Trig Palin

On Friday’s Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News, the normally anti-Palin Behar and most panel members – all left-leaning – sided with the former Alaska governor in the aftermath of Family Guy producer Seth MacFarlane's controversial depiction of a character with Down's Syndrome on his Fox television show, intended as a swipe at Palin whose son has Down's Syndrome. Behar declared that "I agree…

The actress that did the voiceover for Ellen, the Down Syndrome Girl on Sunday's "Family Guy," has responded to her critics including Sarah and Bristol Palin.As NewsBusters previously reported, the hit Fox cartoon series took a swipe at the Palins by making a joke involving Down Syndrome and the former Alaskan governor. On Tuesday, Sarah and Bristol posted their feelings about this segment at…

How does one prepare for an upcoming appearance by Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy fame?  If you're Bill Maher, you follow up the Family Guy/Sarah Palin/Down Syndrome attack by doing an 'exclusive rant' for the Huffington Post which includes - you guessed it - a joke about Sarah Palin's son, Trig. Maher appeals to his lower-intellect audience by stating:"...while we were off, Sarah Palin agreed to…

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Palin discusses this matter with Fox's Bill O'Reilly.Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol have responded to Sunday's disgusting episode of "Family Guy."As NewsBusters reported that night, Fox's cartoon comedy hit disparaged the Palins with a joke involving a girl with Down Syndrome. Tuesday morning, Sarah and Bristol took to Facebook to share their thoughts. Not…

It's no surprise that elitism and a pretentious point of view have a place on The Washington Post editorial page, but even this is a little much. Pseudo-conservative columnist Kathleen Parker asserted that Trig Palin, the Down syndrome son of the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might one day find his mother's abortion comments "hurtful." A Feb 14…

The media attacks on Sarah Palin continued Sunday as Fox's hit cartoon comedy "Family Guy" made a joke about Down Syndrome involving the former governor of Alaska.In the most recent episode, Chris Griffin, the overweight and largely unintelligent son of the family, took a very rude girl with Down Syndrome out on a date.With a little prompting, Chris asked her, "So what do your parents do?"She…

During a report on Thursday’s Today show, NBC News correspondent Norah O’Donnell replayed Barbara Walters’ characterization of Sarah Palin’s recent interview as “disturbing” from Tuesday’s The View. O’Donnell highlighted how the Alaska governor’s comments about how the media treated her versus how it treated Caroline Kennedy “drew a reaction” from the ABC host, and that it was “one more sign that…

There really are no words, though I suppose we'll manage to find some.  Wonkette, which bills itself as "the DC Gossip," and is the creation of Ana Marie Cox, now gone on to bigger things at Time, has this photograph up of Trig Palin, dressed for Halloween as an elephant and being held in the loving embrace of one of his sisters. [H/t Damian at Conservathink.]Wonkette appends its comment,…

On Tuesday's "Special Report," Fox News's Brit Hume credited NewsBusters for exposing a fake eBay listing auctioning off Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's baby Trig.As my colleague Warner Todd Huston wrote earlier that morning: Apparently, a poster at the radical nutroot site, DemocraticUnderground, created a fake listing for someone pretending to sell baby Trig on ebay. The faux…

When NewsBusters posted the screencap shown here as its Weekend Captionfest on Friday, the result was an outpouring of affectionate reader responses. Typical was this one, from "iveseenitall":The ladies in my house instantly fell for this kid.  "Oh" and "Oooh" and "Ah". The giggles, the pointing at the t.v. Love all around that night. The MSM lives in a different house.  Check out this candid…

Piper Palin, preparing to groom brother Trig's hair.