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Palin Hairdresser Corrects Terrible Smear Rumors About Balding

The Left fears her shiny coif.God bless Twitter, aka “man’s greatest achievement,” for enabling ordinary citizens to combat MSM smear campaigns against political heroes such as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose entire political reputation emanates from deep within her thick, shiny hairdo.

One week ago, the New York Times irresponsibly published the following spurious claim, which was a million times worse than that time they said “Oh yeah Saddam has these aluminum tubes which he’s pretty definitely going to use to bomb us all”:

Friends worried that [Palin] appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.

(Your own Wonkette made a similar suggestion a month previous, based solely on the wiggishness of Palin’s hair and the suspicion — not yet plausibly refuted! — that she is, in fact, Rudy Giuliani in drag.)

Anyhow, now Palin’s hairdresser is speaking truth to power, via one million heavily punctuated Twitters. It’s basically like what happened in Iran last month only better because this gal is not typing in Farsi.

Palin Hairdresser: NYT Was Lying About “Hair Thinning” Claim [Conservatives4Palin]
Jessica Steele’s Twitter


10:05 AM on Mon July 20 2009
By Sara K. Smith
7446 Views

  1. ManchuCandidate says at 10:09 am, July 20th, 2009

    Then they’ll twit two friends. Then they’ll twit two friends…

  2. Mild Midwesterner says at 10:10 am, July 20th, 2009

    I tip more when I get a good scalp massage, but do you have to tip more if your hairdresser kicks in a Twitter on your behalf?

  3. americanscandoanything says at 10:11 am, July 20th, 2009

    thank god this issue has been resolved!!!

    BTW Rudy Guilianni in drag IS Rudy Guilianni

  4. Doglessliberal says at 10:11 am, July 20th, 2009

    So her rocket-scientist hairdresser took something mentioned a week ago in the NY Times, so something most of America will not see, and put it on Twitter for a much broader audience to see. So now all of America can discuss Sara Palin’s thinning hair. Nice job there, Jessica.

  5. Woodwards Friend says at 10:12 am, July 20th, 2009

    Sarah Palin totally uses the Bumpits.

  6. Monsieur Grumpe says at 10:15 am, July 20th, 2009

    Up Next!!!
    Palin’s Brazilian bikini wax goes horribly wrong. Pictures at 10!!!

  7. And here we see the origin of the phrase, “Dumber than a box of hair.”

  8. lizard scum says at 10:16 am, July 20th, 2009

    The “lipstick” tattoo is proof she’s not Giuliani.

  9. mattbolt says at 10:16 am, July 20th, 2009

    If there was ever a time when America needed Sarah Palin’s hair, it’s now.

    Sarah Palin is to her hair as the Green Lantern is to his ring.

  10. germansteel says at 10:17 am, July 20th, 2009

    At least the lies were not about Trig this time.

  11. JohnnyMeatworth says at 10:17 am, July 20th, 2009

    Hopefully, this will spur Joe The Plumber to come forth and admit that she never flushed tampons either.

  12. One Yield Regular says at 10:18 am, July 20th, 2009

    I read about her already in that book club book, “Reading Rumi in Wasilla.”

  13. x111e7thst says at 10:21 am, July 20th, 2009

    Jessica Steele raped Sarah Palins hair with her twit (twat?).

  14. lamen2 says at 10:22 am, July 20th, 2009

    so she’s the one responsible for palin’s hairdo?

  15. mattbolt says at 10:23 am, July 20th, 2009

    Do any of us horrible cretins on The Left really give a fuck about whether or not she’s balding? I mean, do you think every 60 year old guy with a big, slick head full of hair in Congress is just showing his God-given wavy locks?

  16. Crank Tango says at 10:24 am, July 20th, 2009

    so if her hair isn’t thinning, what was the 20,000 dollar merkin for?

  17. Bearbloke says at 10:24 am, July 20th, 2009

    Moose jizz makes one’s hair fall out… just sayin’…

  18. AliBabaInBA says at 10:26 am, July 20th, 2009

    Better if she had twatted, “I AM the motherfucking HAIRDRESSER, MOTHERFUCKER!”
    You know, a la Nicholson.

  19. torera says at 10:27 am, July 20th, 2009

    If I read the Times story correctly, it didn’t quote her hairdresser about the thinning hair, just “friends” (sources, NYT, we want sources!). So white Alaskan females again score off the charts in the hysteria department. Must be those months of darkness.

  20. El Pinche says at 10:28 am, July 20th, 2009

    Chris Matthews is Sarah Palin’s wingnutty hairdresser?

  21. freakishlystrong says at 10:30 am, July 20th, 2009

    Guano Twitters…

  22. Darkness says at 10:32 am, July 20th, 2009

    If her hair is thinning, they should just transplant some of that mustache that shows in the Time cover on top of her head. Problem solved!

