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To: Lazlo in PA

plus once he gets off his TV screen he is a dumb arse fool, there is no way this man got his degrees in the right way.

Just because he read a speech well doe snot make him educated, the man has no clue about history, traditions, the world etc.

Late night shows had a big laugh at Sarah when she said a part of AK could see Russia, they changed it to her kitchen and look at the gaffs obama has made and they ignore this.


22 posted on 05/26/2011 10:34:18 AM PDT by manc (Hannity is a fraud , he admitted he's socially liberal on his show, he's took us for suckers)
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To: manc
She never said it. It comes from an SNL skit. Remeber, to Liberals, lying is breathing air.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/seealaska.asp

One of the quotes most strongly associated with former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is the exclamation “I can see Russia from my house!” even though she didn't actually utter that phrase during the campaign.

The basis for the line was Governor Palin’s 11 September 2008 appearance on ABC News, her first major interview after being tapped as the vice-presidential nominee. During that appearance, interviewer Charles Gibson asked her what insight she had gained from living so close to Russia, and she responded: “They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska”:

Two days later, on the 2008 season premiere of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler appeared in a sketch portraying Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.

FEY AS PALIN: “You know, Hillary and I don't agree on everything . . .”

POEHLER AS CLINTON: (OVERLAPPING) “Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy.”

FEY AS PALIN: “And I can see Russia from my house.”

As to the question of whether one can actually see Russia from Alaska, Governor Palin was correct: such a view is possible from more than one place in Alaska. A Slate article on the topic noted that:

In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other.

Also, a 1988 New York Times article reported that:

To the Russian mainland from St. Lawrence Island, a bleak ice-bound expanse the size of Long Island out in the middle of the Bering Sea, the distance is 37 miles. From high ground there or from the Air Force facility at Tin City atop Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost edge of mainland North America, on a clear day you can see Siberia with the naked eye.

27 posted on 05/26/2011 10:55:03 AM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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