Palin's Pregnant Daughter

Most of you have probably heard the news, which broke over the labor day weekend.

Fr. Z has a post on how the media is using this as an opportunity to criticize, of all things, abstinence education.

Diogenes, meanwhile, wins the "so obvious we all probably would have missed it" award:

Congratulations, Sarah Palin. You've got the New York Times talking-- on page 1, above the fold-- about whether it's wise for a mother of growing children to hold a demanding full-time job. Somehow I don't think a liberal Democratic candidate could have accomplished that.

Congratulations, Bristol Palin. You've got the Boston Globe worried about out-of-wedlock pregnancies.

Exactly. Suddenly these issues are important to liberal media-types, and now they are quickly adopting positions opposite to their usual ones, because ... they want to criticize the conservative veep pick.

I guess this is another example of people trying to claim moral values in an election year.

On a parallel, but not unrelated note, Brian Saint-Paul looks into the embarassing lack of vetting and forethought that is evidenced by these Palin details emerging so soon after her public selection.