Sarah Palin Affair: Sarah Palin Divorce and Scandal

Sarah Palin Divorce:

Sarah Palin divorce? Everyone need to know about Sarah Palin Divorce.A couple of bloggers in Alaska posted stories this morning claiming to have inside information that former Gov. Sarah Palin is divorcing her husband Todd.

The bloggers went on to claim that Sarah Palin plans to leave the state, possibly moving to Montana.

To try to bolster its credibility, one of the sites claims to have been the first to report two previous Sarah Palin scoops: that Sarah Palin was running for governor and later that she was joining Sen. John McCain on the Republican ticket. In other words, the blogger is claiming to have a pretty good source inside the Sarah Palin camp.

The juicy details this blogger, The Immoral Minority, claims to have sound right out of a soap opera. For example, Sarah Palin apparently was not wearing a wedding ring at her farewell picnics last weekend. One blogger claims that’s because Sarah Palin recently threw the ring into a lake in a fit of anger. Seems awfully cliché, doesn’t it?

Sarah Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton issued a statement – on Facebook – blasting the claims as a bunch of bunk from “some so-called journalists.” Sarah Palin says there’s absolutely no truth to the rumor and reminded everyone that a week ago Sarah Palin “asked the media to ‘quit making things up.’ ”

The story, naturally, is getting attention on politics blogs, but nothing has moved on the wires at this hour. This looks like one that will burn up the blogs on the Internet for a few hours but not make it into print outside the tabloids.

CBS News appears to be the only mainstream media weighing in on the issue on its news page online rather than just in a blog. This story on its politics page (and on web sites of its affiliates) adds a quote from one Sarah Palin attorney, who says the divorce story is “categorically false” and another Sarah Palin’s lawyer who says the rumors are “totally untrue.”

CBS News goes further to tamp down the rumor by quoting its own political director as saying that Sarah Palin often campaigned without her wedding ring. And a CBS News producer who followed Sarah Palin on the campaign trail says that the claim that the Palins weren’t talking to each other at last weekend’s picnics “appears to be untrue.” The online story, though, does not note on what basis the producer made that assessment. Was he there last weekend or is he reporting what his sources are telling him?

CBS also says Sarah Palin may make a statement herself later today.

If Sarah Palin does, it will be her first since leaving office. Though she said she would remain active in politics, primarily through Twitter, observers pointed out this week that she has been completely missing from the scene.