The State of Alaska has released 24,000 of former Governor Sarah Palin emails to the public yesterday. This caused a Media frenzy, as the New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News to appeal to the public for help in sifting through them. The emails cover a 21-month period from 2007 to 2009. So far, about the only controversial email found concerns a tanning bed at the governor′s mansion in Juneau and her thoughts about being selected to run with John McCain for the White House. The Anchorage Daily News and other sources have also found that Palin has received many death threats after becoming the 2008 Vice Presidential candidate.
The media frenzy in attempts to find more dirt on Sarah Palin is perhaps a new low for the state of journalism in the United States. Never before have so many sought to find so much wrong with one person. The modern day witch hunt goes beyond the pale of responsible, ethical journalism, and unmasks their true agenda.
A few interesting pieces of information have been learned from the emails. They verify the hard work Palin did to break a 30-year deadlock on plans to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the Lower-48 with her pluck and political savvy. We also learn that as early as April of 2008, many supporters of Palin began encouraging her to run with John McCain. That in June, several news organizations, including the Wall Street Journal, saw her as a potential VP running mate with McCain.
Most of the 24,000 Sarah Palin emails released by the State of Alaska demonstrate her hard work as governor and the wide spread popularity she enjoyed. But the New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News continue to go negative, seeking anything, even the smallest, most obscure reason to cast doubt on any possible run for the White House against Barack Obama in 2012. The emails tend to reinforce the wisdom by John McCain in selecting Palin to be his vice presidential running mate in 2008.
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June 11th, 2011 at 4:56 am
I do not understand why they were released. I will tell you straight, I do not like Sarah Palin. But I do not think that anyone should have all of their email released for all to see. I bet anything it was censored first. By her herself, I bet.
I hate email. Email causes a lot of trouble between people. I have thought about this a great deal. Email has gotten me in trouble from time to time.
Email, it is sort of as if, one’s impersonality is given the vast power of exponential speed. If you know that someone is not going to get your message for x number of days, you sort of think about what you say. It is a work of art, sort of. But if you know that they are going to get it 10 seconds from now, you just rip it off. And when you rip something off using a typewriter keyboard you are apt to say things that you would never say to the person face to face. Then that person gets upset, or offended, and strikes back, and you go from there.
Email is…evil. In hell, Satan was thinking, what is it (other than cell phones) I can do to greatly amplify the evils of the tongue, that plague mankind?
Email!
June 11th, 2011 at 9:21 am
The Media needs to report hard news that really matters. I do like Sarah Palin and I think most of the media do not like her because she does not live for media attention. Sarah does not pander to the left and she is a person who lives by her principles. She is not afraid to say what she thinks.
June 11th, 2011 at 10:28 am
She is the “gift that keeps on giving”.
June 11th, 2011 at 10:31 am
Some people just have too much fckin time on their hands
June 11th, 2011 at 10:33 am
“She does not live for media attention”.
What?
She has never passed up a microphone and/or camera in years. She makes money because of media attention.
Isn’t she currently on a very well-covered bus tour right now. If she wanted to “see the sights” she could have quietly drove the family wagon to undisclosed locations, but instead she announced a “bus tour” in an area and time that would garner attention.
Seeking media attention is not wrong, but to characterize her as someone that does not crave it is certainly open to discussion.
June 11th, 2011 at 11:03 am
““She does not live for media attention”.
What?”
This kinda sht really pi$$es me off.
Palin did NOT ask for this Buzzbee.
WAPO and Huffy came grovelling on their knees with The Rifgt To Info act so they could dig for cirt.
Thats a far far far cry from her being the camera wh0re you make her out to be.
She had to build a freeking wall around house because morons like you cant just lerave her personal life the fck alone.
Now, leading up to the primaries with no definitive announcement as to whether she’ll run or not they’re looking for that one itty bitty “GOTCHA” which will more than likely have more to with her persona or some misspelled word so you can all call her and idiot and re-live 2008. Except conveniently enough George Soros just spent a million so Huffy could hire more reporters ! HOW CONVENIENT ! HUH ?
If some right leaning media outlet dug up 24000 e mails between Barry and whomever you guys would be shtting your pants havin conniption fits.
This is gonna blow back in you guys face so bad and so hard you’ll regret it.
But, of course, dont expect any of the MSM to report what a huge embarrassment this will be for you as she will “mark my words” make this work to her advantage… again !!
