Posted on 12/12/2010 5:57:01 PM PST by kristinn
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin traveled to Haiti this weekend as a guest of the Rev. Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse to spotlight the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the earthquake and cholera-stricken Caribbean (half an) island nation. Instead she has found herself embroiled in a scandal, accused of bringing a hair stylist on the trip to make herself look good for the cameras and "photo-ops.".
The Associated Press transmitted a photo from Haiti of Palin captioned, "Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, center, has her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center set up by the NGO Samaritan's Purse in Cabaret, Haiti, Saturday Dec. 11, 2010. Palin arrived Saturday in Haiti as part of a brief humanitarian mission. Dieu Nalio Chery / AP"
That photo and caption set off rabid attacks on Palin from the Huffington Post, the U.K.'s Daily Mail and, of course, Palingates.
The photo does indeed show Sarah Palin standing with her husband Todd as a woman whose face is obscured uses two hands to fix the hair on the right side of Palin's head.
However, one can observe that the woman is white, with her brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, wearing a white shirt with a bulky scarf and dark pants.
In other photos from Saturday, Todd and Sarah Palin's white, brunette, eldest daughter Bristol, who accompanied her parents on the trip to Haiti, is wearing the exact same clothing and ponytail as the "hair stylist" in the AP photo.
That's right, what the Palin-hating AP and others fail to report is that the "hair stylist" is Bristol Palin.
The AP photographer who sent the caption would have known that it was Bristol Palin, but by not mentioning her the AP was able to do a media hit on Palin but still be able to claim they told the "truth" with the caption.
The Palins and the Grahams in Haiti ("hair stylist" Bristol second from right):
Palin "has her hair done":
Photos via Palingates
The Daily Mail titled their story based on the AP photo and caption, Ready for Her Close Up...Sarah Palin Lands in Haiti (where they don't care what her hair looks like)
The Huffington Post titled their attack on Palin, Reading the Pictures: Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How's My Hair (and did AP lend a curl?). The AP reference in the headline is based on speculation in the article about whether the AP ran "scathing photo op-defying pictures of "the Sarah show?""
The raving lunatics at Palingates titled their hit piece, BREAKING NEWS: Palin Looks Good in Haiti.
To reiterate, a daughter helps fix a loose strand of her mother's hair, and it becomes an international scandal. Amazing.
The fascists are desperate. Imagine their tortured torment when we elect Sarah the nominee. I’m thinking they will self com-bust, exploding into a ball of fire and brimstone.
And, I can’t wait. It will be a glorious site to behold.
You are absolutely right. The name of the photog should be readily available. S/he should be made an example of ... his name should become like the infamous NYT reporter “Clymer” in the public forum (unfortunately, one of the Signers of the Declaration was named ‘Clymer”)
If she were to meet pissant, she’d smile and firmly shake his hand as her big brown eyes melt his cold, cold heart. He’d never recover.
I learned when my son was in Iraq, in battle, in the spring of 2004, that AP lies through their teeth. I would be information from my son and hit the editors with “what the hell” and soon they were unreachable.
I have never met another politician who was so genuine in her connection with ordinary people. Nor any celebrity. She connects better than Jamie Lee Curtis, who puts on no airs.
One of my favorite (non-AP) photos.
that will probably be next for some AP nut job to do...
years ago I did FREE haircuts at a Senior Community Center in a small Ohio town and would you believe a Beauty Salon called and reported me to the Ohio State Board!!!! the State Board contacted me and told me it was not allowed to do hair in an unlicensed facility.... but added they though it was neat that I was helping the less fortunate!!! I was doing it as a 'community service' and only for those who truly could not afford a beauty salon or barber shop..
Thanks, Michelle!
Now you’ve done it. Some lefty reading your comment will swear out an Interpol warrant for Bristol for styling hair in Haiti without a license :-)
Has anyone tweeted this moron?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-ipal_b_795561.html
Michael Shaw
Michael Shaw
Publisher of the visual politics and photojournalism site, BagNewsNotes
Posted: December 12, 2010 04:50 PM
Reading the Pictures: Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How’s My Hair? (and, Did AP Lend a Curl?)
http://twitter.com/bagnewsnotes
Make sure you’ve swallowed your coffee first. Palin Does Haiti Cholera: Hows My Hair? (Or AP Split Ends?) http://bit.ly/dO4xNo At the Bag about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck
Brilliant job, as always.
Btw, I saw iOwntheworld has a post, too:
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=48950
Oh you who faced to faced it (a close up, was your hair well coiffed?-lol) with big bill clinton! I am LOVING this thread and loving it when the truth turns around and bites back!
Someone said it is the normalacy of Sarah and her fam that keeps us so uplifted, I agree.
Let's pray up those in Haiti and the mission of Samaritan's Purse and oh Kristinn, let's enjoy tomorrow as the Huffington Post (among others) taste a bit of humble pie.
Sarah is sooooooooooooo right! The lamestream media is truly lame. Someone at AP needs glasses!
Rock on!
Good grief, don't give them any ideas!
:-)
Business Insider:
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How’s My Hair? (and, Did AP Lend a Curl?)
Huffington Post Media | Dec. 12, 2010, 5:10 PM
And now Hotair.com has put up a link!
Love Allahpundit!
Slow news day? Well, excepting for the Huffy Post where they live for this.
It’s not like these people have functioning families, so they wouldn’t recognize a daughter and mother working together.
I also found the comment “brief humanitarian trip” snarky. She actually there helping, but apparently it’s not long enough for these people. Who have never set foot in Haiti.
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