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Politics | 12/30/2008 7:25 am

Sarah Palin's Daughter, Bristol, Gives Birth to Healthy Baby Boy

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
The proud new parents © AP

Sarah Palin is a grandmother.

Daughter Bristol, 18, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on Saturday, People Magazine is reporting. The healthy 7 lb., 7 oz. baby is named Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. He got his surname from hockey dad Levi Johnston, who has been dating Bristol for three years.

"We think it’s wonderful," Colleen Jones, the sister of Bristol’s grandmother Sally Heath, told People. "The baby is fine and Bristol is doing well. Everyone is excited."

News of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy broke after Sen. John McCain chose Palin as his running mate in the White House race. Johnston, also 18, was soon seen on the campaign trail with the Palins. Johnson said in October that he plans to marry his high-school sweetheart next year.

Palin’s office did not return phone messages Monday.

The Alaska governor, who has a newborn herself, told Access Hollywood last month that she would support her daughter.

"Bristol is a very strong young woman and she’s going to be just fine and a wonderful mom," Palin said.

"Bristol and I and the rest of the family know this is a team effort. And to be thrust like that into a spotlight on a national scene was perhaps an unfair shot to be taken. But really, if we don’t have thick enough skin at this time, as candidates, and I consider our whole family – this is a candidacy for all of us, we shouldn’t even be running for office. But we know it’s all going to be worth it in the end."

