Sarah Palin "works her butt off" for non-existing halibut fishing business while filming reality show - UPDATE! Sarah confronted by Alaska teacher!

Sarah Palin recently entered into a "war of words and facts" with politifact.com regarding the details of President Obama's tax cuts. On Thursday, in her most recent facebook post, Sarah published an angry rebuttal to the response of politifact.com who had reacted to an earlier facebook post of Sarah Palin, where she accused politifact.com of "being caught with their pants on fire."

Not surprisingly, politifact.com didn't agree with Sarah's "pants on fire" claim and concluded: "We rate Palin's statement False."

In addition, it's also not surprising that Sarah holds a grudge against politifact.com. After all, they have crossed her before - and there is nothing the Quitter Queen hates more. In December last year, politifact.com declared Sarah's invention of the infamous death panels as the "Lie of the Year". No wonder that Sarah is dying to get some pay back. ;-)

Sarah's last facebook message against politifact.com ended on a "personal note" - in her classic fashion, Sarah thought it would be beneficial to stress again that she is from Alaska (did you know?), combined with a strong dose of snark:

(By the way, the Left sure gets wee-wee’d up when they’re called on something like this, eh? And here I am, thousands of miles away from DC out on a commercial fishing boat, working my butt off for my own business, merely asking the Democrat politicos and their liberal friends in the media: “What’s the plan, man?”, and they seem to feel threatened by my question. So, I’ll go back to setting my hooks and watching the halibut take the bait, and when I come back into the boat’s cabin in a few hours, I’ll log back on here to read their reply. I’ll have succeeded if they’re forced to finally reveal to Americans how they plan to increase taxes, and what they intend to do with our money. In the meantime, I’m catching fish.)

- Sarah Palin, in Homer, Alaska

You think that the media would take such comments by the proven liar Sarah Palin with a grain of salt. However, on the other hand, the media also apparently cannot afford to miss a good headline, and here we go:

Therefore it seems that it's up to the blogs to fact check Sarah Palin's statement once again.

She claims that she is fishing halibut in Homer, Alaska, for her family business.

This is what the fact checking team at Palingates has to say to that claim:

"We rate Palin's statement False."

Why is that? Sarah Palin's family owns a fishing business, don't they?

Yes, they do. It has a very original name as well: "Toad's Fisheries."

However, it's not a business for fishing halibut in Homer.

In Sarah's financial disclosure forms for 2009, 2008 and 2007, Sarah Palin explains precisely what the business does:

Sarah's financial disclosure form for 2007:

Sarah's financial disclosure form for 2008:

Sarah's financial disclosure form for 2009:

Yes, it's a business which is licensed for fishing salmon at Bristol Bay, via fish nets, based in Dillingham.

Not for fishing halibut, and not for fishing in Homer.

Sarah Palin's family would have needed a special license for fishing halibut, and Sarah would have been required to mention this in her financial disclosure forms.

So what is Sarah Palin actually doing in Homer these days?

"Homer News" knows:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visited Homer this weekend to film segments of the TLC cable television show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska."

On Saturday morning she was at the fish dock and the Fish Pitchin' Kitchen. A small crowd gathered outside the Fish Pitchin' Kitchen after filming was done to get autographs and pose for pictures with Palin. Film crews were reticent when asked about what was going on, saying only that they were doing a documentary about Alaska.

So the Queen is filming, and posing with her former Alaskan subjects, and maybe posing with some fish. Well, that may be construed as working the business of Sarah Palin, notorious celebrity and media whore (in her words “working my butt off for my own business”), but that's not what we call working her butt off for the family’s fishing business, which is what she implied.

(Please note that the wording of the previous paragraph was changed in order to more adequately express what I wanted to convey.)

But since when does Sarah Palin ever tell the truth? Lies and inaccuracies, together with the insatiable urge to personalize her conflicts, are Sarah's constant companion, and she certainly will make sure that fact checkers will continue to be very busy in the near future.

Judging by her remarks on facebook, Sarah's reality show will be lacking "reality", too, also.

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UPDATE:

Shannyn Moore posted the video of Palin's encounter with protesters in Homer - and it's a real hit. I have always hoped that at some point we would get such a video in which Palin is being caught on tape in an unscripted, unfiltered "real life" moment, because you just know that she would make an utter fool of herself.

