MSNBC Uses Fake, ‘Sexy’ Photos of Sarah Palin on Air; Will Network Correct and Apologize?

NewsBusters ^ | 11-13-09 | Scott Whitlock

[euram]

On the Friday edition of Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan featured fake photos of Sarah Palin during a mocking segment on why Americans are fascinated with the former vice presidential candidate. While listing the show’s top ten reasons, Ratigan showed a doctored photo of Palin’s head on the bikini-clad body of a woman holding a weapon.

[SolidWood]

Ping! I’d suggest contacting MSNBC and tell them to
apologize!

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[NeoCaveman]

There's a picture of Sarah out there that is just fantastic. She's not wearing glasses, she's standing in a snow covered wood wearing a fur-lined parka. Her demeanor is grave and self-possessed. The photo is outstanding!

[Sarah Barracuda]

MSDNC will never apologize to Sarah Palin, they wouldn’t do it if they had guns put to their heads. They are stuck in their liberal ideology and Obama love, they will NEVER say something positive about a Conservative

[Bad Jack Bauer]

There's a picture of Sarah out there that is just fantastic. She's not wearing glasses, she's standing in a snow covered wood wearing a fur-lined parka. Her demeanor is grave and self-possessed. The photo is outstanding!

You are correct, the woman is stunning.

[RichInOC]

Okay, why would you use fake sexy photos of Sarah Palin when there are more than enough of the real thing in circulation?

[gimme1ibertee]

My Girl has waaaaay too much class to do this,but I’d love to see the following scenario after she’s sworn in in 2012....She walks onto the set clad in that same bikini,walks straight up to that puke and leans in for a big wet kiss-but instead slaps him in the face and walks off,strutting,smiling,all beautiful and appearing so haughty and hot. I’d roll!

[DryFly]

If this is the same picture that we all saw last summer, then you have to be daft to believe it is a real picture of her. Or perhaps Palin is such a self-caricature that you actually believe a photo in which she is shooting a rifle while wearing a bikini on a lakeside dock.

[dead]

Actual photo of the President and First Lady, in their younger years:

[gimme1ibertee]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!

[Bad Jack Bauer]

Hillary tried to go after the frat boy vote, but it bore no fruit.

[Pessimist]

I’m not sure photoshopping = caricature.

[Genoa]

DryFly, the woods are full of people who have been brainwashed by the media to the point where, yes, they certainly would believe that fake photo was real. Fake photos are fake photos, not caricatures. Hang it up.

[Pessimist]

LOL!

No belt. Cant be Michelle.

[MNJohnnie]

No apology necessary. It’s called political caricature and has been used for millenia to make fun of political figures

Political caricature has no business in a "news" story. But I guess that little fact escaped your notice in your rush to defend the hysterically incompetent bigoted partisans at Major Silly Nonsense Broadcast Constantly.

[Talisker]

My Girl has waaaaay too much class to do this,but I’d love to see the following scenario after she’s sworn in in 2012...

Like I said, people like you go too far, and aren't nearly as smart as you think you are.

[SolidWood]

How does it feel to like MSNBC?

[DryFly]

Then perhaps we need to hitch our wagon to someone who is taken a bit more seriously and who would not be confused as some redneck biker chick pretending to be a real politician.

[Genoa]

OK, I’ll bite. Who’s yours? Mitt? Huck?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

That is so obviously photoshopped! The boobs are too big. And probably too high.

[Let's Roll]

Olbermann etc. they always remind me of junior high boys.