  23. El Pinche says at 10:36 am, July 20th, 2009

    Twatter is new the journalism. Cronkite died of disgust.

  24. blackdontcrack says at 10:38 am, July 20th, 2009

    so sad 2 c Sarah&Todd go:

    Todd & I r packing JNU house today; looking thru Piper’s kindergarten schoolwork here reminds how quickly X flies;she enters 3rd grd in fall

  25. NerdMachine says at 10:40 am, July 20th, 2009

    She should just curl up and dye.

  26. bfstevie says at 10:43 am, July 20th, 2009

    Is Jessica Steele related to Michael Steele?

  27. nightshift says at 10:44 am, July 20th, 2009

    Perhaps Donald Trump can lend her one of his toupees…

  28. ForTheTurnstiles says at 10:48 am, July 20th, 2009

    So… how is it that the left is desperate to discredit Ms Palin, given that she’s done the job so competently and completely all by herselfs?

  29. JadedDIssonance says at 10:48 am, July 20th, 2009

    Now “jessicabeehive” (horribly apropos) has started her own twitter-war (twart? twartter? twatter?) by defining new wordz. New Troll-Cat @ 11.

  30. finallyhappy says at 10:49 am, July 20th, 2009

    Woodwards Friend: That is man’s lowest achievement. I saw it last night on TV- I thought it was a commercial from the 60’s. The hair styles all looked like the girl groups(as we olders called them) from that time.

  31. heroinmule says at 10:52 am, July 20th, 2009

    Her hairdresser reads the NYT?

  32. JadedDIssonance says at 10:52 am, July 20th, 2009

    “Inside Edition contacted me about an interview,I said no because the whole “story” was a lie! Sarah Palin’s hair is not thinning!”

    How difficult is it to say “I refused…?” I Declined….

    Not to belittle the intelligence of hair-stylists, my stylist is fabulous, and oh-so-intelligent, but this can only end in another badly-mumbled Larry King Interview.

    LEVI, CAN YOU ADDRESS THIS PLZ?

  33. SayItWithWookies says at 10:52 am, July 20th, 2009

    I’m just glad Twitter wasn’t around when Ronald Reagan was denying that he dyed his hair. Of course, it was true that he didn’t — but only in the sense that Reagan believed it was 1958 at the time.

  34. Dirty Harriett says at 10:53 am, July 20th, 2009

    bfstevie: They’re identical cousins! Also.

  35. I Am Not Your Gary Busey says at 10:53 am, July 20th, 2009

    She exclaims exponentialy.

  36. JadedDIssonance says at 10:56 am, July 20th, 2009

    First:
    “New term: Media Myth: when something becomes the “truth” not because it is true but because the media repeats it over & over & over”

    Second:
    “Example of Media Myth: I see Russia from my house was never said from Sarah Palin Tina Fey said it on SNL”

    We can only reach the logical conclusion that “Real Americans” can no longer determine truth from fantasy in their media-melange.

  37. NoWireHangers says at 10:57 am, July 20th, 2009

    Notice that the hairdresser didn’t denounce the left wing media rumor that Sarah is a complete moran. She spoke out about thinning hair, but not moranity.

  38. Clancy_Pants says at 10:57 am, July 20th, 2009

    I am the Palins vetrinrian and I will not be used as a lbrul tool. Itz all lies that Tods dog had human semen in itz butt, it was just some mayonaze.

  39. Unlearned Hand says at 10:58 am, July 20th, 2009

    One easy way to solve this problem is to borrow a page from the Liberation of France: Drag Palin to the town square and shave her head in public.

  40. 102415 says at 10:58 am, July 20th, 2009

    Well, the sp incorrect twitter deluge is just warming up, July 26th is near. I for one will arrange to be out of town and off the computer. Don’t expect me to look at anybodies *fancy phone* either. Also. I am afraid of sp, very afraid because I’m a liberal. Also, of wads of hair in the moose chili and that pack of no good kids running across my lawn pushing baby strollers.What the fuck has this world come to? It’s a shame!

  41. 4tehlulz says at 10:59 am, July 20th, 2009

    Lexington Steele is distancing himself from Jennifer’s comments.

  42. SlouchingTowardsWasilla says at 11:00 am, July 20th, 2009

    Lies About Hair is going to be the name of my next band.

  43. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 11:01 am, July 20th, 2009

    “The Center for American Progress is pleased to announce the release of its new report, “Palin’s Hair Looks Like Wet Rat Fur,” authored by renowed hair slander expert and well-known Columbia University Bolshevik, Fred “Freddy” De Vonk.

    “The march toward a Soviet America will can only move forward if we can convince Americans that unemployed former Gov.Sarah Palin, a serious political leader and policy wonk, not to mention a cutie, is actually a nasty looking goofball who makes even Alaska look stupid.”

