Mrs Gunka Remembers a Video of Bristol and Tripp

With the change that simplifies commenting on this blog, we will benefit from the knowledge caches of more Truthers. The long-time Truthers each have unique sets of memories, screenshots, and personal theories. The newer Truthers, even those just awakening to the fact that Babygate is alive and well as a conspirac, will have their own contributions to make. And just in time! This is all about to go viral on the Internet. (That’s what I’m asking Santa to bring this year.) 

And everyone who can help eradicate this pox is welcome to leave comments, whether in their now-fourth year of Trutherism, or having Googled “masseuse and Palin” a few days ago thanks to Sarah dressed as Mrs. Clause provoking curiosity in an interview with Sean Hannity (more on that in “Shailey Tripp, Sarah Palin, and Ebonezer Scrooge). 

Whether fourth year or first week, all of us on the trail to discover the truth about Babgate  have our own set of life experiences with which to test the truth of Sarah’s preposterous pronouncements. This blog welcomes all comments that move us in that direction. Mrs. Gunka left just such a message on the post “Tripp and Sarah on Cable Television BEFORE he was BORN.”

That post talks about a person using the name Bristolbaby on an obscure blog, posted in December, 2008 that they had seen a video on CNN and on MSNBC of Sarah bending over a baby that was supposed to be Bristol’s newborn baby. The story was supposedly an announcement of Governor Palin becoming a grandmother. The date was December 20.  Then, mysteriously, all traces of the video and the story  disappeared.  

(Again, for newbies, if you read earlier posts here and here, you’ll understand why I’m very sure her real due date with Tripp was weeks sooner, as was Tripp’s birth.)

Here is the comment I found on Fluther,com  while other sites were distracted with the Sherry arrest story:

I also saw a video of SP greeting the new boy grandchild on CNN and on MSNBC on Saturday December 20th. That was deleted and the page scrubbed online. So it was planted to make us believe the child was born. I thought at the time, that it was rare to actually have the baby on the predicted due date. (especially a first child).
I expect I will see the same video of SP bending over the child when they eventually release the news that the child has been born. Maybe christmas if they can come up with a baby by then.

Mrs. Gunka remembers seeing a video but she doesn’t recall the date. Here is what she told us:

When I first got involved at Palingates and all that preceded them, I remember seeing a picture of Bristol leaning over the counter with "Tripp"? It was a silhouette in the the background from the front door. It was the first "image" of her and the baby we had seen, but I don't remember when it was taken. Someone else might or even have the picture, but can't log-in. I recall it was a video, as she was leaning over him and picked him up and put him back down. I do remember she had a pot on her in the outline that was visable. I remember Sarah answered the door and you could see down the dark hall of her silhouette...like she was giving him a bath. They came in the house and when they went into the kitchen, I think Bristol and baby was gone. I wonder if this was the video you were talking about that was never seen again. I never remembered seeing it again.

So, with Mrs. Gunka remembering something that may be the same video, I have given this additional thought, applying what we know of the patterns of many of the people involved, such as:

• ·        Chuck Heath is a likely source of leaked information
• ·        Chuck was responsible for the “leaking amniotic fluid” story that makes Sarah’s Trig story “unflippin’ believable.”
• ·        Chuck Heath is responsible for releasing the picture of a huge Sarah Heath in red top pregnant with Track Palin.
• ·        Chuck Heath likes media attention  and talks even when he’s been told not to do so, and to people he’s not supposed to.
• ·        Bristol has succeeded quite well in keeping pictures of herself from making it into public distribution.
• ·        When they briefly reunited, Bristol stole from Levi the few pictures he had of her. (Deer in the Headlights)
• ·        Bristol would do anything she could to keep a video from reaching the public IF she knew about it

Now then, specifically regarding the mysterious December 20 video, here’s my train of thought of how this came about:

• ·        Bristol is due in mid-November
• ·        Sarah lies to the McCain campaign saying Bristol is five months pregnant instead of six
• ·        The Johnstons are told to go along with whatever Sarah says
• ·        Levi is interviewed in October and says the baby is due December 18
• ·        The December 18 date is never contradicted nor revised by Palins; the date is used in a myriad of news reports for two months
• ·        Bristol delivers on time, probably in November
• ·        Sherry and Sadie see the baby in the hospital, as do Palin family and friends (Deer in the Headlights, My Life So Far)
• ·        Everyone who knows about the birth is sworn to secrecy
• ·        Pictures of Tripp are not allowed except for some taken with Bristol’s camera  (My Life So Far)
• ·        Pictures are taken with film, not digital; no digital dating

