Over at Gia’s blog, there’s a fantastic post concerning what is known and what is rumoured (and the evidence for it) about Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, Trig Palin and a whole lotta baby mama drama.
Short recap: first there were was a story on Daily Kos, which has since been deleted, which claimed that Sarah Palin’s 4-month-old baby boy, Trig, was actually her grandson.
- They talked about how she only announced her pregnancy when she was 7 months gone
- how no one she worked with had realised she was pregnant
- they linked to images and video of her at 7-8 months pregnant and she didn’t *look* 7-8 months pregnant
- they explained how her daughter Bristol had been taken out of school for 5 months ‘with a bad case of mono’ (in American high schools that’s often a euphemism for ‘pregnant’)
- how when Sarah Palin went into labor a month early and was leaking amniotic fluid, she got on a plane, took an 8 hour flight, then a 45 minute car journey from Texas to Alaska- did I mention the baby has Downe’s Syndrome?- had the baby on a Friday, then was back at work Monday morning. To pretty much everyone who’d had a baby, this seemed either pretty unlikely or an example of SUPREMELY bad judgment on the part of Sarah Palin for all kinds of reasons…
- they put 2 and 2 together and got a ‘Desperate Housewives’-style plot which made me remember why I love teh internets so much
Then someone from Sarah Palin’s hometown (pop. 9,000) pops up in the comments on a blog and says, ‘Trig is Sarah Palin’s son, but her 17 year old daughter is pregnant NOW.’ (see comments by ‘Sue Williams’). Then comes the announcement that, yes, Bristol Palin, 17 years old, unmarried, is, indeed, pregnant and her boyfriend describes himself as a “f – - -in’ redneck” and that he “[doesn’t] want kids”. Doh!
Next on Jerry Springer:
What, I ask you, would be happening on Fox News right now if one of Barack and Michelle Obama’s daughters was 17 and this was happening? A black, unmarried, teenage, pregnant girl. What would the Republicans be saying about that? Think they’d be saying ‘it’s a private family matter’? No. They wouldn’t at all. They’d be judging and condemning Barack and Michelle. They’d be questioning their parenting skills. They’d be going on about how this is exactly what America *doesn’t* need in the White House. And you know it.
Catch ‘em with their lying pants down, Gia!
Sarah Palin is anti-choice when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth. She has said that she wouldn’t support the decision to have an abortion even if her own daughter was raped. Charmingly, she apparently said this when her own daughter was 14 years old. Just some facts as an aside: only about one third of rapes are reported to the police in the US; 1 in 6 American women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape; 21.6% of those were younger than 12; 32.4% were between the ages of 12 and 18; rape-related pregnancy occurs “with significant frequency”. more here and here. Remember, Sarah Palin said she would force her 14 year old child to have a baby if she got pregnant after being raped.
And it gets better and better (or worse and worse). Go read the whole thing.
