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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 11:45 AM
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WaPo headline....sarah palin visits Haiti under tight guard
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began a tightly stage-managed visit to Haiti on Saturday in which she visited cholera clinics while avoiding crowds and the press.

The 2008 vice presidential candidate was a guest of Rev. Franklin Graham, whose aid group works in the impoverished country. Haiti is facing a brutal cholera epidemic while struggling with an electoral crisis and reconstruction from the January earthquake.

Palin, who traveled in part by helicopter, provided access on her tour solely to the U.S. cable network Fox News.

Graham's organization, Samaritan's Purse, refused to discuss Palin's itinerary with other media and asked Haitian and American reporters to leave its compounds, citing a "security lockdown."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/11/AR2010121101658_pf.html
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 11:45 AM
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1. LOL nt
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 11:46 AM
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2. wonder what his name is?
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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 11:47 AM
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3. ...
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 11:48 AM
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4. delousing
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 11:50 AM
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5. I wonder how much support graham"s organization was/is giving to the
fundy nuts what were caught kidnapping children in Haiti after the hurricane?
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Dennis Donovan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 12:00 PM
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6. If you're of an indigineous religion, NO FOOD FOR YOU!
"Want this bowl of rice? Proclaim Jesus is your savior!"
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 01:18 PM
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7. Samaritan's Purse?
I might be wrong but i think that is the organization that let Sarah fly on their
private jet as she pretended to ride "her bus" to promote the book she never
wrote.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 01:25 PM
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8. I knew there was something wrong when I saw ads for that organization on tv
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 01:39 PM
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9. Go to one of those sites that evaluate charities and take a look at
Samaritan's Purse. My church fills those boxes every Christmas - I quit after I read the evaluation.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 01:47 PM
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10. This charity does not meet one or more of the 20 standards for Charity Accountability
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-10 01:51 PM
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11. Why we give that nobody such attention is beyond me.
Of course she is open to fair and balanced...er Fox News huh? The News Station of Nobodies.
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