Lindsay Lohan Now there's an expert on parenting!
Posted on 09/23/2008 3:23:53 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
* CNN's John Roberts asked a female correspondent: "Children with Down syndrome require an awful lot of attention and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?" * The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan felt the need to spotlight a reader's e-mail that shared the charge that "Sarah Palin is a bad mother!" * Fox news commentator Alan Colmes put up a post on his blog asking, "Did Palin Take Proper Pre-Natal Care?" and noting that "even after the water broke, she continued with her activities and then boarded a plane." Had Colmes consulted something beyond one newspaper article about the birth, he might have learned that this occurs in about 150,000 U.S. pregnancies each year and can occur a week before labor begins. At the time, Palin consulted her doctor who determined she was not in active labor and okayed her flight. Many interpreted Colme's post as whether the flight contributed to Trig Palin's Down syndrome, and liberal bloggers repeated the charge.
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CNN is now using Lindsay Lohan as a political analyst? I’d laugh if this weren’t so sad.
To me at least, all the criticism Fox News personalities have given to the media and others for questioning Palins ability as a mother are hypocrites. I never heard a single one condemn Colmes for his statements.
Shame on Hannity for that. I lost a lot of respect for him.
Is he really dumb enough to suggest that after a normal-term pregnancy that the child became a Down's child the instant her water broke? The guy looks like a dufus, now I'm starting to wonder if he really is one.
Alan Colmes is a complete idiot!
I can’t watch Hannity & Colmes anymore because of him.
The sooner Sean gets him off the program, the better.
His ratings would go way up if Alan was gone, imho.
Cannot help but make CNN better eh!
Lindsay Lohan Now there's an expert on parenting!
Man...Governor Palin scares these people to no end!
She seems to be the real deal and it makes the libs wet themselves.
In all due respect, I think Colmes was questioning whether a woman in premature labor at 7 months should have taken an eight-hour airplane flight, when almost every airline forbids it. The baby could have developed some sort of distress and it would have not been treatable in a plane.
Hannity has no plans to remove Colmes, at least not that I’ve heard of.
I agree with you, if he got rid of the idiot and put in a democrat like Kirsten Powers his ratings would go WAY up.
Colmes'd like that.
Yes, because Todd Palin is just a figment of my imagination. Or a complete moron because we all know men cannot father a child with special needs.
Sexism is alive and well folks.
Kofi Anan Colmes.
I can’t watch because of either of them. Sean Hannity is a good spouter of catch phrases, but he is really dimwitted and lets alot of stuff fly right by him.
And Alan Colmes is more than a moron than I thought if he thinks not getting to a hospital immediately caused a chromosome problem in an infant.
I don’t watch H&C much any more either. Colmes is only there as a trouble maker. Not worth the time.
Down’s syndrome is genetic and therefore totally unrelated to pre-natal care. This shouldn’t come up at all. It is only raised by those trying to damage Palin politically. What jerks.
Oooh, bringing out the heavy hitters, I see.
We need Colmes on the program so viewers can contrast his liberalism with Hannity's conservatism and be able to make up their own minds.
Still, to try and make an issue when the doctor was consulted just seems to me to be looking for witches...
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