Palin's Already Made it to Snopes

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308Mike
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Palin's Already Made it to Snopes

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That was fast:
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Claim: Photograph shows Alaska governor Sarah Palin posing in a U.S. flag bikini while holding a rifle.

Status: False.


Example: [Collected via e-mail, September 2008]

Photo is attached. It shows Vice Presidential candidate Sara Palin holding a rifle. She is wearing a stars and stripes bikini. Behind her a male is holding a can, possibly beer, and in the other hand a cigarette. There is a third person behind the beer/cig guy holding another rifle.

If it's real it's dynamite! She's a Life Member of the NRA yet is at a pool where guns and alcohol are mixed. American Legion/VFW frown on garments made from US flag.
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http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/g ... ingun1.jpg

Besides, that's not even a rifle, it's a pump BB gun.
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.

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Re: Palin's Already Made it to Snopes

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But really, wouldn't most of us be happy if there were photos like that?

I mean be honest people.

SA
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Re: Palin's Already Made it to Snopes

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Perhaps if it was with a real rifle, and lose the clowns in the background.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON

A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.

I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Even if it's a photoshopped picture, I doubt it's turned off many people.
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Re: Palin's Already Made it to Snopes

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Snopes has already added more photos to the entry.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON

A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.

I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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scipioafricanus wrote:But really, wouldn't most of us be happy if there were photos like that?

I mean be honest people.

SA
Especially if it was an AR or AK clone with a drum magazine!

They can't fight her on her accomplishments. While they are limited, they are significant. Passing ethics reform, a tax refund, and killing the bridge to nowhere are huge.
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Frankingun wrote:They can't fight her on her accomplishments. While they are limited, they are significant. Passing ethics reform, a tax refund, and killing the bridge to nowhere are huge.
Except, in a refund, the excess taxes are returned to those who paid them. And the bridge died in the senate, and the money was still spent on other projects in Alaska.
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The original image and the fake are on VPilf.com - scroll down about 2/3.
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Re: Palin's Already Made it to Snopes

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That CAN'T be Sarah. Sarah has a cute little mole on her right hip and is no where near that flabby.

Oh! Did I say that out loud?
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