The Sarah Palin files: week 1
Well folks, round one of the “discredit Sarah Palin” game is done and it would appear the conservatives have won it fair and square. Can’t say I’m too distressed either, since any mark against DailyKos is fine by me these days.
Oh, you actually want to know what I’m talking about? I think you should just believe me. (Please take that as a mock on partisans everywhere.)
It started with a post on DailyKos “proving” that Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother of Trig, her 4-month-old fifth child who was born in April, evidence to back up this claim came in the form of photos of Sarah and Bristol showing Bristol with a belly bump and Sarah without one and a story detailing Sarah’s strange behavior just prior to baby Trig’s birth in April.
Well, a bit of research produces a couple of different posts refuting the claim of the DailyKos post. First is a post on a blog called StopTheACLU (can’t say I agree with their main mission, but I agree with this post) that points out that [one of] the photos supposedly showing Bristol being pregnant with Trig is in fact from 2006, which is of course way before Trig was conceived.
(Side note: DailyKos actually presents another photo claiming to show Bristol as pregnant, this one dated “late 2007″ according to DailyKos, having no evidence to the contrary I won’t refute the time frame, but I will try to pin down an exact date based on the fact that the background and name of the photo on the State of Alaska’s website (PalinFamily_Outside_v01.jpg) both put the photo outside. Now, since I am a weather geek, I went and looked up the weather records for Juneau, Alaska last fall, and found out that the temperature never went above 38 during the entire month of December. Given that the two teenage daughters are wearing only half sleeves and don’t look the least bit cold, that rules out December as a possible time that this photo could’ve been taken outside. Likewise, the temperature in November never went above 45. Am I reaching yet? Or is this making sense? My point is, if the photo was taken outside, which it seems it was based on the name of it and the fact that if a studio were to put a nice mountain backdrop behind a family photo I don’t think it would have a balcony railing in it, it was most likely taken in September or October when temperatures were in the 50s (October) and near 70 (September). Based on his birth date and the fact that he was born a month prematurely Trig was most likely conceived in late August 2007, meaning that Bristol would be, at very most, 9 weeks pregnant in these photos. And given that what they’re wearing looks more like summer wear, this photo was probably taken in September, when Trig’s pregnancy would be next to impossible to see.)
Second, is a post from All American Blogger who authors a post called “Photos of a Pregnant Palin” where he lines up half a dozen photos of Sarah Palin pregnant with Trig.
I will probably have more on my personal thoughts about Palin as McCain’s VP pick later. For now, I need to, like, do homework and go to bed and stuff as tomorrow is school again! Ug.
-j
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