Now Andrew Sullivan has decided that Sarah Palin is actually mocking the child she tells us is her son with his name. Sullivan surmises that she was channelling Rahm Emanuel when she chose “Trig,” slang for Trisomy-21/Trisomy-G.

He writes:

Is it not perfectly possible that the very name given to this poor child, being reared by Bristol, is another form of mockery of his condition, along with the “retarded baby” tag? And does the way in which this poor child was hauled around the country on a book tour, being dragged out in front of flash photographs in the middle of the night, barely clothed, suggest someone who actually cares for children with special needs, or rather sees them as a way to keep the spotlight on her?
C’mon, Levi. Write that book. Expose this fraud.

When respected publications publish such things, it is no wonder people don’t want to be a part of politics.