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Lefty Bloggers Go After Palin's Daughter
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-09-01 02:15|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Disgust-High. Surprise-Zero.
Posted by tipover 2008-09-01 02:46||   2008-09-01 02:46|| Front Page Top

#2 No real surprise coming from the slime of humanity.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-01 03:14||   2008-09-01 03:14|| Front Page Top

#3 By the time this is over, about 13 women will vote for Obama, none of them with children.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-09-01 03:35||   2008-09-01 03:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Wife, who works with the mental ill... says "Democrat" should be added to the DSM4
Posted by 3dc 2008-09-01 03:38||   2008-09-01 03:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Reason 36,843,725,098 to despise anyone who claims to be a member of the Democrat Party. Forget Obama, he's just the false front; Kos and Hamsher are the real faces of that party, and they show exactly what Dems think and believe.

They're a pretty disgusting lot, Dems.
Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-09-01 05:11||   2008-09-01 05:11|| Front Page Top

#6 The photo was taken in 2006, making the timing for the daughter being the parent impossible.

Also, the daughter has Eskimo lineage, and ON AVERAGE Eskimos do not tend towards long and lanky as often as those of European stock. This body shape may be her genetic programming and nothing else.

Perhaps the inmates at kos, moveon, etc., are trying to draw attention to her body shape and call her fat, but she looks well within normal limits.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-01 06:15||   2008-09-01 06:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Ann Althouse:

. . . Pictures are posted, with captions like: "Sarah's waistline never changed. Her wardrobe still remained tight and professional." Note the gratuitous insult to pregnant working women. They can't possibly dress in a professional manner. There are also enlarged photos of the 16-year-old daughter with comments about the shape of her abdomen. The whole world is invited to talk about that teenager's body.

Despicable, sexist trash. Shameful.

AND: ArcXIX displays a huge blowup of the picture of the 16-year-old and issues a faux-scientific opinion: "Bristol is pregnant in these pictures. She is not carrying belly fat, which grows outwardly wide, and does not become dome-shaped. That's because fat is generally evenly distributed around the abdomen and a fetus is not. Bristol's chest is sticking out, a normal body reaction when sucking in stomach muscles." Belly fat grows outwardly wide? Nonsense. People come in all different shapes, and female abdomens tend to protrude. If the girl was pregnant and inclined to hide it, why would she be wearing tight clothes and standing in proud half-profile? I apologize for asking that question, but I'm hoping to shake some sense into those who are pushing this story. They should be ashamed to stoop so low for the sake of politics. I doubt if the Obama campaign wants this kind of help, not that it's likely to be any help at all.
Posted by Mike 2008-09-01 08:08||   2008-09-01 08:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, it is Kos, right? Chances are, they haven't seen too many pregnant women, unless they were walking into an abortion clinic.

(In all honesty, it does give me a reason to hate Palin. I didn't look pregnant either for the first six months. I looked really fat, instead. Grrr.)
Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-01 09:19||   2008-09-01 09:19|| Front Page Top

#9 In a proper world, these shitbag cocksuckers would all be beat bloody for this trash.

We need a picture of a Kos effigy for these articles. All beat to crap and bloody looking
Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-01 10:20||   2008-09-01 10:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Blogger comments that might be answered by an rotary table chain to the brain housing group if uttered on a at Prudhoe Bay.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-01 11:01||   2008-09-01 11:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Uh, like NO ONE would EVER have seen Bristol preggers, if she was? How idiotic. Yes, if Palin is athletic, the abdominal muscles are most likely very developed, holding the child closer to the spine, and less visible as a pregnancy.

Let's pretend for a moment that she was covering for Bristol. So what. Good on them (if that were the case, which it's not) that the family stepped up and will help raise the child and help Bristol through whatever problems would exists.

BUT, the chance of a teenager having a down-syndrome baby is about nil, compared with a woman in her 40's.

I'm so sick of the banchee collective (i.e. the Democrat party).

And the sweater picture--can you imagine how a a teenage girl will feel about people looking at her body and saying she looks pregnant in the photo? That is just a mean, mean thing to do.