• ·        Todd and/or Sarah rarely leave Bristol’s room while she and Tripp are in the hospital (My Life So Far)
• ·        Bristol is discharged at night (Deer in the Headlights)
• ·        Bristol and Tripp and Levi set up housekeeping in Bristol’s room at the Palin’s (Deer in the Headlights)
• ·        Keith Johnston meets his grandson Tripp at the Palin’s (Deer in the Headlights)
• ·        Bristol takes a picture of Levi, Keith and Tripp Johnston at the Palin’s (Levi is wearing a McCain/Pain t-shirt)
• ·        Bristol and Levi are “parenting their butts off” and Sarah is becoming more and more resentful of her job as governor
• ·        Everyone is keeping the baby’s birth a secret
• ·        Great-grandparents Sally and Chuck visit their “first” grandchild
• ·        Unknown to Bristol, Chuck takes a short video of Sarah, Bristol and the baby are in the background
• ·        At some point, a birthdate gets set. Let’s assume it has to be one that is in the actual birth year (2008) to claim the Alaska oil distribution to which Tripp is entitled and to take a Federal Income Tax deduction from Levi’s Slope job money. Ideally, it’s  a weekend date to minimize governor’s office complications.  December 20 fits the bill.
• ·        December 14 or earlier, Chuck Heath gives a phone interview to  a website, Grandparents.com and announces December 20 is the due date. (Until now no one contradicted Levi’s December 18 date.)
• ·        Sherry Johnston is arrested around noon on December 18  and is released around 2pm.
• ·        December 19 the news becomes a national story
• ·        The next part is pure supposition. But it is based on patterns of behavior of the main players:
• ·        Sarah is unaware of her father’s posting, she is dealing with accusations of governor’s office influence on the Sherry Johnston case.
• ·        Sarah decides she needs to concentrate on the drug bust issue and tells Bristol to stay in the house at least another week, the birth announcement is delayed.  Sarah doesn’t think to tell Chuck and Sally about the change, because, basically, she’s distracted.
• ·        On December 20, Chuck sends an email to out-of-state family members announcing the December 20 birth
• ·        Chuck Heath misses being interviewed. He seeks out CNN and MSNBC, provides video and story about his grandson’s “birth” still saying it happened on December 20.
• ·        Sarah gets word that there’s been an announcement. She flips out, orders the story pulled.
• ·        Sarah and Sally can’t believe Chuck has done it again.
• ·        CNN and MSNBC erase all evidence of the story and file it where they used to have the John Edwards mistress story.
• ·        With all the interest in the Johnston arrest, the premature and then aborted Chuck story is all but unnoticed.
• ·        Someone who saw both cable announcements thinks, “It came on the due date? That’s unusual for a first baby.”
• ·        Questions begin to surface on blogs, “Where is Bristol? Has she had the baby?” Even the MSM begins to ask.
• ·        A journalist from People magazine hits paydirt with a cold call to Sally Heath’s elerly out-of-state relative who confirms that the birth took place, everyone is healthy, and gives the child’s weight.  She got an email from Chuck.
• ·        It’s  announced that the child was born on Sunday, December 28. This is later revised to Saturday, December 27.
• ·        No immediate pictures or video of Tripp Johnston are released even though Levi and Bristol had been offered $300,000
• ·        Early in 2009, Greta Van Susteren’s husband assisted Sarah in setting up SarahPAC and FOX was courting Sarah as a “news analyst”
• ·        Levi was kicked out of the Palin house on January 8, 2009.
• ·        Tripp and Bristol stay in the house because he is too big for his purported age and birth weight.

Bristol would especially not want video released because she wanted to make money on any video released. Bristol eventually debuts Tripp on the Greta Van Susteren show on FOX news February 18, 2008, at which point it’s much harder to discern his age.  She says “he’s getting so big,”   Was Bristol paid by FOX?  Was Bristol repaid by getting a cushy SarahPAC job?  Don’t know, but isn’t it likely? 


Levi says in "Deer in the Headlights" page 167 "Three months after the Greta interview, Birstol was all set up in her own $270,000 condo in Anchorage.  She told me she'd paid cash..."

Does anyone else remember video like the ones Bristolbaby or  Mrs. Gunka describe?  Comment freely.