Liberals in Media Lament Lack of 'Dirt' in Sarah Palin Emails
With headlines like “Sarah Palin’s emails: Annoyingly gaffe-free” from the Los Angeles Times, reporters are lamenting the fact they didn’t find the juicy details about the life of the former vice presidential candidate they were looking for in their 24,000 page stack of Palin emails.
The weekend of their release, the media had to dig deep to fabricate any kind of story from the emails. The Washington Post ran the headline “Sarah Palin e-mails: Palin maintained third e-mail account,” while New York Times highlighted her brief mention of ‘Transformers’ being filmed in Alaska. Of course, those weren’t the stories they were probably hoping to find. For the most part, all 24,000 pages of emails were about mundane politics.
The handling of the email release is now an embarrassing reflection on the standards of the media. Perhaps best summed up by Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins, “it’s really not hard to think that the joke might somehow be on us.”
The joke is on them. Sarah Palin holds no public office and has not declared any candidacy for office, but she still remains the biggest media target. The New York Times and Washington Post had to implore their readers to sift through the emails with them, a clear mechanism designed to find hits against Palin to advance their liberal agendas.
What they found instead was a hard-working governor working to fix problems in Alaska. According to the New York Times, “After a day of frantically poring over the correspondence, with the help of millions of online readers, there were no major revelations but plenty of attempts to dissect the background of a woman who might yet run for president.”
The Washington Post released a similar opinion. “Neither the crowdsourcing nor the traditional analysis by reporters produced any bombshells, but enlisting the public did help engage readers."
Slightly more begrudgingly, the Los Angeles Times even writes “a surprising thing happened after the state of Alaska released more than 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails sent during her term as governor from 2006 to 2008: Like Al Capone’s vault, it turned out there was nothing there.”
The double standard of the media could not be clearer. They spent days and a number of resources digging through tens of thousands of Palin’s emails to try to damage the reputation of a non-candidate holding no political office. When sitting Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's emails were released earlier this year and turned up a clear conflict of interest with court cases related to Obamacare (she had previously crafted the legal defense for Obamacare as solicitor general before being appointed by Obama's administration to the Supreme Court), the same media remained relatively mum on the subject and were not out begging readers for help sorting through her emails.
The only thing publicly reading through Palin's emails did was strengthen her credibility as a diligent governor with her state’s best interests at heart.
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Bias, how shocking
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:24pm.
In my local paper there was a fuss because there were rumors of Bristol's pregnancy that Sarah thought started with an opponent in the GOP. They made a big deal about the fact that 8 months later, Bristol's son was born. The implication being Palin knowingly accused her opponent falsely, because she knew of Bristol's pregnancy.
At one month, it's debatable if Bristol knew she was pregnant.
Incredible...so when are the
Submitted by Liberallies on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:27pm.
Incredible...so when are the media, Liberals, RINOS and all other Sarah Palin haters going to start demanding and suing President Obama for his emails while he was a State Senator for Illinois and a U.S. Senator for Illinois.
When are these same individuals going to demand and sue in order to get President Obama's educational records?
Amazing how the media, Americans overall, where uninterested in Obama's background, education and otherwise, but they are so incredibly interested in the background Sarah Palin. The same interest for both should be shown!!!
Plain answer - NEVER
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 1:05pm.
They all have a very good idea of what they would find, and they MOST DEFINITELY don't want it made public.
Little did the know
Submitted by Bob K on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:35pm.
that the fact that they were going after her by this e-mail search would backfire on them. No dirt, and the e-mails revealed enough positive examples of her competence as Gov. not to mention her honest and nice personality, to even give her a bump. I think that resulting bump will even have a longer shelf life than Barry's "i killed Osama" bump. Not what the left expected at all when they began their search and destroy mission.
With all the nothing that was
Submitted by tombaker on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 5:56pm.
With all the nothing that was going on in the emails, makes you wonder why she did not have the gusto to remain as Governor. Sure its capitalist to go Rogue and cash out, but its not very honorable a Governor put there by the electorate.
Palin could have easily fought off all the BS that D.C. paparazzi were doing in Alaska...yet she did not...she did not reload....she did not stand ground....nope....she tucked tail between legs and ran....ran away from the job she did.
Palin is a quitter, its not debatable....is that? All you have is Kool-Aid cheerleaders making excuses. Palin's contribution to the General election defeat of Republicans was no fluke.
Tom Parrot
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 6:09pm.
Squawk! Quitter!
Squawk! Caribou Barbie!
Squawk! I am a mysogynist!
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
The Palin email frenzy reminds me of a patient...
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:37pm.
