WaPo, NYT Solicit Help From Readers to Examine Palin E-mail Archive
Both the Washington Post and the New York Times are looking for readers to help them comb through every jot and tittle of Sarah Palin's official gubernnatorial e-mail correspondence.
I guess that's a few more jobs the Obama administration can claim credit for, especially since it indirectly amounts to free oppo research for the 2012 Obama campaign.
See a related post by my colleague Clay Waters over at TimesWatch here.
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An illustration of liberal
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:35pm.
An illustration of liberal desperation.
Absolutely
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:30pm.
It's The Great WaPo Fishing Expedition.
Anything to bump Weiner-gate out of the headlines.
One thing is for sure: anything labeled "Palin" sells newspapers.
If only they had....
Submitted by Forbus on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:39pm.
10% of the curiosity now directed toward Palin... three years ago concerning BO's past. But then again...it's the NYT and WP.
If she runs, Sarah Palin can
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:38pm.
If she runs, Sarah Palin can correctly be described as the most vetted presidential candidate of all time.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:35pm.
And Howard Kurtz no longer has an argument about too much Weiner-gate coverage. This kind of group-participatory reseach solicitation takes the cake.
Not only the most vetted, Stinker.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:16pm.
She will also be the bravest woman that I know!
My hat is off to the toughest woman I have ever seen in the public arena.
Here's to you, Sarah!
Well. . . .
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:40pm.
They need to find something to divert attention away from Wienergate.
The wrong e-mails
Submitted by deadeyedan on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:42pm.
Remember how much the NYT and WaPo urged readers to go through the ClimateGate e-mails? Oh, that's right - not at all. Their readers might have found out that man-made global warming is a gigantic fraud - how awful.
ClimateGate - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia Universty know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution - deadeyedan
This is unprecedented in the history of "journalism."
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:42pm.
BTW, WaPo has an online form at that link where you leave your comment on why you should be picked to participate as a team member for GetSarah.
I don't think I'll be picked.
Yet they will tell you
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:45pm.
Yet they will tell you without batting an eye that they are unbiased, fair and not out to get anybody.
Oh yeah,...
Submitted by needle on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:57pm.
...and I imagine they are still trying to track down that hacker who upset Weiner's applecart.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Don't the newspeople from
Submitted by Carl Kolchak on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:40pm.
Don't the newspeople from these newspapers build themselves up as being awesome "elites"? If they're such awesome elitists, why do they need help from others to do their detective work for them? I don't know about the rest of you, but I think a Pulitzer Prize will probably be awarded to these great and awesome elitists who work at the NYT or "Washington Post" in researching these emails, and everybody knows what a prestigous and impressive award a Pulitzer Prize is.
If only they gave the same
Submitted by buddyc on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 3:46pm.
If only they gave the same scrutiny to bill clinton's "bimbo" allegations or Rep Weiner's victims or Obama's relationship with Resko and Ayers and Wright and Edwards' dealings with Hunter.
But hey, they did work hard destroying Ryan (Obama's senate opposition) and they really got good info on Newt's purchase of jewelry at Tiffany's.
Or Obamacare!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:20pm.
How about if they just R-E-A-D the bill before it is passed? How about in the many months after it did pass?
Yeah, it's way more important to catch a misspelling by Governor Palin so they can prove what a dunce she really is.
If they find no spelling
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:36pm.
If they find no spelling mistakes (typos), they will just say "Palin obviously used Spell Check"
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
LOL
Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:43am.
and if they can't pin that on her, they will undoubtedly try to claim that if you read certain emails backwards, you will see coded messages from satan. Or they'll find secret code words, they'll claim that "oil" means "screw the poor" and "economic growth" means "my daughter is pregnant and i'm going to pretend it's mine."
Of course Al Sharpton and
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:47am.
Of course Al Sharpton and those like him will find racist code words, of course.
Digging into Palin's vs Weiner's email's ??
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:04pm.
Wow - Certainly would seem that if they wanted to dig thru anybody's emails, in the moment, it would be Anthony Weiner's.
