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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: potlatch


ALASKA STATE CHAMPS



SPLIT LIP NOT INCLUDED


161 posted on 12/12/2010 11:26:35 PM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0ponzi 9.8% . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: The Cajun

The idiot, insane, malacious, PDS, news media has to be awfully stupid not to realize (or know) that the girl is Bristol, whom they know is on the trip with her mom and there’s her Dad, Todd identified in the very same photo! I mean, really, how dumb are they?

And yet they claim Sarah Palin isn’t very smart.

Har!


162 posted on 12/12/2010 11:31:58 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

LOL!


163 posted on 12/12/2010 11:37:12 PM PST by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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To: haircutter

Bless your heart for doing that volunteer work at the Senior Center. That is so sweet! (and the nitwit who reported you be danged)


164 posted on 12/13/2010 12:46:53 AM PST by EDINVA (5H3)
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To: Mr. K

Indeed.

I so want to see her fight Obobo in a debate.

Don’t care what she’ll say.

All she needs to do is badmouth Obobo as “socialist”, “marxist” and ‘incompetent” all throughout the debate.

I would surely feel vindicated.


165 posted on 12/13/2010 1:05:58 AM PST by convertedtoreason ( Nature tells us to take a LIBERTARIAN CONSERVATIVE stance)
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bump for later


166 posted on 12/13/2010 1:08:19 AM PST by Ghengis
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To: onyx

No ping?

There are other photos of this in which you can see Bristol’s face. Good grief!


167 posted on 12/13/2010 1:27:46 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: onyx

Ah, VR pinged. Nevermind.


168 posted on 12/13/2010 1:34:17 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: VastRWCon

Hell, she would look good in a potato sack. That’s somewhat beside the point, though.


169 posted on 12/13/2010 1:39:06 AM PST by Wyoming Cowboy
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To: kristinn
Perhaps they'd prefer she looked like this...


170 posted on 12/13/2010 2:17:17 AM PST by South40 (If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~Thomas Paine)
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To: kristinn

This is a scandal, but the fact that the cholera epidemic that has killed thousands in Haiti was the result of poor sanitation by UN relief workers goes completely under-the-radar...


171 posted on 12/13/2010 2:28:58 AM PST by Haiku Guy (What we've got here is ... failure to communicate.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Old-and-Busted: Candid photo reveals that Sarah Palin brought hairdresser to Cholera plagued Haiti.

The-New-Hotness: Candid photo reveals that abstinence spokesman Bristol Palin is pregnant...


172 posted on 12/13/2010 2:39:43 AM PST by Haiku Guy (What we've got here is ... failure to communicate.)
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To: Vaquero
Silly Sarah Palin.

Sean Penn knows how to render aid in a crisis.

(OK - part of that is a photoshop)
http://www.californiaconservative.org/hollywood/796/
173 posted on 12/13/2010 3:11:47 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: kristinn

How about THIS sentence also in the U.K. Guardian:

“This may not go down well with those in her Tea Party movement who regard aid to foreign countries as unnecessary.”

What the HECK does THAT mean??? Geez...,


174 posted on 12/13/2010 3:43:38 AM PST by Tucker822
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To: kristinn

And at the taxpayers’ expense, no less—oh, wait. It was privately funded. I wonder whether anchorpersons covering Haiti bring a hairdresser.


175 posted on 12/13/2010 4:15:17 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XrRyqses5U)
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To: Tucker822

One of these days the libtards will have to stand before GOD and be judged for their actions against the future Madame President Palin and others for trying to do what is right in GOD’s plan!!

Oh but wait.....the libtards do not believe in GOD, all a person can do is pray for them as we are instructed to pray for our enemies.


176 posted on 12/13/2010 4:22:45 AM PST by darylmh (new workers, new prisons)
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To: prairiebreeze

Anyone from the AP shows up on my plot of dirt here is going to look like that charging bear target during the segment of Palen’s alaska wherein she was at bear defensive awareness training session. That is another criminal enterpirse working with the entrenched criminal enterprise we call the two party system.


177 posted on 12/13/2010 4:27:30 AM PST by Mouton
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To: darylmh

Yes, God instructs us to love and pray for our enemies, however, the libtards WILL stand before God...whether they believe in Him or not.


178 posted on 12/13/2010 4:45:15 AM PST by Tucker822
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To: kristinn

I absolutely detest this petty, lunatic MSM. The upside is the more these nuts publish crap like this the more any credibility they may have once had is destroyed. What about the time Michele Obama wore 500 dollar sneakers to a homeless shelter? That story was true...


179 posted on 12/13/2010 4:55:54 AM PST by khnyny (What exactly is a CDO??)
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To: Syncro; onyx

Grin. Thank you!


180 posted on 12/13/2010 5:17:23 AM PST by aphid (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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