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AP/Brian Wallace
Juneau resident Barb Belknap, a volunteer reader for msnbc.com, reads a Palin email message on Friday in Juneau. Analysts for Crivella West work in the background, returning the 24,000 pages of emails to electronic form.
The Twitter feed of the company that put online 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails for msnbc.com was hacked over the weekend, with vandals posting a series of pro-Palin and anti-Obama messages.
Among the tweets:
- Emails: Gov. Palin a Hard-Working Public Servant
- Email Witch-hunt Backfires
- Weiner's America Or Palin's America - That Is The 2012 Choice
"It appears that there is a 'hole' in one of the applications (we think Facebook) that links to Twitter," Art Crivella, founder and CEO of the company, Crivella West, told msnbc.com Sunday evening. "We've disabled them and mopped up the bile and changed all the passwords."
The searchable online archive of emails was not affected.
Crivella West, a Pittsburgh company that analyzes documents in some of the largest legal cases and works with both political parties, had first offered its services for free to the state of Alaska, after officials there said in 2008 they were overwhelmed by records requests and would require payment of $15 million by any citizen or journalist seeking the records. After the state did not reply to the company's offer, msnbc.com and the company agreed to put online a free public archive of the records once the state released them.
The records include 24,000 pages of emails released Friday by the state of Alaska from part of Palin's brief tenure as governor. The records had been requested by msnbc.com and other news organizations in September 2008, just after Palin was named as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, and after it became known that Palin and her staff used private Yahoo email accounts to keep some of their discussions of public business off of the government computers, where they would be subject to public records requests and subpoenas. When emails were sent or received by someone using a government account, they did become accessible. A heavily redacted set of the documents, with more than 2,000 pages excluded entirely and many other portions blanked out, was handed out, on paper, by Palin's successor.
Crivella staff on Friday scanned in the documents and got the full archive online for msnbc.com in just 12 hours, in half the time of other news organizations. The archive is hosted by msnbc.com and co-sponsored by Mother Jones magazine, which also had requested the documents in 2008, and the investigative newsroom Pro Publica.
The company was featured in news reports about the email release, and Crivella was openly critical of the decision by Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (the former oil-and-gas lobbyist who was Sarah Palin's lieutenant governor) to release the documents in 250 pounds of paper, despite state law requiring electronic release of electronic records. In an article Friday in The Juneau Empire, Crivella said, "We’re dealing with it here like we were in 1950, with all these banker’s boxes of paper. You have to go out of your way to do this. It would be like me paying my taxes in pennies — I know it’s legal tender, but I have to go out of my way to do it."
Overnight Saturday and into Sunday, odd messages flowed from Crivella West's Twitter account, which previously had been non-political.
- Obama's Energy Policies to Drive Electricity Rates up 40 to 60%
- Editor-In-Chief of Reason Magazine: 'Scrutinize Obama, Not Palin'
- Even the Washington Post Concedes The E-Mails "Underscore Palin's Role as a Sincere Budget Cutter"
Several Alaskans following the Palin story noticed the tweets and raised an alarm.
You can see these tweets at PoliticsUSA, a liberal political site that seems to have been the first with the news. Its commentary: "It looks like some Palin supporters, you know the same people who wanted the teenager who hacked Sarah Palin’s email account in 2008 locked up for life, don’t understand the meaning of the word hypocrite."
Crivella told msnbc.com that he wouldn't exactly call it a sophisticated hack. "It appears that in this case 'hacking' means sending out spam tweets pretending to be us. I think real hackers might be offended."
The online archive of emails was not affected. "We've checked everything and all of our systems are perfect and we're totally OK," Crivella said.
Crivella said he wouldn't let the vandalism spoil the good experience of restoring the electronic records to an electronic archive for the public. His staff worked in the city-owned Centennial Hall convention center in Juneau, alongside msnbc.com reporters and members of the public who volunteered to read the public records for insights into their former governor, who might become a presidential candidate in 2012. The reading went on, steadily and quietly, through Friday and Saturday, with nuggets of information posted on our live blog.
"I was really proud of our whole team on this assigment," Crivella said. "I told my group that they conducted themselves in a highly professional manner. I was very impressed with the people of Alaska - their hard work looking at documents, how smart they all were and how committed they each were to examing their own public records and the conduct of the people who represent them. More than anything I and my team contributed - I was most proud to be there with the people of Alaska.
