drama!

[ironymaiden]

as i said in this thread, the rumor that Governor Sarah Palin is really the grandmother of her youngest child seemed delicious but very far-fetched.

yet it's starting to hang together.

oh, and Biden's son and brother may be trouble (via hottipper sinthrex)

i need some popcorn.

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[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

This is just nuts. But I love it, because it's so very Jerry Springer.

What it comes down to for me, though, is this:

If the baby is actually her kid's, then she's a liar and a hypocrite for covering up her abstinence-only education mistake.

If the baby is actually hers, and she got on a 10-hour flight while in pre-term labor with a high-risk pregnancy, then she's a hypocrite AND an idiot.

Either way, she doesn't come out of this looking good.

And neither does the GOP, for not vetting her more thoroughly.

[shellyinseattle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. When this rumor first came out, I had only read the part about not showing at 7 months, which I hadn't either and the concurrent removal of her daughter from school. I sighed and said can't make much out of that.

But this story! First, the flying wouldn't be on any sane person's agenda at month 8.

Flying with your water breaking though? No, I don't buy that part at all. For me, even though I wasn't having contractions, the hospital wanted me there to induce me so I wouldn't have an infection. And you never know when those contractions will start, so you wouldn't be on a 10 hour flight. There is no way even a very fit mom with previously healthy pregnancies would have flown all the way home, driven to a remote facility, etc. And her age alone puts her in a high-risk category.

[gaelfarce.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's time to grab the lawn chair and watch it unfold!

[sinthrex.livejournal.com]

What do you make of the screams of misogynism coming from parts of the left directed at the other parts of the left that are poking this to see if it twitches?

I think I would be all for leaving it alone, if it weren't for the abstinence/abortion stands. In light of that, if this is true, she deserves to have it shoved in her face.

I do feel bad for the daughter though. If true, I'm sure she's already been through hell at the hands of her family and now the nation is going to get to play too.

[ironymaiden]

i think that the left will always tear itself apart when it isn't uniting against an outside enemy. and even when it is. when someone on the left comes forward and starts talking about ageism, and how nasty it is to keep mentioning that lump on McCain's face, maybe then i'll feel less annoyed about those rushing to protect Palin's delicate self. i'd say the rhetoric used to describe her is remarkably like the rhetoric used to describe Dan Quayle back in the day - young, pretty, inexperienced, etc. and i'm certainly not going to refrain from calling an anti-sex ed/antiabortion female politician a stupid cunt.

all we need is a standard sweaty-mom-exhausted-after-labor holding infant Trig picture to clear this up. everyone takes them. i'm surprised that it's not been taken care of already. i know putting an intimate family moment out there is an invasion of privacy, but she's already getting the welcome-to-national-politics anal probe. and they haven't pulled out the opera-length gloves yet...

and yes, i feel terrible for the daughter.

[buhrger]

i know putting an intimate family moment out there is an invasion of privacy
IDHTBIFOM right now, but i recall a favoured paragraph by john ralston saul whereïn he suggests that if a politican runs on policy and (if elected) implements that policy in a competent manner, s|he should be allowed to get falling-down-drunk in public. but if a politican runs on "family values", then that politician opens up her|his family to scrutiny. it's worded better than that. shall track down.

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

shall track down

please do.

[buhrger]

the book in question is The Doubter's Companion a dictionary of aggressive common sense by the aforementioned john ralston saul, now yclept "his excellency" due to his recent tenure as the consort of this country's vice-regent. in spite of that, his writing is by turns entertaining and thought-provoking. the companion, in particular, advances several political arguments, but also owes a great deal in style and tone to ambrose bierce's earlier work. the relevant entry in this context is the one for

PRIVATE LIVES The private lives of public people may be considered private only so long as they don't trade on them to advance their public careers.
If an individual presents himself to the public for election as a happily married father of three, then he has made his weekend with a secretary or his visit to a prostitute of either sex a matter of public interest. If he makes a point of drinking milk in public, then the public will want to know whenever he gets drunk. If he buys his suits at Wal-Mart for the cameras, then proceeds to holiday on rich men's yachts, he will be photographed with telephoto lenses. But if he were to present himself to the public for election as a believer in specific policies, he might well be judged on those while his genitals, interesting though he himself might find them, would be forgotten by those not directly concerned as being of little relevance to the public good. He would probably even be able to fall down drunk in public from time to time without anyone much caring so long as the interests of the citizenry were being looked after. See AD HOMINEM.

weirdness

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26496189/

Re: weirdness

[refractednotion.livejournal.com]

Alright, so given that story, the daughter must have been about 0-months pregnant when this picture was taken in March:



Riiiiight. So fake pregnancy #2 through November and then a convenient miscarriage, am I right? This is getting pathetic.

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

[ironymaiden]

ha!
it could be cylons.