I spoke to Cherie Shirey, Assignment Manager for TV station KTVA in Anchorage and she made the following statement...
"These internet rumors are very bizarre. We worked with Governer Palin many times in 2008. Our reporters worked her on location and in the studio and I worked with her myself. She was definitely pregnant. You could see it in her belly and her face. The whole idea that Sarah Palin wasn't pregnant with Trig is completely, absolutely absurd. "
It's a KTVA reporter in this picture with Governor Palin. Shirey confirmed the photo was taken in April, 2008.
Update: The picture was taken in 2008. This is confirmed.
However, a commentator points out that according to this link from Flickr, the picture WASN'T taken in 2008 but in fact seems to have been taken in March, 2005.
Here's why the March, 2005 is wrong - that camera wasn't announced until the end of July 2005. So now the conspiracy involves TIME TRAVEL, as well!
The time problem is why I called in the first place. The photo is from when Palin was Governor, end of the 2008 session, multiple witnesses, video tape...all the things sane people need to come to reasonable conclusions.
The incorrect 2005 date is easily explained - they didn't set the date correctly. I've done that. Look at these Piroshkis that Flickr says I took digital photos of in 1972, when I was seven years old! Those things are delish, by the way.
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Photos of Bristol show her with lots of pregnancy fat and enormous, engorged breasts just after the birth, and with a typical 4-month bump back in December 2007. Bristol still has milk-engor
Cherie Shirey probably got a big fat payment from the McCain campaign to vouch for this story.
Shame on Lee Strahanan for reporting it uncritical
Lee seems you at least put the time and effort to get it right...un
Personally I would hope and pray that the truth turns out to be that she was covering for her daughter, that as a mother, she wanted to protect her daughter and faked a birth.
If that's not the truth..... then any woman, in premature labor, with fliud leaking, taking a 12 hour plane ride and driving to a clinic in alaska to give birth rather than going straight to a hospital then returning to work three days later, leaving a down syndrom baby in the care of a pregnant 17 year old with mono is obviously unable to make competent and sound decisions in times of crisis.
I can not possible find myself voting someone like that into office....
WAS THE PICTURE TAKEN in 2005 or 2008?
Enquiring minds want to know.
We can excuse her daughter getting pregnant - it could happen to ours (although hopefully we'd give them a little informatio
We might be able to sympathize with a financiall
I've heard mothers clucking to each other when they see another mother leave a child in a turned-off car to run into a store. What do you think they'll say to each other when they learn more about how Sarah Palin gave a lecture and then embarked on an 8-hour-pla
What else would she cover up? And her abuses of power in firing people in Alaska who did not do her bidding are extremely disturbing and reminicent of Bush.
PS--Who would try to pull such an elaborate ruse, and for what--to "save face"? ( It would only need saving if one is into shaming and blaming unwed mothers--l
Please, McCain--gi
this image looks possibly photoshopp
also checking the image's tags, it was processed using photoshop
It's not altered - she was pregant, according to multiple interviews I've done with people in Alaska. They think the speculatio
About video, KTVA 11 has a YouTube account and puts up video regularly. There is no video of this interview.
It seems strange a video of an interview of the governor on the last day of Alaska's legislativ
Also, the governor does not appear to be looking at the camera or the reporter. Instead she is staring blankly forward. You can see it really well if you look at a close up on flickr.
Andrea Gusty is the reporter in the picture. She and her cameraman should have the video of this interview.
I think we would like to see it.
in the mix to quell all rumors that Bristol is the mother of 4-1/2-mont
If Bristol is truly 5 months pregnant, she became pregnant when she was out of school suffering
the worst case of mono in recorded history. If the new story is true or if it is untrue, it puts
Sarah Palin's mothering skills in a bad light.
Not only that, but when you look at the actual picture, the caption reads "Myself, Governor Palin, Press Secretary McAllister