"I'm not going to let some foul mouthed 'twit' spoil what I've experienced this week - it was great!"
Here's more of msnbc.com's coverage of the Palin emails:
- Main story
- Live blog of glimpses of character found in the emails
- List of withheld documents (PDF file)
- Online archive of emails hosted by msnbc.com
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What a lame story.
Help stop SPAM.
No foolin', keeter. Where are all the vaunted MSNBC moderators when this stuff is going on?
fitting to a lame governor
Palin supporters are loyal and vindictive .. outraged that any one may see something in the E mails that could put Sarah in a bad light ... being honesty and openminded is not a requirement to be a Palin fan .. stupid and arrogent is acceptable
Emails aren't necessary to show Palin in a bad light. All you need is a few million to get her to give a speech.
I think this is a great idea. When do we get to see Mr. Obama's emails and everyone else's for that matter? If it's ok to pick on Governor Palin, then it should be ok to look at all of the emails from everyone else's campaign. Otherwise it would be a double standard, and would not be fair to the ladies.
So MSNBC, what happened to this Palin email story? When the emails first came out, there were headlines all about Palin and the emails. Now that they are out and no one can find any dirt on Palin and in fact the emails show her in a good light, this is a non story. I'm no fan of Palin and I certainly don't want her to be president but this is a clear case of media bias. MSNBC, you should be ashamed. You guys are worse than FOX.
I think the kid that is in PRISON now is one of the saddest stories of the damage Sarah Palin does. He guessed a password. That's all he did and he's in prison now because her crazy supporters wanted to hurt him as much as they could. That is a story that should be covered more.
Jemma,
Palin had nothing to do with this. Think about it. He Hacked into a standing governors email account. He said he was Palin and asked Yahoo to reset his password so he could go into a private state governors account. She was the highest ranking state employee. She was one of 51 governors in the country. What if your state governors' email was hacked by some kid for political reasons? Would you want your state to just say "Aw, he's just a kid. Let him go."? He should have gotten MORE than 1 year in jail.
Last Friday, MSNBC had 4 Palin Stories. Today nothing. Where is the smoking gun? Objective analysis stated the emails demonstrated "Palin was a hard working governor" and nothing more.
I live in Illinois and we have one governor in prison, one governor about to go to prison. and an incumbent that is worse than the first two.
I wish Palin would move to Illinois and become our governor.
LOL
What about the fact she broke the law like your illinois gov did when they used unoffical emails to do goverment business. This is how they tried to hide the guilt. So if she had nothing to hid why did she use nonoffical emails to do business
Seems to me anyone could have hacked this site and put in those comments. Palin supporter or not her followers will get the blame. This is too easy to be true and anything on the net today should be taken with a grain of salt.
"Andrea-3601919 What a lame story."
Only if you're a Palin fan. otherwise, this just typifies what Palin would bring this country if she ever held elected office again.
Ben: If you want to see the e-mails of the President of the United States or a United States Senator, simply complete a Freedom of Information Act request. Nothing is preventing you from doing that. The story was that Governor Palin's adminstration was attempting to not fulfill a legitimate request for information by initially stating the requesting person had to pay an outrageous sum of money. When they realized how "lame" the excuse was, they settled into preparing the information and distributing it.
I live in Iowa, if she comes to Illinois, KEEP HER OUT OF IOWA! Illinois has been in a mess lately, Blagojevich is nuts.
even ashton and demi kutcher think the left wing mslsd media is repulsive for this creepy e-mail thing. the leftist ship is going down. mslsd is a left wing political organization. it is not a legit news source. the ratings reflect that. if you want real news, look to the alternative media that is not run by george soros.
i guess i would like to know why palin supporters have to hack everything online about the idiot woman. do they know she's an idiot? they must because they alway's try to change the truth. funny thing is they keep getting caught doing it and then they get bad press for her and themselves. just show's how stupid they all are.
Dirp,
I'm sure they're going to share everything with us. They will call it all "state secrets" and clam up. Anybody here want to get on the no fly list with me?
The witch hunt failed.
Did anyone notice from the article that Obama's enegy policies are expected to up energy prices another 40-60%?
That should make the wrong happy.
That would be from the hacked twitter account. Just about as factual as Palin's version of American history.
So...in order to show SP committed no crimes, her followers COMMIT A CRIME to get the message out? Could they not tweet their own message in their own Twitter account?
