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.
The photographer attributed is ‘Dieu Nalio Chery’ on the Huffpost article. This does not meant the same person wrote the caption. However, I do believe the photographer would have submitted some kind of narrative with the snapshots they took.
The picture was taken at my request by the Tea Party Express photographer Mary Pearson.
Welcome Hot Air readers!
He publishes a "photojournalism site"? LOL!
wow this hit piece is so bad if you read the Huffington article and scroll down to the comments even they are blasting the author for this hit piece.
Michelle Malkin has this thread up now: http://michellemalkin.com/2010/12/12/putting-the-loooooony-in-loony-left/
*memo to self: read threads more carefully*
And welcome iOwnTheWorld readers!
Here’s another one.
Palin’s Haiti Trip Fraught With Religious and Political Baggage
By Andrew Belonsky Sunday, December 12, 2010
EXCERPT
But any glossy image Palin and her colleagues create will only illuminate the “humanitarian” trip’s less savory details, like the fact that few Haitians had ever heard of Palin, or that the politico had her hair done, as seen above, before walking among the masses.
http://www.scribemedia.org/author/abelonsky/
Andrew Belonsky is a freelance journalist who also writes for Death and Taxes Magazine, Change.org, Huffington Post and generally around the internet. On twitter, he’s @andrewbelonsky. (Also writes for Gawker.)
LOL
Great picture I love it. What kind of video camera were you using? I have a Cannon HV40.
Go to Sarah Palin’s Twitter page and punch the link on the “takes the cake” Tweet. You may have someone else to welcome.
I’m beginning to think these people are literally insane...
Woo-Hoo! Jim! Thanks for the ping to my favorite photo!
I’m a little late getting to this thread.
This “news media” has lost its mind. Talk about PDS. Yikes!
Think the publications will print retractions? Show any shame? Embarrassment? What are the odds?
Zilch. All you will hear is crickets.
That is funny. I guess Bristol is a multi tasker. Daughter and hairstylist. Well of course she is a Mother and dancer too. The left tried again and failed.
If we get confirmation that Sarah is Greta's guest for the whole hour, then we're going to have another *live* thread.
But gay sex on crack, well that's just fine, so long as you are Obama.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101211/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_palin_3
Palin was wearing cargo pants, a T-shirt and designer sunglasses.
AFP:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101212/ts_afp/haitivotecholerauspoliticspeoplepalin_20101212231312
Stepping off a helicopter wearing a T-shirt and designer sunglasses
I assume theses are the "designer" sunglasses, likely prescription.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/franklin_graham_returns_to_haiti/
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