The Trig Truther Hypocrisy Files

In her Facebook statement yesterday, Gov. Palin made it clear that while she doesn't deny anyone's right to ask about Barack Obama's birth certificate, she herself has no desire to do so:

[A]t no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States.

Together with her description of the thinking behind these questions as "weird conspiracy-theory freaky" stuff, it seems a fairly straightforward position.

End of story? Not if the mad hatter brigade of the liberal blogosphere has anything to do with it!

Huffington Post: "Sarah's palling around with conspiracists!"

DailyKos: "Palin goes birther!"

First observation: no she doesn't.

Second observation: it's for remarks like these that the word 'chutzpah' was invented.

For DailyKos of all blogs to come out with an accusation about Gov. Palin "going birther" beggars belief. Never mind the fact that she clearly isn't doing anything of the sort, it's the shamelessness of it all. We're talking about the same website that started the whole Trig Truther conspiracy with a piece of filth published on the 30th of August of last year (they've since pulled the story in a pathetic attempt to cover their tracks, but there are still plenty of copies out there): "Well, Sarah, I’m calling you a liar. And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better."

Memo to DailyKos: people who publish garbage like that, should shut the hell up.

Nor would I think it a wise thing for the same Huffington Post which recently stated that "if she's considering another run for public office it's absolutely fair game for Oprah [to ask Gov. Palin if she really is Trig's mom]" to say anything at all about the subject of conspiracy theories.

We're sure there'll be other media outlets which will feel compelled to make some sort of grand statement about Gov. Palin's remarks. Fine. We have their idiotic Trig Truther quotes and "is asking the question itself unfair?" statements on file - The Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, CNN, Anchorage Daily News, you name it. If they really want to go down that road, we're ready for them.

PS: Of course we have a separate hard disk full of Trig Truther quotes from Andrew 'Mad Dog' Sullivan over at the once reputable Atlantic. And yes, that's the same Andrew Sullivan who was invited to Washington DC for a small dinner party with then president-elect Obama. Talk about palling around with conspiracists!

PS II @ Ed Morrissey: No Ed, saying that people can ask whatever they want but that personally you would never ask that question, not least because you don't do such "weird conspiracy-theory freaky" stuff isn't "the same thing as Truthers saying that all they’re doing is “asking questions”." Gov. Palin wasn't asking any questions. All she did was answer someone else's questions truthfully. Unusual that, I know, but then Palin is an unusual politician.

You want to make the point that according to conventional political wisdom she shouldn't have answered RH's questions, fine, make that point. You clearly don't understand what sort of politician Gov. Palin is, but you're free to make it. What you're not free to do, though, is use faulty logic to compare her position to that of the Trig Truthers - or any kind of Truthers. That's way off base.