And the beauty is that in this clip not just Sarah Palin makes a fool of herself and shows parts of her "real face", but other members of her family do as well. In addition, Palin's typical bullying tactics are very well displayed here.

Kathleen Gustafson, a teacher from Homer, put up a huge sign saying "WORST GOVERNOR EVER." She then bravely engages Palin and her family in the conversation, and Kathleen Gustafson does an outstanding job in bringing across important points and keeping her cool. Thanks to her we get a unique view of the real Sarah Palin.

Todd and Willow are together with Sarah in this clip, not to forget the bodyguard who desperately tries to block the camera.

So Sarah claims not to be a celebrity, but she loves to be paid by celebrity magazines, loves to shoot her TV series together with other celebrities and loves to be shielded off by bodyguards, just like celebrities.

Sarah Palin knows that celebrities, whilst they are looked up to, their views are not taken seriously. Sarah wants you to take her seriously.

From the transcript, published by Shannyn Moore, the following parts stand out:

Palin: Here’s the deal. Here’s the deal. (inaudible) That’s what I’m out there fightin’ for Americans to be able to have a Constitution protected so that we can have free speech…And ALSO there…

Kathleen: In what way are you fighting for that?

Palin: Oh my goodness!

Kathleen: In what way?

Palin: To elect candidates who understand the Constitution, to protect our military interests so that we can keep on fightin’ for our constitution that will protect some of the freedoms that evidently are important to you too.

Kathleen: By using your celebrity status, certainly not by political status.

Willow: How is she a celebrity? That’s my question.

Palin: I’m honored! No, she thinks I’m a celebrity!

Willow: That’s funny that you think she is.

Kathleen: Well, you’re certainly not representing the state of Alaska any longer…even though…

Willow: She’s representing United States!

(in contrast to Shannyn's transcript, it is my impression that Willow was saying the last sentence as a statement of fact, not as a question)

So Sarah Palin regards as her most important job the protection of the "military interests" of the USA? Well, end times, here we come! Putin, watch out, here comes Sarah from Alaska!

I don't even want to think about how many wars Sarah Palin would start if she were to become President. That's how you fight the deficit!

Please note that I have uploaded another version of the clip with better audio. You can watch the clip HERE.

In addition, you can download the video file HERE and can watch it for example on Windows Media Player.

Screenshots from the video (in chronological order) - it's almost comical to see how Todd and the bodyguard are trying to block the camera. It's a real shame that they don't want the world to see the "real Sarah", without the filter of the evil liberal media.

Willow: "She’s representing United States!"

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UPDATE 2:

It's great to see that this story is going viral. Media Matters picked it up, and the New York Magainze asks: "Did Sarah Palin Roll Her Eyes at Teaching?" Mediaite also reports the story.

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UPDATE 3:

Sarah Palin addressed the whole matter on Rebecca Mansour's facebook, and she insists that one thing should be abundantly clear: There can be no denying, and Sarah Palin severely rebukes the MSM/LSM for reporting this fact, that she definitely...

DID NOT ROLL HER EYES

...when being told that the protester is a teacher.

Thank you, Sarah, for saving America once again from the evil liberal-socialist media, whose members do not hesitate to spread vicious rumors which are nothing but inventions. These far left subjects should be lucky to be able to live in America in the first place and have the freedom to publish her slanderous reports (and maybe the latter should be reconsidered once Sarah Palin becomes the US President, as it is God's wish).

This is her facebook post:

While filming the Alaska documentary in Homer, I had a brief discussion with a local lady who, in typical Alaska style, decided to give me her two cents worth about my political leanings, American politics in general, and much else besides. It’s what makes our politics so uniquely democratic: two people discussing the things they care about, even though they respectfully disagree about just about everything (you can watch a brief video of the encounter here).