Do they not understand that the released emails are from legal requests that are years old?
exactly where in the story does it say she or her 'followers' commited a crime? so are all the emails being published in this media or just the ones that are cut and pasted to show a certain narrow political view point? Publish all or don't publish any of them so we can get a true picture of what is going on and not some one persons slant on things.
you don't think hacking is a crime?
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"It appears that in this case 'hacking' means sending out spam tweets pretending to be us.
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if it is a crime then where is the legal response to this 'hack' or 'spam tweets'?
Yeah, not a crime I don't think. The word "hack" gets thrown around a lot in the wrong places. This is just a case of amatuers spamming a Twitter feed. The few 'internet laws' that exist probably don't cover this kind of spam.
Russ-9, you ask whether the emails are all being published. Indeed they are. Check the link in the article to the full archive. (By all, of course, I'm not including the more than 2,000 pages withheld by the governor's office. But what was released has all been provided online, in context.)
True, all 24,000 emails have been completely censored, mostly blackened out and completely omitted by the Palin conservative and legal branch before being turned over to msnbc. The good news being that it only took them 956 days to sit down together and peruse each email and decide what the people had the right to see and what to completely black out or destroy at the tone of more than a day per email per line.
Reply to Russ-9: "...so are all the emails being published in this media or just the ones that are cut and pasted to show a certain narrow political view point?"
Here's an example. A pro-Palin person on Twitter who calls him/herself "RuBegonia" posted this yesterday: For 6 hours Sniffed thru #palinemails
When you go to the link provided, you can read RuBegonia's "move along nothing to see here" opinion, and there's another link to his/her list of Palin emails found through Crivella West's search engine using "ethics" as the topic. It is called "a small sampling".
What it really is, is a cherry picked list of 16 pro-Palin "positive" emails showing how "ethical" the Palin administration was -- out of a total of 50 emails with "ethics" mentioned somewhere in the message.
Problem is, at least 10 other emails showed some questionable activities/discussions between Palin and her staff; I stopped counting after reviewing 35 emails out of the 50.
Does that answer the part of your question dealing with "a certain narrow political view point?"
Karen, I see no link that you provided, But better yet, why don't you go and read all of the emails yourself, then you can cherry pick anything you believe to be illegal and post it here.
Personally, I don't understand why you have your panties in a bunch over someone who is not running for any office. Why don't you see if you can find some dirt on Cain?
I don't see any proof that Palin or any of her "followers" did this "hacking". It very well could've been anti-Pain person(s) trying to stir up trouble. Even if it was a pro-Palin person, I don't understand how anyone can say "Well look what those Palin people are doing! It's a crime!" Sheesh.
Regardless of the intent of anyone reading the public domain emails Palin used while in office as Alaska governor, the fact remains is this isn't a witch-hunt but merely the culmination of several years of delays by Palin to use the legal system to deny the public access to public records as long as possible. Whether people find "dirt" or anything else is completely irrelevant.
OK so how many of the emails that showed her doing her job correctly are being published?
shouldn't they all illustrate that, russ?
it depends on how you selectively publish parts of emails. as i stated in another comment, publish all or do not publish any. I would trust the ability of the majority of people to glean what they need from all the emails and not be spoon fed by someone' political agenda in a selective manner.
obviously missing my point...
echo82 below you find direct comments taken from an online blog site clearly showing you as a Palin supporter.
".. don't think hacking is a crime.. "
"obviously missing my point..."
"Has Palin come out to condemn this crime?"
"why do you read it then?"
journalism and statistics are not unbiased facts, but selective adding and deleting of information to reflect ones political, religious, economic, social, etc point of view.
Regardless of the content of the messages, it is fairly obvious that Governor Palin deliberately used a group of yahoo accounts instead of her state email address as a deliberate attempt to circumvent open records laws.
russ--good attempt but not gonna work. Palin's words and actions speak for themselves, with or without editing.
And we are all awaiting the AK Supreme Court to rule on the administration use of government paid for private accounts as "public" or "private" domain. ANY device or service paid for by government becomes the property of that government and all use of that government device, whether for public or private use, becomes public property and NOTHING should have been redacted in any of the released emails and NO correspondence should have been withheld under the Freedom of Information act. The same goes for an individual working for a private business who has a company paid for device or service.....any use of that device or service becomes the property of that company.
ECHO
"with or without editing"
I'm not going to read 2000 pages of emails...but WE ALL KNOW that if there were any real dirt found anywhere in those emails...it would be all over the liberal news outlets.
