Well, she certainly is an author

"Audrey" at PalinDeception.com:

"I am a childbirth labor coach, a published author in the childbirth field, and a lactation consultant; my husband is a physician who has, until this election, always voted Republican . . ."

OK, "Audrey," I just figured out that you remarried, and your last name has changed since you published that circumcision book in 1985.

Indeed, your husband is a physician who voted for Bush twice, and who expressed support for Ron Paul in December 2007. I know that your husband is from a neighboring state, and that you moved to your rural home (with a pond) in September 2006.

Of course, you can imagine my surprise to learn that, since the early 1990s, you've become quite a popular author -- indeed, quite an entrepreneur -- under yet another pseudonym.

Given my own libertarian tendencies, I'm quite sympathetic toward your husband, the physician. But you, ma'am, have been a very, very naughty woman.

And I think we both know what the doctor would prescribe for that, don't we?

Stick to your other business, ma'am. Discipline is the secret to success.

By the way, about six hours ago, I was prepared to stomp you like a cockroach, but when I saw that the Good Doctor was a Ron Paul man, my wrath cooled somewhat.

Really, though, you need to be more careful, both in your choice of enemies and in your use of online aliases. It really wasn't that difficult.

UPDATE 2 a.m.: In the comments, Angie in AK asks:

"Are you going to cut this loon some slack because her husband is a Ron Paul man?"

Yeah. Yeah, I am. Look, earlier Tuesday afternoon, I was reading something Dr. Zero wrote at the Green Room, where he said something favorable about the Bush administration, and it got under my skin:

[O]ne can easily argue that George W. Bush was a very bad president and that one of the worst aspects of his presidency was that Bush confused people about the meaning of "conservatism" in a way that damaged the Republican Party and made possible Obama's election. . . .
It must be recognized the extent to which the Bush administration was a failure, or we risk further damage from future repetitions.

A lot of people got away from their "A-game," politically, during the Bush era. This misguided "Audrey" seems to have been among those who focused on Palin as a sort of scapegoat for their frustrations. There is no reason, however, that "Audrey's" husband and children should be made to suffer -- and trust me, if I published everything I've got, it would be tres embarrassment -- for her irrationality.

I'm guessing that the past 36 hours haven't been pleasant for her. However, unlike Jesse Griffin, "Audrey" has made no threats or boasts and, indeed, she hasn't posted anything else at all on her blog.

If she's willing to cease her absurd attacks on the Palin family -- and I wrote an e-mail to her husband to this effect -- I'm willing to stop here. My research is filed away, if further provocation should require me to reconsider whether mercy has been misinterpreted as weakness.

There is no need to be sadistic. Having taken her to the woodshed, I hope this will suffice.

Trig Trutherism, 'Audrey' and Sully:'Just Asking Questions' (Uncut Version)

NOTE: I had this ready to post last night, but hesitated because I wondered if she was worth it. Ah, he who hesitates is lost! And so Aaron Gardner beat me to it. But here is what I had written. -- RSM

When you're a Trig Truther just asking questions -- "Who's not your mama?" being the latest question from "Audrey" at the Palin's Deceptions blog -- sometimes people might get the idea you're dropping hints and perhaps making unsavory insinuations that you don't have the moxy to state outright.

A declarative statement might be proven false, but an insinuation made by just asking questions tends to foster suspicions difficult to disprove simply because they are so darned nebulous.

For example, the moonbats obsessed with Sarah Palin's fifth pregnancy -- when she gave birth to Trig, whom no self-respecting moonbat considers to be Sarah's actual son -- frequently discuss this alleged pseudo-pregnancy in relation to Palin's daughter Bristol. Here is our friend "Audrey":

In particular, Bristol’s attendance during the 2007-08 school year has been questioned on this site and on others. This school year, of course, is the focus of our interest. Why? . . . Someone had to be pregnant with Trig Palin during most of what would have been the 2007 - 2008 school year. If it were not Sarah Palin, it had to be someone else. Period.