The LSM has now decided to use this brief encounter for another one of their spin operations. They claim I – wait for it – “appear to roll my eyes” when the lady tells me she’s a teacher. Yes, it’s come to this: the media is now trying to turn my eyebrow movements into story lines. (Maybe that’s why Botox is all the rage – if you can’t move your eyebrows, your “eye rolling” can’t be misinterpreted!) If they had checked their facts first, they would have known that I come from a family of teachers; my grandparents were teachers, my father was a teacher, my brother is a teacher, my sister works in Special Needs classrooms, my aunt is a school nurse, my mom worked as a school secretary for much of her professional life, we all volunteer in classrooms, etc., etc., etc. Given that family history, how likely is it that I would “roll my eyes” at someone telling me that they too work in that honorable profession? Stay classy, LSM.

One good thing to come out of this little episode, though, is that it helps to remind people once again that Alaska is a great state full of independent-minded people. I look forward to introducing you to some of them in the forthcoming documentary series on life in Alaska! The show will remind you to get outdoors, breathe in God’s creation, and taste the freedom!

- Sarah Palin

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Let the world know that in no way should this "eye movement" by Sarah be remotely considered as eye rolling (in the clip from about 1:11):

But seriously:

This ridiculous facebook statement by Sarah Palin/RAM is just an obvious attempt to take the attention away from the inconvenient facts of this incident - for example the fact that Sarah's group reportedly tore Kathleen's banner down. Shannyn Moore wrote on Mudflats:

In what has become typical tragic irony, Sarah initially claimed to support Kathleen’s First Amendment Rights. But as soon as Billy Sullivan walked toward the dock, one of Palin’s entourage tore down the sign to great applause from her group.

Picture of the ripped down sign (courtesy of Shannyn Moore):

Sarah Palin's loves her own freedoms, but she doesn't love the freedom of others who disagree with her. This is just one reason why Sarah Palin is the wrong person for ANY position of power.

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UPDATE 4:

The eyeroll that did not happen - make the factcheck:

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Websites which linked to this post:

Firedoglake

Politicususa

The Political Carnival

The Daily Dish (posted "eyeroll video")

The Nose Pin Zone (posted "eyeroll video")

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Shannyn Moore and Jeanne Devon on the Nicole Sandler Radio Show talking about Sarah Palin's "Wild Ride" - July 23, 2010 - UPDATE!

Shannyn Moore and Jeanne Devon from Mudflats are currently at Netroots Nation in Las Vegas, and yesterday they had the opportunity to go on the air with the brilliant radio talk show host Nicole Sandler. The conversation was of special interest for us, as it mainly dealt with Sarah Palin's so-called "wild ride" on April 17, 2008 - her flight from Dallas to Anchorage, plus an one-hour drive to Wasilla while Sarah Palin supposedly was eight-month pregnant.

Nicole Sandler has shown a great interest in "babygate", Sarah Palin's supposed pregnancy with Trig, and she is one of the very, very few people in the media who are prepared to touch the subject.

Palingates published numerous posts in the past discussing the "wild ride" in great detail, for example closely examining Palin's various accounts of it, and pointing out that Palin's description is simply impossible from a medical point of view - see here, here, here and here.

Shannyn Moore and I also had a conversation about the "wild ride" and Palin's pregnancy several months ago on Shannyn's radio show, see here and here.

Listen to the conversation of Shannyn Moore and Jeanne Devon with Nicole Sandler:

You can view Nicole Sandler's complete broadcast from July 23 here (shown above is the full, unedited discussion of Nicole Sandler with Shannyn and AKM, but she had many other guests).

Nicole Sandler's website is http://radioornot.com.

Our brilliant reader EyeOnYou made a transcript of the part of the discussion which dealt with "babygate", and I have looked through it as well, but please note that it's probably still not 100% accurate:

N (Nicole Sandler): I said to you last night, that I thought no woman would get on plane after her water broke, but S made a good point, we need to take her at her word on this one. She did indeed get on a plane from Tx. to Ak, after her water had broken, a month early...

S (Shannyn Moore): Well, what she's willing to admit to, her official story is, which we were covering, I was on the air, actually we broke the story that her, that the baby was even born, so...her official story to me is worse than any of the stories that anyone is making up, so why don't you take the worst one which is the one you can prove, which is the one she admits to,...

AKM (Jeanne Devon): And is the one she doesn't refudiate,

S: She doesn't refudiate that one,

N: She admits that she got on a plane, after her water had broken, for how long of a flight is it from Texas back to Alaska?

