Investigative book about "Babygate", Sarah Palin's faked pregnancy with Trig, about to be published

PoliticalGates ^ | 05/16/2011 | Patrick

[SeekAndFind]

By Patrick

"Facts need testimony to be remembered and trustworthy witnesses to be established in order to find a secure dwelling place in the domain of human affairs. From this, it follows that no factual statement can ever be beyond doubt—as secure and shielded against attack as, for instance, the statement that two and two make four.

It is this fragility that makes deception so very easy up to a point, and so tempting. It never comes into a conflict with reason, because things could indeed have been as the liar maintains they were. Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear. He has prepared his story for public consumption with a careful eye to making it credible, whereas reality has the disconcerting habit of confronting us with the unexpected, for which we were not prepared."

–Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics” in Crises of the Republic (1972)

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The ride is not over yet, it's just about to begin.

Sarah Palin's faked pregnancy, for years a taboo subject in the mainstream media, is not a taboo subject any more - but that doesn't mean that the media have "distinguished" themselves. Indeed the opposite has been the case. We have recently observed respected journalists put their credibility on the line for the serial liar Sarah Palin, claiming in a serious of articles that the faked pregnancy never, ever possibly could have happened.

These articles, which will go down in history as one of the major failures of American journalism, steadfastly and stubbornly ignore facts, reason and common sense, as we have explained in a series of posts. Journalists such as Julia O'Malley from the Anchorage Daily News, Justin Elliott from Salon, Dave Weigel from Slate, Megan Carpentier from Raw Story and Jason Linkins from Huffington Post are going to ask themselves how it was possible that they actually believed the claims of Sarah Palin, a woman who basically lies about "everything", even "about the weather", as Palin-biographer Geoffrey Dunn recently mentioned in an interview with Politicalgates. A woman who also produced a piece of "100% fiction" with her book Going Rogue, according to the former McCain-campaign manager Steve Schmidt.

Their articles will surely come back to haunt them.

Well, I guess they believed Sarah Palin because they wanted to believe her.

Like it or not, that was how Sarah Palin looked on March 26, 2008, just about three weeks before officially giving birth to a six-pound baby (click to enlarge):

Sarah Palin on March 26, 2008, at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau. See our recent post about the ADN-article by Julia O'Malley for the extensive documentation regarding this picture.

For anybody who is not willing to close his or her eyes, the picture which Prof. Brad Scharlott recently published in a post at Politicalgates is also a real "eye-opener":

The fact that many journalists were only too happy to embrace the assertion that "Trig Trutherism" is a nutty conspiracy theory becomes particularly apparent when one looks for example the way in which Dave Weigel recently exploited the issue of "Trig Trutherism" in an article at Slate and wrote what you could call a roundup of the "world of conspiracies", as Weigel calls it, which apparently plague the American nation.

He writes:

Good news, everyone! We have survived the latest flare-up of the conspiracy theory generally known as "Trig Trutherism"—the discredited hypothesis that Sarah Palin's youngest son is not hers.

Last week, The Lies of Sarah Palin author Geoffrey Dunn published a lengthy piece—spiked by the Huffington Post, then acquired by the traffic-hungrier Business Insider—going over the same turf. His argument was blown to smithereens by Justin Elliott at Salon as well as by other reporters who sighed and decided to engage with one of the duller conspiracy theories of all time. (A serious conspiracy theory should seem less like a General Hospital subplot.)

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It's a familiar rationale for conspiracy theorists: They investigate as much in sorrow as in anger. They are always just one confession away from the truth. This kind of logic is much more understandable, if no more sensible, after reading Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground, a smart and serious new book by Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay. His book shows why Americans are becoming so willing to believe lurid fantasies about the government or politicians they don't like or vaccines or the theory that the federal government was behind the attacks of 9/11 (these believers are the "truthers" of his title). And you realize that the world of conspiracies is only going to get larger.

The "world of conspiracies is only going to get larger?" Well, I don't know about that, but I would say that the world of journalists who don't believe in fact-checking and rational arguments is getting larger - and growing very fast.

Yesterday, the journalist Debra J. Saunders, a long time Sarah Palin apologist, joined the club of clueless journalists in a particularly ridiculous article in the San Francisco Chronicle called "Was Sarah Palin done in by Trig "birther" story?" Astonishingly, she claims that the babygate-bloggers are somewhat responsible for Sarah Palin's demise and writes:

When McCain picked Palin, his campaign team thought the media would hail Palin as a fellow maverick, a moderate who could work with Democrats, and avoided polarizing social issues by, for example, vetoing a bill banning benefits for same-sex spouses of state workers. That is, Camp McCain expected the sort of in-depth look that Green provided in "The Tragedy of Sarah Palin."

They also thought that personal profiles would portray Palin as a pro-life Republican who walked the walk when she chose to give birth to a son with Down syndrome.