Fact is there aren't any stories being run on it, because they simply found nothing.
Maxwells---- and? your point? Is it ok to use personal phone/email when legislating so as to avoid scrutiny? I'm just curious why it took so very long to release these emails. I have better things to do than read the emails of a mediocre governor. But it is curious......
She didn't avoid scrutiny did she?
and my point is the scrutiny didn't uncover anything interesting.
It was a lot to do about nothing.
By using personal accounts to conduct public business, yes, absolutely she avoided scrutiny. Palin is boring, but if she wants to continue being in the public arena she gets all that comes with it.
echo:
I would think she did not want these emails out for the simple reason the media outlets are looking for anything to hang her with. Real or contrived. She is one of the most down to earth people I have ever seen and the media elite can't stand it that she gets this much attention.
So she knew before she was selected to be VP the media wanted her emails
You should talk to some Alaskans and hear what they think of her. If she doesn't have anything to hide, why not release them? And why use private accounts to conduct public business? If she wants to be in the spotlight she is open to scrutiny. P.S. she is part of "the media" by contributing at Fox.
"talk to some alaskans"
Come on...I could talk to some people from anywhere, and get every opinion I want to get.
I could talk to people in Wisconsin and "prove" their governor is both a saint and a demon.
Ditto for Obama, Palin, Weiner, etc. etc. etc.
It seems to me that the state of Alaska should be not just requesting, but demanding a complete investigation on the entire state offices and how they conduct business in such shady manners. What this told me is that the Governor's office is being manipulated from within ranks and the public has absolutely no clue as to what is going on in it's own state building because of these shady practices. Who is behind all this coverup as it sure wasn't the Palins. No wonder Sarah Palin chose to leave her job.
Russ, the emails are there for you ro read. The funny thing about the wrong is that they assume guilt before they have a clue. Isn't that just the opposite of being American?
Maybe if you think it was a little long in coming but maybe you can try to submit 24000 of your past emails and see how long that takes you. Then maybe you will have a clue as to the size of the task.
BTW, there is no proof as of yet as to who hacked the twits. Anyone could have done it.
Another example of what these misguided and dangerous followers will do to promote someone who is clearly an imposter.
the only danger I see being done is to someone like you who has a phobia for anyone you disagree with. there is a lot of palinphobia going around for no other reason than she doesn't follow someone else's group think on women and other minorities.
Russ, Dont think so anybody's afraid of Palin. She's a nobody. She'll be gone soon.
I dont have a phobia of anyone I disagree with. In fact I rather like Mitt Romney and Boehner is growing on me.
I do have a phobia of idiots. Not afraid of Palin - not disgusted by her - I dont hate her - I dont wish her any ill will. But I do laugh at her... a lot.
Russ,
The only phobia is that of having a true idiot for president (for the second time, I might add). A valid phobia when one realizes the mechanics of presidential elections.
no one's scared of palin cause of her stance on issues, it's her lack of intelligence and yours that scare us. no one as dumb as her should run anything. i think even she knew that and quit her job as governor.
@MAN-GUN
The media doesn't foam at the mouth over a nobody.
If you want her to go away, stop obsessing over her and she will fade away.
The left gives that women more free publicity than she could ever afford on her own
HATR_HURTER
"no one's scared of palin cause of her stance on issues, it's her lack of intelligence and yours that scare us. no one as dumb as her should run anything. i think even she knew that and quit her job as governor."
Lack of intelligence? Have you read your own comment?
if you read the story one finds out that someone hacked into the system, in other words they do not know who nor do they have proof that it was a sarah palin backer, but!!!!! the headline screams otherwise. where is the proof, read the article and you will find that it was some left wing blog/web site that claimed this. so much for their professionalism.
pappy
If they laid the proof at your feet you still wouldn't accept it so, we'll just put you down as one of the intellectuals that support Sarah Palin. You're probably following her bus tour so you can brush up on your history.
Uh, did you actually read the article?
If they are posting pro-Palin stuff, it is a pretty fair assumption that they are, in fact, Palin supporters.
BTW, just curious: How long have you been registered here under this monicker?
wouldn't be the first time someone in the targeted party used this kind of tactic to smear the other party. Why post such obvious 'stuff' if it pointed back at you? No I am not a Palin supporter. I think she would make a terrible president, but I also said the same about our current president. Neither one had any real political or real life experience to be selected for the job. So far I have been proven correct in one of my assumptions and really don't want to see the other fulfilled too.