S: I don't know, she stopped in, she had at least one stopover,

AKM: Right, she stopped and got on another plane, I think she stopped in Seattle

S: Probably 12 or 14 hours or so..probably 12 hours or so,

N: This is her fifth child

S: um hm

AKM: right

S: ...and she was a month premature with a child that she knew had Down Syndrome

AKM: and she was 45 years old

S: ...and she was 45, so her own health, the health of the child, were of no concern or anyone else's schedule, so all of the quote unquote conspiracy theories, um, that's fine, that people get there, and I understand, because no one can really believe that she do that, would admit to doing this... but she's..

N: She's a pro-life woman, how could a pro-life woman endanger her unborn child like that?

S: That's a very good question. You know what, the week that that happened, that she flew home, um, in labor and all this, there was a man who was evading the police, there was a warrant out for his arrest, he wasn't high or drunk or anything, when he was evading the police, but he had a child in a seatbelt, or in a car seat in his car. He was arrested and he was charged with reckless endangerment because he had driven fast trying to evade the police, that was in Anchorage and this same week, so for that reason I said at the time, I said: How is this not endangering a child? And they laughed it off saying "we didn't want a fishpicker born in Texas"...

N: they didn't want a...?

S & AKM: A fishpicker

AKM: someone who picks fish out of the nets

S: an Alaskan job, a commercial job

AKM: he's a fisherman

S: We didn't want an Alaska fishpicker born in Texas

N: Oh god

S: and that was their reason

N: and that was okay

S: and everybody was okay

AKM: and everybody was like ha, ha, ha

S: Alaska rocks kinda thing

S: So do healthy babies, that's just geography,....so you know, I think maybe there is something to what everybody says but as far as...its working for her. All of these conspiracy sites, about the trig truthers or whatever, are, it works very very well for her, because it makes everything else look insane, and what she did do actually does look insane but they don't talk about it.

N: what she did actually is insane

AKM: and she enjoys being able to point the finger and say look, oh look at all these people, they don't even think my baby is my baby, and it sounds conspiracy theory, it sounds tin foil hat and it works for her

S: it works for her

AKM: it works for her because it casts everybody else in that light so that everyone goes oh yeah those nutcases, then they don't listen to anything else they say,

S: it's like Orly Taitz, the birthers, and everybody gets cast in the same light, and you know what, if you say I think it was really irresponsible to get on a plane when you are 45 years old, when you know you have a baby with Down Syndrome, and not go right to the hospital...

N: Right..

S: I think that is really dangerous

N: Right if you take the story at face value, and why isn't that being investigated as child endangerment?

S: And I have, I don't want you making decisions for the country, the state, my town or anywhere else because you obviously don't have a very good sense of judgement.

AKM: And the other thing is if she had told Alaska Airlines that she was if she had told them that her water was broken, but that she was that pregnant she would not have been permitted to fly...

N: You told me something else that I found interesting because we see these pictures of supposedly at 7 months pregnant, she doesn't look very pregnant, that she wasn't even eating during her pregnancy and she was running...and doing things that a pregnant woman shouldn't do.

AKM: Well I think that some of that was even mentioned in the book, Game Change, that in moments of high tension and stress, that that was her tendancy, she wasn't eating during the campaign, that she was drinking diet dr pepper and eating atkins diet bars, and like that was it,

S: ...and she lived on like...what was it, some mocha chocolate, skinny..

AKM: skinny white chocolate mochas

S: skinny white chocolate mochas that she was, one of her aids came on my show and...

AKM: I used to like those and now I can't even order them any more

S: ...one of her aids came on my show and was like 'that's all she lived on', and that she would start getting hungry and ... that it was a problem like she would be like...and (doing the hand phone motion) it was like Todd you need to feed her, phone calls had to be made, so

N: okay, so highly irresponsible if nothing else and you don't even need to say..

S: it's bad judgement, at the least

N: okay

(in the last part of the discussion about Trig, being asked by Nicole, Shannyn explains that she doesn't believe that Trig was named after the condition "Trisomy-G", that she thinks it's a coincidence, and AKM thinks if it was true that Trig was named after "Trisomy-G", it would be counter-productive with the special needs crowd)

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Please read all posts by Palingates about Sarah Palin's faked pregnancy HERE. Our PDF-summary document about the pregnancy can be downloaded HERE.