  44. JadedDIssonance says at 11:01 am, July 20th, 2009
  45. heroinmule:

    She reads all the papers, Katie.

  46. finallyhappy:

    Now wait a minute, Amy Winehouse looks great w/that hair.

  47. shadowMark says at 11:06 am, July 20th, 2009

    Remember when people called Ross Perot nuts? Ha, look what we got now!

  48. norbizness says at 11:07 am, July 20th, 2009

    The Left? Hey, that was me! Er… that USED to be me.

    This new “The Left” definitely seems to be a petty little bitch, though. I was concerned with illegal wars and how fat Jonah Goldberg is/was.

  49. Joshua Norton says at 11:08 am, July 20th, 2009

    OK, everybody. We must stop spreading rumors that Sarah Plain’s hairdresser is thin. Is that right? So hard to keep things straight on what we’re supposed to be “upset” about.

    Sounds more like “someone” at the Beauty Barn was blabbing away and got caught. Now that same “someone” is using Twitter to cover their ass and protect that big $5.00 tip they get every 6 weeks.

  50. teebob2000 says at 11:09 am, July 20th, 2009

    GovSrh dz NOT hv a landing strip like shwn in teh sick
    prono they made!!! She haz fullgrowth bush neetly trimmd
    w/edgz bkiniwaxd. MSM STOP mizreprznting hr prety cnt!!!

  51. 2druk2phluq says at 11:10 am, July 20th, 2009

    Tattooed makeup? Bald woman with wig? Paranoid behavior? Sarah Palin is the meth addicted Satanic mother of Damian, the Omen child®, and Rosemary’s too. ☠☠DANGER☠☠

  52. 2druk2phluq says at 11:11 am, July 20th, 2009

    [just showing off my text... what is this thing?]

  53. freakishlystrong says at 11:12 am, July 20th, 2009

    JadedDIssonance: omFg….Pink.

  54. lamen2 says at 11:12 am, July 20th, 2009
  55. Dean Booth says at 11:14 am, July 20th, 2009

    If Palin was a duck, we could call her problem down syndrome.

  56. thehelveticascenario says at 11:17 am, July 20th, 2009

    I like her caveman English Twitter icon: “well behave WOMAN rarely make HISTORY”

  57. Twunt.

  58. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 11:21 am, July 20th, 2009

    Today we are all snowbilly grifters with thinning hair.

  59. ForTheTurnstiles says at 11:25 am, July 20th, 2009

    JadedDIssonance: So that’s where the momjeans went…

  60. Monsieur Grumpe: I just threw up in my mouth a little

  61. JadedDIssonance says at 11:32 am, July 20th, 2009

    Dean Booth: Were it within my powers, I would grant you a thousand whore-diamonds, but I don’t even have a gawker star…

  62. imissopus says at 11:37 am, July 20th, 2009

    8:38 on the West Coast. Is that too early to begin weeping into my fourth glass of scotch?

  63. liquiddaddy says at 11:40 am, July 20th, 2009

    I feel obliged to report that Palin’s gynecologist was overheard at the Wasilla Kuntry Kafe telling a friend that he had to put an extra stitch in her episiotomy because Trig’s head was the size of a cantalope and that she was asking about a badly needed labia reduction. Evidently, she has a mud-flap problem.

  64. Rev. Peter Lemonjello says at 11:43 am, July 20th, 2009

    Bearbloke: as does the blood of Inuit infants.

  65. President Beeblebrox says at 11:47 am, July 20th, 2009

    JadedDIssonance: Plenty of fapping material for fat white Republican guys there. Well, maybe not - I didn’t see any ladyboys.

    I do love the Blingee’d photo of Palin as well as the gigantic sparkly Superman “S”. Didn’t Supey throw that thing at Non in “Superman II” when they were fighting in the Fortress of Solitude?

  66. Todd Mecklem says at 11:49 am, July 20th, 2009

    Sure, lady. Not thinning? That’s what they said about Phil Spector too. WE WON’T BE FOOLED AGAIN!!!

    http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/full-court-press/phil-spectors-wigstock/

  67. Bearbloke says at 11:50 am, July 20th, 2009

    Rev. Peter Lemonjello: yes, but it does put hair on your twitter…

  68. zenferret says at 11:54 am, July 20th, 2009

    I demand we see the birth certificate of that yellow bird that claims to be Sarah’s hairdresser!

  69. coffeeyesplease says at 12:03 pm, July 20th, 2009

    “How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of Britney after all she has been through.!

    She lost her aunt, she went through a divorce. She had two fuckin kids.

    Her husband turned out to be a user, a cheater, and now she’s going through a custody battle. All you people care about is….. readers and making money off of her.

    SHE’S A HUMAN! (ah! ooh!) What you don’t realize is that Britney is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her.

