Attn witch hunters: Alaska releases additional Palin emails

There they go again...
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Just when the lamestream media's leg tingles had subsided, the state of Alaska Wednesday made public an additional 54 pages of emails from Sarah Palin's first month as governor. Linda Perez, administrative director for Governor Sean Parnell office, said the emails were omitted from the first batch of messages documenting then Gov. Palin's first 21 months in office:

News organizations and individuals requested emails from Palin's time as governor in September 2008, shortly after she became the Republican vice presidential nominee. When most of the emails came out last month, only a few were from December 2006, Palin's first month as governor.

The records released Wednesday were heavily redacted and mostly sent to Palin by aides. A relative handful came from Palin herself.

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The state claimed executive or deliberative process in making the redactions. Wednesday's email release was done electronically; Perez said the state is working on a new system. The emails released last month were in paper form and filled six boxes.

Perez said the state is making sure that all emails that should have been released have been. If more are found, she said they'll be released with emails from the final 10 months of Palin's term — a period covering October 2008 through July 2009. Requests for those emails were made subsequent to the initial request in September 2008.

No timetable for the release of the additional emails was given, though Attorney General John J. Burns has said it won't take as long.

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You know they're hoping that "this time" they'll find their unholy grail.

- JP

Glenn Beck on the Palin Emails

A tear in the Space-Time Continuum?
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h/t: ConservativeDiva

- JP

John Hayward says, Let them take the Palin Test

"Now that we’ve established the Palin Test, let’s apply it to every candidate"
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In a Human Events opinion piece, John Hayward argues that the media's fishing expedition in Alaska has established what he calls the Palin Test. Let’s apply that new standard to all presidential candidates, he proposes, and not just those on the Republican side:

The most spectacular embarrassment in recent media history left the New York Times, the Washington Post, their far-left “partner” organizations, and their army of citizen muck-rakers sitting in a pile of crumpled Sarah Palin emails, with absolutely nothing news-worthy to show for their efforts. They could do no better than saying her correspondence shows she had some interest in the vice-presidential spot before McCain selected her, and she doesn’t much care for the “lamestream media.” Gee, I wonder why?

The UK Guardian summed up its findings as follows: “Tens of thousands of pages of Sarah Palin's emails released on Friday offer an intimate portrait of a politician caught in an almost daily battle on issues ranging from oil exploration to an ethics investigation.” Does anyone think the media dove into the Governor’s correspondence looking to prepare an “intimate portrait” of her “daily battles?”

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Not only is the lack of any scandal in the Palin emails remarkable, but it’s almost astonishing how perfectly her private correspondence matches up with her public pronouncements. She even uses a lot of the same colorful language, like “unflippingbelievable.”

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Well, now that we’ve established the Palin Test, let’s apply it to every candidate, including the incumbent President. Release a couple of years’ worth of email, and let’s see what we find. Do you think it would take an army of volunteer readers very long to find something hypocritical, or even horrifying, in Obama’s correspondence?

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We seriously doubt that few, if any, of the candidates or potential candidates for the 2012 presidential race could stand up to the intense scrutiny and come out of it looking as good as Gov. Palin does right now.

- JP

Mark Levin on the Palin emails

"Do you think they'd be falling all over themselves for John Huntsman's emails?"
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Mark also says MSNBC's bookers are only looking for guests who are critical of "The Undefeated," the new documentary about Gov. Palin. MSPDS isn't interested in being either fair or balanced.

- JP

SarahPAC: About that Hard-Working Governor Behind the Emails...

"We need your help collecting and archiving excerpts."
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The folks at SarahPAC know a good idea when they see it:

Conservatives4Palin.com has come up with the great idea of encouraging readers to do their own archiving of Governor Palin’s emails:

Setting the Record Straight: About the Hard-Working Governor Behind the Emails

The media went crazy thinking they were going to find a smoking gun on Governor Palin by forcing the State of Alaska to release 24,199 pages of email communications during her time in office. They were wrong and have admitted as much. After the media spent so much time and effort, they discovered no “bombshells,” which of course they were hoping for all along....

The media is cherry-picking small excerpts to highlight, but they are leaving the bulk of the 24,199 pages out of their reports. That’s where you come in…

We need to gather links from the email database that prove what kind of leader Governor Palin really is. We need to find the stuff the media doesn’t want the public to know about. We want to show the stuff they aren’t reporting but is still available online. The media wanted to “expose” what kind of executive Governor Palin was while in office… So, let us oblige them! We need your help collecting and archiving excerpts.

Read more here about how you can get involved. We encourage everyone to join in. We'll link to the finished results here.

Sauce for the goose and sauce for the gander.

- JP

NY Sun Editorial: The Palin Precedent

"If the joke is on anyone, it’s not Mrs. Palin."
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The editors of The New York Sun question whether the media will follow the precedent it appears to have established with its Sarah Palin email fishing expedition:

The hunt for something to pin on Mrs. Palin seems to have descended into a kind of parody in which, if the joke is on anyone, it’s not Mrs. Palin.

