The Sarah Palin Email Bombshell

Who would have thought that the media digging through 24,000 personal emails from Sarah Palin would actually make her look like a more sympathetic figure?  Well...me.  But that view was not widely shared.  You just know the mainstream media outlets that were spending huge sums of money to obtain and study these emails were hoping for something really juicy to divert the attention of the public from Anthony Weiner and Barack Obama.

Well, how about this:

Sarah Palin 'played God' in a deeply touching email she wrote two weeks before her fifth child, Trig, was born with Down's Syndrome, it was revealed today.

The poignant message to family and friends, included in 25,000 pages of her private emails made public on Friday, may alter the way the former Governor of Alaska is viewed by the American public.

In April 2008, two weeks before Trig was born with Down's Syndrome, Mrs Palin sent the email to her friends and family from her official government account.

In the touching message, Mrs Palin writes from the voice of God, as 'Trig's creator, your heavenly father'.

She addresses the 'unreal, sad and confusing' news that her soon-to-be born child will have Down's Syndrome.

The letter's existence had previously known, but only very brief excerpts had been made public.

Writing as God, Mrs Palin wrote, 'I let Trig's mom have an exceptionally comfortable pregnancy so she could enjoy every minute of it...'

She wrote, 'Trig's mom and dad' were told early by doctors that the child 'may provide more challenges and more joy than what they ever may have imagined or ever asked for.

'This new person in your life can help everyone put things in perspective... and get everyone focused on what really matters. The baby will expand your world and let you see and feel things you haven't experienced yet'.

The letter also makes unlikely conspiracy theories that have long been circulating on blogs that Trig was actually born to Mrs Palin's unwed daughter Bristol.

Note that this story came from the Daily Mail, a British publication. I'm not sure any U.S. media outlets have bothered to report this.

This story really goes to the heart of why liberal feminists hate her so much. She's pro-life and lived it when faced with a tough situation. In fact, two situations if you want to count her daughter's pregnancy. She's had everything that feminists tell us that women are supposed to have - family, power, influence, significance - and that just kills them because she's done it as a conservative.

This whole email chase has been a professional embarrassment for the mainstream press, but it's not like they're not used to it.

Oh, and then there's this, also from the British press:

Sarah Palin emails: Enemies sent a series of death threats

Funny, I haven't noticed that in the NY Times or Washington Post either.