Uh, yeah, russ, happens all the time. But, just in case, maybe you could provide us with some examples.
JC from IA
"Uh, did you actually read the article?
If they are posting pro-Palin stuff, it is a pretty fair assumption that they are, in fact, Palin supporters.
BTW, just curious: How long have you been registered here under this monicker?"
Maybe you are unfamiliar with the term "bait and switch." The wrong have already tried this so many times that it is very possible that they figured this would be worth a try as well, while getting the haters to believe it was Palin supporters.
OH, Jesus, Bob, did you even bother to read the examples in the article? These faked posts were every bit as clever as those trying to re-write history on Widipedia, which is to say: "Not at all."
If this was some kind of super-secret double-cross, don't you think they would have at least tried to tie themselves more closely to Palin in what they wrote?
GMAFB. Give us all one.
I wish Palin & all her storylines would fade into the sunset. What a wonderful world it would be!
i hope she stays forever, she's the gift that keeps on giving for the democratic party. of course we'll have to put up with her supporters but that's a small price to pay to win elections.
Has Palin come out to condemn this crime?
I sincerely doubt that will ever happen. One o' them blood-libel deals, I'm sure.
no payday in it for her....well, it is more publicity...and that brings more $
That would be how a responsible person would act; so she probably won't.
This underhanded crap is, in my experience, typical of ultra right GOP candidates and their supporters. And, it drags the entire political process down to the lowest possible common denominator.
If you read some of the speeches and articles by people like Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin you will find intelligent discourse unlike what you hear from any politico today regardless of party.
Wow, these people are whacked, aren't they?
I wonder if any of them have carved "Sarah" into their foreheads with dull objects.
Hate to say it ... but this is a witch hunt. The hackers are in the right actually.
MSDNC just got Palined again. If you will quit going after her and ignore her completely she will finally go away. But noooooo, they are up her butt looking for the slightest hint of a hemorrhoid so they can pronounce to the world which cream she used on it. They have lost all sense of objectivity and common sense. Palin derangement syndrome lives on as long as these idiots keep living by Herman Melville's words.
“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee”
SP would have faded into nothingness by now if it wasn't for the hate fueled quest to destroy her. But since they have lost their objectivity they can no longer see that they are actually keeping her relevant and actually helping her prosper. Please crawl out of her ass and move on to another story so she will finally go away.
"SP would have faded into nothingness by now . . ." had it not been for her book-signing tour, her paid position with a news organization, her TV series, her current bus tour, the limited-release movie about her that's coming out next month . . . . When she decides to hide in her $1M+ Arizona abode and pull a Greta "I Want to Be Alone" Garbo act, I'm sure the media will be happy to oblige.
After this week's effort to amend Paul Revere's bio on Wikipedia to highlight his bell-ringin' and British-warnin' activities, is anyone surprised by this news? But who am I to question the average mentality of someone's Booster Club members?
Palin lover-- After he was captured he warned the British, but that isn't what your darling said. She said that he rode through the streets warning the British, ringing those bells and shooting his gun. He had been captured, then the British heard the church bells and rifle shots and they let him go. Or are you rewriting history like your darling Palin has done many a time. Let's hear her explain how she could see Russia from her house in Wasilla. Bet when she gets to Arizona she will claim she can see Mexico City from her porch.
Failure dude or chick or whatever you are,
What do you have against MSNBC? Does the truth scare you that much? Did mommy have to come into your room at night and tell you there were no monsters under your bed? You are a little deranged and obviously need some help. Either go see a psyche or get yourself a medical marijuana script.
You just don't get it do you? After suffering the last idiot president (Bush) we certainly do not want another idiot in that office. We may never heal ourselves from the last idiot.
keeter:
Just at the start of the Civil War, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem of Paul Revere's Ride to juice up the war effort for the Union Army.
The book's poem is read by just about every school kid in America. On the front cover is a picture painted by Monica Vachula who was known to have painted pictures true to life after a lot of research.
The painting depicts Paul Revere holding a school bell in one hand while riding to warn of the British's attempt to locate the Rebel leaders. Or better known as his "midnight ride". I read that book and have had the impression most of my long life that Paul Revere rang a bell on his ride to wake up the good people to fight the British troops. If I were mistaken, as maybe most of America were that he had no bell, then pictorial histories can not be relied upon to give factual data. Sight is a thousand words put into a moment's time frame.
