On Announcing a Pregnancy

In re Reporting on Palin:  Would some reporter please ask when the campaign intended to tell us that Bristol was pregnant?  I understand that it was the mean-spirited nasty bloggers who forced Palin to prove that her daughter had not previously had an out of wedlock child, by announcing that she was about to have an out of wedlock child.

Did they plan on telling the nation that the daughter of the Vice-President elect was getting married? Were they planning on keeping the existence of the baby a secret for eight years?

This whole rumor thing about Trig was undoubtedly a plant - by some, admittedly clever, Republican operatives. So far this election, you have to give those operatives some credit - they've been successfully playing the media like total fools.

There has been a hilarious side to the whole thing.  Apparently evangelicals, according to evangelicals, have all had bastards and thoroughly approve of single parents. Who knew?

From The Corner:
I asked ... what she thought the larger reaction among evangelicals will be. “Their reaction is going to be exactly as mine,” she told me. “There hasn’t been one evangelical family that hasn’t gone through some sort of situation. Many of us are in this movement because of something that has happened in our lives.”

As for now, at least, evangelicals seem to be completely on Palin’s side. And McCain’s. This is a group that has been skeptical of McCain in the past. Now, it’s probably fair to say that he has never been more popular among evangelicals than he is at this moment. Whether that will last, or whether Palin will cost McCain support among other voters, is not yet clear. But within the confines of the Republican Convention, McCain’s surprising choice of Palin — and the equally surprising news about her family — is paying off.

h/t memeorandum

Comments

[Rick]

Perhaps said reporter thought that it was just not any of his (or her) business. Or, perhaps, said reporter lacked the 'kahonas' to ask the question because he lacked the same kahonas to ask why the Democratic Presidential candidate launched his political campaign from the home of a close associate who is a confessed terrorist. Just a theory and perhaps there is nothing to it. Or, perhaps there are other reasons. Perhaps I am wrong about reporters and some of them are decent folks.

I stopped for pizza just a couple of blocks from your place on Friday. I think New Yorkers probably take for granted their easy access to good pizza. But, of course, I have better access to fabulous lamb. I just put one in the freezer and I put an order in for a whole one which I will slowly turn for 8 hours on Christmas eve.

Hope all is well with you.

[Outlook 2010]

While it can be clunky Office 2010 at first, especially if you're used to an older version, I find it much easier to get serious Microsoft Office 2010 formatting and editing changes done in this version.