Posted on 12/15/2010 7:06:48 AM PST by mandaladon
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational Christian charity with a 40-year history of bringing aid to the suffering people of the world. It has been deeply involved in aid for Haiti, which recently imported a cholera outbreak on top of its other woes. SP President Franklin Graham invited Sarah Palin and Fox News host Greta van Susteren to join him on a weekend visit to the island, to “see our work first-hand, and to draw attention to the plight of the Haitian people,” as stated in a report on the organization’s website. Palin has worked with Samaritan’s Purse before, on a mission to “hand out food parcels to families in Alaskan villages facing hunger because of a harsh winter.” The Associated Press decided to report the incident by posting a photograph of Palin getting her hair adjusted, with the following caption, as reproduced at the Conservatives4Palin website:
“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 in an impoverished nation struggling to overcome post-election violence and a cholera epidemic. At right, Palin’s husband, Todd Palin.” And just who stands to the left of this camera-loving dilettante, tending her hair during this “brief” and meaningless infomercial for Sarah Palin, Incorporated? Does Palin’s entourage include a high-priced hairstylist like Kristof, the guy who used to give Bill Clinton $200 haircuts while Air Force One sat on the tarmac, causing multi-million dollar traffic snarls at major airports? No, this mysterious figure is recognizable to a handful of trained observers… and any of the 24 million people who watched “Dancing With the Stars.”
It’s none other than Bristol Palin.
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“....which recently imported a cholera outbreak “ WTF?
No sanitation after a huge earthquake wasn’t to blame huh?
Mentally ill, unbalanced, shallow and that’s there better qualities.
errr.....their not there.
Haiti, oddly enough, was used to its own special squalor and had never had a cholera outbreak. This current plague had been traced to an infected U.N. worker. At least that is according to Franklin Graham.
This AP photo hit is as bad as the CNN (I think it was) cropping of the gun-toting tea partier.
AP knew full well it was merely Bristol helping to pull back Mom’s hair, just like CNN knew it was a black tea partier they were using to try to show the tea party’s paramilitary ‘racism’.
Pravda was more objective than the AP.
PDS
Actually, it was MSLSD that cropped the pic...
Thanks. I should have figured as much.
Cross links to these two threads by Kristinn and patriotgal1787 need to be in this thread.
Media Creates New Palin Scandal! Sarah Accused of Bringing Hairdresser on Haiti Trip
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2641666/posts
Like Dogs to Vomit, Media Matters Cleans Up Liberal Media Messes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2643237/posts?
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