Jackson Jambalaya

KF, how is this a " smear"? He's a nice looking kid who the camera likes. He has been appearing on the shows mentioned. Trying to turn his celebrity into something more lucrative would be smart. If the modeling agencies aren't interested this minute, so what? It's more of a " so what?" story than a smear to me.

This is more National Enquirer type reporting than main stream media...but then again, MSNBC isn't mainstream media. Not sure what it is.......do my best never to watch it (and am greatly succeeding).

7:43: Go back and read the entire post. Had nothing to do with him.

The same people who so badly want to believe that Palin's child is actually her daughter's child are the same people who won't think twice about the fact that Barry has never proven definitively the country of his birth.

@ 8:50- Uh, other than his birth certificate?

http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

Don't go for the foolishness. There are plenty of valid criticisms to be made beyond this tripe.

One person's tripe is another's banquet.

That isn't the birth cert, that is the abstract. You can't even get a US passport with an abstract. Snopes is not the end all. Tripe with onions anyone?

Are we really discussing Levi Johnson and Bristol Palin when there are so many more interesting and important things going on? I thought for a second I was reading the National Equirer.

No, KF is discussing media bias.

If you somehow mistook JJ for the Nat then get yourself in for a mental eval ASAP.

@9:14- The funny thing about an abstract, of course, is that it is maintained by the Hawaii DHS. So, if they issued one, it means there is an original on file. Keep spinning on this very important issue.

In the meantime, here you go.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/

Too bad Obama won't put all of this to the truth test by releasing the original.

There's always been media bias like our wonderful Clarion Ledger and the Karen/Stuart Irby lovefest article. It was almost made up with no mention of DNA tests, marriage at eight months pregnant, divorce filings, police charges, etc. All it did was make people who knew the true facts talk and boy have they.

"Sarah Palin’s first acknowledged grandchild"

The implication being that there is one or more that is/are not acknowledged.

That's not necessarily the implication, it's your inference...could be poor writing skills...there are far bigger media bias fish to fry...

And, there's plenty to criticize Obama about without losing credibility by making nonsense claims. He was born in Hawaii, it was a State then. This kind of stuff makes us conservatives look like paranoid idiots.

That is the implication without any other possibility and might be resultant from poor writing skills. Doesn't negate the implication though.

Honestly, what other inference could be made from stating something was the first "acknowledged"?

"Acknowledged" was an unnecessary modifier and it's more of a stretch to assume it was unintentional than to read it as it's written.

And trying to paint this into the same political picture of Obama-bashing does nothing but relieve the writer of their responsibility of providing accurate news.