Village Voice Weighs In about Trig//UPDATE
April 22, 2011
I guess this removes the last of the doubts.
If The Village Voice declares case closed, it must be.
What’s remarkable about this issue is how absolutely convinced so many people on both sides are that their opinion is not merely their opinion, but verifiable fact, and that anyone who feels differently is a dunce or a shill. I find the degree of certitude remarkable in regard to a story in which so much has been claimed, but so little verified.
And what a pleasant Easter Surprise for Sarah: elite eastern liberal bloggers tripping all over each other to rush to her defense against the vile cretins who don’t simply accept her at her word.
Now we can go back to asking whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
UPDATE:
In which we hear from Andrew Sullivan
with a promise of more to come.
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47 Responses to “Village Voice Weighs In about Trig//UPDATE”
Speaking of verification it is much easier to verify a pregnancy (birth certificate, doctor’s statement, etc.) versus a non-pregnancy.
“a story in which so much has been claimed, but so little verified.”
In the alternate world of $palin, her word is law and nothing needs to be proven. Make you think of Orwell’s “1984” much?
It will come out, and when it does, will they be falling all over themselves to say they were wrong? I don’t think Andrew should hold his breath for any apology.
You are right: people can be strident on both sides of this issue. I interviewed this doctor expecting him to back up me and everyone else who says it’s wrong to have a Ds baby with a hole in its heart at a small hospital. And he said no, that’s not an unreasonable plan because of reasons X, Y and Z. BUT, if something goes wrong, like she supposedly showed up with leaking water and a baby in distress, they might have deemed it riskier to move her rather than deliver her (I had never thought of that part of it). He even outlined the situation of heart defects in Down syndrome babies. I am open to hearing it. But people don’t want to hear this. He knows a lot more than I do. What throws this into more contention is how crazy the story gets from there. And from the beginning! All factors weighed in, yes it’s a bizarre tale beyond compare. And yet if we can remove one small part of it, that would be nice. Yet people want to hold on to preconceptions, even if an MD is saying, hey, it’s not necessarily like that. Oh well, keep on keeping on. She must be enjoying this attention!
I see a lot of people commenting, well so what if she faked the pregnancy and suggesting that it doesn’t matter. I think it matters and I wonder what your thoughts are to the so what comment. I have your book on order at Barnes & Noble and can’t wait to read it.
Something tells me Sarah is not enjoying this attention. Funny thing seems to happen quite a bit with Sarah – a negative story starts coming down and she calls in some favors, or tweets out an insult, which results in more attention and the Google goes wild. I just perused the sites posting about this today. The descriptions of her crazy behavior and pictures of her flat “7 month pregnant” belly are all over the place. Under headlines that scream “DEBUNKED” are pages and pages of comments with all of the details of her sordid little tale. I love the internet tubes.
Absent proof, let Palin own her irresponsibility. What she did was reckless, she should be required to answer for that.
How can it not matter if a candidate for national office did or did not invent a story about giving birth to a child?
What could matter more?
–Joe
It is always the responsibility of the parents to document the birth of their child. Always. It is not up to some third-party to prove that the child is someone else’s. Otherwise, anyone could claim that any kid is theirs or someone else’s or born who-knows-where. There is a defined established process.
Heck, even that Communist Socialist Muslim in the White House produced a birth certificate back in 2008. It exists. It has been vetted. It has been verified. Why can’t Palin produce even one single piece of definitive evidence regarding her pregnancy and the birth of Trig?
Your mom could/would do it in a heartbeat. Why can’t Sarah?
Salon, Village Voice, Huff Po, and all the “Investigative Journalists” should tell the truth. They should just say that they don’t think Palin’s claimed pregnancy is a valid issue and therefore they aren’t going to investigate it or report on it. Instead they prove nothing and then proclaim they have proved Palin’s story, time to drop it. Very dishonest. And very un-Sully, whom they trash.