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Andrew Sullivan just published another post about the "Trig-issue", and he quoted from a letter of a reader. As this letter is a very good summary of why the "Trig Truthers" are pursuing the case, I would like to repeat it here:

"I completely agree with you on the importance of this issue and the discredit that the lack of inquiry places on the journalistic profession. However, I cannot agree with your recent suggestion (not the first time) that the story may boil down to a simple exaggeration of the facts of the "wild ride."

While it is certain that her tale is not credible, it is not just the wild ride aspect of the story that raises eyebrows; this has to be taken in the context of all the other things that don't add up about her story. The lack of a pregnant physique, and then the impossibly-morphing body shapes. The fact that no one knew. The timing of the announcement. The odd story of the too-early amniocentesis. The disappearance of Bristol, her pregnant appearance and substantiated claims that she was pregnant in 2007. The lack of any documentation whatsoever of the birth. The changing details. The fact that neither the doctor, nor the hospital, were qualified and certified to perform this high-risk delivery, known to have at least 6 high-risk factors -- and neither ever verified the birth story. The odd discrepancies in the letter released by the McCain-Palin campaign late on election eve. The inability of ADN to disprove the rumors, despite trying. Sarah's long history of lying. Heather Bruce's confirmation that Bristol lived with her while pregnant, which had to be earlier than the pregnancy with Tripp.

And this is not all! This is a preponderance of credible evidence that the story is a lie. As the would-be whistleblower on Bernie Madoff said (paraphrasing), "there was no smoking gun, but too many things just didn't add up." That is the hallmark of a hoax."

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Please note:

Addressing the heated discussion in the comments, I would like to remind everyone to make the points on the issue and not personally against other bloggers. We don't want to encourage anyone here to attack other bloggers or commenters personally. We at Palingates are proud to have this free discussion forum which is one of the very few places on the internet where "babygate" can be discussed without restrictions, but let's all try to be civil in our remarks.

We think it is important to discuss the relevance and the details of the "wild ride" - and that's what Palingates has done in previous posts. This issue and the discussion are very important for us.

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UPDATE:

Let me address some of the issues which are being discussed in the interview. First of all, I have to say that the comparison to the "Obama birthers" doesn't frighten me one bit. The reason is that Sarah Palin herself explicitly said in a radio interview in December 2009 that the Obama birthers are asking "a fair question". But not only that - she even expanded on this point:

Transcript via Crooks & Liars:

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HUMPHRIES: Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?

PALIN: Um, I think the public, rightfully, is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think enough members of the electorate still want answers.

HUMPHRIES: Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?

PALIN: I think it's a fair question, just like I think past associations, past voting records, all of that is fair game. You know, I gotta tell you, too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign, didn't do a good enough job in that area. We didn't call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don't think that was fair to voters, to not have done our jobs as candidates and as a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we're seeing made manifest in the administration.

HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly, if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama's past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?

PALIN: Hey, you know, that's a great point. That weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about, that Trig isn't my real son, a lot of people say, "Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he's your kid," which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we should reverse that and use the same type of thinking on the other one.

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These remarks by Sarah Palin are incredibly interesting, because in the last part, she explicitly says that the Palin camp has already produced Trig's birth certificate, and goes on to say: "Maybe we should reverse that and use the same type of thinking on the other one."

So, first of all, this is again a blatant lie by Sarah Palin. She has never shown Trig's birth certificate in public - not to the McCain campaign and also not to journalists who, like Andrew Sullivan and Pat Dougherty, the editor of the Anchorage Daily News, were asking for it. Even the Alaska Benefits Section took the unusal step to ask for Trig's birth certificate in an email to Sarah Palin on May 21, 2008. Whether they received the birth certificate in the end is not known to us.

Second of all, it again shows in which warped reality Sarah Palin lives. It seems to me that it's in fact wishful thinking that she could show Trig's birth certificate. This has the advantage that she now can turn it round: They are asking for Trig's birth certificate despite the fact that we have shown it, and now we can keep on asking questions about Obama's birth despite the fact that the birth certificate for Obama has been produced.