    She hasn’t performed on stage in years. Her song is called “give me more” for a reason because all you people want is MORE! MORE-MORE, MORE: MORE!.

    LEAVE HER ALONE! You are lucky she even performed for you BASTARDS!
    LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!…..Please.

  70. JadedDIssonance says at 12:10 pm, July 20th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: From what I hear, all sorts of strange things wash up in Wasilla.

  71. WestEdEd says at 12:11 pm, July 20th, 2009

    I anxiously await the twatting from her Gyno

  72. the problem child says at 12:12 pm, July 20th, 2009

    heroinmule: Her hairdresser reads the NYT so she doesn’t have to.

  73. WadISay says at 12:13 pm, July 20th, 2009

    So now the NYT can accurately report: “Sarah Palin Not Getting Balled”?

  74. El Pinche says at 12:32 pm, July 20th, 2009

    JadedDIssonance: The beehive looks like a buffet for Jame ‘Buffalo Bill’ Gumb.

  75. Gee, I guess only your hairdresser really knows for sure.

  76. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 12:45 pm, July 20th, 2009

    Tweetie twat twits twee tweets twatishly, twice.

  77. Itsjustme says at 12:53 pm, July 20th, 2009

    How can the hairdresser tweet with his hands on his hips? He must be straight. Gay men MUST pose as they defend!

  78. Extemporanus says at 1:15 pm, July 20th, 2009

    WestEdEd: Gyno: “Sarah Palin does NOT have herpes!

    Oh wait, what? Hair piece? Well, uh, all I know is that she’s a goddamn real ‘merkin. Now, if you could just turn your head and coif, we’ll be done here.”

  79. as.the.world.burns says at 1:20 pm, July 20th, 2009

    liquiddaddy: mmmm, beef curtains.

    so, this post is the only one listed under the tag ‘bald girls can be hot.’ i haz a sad…..

  80. WesternCorrespondent says at 1:20 pm, July 20th, 2009

    “Texas Sparkle”, who has a blog at the Houston Chronicle, twittered this to the hairdresser: “I absolutely LOVE that you are calling the NYT out on their lie quoting you as Palin’s hairdresser! TWITTERTRUTH! Heh. (via @RWSparkle) about 18 hours ago from Tweetie”.

    Nevermind that Texas Sparkle got her Tweet all wrong, and that the “lie” and the quote wasn’t of the hairdresser at all — but of “friends” of Palins.

    Can’t these idiots get ANYTHING right?

  81. paintitblack says at 1:25 pm, July 20th, 2009

    Eh - we eeevul as hell libruls don’t hafta lie about Bible Spice: she feeds us her b.s. via her twat when she twatterz. We just snark about it endlessly. This bitch needs ta twat Caribou Barbie, instead, or thump Palin upside the head the next time she’s in for a ‘do.

  82. JoeMac says at 1:29 pm, July 20th, 2009

    Is Remmington Steele going to look into this hair mystery?

  83. Come here a minute says at 1:34 pm, July 20th, 2009

    I will withhold judgment until Putin rears his head and evaluates the hairspace of Alaska’s governor.

  84. The Lauri Appleperson says at 1:48 pm, July 20th, 2009

    It took a whole week for her to respond? What was Hairdressy Bessy doing all that time — is it moose-shearing season?

  85. superfecta says at 2:41 pm, July 20th, 2009

    This story alone makes me even sadder that Best Week Ever is no more.

  86. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:07 pm, July 20th, 2009

    mattbolt: Sam Donaldson, as well. Also.

  87. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:12 pm, July 20th, 2009

    Dean Booth: I love you everywhere you go, Dean. Thank you.

  88. 102415 says at 5:48 pm, July 20th, 2009

    JadedDIssonance: What will Sparkle Pony think of that?
    I think I want a T shirt.
    I need an intervention.

  89. BobTheBuilder says at 6:40 pm, July 20th, 2009

    Breathlessly awaiting the Twitters from her manicurist, denying vicious nail fungus rumors.

  90. daMamma says at 8:07 pm, July 20th, 2009

    Now we can all breath easy and sleep well at night.

  91. richardwb1 says at 8:16 pm, July 20th, 2009

    Crank Tango:
    We are all Merkins, now.

  92. get real says at 2:26 am, July 21st, 2009

    richardwb1:
    There is nothing more pleasing than a moose fur merkin.

  93. This leftie is more interested in having her head on a skewer: thin hair or not.

  94. dedalus says at 10:58 pm, July 23rd, 2009

    Joe Biden’s dentist here. He does not use teeth whitener.

  95. Vas Deferens says at 8:36 pm, July 24th, 2009

    Anybody have a photo of Guliani and Palin together?

  96. geminisunmars says at 12:06 pm, July 25th, 2009

    Woodwards Friend: Whenever I see the word “bumpits” I immediately picture a body part - think armpits. I’m not putting that on my head.

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