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.
It means the Guardian writer is so incredibly statist he can't distinguish between government foreign aid and the work of an evangelical Christian organization. He is utterly clueless. Most Americans get the difference.
THey are jealous because FOX news had the exclusive with Greta: Palins and Grahams.
FOX sent a complete crew: producer,camera, audio, hair/makeup etc.
Graham’s charity will collect a great deal of money because of the Palins (Todd, Sarah and Bristol) donation of time and energy to the cause.
Thank you FOX for supporting the effort. Thank you MSM for the free advertising....Much more than if FOX was just promoting it.
Hope there is a live thread tonight for Greta’s program and she sets new rocords for her time spot!
These liberal freaks make me sick...they just go too far.
sadly many fools will still believe this, I know this first hand as my MIL from the liberal crap hole of MA is visiting us down here in the south and trust me she is one of the most typical stupid ignorant Dem voters they have and that is saying something .
Just showed her this and told her how the media lies.
She said and I’ll say this exactly.
“Puh I don’t care what you say she’s a joke and stupid”
Er I said just look at it and think for once
her comments were
“well on the today show they said she doesn’t know anything and she is dumb and they never tell lies “
Yea it’s going to be a great Christmas at my house and she’s only been here since Saturday but trust me FOX is on and no other channel.
Did Michelle take a hair stylist to Haiti w/her? If so, does anyone have a pic or info????
Welcome Fox Nation readers!
ping
They will always find something to run with
For the Haiti trip its
She wore cargo pants, a T-shirt and designer sunglasses
Man, now you know why I usually say “freelance writer” instead of “former journalist.” I thought about changing it to “recovering journalist,” but that implies I was a diespicable, lying weasel like these jerks.
Here’s the fun part: Let’s say just for chuckles that it was just her and Todd down there and nobody did her hair other than her trying to shove it behind an ear or whatever. She gets on TV and it’s a far from her usual put-together look. The media would have the same number of stories, but they would all be about how Palin left her hair a mess so she would look like she was sweating it out with the relief workers instead of just dropping in for a visit.
Bravo, FRiend!
I post. you decide 
Oh, Brother! Not even Palin would agree with this one!
Sorry, Kristinn.
O wears wigs....Just pull them out of the box and plop em on, secure with a couple of hair pins.
Very cool, kristinn!
And to Marooned in Marin readers!
What is really funny is libs have to repeat the lie over and over. They are too dumb to have individual thoughts!
You could send he over the edge and lock out all the liberal channels from the line-up on your TVs.
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