The Britney Tests

I'm not comfortable with how quickly some people have jumped on the "Palin's 5th kid is really her granddaughter!!!" nonsense. I was shocked yesterday to read how much Andrew Sullivan was going on and on about it. And DailyKos, which I've seen about three times my whole life but had always kinda assumed (maybe wrongly) it was the biggest, most responsible/accountable liberal blog, came out and "definitively declared!!!!!!" that without a doubt, it was her daughter's kid (I think they removed the post?)

I mean, camon. While nobody would enjoy such salicious, juicy gossip more than an old hen like me, I find this just way too much to even begin to believe. It's a little TOO white trash/Nat'l Esquire even for me...especially what with there being absolutely no reason to even think of such a thing in the first place. If you're reading a "breaking story" and you can picture Britney Spears reading the same story and slowly removing the Marlboro from her lips, shaking her head "ewwww, how TRASHY!", then it's probably not true.

So now all these bloggers et al have sprinted out with accusations, which will only allow the right wingers to come back offended, indignant and horrified at how the left-wing blogs brutally picked on and bullied a woman and, even worse, her teenage daughter. Way to go, guys. Brilliant.

What with the crazy scrutiny that will go on over the next few months, wouldn't you think something like this would be found out by the "mainstream" press? Now the info would be out there, and these liberal bloggers would be safe from any charges of indecency/bullying et al. For fuck's sake. I understand the need to "scoop", but at least have SOMETHING of real note before you go broadcasting such crap. Otherwise, why stop there? Why not say she was the one who burnt down Arnold's, not Chachi? Or is Bin Laden? Or, worse, wrote Snakes on a Plane?

Of course, if it IS true...which I refuse to believe...how amazing would that be? I've bitched here many times not at how deceitful the right is about things but how stupid they are about them...and this would take the cake, no? How humiliating would that be? Again, use the Britney Test here: If something happens involving a candidate for Vice President and you can honestly say that you wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened with Britney, then maybe said person should not be running for veep. Or dog catcher.

As for McCain, what says "I could give two shits about this country" more than "hey, I didn't even bother to find out if she's the mother of her own children"?