The question is whether there is a precedent to be established. Are the other politicians going to release the emails from their times in public office?

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Now it may yet be that the press will find something scandalous in the emails from Mrs. Palin’s tenure at Juneau — other than the impression that she was a hands-on chief executive who paid attention to the details of both policy and her political persona. It may be that the precedent the press will pursue is that our public figures will have to make available not only their official emails but their private ones, as well, particularly if they used private mail for public business. Or it may be that the press will have to look for consolation in the old saying that God doesn’t deduct from a man’s allotted span the time he has spent fishing.

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Another fishing quote comes to mind, one from stand up comic Steven Wright:

"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot."

h/t: JewsForSarah.com

- JP

Lifson: Are the media enameling Sarah Palin with Teflon®?

Opportunity
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American Thinker Editor Thomas Lifson theorizes that the media's Alaskan email fiasco could backfire on them so badly that it could have the effect of virtually applying a coat of Teflon® to her, thereby enhancing her presidential prospects. The media, by "examining every document for something -- anything! -- to use as a gotcha" to take down Gov. Palin, says Lifson, is making its extreme hostility toward the former governor and vice presidential candidate transparent to all.

As the nation hurtles toward the 2012 election, inevitably a referendum on Obama's term in office, with the public deeply disappointed in the change already brought to fruition in the "fundamental transformation" of our country promised by the president, the media once again displays its double standards. More specifically, where Sarah Palin is involved, the public now can see with clarity that the mission of the legacy media is search and destroy.

Many claim that Sarah Palin is "damaged goods," that her "brand" has been irretrievably tarnished, and that she would be hopeless as a presidential nominee, should she decide to enter the race.

But the very media outlets that mocked her, and convinced the public that she is stupid, are themselves looking stupid. More to the point, the look like bullies. They also look very disappointed that they haven't been able to come up with much.

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The American public loves underdogs and despises bullies. Polls asking the public about various occupations inevitably find that politicians and media rank near the bottom in terms of credibility and likability. President Clinton and his attack dogs recognized that the impeachment-minded GOP House could be demonized, in effect spray painting him with Teflon® against their attack.

One can at least wonder if something of the same process might be at work with Mrs. Palin. She has demonstrated time and again an ability to confound her haters with unorthodox tactics, turning their fury back against them. The feeding frenzy in Juneau offers her another opportunity to turn the tables on those who seek to destroy her.

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It would indeed be sweet irony if the same media which has been trying to destroy Sarah Palin for nearly three years may, by overreaching, find itself largely responsible for undoing the same damage it inflicted upon Gov. Palin. The irony could only be made sweeter if she runs for the White House and wins the race.

Don't change a thing that you're doing, lamestreamers. Keep up the bad work.

- JP

Andy Barr: Emails show a governor engaged, effective, attentive

Gov. Palin was right when she said all of the rocks have been turned over
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Politico reporter Andy Barr says the Great Alaskan Email Dump "not only shows how effective she is, but how attentive she is as governor." An additional benefit she will derive from media scrutiny of the emails, Barr points out, is that it reinforces the image of Gov. Palin as a very serious executive presented in the forthcoming documentary film "The Undefeated." The emails, he observes, are evidence which back up some of the claims being made about her in the movie:


Right, Andy. It's called "leadership." And Sarah Palin has been an effective leader her entire political career.

- JP

The emails: 'Your Obama-compliant mainstream media at work'

"A hard-working governor, working hard for the state of Alaska"
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William Jacobson is maintaining a linked list of headlines showing how the media is reporting as they sift through Gov. Palin's emails.

Jimmie Bise at The Sundries Shack catches an anchor in the CNN studio egging on reporter Drew Griffin in Juneau to reveal something negative about Sarah Palin:


But to the anchor's disappointment, Griffin reports that as he sifts through the emails what he was seeing is a "hard working governor, working hard for the state of Alaska." When the anchor asks if Griffen has uncovered any juicy tidbits to support the charge that Gov. Palin is thin skinned, the reporter replied that many times the governor defected criticism meant for her staff onto herself. Emails like those, Griffin says, show Sarah Palin to be quite a different person from the negative stereotype the left and many in the media have created of her.

Even the serial Palin detractors at Politico were forced to report, to their chagrin, that the media had uncovered "no big bombshells." What, not even the death threats she began to receive shortly after becoming the GOP's first female vice presidential candidate were bombshells?

- JP

Let's Cloward-Piven the NYT/WaPo witch hunt

Because their hatred for Sarah Palin is are "just too darn irresistible"
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The Cloward-Piven strategy is a leftist tool which can be turned against them. Developed in the mid-1960s by Columbia University sociologists Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, their strategy owes much to Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. The strategy’s original purpose was to bring about the fall of capitalism by overloading government bureaucracy until the wheels grind to a halt.

Some examples of Cloward-Piven are overloading electoral systems with overwhelming numbers of new voter registrations, never mind whether the bogus "voters" are among the living or the deceased; shaking down banks and mortgage houses, politicians in Congress, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development with affirmative-action loan applications; and creating a national financial "crisis" by demanding subprime mortgages for low-income Americans with no feasible means of repaying the loans. Those toxic mortgages helped lead to the financial bailout. Again, the key dynamic of Cloward-Piven involves overloading government with impossible demands until it breaks down under the burden.

