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.
FWIW, Huffington Post updated/corrected to acknowledge that it was Bristol doing Sarah’s hair. Some posters are taking the AP to task, others are still Palin-sniping,
I respect Palin, and have no qualms about considering her for POTUS, however, this is NOT breaking news.
“They have been used to firing without receiving any return fire. Those days are over.”.........
Yep, they are used to an opposition that REFUSES to engage!! Those days have GOT to be over, because THEY will continue on with what has always worked sooooo well for them. They hit us, and those we support, with lies, distortions, half-truths.... and we sit there and TAKE it.
NUTS to that. We hit back, and hard, with the TRUTH. In this case the media were, once again, flat out lying..... and in a way designed to belittle and discredit the seriousness of Palin. Thank God that Free Republic is, for the most part, Palin friendly territory, and willing to hit back...HARD... at the lying creeps.
pattyjo
Insane lies from the MSM should of course be quickly confronted - but yes, this isn’t Breaking News.
I haven’t read all the posts yet- but FYI- Hot Air has your piece up in their red headline section- check it out and CONGRATS! http://hotair.com/
..with a direct link to here!
The liberals and the media have truly lost their ever lovin’ minds. I’m so glad I have Fox that I NEVER have to watch them for news.
BTTT
I didn’t say it wasn’t news. And I often post to the original site in defense of conservatives.
This is not on the level of losing six soldiers in Afghanistan.
Can we pray for them...to go away?
Sarah was too smart for that, the Palin net discovered that the Hillorator had major hersute issues in the nether regions of her physical form after touring the levant and the far middle east.Sarah's staff had no experience at hacking through such jungle, and so Sarah recommended Hillery to a local Moose slam mowing service.
Outrageous! Extravagance and nepotism all at once!
The MSM of today are the Scribes of Jesus’ day - nit picky faultfinders, not caring about the important issues of love and mercy.
Like I said a week ago...
Pissant looks at pictures of Sarah Palin, under the covers with a flashlight.
“: )
We didn’t call John Edwards the ‘Breck Girl’ just because it sounded cute.
Look at how much money Sarah Palin is saving the American Taxpayer over the squandering fools in the White House. Apparently, these kooks don’t mind throwing their money away on this Regime trying to make IT look good.
They don’t have enough money accomplish that.
The moderators promoted this to Breaking News, not kristinn.
Bristol is a dancer, not a miracle worker...
I despise the MSM and have for decades now.
The only paper I subscribe to is Investors Business Daily!
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