As to certitude, unless someone can disprove the pictures of Palin with a totally flat belly within 6 weeks of delivering a 6 pound baby–and these recent articles don’t even try to do that–I remain certain that Sarah Palin did not give birth to Trig. You can have loads of photos showing someone clothed who looks pregnant, but one photo where the person isn’t pregnant trumps them.
As to why the left-leaning blogs are pushing Palin’s giving birth toTrig as a certainty, and why now, perhaps they want her to win the Republican nomination or at least keep her base loyal to make the process messier.
Nothing in this story has been verified, and so many have facts wrong.
The level of conviction many people hold about aspects of the circumstantial evidence is strong. I frequently think I must be too wishy-washy or have vision or cognitive problems when I don’t see what some of the pregnancy hoax proponents see in a particular photo or scenario. I mostly have questions. I believe there is enough questionable evidence of a possible hoax to expect the press to investigate and insist on definitive, logical proof. My biggest beef is that Palin isn’t held accountable. The woman has a history as a fabulist and she frequently denigrates the LSM for failing to take ‘that extra step’ to find out the truth. Yet the press repeatedly gives her a pass and reports her claims as fact.
Is the ‘spiral of silence’ limited to the alleged pregnancy or does is it have a wider reach? What’s the chance Palin will ever be pressured to release the Troopergate investigation records? She insisted the documentation from the Renkes investigation be made public ‘so Alaskans can make their own judgments’. It’s simply maddening. And the Village Voice article is beyond depressing.
One of the things I’m finding most interesting about this story in the last couple of days is the contempt and outright dishonest portrayal of Andrew Sullivan and his position by Elliot and Linkins. They seem to harbor an extreme hostility toward Sullivan because he dare ask for what should be simple, easily produced, legal verification of Trig’s maternity. Why such a request made by a brilliant and thoughtful writer like Sullivan should engender such resentment is disturbing and more than proves Professor Scharlot’s thesis about a spiral of silence and coordinated group shaming of those who dare try to verify the bizarre birth narrative as told, amended and re-told by a known habitual liar.
I just remembered I read an article about the impossibility of the uterus stretching, like Palin’s supposedly did during her ‘six weeks of pregnancy’. here it is: http://palinpeytonplace.blogspot.com/ > Also, for people who have not read her blog before, click on the right hand side there, where it says OBGYN shocked…
My sentiments exactly. All Sullivan has ever done is ask a question. The Beltway Media Gang decided that question shouldn’t be asked
(because they themselves were too dazzled by Palin and too cowed by the initial positive reception she received to ask it themselves.)
Maybe the only useful thing Sarah ever did was to label the mainstream media as lamestream.
–Joe
This also bothers me immensely. Andrew Sullivan has been mocked and marginalized for asking a simple question. He doesn’t deserve that, especially from his colleagues.
It should matter and I do hope nobody ever follows Palin’s example. My water leaked, went to the hospital, had emer surgery, and the cord was wrapped around my son’s neck 3 times. He was strangling. This all happened within an hour and a half. I was attached to a monitor that showed when his heartbeat plummeted. If I had done what Palin did and not had that monitor attached at the hospital, my son would have died. Never in a million years will anybody convince me that Palin’s so called 10hr flight was anything but horribly dangerous and irresponsible and calls in to question her judgement.. If people and the media don’t want to get into the part about who Trig’s mother is, then they should at least aknowledge and question and report on that plane trip. They try to dismiss all of the story as one when there are actually several parts-the flight and then the rest. It just makes me sick and I truly hope nobody ever follows her example.
