NBC Most Excited by Palin’s E-Mail, Yet Fails to Dig Up Any ‘Bombshells’
Much of the media made fools of themselves with their excited obsession over the release of Sarah Palin’s gubernatorial e-mails, but NBC News went the furthest, sending, as did CNN, reporters to Juneau as the network uniquely led its Friday night newscast by hyping the non-news as a major event. “On the broadcast tonight,” anchor Lester Holt heralded, “mail call. Thousands of pages of e-mail from Sarah Palin's time as Governor. What we're learning about her tonight.”
Following a story from “national investigative correspondent” Michael Isikoff in which “MSNBC.com investigative reporter” Bill Dedman had the gall to complain “we waited longer for these records than Sarah Palin was Governor, almost a thousand days,” NBC’s David Gregory recognized, in an understatement: “As Mike and his team are finding, not a lot of bombshells here.”
ABC also got into the act, but didn’t send any on-air personnel to Juneau. On Saturday’s World News, however, John Berman trumpeted his big discovery proving Palin’s hypocrisy: “While these days Palin is criticizing parts of Michelle Obama’s national battle against obesity...she once e-mailed an aide asking for ‘low carb foods...just don’t want the kids to have too much sugar/white carb stuff.’” That should pretty much discredit her.
CBS showed the best news judgment, not mentioning the Palin e-mails on Friday or Saturday’s CBS Evening News.
Isikoff’s find – Palin once praised something candidate Barack Obama said: “Among the e-mails, this exchange from Palin to an aide written a few weeks before she was picked by McCain, praising then-candidate Obama’s energy policy speech. ‘He gave a great speech this morning in Michigan – mentioned Alaska,’ adding, ‘we need to take advantage of this and write a statement saying he's right on.’ Then in a later e-mail telling an aide, ‘he did say ‘yay’ to our gas line. Pretty cool. Wrong candidate.’ Palin later became one of Obama's fiercest critics on energy policy.”
From the top of the Friday, June 10 NBC Nightly News:
LESTER HOLT: Good evening, I'm Lester Holt, in tonight for Brian. Sarah Palin's short rise from obscurity to a source of endless political fascination reached a new level today as reporters lined up to scour thousands of pages of e-mails from her time as Alaska Governor. Looking for deeper insight and clues into her political ambitions. Responding to media requests, the state of Alaska released 24,000 pages of e-mails covering the period from December 2006, when she was sworn in as governor, to September 2008 when she was named John McCain's running mate. With Palin a potential presidential challenger, the question tonight is: Could her foes try to use them to try and define her candidacy? NBC’s national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff has been examining some of those e-mails. He joins me now from Juneau, Alaska, with more. Michael, good evening.
MICHAEL ISIKOFF: Good evening, Lester. News organizations have waited nearly three years to get access to these documents. Stacks of e-mails from Palin's time as Governor. Palin and the state of Alaska fought having to make them public. But now that they are, a Palin spokesman said today that they show she was a very engaged Governor and that everybody should read them.
A media frenzy Alaska hasn't seen since 2008. Journalists jockeying to get their hands on thousands of pages of e-mails sent by Sarah Palin to more that 50 top aides and officials in Alaska. The 250 pounds of documents contain e-mails from Palin's first two years as Governor and continue through September 2008, including the chaotic first weeks after John McCain thrust her into the national spotlight as his running mate.
As Governor, Palin was a frenetic BlackBerry user, firing off e-mails but using her personal Yahoo e-mail account rather than government accounts to conduct state business -- all in an effort to keep her communications private. News organizations like MSNBC.com first requested the e-mails in 2008, but prying them loose from state archives hasn't been easy.
BILL DEDMAN, MSNBC.COM INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: The state public records law calls for a ten day release of public records. We waited longer for these records than Sarah Palin was Governor, almost a thousand days.ISIKOFF: Among the e-mails, this exchange from Palin to an aide written a few weeks before she was picked by McCain, praising then-candidate Obama’s energy policy speech. “He gave a great speech this morning in Michigan – mentioned Alaska,” adding, “we need to take advantage of this and write a statement saying he's right on.” Then in a later e-mail telling an aide, “he did say ‘yay’ to our gas line. Pretty cool. Wrong candidate.” Palin later became one of Obama's fiercest critics on energy policy. Palin says the e-mails won't be a distraction.
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SARAH PALIN, ON FOX NEWS SUNDAY, JUNE 5: I'm sure people are going to capitalize on this opportunity to go through 25,000 e-mails and perhaps take things out of context. They'll never truly know what the context of each one of the e-mails was or each one of the issues were that I was working on that day.
