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.
“Sarah Accused of Bringing Hairdresser on Haiti Trip”
OH GOD NO! THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST HORRIBLE THING THAT ANYONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OR DONE! SHE MUST BE STONED IMMEDIATELY!
ALLAHU AKBAR!!!
(Hatred of Sarah Palin is quickly becoming something akin to a religion on the left)
This has to happen more often. We all have relatives and friends who are stuck on stupid and need to be educated.
could I be on the PDS ping list, please? I have an ample stock of popcorn...
You know, you need a license to do that sort of thing. Undoubtedly they will have Bristol arrested by the Alaska Health Department when she gets back from Haiti.
...paging GRETA VAN SUSTEREN
I just got a big LOL out of you wonderful comment!
Oh, I thought that was John Edwards!
You mean, Michelle has somebody do her hair and she still looks lousy?
Now Michelle is on her kick about eating right and exercise. And the Libs will think she is great for telling Americans what to do, like she is Mama USA or something. Today something new is being announced about her pushing for kids to be fit. Yet, do we ever, ever see her and/or her kids doing anything that is even half-way as physically challenging as Palin's kids do every day? Again, the press gets all weak-kneed if Michelle visits a school gym and plays a game with them for a photo op. While Sarah gets criticized by the libs for any of her activities that are characteristic of her family, her lifestyle, and her enjoyment.
Instead of Kate Gosslin on the last Palin's Alaska show, it would have been so funny to have seen Michelle and her girls trying to "do the outdoors" and camping in the rain. Kate was a cry baby. Michelle would have caused an earthquake stamping her angry feet around and waving her "toned arms." I doubt Michelle could last the day in the weather and environmental conditions Palin handles with ease.
AP tryin’ to clean up the mess...
You mean she used her own DAUGHTER to neaten her hair as she prepared to perform humanitarian acts of kindness?
She’ll do hard time for his, folks. HARD time! As well she SHOULD...
Even with her arm covering her face, it’s obvious it’s Bristol.
Same type of moron who thinks a caribou is a moose with constitutional rights not be put on the grill.
Lying blankety-blanks. They changed it only after they were caught and the damage had been done to Palin.
What we need to do is find out who the AP person is, frame it and personalize it. The only way to stop this is to do to them what they do to us.Yup.
>>>Lying blankety-blanks.
Indeed.
Well, really, it is out of the jurisdiction of the Alaska Health Department. But just wait for the MSM story on how Bristol Palin took a much-needed job away from a qualified, unemployed Haitian!
What was that photographer's name again - seems as though we ought to be able to think of something (legal) that woud make his live "interesting" for awhile. It drives those journalistos nuts when there are actually some personal consequences for their professional mendacity. -Smile-
But throwing a million dollar party every weekend, spending $450 million on a trip to India, buying $450 pairs of tennis shoes, and spending a trillion dollars your first month in office is no problem at all.
Those of you who might like a quote on reprints of Sarah Palin pictures by Dieu Nalio Chery can contact apimages@ap.org.
Just in case you are interested ...
Note the vitriolic comments following that article.
I’m beginning to hope that Sarah does not run for POTUS - it would be painful having to read this garbage on a daily basis. Much like having to endure the relentless Bush bashing for eight years in the MSM and here on FR.
We really do need a Chris Christie type to whup Obama and then take on the MSM like a marine drill instructor. No more nice guys or gals.
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