The Rebirth of Babygate

[Spyderama]

When Sarah Palin began speaking at the RNC in September 2008, the cringe factor immediately exploded in my brain. By the time we had finished with the Bush era, I had so hoped that Americans were finally ready to admit that no Americans can really win The Second Civil War. Ronald publicly launched what became known as The Southern Strategy when he announced his bid for the Presidency in Neshoba County MS, and we have been suffering through this insufferably endless era of racism and greed ever since. By 2008 we had uncovered a thousand reasons why we should disown this Southern Strategy of endless culture war, but John McDoofus McCain had to go and fire a booster rocket that would give it new hope that we all did not need in this time of Depression 2.0 and now, the destruction of the Gulf.

Although as a person of the male persuasion, I did not catch the drift immediately at the RNC, my wife would later convince me that the infamous tale of Palin's Wild Ride was obviously horse puckey. It was not long after that point that I began to realize just how complicit all the mainstream media sources had become in the squashing of the Babygate story. Then I began to see Babygate as the premiere political fraud of this century, not because I gave a rat's derriere who birthed what baby, but because of the consistently massive nature of the cover-up propagated by the MSM. I long ago concluded that this was done for basically three reasons. (1) The media has been all but consumed by the right-wing corporations. (2) These corporate media care only about viewer numbers. The dispersal of the truth about the issues in the news has become a distinctively lesser concern. (3) Most of them do not believe a Palin will ever reside in The White House, but they just want to make as much money as possible while they fuel the controversy.

The only MSM journalist or spokesperson who has so far seemed even remotely willing to speak publicly about Babygate has been Andrew Sullivan. I do not know exactly why, but something has started a fire under Sully recently. Maybe, as is the case with so many of us, he just got tired of the MSM continually publicizing the screeches of a madwoman. Maybe he tired of hearing our honorable President being insulted by a nitwit who has no better solutions to our nation's problems than the name calling she learned back in junior high. Whatever the spark was, thank you, Mr. Sullivan!

<http://palinbabygate.blogspot.com/>

<http://www.e-tabitha.com/2009/01/why-she-dangerous.html>

<http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/why.html>

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Even Sullivan acknowledges the asskissing of the Rwingnuts by the MSM

"You know the MSM is more interested in preserving their reputations on the far right than in seeking the truth."

[brewens]

2. I thought the real story was her concealing the pregnancy.

Why would a conservative, supposedly religious woman do that? You'd think she'd exploit it, like she does everything else concerning her family. I thought it might be because she was still thinking about getting rid of it. Possibly looking for a way to have an abortion without anyone finding out.

[mopinko]

3. i'll still never understand why she got an amnio anyway.

yes, it is probably the norm with a woman her age, but i think fundies regularly refuse to have them. they are not going to abort, so why take the risk? (all presuming she had the baby, which i mostly do because of the down's.)