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Marjorie C.
merrell: …could Obama actually control the press? Well, he seemed to be able to control the racist remarks, or at least make it well known that that kind of language was unacceptable. I think he could have done more about sexist remarks. As for the sexism being worse with Hillary, I think it appears that way because she was out there longer than Sarah Palin. I think Palin has been hit harder because the press has gone after her family. When some nitwit reporter made an ugly pimping remark about Chelsea, it was handled immediately and not repeated. Palin has had to endure all kinds of demeaning insults. Women are fair game, and they will remain so until all women say STOP. The best thing McCain did was to select Sarah Palin as his Vice President. She rallied the base and drew enormous crowds. People are still talking about her, not many are talking about Mitt Romney and who knows where Mike Huckabee is. She made an impact. The Dems can continue to portray her as some dimwit, but they are so wrong and time might prove them so.
By Marjorie C. on 01/04/2009 7:57 am
Linda Mason
Marjorie — Happy Obama Year! Sorry, I don’t believe it when you say that you are happy that the “Boogeyman” MSM is hushing up revelations about some “political machination” by the Prez-elect. If you think it’s better not to know, then why did you so disingenously “remind” all of us at WOW about these “revelations” and “machinations?” And that leads to more questions: if the media refuses to report (i.e., “reveal’) the “revelations,” then how are they “revelations?” And if the media won’t report them, how do you know about these “non-revealed” machinations? Are you clairvoyant? Have you bugged the offices of the Prez-elect? His Kenwood home? Or are you still going to your dubious internet sites?
By Linda Mason on 01/03/2009 12:27 pm
Marjorie C.
Linda: Happy Obama Year! And the same to you. About the MSM… It took me about two seconds to pull this up by John Kass of the Chicago Tribune… President-elect Barack Obama was not found as an infant, floating in a reed basket along the banks of the Chicago River. He is not the gentle faun, the Mr. Tumnus, of the Daley machine. Obama could have forcefully and publicly demanded that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and fellow Illinois Democrats support legislation for a special election to fill his vacated Senate seat. Obama had a responsibility to the people of Illinois to do so. But he kept his mouth shut. As always, he avoided conflict with machine political bosses, a consistent character trait stubbornly ignored by his media cheerleaders. His top White House strategist and his chief of staff are creatures of the Daley machine, and Democrats didn’t want to risk the Senate seat. What happened to the promise of transcending the old politics? So when the freak show comes to Washington next week and political hack Roland “I’m a tool of the people” Burris is denied entry to the Senate, and the national political class shrieks in fake outrage and Blagojevich surrounds himself with African-American ministers and he sings “Let my people go!” remember who could have stopped all this: Obama, Madigan, Daley and the Illinois Democrats. Now, Linda, it is not hard to find people who write the truth as they see it about Obama. But one does have to go looking for it. You won’t find it on Charlie Rose or Huffington Post or CNN or MSNBC, etc. etc. There are no big revelations out there, just a steady drip that eventually fills the bucket. You know what I mean?
By Marjorie C. on 01/03/2009 12:53 pm
DeBúrca obj
Of course you would find an article by John Kass of the Tribune who makes his living bashing every Democrat in Chicago, Illinois and DC. Nobody takes him seriously, he is what he is. You know where he is coming from and don’t expect more.
By DeBúrca obj on 01/03/2009 2:42 pm
Marjorie C.
DeBúrca: You know where he is coming from and don’t expect more. Okay, that’s a fair assessment, and I don’t have a problem with it. Much the same can be said about the NY Times, and many other news outlets. Problem is, when a news source such as TIME magazine is consistently biased, why would someone like myself bother reading it when you can’t trust the news it reports on ? No big deal, but I think the MSM took a step backwards in this election, and it just might come back to haunt them in terms of revenue and readership. Democracy depends on a free press not propaganda.
By Marjorie C. on 01/04/2009 7:21 am
DeBúrca obj
I’m not talking about the entire Chicago Tribune, just one extremely “conservative” columnist, Kass, who dedicates his column to ripping apart one Democrat after another. A couple weeks ago he did a whole column on some jr. high kid who wore a McCain t-shirt to her Oak Park school and was ridiculed for it. While not mentioning ONE incident of the reverse happening all over the place. He thought this was newsworthy on a slow news day with nothing of substance to write about that could back up his view of things. As far as newspapers go, the Chicago Tribune is as Conservative as the NYT is Liberal… but interestingly, both papers endorsed Obama.
By DeBúrca obj on 01/04/2009 10:30 am
Marjorie C.
DeBúrca I don’t have much to say in rebuttal. Your arguments are valid. Kass is obviously a biased columnist, one of the many on both sides.
By Marjorie C. on 01/04/2009 10:50 am
Irish Eyes NY
Hey maurine: Really girl, get a grip. If you want to trash the Palins then go on the Huffington Post. They love trashing them over there. I think this couple will be OK. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.
By Irish Eyes NY on 12/30/2008 8:28 pm
Jim Henley
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By Jim Henley on 12/31/2008 12:27 am
HA BIBI
Bottom line, It’s their life, their baby, their choice of name for the baby, their decision to marry, their decision when to get married, their decision to sell the baby’s photos, their decision to name a price, their decision to collect that price, their decision to give to charity, their decision not to give to charity, their buisness about what they do with their lives. And guess what we ultimately have……You got it!…….No buisness in their buisness!
By HA BIBI on 12/30/2008 5:00 pm
T P
Thanks Elaine for the healthy dose of common sense!
By T P on 12/30/2008 5:22 pm
HA BIBI
You Betcha! LOL. Happy New Year to you Tanja!
By HA BIBI on 12/30/2008 5:35 pm
Char Star
Palin & her family became the public’s business when she marketed herself to the Republican party as their VP nominee & was chosen. She wanted to be famous & now she is—political families are fair game. Especially when you consider she could have been our president
By Char Star on 01/03/2009 11:46 am
Belinda Joy
I bet that baby is beautiful. I think Bristol is adorable and her “boyfriend” (I’m not holding my breath - they’ll never be married) is a good looking young man. I find it curious that Sarah Palin would give an interview/comment on her pregnant daughter last month, something clearly personal and considered family business. Yet declined to comment on Levi’s mother being arrested for drugs using the excuse “it was not a state government matter.” Is that the level of transparency we would have been exposed to if she had become our Vice President?
By Belinda Joy on 12/30/2008 7:25 pm
Jim Henley
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By Jim Henley on 12/30/2008 11:45 pm