Now, one has to wonder what the reaction (you listening here Howie Kurtz?) would be from the national MSM, if a conservative leaning newspaper, or cable news organization put out such a request on a Democrat Party candidate -- perhaps Mr O, himself.
(;~/ gary
I can imagine
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:15pm.
what they mean by "contextualize" the e-mails.
If Palin survives this,
Submitted by needle on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:18pm.
...she will be invulnerable.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
I should think the outcome is obvious ...
Submitted by NL207 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:22pm.
Palin will survive this and retain roughly the same level of support she has now. The NYT and WaPo will further damage their own credibility with this and their readership will continue to decline. The best part of all : these impotent lefties will continue to waste their ammunition where it can do no further good while the dark horse Cain continues to attract support. By the time these wretches realize the threat to boy Obama, it will be too late for them to have any meaningful effect on the outcome.
Perhaps....
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:22pm.
They could just make something up????
The Liberal press would just
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:28pm.
The Liberal press would just make up stuff about Sarah Palin? /sarcasm off
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Best available/ Media be damned
Submitted by vote24 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:43pm.
This is where we make a stand. If we allow Palin to be labaled as unelectable because of the left wing media attacks. Then what good is the system as it stands. I feel Palin is the best candidate to be President in 2012. But plain and simple, if the media has a hand, a big hand, any hand in choosing it's opposition's candidates, then the game is over. So I will stand and fight one last time for the best available candidate. After this we take 'em down.
This is one of the most
Submitted by seanrobins on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:43pm.
This is one of the most ghastly disgusting things I've seen from these pathetic pseudo-journalists in a long time.
sean robins
At this point...
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:46pm.
Wouldn't the country be better served by a detailed analysis of Barack Obama's email history? Has anyone put it a request for all of his correspondence?
emails be damned
Submitted by ThisnThat on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:35pm.
How about a look at obama's college records? Wapo? NYT? Too tough for you? Privacy concerns on your part? Too afraid it's "racist"?
Instead, they go after a private citizen. looking at emails that are years old and have no relevance to current national interests. These scumbags are the worst of the worst.
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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
TnT - Thanks for that observation.
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:38pm.
I didn't connect those two dots... Wow! What a great counter-argument!
- Grump :o)
WaPo & NYT reduced to blogs
Submitted by MoYo on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 4:53pm.
Since participatory journalism cannot be qualified by any barometer as the practice of professional journalism, it stands to reason that these media outlets are now reduced from newspapers to forums and blogs. And perhaps they didn't get the memo that the court no longer accepts shield laws as protection for bloggers and forum participants.
Since I don't read either the "NY Slimes" or the...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:16pm.
"Washington Compost", I guess as a "non-reader" I will be of no help in digging up dirt for them. How about some enterprising soul investigating the homosexual sex life of the owner of the "Slimes"? BTW, doesn't this tell us what they think about their readers, that they think they would be all too willing to do their dirty work for them?
I thought Sarah Palin was Irrelevant?
Submitted by iamsaved on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:21pm.
Journalism at its best. The NYT and WAPO have become what they used to accuse the tabloids of being - yellow journalists.
May these entities continue to lose subscriptions.
So, not only are they big libs,but,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:26pm.
They are even too damn lazy to do the work to bring the hits on her in the first place! AND theyre too damn cheap to even PAY their staff, or independent contractors to do the "research" for them! Wow, talk about liberal inefficiency!
I wonder if...
Submitted by All American on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:32pm.
They'll discover that she HAS a birth certificate ???
Maybe they'll find her emails
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:40pm.
Maybe they'll find her emails to her husband on how to fake a pregnancy or the emails to Jared Lochner instructing him on how to perform that shooting in Arizona.
What other nonsense has Palin been blamed for again?
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On the other hand...
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 5:44pm.
This is dangerous ground the NYT and WaPo are entering. What if just one of the inquisitors, err volunteer investigators, latches onto or tries to bury one of Sarah’s personal E-mails sent from a non-Alaska owned gizmo in their report. Make a long story short. “It’s Jail Time Baby!”