...I treated many, many years ago when I worked with criminals committed to inpatient treatment in lieu of imprisonment. The particular patient was a severe schizophrenic with extremely violent tendencies. He was tried and convicted of attempted murder and had been sentenced to twenty to life. Once symptomatic control over his schizophrenia had been achieved with better antipsychotic therapy, he let me know that he was still very angry about the attempted murder. He was angry that his intended victim actually fought back and escaped. The media certainly need to be committed for their treatment of Sarah Palin, but it adds quite an extra element of sociopathy when they complain that her emails failed to reveal anything.
If the media pursued Obama like they did Nixon,
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:54pm.
this adminstration would crumble in weeks.
Purely rhetorical
Submitted by LionKing on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:11pm.
Why didn't the LSM use this much diligence with Barry?
So the LSM is upset about no news!
Submitted by phryingphish on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:14pm.
It's such ashame that they can't just make it up anymore. Now they have to show proof of whatever lie they want to tell.
So the LSM is upset about no news!
Submitted by phryingphish on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:14pm.
sorry, double post.
MSM needs their FOID card revoked
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:27pm.
Makes you wonder how many times the MSM can shoot themselves in the foot and still not learn any lesson from it.
Sarah Palin Has Some Nerve Being as Sweet as she Appears.
Submitted by Avitar on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 4:55pm.
What New York Editor is going to put up with an honest hard working and knowledgeable Politician?
You Betcha!
Submitted by KornKing on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:27pm.
The joke is on you. It's even funnier when they don't know it
breaching the castle walls
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:29pm.
By their relentless obsession to 'get' Sarah Palin the media have made her wealthy and a political force. I think they are aware of this but now that they have invested so much fire power against her and she is still going strong that now... it's personal. The media has always prided itself on being gate keepers to the people seeking power. They can make or break not only a persons career but their personal life as well. Then along came Sarah who refuses to play their game and refuses to play dead and go home because the media says so. Sarah isn't just a political threat but a threat to the power of the media to control the debate on issues and who is allowed to debate them. They need to destroy Palin or their invincible power will be exposed as too weak to stand up to actual confrontation. And this in fact happening. Others are following Sarah's lead and the MSM is losing credibility. So the drive to destroy Sarah continues unabated because only by eventually destroying her can the media again posture themselves as the ultimate power.
If the media only was
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:44pm.
If the media only was interested in salacious crap on a politician, they can go through Obama's Acorn and senate e-mails. I'm sure THOSE emails are full of fun stuff! Hey, they might find some love letters from Chris Matthews, Castro, and Olbermann. But of course they're not interested in bringing down their messiah...
Figured it Out Yet, Mediots? She's Not Like You.
Submitted by Tenebrous on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 5:58pm.
In a saner universe, people would praise Palin for her consistency and virtue, instead of complaining that she's not as deranged and dirty as her accusers.
Visions and Principles blog
They fear Sarah
Submitted by speedy on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 6:57pm.
By their vitriol they show their respect for her. They would not waste the time and attack dog mediatards resources on someone they did not fear could make a difference in 2012.
Sarah
Submitted by Emma Grump on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:35pm.
Sarah played those libs like a fine fiddle. She knew nothing incriminating would be found, so she just sat back laughing and let the fools waste their time poring over 24,000 pages of trivial correspondence. I heard the idiots complained that everything was in paper form, which really was annoying. I wouldn't be surprised if the NYT found a way to rummage through her bathroom waste can to find out if she's using illegal feminine products, or if she suffers from constipation, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, acne, corns, psoriasis - ANYTHING at all MUST be found to justify their liberal hatred for the woman.
Au Contraire
Submitted by V the K on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 8:45am.
There was dirt in the emails, just not the kind they were hoping to find.
This charming email from a Palin critic came out of the document dump that drove the MFM into a frenzy last week: http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=6355
Excerpt: "You need to be shot from one of the planes that shoot th (sic) the very wolves that you ordered. You (f-word) (rhymes with chore) ... I want to look into the eyes of a phony (c-word) witha (sic) (rhymes with chore) of a daughter and votes to overturn roe vers wade, you worthless piece of flesh...want go hunting for wolves still? let's make you run in your heels, you (f-word) ugly pig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I just want to know who wrote that. Was it Maureen Dowd or Kathleen Parker?
What would be REALLY funny...
Submitted by GrannyGrump42 on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 9:54am.
I would love to see a couple of Palin staffers start a decoy email account that they let the MSM hack into, full of what looks like gossip but turns out to be about historic figures or literary characters.
Things like, "M needs to get his ass there quick before J.E. gets sucked into the R thing any deeper than she's sucked in now. Thought of alerting F, but not sure she has what it takes to step in. We know G.P. won't say anything; too afraid R will find out about that bottle."
or: "Rumors about A. and R. not likely to abate any time soon. A. not likely to let go of R, because of situation with 'Baby.' N. really needs to grow a pair and put a stop to all of it."
Let them chase their tails for a couple of months of public speculation before opening a "Spot the Character" contest.