ISIKOFF: The e-mails have lots of redactions, and so far, there are no bombshells, but they do show Palin's irritation with what she calls the “lamestream media.” Writing from the McCain campaign trail, she writes in one e-mail: “It drives me crazy to catch all the corrections.” And in an earlier e-mail, “I feel like I'm at a breaking point with hurtful gossip.” Lester?
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Press release by NBC
Submitted by ThisnThat on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 8:56am.
This non-news event is being brought to you by the bias-inducing sensational department of NBC news so that we can make innuendos and false statements about Palin; spread additional rumors about her intentions; and suggest devious motivations about her behavior in the months leading to her nomination of McCain's VP. We'll be repeating past rumors about her and her family; and we'll be inventing new findings and "deep meanings" found in the e-mails. We'll even do your thinking for you -- as usual -- by coming to conclusions that are repeated nightly by our newscasters. And any rumors we create will be repeated over and over again until we are successful at converting them into "truth" as we have done before. Believe us when we tell you -- there will be many, many Tina Fey moments before we are done.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
Excellent. You nailed what they are doing!
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 8:57am.
Since the MSM seems to scared/ terrified of a Palin run they must be convinced she would win. Maybe we ought to nominate her right now and be done with it and let the wailing begin.
Yeah, and in another press
Submitted by ThisnThat on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:08am.
Yeah, and in another press release, NBC News announced that they are not -- and will not -- ask for any e-mails, birth certificates, or college transcripts from obama. Nor will they question obama's truthful statements regarding his association with rev Wright's hate-filled rants against America or association with radical Bill Ayers. That's because this would be judged as racist attempts to smear obama's great accomplishments, and because NBC News is dedicated to maintaining its professional, non-judgmental approach to world-class, honest reporting.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
T, I'm still waiting for them
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:58am.
T, I'm still waiting for them to put out the call for volunteers to help them read the 2,000 page Obamacare law!
As you said, this is just an excuse to repeat the old false rumors.
The former governor, who was [accused of, rumored to, reportedly] ......
Correction :
Submitted by NL207 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:26am.
2,700 page Obamacare bill.
And If that Doesn't Work
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:13am.
The media can go the Dan Rather route and fabricate fake emails to spread all over the news, gossip, and comedy shows.
Palin's approval rating up 11% since April
Submitted by Red Jeep on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:17am.
"...her overall approval rating among a random sample of ADULTS has improved a net 11 points since the end of April. Her favorable rating among Republican and Republican-leaning independents is a solid 78%, which puts her at the top of the field." CNN/Opinion Research Poll.
CNN Poll?!?!? http://weaselzippers.us/2011/06/13/cnn-poll-palins-approval-rating-jumps...
LMAO at the MSM!
Palin is OK with me
Submitted by donsaliman on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:08am.
If this was Fox going over Obama's emails, Fox would be attacked as racist
If this was Fox going over Mrs. Obama's emails, the feminist would be all over Fox,
This is going against Palin, so it is OK with the liberals.
I guess being liberal is only for liberals, us conservatives can do no right and we have no rights like the liberals.
I sometimes have had enough of this, that the MSM can do this but I as an average conservative cannot on national TV have a chance to answer these Pr--, excuse me, I almost wrote some word that cannot get printed, so I will use one I can, idiots
Isikoff ever do a hard hitting expose' on any Demonrat?
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:11am.
They sent ANOTHER flotilla of investigators to Alaska, but not one of the joWHOREnalists could make the trek to Chi-town during the 2008 campaign to look into Oblunder.
No hard hitting Wright, Rezco, Ayers etc, etc interviews, no REQUEST to see his e-mails or school records nor Mooochelles etc, etc, etc bleepin' etc.
Shameful, you betcha.
The lamestream media will do
Submitted by jdhawk on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:17am.
The lamestream media will do anything to keep from talking about this adminstrations dismal record on any area that you care to name.
Hey, let's talk "summer of recovery." No, there isn't one - for the third summer in a row
Hey, let's talk foreign policy. No, we learned that we are now in a fourth war.
Hey, let's talk energy policy. No, the EPA is about to make policy that would raise our energy costs to heat and cool our homes by 2 to 3 times what it costs now.
Hey, let's talk about tax policy. Between duhbama care and the lifting of the Bush tax cuts in a year and half, tax rates will go as high as 68 percent of a wage earner! This is an outrageous over the top amount. But, this administration wants small businesses to hire?
Hey, let's talk about . . . .
Well, you get the idea.
Sac Bee
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:19am.
The Sacramento Bee had the best (or worst) liberal spin on "the story about nothing" of all: their headline on, I believe, Friday read: "Palin's E-Mails Show Her Obsessed with Image"*. Perfect example of carefully choosing words to imply a negativeness. This is the most insidious kind of bias of all.
