For all of you who are still clinging to the idea that somehow Palin WAS pregnant, and that the photographic evidence suggesting that she wasn't is not compelling enough, I would like you to explain this.
Image courtesy of my friend Emrysa.
It does not take a doctor, a nurse, or even just a person who has been pregnant, to recognize that a fetus simply does not develop THAT quickly in such short amount of time.
As evident from my post yesterday, Palin appeared to be no more than a few months pregnant (With, apparently, Sponge Bob Squarebaby) on March 26, 2008, and then suddenly on April 13, 2008, ballooned up to the image you see on the right.
I think what is obvious is that Palin was simply winging the fake pregnancy thing at first, and then realized that she needed a more convincing disguise to fool the lazy reporters, and constituents she might bump into further down the line, so she purchased something a little more convincing to wear toward the end of her incredibly short "pregnancy."
Does anybody disagree, or think they have a better theory?
My good friend Audrey once referred to this picture as "The Nail in the Coffin." Because in her mind and the mind of many others, it proved without a doubt that Palin could simply NOT have been 32 weeks pregnant when the photo was taken.
But for some reason it never quite proved enough for some people.
Perhaps these pictures taken on the very same day, as Palin was leaving the museum, will finally convert the unbelievers.
(Click the thumbnails to see the high resolution images.)
This was written as a description below the photographs:
March 26, 2008, Juneau, Alaska, USA: In April 2011, Professor Bradford Scharlott at Northern Kentucky University wrote an academic paper stating that the "conspiracy theory" suggesting Palin is not Trig's mother is likely true and the American media is pathetic for not pursuing the story more aggressively. Scharlott walks through all of the evidence supporting the theory in the article, suggesting Trig is actually Palin's grandson. The article discusses photos of Palin in what is said to have been a late-stage pregnancy, the leisurely 20-hour trip home that Palin took after she supposedly went into labor in Texas, the refusal of the hospital where Trig was supposedly born to even confirm that he was born there (let alone who was the mother), strange statements from Palin's doctor and the McCain campaign, and so on. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin exits the Alaska State Museum with her husband Todd after a bill signing ceremony. Palin announced 3-weeks prior that she was 7-months pregnant with her fifth child.
And the photos were further authenticated during a discussion with the AP photographer Brian Wallace on July 31, 2011.
Here is a close up of Palin's supposedly seven month pregnant belly.
And as if that were not enough, let us not forget that only a little over two weeks later that THIS is what Sarah Palin managed to look like on a KTUU broadcast on April 13, 2008.
Here is the video of the interview to allow further scrutiny.
(I need to give a HUGE hat tip to Laura Novak who made the initial call to Polaris images and got the information that we needed to purchase these images. Thank you Laura.)
Update: There are apparently a couple of visitors who are being purposefully obtuse and asking how these pictures prove anything, as if they were the sum total of the evidence available to prove that Sarah Palin did not give birth. Of course they could not be more incorrect.
Let me provide just a few examples and the rest you can find using a tool I like to call "Google."
I found this e-mail over at MSNBC and it just started me reexamining the whole "Bristol was pregnant before she was pregnant with Tripp" scenario. Here take a look and tell me what you think.
From: Ivy personal To: Sarah's Personal Email To: Todd To: K Perry Yahoo To: Frank Bailey ReplyTo: Ivy personal Sent: Apr 6, 2008 1:31 PM
Subject: Bristol
I was just on the phone w Don and he got a call from Chuck Sr. Reports from Juneau that lyda ' s office is perpetuating the Bristol being pregnant rumor . No doubt Janey and/or Portia . I'm callin them on the flippin carpet!
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From : gov.palinwyahoo.com Date : Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:56:09 To:"Ivy personal " < ivyfrye@yahoo . com>,"Todd" < fek9wnr@yahoo . com>,"K Perry Yahoo","Frank Bailey" com
Subject : Re: Bristol
Flippin unbelievable . Wouldn't you think they ' d be afraid of being proved wrong when they rumor around the building like that ? I wonder if Wesley and McAllister did hear it from Lyda's office though ... hopefully it'll be another reason why reporters and the public can't trust that odd group of strange people.
Diana Straub heard it and let Molly know today in church . I can gurantee Diana heard it from the horses mouth or the horses office - she and Janey. are pretty friendly. When confronted lyda won't be able to do anything but apologize for her staff . How unbecoming and embarrassing for her office esp when press start inquiring... Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
From: gov.palin@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:48 PM To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) Cc: Todd
Subject: Fw: Bristol
Sounds like The Bristol rumor was started and continues via Lyda ' s office . ( Namely , Portia Babcock - Lyda's COS , Tuckerman ' s sister ( Tuckerman being Lyda ' s new son - in-law), former spouse of Kyle Parker ( the oil / gas lobbyist busted for working with Ruedrich while at AOGCC ), now girlfriend of Ralph Samuels ... all those attributes all rolled into one Portia.
Anyway, a former leg staffer heard the discussion at a rest, in Wasilla , evidently sitting near Lyda's people ... she passed it on again today to folks at my sister ' s church ... it's pretty pathetic.
Bristol does want it squashed - we just don ' t know how to do so without making it a bigger issue . Can you feel out Wesley and McAllister to see if that ' s where they got the rumor, as others are saying it's Lyda ' s office . I figured it was them or Bitney.
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com Subject: Bristol Re: channel 13 tonight To: "Sharon Leighow" Cc: "Rosanne Hughes" , "Todd" , "K Perry Yahoo" Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 2:12 PM
Hate to pick at this one again, but have heard three different times today the rumor again the Bristol is pregnant or had this baby. Even at Trig's doc appt this morning his doc said that's out there (hopefully NOT in their medical community-world, but it's out there). Bristol called again this afternoon asking if there's anything we can do to stop this, as she received two girlfriend-type calls today asking if it were true.
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Okay so here is my quandary.
If Bristol gave birth on December 27, 2008, and Tripp Johnston was carried to full term, then in fact it is improbable that Bristol was pregnant on April 6, but could very well have been already pregnant on April 22, but there is NO WAY anybody could have possibly known that since, according to Levi, even Bristol did not know until May.
Yet so strong were these rumors that even after Sarah faked Trig's birth, they refused to go away.
Now just to make things interesting let's add to the mix that both Mercede and her mother claimed that Levi and Bristol had been TRYING to get pregnant.
So while there were already rumors that Bristol was pregnant, and she was complaining to her mom about them, she was actively TRYING to get pregnant?
And after trying for months to quell the rumor that her daughter was pregnant, Palin did not hesitate to scream that fact from the rooftops when she realized that she needed to do something to put the faked pregnancy rumors to rest or risk losing her shiny new VP slot.
No matter how you look at this, or who you want to believe, something STILL smells very fishy indeed.