Posted by ex-lib 2008-09-01 11:15||   2008-09-01 11:15|| Front Page Top

#12 All those Kiddies need to be taken out on Todd's boat and used for Crab Bait.
Posted by AlanC 2008-09-01 11:17||   2008-09-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#13 AlanC

What did the crabs ever do to you?
Posted by Hyper 2008-09-01 11:52||   2008-09-01 11:52|| Front Page Top

#14 If those at DailyKos would ever come out from under their rocks and look out their windows, they might see that most teenage girls look like if they are not anorexic. It shows a decent amount of exercise without obsessing. Most girls I see on a daily basis look like that. I'm fairly certain they aren't all pregnant.
This is a completely normal teenager. I'm disgusted that they would bring this up. But not surprised.
Posted by sjb 2008-09-01 12:16||   2008-09-01 12:16|| Front Page Top

#15 whoops. Fox just said the daughter is pregnant and going to marry the father
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 12:21||   2008-09-01 12:21|| Front Page Top

#16 The left will now go "see we were right!" The left and MSM need to tread lightly on this issue. Personally, it does not change my support for McCain/Palin at all.
Posted by djh_usmc 2008-09-01 12:34||   2008-09-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#17 Didn't Obama attend the Yearly KOS? I think people need to be reminded of that.
Posted by CrazyFool 2008-09-01 12:34||   2008-09-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#18 Problem is that the picture they were using to "prove" the daughter was pregnant was taken in 2006. And they completey ignore pictures like this:

Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-01 12:49||   2008-09-01 12:49|| Front Page Top

#19 I suppose they will say she decided to pack on 40 pounds on a whim, then lose it all in 2 weeks.
Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-01 12:50||   2008-09-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#20 It sounds like the disgusting bottom feeders at Kos did the Palin family a favor. It turns out that the daughter is prego now, (not back in 2006) and now it is out in the open. The family issued a statement that they are dealing with it and are moving forward. What's not to like about the fact that they can deal with a family crisis in such a healthy and loving manner?
Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-01 13:42||   2008-09-01 13:42|| Front Page Top

#21 From the very start they have been awfully confident about their charges -- never mind that the pictorial proof they relied on was 2 years earlier than the supposed event. Maybe they have known all along that something was up -- leftycrat oppo research at its finest (i.e. some dirtbag lobbed a call into the Bama campaign, which in turn tipped off their droogs in the blogosphere).
Posted by Iblis 2008-09-01 14:02||   2008-09-01 14:02|| Front Page Top

#22  I suppose they will say she decided to pack on 40 pounds on a whim, then lose it all in 2 weeks.

I know how to pack on 40 pounds, probably in a week. Does she have instructions on how to lose it all in 2 weeks? It could clinch the election.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-01 14:06||   2008-09-01 14:06|| Front Page Top

#23 Hope she didn't have sex with a Democrat! Oops :)
Posted by Lonzo 2008-09-01 14:21||   2008-09-01 14:21|| Front Page Top

#24 looks like we've been assigned one of Obamas overseas gomers.
Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-01 14:44||   2008-09-01 14:44|| Front Page Top

#25 My dear Lonzo, Governor Palin's husband and soldier son are both registered as Independents, not Republicans, which shows that the family doesn't have silly prejudices about what party registration implies about worthiness as human beings. Miss Bristol Palin is engaged to be married to the father of her child, which they plan to keep, according to a family announcement today.

Please stop being a rude ass about adolescent sexuality. The Democratic party is supposed to be for such things, so long as nobody is hurt and the parties involved act responsibly.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-09-01 14:56||   2008-09-01 14:56|| Front Page Top

#26 So that's what it's like when you take a torpedo amidships.

Thanks TW!
Posted by badanov 2008-09-01 14:59|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2008-09-01 14:59|| Front Page Top

#27 That's why I professed my love for TW some time ago, Bad!

Besides, I sure dont't want to pi$$ her off...
Posted by Bobby 2008-09-01 15:03||   2008-09-01 15:03|| Front Page Top

#28 So that's what it's like when you take a torpedo amidships.

And only the politest torpedoes available. ;-)
Posted by ExtremeModerate 2008-09-01 15:05||   2008-09-01 15:05|| Front Page Top

#29 Yeah, but it's priceless when the holier-than-thou crowd has to eat crow.
Posted by Lonzo 2008-09-01 15:07||   2008-09-01 15:07|| Front Page Top

#30 Yeah, but it's priceless when the holier-than-thou crowd has to eat crow.