Just another example of wasted talent, use that talent to help America ,find out where some large companies
are hiding untaxed billions of dollars and notify the I.R.S and collect cash rewards.
companies large or small do not pay taxes, never have and never will. It is the consumer that pays the taxes. The companies only pass that payment on to the government. So it is not in their interests not to pay taxes but to keep their product price low enough to compete against companies in other countries that subsidize their product prices to the US market. What you should really be against is individuals who don't pay their taxes, rich or poor or hollywood. With a no-deduction flat tax system tied to a balanced budget law for congress we could once again get back to being the most productive country in history. Sorry I know this doesn't belong in this blog but you did bring it up first.
Pardon me russ-9, but you show no anger toward companies, who cheat the government of billions in
taxes and have pushed the tax burden on the public, who now make lower wages or are unemployed ?
How stupid. Give it up MSNBC. EVERYONE knows you are nothing more than a propaganda tool for the Obama regime.
You wouldn't know the truth if it hit you upside the head.
REALITY - There was no HACK. Never was even close to a HACK.
Twitter users were simply mocking the huge FAIL of the dingbats who were salivating to read Sarah Palin's emails. So MSNBC and this Cervilla loser throw out the 'hacked' claim even though they know it is false.
What were you idiots expecting, anyways? Do you actually believe the caricature of Palin that lives in your head 24/7? Truthfully I knew they would be incriminating but I didn't know they would show what an incredible job Palin did as Governor.
Run Sarah Run!
Yesss, Run Sarah Run. Please Run Sarah.
EXACTLY!!! That is what it is all about. No bias either - the entire email collection is available to be searched for all to see and form their own opinions!
I applaud the people that responded in this manner. Obama has his minions in and outside of the White House monitoring the people of the United States, as were the American people the enemy. We are the enemy of Washington thugs, as Patriots of this nation. This is one Nation under God, not under the Prince of Darkness. It would appear from Obama African roots that a witchdoctor is not far from the question. Perhaps even a few curses from Jeremiah Wright has been added to the brew mix of Obama.
I personally never have trusted Obama from his arrival on the scene from no where. He is a hater of Israel but claiming to support it, all the while undermining it, as his Father would. Ham was cursed and it is possible, so is Obama. He brings with him destruction, not peace.
The hacker are doing us all a favor by helping to oppose the tight encirclement of this evil that sits in our White House. No wonder the flies like him so much, they follow him. Is he the one that will one day sit on the former Roman Empire perch? Should he be the end of his anguish, will never cease in his next hellish life. Sarah Palin is a woman of principles, unlike Obama.
Wow! Talk about delusional! Norm, Cheers is calling you!
Norm: Liberals are not the only ones who cannot stand Palin. Most of the Republican Party can't stand the air headed cheerleader either. She's a total embarrassment to them as well as to the nation. Geeeeez. How did you get into this mess you've created for yourself? Are you incapable of standing back and looking at this situation seriously? Have you identified criticism of her as criticism of you personally and consequently you can't handle personal criticism? You've painted yourself into a corner saying that you and your ilk are the only American patriots, and as a result, only you can identify American patriots. Are you friggin nuts??!!?? I love this country with every fibre of my body and I believe Palin's nomination as VP bordered on an act of treason. If she had in some way become President of this Republic, it would have been no different from turning over the leadership of this nation to a Disney cartoon character. She is a poorly educated, air head, Norm! Except for you Palin worshippers, no one takes her seriously. American patriots, including most in the GOP, know she would make the Republic the laughing stock of the world. We do not want the capital of the U.S. moved to Orlando, Fl!
Gee Norm...ate up much? You need to turn off the TV for awhile and try to scrub all the Fox News BS out of your mind...You are the worst kind American...I find it hard to believe your kind even still exists...but apearantly they do...are your kind inbreeding? You all seem to think exactly the same...what a waste.
Norm-- Sarah Palin is a woman of principles? What woman of principles would LIE about being able to see Russia from her house in Wasilla? What woman of principles would bitch about some guy who rented a home so he could write a book or something like that? What woman of principles would let her daughter get knocked up-- and now that gal is preaching abstinance. A bit late for that isn't it-- her mother should have taught her. What woman of principles would go to college in Hawaii and leave there because there were ORIENTALS who went to school there-- WTF did she expect to find going to school there. A woman of principles would have considered the possibility of orientals going to college in Hawaii and not bitch about it-- and cry to her daddy about who was going to school there. I would question both "woman" and "with principles". Bet when she moves to Arizona she will bitch about the Mexicans living in the area. She just better not-- she is infringing on their territory!
