Some people will believe just about anything about certain other people, especially if these other people are of a different political persuasion and have a reputation for not being very smart. So it comes as no surprise that when The Daily Currant reported that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin licked a frozen flagpole in Des Moines, Iowa after a political rally and got stuck to it, people were ready to believe and share the news.
-- Dusty Two Sacks (@realdusty2sacks) 25 januari 2016
Unfortunately for "Dusty Two Sacks" he has been taken in by satirical site The Daily Currant, which specializes in these kinds of stories. Earlier they also reported on a fake Sarah Palin quote ("Native Americans Should Go Back to Nativia.") so it is safest to take anything they write about her with a grain of salt.
The article also reported that people were making fun of the situation on Twitter by using the hashtags #palinpop and #brainfreeze. But no such thing is happening:
At the time of writing, about 3,000 people were taken in by the hoax (or were trying to see which ones of their friends would fall for it):