After shooting it with the guns we cling to.
Posted by badanov 2008-09-01 15:11|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2008-09-01 15:11|| Front Page Top

#31 This is one of the more absurd elements of our leftists acquaintences. They think because Christian have high moral values, they don't have sex and when they do, it means they no longer live their beliefs.

That would be true if Christians subscribed to Lonzo's moronic view of Christian morality.

The fact is Bristol had sex, got pregnant, is going to have the baby and is going to be married.

If nothing else her ACTIONS speak so much louder in confirming her own Christian beliefs in life and in love, than Lonzo's criticisms.
Posted by badanov 2008-09-01 15:18|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2008-09-01 15:18|| Front Page Top

#32 Indeed badanov.

That recurring tendency of the contemptuous left reminds me of a comment made by Mr. Lotp's grandmother back in the early 1970s. Grandmother was a true lady, reduced in financial circumstances but never compromising her morals or her good manners. One imagined she was wearing white gloves wherever she happened to be.

When Mr. Lotp and I were engaged and I was meeting the extended family, Grandmother commented about the hippies in Haight-Ashbury not far from her apartment:

Your generation seems for some reason to believe you've invented sex. I've forgotten more about sex than those people in the Haight have discoverd so far.

And later, when I saw the stunning photo of her at 20 during the Roaring Twenties, I could well believe she had. I did love that woman. ;-)
Posted by lotp 2008-09-01 15:35||   2008-09-01 15:35|| Front Page Top

#33 If nothing else her ACTIONS speak so much louder in confirming her own Christian beliefs

If only they were HER ACTIONS, but I doubt it, and you know it. Getting married at 17 is just silliness. This is all about not alienating the Republican base, which is the very reason why McCain picked Palin to begin with.
Posted by Lonzo 2008-09-01 15:39||   2008-09-01 15:39|| Front Page Top

#34 Must be a holiday: we're getting the minor-league Canadian trolls.
Posted by Pappy 2008-09-01 15:39||   2008-09-01 15:39|| Front Page Top

#35 
Another Grandmother story:

During the Depression, she took in a friend's child for a year after the friend's husband died.  One day she was riding the trolley in San Franciso with her two tall blond children and this smaller, snubnosed freckled redheaded girl.     One better dressed woman looked them upand down and smirked to Grandmother:

I've been admiring your children.  But one of them looks quite different - does she perhaps resemble her father?

The implication being, of course, that she was illegitimate.  Grandmother replied serenely:

I don't know - I've never seen him in the daylight.

And with that she calmly led the children off at the next stop.  She was much too well-bred to lie or to insult that woman back. In fact, she never had met her best girlhood friend's husband - in daylight or not - as they had lived several hundred miles away from her home town.
Posted by lotp 2008-09-01 15:37||   2008-09-01 15:37|| Front Page Top

#36 Mario, You aren't doing any better than Pliny the Vulgar. Worse, perhaps.

You're on piece rate. And don't think your efforts to date will pass QC. If you don't clean up your act, you'll be replaced by Gentle.
Posted by Your supervisor 2008-09-01 15:48||   2008-09-01 15:48|| Front Page Top

#37 Gentle? Gawd amighty, next you'll threaten us with anti-wuz.
Posted by .5MT 2008-09-01 15:53|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net]  2008-09-01 15:53|| Front Page Top

#38 The following all have what in common?

1. Confucius (ca. 551–479 BCE)
2. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1
3. Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
4. Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804)519)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1888–1935)
6. Eva Perón (1919–1952)
7. Besoeker (1950- )
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-01 16:01||   2008-09-01 16:01|| Front Page Top

#39  looks like we've been assigned one of Obamas overseas gomers.

They're just doing the jobs Americans won't do for themselves, I guess.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-09-01 16:13||   2008-09-01 16:13|| Front Page Top

#40 I haven't a clue, but there's some impressive people on that list.
Posted by Mike N. 2008-09-01 16:15||   2008-09-01 16:15|| Front Page Top

#41 Time (!) actually has a very nice story about the people of Wasilla and Bristol's pregnancy (not a secret in Wasilla)

I know...Time???
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 16:16||   2008-09-01 16:16|| Front Page Top

#42 With the exception of #7, "famous" bastards all.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-01 16:17||   2008-09-01 16:17|| Front Page Top

#43 They've all had a TV Series or film made about them?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-09-01 16:19||   2008-09-01 16:19|| Front Page Top

#44 damn, now I see lotp beat me to the Time linkin another thread...
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 16:20||   2008-09-01 16:20|| Front Page Top

#45 "Getting married at 17 is just silliness."

