I cannot help but imagine just how incredible it would have been if the MSM in this country had not been so cowardly, and had actually done their jobs of getting to the bottom of this bizarre fabrication..

Just imagine.

With Palin's career destroyed back in 2008, there would have been no Tea Party.

No "death panels."

No crosshair image placed over Gabrielle Giffords district in Arizona.

No crappy reality show from Alaska.

No clearly pregnant Bristol on DWTS.

But alas, such was not to be.  So instead it was left up to a few dogged bloggers, her own slips of the tongue, and a handful of books written by Geoffrey Dunn, Frank Bailey, Joe McGinniss, and yes, even Levi Johnston, to bring her down.

Well at least today she has been marginalized to the point that she is no longer an actual threat, though I am still anxiously awaiting the day when her ability to garner ANY attention has slipped through her clawlike fingers.

Alaska shock jocks Bob and Mark wanted to record Palin giving birth to Trig. Can everybody say "Eeeww!"

I am trying to pace these e-mail stories out a little bit as there is just an enormous amount of information in them.  In order not to trip all over myself while trying to get them posted, I have decided to focus on about one a day.

Today's selection is one that has some rather odd revelations about the relationship that two Anchorage based DJ's assumed they had to with Sarah Palin, while also providing fodder to help imagine the comedic implications that could have ensued if Palin had actually taken these two imbeciles up on their idea.

Here are the e-mails in question:

gov. sarah@yahoo.com wrote: 

Wants KWHL to throw me a baby shower. I say "yes", if the gifts can go to these young Army wives who don’t have much, they’re far from their families, the dads aren’t there for the newborns first months, etc. And now Ft. Wainwright’s aviation unit was notified of a four month extension on deployments. Would u assign someone to work with Bob on that angle? 

Thanks 

Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One 

From: Kris Perry 
To: ExternalEmailgsp 
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) 
Sent: Mon Mar 10 19:53:44 2008 
Subject: Re: Bob Lester 

Yes, I’ll give him a call initially and then have someone work with him on details. Love the idea about the young army wives. 

So far this sounds very reasonable and appropriate, and you kind of have to give Palin credit for thinking about military wives. (Though her generosity COULD be the result of some guilty feelings I guess.)


But then it gets weird.


From: Kris Perry 
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:25:58 
To:gov.sarah@yahoo.com, Sharon Leighow 
Subject: Re: Bob Lester 

I spoke w/Bob. He agrees on the donation and thinks it’s great. He brought up the possibility of doing it after the baby is born so the baby would be present as well. He’s envisioning ALOT of people, i.e. Egan Center and I’m not too sure about that idea. 

We’ll work out details once timeframe is determined. 

He also asked again about the live audio recording of the birth and what you thought. A private moment? 

WTF? Bob Lester wanted to record the Governor of his state WHILE she was giving birth to another human being, and then play that tape on the air for his radio audience? And he believed in his chances of getting a positive response from Palin enough to ask multiple times? Really?

"Eeewww!"

gov. sarah@yahoo.com wrote: 

Don’t want to take this too far. Kinda wish I hadnt had to tell anyone, but crazy to think it could have been hidden long. No- no Egan, and I’m not going to assume this will be as smooth and easy as the other kids’ births, so can’t imagine inviting in a rock radio microphone. 

Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One 

Wait! She's "not going to assume this will be as smooth and easy as the other kids births?"

That concern was certainly NOT reflected in her famous "Letter from God," written less than a month later, in which "God" clearly states "I let Trig's mom have an exceptionally comfortable pregnancy so she could enjoy every minute of it, and I even seemed to rush it along so she could wait until near the end to surprise you with the news." But a month earlier Sarah/God was worried that this birth might be MORE challenging than those preceding it? (Kind of hard to imagine since this was a fake pregnancy, which would be followed by a fake birth. OH! I see the problem.)


Now it should be noted that Palin has always had a rather bizarre and cozy relationship with Bob and Mark. 

They laughed together over Lyda Green's cancer.

Bob and Mark got into hot water for being disrespectful to Alaska natives, so they have that in common. 


Piper has called in to the show, apparently while she was left alone watching Trig. As has Bristol. So Bob Lester has become like part of the family I suppose.


And of course Palin had also PROMISED to announce her decision about running for office on their radio program. (Though of course she didn't.)


However, regardless of their relationship over the years, WHY did these two yahoos believe that Palin might let them record perhaps the most private, and excruciatingly painful, experience that a woman ever goes through in her life?  

Are they really that dim? (Actually I can tell you from experience, that yes they are, yes they really ARE that dim!) 


Of course the request was moot, because Palin would eventually fly back from Texas in the dead of night to produce this child before any media could get to the hospital in time to bear witness to the "blessed event." 

"I was pregnant, and now there's a baby. Nothing to see here. So move along!"

Still I cannot help wondering what might have been, if Palin HAD agreed to stage a radio dramatization of a woman giving birth. 


Do you think it would have supported her version of events? Or do you think she would have screwed it up so badly that her deception would have been uncovered well BEFORE John McCain was "convinced" to pick her for his running mate?

Is Catherine Baldwin-Johnson plying her trade in New York City now?

Courtesy of New York Times:

A very pregnant Beyoncé had checked into the upper East Side hospital on Friday night under the name “Ingrid Jackson,” a hospital staffer told the Daily News. 

Beyoncé and her hip-hop hubby, whose real name is Shawn Carter, rented out the hospital’s entire fourth floor for $1.3 million, the employee said. 

