Donald Douglas, American Power [1], covers the birth and death of an internet hoax:
Sarah Palin to Divorce? Left’s Biggest Fantasy-Smear Dead on Arrival
From the Christian Science Monitor, “Palin Getting a Divorce? Nope”:
[2]Mr. and Mrs. Todd Palin
Hat tip photo: Conservatives4Palin [3].
Any women who would like to not talk to me in that tone of voice, please feel free.
Update I: Dennis adds the following update:
UPDATE! From Pamela Geller, “CNN Tells, Sells More Lies About Palin, it’s Time to Expose the Truth About Obama” (FULL CONTENT WARNING: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S MOTHER ANN DUNHAM SOFT-PORN PICS AT ATLAS SHRUGS!! LINKS BELOW!! – CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK!! – REPEAT!! CLICK ANN DUNHAM NUDE PICS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!):
The Palin camp has issued a statement decrying rumors of a Palin divorce being spread by Alaskan CNN stringer Dennis Zaki, sourced to an anonymous Anchorage blogger and the National Enquirer.
Let’s understand this, CNN won’t touch the birth certificate issue, the Rezko/Auchi corruption, his anti-semitism, ACORN/SEIU ties and corruption and legitimate stories that need investigation. But they write fiction about Palin. Daily. So why not tell the truth about Obama and his reported strange sexual predilections? My question is, it is well know[n] that Obama allegedly was involved with a crack whore in his youth. Very seedy stuff. Why aren’t they pursuing that story? Find the ho, give her a show! Obama trafficked in some very deviant practices, where’s the investigation?
Why isn’t CNN pursuing the nude pornographic of Obama’s mom, Stanley, (untouched pictures here and here and here) – I never ran the pics as it was unseemly and wasn’t relevant. But this assault on Palin is too disgusting. It’s time to tell the ugly truth about the enemy in the White House and their whores in the media. It’s Obama operatives spreading the Palin lies. They know we won’t play dirty, so it’s time to play dirty.
I strongly recommend that conservatives start sending emailing these family pictures taken by Obama’s spiritual father, Frank Marshall – child rapist and famous communist. I say when they ratchet up the lies, then we ratchet up the truth.
Now that’s what I’m taking about!
See, “Democratic Stimulus Funds Go to Perv-Porno Promotions: ‘Four Men, Three Women and a Gorilla’.”
It’s called two can play the game. And it’s about time. I’ve been wanting to take the gloves off for years, now. See also, heat, kitchen. It’s about to get a trifle warm.
Update II: (Eric) Sister Toldjah quips [4]:
Hey, look, lefty bloggers are, once again, just making stuff up!
Yeah… who’d have thought it possible? There is this, also ; If Palin is the idiot the left likes making her out to be, how is it they can’t use the truth in their attacks against her? Why is it they feel they must make stuff up?
Update III: (David L)
I can’t recall so much todo bases on so little evidence. Where is an excerp by, Gryphen, the Immoral Minority from blog post which started it all:
Earlier this week one of my best sources claimed to have explosive new information for me.
It took all week for us to finally get together, but last night we finally sat down for an amazing conversation. And what I heard made my jaw drop.
According to my source Sarah is finished with Todd and has decided to end their marriage.
She has purchased land in Montana (I wonder whose donations paid for that?), and may be considering moving herself and the children as far away from Alaska as she can get.
I will not link the site. The most respectable site linking the story appears to be the Puffington Post. What does that tell you? This is a story that the neither the MSM or any respectable blogger will touch.
According to Gryphen the story, is attributed to a single unnamed source. A divorce would be a legal proceeding. Yet Gryphen makes utterly no reference to any legal documents. This supposed, or shall I say imagined, divorce is alleged to exist purely as Mrs. Palin’s unannounced, and yet unfiled, intentions.
Gryphen makes no mention how this insight into Mrs. Palin’s mind was somhow gleemed. Not only is this imaginary source neither named, nor characterized, neither is the nature of the source’s revelation. Gryphen makes no reference to attempt confact either Todd or Sarah Palin for confirmation. We have much to do about nothing.
As to this supposed Montana land purchase, land transactions generate a paper trail. Yet aside from being somewhere in the third biggest state in the nation, no information is provided about this imagined land deal.
In the words of Mrs. Palin, Gryphen is simply making things up. What drives this non-story to the top of Memeorandum simply befuddles me.