A timely Photoshop (source unknown).

It's a 'shop job, but it's still funny. (thanks, r stevens, via)

[#1 posted by freebeets, October 7, 2008 3:04 PM]

Family values! You betcha!

[#2 posted by A New Challenger, October 7, 2008 3:06 PM]

A timely Photoshop:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2128/dscf1254ea3.jpg

[#3 posted by asutton1, October 7, 2008 3:08 PM]

Doggone it!

[#4 posted by Xeni Jardin, October 7, 2008 3:08 PM]

@#2 hahaha great. updated.

[#5 posted by akbar56, October 7, 2008 3:11 PM]

Although if you take the UK version of the hand in the original, no 'shop is needed!

[#6 posted by Duffong, October 7, 2008 3:11 PM]

@ 2 that's great, I was gonna post "REPREZENT YO" but you beat us all to it.

[#7 posted by Antinous / Moderator, October 7, 2008 3:11 PM]

Just please don't accuse her of being Chinese.

[#8 posted by buddy66, October 7, 2008 3:17 PM]

Is that woman preggers?

[#9 posted by KurtMac, October 7, 2008 3:25 PM]

Even in the original, thats a pretty angry gesture of peace. That is, unless she is doing the "I'm WATCHING you!" thing. "You best be keeping your hands off my cotton candy." [or, whatever else might be in that plastic bag in her hand.]

[#10 posted by Stefan Jones, October 7, 2008 3:26 PM]

#8: Twins this time. Lemonplej and Kirukkle.

[#11 posted by Willie McBride, October 7, 2008 3:28 PM]

So.

Tell me that the photoshopped part is that horrible coat before I start tearing out my eyes.

[#12 posted by Anonymous, October 7, 2008 3:29 PM]

Forget the hand gestures. I want to know how anyone could ever trust the judgment of someone who would be seen in public wearing that coat.

[#13 posted by error404, October 7, 2008 3:54 PM]

Ah that original is much better.

Unless you're british.

Then it is the Agingcourt salute.

[#14 posted by Gary61, October 7, 2008 3:55 PM]

Screw the coat. If she's wearing thigh-highs and a black leather miniskirt under it .....

[#15 posted by dbarak, October 7, 2008 4:00 PM]

Apparently some designer created a couch that looks like Sarah Palin.

[#16 posted by Antinous / Moderator, October 7, 2008 4:04 PM]

Apparently, the original is a secret Republican hand signal.

[#17 posted by Elvis Gump, October 7, 2008 4:15 PM]

If it's a Photoshop, where's the original? Am I missing a link to it?

[#18 posted by DeWynken, October 7, 2008 4:25 PM]

Rosanne Barr wouldn't even be caught dead in that flowered atrocity.

[#19 posted by elguapostrikes, October 7, 2008 5:21 PM]

darn right it is

[#20 posted by FloydT, October 7, 2008 5:33 PM]

Classy.

[#21 posted by pitir, October 7, 2008 6:19 PM]

#11

It's a tribute coat - she loves Yellow Submarine!

http://www.dvdreview.com/assets/images/YSubmarine8.jpg

[#22 posted by Clayton Hove, October 7, 2008 6:46 PM]

Must be her Outsider coat.

[#23 posted by rrsafety, October 7, 2008 7:40 PM]

Pln, Pln, Pln.

[#24 posted by Antinous / Moderator, October 7, 2008 7:55 PM]

Palin, Palin, Palin.

Funny you should say that. I was explaining to someone today about this moderating lark. I was telling him that it's normally fairly calm, and he chipped in with, "I bet it's exploded since McCain picked Sarah Palin." People seem to find her rather interesting.

[#25 posted by membeth, October 7, 2008 8:52 PM]

I, too, initially thought the photoshop was the hideous raincoat and sat there for a minute trying to understand it...head in the clouds? Penchant for cotton candy? Then I saw the kid. Which means she really wore that coat.

[#26 posted by Jack, October 8, 2008 12:27 AM]

Someone beat me to the hideous raincoat comment.

Now that's my comment.

[#27 posted by Kieran O'Neill, October 8, 2008 3:07 AM]

So is the post by #2 the original? Is that not a rude hand-signal in the U.S.?

Oh, right. Lol.

[#28 posted by KryspyJo, October 8, 2008 5:34 AM]

That horrid coat looks like it's covered in a fried egg pattern! Blecch!

[#29 posted by JayeRandom, October 8, 2008 5:51 AM]

Why is her coat covered in fish paste slices?

[#30 posted by Mojave, October 8, 2008 6:03 AM]

She can't go back to Alaska fast enough.

[#31 posted by caseyshuffle, October 8, 2008 7:07 AM]

...what perfect timing...must run in the family...

anyone see the new palin skit on the late show?

hilarious

http://www.internetisfun.com/item.php?ownerid=1193&playid=5354

[#32 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, October 8, 2008 3:48 PM]

Republican women are required to wear awful clothes. They don't have to wear them all the time, but they have to periodically put on a show of loyalty by wearing some completely incomprehensible item.

[#33 posted by Itsumishi, October 8, 2008 7:41 PM]

It certainly confused me as to why someone would bother photoshopping one hand gesture into another one that has the same meaning. Then I read that wikipedia link by Kieran @27. When did the Peace symbol get turned around in the US? (when did the palm stop facing outwards?)