Sarah Palin Has Never Actually Seen Russia From Alaska

Posted by Jed Lewison, Huffington Post at 9:47 AM on October 2, 2008.

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.



Here's the video of Tuchman's report:

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.



It's going to be fun watching McCain-land spin this one, and it's going to be even more fun watching Tina Fey parody it.

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