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Media Creates New Palin Scandal! Sarah Accused of Bringing Hairdresser on Haiti Trip
Sunday, December 12, 2010 | Kristinn

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012electionbias; bristolpalin; catfight; dnctalkingpoints; enemedia; freepressforpalin; goebbelswouldbeproud; haiti; journolist; mediabias; palin; palinbashing; pds; photoops; pravdamedia; samaritanspurse; sarahpalin; stalinisttactics; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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To: kristinn

The fascists are desperate. Imagine their tortured torment when we elect Sarah the nominee. I’m thinking they will self com-bust, exploding into a ball of fire and brimstone.
And, I can’t wait. It will be a glorious site to behold.


101 posted on 12/12/2010 8:51:29 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Repeal the 16th amendment . Send Islam packing to their homeland.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

You are absolutely right. The name of the photog should be readily available. S/he should be made an example of ... his name should become like the infamous NYT reporter “Clymer” in the public forum (unfortunately, one of the Signers of the Declaration was named ‘Clymer”)


102 posted on 12/12/2010 8:52:25 PM PST by EDINVA (5H3)
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To: Bigtigermike; pissant

If she were to meet pissant, she’d smile and firmly shake his hand as her big brown eyes melt his cold, cold heart. He’d never recover.


103 posted on 12/12/2010 8:52:50 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: All
More hearty FR welcomes to Twitter followers of:

Palin Twibe

Ericatwitts

MelissaTweets

Mike Munzing

104 posted on 12/12/2010 8:56:46 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I learned when my son was in Iraq, in battle, in the spring of 2004, that AP lies through their teeth. I would be information from my son and hit the editors with “what the hell” and soon they were unreachable.


105 posted on 12/12/2010 8:57:25 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I have never met another politician who was so genuine in her connection with ordinary people. Nor any celebrity. She connects better than Jamie Lee Curtis, who puts on no airs.


106 posted on 12/12/2010 9:01:53 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: All
Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the hat tip!
107 posted on 12/12/2010 9:02:42 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: Jim Robinson; Syncro

One of my favorite (non-AP) photos.


108 posted on 12/12/2010 9:14:28 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: kristinn
I am a hairdresser...do you think I should contact the State Board of Cosmetology and report Bristol Palin for ‘doing hair with out a license’??? lol

that will probably be next for some AP nut job to do...

years ago I did FREE haircuts at a Senior Community Center in a small Ohio town and would you believe a Beauty Salon called and reported me to the Ohio State Board!!!! the State Board contacted me and told me it was not allowed to do hair in an unlicensed facility.... but added they though it was neat that I was helping the less fortunate!!! I was doing it as a 'community service' and only for those who truly could not afford a beauty salon or barber shop..

109 posted on 12/12/2010 9:18:47 PM PST by haircutter
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To: All
Welcome Michelle Malkin readers!

Thanks, Michelle!

110 posted on 12/12/2010 9:26:52 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: haircutter

Now you’ve done it. Some lefty reading your comment will swear out an Interpol warrant for Bristol for styling hair in Haiti without a license :-)


111 posted on 12/12/2010 9:29:21 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: kristinn

Has anyone tweeted this moron?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-ipal_b_795561.html

Michael Shaw
Michael Shaw

Publisher of the visual politics and photojournalism site, BagNewsNotes
Posted: December 12, 2010 04:50 PM

Reading the Pictures: Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How’s My Hair? (and, Did AP Lend a Curl?)

http://twitter.com/bagnewsnotes

Make sure you’ve swallowed your coffee first. Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How’s My Hair? (Or AP Split Ends?) http://bit.ly/dO4xNo At the Bag about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck


112 posted on 12/12/2010 9:32:35 PM PST by maggief
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To: kristinn

Brilliant job, as always.

Btw, I saw iOwntheworld has a post, too:

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=48950


113 posted on 12/12/2010 9:33:04 PM PST by Qbert
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To: All
And a FR welcome to memeorandum readers!
114 posted on 12/12/2010 9:34:14 PM PST by kristinn (Lowering the IQ on FR since Jul 31, 1998)
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To: kristinn
Kristinn I am loving this thread!

Oh you who faced to faced it (a close up, was your hair well coiffed?-lol) with big bill clinton! I am LOVING this thread and loving it when the truth turns around and bites back!

Someone said it is the normalacy of Sarah and her fam that keeps us so uplifted, I agree.

Let's pray up those in Haiti and the mission of Samaritan's Purse and oh Kristinn, let's enjoy tomorrow as the Huffington Post (among others) taste a bit of humble pie.

Sarah is sooooooooooooo right! The lamestream media is truly lame. Someone at AP needs glasses!

Rock on!

115 posted on 12/12/2010 9:35:26 PM PST by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: kristinn
Some lefty reading your comment will swear out an Interpol warrant for Bristol for styling hair in Haiti without a license

Good grief, don't give them any ideas!

:-)

116 posted on 12/12/2010 9:38:25 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: maggief

Business Insider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-shaw-reading-the-pictures-palin-does-haiti-cholera-hows-my-hair-and-did-ap-lend-a-curl-2010-12

Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How’s My Hair? (and, Did AP Lend a Curl?)

Huffington Post Media | Dec. 12, 2010, 5:10 PM


117 posted on 12/12/2010 9:39:15 PM PST by maggief
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To: kristinn

And now Hotair.com has put up a link!

Love Allahpundit!


118 posted on 12/12/2010 9:39:31 PM PST by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: kristinn

Slow news day? Well, excepting for the Huffy Post where they live for this.


119 posted on 12/12/2010 9:40:20 PM PST by Smartaleck
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To: kristinn

It’s not like these people have functioning families, so they wouldn’t recognize a daughter and mother working together.

I also found the comment “brief humanitarian trip” snarky. She actually there helping, but apparently it’s not long enough for these people. Who have never set foot in Haiti.


120 posted on 12/12/2010 9:40:24 PM PST by mockingbyrd (Remember in November.)
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