Sarah Palin's call to arms

[Toxick]

Photo is attached.

It shows Vice Presidential candidate Sara Palin holding a rifle. She is wearing a stars and stripes bikini. Behind her is a male 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.

[Kohburn]

Finally! Palin in a Bikini

[T.Rally]

Unfortunately...

snopes.com: Sarah Palin Photos

[Nucklesack]

Originally Posted by Toxick

Photo is attached.

It shows Vice Presidential candidate Sara Palin holding a rifle. She is wearing a stars and stripes bikini. Behind her is a male 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.

looks like a daisy air rifle (bb gun)

[itsbob (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Toxick

Photo is attached.

It shows Vice Presidential candidate Sara Palin holding a rifle. She is wearing a stars and stripes bikini. Behind her is a male 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.

Despite the fact the picture is a fake..

She's not holding a rifle.. she's holding a BB Gun.

but nice try..

[Toxick]

I swear sometimes my delivery is way too dry and subtle for my own good.

[Nucklesack]

Originally Posted by Toxick

I swear sometimes my delivery is way too dry and subtle for my own good.

nah nah its just that we have just as much fun picking it apart

[T.Rally]

Originally Posted by Toxick

I swear sometimes my delivery is way too dry and subtle for my own good.

I literally jumped the gun...pun intended.

[County_Boy]

It's It's It's Cindy Obama!!

Manipulation or Fact? The Politics of Photo Manipulation | JMG-Galleries - Jim M. Goldstein Photography: travel, landscape, and nature pictures - stock photos and fine art prints


also:

elizabeth - american flag bikini rifle on Flickr - Photo Sharing!


jimgoldstein says:

Addison can you confirm that you are the original photographer of this image? I've written a piece about stolen photography used for political purposes on my blog. Manipulation or Fact? The Politics of Photo Manipulation I want to be sure I'm referencing the correct photographer.
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Doctor Casino says:

Jim - yes, I took this photograph somewhere to the east of Athens, GA in late Spring/early Summer of 2004. Thanks! Nice piece btw - didn't realize Crazy Jim Kunstler had picked this up....

If you don't mind, do you think you could insert a couple of words making it clear that I had nothing to do with the Photoshopping? Credit where credit's due, after all.

Cheers!
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jimgoldstein Pro User says:

Will do. Making the edit now
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Doctor Casino Pro User says:

Appreciate it. Just glad to make my (extremely indirect and accidental) contribution to political history.

To anyone else reading - I still have misgivings about all this. The tropes being attached to Sarah Palin here - of being unserious and also of being a sexual body rather than a professional intellect - are, not coincidentally, sexist tropes about womanhood generally. The image is funny to the extent that it plays on something specific to Palin: she is a goofball and more specifically a gun nut who makes lipservice to patriotism (a la American Flag Bikini) while harboring dubious views on fundamental American principles ("Can you tell me how to go about banning a book?"). But to the extent that it's a lightweight's first resort against a female political candidate, it's odious. The proliferation of lizard-brain responses to/uses of the image is particularly telling.

I'm not quite sure whether I want to start issuing emails asking people to take the image down; at this point it almost seems futile anyway. It's a third- or fourth-tier meme; as a meme, it can't really be contained, and as a minor one, it'll burn itself out soon anyway.
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