Trig Trutherism Debunked

The Wonkette saga in the last couple of days has brought about some interesting moments, and also leads into the subject of Trig Trutherism, which I'll explain in a minute. Here's what's gone on with the Wonkette meltdown:

• April 18th, on Trig Palin's 3rd birthday, Wonkette runs an amazingly vile attack piece on the special needs child which goes essentially unnoticed for a day or so.
• Conservative bloggers, I believe led by Dana Loesch, discover the piece and raise holy hell about it on conservative sites.  Many prominent conservatives, such as radio host Tammy Bruce and Big Journalism editor John Nolte, jump on the story and decide to inform Wonkette's many mainstream advertisers what their dollars are supporting.  A hashtag, #TrigsCrew, is created to track the efforts.
• A little known California blogger suggests to Tammy that the Twitter handles of the companies involved be collected so they can be easily contacted that way.  

  @HeyTammyBruce If someone has Twitter account names for all those companies we could get quick action. #TrigsCrew #tbrs

  Good idea @RickMoore, Is a Tweep or TAM available to compile Twitter list of Wonkette advertisers? #TrigsCrew #tbrs

• Yeah, that was my idea and another person ran with it and assembled the list.
• Members of #TrigsCrew began flooding company Twitter accounts with complaints and companies began quickly responding.  Within 24 hours more than 25 mainstream advertisers, from cruise lines to auto manufacturers to hotel chains to consumer goods giants had pulled their advertising.
• As the flood of bad stuff hit Wonkette they began to react.  At first with indignation, then they started scrubbing the equally vile comments from the post, then one of those non-apology apologies, and finally the plunged the whole ugly post down the memory hole.
• However, it's not over.  Today more advertisers are pulling their money from Wonkette and #TrigsCrew continues to beat Wonkette like a rented mule.

So, where does the Trig Trutherism come in?  Last night as I was watching the #TrigsCrew hashtag posts I saw some lefties jump in and try to start a fight.  Some were posting to companies that had pulled their advertising telling them that there was no blog mocking special needs children and the whole thing was a hoax, and others saying this whole incident was just a cover-up of the "truth" that Trig is not Sarah Palin's child, but is really her grandchild - hence, Trig Trutherism.  Someone even briefly started a fake Sarah Palin Twitter account to push that myth.

Ironically, the same day Salon.com released an in-depth investigation of the whole Trig Trutherism conspiracy theory and very nicely debunked it.  A lot of lefties will not be happy with Salon, but it's a quality piece of journalism and my hat's off to them.

John Nolte adds a comment about the whole incident:

RT @jjmnolte: Hey @wonkette, ACORN just called & asked if you could bring an extra blanket to the Ash Heap of History.

Heh.