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.
thought I said she never said it and that the media twisted it.
sad part is that the late shows and the soros paid off media lied so many times that people thought she said it and yet the same media have ignored all the gaffs dumbo has made just on this trip alone let alone in the last two years.
He has shown why we need to address affirmative action as there is no way this man can even finish high school let alone Harvard or Columbia where no one remembers him
thought I said she never said it and that the media twisted it.
sad part is that the late shows and the soros paid off media lied so many times that people thought she said it and yet the same media have ignored all the gaffs dumbo has made just on this trip alone let alone in the last two years.
He has shown why we need to address affirmative action as there is no way this man can even finish high school let alone Harvard or Columbia where no one remembers him