And more recently, "Audrey" wrote:

[F]ormer [Anchorage Daily News] editor Michael Carey gave an interview with PBS on September 2nd . . . Carey had not heard that Bristol was pregnant as of September 1 at all. But he had heard that Sarah had faked a pregnancy to cover for Bristol the previous spring.

Many more such examples could be cited. One gets the idea, given the proximity with which these two phenomena (Trig and Bristol) are discussed by these Truthers, that the moonbats are insinuating that Bristol is actually Trig's mother, and Sarah his grandmother, and that this was the "deception" which inspired the name of "Audrey's" blog.

Such insinuations collapse at first contact with reality:

• Bristol Palin gave birth to her own son, "a healthy 7 lb., 7 oz., baby boy . . . Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston," on Dec. 29, 2008.
• Trig Paxson Van Palin was born on April 18, 2008.

What the Trig Truthers are trying to insinuate is that Bristol gave birth in April, conceived again almost immediately after Trig's delivery and then, barely eight months after the birth of her first child, delivered her second child -- healthy and apparently full-term -- shortly after Christmas.

To the extent that this is not a medical impossibility, it certainly seems both unlikely and unnatural to say nothing of what we bloggers sometimes call "nucking futs."

This is especially true considering that Trig was born with Down Syndrome, a condition clearly associated with advanced maternal age (Sarah Palin, d.o.b. Feb. 11, 1964, was 44 when Trig was born) and quite rare among the offspring of teenage mothers (Bristol, d.o.b. Oct. 18, 1990, was 17 when Trig was born).

Given the basic biological/mathematical dubiousness of the Bristol-as-Trig's-real-mom theory, the Down Syndrome factor adds powerful dispositive evidence of the moonbat Trig Truther hypothesis. See this chart on the age-related risk factor for Down Syndrome, which I first cited Sept. 1, 2008:

For women ages 20-24, the frequency of Downs Syndrome is 1 in every 1,400 live births. By age 35, however, the frequency is 1 in every 350 births -- a quadrupling of risk. At age 39, the frequency is 1/140 -- 10 times the risk at age 20-24.

And yet here we are, nearly a year later, and "Audrey" is still peddling her moonbat crap, OK?

Her name is not "Audrey."

Given her persistence in promoting a theory against which so much evidence weighs, it is a fair supposition that The Person Whose Name Is Not Audrey is either (a) stupid, (b) crazy or (c) dishonest. Perhaps even (d) all of the above.

Dan Riehl finds evidence of dishonesty by The Person Whose Name Is Not Audrey. And we shall let her obsessive Trig Trutherism serve as abundant evidence that she's crazy. What about the evidence that she's stupid?

Well, before we get to that, let's mention that The Person Whose Name Is Not Audrey is not just any random, insignificant moonbat. Her crackpot insinuations have been repeatedly cited and linked by that most eminent of Trig Truthers, Dr. Andrew Sullivan, M.D., OB-GYN, chief resident of the renowned Alaska Republican Obstetric Research Clinic at The Atlantic Monthly Memorial Hospital.

• "Audrey" blogs, Sully links.
• "Audrey" blogs, Sully links.
• Sully blogs, "Audrey" links.

Lather, rinse, repeat. While certain right-wing hatemongers have dared question Dr. Sullivan's authority on matters gynecological, no one has ever questioned the Good Doctor's expertise on the penis.

Dr. Sullivan's decades of tireless phallic research have led him to a breakthrough discovery, yea, even the answer to a question that penis aficionados have debated endlessly:

Cut or Uncut?

The answer, according to Dr. Sullivan, is most definitely "uncut." (The alternative he decries as "male genital mutilation.") The man's unrivaled enthusiasm for the uncircumcised penis puts him foremost among foreskin fetishists.

Well, guess what, boys and girls? Foreskin fetishists of a feather flock together. I refer you to "AnnieB393":

Personal Info
Audrey (Not tellin')
Lives in charlottesville, USA 22901
Homepage
http://www.palindeception.com/
Interests
midwifery
Who am I
I am a childbirth educator and midwife's assistant

And this reminder from Palin's Deceptions:

The facts are well-known: I am Audrey, a mother of six, childbirth educator and author . . .