It’s amazing that any doctor would say what the one you interviewed did IMHO, Laura. Did he know who you were referring to ahead of time? If so, that may play into it. However, being a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for almost two decades, working hand-in-hand with a husband & wife, OB/GYN & Pediatrician team, I’ve come to realize that there are doctors out there who will say anything in order to defend another doctor. In reality, CBJ should have and easily could have lost her license and most certainly lost her ability to obtain insurance for delivering a high-risk pregnancy when she’s not even an OB and definitely does not have the experience factor to back her up as a GP. I know there are GP’s around the country, depending on location, that deliver almost as many babies as some OB’s do because of limited proximity to an OB. That certainly wasn’t the case with $arah and to use the idea that moving her would have been more hazardous just doesn’t fly with what we’ve come to know about the case, her arriving around midnight, needing to be induced means there was time to fly her to Anchorage where she would receive the best care and so would the baby. While fetal ultrasounds reveal cardiology problems, there’s not always a clear picture of just how serious the problem is until after delivery. The idea that a GP would deliver the high-risk pregnancy of a sitting Governor, and at that time a very popular one, was absolutely nuts considering the risks were far greater than any benefit that may have been perceived by Palin. I cannot think of a single benefit for having CBJ do the delivery and location of hospital is not one to be considered when stacked against the health of an infant. The uproar we would have heard if anything had gone wrong, the “why” did CBJ deliver the baby if things had turned out badly would have not been able to be turned around by Todd in saying that it was what they wanted. The public would have asked why an OB specializing in high risk patients was not present at the delivery and would have been correct in questioning their reasons for taking such an unnecessary risk.
Now, all of what I wrote would sound as if $arah was actually pregnant which I don’t believe for a minute, but it remains reality for those who believe she did give birth and are asking why they took such chances with the health of a child they said they wanted so very badly.
It has occurred to me that there is someone else in the Palin marriage who might have been expecting a blessed event that would prove quite embarassing to a ‘family values’ political campaign. One way to keep this very quiet would be a plan to adopt the child and assist the birth mother in getting her life back together with a generous annuity. Of course this would necessitate staging a short term ‘pregnancy’ and some future strategy for being unavailable or out of town when the delivery date drew near. As it turned out, the timing of her daughter’s pregnancy became very convenient to dispel the swirling rumors that Trig might be her grandson and lend some level of validity to her claimed maternity.
I have seen Mrs P lavish affection and attention on a couple of her daughters but she seems very distracted or unattached when she is holding Trig like a sack of potatoes. None of the extreme joy she claims she felt when she discovered she was expecting a special needs child.
If Todd fathered Trig and Sarah is not the birth mother, what does that make Sarah? She can rightfully say he is her child (by marriage), but would she be Trig’s stepmom?
From my perspective, (that of being a woman who birthed a 3 wk premie baby who subsequently developed complications requiring immediate emergency surgery) the fly in the doctor’s ointment of supporting ‘the small hospital’ theory lies in fact that Dr. CBJ claims to have induced labour. And the claim was rather casual which always struck me as odd.
Knowing how every hour, every day a baby stays in the womb increases the chance of delivering a healthier baby, why wasn’t Sarah simply made to stay put for as many hours as possible? Why the rush to induce labour?
The need to induce labour would usually only arise after tests were done to determine if it was unsafe for the baby to remain in the womb or if the baby had already entered the birth canal (which, if she was never ‘in labour’ it’s unlikely).
So I would like to know – what test were performed upon which to base this decision? What tests were used to determine the baby was not in stress and could handle the birth? What tests were used to determine inducement of labour would be safe?
The baby purported to have a hole in his heart. Why on earth would a doctor who did not have the equipment or facilitiies to handle any emergencies that could arise, then induce labour 4-5 weeks early?
The fact remains, Mat-Su Hospital did not have any NICU emergency equipment but there was a hospital with those accommodations only an hour away. It would have made far more sense, after determining that Sarah and the baby were not in stress after the long journey across country, to have them both delivered to the Anchorage hospital via ambulance where all the precautions afforded by a 21st century hospital existed rather than insisting this baby with Downs Syndrome and a hole in his heart be born in the bush.
