National Enquirer has sent "Edwards team" to Alaska

[RamboLiberal]

Enquirer's Perel: "We triggered Palin announcement"

Radar reported last night that the National Enquirer, fresh off breaking the John Edwards scandal, was hot in pursuit of the Bristol Palin pregnancy story.

“I definitely think we triggered the announcement,” Editor David Perel told Politico this morning.

Perel said that the Enquirer has three reporters — from “the Edwards team” — up in Alaska. He said reporters were putting out calls all weekend to members of Palin’s family and those around her, as well as the family of the father, Levi Johnston. Perel said there was enough to go on for this week’s print edition, even before Monday’s statement.

So what about the media’s aggressive coverage of Palin’s child’s pregnancy versus not pursuing Edwards?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0908/Enquirers_Perel_We_triggered_Palin_announcement.html?showall

Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.


Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.

But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.

The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sarah_palin_at_war_with_her_daughter_over_pregnancy_wedding/celebrity/65370

I feel for the daughter, but IMHO McCain and Palin brought this on themselves.

[grannie4peace]

1. they are good--so is larry flynt :):):)

[katty]

2. macPain did bring this on himself--what a frickin' idiot

[roguevalley]

13. self delete due to growing a conscience

[d_b]

3. oh YEAHHHHH

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. They'll get the job done

Unlike the M$M, who just sits around and sucks ass of whoever seems to be on top.

These guys will dig up everything.

Pass the popcorn.............

[RamboLiberal]

6. Yep and they will be dangling money to those who talk

McCain doesn't have just a drip, drip, drip, the Palin faucet just sprung a gasket!

[Virginia Dare]

5. Boo frickin hoo....n/t

[sabrina 1]

7. I wonder if we could get the National Enquirer

to start looking into the real news, such as election fraud eg. They certainly gained some creds after the Edwards story, so I doubt anyone can dismiss them the way they were dismissed wrt that story. But since they are so much better than the MSM at getting the story, why not put that ability to work on something that really matters?

[zbdent]

8. the local RW 50000 watt propaganda mill morning guy said

(back when the Edwards thing was really heading toward the corporate media)

"It may be a tabloid, but if the National Enquirer is reporting it, it usually means they got something ..."

So, if the Enquirer is reporting it ... IT MUST BE TRUE! Their logic!

[central scrutinizer]

11. So Elvis's baby with the dominatrix from the Crab Nebula is based in fact?

Who knew?

[RamboLiberal]

14. That was that wacky Weekly World News

Gee didn't take long for one of you to pop up. Where's alien boy?

[DIKB]

9. How Sad.

A Tabloid rag is now becoming a good source of investigative journalism, because the rest of the media has become such a joke.

[annarbor]

12. Amen to that!

Suddenly I've become a National Inqirer fan...how sad.

[Native]

10. Point about the "they brought it on themselves" comment . . .

heard someone say yesterday (it was either Campbell Brown or Larry King) that Palin should have known what she'd be getting her daughter involved in (media wise) - she is a journalism major.

[Celebration]

15. They serve a purpose... The Truth Matters n/t

[underseasurveyor]

16. Well bravo to Bristol

for refusing to be bullied and manipulated by her mother's politics and extreme ideology.
Sounds to me like Bristol wants to take charge of her own pregnancy, own up to the fact that she, like so many other normal teenagers, made an oops and as far as she's concerned her mothers politics and her mother's "image" be damned.

[Celebration]

17. Yeah, you go Bristol!! n/t