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.
Amazing & disgusting deception! The hatred of the media for Gov. Palin and her family is so evident by this kind of tactic!
If the contract for hairdressing services was entered into in Alaska, then Alaska would have jurisdiction to file charges against Bristol for practicing hairdressing without a license.
This could be a huge scandal!
I suspect the MSM will not rest until Bristol Palin is breaking rocks in the State Penn.
But then Bristol DOES know how to use a chain saw.
I wonder if Bristol, as hairdresser, got paid the same $800 per that the silky pony paid for his haircuts?
I wonder if Bristol got paid the same $800per that the silky pony paid for his hair cuts?
my MIL said she was going to vote for Al Gore because “his daddy carried my suitcase for me once at the Nashville airport”. My husband looked at his father and said “dad, just make sure she doesn’t know when election day is!”
Very nice post devolve! Sarah is so petite, Bristol may be taller than her.
Good post devolve. Hard to even recognize her there, many wouldn’t know I think.
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Thanks potlatch -
You can instantly recognize Bristol Palin in a properly cropped and enlarged photograph - and compare it to the other group photo of Bristol wearing the scarf over her loose white T-Shirt -
LOL did that last time she came and it was all out war for two weeks.
This time my wife had a word to her and tried to explain that people down here are not like up there in liberal hell hole MA and that bozo the clown is not well liked here.
She then agrees she doe snot like him ,then complains how schools fire stations are closing etc butt hen when asked why does people like her keep voting the people resonsible for this she said well there is no one else.
Yes there is
Well I’m not voting for them they are worse
At this point we gave up for the day.
It seems to be a Dem voter they have to be stuck on really dumb and stupid.
Where do journalists come from these days...
the moon? They are out of touch LUNARTICS.
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In that photograph Sarah Palin looks much more aggressive and more serious than any of Obama playing basketball with hand-picked college boys or friends.
Obama was not a starter in high school and was only put in as a substitute when his team was far ahead and could not lose the game if his coach put him in.
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I meant in the basketball photo.
I made a slideshow of the Haiti trip, which you are probably seeing right now, lol.
Lol, you and Obama and basketball!!
Where do journalists come from these days...
the moon? They are out of touch LUNARTICS.
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Yup -
I know -
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Been there, don’t that, lol.
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Obama could not have made the JV team where I went to school
One quick hip under the basket and he would have been way up in the upper bleachers
Opposing coachs would sneak in their spies down to watch our practices - and for laughs two of us would move out to halfcourt for a few minutes and loft a series of deadly undefendable halfcourt hook trickshots (that we never used in a game) to spook them
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Gosh, I messed up on my other comment which should have been ‘been there, done that’!!
None of my kids played basketball, so I had little interest in it.
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It is mostly awareness, speed, repetition, practice
You may have seen a few older men on TV that can stand and sink dozens and dozens of long shots without a miss
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