Sarah Palin has never seen Russia from Alaska

[kskiska]

Just when you thought the whole "I can see Russia from Alaska" thing couldn't get any funnier...CNN's Gary Tuchman delivers the goods: it turns out that Sarah Palin has never seen Russia from Alaska.

Tuchman went up to the part of Alaska from which you can actually see Russia, a remote island called Little Diomede located just 2.4 miles from its Russian twin, Big Diomede.

It turns out Gary Tuchman's trip to Little Diomede sets him apart from Sarah Palin -- because she's never actually been there, nor has she set eyes on its neighbor in Russia.

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Tuchman says that only 150 people live on Little Diomede, and that the town of Diomede has no streets and no cars. The poverty rate is over 40%, there is no television, and the only practical way to reach it is by helicopter. Anchorage (near Palin's hometown) is 550 miles away.

No Alaskan governor has ever visited Little Diomede, though indicted U.S. Senator Ted Stevens has made the trip. The town's residents barely knew who Palin was, and one of them didn't know she was the VP nominee.

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[cui bono]

1. That's awesome!

:rofl:

[Kurovski]

2. Oh heck.

And there goes the one truthful thing that I thought Palin said.

[damntexdem]

3. She's still batting 1.000.

Does she even have a front porch?

[depakid]

6. "Does she even have a front porch? "

Apparently so, but it seems to look away from the strip malls and the dead lake.



Check it out: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/palin/

[Winterblues]

4. Did she say She saw Russia?

I thought she was more generic than that, like "you can see russia from Alaska" and it is a fact that a person can see Russia from Alaska just not from Sarah's home..

[EFerrari]

5. Caribou Barbie needs a new set of accessories --

a dictionary

a set of binoculars

some really big fans



:rofl:

[npk]

7. To be fair to Palin, I can't believe I am saying this, but..

She never said that she has seen Russia from Alaska, just that "You can see Russia from Alaska."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. So we've resorted to debunking Tina Fey's impersonations?

That's classic.

[Kurovski]

9. An impersonation of Palin is as good as the real thing.

All points of reference lead to the same place.