Well of COURSE it is, lefty troll.

/sarcasm off

Your side's suggested two options would be:

1) perform the most blessed sacrament of the left, abortion, or

2) leave mom and dad's, go on welfare, become dependent on the state, thereby insure income stream security for hacks like you and the rest of your public sector hack colleagues and promoting your model of the family (state, child, mother instead of husband, wife, child), while simultaneously dragging down the mom and kid.

Getting married is the honorable, intelligent, mature, and sensible thing to do. Beyond your ken, therefore.
Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-01 16:55||   2008-09-01 16:55|| Front Page Top

#46 Would it not be interesting to fast-forward 50 years and discover that Bristol Palin's son or daughter grew up to be a doctor who discovered a cure for AIDS, heart disease, alzheimer's, or MS?
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-01 17:03||   2008-09-01 17:03|| Front Page Top

#47 but not BDS, that appears incurable
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 17:04||   2008-09-01 17:04|| Front Page Top

#48 blah blah blahblah blah....
Olde olde olde

Punchline:

Sirs! Jimmy Smith, Sargeant!

Lawz... I know it got dino pee on it...


Elmsworth Grammar Skool! Sirs!
India, China, Sudan, Egypt Sirs!
Unmarried Sirs!
4 Children Male! Sirs!
All Brigadiers! Sirs!

themanwhowouldbeking
Posted by .5MT 2008-09-01 17:18|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net]  2008-09-01 17:18|| Front Page Top

#49 awesome flick pic - The Man Who Would Be King
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 17:20||   2008-09-01 17:20|| Front Page Top

#50 Bush Derangement Syndrone... yes, appears I will die with it like the rest.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-01 17:20||   2008-09-01 17:20|| Front Page Top

#51 Frank for some damn reason I always picture you as the guy on the right.
Posted by .5MT 2008-09-01 17:21|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net]  2008-09-01 17:21|| Front Page Top

#52 Wahhahaahaha, excellent .5MT
Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-01 17:22||   2008-09-01 17:22|| Front Page Top

#53 similar, but not as hunky...and more fu-manchu. I've got the full Al Hrabosky thing going on right now
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 17:25||   2008-09-01 17:25|| Front Page Top

#54 My mother and father got married when she was 15, in 1950. They are still married. My Father is a retired Southern Baptist Minister. Back in 1974 when he was still actively preaching my younger sister, 17, got prgnant. They got married, had the baby, and have had 3 more and are still married.
My point is people make mistakes but the mistakes don't have to destroy lives. We all delt with it, welcomed Pete into the Family, and have enjoyed the children, now grown. It seems there are a lot of people who don't know what love really is. It ain't lust, Lonzo.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2008-09-01 17:37||   2008-09-01 17:37|| Front Page Top

#55 I find it incredible that the dem attack machine is picking on a 17 year old girl to get at her mother.
This will not play well with the feminine voters, especially when it will come off as a personal attack on all women. Wait untill Olberman smirks into the camera with the 'had to get married' observation and some msnbc fool gets shot in Alaska annoying the locals.
Posted by Muggsy Glink 2008-09-01 19:15||   2008-09-01 19:15|| Front Page Top

#56 
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Posted by A.ris Katsaris 2008-09-01 21:39||   2008-09-01 21:39|| Front Page Top

#57 like an outbreak of herpes, Aris returns where he is unwanted , unneeded, and must jive his name to get in. I bet your mom doesn't take your calls with Caller ID either, Aris?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 21:43||   2008-09-01 21:43|| Front Page Top

#58 "Her own daughter ended up the victim of her mother's failure to talk to her about birth control."

-and you have first hand knowledge of this how? Because you live in their home and are privvy to such things?

While I may or may not agree w/how the Palin's raised their kids I don't presume to know what goes on in their home. In any case, this is all irrelevant to the presidential race.
Posted by Broadhead6 2008-09-01 22:01||   2008-09-01 22:01|| Front Page Top

#59 How times have changed. Years past, people would have known better than to talk about these things - voluntary self-censorship in the name of simple civility. But civility never did apply to the lefties. Perhaps horse whipping will make a come-back.
Posted by SR-71">SR-71  2008-09-01 22:14||   2008-09-01 22:14|| Front Page Top

#60 Broadhead, that Palin opposes birth-control and any sex-ed (other than abstinence-only) is a matter of her claimed policy and values -- if you're telling me that she teaches her children differently that her claimed values, then you're accusing her of hypocrisy, something which I did and do not claim.