But just as the Cloward-Piven strategy has worked for the left, it can be made to work against them. And just as it works when applied to government agencies, it will also work when aimed at other types of institutions. Although he doesn't mention Clward-Piven by name, AWR Hawkins suggests using a form of the strategy against The New York Times and The Washington Post as they enlist their readers' help in sorting through some 24,000 of Governor Palin's emails in search of anything they can use to try to destroy her. Here's how:

Both the Washington Post and the New York Times prove they’ve yet to learn how much the people love Palin. But we can help them learn this lesson after 1 pm by sending a ton of emails that have absolutely nothing to with Palin’s correspondence cache.

In other words, the Washington Post reports they’ll be posting Palin’s emails here, and they’ll include a link whereby readers can respond when they find that “most noteworthy” information. The New York Times has been kind enough to say they’ll post Palin’s emails here, and they will likewise include a link whereby readers can respond when they find that juicy nugget that’s going to prove Palin doesn’t love America after all (or that she really shot her Caribou from a distance of 120 yards instead of 123).

Our job is simple: once the emails post, we need to click the links for each paper (cited in previous paragraph) and send both of them an email (or emails) about the noteworthy information we found. But instead of sending something from Palin’s emails, send them your favorite line from a Charlton Heston speech or movie. Or send them your favorite line from your favorite song or from a piece of classic literature.

Even if both papers figure out what’s happening rather quickly, the knowledge that we’ve sent random information will them force to research and verify every email (and re-open and re-research those which they took for granted upon receiving them). In turn, this will ruin all their fun and shut this little experiment down before it even gets rolling.

Oh yes, and it will do one other thing too: it will teach them once more that America loves Sarah Palin.

Whether she runs for President or not (or whether you plan to vote for her or not), we can all agree that she stands for something the mainstream media ought not drag through the mud.

Spread the word folks. Recruit your friends. At 1 pm, it’s game on.

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Yes, the corrupt media is indeed vulnerable to a Cloward-Piven operation. In the words of Washington Post Ombudsman Patrick Pexton, justifying the witch hunt, "Sarah Palin and her e-mails are just too darn irresistible." Well, the Washington Post, New York Times and their hatred for Sarah Palin are "just too darn irresistible" as well. Sauce for the gander. Any questions? Very well. Carry on.

- JP

WaPo, NYT Recruit Palinophobes for Oppo Research (Updated)

WaPo hopes to "extract new stories that will lead to further investigation"
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Remember when the Associated press assigned eleven of its crack reporters to "fact check" Sarah Palin's first book Going Rogue? Democrat Party house organ The Washington Post has found a cheaper way to allocate resources in the corrupt media left's endless pursuit of digging for dirt on the first woman to be the vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party. It is recruiting Palin-hatin' Post readers to do it for free.

Ryan Kellett, who holds the title of "Interactivity Producer" at WaPo and has his byline under the bold head "Help investigate the Palin e-mails," makes the pitch:

More than 24,000 e-mail messages sent to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska's governor will be released Friday. Join The Post in digging through them. We are looking for 100 organized and diligent readers who will work alongside Post reporters to analyze, contextualize, and research the e-mails. Think of it as spending some time in our newsroom.

Our hope is that working together, we can efficiently find interesting information and extract new stories that will lead to further investigation. We don’t know what we’ll find, but we want you to be ready and open for the challenge.

You will communicate with us virtually and work in small teams to make light work of reviewing the e-mail threads. Notice the patterns. Identify recipients and senders. Connect specific e-mails to larger themes and events. We’ll give you a sense of what to look out for, but the hope is that your team can tackle the challenge together in a collaborative way that our journalists alone cannot. And in fact, we are selecting just 100 people because we want to make real use of your talents and trust you to use teamwork to your advantage.

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How acute is the epidemic of Palin Derangement Syndrome among the Post partisans? We can practically see Kellett's words salivating on our computer monitor, so thrilled is he with the prospect of finding juicy tidbits in the governor's e-mails. We wonder if he also has a thrill running up his leg. Too bad he and his WaPo cohorts could not get as excited about digging into the obscured details of a half-term Senator's college records and the radical characters he chose to associate with back in the day, and then in the years thereafter. If they had bothered, the republic would likely not have traveled so many miles down the road to ruin.

Wouldn't it be interesting if some enterprising Paliniste volunteered to go undercover and submitted applications to play in the Post's pool of Palin plunderers? If you've always wanted to be a double agent, or if you would just like to bring a little bit of fairness and balance to WaPo's witch hunt fishing expedition, just follow the links.

h/t: Kristinn

Update: The NY Times is also recruiting would-be muckrakers who are heck-bent on sliming Sarah. Help 'em out, even if it's not quite with the degree of bloodlust they are looking for .

h/t: Doug Brady

- JP