Palin: Take Fish Pics, Not Selfies

Selfies with fish are apparently OK
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 15, 2014 1:20 AM CST
Palin: Take Fish Pics, Not Selfies
Sarah Palin waits by her husband Todd's boat before heading up river to see fish being counted in Dillingham, Alaska as part of her "Sarah Palin's Alaska" series.   (AP Photo/Discovery Communications, Gilles Mingasson)

Sarah Palin, weighing in on social media trends while plugging her new TV show, Amazing America, believes people are taking too many photos of themselves that don't involve fish, Politico reports. "I think this world would be better off having more young women holding a fish in their picture than holding their camera in front of a bathroom mirror, taking a selfie," the Alaskan wrote in a Facebook post that has received almost 70,000 likes. But does she walk it like she talks it? The Wire went to the trouble of looking through Palin's Facebook photo gallery and found numerous selfies and "borderline selfies"—along with a single photo of Palin holding a fish. (More selfie stories.)

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