Apologizing to the Stranahans

Written by: LiberalGrouch on February 1, 2013.on February 21, 2013.

Lee?  Lauren?  I’m sorry.  I’m terribly sorry for the tragedy that befell you on March 30, 2012 when you gave birth to twins and one of them didn’t make it.  That is a tragedy. My own mother had that happen to her twice, and the death of an infant is not the subject of politics and sport and I apologize for the fact that so many people thought that is what I was trying to do by raising the subject. They thought I was raising the subject of your daughter’s untimely passing to mock you, and that just is not true.  But if that is the impression you got, then I am truly, deeply and sincerely sorry.

What I was trying to do, and I hope somehow, some way, you will understand this, is try to comprehend, in my own limited way, how a baby dies in the United States of America during a normal childbirth. I know it happens, but Lee has never really explained how his beautiful daughter died. Just… that she died.

First he said Lauren had a sonogram the day before the birth.  He said that on his blog talk radio show three days after this tragedy happened.  Now, I’m no scientist, nor am I a doctor. But I have been to sonograms. I have had them done and I have seen them performed on pregnant women. And one thing you can tell for sure in a sonogram is, that the baby is either dead or alive.

Now Lee?  You tweeted at 3:25 pm on March 30, 2012 that your daughter apparently died in utero, that means, before birth, quote, a couple days before.  That is the sort of thing a sonogram would have picked up on, Lee. If your wife had a sonogram the day before the twins were born, they would have noticed one baby was alive and the other… well… was not.  So, the day before the twins were born, both babies were clearly alive.

Now, Lee?  You said I was incorrect in saying that you and Lauren chose not to have your children in a traditional, 21^st century manner with pre-natal visits and such.  Did your wife, in fact, have an Obstetrician? Did she make and keep regular appointments with that obstetrician? And if so, did the doctor have any worries or concerns about either of the babies?

If your wife did take advantage of all that modern medical science has to offer, Lee, and did not just hop into the bathtub and try to squirt out a kid like they did in 1776 when I was a baby, then I apologize.  You never mentioned that your wife had any sort of prenatal care.  You did mention that she popped out all her previous children at home, in a tub, or in a cardboard box lined with newspaper and a nice fluffy towel, or whatever, with no official medical care whatsoever.

So, when I became aware of your differing accounts of the tragic circumstances of your child’s birth and death, when I became aware that you knew she had a sonogram the day before the babies were born and everything seemed fine, but then during the home portion of the home delivery, it seems as if something went terribly wrong and you stayed behind tweeting merrily with your friends as your wife was rushed to a hospital in Plano, it raised concerns in my curious mind.

Why did you not accompany your wife to the hospital? These midwives you speak of. Were they trained to handle an emergency? Or were these just some untrained, “orgasmic birth” people like those you wrote about earlier?  Were these trained, professional and certified midwifes, Lee? Lauren?

And again, given your various descriptions of the tragedy, well, you can’t really blame a fella for wondering if you’re telling the truth, Lee. It’s not like you’ve never lied about anything.  First, you said she had a sonogram and everything was okee dokey! Then, you said the poor baby went to heaven “a couple days” before being born. Then you said the baby died during the birthing process.  I will assume that the last story is the accurate one.

Do you think, perhaps, that if you and your wife realized that birth is a complicated, but natural event, and that the reason we no longer have mommies and babies dying during birth as a matter of regularity in America any more is because we have modern medicine?  And hospitals?  And places like that where they can monitor the baby during labor and make sure everything is OK?

Oh, I understand your suspicion about the evils of society Lee.  That’s why your surviving children are, as you say, “unsocialized”.  You don’t let them play with other kids. You don’t let them go outside without you or Lauren with them. You are protecting them by homeschooling them and thus ensuring that should such a day arrive when they DO leave your nest, they will be hopelessly unprepared for society and all its evils and all the bad things that can happen, and will become easy prey for someone like… well, someone like YOU, Lee!

Someone who invents threats where none exist. Someone who would send the police to the house of an old man who can’t walk without assistance because you pretended that he threatened to rape you, your wife and your kids. Someone who, for days and weeks after being TOLD BY THE POLICE that there was no threat, continued to maintain there WAS so he could keep pulling in Pay Pal donations for an emergency MOVE that he NEVER MADE!  Someone like YOU, Lee, who during your porno days, sold your own wife’s vajayjay to whoever dropped by your home studio with $299 to spend. You sold her like a vacuum cleaner salesman to whoever had $650 to have her deliver “finished prints” to their home, apartment or hotel room. What did she do, Lee, that was worth $650? You lucky bastard, getting that for free all these years!  So, it’s not like you’re an honest person whose word can be taken for ANYTHING, Lee!

In fact, the day after your beautiful daughter went to be with Jesus, you were back online defending George Zimmerman for murdering Trayvon Martin.

On April 1, you paused in your grief to plug your LEARN POLITICAL BLOGGING course.  And instead of being with your wife and offering comfort in the early morning hours of April 2, you were on your little radio show with Brandon Darby and Mandy Nagy, and you didn’t even get 14 minutes into the show before you started using the body of your dead, little baby daughter to bludgeon some imaginary Anonymous person who you claimed was “making fun of you” because your baby died.  It’s always somebody doing something to you, isn’t it, Lee.

Now, in preparing for this sincere apology, I have searched for evidence that your daughter actually ever existed. I can find no obituary, no death certificate, nothing, other than your word. But that wouldn’t be like you, would it Lee? To CREATE a tragedy and use it to raise money? That wouldn’t be like you at all. Just like it wasn’t like you to be investigated by the New Mexico Child Protective Services when you lived there because they were concerned about all your camera equipment and the fact that nobody ever saw your kids unless they were going to and from your car and the shades were always drawn in your little kitchenette motel room. And when the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services finishes ITS investigation into you and Lauren and your kids, I’m certain they will come back with nothing and everything will be just fine. Because a man who would sell his own wife’s pussy and then lie about a threat that was never made against him just to raise money for an emergency move… then just pocket the money… that sort of thing would be BELOW someone like you.

So please, accept this humble, sincere and heartfelt apology, Lee and Lauren. And while you’re at it, could you find a moment to post a copy of the death certificate?  Thanks.