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Investigative book about "Babygate", Sarah Palin's faked pregnancy with Trig, about to be published
PoliticalGates ^ | 05/16/2011 | Patrick

Posted on 05/16/2011 11:53:09 AM PDT by 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.



TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: babygate; humor; lampoon; sarahpalin; satire; trig
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To: SeekAndFind
This nonsense is born of a hatred and fear of Sarah Palin by the communist left. She is a Christian who 'walks the walk', a proud mother of 5, a woman happy in her marriage and comfortable in her own skin, a political conservative and popular with most Americans, Sarah Palin is the antithesis of everything the left embraces. So, they attack her her family and her honesty, two of Sarah Palin's most valuable assets. If the vicious leftists can put into question Palin's honesty by claiming that she lied about Trig's 'real' mother to 'protect' her under-age daughter, Bristol, who, according to the left's conspiracy theory allegedly was impregnated by her father, Sarah Palin's husband, Tod. How sick can they get? The vile claim is easily refuted and PhotoShopped pictures cannot compete with facts. Trig represents Sarah Palin's personal rejection of abortion and the left cannot abide that. Not in a woman who could be president of the United States. They may not even believe the 'Trig-is-Bristol's child' lie, but they know that if they can repeat it often enough, they can probably gain some traction with it and, they hope, force Sarah Palin on the defensive, where they want her, and undermine her credibility. After all, they;'ll say, "if she would lie about the baby then she would lie about anything. ergo, "Sarah Palin is a liar and cannot be trusted". That the real lie is the one that claims Trig Palin is 'actually' Bristol's child doesn't matter. Not if Palin's credibility can be incessantly questioned, as it will be if she runs for the GOP nomination for president in 2012.

suspect that the left blogospher is willing to risk some repulsion from sane people in order to undermine Sarah Palin and, no doubt with the hope that they can discourage her from running for president, because they must truly fear this woman. Meanwhile, we get lukewarm presidential wannabes (like Gingrich and Pawlenty) that the MSM laughably term 'front-runners' for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination while the hard-left clearly shows us that Sarah Palin is the only Republican they really fear. I truly hope and pray that Sarah runs. Watching the left go absolutely bonkers as she mows down the 'opposition' and, in the process, produces an easily verifiable birth certificate for Trig - which they'll instantly declare to be fraudulent, further distancing them from mainstream America while generating sympathy for Palin and negating some of the unfortunate female voter apathy for a woman presidential candidate.

41 posted on 05/16/2011 12:49:08 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: WayneS

The loons claim that she faked the pregnancy to cover for Bristol (who they say is Trig’s real mother) and I guess she was supposed to have gotten pregnant a few weeks later too?

Anyway, if this were flipping true, don’t you think Bristol’s ex-loser would have non-stop blabbed it?


42 posted on 05/16/2011 12:57:48 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: WayneS

I gave up on book suppositories...too painful.


43 posted on 05/16/2011 1:01:06 PM PDT by JPG (The real reason? Huck is deathly afraid of grizzly bears.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

“Most children born with Down’s syndrome are born to teenage mothers. Women having children later in life almost never have a child with Down’s syndrome.”

As a parent of a DS kid, we were told the exact opposite. Why do you think expecting mothers over 35 are screened for carrying DS kids? I don’t think you are correct.


44 posted on 05/16/2011 1:02:20 PM PDT by gavjoe
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To: SeekAndFind

Please tell me when any politican were required to produce the birth certificate of their child? And by not doing that it means their child isn’t theirs? These people are truly pathetic and insane.


45 posted on 05/16/2011 1:02:50 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: gavjoe

Note the sarcasm disclaimer at the end of their post.


46 posted on 05/16/2011 1:04:19 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: gavjoe

I think that was sarcasm...


47 posted on 05/16/2011 1:04:53 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: SeekAndFind
Gee, what will become of the one-world socialist/marxist/elitist movement if Sarah Palin becomes president? Answer: dead in the USA! Soros, Strong et al will have pissed away billions of their stolen loot.
48 posted on 05/16/2011 1:05:30 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: gavjoe

I agree with you. It is the exact opposite. As a woman grows older her chance of having a downs syndrome child increases.


49 posted on 05/16/2011 1:06:52 PM PDT by mware
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To: gavjoe

“(just one more sarcastic log of reality to throw on the fire of this absolute nonsense.)”

Sorry, if I were more computer literate I would have put the word “sarcastic” in bold and italics in my previous message. And exactly what you were told is exactly the point I was trying to make.


50 posted on 05/16/2011 1:08:20 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: SeekAndFind

How in the Hell does one Publish Lies like this without being sued for millions?? Christ they would need a over sized mailbox for the daily flow of court papers.


51 posted on 05/16/2011 1:09:35 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Look out, Dr. Corsi. Your favorite word, birther, is about to be expropriated by folks as nutty as you are! And evil as well as deluded!
52 posted on 05/16/2011 1:14:38 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SeekAndFind


Come my children I am become death, destroyer of worlds ...
53 posted on 05/16/2011 1:18:04 PM PDT by Scythian
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Donate just one

54 posted on 05/16/2011 1:19:16 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: SeekAndFind

The left has thier own "Birther" community !!


55 posted on 05/16/2011 1:20:24 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: SeekAndFind
These people are ridiculous. The left is beginning to attack the character of every possible Conservative candidate.

My mother was just under 5’, and weighed under 100 pounds. She never needed maternity clothes for any of her three pregnancies. I'm 5'7” and was bigger then Demi Moore. . .so in this case, “size doesn't matter”. . .!!

56 posted on 05/16/2011 1:22:51 PM PDT by beethoven
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To: SeekAndFind

I really hope they push this. This will be the last straw with all the weight of evidence out there, and this will make everyone but the true believers turn on the attackers. There’s just some things that if you go after people on you better have it down pat or the blowback will kill you.


57 posted on 05/16/2011 1:25:31 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is not humorous, and I see no reason to give it any more attention here at FR than it is already getting wherever it was published.


58 posted on 05/16/2011 1:28:08 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Destroyers and usurpers! Curse them!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who wrote this book? FR’s own now banned pissant? We have a neighbor who had a child with Down’s syndrome in her mid 40s.


59 posted on 05/16/2011 1:41:30 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (zero hates Texas and we hate him back.)
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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.

Yep. No one noticed my wife until the last day before she went on maternity leave. When the last patient asked her why she was going on leave, he did not notice until she told him. Three days later our beautiful and healthy daughter was born. She was back to her previous pre-pregnancy weight one week later.

There is no hope for these people. They are on the other side of the looking glass.
60 posted on 05/16/2011 1:44:47 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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