Palin’s Daughter Pregnant

This just in from Reuters:

The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

UPDATE:

Pretty much the same info from the McCain camp.

Statement from Sarah and Todd Palin

The ‘grassy knoll’ crowd has already chimed in with insulting speculation.

McCain officials said the news of the daughter’s pregnancy was being released to rebut what one aide called “mud-slinging and lies” circulating on liberal blog sites.

According to these rumors, Sarah Palin had faked a pregnancy and pretended to have given birth in May to her fifth child, a son named Trig who has Down syndrome. The rumor was that Trig was actually Bristol Palin’s child and that Sarah Palin was the grandmother.

From Townhall.com:

This is only the latest in outrageous attacks against Palin as a mother.  Fox News anchor Alan Colmes, of Hannity & Colmes, titled a recent post on his blog Liberaland “Did Palin Take Proper PreNatal Care?” In it, he wondered if she somehow was at fault for having a disabled child. Colmes took down the post after being attacked by the blog Wizbang and later reposted a screenshot of the blog to prove he “wasn’t running away from what I posted.”

UPDATE 2:

If you’d like to compare and contrast the different views on teen pregnancy, you need to check out Michelle Malkin’s post on this and the New York Times article.

Just look at the comments from both.

Malkin’s post

NYT Times Article

And remember what Obama thinks about this subject: