Dear Readers: The Washington Post and New York Times have set a most interesting precedent. By using a Freedom of Information Act request, these news organizations obtained access to over 24,000 emails from former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. They then requested their readers to volunteer to scour them for scandalous information. I applied with this submission:
I am a Democrat who is a Palin supporter, who has also had experience writing for several news publications (e.g., San Diego Union Tribune) and am an occasional analyst for Fox Business News.
I would be delighted to help, as it is obvious to me the coverage by the elite media of Sarah Palin has been lacking in the rudiments of basic journalism: Sticking to who, what, where, when, why and how.
Allow me to assist you in scouring the many emails, which will include such enlightening details as childcare arrangements, request for office supplies, and committee schedules that are surely going to offer meaningful insights that will improve life for Americans everywhere. I think you will be truly living up to your 1st Amendment responsibilities in this endeavor!
I am a little concerned if I fail to participate that you will utilize professional reporters to look through the emails. That means they won’t be able to cover such essential topics as the 61 Trillion in unfunded mandates hanging over our economy, the increasingly poor job news and the fact people have longer periods of unemployment in the Obama economy, continued involvement of the US in Libya and potential US actions in Yemen, and other key topics that your editors seem to rate secondary to uncovering some vast Palin scandal. Therefore, I view helping you as my patriotic duty.
Strangely, I have not heard back from this news organizations.
Between the plethora of jokes being made at the elite media’s expense today, there is now discussion of using the FOIA request process to obtain records on President Obama. Interestingly, I did a brief search to see of records of Obama from his Illinois Senate days have been released. Judicial Watch reports that this records have been made to disappear.However, you can be sure every Palin-supporting conservative organization is placing a series of FOIA requests on Obama emails wherever they may reside.
I will be the first volunteer to scour those puppies.
The backlash has been palpable. Here are a few of the comments to the posted requests:
Much Twitter merriment is also being had at the expense of the elite media!Gems such as Palin’s staff being excited by being tagged by McCain for the VP slot have been revealed. A witty comment noted that Palin was on “Team Edward“; that is where we part ways — I am “Team Jacob“. That may cost her my vote (/sarc).
Legal Insurrection’s Professor Jacobson has a running list of scandal-filled Palin headlines in this post: Behold The Mainstream Media Eating Its Own Anti-Palin Bile – A Running List of Headlines
Here are some of my humor contributions:
Email Update: Sarah writes — “I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF MY COUNTRY”.
Email Update: Sarah notes: “My house NOT bought by local crook. ”
Email update: Sarah notes they speak German, French and Italian in Austria — not Austrian.
Email Update: Sarah knows it is 2011, not 2008.
Email Update: Sarah knows how to pronounce “corpsman” and is looking forward to meeting a few at the “US Naval Academy“, part of the “finest fighting force the world has known“.
Email update: Sarah says, “I am looking forward to visiting each of the 50 states“.
Email update: Sarah reflects — My mentors love this country and the people who serve it.
Email update: Sarah wrote — Our church pastor gave a really inspirational speech this Sunday, praising the values that made this country great.
Email Update: Sarah opines — It’s better to be a small town mayor in America than President of China.
And in the most explosive revelation yet, Sarah emailed this to Todd: I hate golf.
I don’t quite think this process produced the outcome hoped for by our “Ruling Class” media elites. They have just energized a big swath of Americans in time to start digging around Obama’s records.
After all, what’s good for the Alaskan goose is good for the Hawaiian gander.
UPDATE! Let’s see of WaPo, NYT, CBS or other “serious” news organizations have the cajones to report this chestnut: Sarah Palin emails: Palin fielded death threats as campaign heated up
“She doesn’t belong to the NRA to support the right of each citizen to have weapons in an aim of self-defence, but just to support the right of every Southern white citizen to shoot all non-white people legally!” wrote the sender, identified as Dominique Villacrouz. “Sarah Palin MUST BE KILLED!”
If there was ever a situation that was ripe for a humiliating backhand of collateral damage, this is it.
It’s my guess that being totally confounded in their attempts to find the one career and reputation killing Weiner-like skeleton in Palin’s closet, backyard, lake, or buried in the outback of Anwar, The N.Y.Times and Washington Post ran with the theory that “What are the odds we won’t come up with some knid of kryptonite in those 25,000 e-mails?”
What other explanation is there?
The left is inching closer to desperation. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men have not been able to deliver the political death blow to Palin to date. Astonishingly, she’s still in the hunt for the republican nomination and like Bill Parcells used to say about the NFL playoffs,
“Once you get into the tournament anything can happen.”
Can anyone verify this e-mail from Palin to a staffer:
Two cans of tomatoe paste
One deboned haddock
A slice of garlic
4 oz. of Olive oil simmered for 15 minutes in a base of the blood of virgins.
Bahahahahahahahaha!!! The media was played. Beautifully.
Perhaps this is the MSM’s Macaca moment… Make it so, lets rummage in Obama’s emails and find out what he has had to say. It will probably make us blus when his condescision and hubris is exposed.
Yes, Obama’s emails. This won’t go away. We want them, along with a legitimate bc.
She hates golf!!!!
To me, that is a major plus. No Palin on the links.
Obama has spent, what, 80 times since inaguration golfing. His sole priorityis himself.
The golfing obsession HAS to be made into an ad for the GOP in 2012.
Like this bumper sticker MUT?
http://www.cafepress.com/sufashop.522836697
Yes. I will have to link to it and your blog tomorrow. 🙂
Thanks. It looks like the MSM spelunking through Palin’s emails have produced nothing. Even Andy Sullivan is crushed. Score one for honest living.