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Critics claim McCain's running mate is really the grandmother of her youngest son in new dirty tricks campaign (Daily Mail, 01st September 2008)

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was last night facing a dirty tricks campaign suggesting she was really the grandmother of her youngest son.

Internet sites were buzzing with unproven claims that Mrs Palin's 17-year-old daughter Bristol is the real mother of four-month-old Trig, who has Down's syndrome.

Without offering a shred of real evidence, political bloggers pointed to the 44-year-old Alaska governor's slimline figure in photographs taken when she was seven months pregnant and the fact that she returned to work just three days after giving birth.

So are they saying women shouldn't return to work after childbirth or that it's wrong to have her daughter bring the child to term and then raise it herself?

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Rumor patrol -- Baby drama (Kyle Hopkins, 8/31/08, Anchorage Daily News)

OK - the Palin baby speculation is inescapable at this point. [...]

Here's a story we wrote soon after the birth. At that point, the questions were all about whether Palin should have flown back to Alaska to give birth. In the story, Palin's doctor talks about the labor and addresses questions raised at the time about Palin's decision to board a jet and fly to Alaska from Texas when she showed signs of early labor.

"The stage of her pregnancy was not apparent by observation," said an Alaska Airlines spokeswoman. The doctor, Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, said she induced labor once Palin was at the hospital.

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