Therefore, an extremely important part of Palin's argument here is the assertion that Trig's birth certificate has been produced in public - which is a lie.

So why should we be afraid of being compared to Obama birthers?

It seems to me that even Sarah Palin recognizes that her argument would NOT be valid if Trig's birth certificate would still be hidden - so she just lies on the spot.

In addition, it's in fact part of Sarah Palin's record to ask opponents for documentation regarding their "associations". Andrew Sullivan quotes the following excerpt from another article:

"Within a few months, Palin was officially challenging Stein and exploiting the cultural shift masterfully. She welcomed a national anti-abortion group in to carpet bomb Wasilla with pink postcards affirming her pro-life bona fides. She orchestrated an NRA endorsement and a mailing from the group falsely proclaiming Stein, a lifelong hunter, "anti-gun." (Stein complained to the local newspaper that Palin was telling voters he wanted to "melt down" all the firearms in the state.) And, in a move practically out of Karl Rove's playbook, she dwelled on how Stein's wife used her maiden name, going so far as to demand a marriage certificate as proof of their nuptials. Palin's campaign literature proclaimed her "deeply devoted to conservative family values"--all in the context of an ostensibly nonpartisan election. (Stein himself was a moderate Republican.)"

Andrew then comments:

So it is part of Palin's record to demand the marriage license of a fellow Republican, but to ask for any medical confirmation of the mysterious birth of Trig earlier this year, any affidavit from the obstetrician, any objective evidence at all that Trig is indeed Sarah Palin's biological child is, well, in the words of John Podhoretz, "virtually unspeakable." Look: this is usually not hard at all. Births are recorded at the hospitals where they occur. And, as you might expect, there's a long list of babies born at Mat-Su Medical center, where we are told Trig was born on April 18 this year. But for some reason, Trig Palin's name is not among them.

So it's just fair and rational to ask Sarah Palin for Trig's birth certificate. I don't think that any rational person would actually disagree with it, after thinking it through.

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Let me show again one of the simple reasons why the "Trig Truthers" are convinced that Sarah Palin's pregnancy didn't happen - the fact that the petite and slender Sarah Palin simply didn't look pregnant. Our reader curioser created the follow comparison:

A woman from the USA put an overview about the progression of her own pregnancy on flickr. I think that this is a valid comparison, because this woman also appears to be relatively small and slender, very much like Sarah Palin:

One reader pointed out in the comments today that Sarah Palin could have starved herself during the pregnancy, a point which was also discussed in the interview, and linked to this website. Here a woman describes how she starved herself during her second pregnancy, and she writes:

"When I finally delivered my second child by cesarean section, I had only put on about 18 pounds; yet I hardly looked pregnant. I was 5' 8" and weighed just above 135 lbs. Whitney, my second child, was born underweight but did not have any medical problems at birth."

Well, while I am not a medical professional, I would like to point out that it's on the record that Trig, a baby with Down Syndrome, was born five weeks premature and still had the astonishing weight of 6 lbs. 2. oz. That's not an underweight baby, and Trig looked far from starved when he was presented on April 18, 2008. These are the only available pictures from that day, courtesy of KTUU:

At full term, Trig would have been a respectable eight-pounder!

Ennealogic once made a great post with a comparison to "real" five-week premature babies, which I encourage everyone to revisit.

Here is a screenshot from the official birth announcement:

Therefore I do not believe that Sarah Palin starved herself and her baby.

In addition, I would like to point out that even very slim woman cannot hide pregnancies - the baby has to go somewhere:

This is the picture of an unknown pregnant slim woman I found on the internet:

This is a picture of ultra-slim Victoria Beckham when she was pregnant:

Sarah Palin was not pregnant. We want the truth about what exactly happened and who the real mother of Trig is, and I cannot pretend to follow a certain line just because it's politically convenient.

Let's take Sarah Palin at her word and ask her: To whom have you shown Trig's birth certificate?

Why should that be a taboo? Sarah Palin herself says that these questions are fair.

Let's keep it simple and straightforward. If we would all do that and pull together in the right direction, Palin's house of lies would crumble fast.