I am so tired of hearing how she was in such fear for his life yet did just about everything she could to sabotage his delivery. I’d much rather find her out as a bogus liar than to stomach the idea she went to such lengths to put that beautiful child in harm’s way.
Sorry, I meant to clarify at the start – Dr. CBJ induced labour – BUT NOT RIGHT AWAY. The timeline tells the tale. Those few hours could have been used to move the patient to a better facility. If Sarah got to Mat-Su between 10pm and midnight and only had her first contraction after being admitted (her statement, not mine) then there was plenty of time for her to be moved. And (again, her statement, not mine) she wasn’t in any stress – it was an easy delivery. So no excuses.
Sarah has charmed many on her runway dance to stardom. Its rare for a young beauty queen to move so fast into the National political arena. She slid into the conservative right wing movement, and then played a centrist roll in Alaska winning our support at first. When her past started to catch up with her, she slid into the lap of big oil, building prisons, anti-unions, environmental deregulation, NRA, and a very deceptive corporate front of the most conning and deceitful kind. Alaskan men will protect guns, whiskey, and women that lead them on.
You nailed it!
–Joe
Well, it’s hard to verify anything when no one will agree to verify it. But you can’t get much more “verified” (as in, she can no longer run away from it) than her own words, in the interview with Todd, explaining the whole sordid story of how she got on the plane(s), after having talked with her doctor who, amazingly, did not tell her to go get checked out immediately, and even tho’, according to both Chuck and Sarah, she was leaking amniotic fluid, she then bypassed a NICU to get home so that her GP doctor could then induce her labor at 35 weeks.
Just let those last six words there sink in. “Induce her labor at 35 weeks.” I can only think, off hand, of 1 good reason why anyone would deliver a baby at 35 weeks–pre-eclampsia. And then it would most probably be done by c-section because it’s a more controlled process than risking all the uncertainties that come with induction of labor.
And seeing how the dear governor nor her doctor ever mention the words “high blood pressure,” “pre-eclampsia,” or any other life threatening condition for either mother or baby, I refuse to believe this farce.
Yes, I know there will be someone who says, but if her water broke and labor stalled, they would induce because after 24 hours there’s a risk of infection. But I also know of several cases of premature labor and water breaking where antibiotics were given, and since there was no more “leaking,” the mothers were kept in hospital and observed for several days, under the doctor’s supervision, so that the baby could remain in utero as long as possible. As my labor nurses explained to me when I was admitted to stop premature labor for the 3rd time at 34 weeks–every day in utero is equal to 3 in an incubator. Any doctor worth his salt would have done everything possible to ensure a safe delivery of a special needs baby, and since no one has EVER given an explanation like the one above (risk of infection) as to why they had to induce, which there surely would have been had if it been the case, I call BS on it.
Besides the fact that if she’d been induced, there would have been all kinds of IVs, etc., which they normally insert in your hand & tape it all down–and her perfectly manicured hands would have shown some sign of having been thru that process post delivery, i.e., swelling, bruising, hell–even a band aid. I’ve never met a mother yet who was induced that didn’t swell and retain fluid in those first days, only to tell stories about finally “sweating it out” in that first week home (night sweats), Not a whole lot of thin faced, pencil skirt & heels wearing 3 days post partum mothers taking a tour of the office with their 5 week premature special needs infants. Because I don’t care if the mother was freakin’ Wonder Woman, the premature special needs baby isn’t immune or immortal. And any decent mother who wasn’t anxious to show off her new prop would realize that.
NOTHING from her story rings true–not one damn thing. Because it’s NOT.
I just said the same thing at HP. The only thing Sarah got right is the mainstream media is lame. Kinda proud of myself for thinking like you, Joe!
I’m a neonatal nurse. One of our pet phrases is “never trust a 35 weeker”. I’ve seen infants born at this gestation have wildly different reactions to birth – some just need some help with feedings while others require mechanical ventilation. It’s a stage at which too much is unpredictable.
