Six pounds, seven ounces and maybe a lie.

August 31, 2008 4:40 PM

Watch the video: Is this governor seven months pregnant? Republican VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin prematurely delivered her fifth child, Trig (weighing a healthy six pounds, two ounces) in her eighth month on April 18, after announcing her pregnancy in February.

On April 17, despite her water being broken and suffering contractions, she boarded a six-hour flight from Dallas, TX to Juneau, AK to give birth.

But many are now claiming the child is not hers at all, but that of her daughter Bristol, who left school in late 2007 for mononucleosis and remained away from class for almost five months. The right-wing blogosphere weighs in. Check out the comments.

In March, 2008, she gave an interview (scroll to video) to the producers of Alaska Podshow (entire site now down, oddly) which features her hiking the windy and wet streets of the capital city from her governor's mansion to the statehouse. Here is the governor in Alaska Magazine at six months pregnant, (PDF warning) check out the images (except for the dated last one) and make up your mind.

posted by parmanparman (18 comments total)

Just fucking STOP IT, okay? It's none of your fucking business. Stop prying into other people's vaginas, even if you happen to oppose them politically. What is wrong with you people?
posted by nasreddin at 4:44 PM on August 31, 2008 [8 favorites]

But many are now claiming...

hi, i'm from FOX News, and i'd like to offer you a job.
posted by quonsar at 4:44 PM on August 31, 2008 [4 favorites]

I really hate to see us get into this. Does it matter what this mother has or hasn't done for her daughter..
posted by HuronBob at 4:45 PM on August 31, 2008

Can we please not do this?
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 4:45 PM on August 31, 2008 [2 favorites]

This is already being dissected in the ultra-long thread about Sarah Palin. Unless some super-conclusive piece of evidence comes out, this can probably stay in there.
posted by cashman at 4:47 PM on August 31, 2008

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posted by Class Goat at 4:47 PM on August 31, 2008

It's either true or it's not true, but no amount of looking a photographs is going to prove anything. That's some www.trigpalinwasaninsidejob.com type of bullcrap.
posted by 23skidoo at 4:48 PM on August 31, 2008

RETROACTIVE GUBERNATORIAL BABY BUMP WATCH!!!
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 4:49 PM on August 31, 2008 [1 favorite]

Even if it were true, so what?
posted by Class Goat at 4:49 PM on August 31, 2008

This is beyond being fucking stupid. It's all the way into craptastic.
posted by jenkinsEar at 4:50 PM on August 31, 2008

Does this mean we can drop the charges against her for allegedly flying whilst in her third trimester?
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 4:51 PM on August 31, 2008

Here is the governor in Alaska Magazine at six months pregnant

You do realize that when a monthly magazine is dated as February, it was probably in the newsstands by early-mid January and that the photos were thus probably taken in December at the latest, right?

In March, 2008, she gave an interview (scroll to video) to the producers of Alaska Podshow (entire site now down, oddly)

Sorry to conspiracy bubble...
posted by gyc at 4:52 PM on August 31, 2008

Just fucking STOP IT, okay? It's none of your fucking business. Stop prying into other people's vaginas, even if you happen to oppose them politically. What is wrong with you people?

This woman has chosen to take the position of being second in line to rule the United States of America for the next four years. You'd better goddamn bet that everything this woman does is my goddamn business.If she was anxious to avoid her vagina business from being looked into, perhaps she shouldn't have agreed to being nominated. Clinton's dick "business" was fair game--so her "vagina business" is also my business, especially if her ass is lying about it. Its the lying not the "business" that I really care about.
posted by Ironmouth at 4:52 PM on August 31, 2008 [9 favorites]

surely this thread is useless without a shitting elephant.
posted by quonsar at 4:53 PM on August 31, 2008 [3 favorites]

Just fucking STOP IT, okay? It's none of your fucking business. Stop prying into other people's vaginas, even if you happen to oppose them politically. What is wrong with you people?

Yep, that's EXACTLY what I tell the right-wing anti-choicers.

Y'know, people like Sarah Palin. If this is indeed true, it shows a shocking lack of sense.
posted by John of Michigan at 4:55 PM on August 31, 2008 [3 favorites]

can this be flagged hard enough?
posted by HuronBob at 4:55 PM on August 31, 2008

If she legislates her morality down everyone's throat, her own choices deserve as much scrutiny. Sorry if that offends you.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:55 PM on August 31, 2008 [6 favorites]

If she legislates her morality down everyone's throat, her own choices deserve as much scrutiny. Sorry if that offends you.

What's an example of when she's legislated her morality down people's throats?
posted by gyc at 4:56 PM on August 31, 2008