Today, in a radio interview Sarah Palin seemed to suggest that she was joining the birthers. (visit the link for the full transcript).
I guess someone warned her she did not really want to be in the Orly Taitz camp, because she is already backing off, trying to make it look like she was misunderstood.
YESTERDAY:
PALIN: I think the public rightly is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue because I think there are enough members of the electorate that still want answers.
PALIN: I think it’s a fair question just like I think past associations and past voting records. All of that is fair game. You know, I’ve got to tell you too, I think our campaign, the McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area. We didn’t call out Obama and some of his associates on their records and what their beliefs were, and perhaps what their future plans were, and I don’t think that was fair to voters to not have done our job as candidates and a campaign to bring to light a lot of things that now we’re seeing manifest in the administration.
HUMPHRIES: I mean, truly if your past is fair game and your kids are fair game, certainly Obama’s past should be. I mean, we want to treat men and women equally, right?
PALIN: Hey, you know, that’s a great point. And that weird conspiracy theory freaky thing that people talk about that Trig isn’t my real son, and a lot of people that went "Well, you need to produce his birth certificate, you need to prove that he’s your kid," which we have done, but yeah, so maybe we can reverse that, and use the same [inaudible] thinking on the other one.
Just 15 minutes ago, Sarah Palin issued a press statement---er Facebook post (same thing)--backtracking:
Stupid Conspiracies
Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at 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.
Clearly, she was informed that it made her look even nuttier to suggest there might be some credence to the rumors, and someone wrote a post for her on Facebook to step back from the interview statements.
Her attempt to backtrack is disingenuous. In the radio interview, the statements "I don't think I'd have to make it an issue" and "I think it's a fair question" make it clear she is questioning the president's birth certificate.
In the Facebook post, she gives herself plausible deniability, however. She never comes out and says she does not believe the rumors (can't alienate those Birther voters!), only that she has never asked to see his birth certificate.
Her attempts to draw a parallel between the birther situation and Trig birth rumors are absurd. She has made it perfectly clear in interviews and in her book that she does NOT think it is "fair game" for people to ask questions about Trig's birth:
By turns aggravated and bemused, Palin complained in the video that her press office is still getting calls about rumors that she is not the mother of her infant son. She called this "quite absurd," saying she is "frustrated that I wasn't believed that Trig was really my son.
"When did we start accepting as hard news sources bloggers, anonymous bloggers especially? It's a sad state of affairs in the world of the media today, mainstream media especially, that they're going to rely on bloggers, anonymous bloggers, for their hard news information."
If there were a parallel here, she would say "Just as it is not fair for people to ask about my son's birth certificate, it is not fair for people to ask about Obama's birth certificate." Instead, she says it's a fair question that she might ask if others were not already asking it.
Once again, Sarah is makin' stuff up, just like she did in her book. Someone get Orly Taitz some Kleenex. This is going to make her cry. I hope her shirt is stain proof.