(I only accuse Palin of stupidity, I have no reason to believe she's dishonest about her values)
Posted by .Aris Katsaris 2008-09-01 22:19||   2008-09-01 22:19|| Front Page Top

#61 I need to tell you a secret.
Big secret.
Sssshhhhh

OK here it comes

There are millions of girls every year getting pregnant who DO KNOW how you get pregnant.

After all, that happens to millions of adult women, too.

I do not approve of "shotgun marriage" when the only reason is pregnancy and one (or both) partners do not actually love each other (one night stand etc)

But if they love each other, early marriage is not a problem, especially not with a supporting family.
Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 22:21||   2008-09-01 22:21|| Front Page Top

#62 Aris dear, I'm sure that they have the internet up there in Alaska, too. Which means Miss Bristol will have learnt about not having babies. Not to mention that she has an older brother, and her older brother is a soldier. They get taught about things like that in basic training. I'm quite certain that he would have told his younger sister, given that she has a boyfriend, how things work -- or at least spoken clearly to the boyfriend about his ... responsibilities.

Lonzo, my darling mother-in-law dropped out of school at 15, married at 17 and had two children by the time she was 19. My in-laws will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday. They still like each other, and their descendants have done rather well as the world measures such things. The second generation all celebrated 25th anniversaries last year, and we are looking forward to the next round of weddings starting next summer. For some people getting married very young is a mistake; for others getting married ever is equally unwise for all involved. Just because you clearly judge yourself incapable of such things does not mean you ought be the measure by which others should.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-09-01 22:22||   2008-09-01 22:22|| Front Page Top

#63 Aris, if I'm correct she only disapproved of "explicit sexual education" at school.

Actually that dooesn't mean that she'll do the education herself.

Actually I prefer this, as well.
Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 22:23||   2008-09-01 22:23|| Front Page Top

#64 I dunno for most of you, but I don't wish to have a diseased Greek Pederast and Animal-Lover (*wink wink*) lecture me on my voting preferences, epecially since he's a known public masticator
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-09-01 22:26||   2008-09-01 22:26|| Front Page Top

#65 @trailing wife

I don't know how sex education is done in US schools. But I remember my daughter coming home from school rather disturbed one day. She was 12.

We took care of that and had a word with the teacher, too.
Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 22:26||   2008-09-01 22:26|| Front Page Top

#66 [.Aris Katsaris has been poop-listed.]
Posted by .Aris Katsaris 2008-09-01 22:33||   2008-09-01 22:33|| Front Page Top

#67 European Conservative, school curricula are established at the state level, eg Ohio, New York, Alabama, but executed by community school boards. In the public schools the trailing daughters attend (td#1 is now graduated and heading off to university in two weeks! We're very proud that she will start German at the third year level, thanks to two years in the Bad Soden Evangelische Kindergarten), parents were permitted to remove their children from the sexual education portion of the lesson. I did not, but then I'd been discussing such things with the tds from the first time each asked where babies come from (age 3 or 4, as I recall).
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-09-01 23:38||   2008-09-01 23:38|| Front Page Top

#68 School curricula are set here as well but it will depend on the teachers how they communicate the topic.

We don't teach our kids that sex is "dirty" but that it comes with mature thinking and responsibility.

Teens will be teens though. A plan B is always helpful.
Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 23:43||   2008-09-01 23:43|| Front Page Top

#69 This fascinating bit from the Time article will be helpful to both Aris and Lonzo, as they attempt to understand those who think differently than themselves:

Sarah Palin is a longterm member of a group called Feminists for Life, which is not opposed to birth control . So you probably can't tag her for consigning young people to unwanted pregnancies.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-09-01 23:51||   2008-09-01 23:51|| Front Page Top

#70 In German we call that "Schubladendenken" (stereotyped thinking).

First you invent your own world view and then you try to squeeze people into it.
Posted by European Conservative 2008-09-01 23:57||   2008-09-01 23:57|| Front Page Top

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