After 11 p.m., even doctors and nurses were barred from entering the fourth floor, prompting one doc to complain that he had patients to see. 

In an effort to keep images from leaking to the public, hospital workers placed tape over security cameras and are forcing employees to turn in cell phones when they arrive for their shifts, a source said. 

Several security guards were spotted patrolling the perimeter of the hospital Saturday night. 

I know that some of you dislike it when I talk about Beyonce and compare her strange "pregnancy" to Palin's, but come on!

If anything she has simply improved on the deception.

Private security? Taping over the cameras? Taking the cell phones away from employees?

Palin only wishes she had thought of those things!

And believe me, I am not alone in calling bullshit.

This from the comments section at TMZ:

"The goal, keeping Beyonce's delivery under wraps, succeeded admirably -- no pictures of Bey or hubby Jay-Z entering or exiting the hospital have emerged ... and she hasn't been seen at all since Thursday" 

How convenient! Its like SHE didn't give birth to the baby at all.. 
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thats because Beyonce wasnt even pregnant lol 
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Gotta keep that non-delivery super secret. Wake up people. She was NEVER pregnant. The baby is either being carried by a surrogate or the baby is adopted. 
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She was never pregnant. Her face and breasts never made the usual changes a pregnant woman has - it is all a farce. Do they really think everyone is that stupid? Someone got paid a LOT to carry a baby for them - why not just be honest? Plastic people.
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I wonder, after something like this, if MORE of the media might not be willing to look a little harder at Sarah Palin's "pregnancy?" Now that there is an example of another celebrity pulling off the same hoax I mean?

It looks like Sarah Palin has inspired another fashion trend. In China. And it concerns fake pregnancies.

Courtesy of the Huffington Post:

Fake pregnancy bellies have become the latest hot-ticket item in the Chinese online market, according to a report by Ecns.cn. 

The products are made of skin-colored silica gel, which give the bellies realistic texture and appearance. Retailing for between 500 and 1600 yuan ($79 to $252), the bellies are available several sizes depicting different stages of pregnancy, People Daily reports. 

The most popular belly size replicates the five- to seven-month pregnancy stage, according to Ecns.

There is actually no proof that this new trend in China is connected to Klondike Kardashian, but HERS is perhaps the most famous faked pregnancy in the world. (Though in the article they do mention Beyonce's current pregnancy as also being fake.)

Personally I have confidence that all of the internet talk about Palin's faked pregnancy MUST have made its way to China. (I have seen hundreds of visits from Taiwan and China on my Feedjit over the last three years.)

Well one thing for sure, you certainly have to admit that this...

...is WAY more convincing than this.

And infinitely more convincing than this.

Sarah Palin March 26, 2008.

So perhaps when all is said and done Sarah Palin's contribution to the world will be to have inspired the creation of a better, and more convincing prosthesis to help women trick people into believing they are pregnant.

In China.

Way to go.

And just imagine, if Palin EVER wants to get back into politics she now has access to a MUCH more convincing pregnancy belly to help her earn attention, and get that pro-life credibility that made her such a hot property in 2008.

Okay perhaps you shouldn't imagine that.

A clearly agitated Palin appears on Hannity and again mentions rumors of her affairs, spits venom all over the studio, and even alludes to Shailey Tripp! I know, right? Update!

To watch the interview in its entirety, just click the image.

Palin was clearly EXTREMELY pissed off about something even before the interview started, and when asked about Herman Cain's possible affair did NOT cut him any slack at all! Here was her response:

"If Herman Cain did not engage in this recent thirteen year affair, screwing around on his wife, and giving money to some broad on the side unbeknownst to his wife, well then, if he did not do this, then the false accuser is really despicable and we shouldn't have to put up with that kind of false accusations that results in somebody's character being so besmirched and really ruined. If he did do it though Sean, if he did it, if he engaged in this recent affair and is misleading the public then, like they said 'boys will be boys' but they shouldn't run the country."

But the interesting part for me was when she again referenced the affairs that she and Todd have been accused of having, but then went even further and said that, "I have had people, who have sworn on a Bible, that they have had affairs with Todd or had affairs with me. Or, one specific one was a masseuse said she massaged me when I was seven months pregnant, and..ah..she could tell that I was not pregnant, and hence Trig was not my kid, and that resulted in this whole Trig Truther issue that I still deal with everyday."

OMFG!

I cannot believe she referenced Shailey Trip on television! You could have knocked me over with a feather!

However I have NO idea how she extrapolates what Shailey Tripp said to the beginning of the questions about her fake pregnancy? We started asking THOSE questions as soon as she was nominated by McCain. Shailey's contribution is relatively new.

If you feel so inclined you can revisit my interview with Shailey, from February of this year, and hear for yourself what has apparently been driving the Grizzled Mama crazy all of these many months.

I have been wondering what has been going on with Palin keeping so quiet lately, but it seems pretty clear that she has spent much of her free time stewing about all of the information out there that is keeping her from running for President.

What can I say? We did it for our country, and I don't feel bad about it one little bit. (And by the way, I'm not done yet.)

P.S. I contacted Shailey minutes after I heard the remarks, so she may have something to say about this on her blog as well.

Update:  It looks like Palin was aware that she came off somewhat manic in her Hannity interview. She tweeted this not long after:

Dang - spoke too rapidly on @hannityshow; should have clarified I'm for eliminating "fed corporate income tax." 9 hours ago via web

 I wonder if she is aware what ELSE she may have"spoke to rapidly" about?