I mean, the woman is supposedly breastfeeding. You can't fake that!

Nah, but you can induce it reasonably easily if you have a history of breastfeeding, and her second youngest isn't that old.

(The transman who gave birth's wife is/was breastfeeding their child together, having done just that.)

My deepest sympathies on your loss, Vortex.

Anybody can put diary on Kos. Personally I wonder if the rumor is Rove head fake. (Starting easily refuted false rumors about his candidates is something Rove has been known to do.) Anyone who goes there thinking it will help the Democrats is being foolish. It is probably not true. And if it is, IOKIFYAR.

That is pretty far out there. There would be way too many people that would know the truth. I was back to work a week after Bobby. If you can take baby with you there isn't any reason not to assuming an uncomplicated delivery.

eta: surely there is plenty of real stuff to hit her with - get with it people! Also, interesting that there is an excuse for Bush and Cheney to skip the convention. Huh.

Vortex, I am so so sorry. My thoughts are with you and your family.

It just adds another question to her judgement, flying when she was in pre-mature labor with her 5th child, who she already knows has medical issues.

So, they're skipping the convention to go sandbag in the gulf states?

Anyone else watching the Open? I was so excited when Kei Nishikori got into the 4th round. I know my mother would have loved to have seen that.

t just adds another question to her judgement, flying when she was in pre-mature labor with her 5th child, who she already knows has medical issues.

OK, I really don't want to go there. There are plenty of issues to go after her for, her support for creationism, her opposition to abortion rights even for rape and incest victims, her global warming denialism. I really don't see the focus changed to her personal medical decisions.

I'm with Typo on this.

John McGrath at the highly underrated blog Dymaxion World says it better and in context with the larger picture: [link]

The Internet is an amazing place. As in, amazingly weird. A number of websites are running with rumours that Sarah Palin's youngest child is, in fact, her grandchild born of her daughter Bristol. I'm not providing any links, nor will I mention it after this one and only post. But I wanted to bring it up because I think it highlights the odd dynamic of the Internet: tiny, vocal, crazy-ass minorities can nevertheless be numerous enough on the Internet to appear more impressive than they are.

So we get never-ending rumours about Barack Obama's birth, and now no doubt Sarah Palin's daughter. We get the spectacle of the media inventing 9 out of 10 angry Hillary supporters of the PUMA mold, and of course we get it in larger ways too: the "controversy" over climate change is just this phenomenon writ slightly larger.

Journalists need to develop new filters for the Internet age, and one of them is this: just because a nominally large number of people say something, doesn't mean they're important.