Sarah Palin Stares Down Brown Bear

Mom, cubs crash family fishing trip

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 29, 2010 2:31 AM CDT

(Newser) – First moose hunting, now a bear stare down. That's what happened to Sarah Palin when a brown bear and her two cubs crashed a quiet family salmon fishing expedition in Alaska. The mothers stared at one another before the bear blinked, and moved off, reports the Telegraph. The bear apparently knows a mama grizzly when she sees one—at least the political kind Palin extols in her new video.

Or maybe the bear heard about the dead grizzly Palin likes to sit on. The hide of a grizzly shot by Palin's pop covers the couch in the former governor's Anchorage office. Youch. That's one grizzly who won't be voting Tea Party.

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'Mothers just know when somethin's wrong' Palin says on her new 'Mama Grizzly' political video. (?BlackburnPhoto)

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thekeepitrealman

Jul 30, 2010 11:17 AM CDT

So Palin coins a phrase "Mama Grizzly" and now she stares down a grizzly? Come on. Isn't this kinda like the legend of Paul Bunyan?

schmidtkoff

Jul 30, 2010 10:15 AM CDT

is there video of this stare down to back up sister sarah's story? if not than it is nothing more than corroboration amongst sister and others in her "...quiet family salmon fishing expedition." the narcissistic sister sarah is misinformed . she is not omnipotent. and btw, why didn't she shoot the momma bear, i mean that's her method for getting meat on the table isn't it? plus she could have corralled the cubs in order to raise them for future meat on the table.

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