Let’s assume for a moment that Sarah’s story is true. She underwent a cross-country trip at the peril of herself and her child. She bypassed many NICUs to arrive at her home hospital. If you are a physician, called into this situation, what do you do? The first priority would be to get her to a higher level of care. There are a few ways to do this. One would be to transfer her to a hospital with better capabilities. If you are treating a high profile patient, wouldn’t you want to provide the best care, or at least to avoid a disaster? Another situation that I have not seen suggested is the opportunity for a transport team to attend the delivery. This is a team of nurse, respiratory therapist, and sometimes neonatal nurse practitioner (depending on the case and the team membership) who bring added expertise and equipment in order to transfer a sick infant to a level III NICU. If I was a physician, with a high profile patient, who had a high risk pregnancy, and if I could somehow not get that patient to a higher level of care, then I would call to make sure the higher level of care came to me to help. Many times these teams are able to arrive prior to a delivery. This is usually seen with extremely premature births, or cases in which a diagnosis is known. I would not put a Downs Syndrome diagnosis in this category (even with the possible heart defects, the immediate birth concerns may not necessitate this), but if I was concerned about a patient, I could definitely see justifying it.
Seeing Sarah’s her desire for the “biggest” and “best” of things, why would she settle for a small community hospital? I worked at a hospital (in Dallas) where we had a number of famous people deliver – they came because it was one of the best places around, and they would have likely bypassed other community hospitals in order to arrive here.
Personally, I’m on the fence with the idea of faking a pregnancy. If she faked it in order to help someone, that is noble (and out of character for her). If she faked it in order to promote herself or to have a “trophy”, then that is a little more in character for her. But I also believe that it is totally in character for her to have had an unplanned, high risk pregnancy and for her to have done everything she could to jeopardize it: not gaining weight, possibly doing things to minimize showing (like using restrictive garments as some suggested with Bristol’s DWTS costuming), drumming on the belly, pushing herself in her exercise regimen (yes, it’s usually safe in pregnancy, but describing your activity as “thrashing” is bizarre), avoiding care in the case of an emergency, and taking him out in public on day 3. This is also consistent with her behaviors that we’ve noticed in later events – taking him out without his glasses, without socks on a cold day, most likely going without supportive therapies in order to take him on the road. While some of these activities are minor, they show a pattern of not caring or of treating him as less. Considering the lack of attention that her other children have received, it all seems to fit.
Personally, I’d prefer it if she had faked the pregnancy. Even if it was for personal gain, it’s a lot more of a moral decision than repeatedly imperiling an unborn child. I’ve seen other women in the Bible Belt where we were concerned that they had tried to do things to harm their unborn child as a way of “getting rid” of the problem. In an area in which abortions are considered evil, a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death would have gained her tons of sympathy.
I say we take up a collection, buy a page or 2 in the Village Voice, NYT, etc, have Joe compose a letter addressing this issue and have it published. This farce has to stop. Has anyone gone over to C4P to see what they are saying? We should do to them what we did to Iraq. Shock and Awe. Without the actual death.
This is the best post on the subject I have ever read. Please Sally send it on to Andrew Sullivan as it should be posted on the Daily Beast as well.
Laura, I read your interview with the doctor. I don’t think the doctor said anything that puts the hoax theory to rest. The same can be said about the back seat of a taxi. It’s a better place to deliver a baby moving down the birth canal than to transport the laboring woman to another place. The doctor also practiced out of the better equiped hospital in Anchorage. Palin’s story of choosing that hospital for her high risk birth would be better if her starting point was her home in Wasilla but she drove past the better equiped hospital.
I see one of my favorite Amazon posters AKRNC is here and I agree with her. Doctors defend other doctors. The same goes for lawyers. You can never sue a lawyer no matter how badly they screw up because you won’t find another lawyer to take the case.
Excellent comment. It’s always great to hear from people with expertise in this field.
