He Must be Somebody’s Baby, ctd.
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Looking back at my post making fun of Andrew Sullivan for his obsession with Trig Palin, I figured I should make it clear that, while I find the obsession absurd, I don’t think his point is absurd. I feel that it’s safe to stop wondering about the manner of Trig’s birth, since, you know, the election is over. And while it’s definitely worth holding Palin-apologists accountable, we don’t really need a lot of new data to do that. There’s already enough out there to disqualify her as a serious candidate for public office in the eyes of any one susceptible to reason. That said, I don’t buy into the moral outrage at his daring to ask about this for a minute. She was a nominee for vice-president, and she made a point of turning her(?) son into a political football, so this issue is 100% fair game. It’s a tough break for Bristol, no doubt, but she’ll have to take that up with her mother.
And Andrew is right that the whole story is absolutely bonkers. A few days after the nomination, in an informal poll of six or seven women who had given birth, one of whom was a doctor, I was unable to find anyone who even believed me that someone had claimed to have gotten on a plane in her condition. Either the woman is totally out of her mind, or she is lying, or both. But then, we already knew that she is constantly lying and is out of her mind, so, really, what’s the point?
Ok, that’s the last I’ll have to say about Trig. I promise. At least until they announce Bristol isn’t pregnant after all, or the kid is born and given a funny name.
