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.
Great post Kristinn. Thank you!
Once again, they show their stupidity.
I can’t stop laughing...gotta go to bed on this one. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Palin seen using "Can't believe it's not butter" instead of real butter
details at 11
LMAO!!!!!
...And a big FR welcome to Rebecca Mansour’s Twitter followers!
That also means that Sarah Palin most likely visited this thread as well if she just linked it!!!! Hello Sarah! Please run....we are behind you!
Looks good. Thanks!
Sarah Palin just tweeted this FR link concerning her ‘hairdresser’ in Haiti! LOL!
Lame attack by AP - good catch, kristinn
She told me so (good thing I shaved and had a haircut recently).
Oh my God, she had someone fix her hair! No way can I vote for her now. Looks like Mitt’s the man for me. sarc:)
It appears it was Amanda Carpenter that first tweeted about this thread, then Palin re tweeted it
Free Republic catches AP flubbing how Palin got "her hair done" in Haiti. It was Bristol helping her mom out. http://bit.ly/hPWgycAmanda Carpenter
This takes the cake. Really? MT @amandacarpenter: AP flubs Palin got "her hair done" in Haiti. Bristol helping mom out. http://bit.ly/hPWgyc
MSM is EVIL and MEAN and should be run out of town with tar and feathers!!
OMG! These people are so hateful! They hate Sarah so much that they purposely distort the truth to diminish her and tear her down. They are fomenting a hate mentality against her, and people that aren’t too familiar with Sarah and get their bits of information primarily from MSM will end up hating her as much as the liberal elite media guardians hate her. That’s the MSM’s and liberals’ purpose.
Direct links to Twitter link backs by:
It's amazing how any mention of Gov. Palin will send the Left into absolute hysteric fits. It's like they become apoplectic and sputtering....unable to contain their infantile rage.
I love it! ;-)
Yes....according to Jim Robinson she told him that she loves “FReepers”......I believe that she graced this thread and probably visits FR frequently! Sarah if you are here, ignore Pissant, he doesn’t like women!
Looks good. Thanks!
You're quite welcome, and thank you for posting this thread :-) (as well as for all of the other things you do for FReepers and conservatives)
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