During the Haiti trip, Bristol Palin once helped Sarah Palin fix her hair. The Associated Press snapped a photo of the incident.
What was the caption? “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.”
The failure to mention that it was Bristol (whose face was blocked in the shot) arranging Sarah Palin’s hair, as the FreeRepublic’s Kristinn pointed out, gave rise to the impression that Sarah Palin had brought along a hair stylist on the trip.
The U.K.’s Daily Mail snarked, “Ready for Her Close Up…Sarah Palin Lands in Haiti (where they don’t care what her hair looks like),” while the Huffington Post sneered, “Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How’s My Hair? (and, Did AP Lend a Curl?). “Damn right it’s revolting seeing Sarah getting her hair made up like this field hospital is her movie set,” wrote the Huffington Post’s Michael Shaw.
Since the FreeRepublic noted that it was Bristol in the photograph, the Daily Mail has modified the headline to omit the hair reference, while Shaw has added an update to his HuffPo piece.
“This takes the cake,” tweeted Sarah Palin about the incident. “Really?”
UPDATE: AP has now changed the caption, explicitly noting that it is Bristol fixing Sarah’s hair. AP spokesman Paul Colford told The Cutline that the AP had not initially realized it was Bristol in the photograph. “Once we figured out it was Bristol Palin,” he said, “we amended the caption accordingly.”
Oh, this is old news.
Now, the media has moved on to complaining about the fact that she was in Haiti for only 48 hours. Someone will have to fill me in on what is the acceptable amount of time someone should remain in a hell hole, before it becomes legit.
In two years, I want these same media nuts freezing their gonads off in Alaska, near the new western White House.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePar for the course.. this is directly out of the Plastic Turkey playbook. Truth and lies don't matter, some % who hears the distortion will never hear the correction and even when they do, it's the first impression that lingers. Eventually, the % who form a false opinion grows until it becomes the prevailing sentiment and attains a life of its own.
In other words, if you tell enough lies people start to believe some of them. Plastic Turkey!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe rabid media is perhaps the best thing Palin has going for her. With every one of these failed attacks Palin gets 10,000 new fans.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLet's preempt any suggestions that she was paid to wear that particular t-shirt. The business is local to Alaska and apparently doesn't take online orders.
Anyway...I guess it's time to hear about the phantom better-conservative-than-Palin who would have spent 49 hours in the Ninth Circle of hell making arrangements for Julian Assange with messy hair.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhile waiting for a TV interview by sattelite uplink in the USA during the 2004 campaign, former Sen. John Edwards who was then John Kerry's VP running mate, made a spectacle of himself fussing over his hair in front of a mirror for 30 minutes with the help of a stylist who brushed and sprayed until his helmut was perfect. See this You Tube link at External Link
Former President Bill Clinton stalled all air traffic at LAX for 30 minutes as he paid Christophe $400 for a hair cut. These men had true vanity about their hair yet the media coverage was mild.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI must disagree... the Edwards hair incident was much lampooned, including on SNL.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe same folks who wring their hands about all the suffering in the world prefer to focus on Sarah Palin's hair rather than the reason she went to Haiti. And do these folks apply the same "propriety standard" to the First Lady that they apply to Sarah Palin? Apparently not since there was little complaint from their side when Mrs. Obama showed up for work at the soup kitchen wearing $500 designer tennies.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThere MUST be a scandal here somewhere because it is impossible for Palin to do anything right. Unthinkable.
Was Bristol paid to be a hairdresser?
Is she properly credentialed to actually work on other people's hair?
Did she have a Haitian work visa?
Is she a member of the hairdresser's union?
Did she steal hairdressing secrets from the stylist on Dancing with the Stars?
Where are the 'real' journalists!?!?!?!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHaven't any of these people ever heard a daughter criticise her mother's appearance, and insist on redoing mom's hair or make up or jewelry? The conversation usually begins with the daughter whining, "Maaaaaa . . ."
But, stupid as this is, it still doesn't come close to Andrew Sullivan's posting a gallery of "pictures where she doesn't look that pregnant" (even though she's usually standing 3/4 to the camera with her feet at right angles, or bent over in a bulky sweater, in an obvious effort to appear slimmer).
Amazingly, they never discuss or attack HER POSITIONS ON THE ISSUES.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGenna, your post is 100% dead-on.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe first thing I thought of when I saw this was to look at the photographer's name. It looks like the AP used a local photographer, which is great ... but I wonder how often he watches "Dancing with the Stars"? Maybe he truly doesn't know who Bristol Palin is ... On the other hand, the morons on the lefty blog sites probably recognized Bristol immediately - she's been in the limelight almost as much as her mother this year.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou mean Trig's "mother" is really a hairdresser?
All this is too predictable.
Isn't there a higher percentage of Dems who still think Trig is Palin's grandson than R's think Obama was born in Kenya?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abusebwarsch (earlier comment) is undoubtedly correct. This was one of those "Ma--wait a minute I've got to fix your hair" moments.
The short blond hair at the left side (face hidden) is almost certain to be atop Greta van Susteren who accompanied Palin to Haiti.
Greta kicks-butt enthusiastically regardless of its owner's political persuasion. I've dropped her a line asking her to share with her audience tonight whatever insights she might have on the matter.
I'll be watching at 2200 hours (EST) on Fox News to see what gives. Suggest NRO readers may wish to watch as well.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf there are 100 media outlets, 80 are completely out to demolish her with either lies or presenting facts out of context or partially and balance 20 go out of way to be fair and balanced by bringing issues/aspects of a story just to balance any positive news story about her. Is there any way these 20 will get it that they are not being fair by being neutral. Only way they could be fair if the caption of this article would have been " AP tells another lie about Palin and issues correction later" and there would have been some positive comment about her visit. This caption in fact may reinforce the lie if someone had already read the AP story and sees the caption of the story here without actually going through it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI read the Shaw piece, it is actually pretty good for a HuffPo article. It is more about how the media might be framing Palin to fit their prejudice. From the article:
"There are two questions I can't quite answer, however. 1.) Compassion notwithstanding, could these exact same images have been created if it was Biden, Bill Clinton, Hillary or Nancy Pelosi moving around this camp with media in tow over the same afternoon? 2.) How much was it the Palin team's behavior, attitude or reputation that so encouraged these AP photographers (one or both local?) along with AP photo editors to suddenly drop the typical, everyday play-along (since we all get the difference between this vs. this) and deliver these scathing photo op-defying pictures of "the Sarah show?""
He also includes links to two photos one which is a very flattering shot of Obama and one that is not so flattering from the same scene just shot at a different angle. In today's media world Palin gets the most unflattering photos published and Obama the most flattering.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMy oldest sister and our cousins in Iowa confirmed to me by email today that one big reason they love Sarah Palin is because of who her detractors are; and that might even include some erudite conservative scholars who adopt a condescending attitude toward anyone who does not live in Manhattan or scour the pages of The New York Times to validate their wannabe elitist credentials. The next great ballot contest will be between snobs and anti-snobs.
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