And here’s a good conspiracy theory: What if the WP and NYT are trying to distance themselves from reviewing Sarah’s personal E-mails by bundling them in with the official E-Mails… The poor schmuk who fall for this scam will be left holding the bag… you can bet these sleazy outfit’s already have their legal “i’s and t’s” dotted and crossed.
- Grump
How Low Can You Go??!!
Submitted by cobokat on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:12pm.
Just AMAZING! Here we have someone in the WH that we really know nothing about and if we ask we're called silly-stupid and sometimes racist. Now we have two major newspapers basically investigating a private citizen after she's left office. Here we have three wars going and four if you count the secret Yemen war, unemployment, high gas, high food prices and the idiots at the WaPost and NYT are worried about Sarah Palin. When will the American people truly stand up and say enough is enough-this corrupt administration must be voted out!
Let's have a race
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:23pm.
The first one to find dirt on a polititian wins. They go after the Republicans and we go after the Democrats. That should shut down the internet! READY- SET--GO!
RANGLE, Clinton, Weiner,
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:25pm.
RANGLE, Clinton, Weiner, Edwards, I WON.
Too many possible legal issues
Submitted by Rukus on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 6:32pm.
I don't see this going very far, more like a shot over Sarah's bow. But it won't work, hell, Bachmans campaign manager, Ed Rollin's is already bad mouthing Sarah (and he has tasted his own shoe a few times) and it will just roll off her back as everything does. I swear! Nothing phases this woman, you go Sarah!!
"especially since it
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:18pm.
"especially since it indirectly amounts to free oppo research for the 2012 Obama campaign."
At least you admit that's what reading her emails will amount to.
Why not dig into the .......
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 8:55pm.
myterious death of Joe Scarborough's assistant - Lori Klausutis? Lots to uncover there! See for yourself: http://flyingsnail.com/Dahbud/firejoescarborough.html
An indictment on the Times
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:25pm.
Here, we have the alleged paper of record, desparately begging lay contributors to do what their journalists can't, RESEARCH.
Has the Old Yellow Lady now thrown out the invitation "We're plum out of initiative. Could you readers tickle yourselves for awhile?"
I Am Shocked!
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 9:48pm.
Two Pinko institutions asking for help with dirty tricks from fellow Pinkos. Shocking! (not)
I find the description of "Pinko" by Wikipedia to be most enlightening. It also exemplifies the classic phrase "what's old is new". The Progressives of today are the American societal killers of yesteryear but with the Media in its backpocket, a couple generations of indoctrinating youth to their propaganda, and the internet at its rabble-rousing disposal:
A private citizen and FORMER
Submitted by billb on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:22am.
A private citizen and FORMER governor are being investigated by the press and it's readers, while the president of the USA is reducing the country to 3rd world status, gets to play golf.
What An Opportunity!
Submitted by ItchyZ on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:53am.
Why, this is such a noble undertaking that I think we, as conservatives, should help in this endeavor. In fact, I think we should submit EVERY email to NYT and WaPo because you never know what nefarious code that wascally Sarah Palin might put in her email. That way, we're sure to not miss anything. Come on, roll up your sleeves and get to work.
Anyone read them backwards
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 8:09am.
Yet?
After Four YEARS of preaching Sarah's an idiot and a moron,
Submitted by daveinboca on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:59am.
these two financially-failing rags now admit they need to outsource their investigative reporting.
It's another attempt to keep the nation's eyes off Obungler and the wiener man in the House----the creepy little queen from Queens.
Oh yeah, and The WaPo and NYT are mobilizing their lynch mob of libtard loons, but it seems that 90% of the comments on their sites requesting help accuse them of shoddy to non-existent ethics, morals, and journalistic savvy.
The other 10% are convinced that that 90% are RNC plants and conspirators from the far right...! Now I know that Ann Coulter is right when she calls liberalism a mental illness...!
If it could happen to Joe the
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 9:39am.
If it could happen to Joe the Plumber, it could happen to you, too.
NYT Financials
Submitted by jfshaughnessy on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 12:25pm.
Perhaps Palin should ask the NYT shareholders to go through that organization’s financial statements and produce proof that there is any hope of that newspaper even publishing beyond the next 5-6 years.