OK, then, if we Google "AnnieB393" and "Charlottesville," one of the results is entitled "Contact Circumcision Author," and if we click on the "similiar" link we find this leads us to the "order" page for a book entitled, Circumcision: What Every Parent Should Know.

Google "Charlottesville" "circumcision" "childbirth" "classes" and you then learn about the author of aforesaid book:

She has been active in childbirth circles for over twenty years. Her interest in neonatal circumcision stems from the numerous questions she received on the topic during her childbirth classes.

Remember, friends, that this is merely intended as evidence that The Person Whose Name Is Not Audrey is (a) stupid. Because if you start poking around a bit on Google using "AnnieB393" and other such data as may be derived from online research . . .

Well, all this was as easy as following Hansel and Gretel's bread-crumb trail. I'm kind of new at all this blogging stuff, having been a professional journalist since 1986. Certainly, no professional journalist would post the actual name of The Person Whose Name Is Not Audrey.

But these crazy blogger people . . .

PREVIOUSLY:

• 'The Facts Are Well Known'
• Who is 'AnnieB393'?
• A Trig-Truther's Anonymity

Who Is Trig Truther 'Audrey'?'The Facts Are Well Known . . .'

Because Dan Riehl and I are currently in Trig-Truther "just asking questions" mode here, of course we cannot claim to know that "AnnieB393" is the same person as "Audrey" of the Palin's Deceptions blog.

We can, however, point out the evidence that they share the same obsession, such as this comment by "AnnieB393" on a YouTube video showing Sarah Palin at the 2008 IronDog race:

When you watch this video remember this woman is supposed to be nearly seven months pregnant with her fifth child.

Or this comment by "AnnieB393" at HuffPo:

Let's be accurate here. The blog picture you refer to identifies Sarah Palin as "mommy in law," not grandmother. It seems fairly obvious from the photographs that Mercede Johnston (Levi Johnston's younger sister) views herself as having some relationship with baby Trig that seems to go well beyond "good friend's little brother" or "future brother in law of my brother," but what exactly it is is not clear. These photos are discussed here: http://www.palindeception.com/blog/2008/11/at-long-last.html
It is also interesting to note, however, that allegations that Sarah was Trig's grandmother were published in comments on Anchorage Daily News in response to Trig's birth announcement with four hours of the announcement being posted, on April 18th . While Gov. Palin would like people to believe that this whole story is something concocted to hurt her after her V.P. pick, this is categorically false.

Well, that certainly is interesting! "AnnieB393" cites "Audrey" as her source for information on photos of the Palin/Johnston families!

OK, so now -- "Just asking questions," remember -- let us ask, who does "Audrey" say she is?

The facts are well-known: I am Audrey, a mother of six, childbirth educator and author, lactation consultant married to a physician.

So, if "Audrey" is a "childbirth educator and author," what about "AnnieB393"?

Personal Info
Audrey (Not tellin')
Lives in charlottesville, USA 22901
Homepage
http://www.palindeception.com
Interests
midwifery
Who am I
I am a childbirth educator and midwife's assistant

Of course, we're just asking questions, right? So while I already know the identity of "AnnieB393" -- and I know what book she has authored -- my question now is: Are all these apparently connections between "Audrey" and "AnnieB393" just random and coincidental? Is it possible that someone is engaged in deception to make us think there is a connection that is more than random and coincidental?

Because this could all be merely another one of those "Palin's Deceptions," I suppose.

It looks like Dan Riehl has some more questions.

UPDATE 8/25: While I hesitated about whether to go further, the 2+2 formula was added up by Aaron Gardener, which sort of rendered moot my own post on the "foreskin friend" and Palin-hater.

PREVIOUSLY:

• Who is 'AnnieB393'?
• A Trig-Truther's anonymity