You idiots never learn !
You and your predictable mindsets are the gift that Palin keeps getting dropped in her lap.
“but instead she announced a “bus tour” in an area and time that would garner attention.”
No sht genius.
What ? Did you expect her to announce she would tour the Gobe desert ?
June 11th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Yes! Let us get all of Obama’s emails and text messages, too. Let us see what they might contain. In his case, he is still working for us, the taxpaying public, and we have a right to know as his employers.
June 11th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Too Bad the NYT and WAPO couldn’t have called for a hundred volunteers to go over the ObamaCare Bill, before it was voted on.
June 11th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
They did
June 12th, 2011 at 5:54 am
What a sorry state of affairs. The Lame Stream Media, lacking manpower because nobody pays attention to them anymore, is recruiting their few remaining readers to help them search for the juiciest emails.
These morons turn down real news when it’s handed to them (Anthony Weiner, John Edwards) but will use every last man to search for a possible story that’s probably not there.
They are scared to death of this woman!!!
June 12th, 2011 at 10:31 am
Reported on LSDNBC this morning that “a few nuggets” were reamed from Palin’s emails…mostly dealing with transparency and accountability
You simply cannot make this stuff up and you still can’t fix stupid
Debbie Waspy Shultz is ONE freaky looking woman and when she speaks,it only gets worse!!!
June 12th, 2011 at 10:50 am
Agree 100% on Debbie Whatshername Shultz. talk about open mouth, insert foot.
June 12th, 2011 at 10:58 am
Wasserman…
I’ve been paying attention to her lately and each time cant keep from thinking of Lisa Simpson, Stalin, Anthony Weiner and how the hell she could be Jewish
June 12th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
This media circus is a display of desperation.
The political elite’s worst fear is becoming reality: Sarah Palin is who she says she is.
The political elite’s second worst fear: The typical 2012 voter, learns the truth too.
June 12th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
I admit to paying almost zero attention to this story – I think I read one article with the so-calleld “highlights.” Pretty bland stuff…. if anything they seem to portray Palin in a pretty favorable and normal light. But what I don’t get is why she scrambled to hide these? These emails came from her personal account, where she and her team transfered them from her state government account. Ergo the FOIA request. But why all the secrecy in the first place? Especially in light of the fact that a lot of them really do seem to speak about transparancy. Don’t get it at all.
June 12th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Yes!!! Bill589, They are scared to death of this woman.
Why? Because unlike other politicians she’s America first. Krauthammer, Will, and of course the MSM can’t handle anybody who may govern outside the status quo.
For all the punditry talk about changing Washington, none of them are serious. Sarah is. Scares the sht out of them.
June 12th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
“But what I don’t get is why she scrambled to hide these?”
Well TA, i’m a pretty straight up person but if somebody told ne they were going to release my emails I’d probably be wondering if I said anythting untoward at one point or another.
I’m curious as to whether there’s a precedent for this. I never heard of a politicians emails being released before like this before.
June 12th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Given enough time the pandering media and its parasitic spinster activists will find a way to make every single politician look bad till all we will be left with is running reliable good ole Gumby for president. Instead of the Gipper we will have Gumby as the lone survivor of the current race. Nobody has any dirt on gumby. He’s a nice clay.
June 12th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
What strikes me about that Politico piece is how ridiculous is the premise, that somehow the long lost Palin appears through her emails, and that she is so different from what Palin “has become” or “became” — as if there were no interceding events, like, say, a years-long attempt to destroy her by the very people now poring through these emails, that served to explain or even justify the change in Palin’s attitudes toward the press, the GOP establishment, etc.
June 13th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Micky. You may disagree with my stances or opinions, but your response to categorize me as a “moron” and “idiot”.
You have read my opinions for quite some time as I have yours.
Is there anything that I have written that illustrates that I am truly a “moron”?
I have always exhibited respect for your opinions even when I completely disagree.
I am very surprised by your characterization.
June 13th, 2011 at 10:41 am
@ Buzz.
You’re right, I apologize for that one and had you generalized.
Sometimes my temper interferes
June 13th, 2011 at 11:01 am
No problem.
June 13th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
You have this entire media looking through Palins e-mail. Hoping to once and for all, find something to destroy her. Yet they never once told us, who is Barack Obama? What about his friendships with Ayers, Wright ? And if we dared asked we were racist. Sad!