Susie,
Sara did not say she could see Russia from her house, that was Tina Fey. I would bitch is someone was writing a book about me, designed to attack me, and moved next door to me. I don't know how I could stop my daughter from getting knocked up, all I can do is try to teach her what I believe, if she listens good on her, if she doesn't not much that I can do expect still love her. where did you get the oriental thing from,? FYI don't believe everything the huffingtonpost writes.
JustaGrunt
we all know that she really didn't say that. It's just easier than writing about Palin's effort to highlight the Alaska governor's bona fides on Russia. When you write "I see Russia" everyone knows what it means.
You're in Alaska," Palin said. "We have that very narrow maritime border between the United States, and the 49th state, Alaska, and Russia."
Palin then reminded Gibson three separate times that Russia is Alaska's "next door neighbor." It was Palin who beefed up her foreign policy resume.
this one is simple: don't become a public figure because in order to be a public figure you need...you know...the public's attention.
If you are flying west from Anchorage and are in a plane, depending on where you are, you can see Siberia. Little Diomede Island is very close to Big Diomede Island. The International Date Line goes between them. I think they are less than 25 miles apart. About the same distance as Marinette County, Wisconsin is from Door County, Wisconsin across the waters of Green Bay.
The neighbor of Alaska is Siberia (Russia) on the west and North side and Canada on the East. Figuritively speaking, one can see Russia from Alaska.
Being a soldier in Alaska at Fort Richardson in 1966, I can attest that the Russian nearness was always on the minds of the Alaskans, especially during the Cold War with all the missle sites and radar installations they had with the DEW Line. We lived it every day and every day the USSR was on our minds. The Alaskan people lived on the revenue from the support of the Military which is still a large part of their economy.
This is what the Tea Baggers are all about.....rewriting history and hacking websites! Idiots!
Since msnbc has sent pattern here lets demand to see any correspondence between Obama and his buddies, Ayres and Rev.Wright. Or is Obama above this new LAW now set in stone, that we are allowed to use peoples communications to continue to try and attack and destroy them? Whats fair for one should apply to another right?
ROTFLMAO! Kind of like Gingrich going after former president Clinton when he was doing much wose things in the parking lot. Now that's real Presidental material. Right?
"Since msnbc has sent pattern here lets demand to see any correspondence between Obama and his buddies, Ayres and Rev.Wright."
No comparison - the ONLY e-mails requested had to do with Governor Palin's OFFICIAL and PUBLIC duties while in office. Anything that was "personal" was redacted before it was released.
But go ahead, spread the fertilizer a little more. Maybe you'll grow some crops.
Or msnbc could put weiners weiner out there for the whole world to see,...... oh wait its already out there...I guess it would be inappropriate for msnbc to ask for any text that weiner sent to girl scouts, right?
Probably because none exists outside of your sick and twisted imagination.
Maybe you should pay Andrew Breitbart some more money and he can hire some girls to web-stalk some more dems trolling for a scandal.
Amazing that the Media and Political opponents are "scrambling" .....burning the midnight oil...to READ 24,000 pages......but were unable to read "2,000" pages of obamacare until AFTER the bill was passed?
And we wonder why this country is such a train wreck?
I find it HYSTERICAL that they found NOTHING! What they did find is that she did her job well and she's a very focused and competent Governor for the state of Alaska. She'll make a fine president too.
I'm betting that we'll hear nothing more about the emails because they didn't find any dirt to use against her. They were HOPING to find the teensiest tidbit to attack her with, but once again, FAILURE.
It was a feeding frenzy for the lefties and nothing came of them. This was nothing but a distraction to the destruction by this administration that continues.
Competent Governor? She quit mid-term!!!
If you actually wanted to know how a law is printed in Congress, you would realize the Affordable Health Care Act is about 200 pages. You can educate yourself here:http://healthreform.kff.org/timeline.aspx
Nice try at derailment and deflection.
JTM, she's got MORE EXPERIENCE than the community organizer and 6 month Senator who voted present because he couldn't/wouldn't make a competent decision. We all see that now in his "leadership" performance.