*They've altered the headline in the archived story to read: "Palin emails show her efforts to monitor state business along with her image"
What annoyed me the most...
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 1:38pm.
...wasn't that the supposedly "big dog" newsies did this dirt digging, but rather one statement that represents the entire issue:
"On Saturday’s World News, however, John Berman trumpeted his big discovery proving Palin’s hypocrisy: “While these days Palin is criticizing parts of Michelle Obama’s national battle against obesity...she once e-mailed an aide asking for ‘low carb foods...just don’t want the kids to have too much sugar/white carb stuff.’” That should pretty much discredit her."
Right there is clearly demonstrated the entire purpose of this exercise in futility, despite ANY disavowals these biased, moronic, elitist, scumbags may make.
P.S. To World News - Palin wasn't trying to inflict HER values and ideas on the ENTIRE NATION like Michelle is. Palin was doing what ALL parents should be doing - taking responsibility for her children (you know, like they USED to???)...
So this bozo is annoyed that it took so long.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:18am.
But that BO took three years to manufacture his Birth Certificate, NO PROBLEM!
BC
Submitted by ozarkian on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 3:35pm.
About the time BO's 3 yrs and the birth certificate -- on the latest "only one Hawaii gives out," his Dad's home country is listed as Kenya, which did not come into being as a country until 2 yrs. after the year BO was supposedly born. And it has the term "African-American" on it, which was not in use at that time. So even after 3 yrs, he can't get it right.
Buncha kooks
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:19am.
NBC is getting just as bad as MSNBC.
According to what we've seen
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:50am.
According to what we've seen publicized so far, the more they dig, the better she looks and the worse they look.
Talk about being hoist on one's own petard!
The bombshell is there and
Submitted by ricklail on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 3:44pm.
The bombshell is there and they won't acknowledge it. She uses proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Then again maybe they don't know how to recognize those thing since most went to gubment skools.
Has anyone yet demanded
Submitted by Mazzi on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:50am.
Has anyone yet demanded Barney Frank, Chuckie Rangle, or San Fran Nan's personal emails? I can't believe that the press was able to get this stuff, but if they were able to, then I think that everyones should be free game!
Of course, Palin's concern about her "image" is much, much worse than the misuse, graft, corruption, thievery, prostitution and destruction of opponent's reputations, which surely would be in the emails of those three criminals.
Palin's emails
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:53am.
Hey, I just went through hers...boring! When do I get Weiner's emails with pictures and maybe even
Obama's transcripts/admission papers so that I can frame them with those of Al Gore and John Kerry. You remember them...the media touted them as superior intellects, while Bush (who had a Harvard MBA and was a jet fighter pilot...no dumb ones there; dummies are dead) was a Texas cowboy and moron. Then , somehow, Kerry's and Gore's college transcripts were leaked and lo and behold...about a "genteman's C" for overall GPA for both and one of them did not seem to have a major.
Alaska in the background
Submitted by spepper on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:08am.
Isikoff standing with his backside facing an Alaskan mountain range-- that picture itself tells another story-- of an agenda-driven network, and a (so-called) investigative journalist--
And we're talking EMAIL here-- um, last time I checked, in order to get copies of emails, you don't have to physically travel to their source........
Tell me, has the LSM ever
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:18am.
Tell me, has the LSM ever done something like this before? "Investigate" a former Governors' email the way they are doing to Sarah Palin's?
Besides all the missing documents from The Absentee President has any of these jokers asked former Senator Chris Dodd where all the documents are from the sweetheart deal he got from Countrywide for his mortgages? He was a Friend of Angelo after all and one of the people that had a hand in crashing the housing market. You would think there would be a story in his correspondence.
If the LSM drooled over every
Submitted by wolfemanic on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:36am.
If the LSM drooled over every one of Blagojevich's emails in such a manner I must have missed it.
Let us put this in context
Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:22am.
Maxine Waters sent bailout money to her husband's boss.
Anthony Weiner sexted underage girls.
John Edwards used campaign donations to give his mistress hush money.
Meanwhile, in more important news, Sarah Palin once thanked a Democrat for giving a shout out to Alaska.
Nice work, MSM. You deserve every bit of that dwindling audience.
Afraid of her honesty
Submitted by iveseenitall on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:33am.
Palin is honest, if nothing else. That's what the "liberals" are afraid of. If she were to run, even unsuccessfully, it would be one hell of a campaign. Obama would be even more damaged goods than he is now. Honesty and truth are two words the MSM and their lefty pals can not abide; they are scared silly by them.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal" (progressive)
The Vichy Press is discredited again.
Submitted by JLin on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:35am.