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UPDATE 2:

This post is already quite long, but in order to support the lively, very good discussion which is going on in the comments right now, I shortly would like to mention some facts which we will probably discuss in greater detail in a future post. Some commentators discussed the details of the travel, for example the question when Sarah Palin returned to Anchorage. Some of you will probably not be aware of the fact that there are two pieces of documentation available that contain details about the travel:

1. Sarah Palin's travel authorizations

2. Sarah Palin's official schedule

Please see THIS FOLDER for more copies from Sarah Palin's official schedule and other documents.

This is a screenshot from the travel authorizations:

You can see that the details of the flight from Anchorage TO Dallas are mentioned. However, regarding the flight back, it's only mentioned that they arrived at 11.00 pm in Anchorage on April 17, 2008. Same in the official schedule. No other flight details for the flight back from Dallas to Anchorage can be found anywhere.

These documents also show that Sarah Palin was "in full swing" again from April 21, 2008. Even on April 18, 2008, she signed a bill, which is mentioned in both documents. However, interviews from April 18 with Sarah Palin which are mentioned in the documents have never surfaced, according to our best knowledge.

It is also interesting to note that in addition to the flights to Dallas, Sarah Palin also flew from Juneau to Anchorage on April 14, 2008. There were several more flights which Sarah Palin undertook in the "late stage" of her pregnancy. We will summarize them in a future post. I would be grateful if anyone who finds information regarding her flights from January - April 2008 could send me this information via email.

There is another very curious email correspondence which is worth discussing.

On April 5, 2008, Sarah Palin sent the following message to staff members and to Todd, Track, Bristol and Willow:

Her staff member Janice Mason answered:

So Sarah Palin, who is supposedly almost 8 months pregnant, was planning on April 5, 2008 a round-trip with the King Air, the airplane which was owned by the state of Alaska, for April 20, 2008?

I personally believe that Sarah Palin would never do anything which could endanger herself.

I am convinced that a highly pregnant Sarah Palin with her history of miscarriages, now supposedly with her 7th pregnancy, carrying a Down Syndrome baby, would not have gone on so many flights. This is just one of many reasons why Sarah Palin's alleged pregnancy did not happen.

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Websites which linked to this post:

Phil Munger, Progressive Alaska

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Shannyn Moore talks on the air about Sarah Palin's "Wild Ride" with Trig - Including conversation with Patrick

I was very thankful that Shannyn Moore today talked to me on the air again about Sarah Palin's "pregnancy" with Trig. We had a first, very pleasant conversation on the air on February 1, 2010, but unfortunately there was a technical problem with the recording of the show, therefore the tape is not available.

This time I was prepared and recorded the show myself. The reason I called in was that Shannyn Moore today at the beginning of her show discussed in great length Sarah's "Wild Ride" which happened on April 17, 2008, while Sarah was "officially pregnant" with Trig.

I managed to record the last part of her discussion of the "Wild Ride", the conversation with another member of the audience who talked with Shannyn about Trig's political importance for Sarah, and then my own conversation with Shannyn. I was quite happy that I could bring a few points across, however, I felt that our first conversation on February 1 which is unfortunately not available was "smoother". But it is a controversial subject, and it is apparent that Shannyn and I disagree about several things.

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Download Sarah Palin's own version of the "Wilde Ride" which she explained to the public during her press conference on April 22, 2008:



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Palingates wrote about Sarah's "Wild Ride" for example HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

I divided the recording in two parts.

My conversation with Shannyn is included in the second part.

By the way: It was Sarah Palin's fifth child, but her SEVENTH pregnancy (two of which ended in miscarriage, as Sarah describes in detail in "Going Rogue").

What the heck was Sarah Palin doing when she flew from Texas to Alaska on April 17, 2008, after her water had broken, having suffered two previous miscarriages? That is another question you will never ever receive an answer to!

And no doctor, knowing that her patient had had two miscarriages in the past would advise her patient to fly after her water had broken, either.

Enjoy! ;-)

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Sarah Palin's hypocrisy, an enduring theme: "socialized healthcare" is good enough for the Palin family

Shannyn Moore and earlier the Daily Kos commented on the fact that Bristol Palin's son Tripp Johnston is an enrolled tribal member of the Curyung Tribe and receives health care services at the state of the art Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.