If you happen to read any of those 24,000 emails that you've been chomping at the bit to get at, you will see that there was a leftwingnut loose trying to sue her for everything she said or did on the campaign trail and after the election. I think she did the right thing by not staying on and wasting taxpayer money to fight off the left wing attackers. I know the lefties love to waste money, however, she doesn't.
Oh, so she couldn't stand up to a bunch of mean hippies who called her names?
Yeah, that's the kind of leadership mettle we need. To use the same line the Right is so fond of using against the Democratic Party - if Sarah Palin can't stand up to people like that, how can she stand up against America's enemies?
JTM-890765
To be fair - if you add Palin's time in office to the time spent releasing the e-mails, you have a full term!
Sue, the question isn't whether she'd be better than Obama; the question is would she be a good President. The answer is simply no.
Also, how does me pointing out that she quit on the people that elected her make me a leftie? Are you saying that since I stated a fact that I must be a liberal?
bayllie
JTM-890765
I don't think Palin would even be better than Paris Hilton.
I was poking fun at Palin's term. It is easy to miss the intent from reading a written word. You might be called a leftie for stating this fact but not by me because I feel as strongly about the Quitter Palin as you do. So I guess, we are both lefties.
How many electrons were needlessly excited to support transmission of meaningless conversation, and now discussion, of this (small) footnote in American political history? Sarah Palin has not significantly influenced any policy and her most important effect on Alaska was the photography from her reality show. She's a celebrity, and a b-lister at that. If you gave her and Paris Hilton 2 weeks to prepare for a policy debate, my money is on Paris. I don't hate Sarah Palin - I basically don't care about her because she just spouts drivel and bumper sticker slogans when she speaks. I am concerned about people that thinking she's prepared for any further elected office.
node - Looks like sour grapes because nothing was found. She is as qualified as the current community organizer and we know she loves the USA. She has also learned to play the media like a fiddle and make money along the way.
Just curious Texas. You say that she is as qualified as Obama and I agree. But at the same time it seems that the people who say this believe that Obama was UNDER-qualified and has been a terrible President. See where this is going?
@Republic of Texas said: Looks like sour grapes
... and it looks like you've made the same old whine out of them. My comments were about SP and the ridiculous amount of attention paid to all things she was remotely involved in - like the tiny amount of time she actually spent being governor. Other folks are a seperate issue and a different discussion. You are correct that she has figured out how to make money along the way; primarily from people who care to toss it at her feet rather than do something meaningful with it. My issue with SP remains that she's not dumb, she is uneducated and devoted to staying that way. When she spouts her disconnected nonsense, it only bothers me when large groups of Americans think it's a strategy, other than that, I don't know how I could possible care less about Sarah Palin, her family, or her opinions.
So these hackers will be chased down by the federal government and receive prison time?
Has palin tweeted for their arrest yet?
First,a Palin supporter what? I have been around the block a few times and have ran a few local business from time to time which means I have had to hire and fire. Whats my point? Who are these dumb phucks that like Palin. First,they are white,the dumb ones of course and then I bet they are in their on little pea brains religious and are the only ones going to heaven. This is a dumb crowd people. If it were not for seperation of church/state this crowd would be strapping bombs on themselves to prove a point.
Idiots
Dewayne - Who are the Palin haters. They are the left wing morons who can't think for themselves and believes everything the Soros medial reports about her. They are the ones that needs government to help them make it because they cannot do it own their own. They are the ones who raced to the polls to elect an unqualified black man so everyone would know they were not a racists.
Now they are the one setting in a basement in their underware waiting on a government hand out or waiting for the union bus to take them to the next Zombie Parade.
Really? People voted for the president just because he's black?
That makes...no sense.
I'm a leftie with plenty of money I made on my own; then again, I don't hate Palin - I just don't want her to be the President.
Likely same group that tried to cover up Palins account of Paul Revere. LMAO !
Or Obama's 57 states? Joe Biden's Sexist r3emarks in Romania?, Keith Olbermann's many gaffes? or Michelle Obama's racist comments during the campaign?
What did Michelle Obama say that was racist? What did the vice president say that was sexist? And the president's gaffe about 57 states? He acknowledged it and made a joke about it and his supporters didn't try to alter the Wikipedia page of the number of states in America.
See the difference?
@navyvet98
What you failed to realize is that their supporters did NOT try to alter the wiki page.
What about President's Obama and Sarkozy's side glances at the babe's butt in Paris?
What about McCain's when he was introducing his VPOTUS, Del?