There are some great comments on this thread, especially from medical professionals — thanks for adding your expertise to the discussion. I also want to look at this from the angle of journalism. Here we have several “eyewitnesses” coming out of the woodwork in the last week to attest to Palin’s pregnancy. Where have they been? Loy and O’Malley both worked for ADN in 2008, the very same year when 1) Michael Carey stated on the PBS Newshour that the discussions of Palin’s faked pregnancy had been going on in the ADN newsroom in the months prior to her nomination; 2) ADN assigned Lisa Demer to debunk the faked pregnancy rumors, but she was unable to do so; and 3) Demer’s interview with Dr. Baldwin-Johnson and the lawyer was “aborted” after one question (along the line of “were you present when Sarah Palin gave birth to Trig?”). I’m not Sherlock Holmes, but this does not smack of a newsroom that had at least 2 reporters who could, on their own testimony, completely debunk the rumors.
I had a similar experience with my 3rd child. I didn’t have surgery but my water did break, 2 weeks early. I went straight the the hospital (per my doctors orders) and was hooked up to all the equipment to monitor the baby. His heart rate really went down prior to pushing and when he was born he was gray and “floppy”, with the cord wrapped around his neck. Thank God the NICU doctors were rushed in and revived him. It was terrifying.
What Palin claims to have done to Trig – the wild ride – is completely appalling in its cavalier stupidity. I don’t believe it for a minute, though.
Hi Joe,
please take a look at my “debunking” of Justin Elliott’s “definite debunking” of Trig Trutherism:
http://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/04/justin-elliotts-definitive-debunker-of.html
Kudos to you and all the other medical professionals commenting here. With every comment like this she is looking more and more psychotic.
The March 28 “square pillow” picture is the one I’ve not seen any of the “debunkers” even attempt to explain. They can’t. I’ve left this at several other sites and Joe, I hope you take a look. It might explain how she kept that square pillow in place. It might alternatively show that she was attempting to smother a baby. I’d go with scenario #1. In any case this undergarment could have been very handy. Frankly, if the mostly male reporters would talk seriously to any woman they know who has been through pregnancy, we’d be reading a different response. Mostly, though, they’ve decided that there are more important questions to be asked and the whole Palin tale is now irrelevant old news. Sigh.
In that sense, we are seeing sexism used as the new trump card. Not what I’d call progress for women in the political arena.
I also think it would be instructive for the ever-so-harrumphing liberal media to go back and visit litbrit’s archives, with its very intelligent posts dealing with these matters last summer . She totally took the Journolist/Weigel crowd to the woodshed. Also Deborah’s cogent observations came along with her impeccable journalist’s credentials, byline, and a photo which made ridiculous the “well, you’re all jealous because Sarah’s so much more attractive than you” crowd. Worth a revisit.
I agree about LitBrit. Excellent.
–Joe
Reading these comments again, made me think of something $arah said when she was being interviewed about how CBJ said after examining her “that it looks like you’ll have IT sometime within the next six hours or so” which would have indicated she was already in active labor. Obviously, she was going to have the baby if she was induced, there’s no turning around from that idea, especially considering her water allegedly broke. But that comment made by $arah seems even more strange, besides that fact that she referred to Trig as an “IT” when every mother I know has always said he/she or if the sex is unknown, the baby. This makes me wonder if Palin knew anything about the actual delivery of “Trig” no matter who the mother was. I’m trying to make sense of a situation where there is no logical explanation and driving myself crazy in doing so but hopefully someone else will understand what I’m saying here. Was she really induced? Not in my opinion but maybe she heard the birth mother was but using her own previous pregnancies tried to relate her birthing experience to that one not realizing that she was contradicting what would be involved with an induced labor, especially her saying it was easy because he was so small. I don’t know of any woman who has had Pitocin that would ever, in any circumstance, consider it “easy”. I’m going around in circles with this remembering my own experiences and those births which I’ve attended and nothing she said correlates with any experiences I’ve read about or encountered in my professional history.
