Sarah Palin, grandmother
The Alaska governor’s daughter delivers a grandson
Sarah Palin holds son Trig, before daughter Bristol and fiancé Levi Johnston bring Tripp into the family
(AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, gave birth to a baby boy Saturday, said Lorenzo Benet in People.com. The child, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces. Tripp’s father, apprentice electrician Levi Johnston, has said he and Bristol plan to wed next year.
Congratulations to the new parents, said Robert Stacy McCain in The Other McCain, but also a note of “cultural criticism”—“What’s up with this ‘baby first, marriage later’ thing?” Would it have been so hard to organize “a private, hurry-up wedding” before Tripp’s birth? After all, “conservatives ought to support real traditional values,” such as shotgun weddings.
The news of Bristol’s pregnancy “shocked a lot of people” just as her mom became the GOP’s vice presidential candidate, said Andrew Malcolm in the Los Angeles Times online, but “the conservative crowd seemed to see the situation as a familiar family one.” And Grandma Palin got more good news than a first grandchild this weekend—she was also named the “nation’s second most-admired woman,” after Hillary Clinton, in a USA Today–Gallup poll.
Grandma Johnston’s news was decidedly more mixed, said Lisa Derrick in La Figa. Levi’s mom was busted “for peddling Oxycontin, aka hillbilly heroin, to state troopers” last week. Still, even that helped the new parents, as the arrest pushed up the bidding price for Tripp’s first photos—People reportedly paid $300,000 for the “snap-rights,” from a starting bid of $100,000.
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Posted by fregger, Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 4:05 pm I know this places me squarely in the realm of the Rosewell conspiracy fomenters, but this "news" of Bristol's baby is so far based on nothing more than the word of Sarah Palin's aunt to People magazine. Neither Palin nor the hospital has confirmed anything. Just that -- the sister of Bristol's grandmother, in an interview, probably by phone to People magazine, with no official confirmation of any kind. Born at 5:30 am either on Saturday or Sunday (reports differ), god knows where. And the papers are running with it. I still wonder about the truth of all this, and whether this is what they hope will be the last decoy in the Sarah-Bristol-Trig triangle, a decoy which Sarah has cleverly distanced herself from.
Posted by Decca, Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 12:06 am wow, fregger, it must be scary in that mind of yours.
Posted by Kam, Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 3:17 am Congratulations to Bristol, Levi, Sarah, and the Palin and Johnston families. Welcome to a world of love and hate baby Tripp. May you prevail and have a loving and happy life.
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