Baby booms
So, Sarah Palin has now put to rest some unfortunate (and bizarrely propagated) rumors about a dubious recent pregnancy by offering revelations about a current pregnancy that, though not dubious, is probably a little unfortunate. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one pregnancy-related scandal trumped by another pregnancy before: “Hah! I couldn’t have been pregnant then because, you see, I’m pregnant now. Next time, buddy, make sure the person you’re accusing of having been recently pregnant isn’t currently pregnant.”
Babies, then, have played a strangely central role in this three-day-old candidacy – I mean, actual babies… having babies, keeping babies, coming into the baby way. I think it’s safe to assume that the new VP-nom is down with the natalist agenda, though her daughter may have misinterpreted it.
I think if the Brolin/Trig rumors had never circulated in the mainstream media, after a certain about of time, the way the “Obama, secret Muslim” rumors did, we could put a little more dirt on the grave of the “liberal media” myth. But now we’ll never know if that would have happened or not.
— Freddie · Sep 1, 10:08 PM · #
I’m entirely expecting to wake up Tuesday morning and find the entire McCain campaign has really just been a stealth marketing campaign for NBC’s new Ticket For America sitcom, starring Tina Fey and Buster Keaton’s reanimated corpse.
— Bo · Sep 1, 10:33 PM · #
On an episode of West Wing, the Republican attack machine knew Leo had been in a clinic for a painkillers addiction. They wanted it to be a big issue, so first they made an issue of drugs in the White House, so there would be series of rumors getting more play before they broke the killer story. This has echoes of that incident for me – the rumors hurt Palin and force the actual to come out in the worst possible way. So maybe there’s a vast leftwing conspiracy. :-)
— Zak · Sep 2, 02:13 PM · #