Addendum

This is just too rich.

During her remarks, one of the younger of Ms. Palin’s children was captured on television cameras holding the four-and-a-half month baby, Trig, and stroking his head. (NY Times)

The passive voice strikes again. "Was captured on television cameras" implies a fortuitous twist of fate, rather than a carefully stage-managed spectacle. They were passing that baby around like the Stanley Cup starting with Guliani's speech. Unbelievably crass. Also, it's worth asking who brings their four-month-old to a big noisy political rally? And for the record, she was not just "stroking his head," she was flattening his hair with her spit-covered fingers. That little girl was way cute but it was a bizarre image. You could even see here dredging up the saliva in her mouth.

I feel really bad for that kid.