The National Enquirer gets more scoops than any other gossip magazine and I have little doubt that their journalistic standards are above the other weekly tabloids they’re often grouped with. They broke the John Edwards cheating and lovechild scandal, and if they weren’t on that story I doubt it ever would have reached the public. This week’s edition of the Enquirer has plenty of bombshells to accompany their cover story on Vice Presidential Republican candidate Sarah Palin. Whether the allegations about Palin are true or not remains to be seen. They don’t say that they’ve independently verified these claims, but quote a source. It’s possible the source has motivations to lie about Palin.
There’s the “Troopergate” scandal for which Palin is currently under an ethics investigation, which involves her firing the Public Safety Commissioner for the State of Alaska for allegedly refusing to fire her ex brother in law, an Alaska State Trooper, over a ongoing feud in Palin’s family. That’s received plenty of press, but there are also new allegations in the Enquirer’s story which may raise some eyebrows. Here are the highlights.
Sarah Palin cheated on her husband with one of his business associates
Another incredible allegation emerging from the family war is that Palin, a mother of five, had an affair with a former business associate of her fisherman husband, Todd.
“Todd discovered the affair and quickly dissolved his friendship and his business associations with the guy,” charges an enemy. “Many people in Alaska are talking about the rumor and say Todd swept it under the rug.”
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 15, 2008]
It’s entirely possible that The Enquirer’s source is making up crap about Palin for other reasons as we mentioned, and that she didn’t really cheat or tell her pregnant daughter to get married right away, as they go on to allege. There’s no date for the supposed affair and the details are vague. Palin seems to have a lot of enemies who could be spreading lies about her. Here’s how the source claims she tried to handle Bristol’s pregnancy at first - by hiding it and trying to make her get married before the news came out.
Palin tried to cover up 17 year-old Bristol’s pregnancy, demanded she marry before news came out
Palin dropped a huge bombshell when she announced recently that her teen daughter Bristol is pregnant. But sources close to the family say that the governor had desperately tried to cover up her daughter’s pregnancy, a potentially embarrassment for the ultra-conservative governor.
Palin confirmed her daughter’s pregnancy only after it was clear that the media already knew about it and that the news was about to break, according to the sources.
While Palin has publicly expressed support for Bristol and said that she would be marrying the baby’s father, the source says Sarah had been working frantically to get the two married before the pregnancy news came out.
An insider close to the baby’s father says Palin went as far as starting to make arrangements for a small wedding ceremony for the teens in Palmer, Alaska. “She wanted the wedding date to be scheduled before McCain announced her as his vice president - but Bristol refused,” said the insider.
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 15, 2008]
The source goes on to say that Sarah Palin planned for a small wedding a few days after the Republican National Convention, and that she then wanted to announce that Bristol was pregnant by her new husband. “But Bristol refused to go along with the lies,” the source says, and had a huge fight with her mom over it.
We all know how everything turned out for that family, and it’s still unknown how it will affect Sarah’s bid for the Vice Presidency - whether it will make her more appealing to voters like she has problems like everyone else, or whether they’ll be turned off by the sheer drama of it all.
Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has urged people not to focus on pregnant 17 year-old Bristol, repeating his earlier claim that families are off limits. His wife Michelle mirrored his comments on Ellen yesterday, saying “I know that they care about their kids, and we should let them deal with this issue. This shouldn’t be an issue for political discussion.”
There’s the “Troopergate” scandal for which Palin is currently under an ethics investigation, which involves her firing the Public Safety Commissioner for the State of Alaska for allegedly refusing to fire her ex brother in law, an Alaska State Trooper, over a ongoing feud in Palin’s family. That’s received plenty of press, but there are also new allegations in the Enquirer’s story which may raise some eyebrows. Here are the highlights.
Sarah Palin cheated on her husband with one of his business associates
Another incredible allegation emerging from the family war is that Palin, a mother of five, had an affair with a former business associate of her fisherman husband, Todd.
“Todd discovered the affair and quickly dissolved his friendship and his business associations with the guy,” charges an enemy. “Many people in Alaska are talking about the rumor and say Todd swept it under the rug.”
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 15, 2008]
It’s entirely possible that The Enquirer’s source is making up crap about Palin for other reasons as we mentioned, and that she didn’t really cheat or tell her pregnant daughter to get married right away, as they go on to allege. There’s no date for the supposed affair and the details are vague. Palin seems to have a lot of enemies who could be spreading lies about her. Here’s how the source claims she tried to handle Bristol’s pregnancy at first - by hiding it and trying to make her get married before the news came out.
Palin tried to cover up 17 year-old Bristol’s pregnancy, demanded she marry before news came out
Palin dropped a huge bombshell when she announced recently that her teen daughter Bristol is pregnant. But sources close to the family say that the governor had desperately tried to cover up her daughter’s pregnancy, a potentially embarrassment for the ultra-conservative governor.
Palin confirmed her daughter’s pregnancy only after it was clear that the media already knew about it and that the news was about to break, according to the sources.
While Palin has publicly expressed support for Bristol and said that she would be marrying the baby’s father, the source says Sarah had been working frantically to get the two married before the pregnancy news came out.
An insider close to the baby’s father says Palin went as far as starting to make arrangements for a small wedding ceremony for the teens in Palmer, Alaska. “She wanted the wedding date to be scheduled before McCain announced her as his vice president - but Bristol refused,” said the insider.
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 15, 2008]
The source goes on to say that Sarah Palin planned for a small wedding a few days after the Republican National Convention, and that she then wanted to announce that Bristol was pregnant by her new husband. “But Bristol refused to go along with the lies,” the source says, and had a huge fight with her mom over it.
We all know how everything turned out for that family, and it’s still unknown how it will affect Sarah’s bid for the Vice Presidency - whether it will make her more appealing to voters like she has problems like everyone else, or whether they’ll be turned off by the sheer drama of it all.
Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has urged people not to focus on pregnant 17 year-old Bristol, repeating his earlier claim that families are off limits. His wife Michelle mirrored his comments on Ellen yesterday, saying “I know that they care about their kids, and we should let them deal with this issue. This shouldn’t be an issue for political discussion.”
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