Something funny happened to political satire blog Wonkette on the way to their latest joke: the media took them seriously. After editor Ken Layne wrote a post pondering aloud the possibility of Sarah Palin getting breast implants, the New York Daily News, the Washington Examiner, the UK Telegraph, E!, and myriad others in the media began to ask the same thing. The investigation culminated in a courageous Greta van Susteren popping the question to Palin herself.

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Yes, in the middle of an interview about the “lamestream media’s” new distortion of Sarah Palin’s image from that of a Mama Grizzly to that of a “saint,” van Susteren abruptly changes the subject: “Here it is. Breast implants: Did you have them or not?” Palin– reporting live from the lobby of a New Jersey mall, apparently– thanks Greta for the question because “boobgate is all over the internet” and she wanted a chance to clarify (and tell off the speculating reporters, who she called “bored, idle bloggers and reporters with nothing else to

talk about”):

“I think some of those folks, too, they need to perhaps grab a shovel, go down to the Gulf, voluneer to help, clean up and save a whale or something instead of reporting on such stupid things like that. Um, no, I have not had implants… I think a report like that is about as real and truthful as those reports that Todd and I are divorcing, or that I bought a place in the Hamptons, or that Trig is not my own child”

She also admitted that “it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don’t need them to look at.”

Again, credit goes to van Susteren for asking the question– it’s not one most reporters would have been brave enough to bring up. Video below:
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