Thanks for the kind words, brbr24. I haven’t been to Amazon recently but am looking forward to the discussions once these new books come out. Audrey’s head will be spinning trying to cut and paste enough to keep up with all 3 books at the same time.
Joe, not only does it matter regarding her ability to lie about such an important matter but when I think about the people who follow Palin, many of them with apparently little to no education, I shudder to think they might follow the same pattern with their own pregnancy as Palin allegedly did with hers. Just imagine them thinking “God took care of $arah’s baby, so he’ll take care of mine, too. No need to hurry cause my water broke, hell, $arah gave a speech and took a long flight and everything worked out just fine for her!” Unfortunately, anyone can breed!
Great commentary, Mappy. As a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, I’d also prefer to think that she faked her pregnancy rather than treat the health of her unborn child in such a cavalier manner especially her belief that a speech was far more important than the status of her unborn child. I find it impossible to believe that any physician would not have told her to go immediately to the nearest hospital emergency room to be evaluated for progression of labor. The fact that she was a well-known high risk patient also made me question so many of the alleged decisions made by CBJ. If she actually did and said the things Palin says she did, she should no longer be practicing IMHO. Here we are three years later and what do we here about Trig from Palin? In her most recent speeches, she’s spoken about HER pregnancy and HER decision to have him, nothing about an update on his progress that he’s made through therapy. It’s still all about HER which is why I don’t think she was covering up for anyone out of concern but instead, out of what it would do for her future political career. We have to remember that despite what she said, behind the scenes she was campaigning for that V.P. spot from early on.
AKRNC, your comments are spectacular! In simple speak for folks like me, there was plenty of time to evacuate Sarah to Anchorage by ambulance. She was the Governor, for crying out loud! They could even take her by helicopter. Except for one minor factor – she just WAS NOT PREGNANT. It is easier to sneak in the back door of a hospital controlled by her friends on the Board, and get a private room in which to welcome 5 week preemie (cough cough) chubby cheeked Trig Paxson Van Palin into the lunatic world of Sarah Palin.
According to Todd’s emails from Texas, Sarah’s speech “kicked ass”, but nary a mention of leaking fluids, contractions or requesting arrangements for an ambulance to meet them at the Anchorage airport.
Sarah Palin talks the talk, but she FAKED the walk.
I wonder if Ms Palin will convince Daddy Ailes to give her one more chance to play the victim on national television. I would bet on it.
I wondered if Trig might be Todd’s child but not Sarah’s. They could have paid off the mother and taken the child with no record. It would seem that record keeping is rather lax in Alaska. It would have been catastrophic for Palin’s career if the mother had come forth with the baby, especially after she knew the baby had Downs Syndrome. Todd does seem to take better care of Trig than Sarah does.
$arah Pay-lin lies so much, it is easy to understand why so many question her pregnancy story.
Several media reports also said Trig had heart surgery (to close a valve) right after his birth — how then could $arah be carting him to work 3 days later??
Also too: as an Alaskan who has known former ADN reporter Wesley Loy for years I can tell you this: he is a great reporter – but knows next to nothing about women. So his observations of $arah’s covered ‘pregnant’ belly should be taken with a grain of salt.
$arah’s lying is so pathological she doesn’t even know that her comments can so easily be traced to previous statements and debunked. It would not be a surprise to anyone in AK that the Quitter planned the whole Trig story as a publicity ploy to further her ‘political ambitions.’ (And note that on 3/21 – national Down Syndrome day – $arah didn’t issue a comment. )
Thanks to you, Joe, and all others who are taking the time to reveal what we in Alaska have known for years – that $arah Pay-lin is a liar, cheat, horrible mother/wife, coward, and only out for herself.
Also interesting: $arah never shows her face anywhere in Alaska, nor speaks to anyone.
Sorry-Apparently that was March 26, 2008.