The Anchorage Daily News admits developing a piece on the Palin fake baby thing, cites lack of cooperation by the Palins for stalling it

Earlier today the press office of the bat-shit crazy, fake baby birthing church lady Sarah Palin released a whiney-ass statement titled, "Governor Palin Says to Media, 'There You Go Again'," complaining about bloggers and the Internet and the media and the weather and the traffic in Juneau and Abe Vogoda, part of which read...

Meanwhile, bloggers, the Atlantic magazine and even the Anchorage Daily News continue to give credence to the sensational allegation that the governor’s child, Trig, is not hers.

“As a public official, I expect criticism and I expect to be held accountable for how I govern,” Gov. Palin said. “But the personal, salacious nature of recent reporting, and often the refusal of the media to correct obvious mistakes, unfortunately discredits too many in journalism today, making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see in the media.”

Now before I go any further, let me just state that I'm endlessly perplexed as to why she keeps bringing all of this stuff up. Something has her feeling emboldened. Some have suggested that she's gone completely off the rails. But whatever.

What this press release did do was inspire an editor at the ADN to come forward with a statement and publish bits of an email exchange he recently engaged in with Palin herself. From The Editor's Blog on the paper's website...

On Dec. 31, eight days ago, I received an email from Gov. Palin asking several questions about news coverage in the Daily News. I took her inquiry seriously and by the end of the day had prepared a long email addressing each of her questions in detail.

This was her final question:

And is your paper really still pursuing the sensational lie that I am not Trig's mother? Is it true you have a reporter still bothering my state office, my very busy doctor (who's already set the record straight for you), and the school district, in pursuit of your ridiculous conspiracy?”

This was my reply:

Yes, it's true.

You may have been too busy with the campaign to notice, but the Daily News has, from the beginning, dismissed the conspiracy theories about Trig's birth as nonsense. I don't believe we have ever published in the newspaper a story, a letter, a column or anything alleging a coverup surrounding your maternity.

In fact, my integrity and the integrity of the newspaper have been repeatedly attacked in national forums for our complicity in the "coverup." I have personally received more than a 100 emails accusing me and the paper of conspiring to hide the truth (about Trig’s birth.)

(I should acknowledge, however, that many people who commented on adn.com have alleged a coverup. Many of those were deleted as soon as we saw them, but many were not.)

I want to be very clear on this: I have from the beginning and do now consider the conspiracy theories about Trig's birth to be nutty nonsense.

If that's true, why has Lisa Demer been asking questions about Trig's birth?

Because we have been amazed by the widespread and enduring quality of these rumors. I finally decided, after watching this go on unabated for months, to let a reporter try to do a story about the "conspiracy theory that would not die" and, possibly, report the facts of Trig's birth thoroughly enough to kill the nonsense once and for all.

Lisa Demer started reporting. She received very little cooperation in her efforts from the parties who, in my judgment, stood to benefit most from the story, namely you and your family. Even so, we reported the matter as thoroughly as we could. Several weeks ago, when we considered the information Lisa had gathered, we decided we didn't have enough of a story to accomplish what we had hoped. Lisa moved on to other topics and we haven't decided whether the idea is worth any further effort.

Even the birth of your grandson may not dissuade the Trig conspiracy theorists from their beliefs. It strikes me that if there is never a clear, contemporaneous public record of what transpired with Trig's birth, that may actually ensure that the conspiracy theory never dies. Time will tell.

According to the “return receipt” feature of my email, my reply was opened shortly after I sent it on New Year’s Eve. Other than that, I have received no response or acknowledgement of that email.

So in summation it appears as though Palin has refused to cooperate with a news organization, which claims it's been trying to exonerate her, and then turns around and slams them for not doing enough to clear her of all the salacious allegations floating around.

Is it just me or does the distinctive stench of paranoia permeate the air right now?

And yet AGAIN, the question begs....WHY THE FUCK DON'T YOU JUST GET IT OVER WITH AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO KILL ALL OF THE "RIDICULOUS CONSPIRACY" SPECULATION YOU FUCKWIT?!?!?!

And oh...one last thing...remember this? Um, yeah.