No ma’am, ‘Letterman’ is a callsign. I swear.
June 25th, 2009 | Aviation Carriers | Posted by Andrew Scutro
U.S. Navy
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska needs no introduction. With the campaign long over, she’s still an instant news item, at the ballpark and from a now cooled skirmish with Dave Letterman. She’s news in the Navy too. Palin, and her husband Todd, embarked as distinguished visitors aboard the aircraft carrrier John C. Stennis in the Gulf of Alaska on June 22.
As a vice-presidential candidate she pumped up her home state’s proximity to Russia as national security cred, prompting the frighteningly good Tina Fey imitation to exclaim “I can see Russia from my house!”
According to Scoop Deck’s cursory study of geography in them parts, Russia would not have been easily visible from the Stennis.