Alas and woe to her, Palin had the misfortune of walking onto the national stage in the era of the blogosphere. A Daily Kos blogger charged that Palin faked giving birth to Trig five months earlier in order to conceal her teenage daughter Bristol's pregnancy. Other bloggers, as well as British and Australian newspapers, joined the pile-on. That rumor was put to rest for all but the most ardent Palin "birthers" when Bristol turned out to be five months pregnant.

While most reputable American news outlets did not report the rumors, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz wrote at the time that reporters deluged the campaign with questions "about the governor's amniotic fluid, the timing of her contractions and whether she would take a DNA test to establish the baby's parentage." Those questions enraged the McCainiacs.

But how can the "Babygate-bloggers" be responsible for Sarah Palin's recent fall from grace, if there was nothing at all "to see?" It would have taken Sarah Palin less than one day to prove that she is the biological mother of Trig - after all, she would virtually "drown" in a huge pile of documentation, wouldn't she? Birth certificate, hospital records, insurance records, photos, emails, etc. etc. etc.

How much documentation do YOU have for the birth of YOUR child, dear journalists all over the USA who do a solid, professional and diligent job every day?

Where are the journalists? Very slowly, they appear. Fore example, Henry Blodget from "Business Insider" recently distinguished himself with giving the "doubters" of Sarah Palin's pregnancy a voice, and for asking Sarah Palin to release Trig's birth certificate. Although he also took a lot of heat from his readers in the comments, as was to be expected, his efforts will not be in vain.

That's the situation we have right now, but it's about to change - radically.

Already more than a month ago, we received information from "somebody in the business" that a major D.C. based journalist is currently writing a book solely about "babygate", Sarah Palin's faked pregnancy - and that the book deal has already been signed and that it should be published soon! We did, of course, immediately share this information with some important people behind the scenes who will no doubt be conducting their own follow up investigations.

Up until now we kept this very important piece of information quiet on Politicalgates because we didn't want to spoil the "surprise". However the facts about the existence of this book are now being alluded to in public so we believe that the time has come to reveal what we know. The pending publication of such a book comes as no surprise to us, as anyone who questions Sarah Palin's account of "babygate" in an unbiased way and with an open mind will quickly realize that the pregnancy was faked.

There are major forces, especially in Alaska, that are desperately trying to prevent the publication of the truth. Several people in Alaska are deeply implicated in covering up Sarah Palin's faked pregnancy, especially the officials of Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer, where Sarah Palin "officially" gave birth. The largest newspaper in Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News, is "guilty" as well, as their journalists have started to twist the facts and distort the truth of the details of Palin's pregnancy and the details of the subsequent investigation into the pregnancy in order to keep Sarah's "secret" under wraps. Apparently because they are afraid too lose valuable government contracts. The ADN interviewed Sarah Palin's now "invisible" doctor, Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, in late 2008, as well as other people, including babygate-bloggers, in a new investation by ADN-journalist Lisa Demer, for a story which in the end never appeared. Editor Pat Dougherty observed back then, in an email to Sarah Palin in January 2009:

It strikes me that if there is never a clear, contemporaneous public record of what transpired with Trig's birth that may actually ensure that the conspiracy theory never dies.

Well, the "conspiracy theory" hasn't died, and how could it - the truth will always prevail, especially when it comes to a serial, and bad, liar like Sarah Palin.

Let's conclude with a quote by another late intellectual, Aldous Huxley:

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make ye mad."

I won't be mad, I will just be happy. Although I am still mad with some journalists who do not perform their job.

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*** All posts by Politicalgates about Sarah Palin's faked pregnancy are available HERE, HERE and HERE. ***

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Additional note:

The donation of ten copies of Geoffrey Dunn's book to those readers who could not afford to buy the book was a great success. Many thanks again to everybody who came up with the idea and who donated! We plan to offer more free books, after publication, by Frank Bailey, Joe McGinniss, Levi Johnston and of course after the publication of the mentioned upcoming book about "Babygate." Some readers have already agreed to take part in our new upcoming " book donation drive." As always, we are happy that we have such a great, vibrant and supportive community here at Politicalgates.

[section9]

What they did is that they decided to publish all of their online “work” (and I use the scare quotes advisably) as an “investigative” piece of fundraising.

Palingates, the origninal Palin conspiracy site, had a falling out, as thieves often do, over money. It split off into a smaller group, called “Politicalgates”. I believe it’s this smaller group that is publishing the book, which is a collection of the online stuff.

It’s a fundraising scam. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Best,

Chris

[Hatteras]

"There’s a simple solution to this so called problem -— ".

...common sense and decency.

