Photo Credit: Judy Patrick/Alaska Stock in Newsweek, September 15, 2008.
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i’m having trouble finding this photo anywhere else on the internet. Do you know if it is digitally available in its original context?
I could not find it on-line either. I scanned it from Newsweek and the citation is above. If you do find it I’d appreciate it if you could let us know. Thanks.
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Newsweek has a spotty history of using airbrushes and other enhancements on their photos to make a point. It makes me wonder about the authenticity of this picture. Newsweek has had such an anti-Palin slant in the recent past, perhaps it’s just another political lie? Who took it? When? Has the photo been retouched?
Bump
Taken in Fall 2001 per:
http://www.alaskastock.com/preview.asp?image=351PL%20EX0009%20001&imagex=1&searchnum=0002
Newsweek has an “anti-Palin slant”? Really? They do? Wow, I’m not seeing it.
With enemies like that, who needs friends!
Palin is indulged, fete’d, flatteringly photographed by top photogs (at the magazine’s expense, of course), whether she deserves it or not.
Frankly, I’m a weary of the complaint that she’s treated unfairly or in some way more harshly than…what…politicians? Celebrities? The president of the United States? Foreign heads of state?
Maybe people should READ the code before slamming Palin. If you read the code itself you will realize that the code is violated ALL THE TIME by everyone.
http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html