The View from Little Diomede

Posted on October 1, 2008 in Campaign 2008

The cruel thing about the Press is that ~sometimes~ they check your story. Sarah Palin has been telling the world that she can see Russia from Alaska. Sure, she can, but she never has. A CNN reporter went to Little Diomede Island, which is the only place where you can see Russia from Alaska. And guess what? She hasn’t been there!

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.

Damn that so-called liberal media!

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For the record, I told my wife about this very geographical juxtaposition when Sarah the Porcelain Pitbull began bragging about this. And I doubted her. There are sixteen other states that have real borders with Canada and Mexico. Don’t tell any of us that there’s a steady stream of visitors from Russia over the [[Bering Straits]].