If they had put 1/10th the energy into investigating Obama, he would not be President today. It likely would be "President Hillary Clinton" though.... Can't decide if that would be a good tradeoff.
Lester Dolt
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:52am.
What a relief it was to hear Lester Dolt announce, "We have gone though the e-mails and it seems we were wrong about Mrs. Palin all this time. It seems she was a pretty good governor and is a wonderful wife and mother."
I'm sorry, he didn't say what? Oh............... "Never mind".
NBC
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:02am.
When is NBC going to go through Pelosi's e-mail? What about Rangle's? Reid's? Frank's? Is this the sort of people they(NBC) want in office? Crooks, cheats and traitors? Why? Is it what Soros wants? How long can they keep it up? Soros is bound to run out of money, sometime. He's paying out a heap of cash, just to keep the lame stream media on his payroll, not to mention the Congressional traitors in his pocket.
Barney Frank's emails????
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 4:19pm.
EEEwwwwww! Wearing a HAZMAT suit.
Williams
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:01am.
Where is Brian Williams in this very "news-worthy" event? He sends out Holt to do his dirty work. He ahs been gone all week, as Nbc goes futher down in the polls for fair and balanced news. Or maybe Williams is one of the thousands of volunteers going through the emails.
Although she (at this time)
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:20am.
Although she (at this time) is not running for President, Sarah Palin has been more thoroughly vetted than any other candidate in history.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
She has an ego and cares about Alaska, OMG, OMG
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:33am.
Many, many, many trips to Alaska and looking around FOR ANYTHING on Palin.
How many trips to Chi-town, Bueller, Bueller ANYONE?
Imagine INDEED as someone posted earlier is this were "Faux noise" and they asked all the "tea baggers" to help them look through Obamabi's e-mails.
The "card" would still be played and THE FN PRESSES WOULD HAVE STOPPED...
The "right wing racists are trying to bring down a President"..................................................
This is truly sick...
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 12:12pm.
This is truly sick, but typically liberal.
Five News Items of Less
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 2:09pm.
Five News Items of Less Importance than Sarah Palin's E-mails courtesy of the National Review Online:
China is about to launch its first aircraft carrier.
A RAND nuclear expert calculates that within two months, Iran will have enough weapons-grade uranium to manufacture a nuclear weapon.
An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that if the number of people looking for work today were the same as the number when President Obama took office, the reported unemployment rate for May would be 11 percent rather than 9.1 percent.
Hearings are beginning in the House on allegations that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms knowingly allowed criminal suspects to purchase weapons and and smuggle them into Mexico for Mexican drug cartels.
The president is creating yet another commission — this time to cut government waste.
Thank you LSM for showing your true colors day in and day out.
Ohh there is a bomshell in here
Submitted by CSM on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 2:12pm.
There is a bombshell in these emails. It is just that the MSM would rather fold their tent and go home rather then admit it.
The bombshell, to them, is that Sarah Palin is a decent, honest, family loving person who also happened to be a very good governor to boot. Yes, I know she left office early.
Sarah Palin trying to get her kids to eat right is not in the same league as trying to make the entire nation eat as Mrs O would like to force you to do. Oh the hypocrisy!!
Find and read the email she wrote to her family written before Trig was born. If anyone thinks that this email was written by someone who does not care for her family needs their head examined. I happen to think everyone in the MSM does need this treatment.
I don't know if Sarah will run for President or not. I kinda wish she would but of course the decision is up to her and her family.And I am sure she will make the correct decision based on these factors.
authenticity
Submitted by ozarkian on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 3:51pm.
People who invent a false persona for themselves and then live their lives inside that persona are threatened most by one type of person -- the one who is authentic. It infuriates them that a person can dare to expose her real self while they, themselves, must always live in fear of being found out and judged not "good enough."
Above all, Pain is authentic.
The Mainstream media and Palin
Submitted by grumpyoldb on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 4:59pm.
These people must be scared half to death of Sarah Palin to constantly attack her when she isn't even a candidate... (yet).... I hope she runs for President. If she scares liberals this bad, I'll vote for her...
Lester, a Don Lemon wanna-be, should review the emails...
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:43pm.
...that Joe Scarbourough sent before and after the mysterious death of his Congressional office assistant - Lori Klausutis. This will reveal an interesting story. See for yourself at:
1. http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Joe%20Scarborough
2. http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html
3. http://flyingsnail.com/Dahbud/firejoescarborough.html
jimigyanka
Submitted by CSM on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 8:49am.
Those links provided some very interesting reading on good ol Joe. I had no idea about any of that. Along with millions of others it seems. Lets read his emails on this. Now that would be interesting.
Thank You for the info!!