Recently released documents from the custody battle show clearly Tripp Palin Johnston has socialized health care through Indian Health Services and the Alaska Native Medical Center.

Palin’s family has federally funded health care afforded to them…but if you had, it Barack Obama might kill you. Put this on the list of Palin’s Greatest Hypocritical Hits…Volume 97.

Tripp is eligible to Native health care, according to this document.



Apart from collecting Bristol Bay Native Corporation dividends for himself and his children, Todd has very little involvement in native affairs.



An ADN article gives us some insight into Todd Palin's "nativeness":

Culturally, the Palins live a lifestyle of small-town Alaska. Todd does not take part in Native organizations or tribal politics. He grew up in Glennallen and Wasilla. His Native roots can be seen in his dividends from the Bristol Bay Native Corporation and boyhood visits with his grandma, where he learned to tend fish nets along the Nushagak River.

The Palins are grifters and opportunists as well as world class hypocrites. They are using anything they can to slam Levi at any given opportunity. Levi expected to have to provide health care cover for his son and would have deductions for it, naturally. So the Palins came back with the Native "thingie" to make Levi look bad, reinforcing their hypocrite credentials in the process. After all, Granny Palin is death panelled against socialized health care...

In the meantime, Tripp is receiving free health care thanks to grandad NINO (Native In Name Only).
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Geoffrey Dunn on the Shannyn Moore Radio Show talking about Sarah Palin (Audio)

Geoffrey Dunn is not just an award-winning writer, filmmaker and HuffPost blogger, but he could also turn out to be one of Sarah Palin's greatest nightmares. In his upcoming book, "The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power", Geoffrey interviewed more than 100 people and learned about some secrets that Sarah Palin would rather the public didn't know.

The date of the publication of his book has been pushed back to the end of July 2010, because Sarah Palin keeps Geoffrey just too busy, and there are some additional leads he wants to pursue, as he explains in the broadcast.

Therefore it was great to hear Geoffrey Dunn talking yesterday on the air with Shannyn Moore. He shared some fascinating details. For example, Geoffrey has talked to members of the McCain/Palin campaign, and it turned out that Sarah just didn't know...

--> the difference between North- and South-Korea

--> ANYTHING about the Vietnam war

...but she also didn't know...

--> the difference between England and the UK!

Sarah, listen: The difference is that England has its own football ..."soccer"... team. That's what keeps them most happy over there. Hope that helped!

Another interesting detail which Geoffrey Dunn discloses is that "around 90%" of the people he talked to about Sarah Palin were Republicans. He confirms that it's nothing but a myth that the Republicans in Alaska like Sarah Palin a lot. In fact, many of them strongly dislike her - which I agree with, having myself seen several confidential emails by leading Alaskan Republican politicians in which Sarah Palin was mentioned in the most unflattering way! Yes, we have a very capable network in Alaska by now.

Geoffrey also talks about Sarah's speech in Redding, CA, which he attended a few days ago. I strongly recommend reading the article that AKM has written about this event on Mudflats, which she wrote "in collaboration" with Geoffrey Dunn.

But that's by far not everything that Geoffrey has to share. He also has some frightening details: He believes that Sarah is already in full preparation for the Presidential run, and she has already gathered a support team around her.

In addition, please don't forget to pre-order Geoffrey's book. You won't regret it!

Listen here to this highly entertaining interview with Shannyn Moore (3 parts):

Listen to Shannyn Moore's podcasts HERE.

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Frank Schaeffer on the Shannyn Moore Show discussing the "American Taliban" and Sarah Palin (complete audio)

Frank Schaeffer and Shannyn Moore - what a wonderful combination! Why is that? Because Shannyn Moore is a great radio show host and lets her guests talk without interrupting - and there is hardly anyone who has more gripping stories and opinions to offer than Frank Schaeffer!

Therefore I decided to record the conversation which took place several hours ago - a lucky choice - because it turned out to be the best interview with Frank Schaeffer I ever had the pleasure listening to.

Frank Schaeffer talks about his upbringing, the history of the religious right in America, his own "career" within the religious right, the "American Taliban", Sarah Palin and many other things.

Here is the complete uncut audio, divided in three parts:







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