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Palin So “Irrelevant,” Media Begs For Help In Sifting Through Her Emails [call to action!]
Big Journalism ^ | Jun 10th 2011 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 06/10/2011 7:16:43 AM PDT by curth

Today, at 1 pm (EST), a cache of emails Sarah Palin sent and/or received while Governor of Alaska is set to be released.

How many emails? Figures range from 20,000 to upwards of 24,000. They cover a large time period – December 2006 to September 2008 – and the same media machine that couldn’t find anything wrong, or even worth investigating, as far as Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama were concerned, is now asking readers to help them pour through the emails and get the dirt on Palin.

That’s right: both the Washington Post and the New York Times have announced they will publish the emails tomorrow as they get them, and they want readers to read over them, find the things that are “most interesting” or “most noteworthy,” and email notes on those portions to the respective papers. (Any of you who did a research intensive degree in college know what this means: it means the newspaper is then going to take those “most interesting” pieces, paste them on the front page of their website, and say, “Look here folks! We found a chink in Palin’s armor! She’s beatable! She’s beatable!”)

In making this request, 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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Great strategy. Spread the word!
1 posted on 06/10/2011 7:16:45 AM PDT by curth
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To: onyx

PING!

I don’t have the Palin ping list or would ping them.

LET’S ROLL!!


2 posted on 06/10/2011 7:20:36 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: curth

Palinphobia, simple!


3 posted on 06/10/2011 7:22:28 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: curth

I remember when Clinton’s gubernatorial correspondence was the feverish target of the media.

No, wait. That never happened.


4 posted on 06/10/2011 7:23:04 AM PDT by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: curth

Count me in.


5 posted on 06/10/2011 7:24:00 AM PDT by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: curth

Two lessons, how left biased the media is, and how irrelevant they are after decades of layoffs. They have no “news” staffs any longer.

The news rooms of old would kill themselves before asking the public to do their research.


6 posted on 06/10/2011 7:25:19 AM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: curth

How about e-mails asking when Obama is going to release his college transcripts.


7 posted on 06/10/2011 7:25:57 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: curth

For a "dunce" with "no chance" of winning the nomination or defeating DUh-bama, the media seem to awfully concerned with manufacturing a scandal and digging up dirt on Palin.

Can you say PANIC!????

8 posted on 06/10/2011 7:27:21 AM PDT by RasterMaster (We the tax-payer subsidize DUh-bama's failures)
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To: curth

If the “Media” would stop chasing maybe’s and look at mac, the liar, daddy with the same amount of energy he would not have been elected or if they started today he would be under arrest for his hands are at the least dirty and most likely bloody.


9 posted on 06/10/2011 7:28:07 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: curth

lol....I like it. Here’s a few:

“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

“No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It’s like — it was like Special Olympics, or something.”

“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Think that would be too obvious?


10 posted on 06/10/2011 7:29:23 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: curth
ineluctable

11 posted on 06/10/2011 7:30:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: curth
ineluctable

12 posted on 06/10/2011 7:30:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
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To: curth
I am going to add this to all I send:
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President"
13 posted on 06/10/2011 7:31:54 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (Because he was the son you bore, And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!)
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To: RasterMaster

This exactly why msm has been clamoring for the ‘pubs to come up with the contenders. They want plenty of time to mount the smear campaigns and sway public opinion. The question is: what makes them so afraid of our Sarah?


14 posted on 06/10/2011 7:34:57 AM PDT by myrabach
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To: curth

Palin can write? 20k emails!?!?!!?


15 posted on 06/10/2011 7:35:47 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: curth
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.

That's just petty. Instead, email them information about "project gunwalker" or the complete lack of vetting they've done on Obama.

If you're going to flood their inbox, at least remind them of what's actually newsworthy.

16 posted on 06/10/2011 7:35:56 AM PDT by kevkrom (Palin's detractors now resort to "nobody believes she can win because nobody believes she can win")
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To: onyx
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.

Unleash the hounds!

17 posted on 06/10/2011 7:37:32 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Girlene

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television ...”


18 posted on 06/10/2011 7:37:39 AM PDT by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: myrabach
"The question is: what makes them so afraid of our Sarah?"


19 posted on 06/10/2011 7:39:06 AM PDT by RasterMaster (We the tax-payer subsidize DUh-bama's failures)
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To: frankenMonkey

My local Chinese restaurant has a great 7-page menu.
I plan on scanning it and sending it along to the Times and the Post. I know they’ll enjoy it!


20 posted on 06/10/2011 7:39:17 AM PDT by Radagast the Fool ("Mexico-Beirut with tacos!"--Dr. Zoidberg)
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