[mountainbunny]

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This is from Wikipedia, but it falls squarely in line with everything I've read on the subject previously *& is fully footnoted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome

Maternal age influences the chances of conceiving a baby with Down syndrome. At maternal age 20 to 24, the probability is one in 1562; at age 35 to 39 the probability is one in 214, and above age 45 the probability is one in 19.[89] Although the probability increases with maternal age, 80% of children with Down syndrome are born to women under the age of 35,[90] reflecting the overall fertility of that age group. Recent data also suggest that paternal age, especially beyond 42,[91] also increases the risk of Down syndrome manifesting.

So: The individual's chances are much greater when the woman is over 35, going up every year, but most Down Syndrome babies are born to young women because the vast majority of all babies are born to younger women.

P.S. It's called Down Syndrome in the United States, Down's in England. National Down Syndrome Society: http://www.ndss.org/

[Morpheus2009]

They don’t want to admit to the real problems in America, so the easiest alternative is to go after Palin. Yeah, I’m a lot more interested in knowing what our president’s plans are than to care about someone who might possibly not even run for president.

[RobRoy]

>>It’s a fundraising scam. Nothing more. Nothing less.<<

And I think it is gonna cost them big time, both in money and credibility.

[TheWriterTX]

Oh, yes!

And women always gain a huge amount of weight with every pregnancy. They have to be big as houses, instead of 20 lbs. heavier. And they always have to carry it all out in front.

(another sarcastic log for the reality fire)

[Smokin' Joe]

The pending publication of such a book comes as no surprise to us, as anyone who questions Sarah Palin's account of "babygate" in an unbiased way and with an open mind will quickly realize that the pregnancy was faked.

So they want Trig's Birth Certificate, but expect us to swallow the vacuous fabrication or DuhWon without question?

I'm convinced these liberals are on halucinogenics.

I guess we can call them "Trig-ers"...

[autumnraine]

My sister got away with no one know she was pregnant until nearly 7 months, and she only weighs just under 100 lbs. Everyone carries babies differently. Lots of times, boy will carry deeper into the stomach cavity causing the rear end to spread and girls will flop forward. Same sister, pregnant with girl 2 years later, same weight at start of pregnancy... looked 5 months pregnant at 3 months.

Stupid stupid “journalists.”

Oh, and the one of her “three weeks before giving birth”, she is leaning over, causing her tummy to shift inward.

Idiots.

[FormerACLUmember]

I have never in my life seen anything like the democrat party’s character assassination of Sarah Louise Palin and her innocent children.

[calex59]

I knew a woman that was 9 months pregnant and no one knew it(except her and her husband)until she actually gave birth. She hardly showed at all. As for the one picture in the article, Sarah is obviously heavier than normal. Why is that if she is not pregnant and why fake a pregnancy in the first place. The biggest fact against this obviously lying article is the fact that Trig is a downs child. Women who are over 40 are many times more likely to have a downs syndrome child than a teenager.

The left fears Sarah greatly and are still trying to knock her down.

[WayneS]

So where did Trig come from, then? Did a STORK deliver him?

[allmendream]

This is what CRAZY looks like.

This is how desperate, kooky, conspiracy minded, weave fools gold out of straw, wacko, idiots look to anyone not initiated into the deeper mysteries of Kookville (Truthers, Birthers, Deathers, and TrigPreggers one and all).

[philman_36]

Like, O-M-G! There's just no way that a woman could have a small belly when she was that pregnant. It just can't be!
Everybody knows that all women blow up like carnival balloons when they're pregnant.
And everybody knows that there aren't any clothes that help to reduce the appearance of a baby bump.

/sarcasm (just in case)

[Smokin' Joe]

Lots of times, boy will carry deeper into the stomach cavity causing the rear end to spread and girls will flop forward. Same sister, pregnant with girl 2 years later, same weight at start of pregnancy... looked 5 months pregnant at 3 months.

"Basketball" (girl) vs. "Football" (boy). In the days before ultrasound pics, this was the accepted guessing method...

[WayneS]

Exactly!

These people need to get their conspiracies straight...

[WayneS]

No, no, no. The grassy knoll was where the SECOND obstetrician was standing.

The first obstetrician was in that book suppository place....

[kabar]

Just in time to compete with the Corsi book on Obama. Coincidence?

[section9]

These people were actually thrown under the bus by polite liberals because they are embarrasingly crazy.

But there’s a cohort of lefties who have money who are willing to spend it on crap like this. That’s what Politicalgates is after.

Best,

Chris

[WayneS]

It strikes me that if there is never a clear, contemporaneous public record of what transpired with Trig's birth...

Yeah, about that... You see, MOST people don't provide a "contemporaneous public record of what transpired" at their child's birth. In fact, MOST people wopuld find it odd if anyone DID provide "contemporaneous public record of what transpired" at their child's birth.

[traderrob6]

“BTW, the site : Business Insider gave this piece of trash article a lot of publicity if you go to their website today.”

Odd that you post articles from “The Business Insider” on a daily basis.