Just about everyone is mocking CNN for its reporter Lola Ogunnaike buying into a Photoshopped Palin-in-bikini-with-rifle that had already been debunked for about a week:
I mean, McCain has been really good about painting Obama as this lightweight, using the word “celebrity” as a pejorative. They don’t want to have a boomerang effect. They don’t want that to come back on Sarah Palin, and people say, yes, she looks good in a bikini clutching an AK-47, but is she equipped to run the country?
With all the well-justified mockery, there’s one vein that is being missed: The woman in the photo isn’t even holding an AK-47. I’m hardly an expert on assault rifles, but the AK-47 has the most distinctive profile of any rifle, and that sure isn’t one. It looks to me like an ordinary hunting rifle.
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