Jon Stewart suggested that Sarah Palin may just be crazy last night during one of his Indecision 2012 segments and while The Daily Show is comedy satire and airs on Comedy Central the suggestion was reinforced earlier last evening by Rachel Maddow. Maddow shared clips from a previous show with Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt, both advisors to the McCain/Palin presidential campaign. Wallace also suggests that Palin may be mentally ill and used her as the inspiration for a character in her book who gains the vice presidency before anyone figures out her mental state.
Apparently, since before Palin was named McCain’s running mate many have questioned whether the governor is the birth mother of her son Trig. A few, not many, but a few well known journalists like Andrew Sullivan and now authors Joe McGinnis, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin
Three years ago, a sitting state governor and candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States, Sarah Palin, told a story about how she had given birth to her fifth child, Trig.
Some details of this story quickly struck many observers as strange. As more information came to light, some observers came to suspect that, for unclear reasons, Palin had fabricated her pregnancy and lied about it–initially to her Alaska constituents and later to the country.
Palin reacted angrily to this theory, and it was quickly dismissed as “nonsense” by much of the mainstream media and ignored during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Since then, attempts to settle the question once and for all have been met with silence or anger by those affiliated with Palin.
If Palin did perpetrate such a hoax it would, indeed, call her sanity into question and further call into question the vice presidential vetting process.
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