Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Joke's on the press corps after Palin email witch-hunt turns up zilch
The Hill ^ | June 13, 2011 | Armstrong Williams

Posted on 06/13/2011 10:29:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It was the biggest non-story story in Washington since Al Gore’s global warming tirades. I’m talking about the release of thousands of emails of former Gov. Sarah Palin last Friday in Juneau, Alaska. The release of emails (printed on paper) had reporters forming lines the lengths of which made the O.J. Simpson trial look like a queue at the local Dairy Queen.

News outlets such as The Washington Post publicly heralded their “read 'em here first” status. Never mind that no reporter had actually spent any time and bothered to read them. The editors just wanted to get the “full coverage” mantra out in order to light up the Google tote board.

That was Friday. By Saturday, a shocking revelation ripped through the nation’s headlines: Palin had a third email account! Oh, the political tremors that were felt then! No lie, folks. That was the headline, if you weren’t following. Surely, there would be something more salacious to uncover, no? I have three email accounts. Does The Washington Post want to put a dozen reporters on the case?

More breaking news revealed from poring over the Lost Scrolls of Palin — she used her email to discuss the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens. Wow, what amazing sleuth work on the part of the mainstream media. Here we have the sitting governor of the state whose most powerful son — the senior senator — has been indicted and she (gasped) wanted to discuss the matter! Someone call Rod Blagojevich and tell him that’s how one uses email — not to sell a Senate seat to the highest bidder.

And then finally, on Sunday, the coup de grace: The Associated Press reporting that Palin’s emails painted her as an “image-conscious, driven leader angling for higher office.” Well now, they just described every member of the U.S. House and Senate. Chuck Schumer, look out.

This would be funny if the handling of the release by the media weren’t so sad. If only the press corps threw the same amount of time and energy into uncovering why this administration can’t seem to create one job in the private sector.

The Huffington Post’s John Linkins said it best on Friday when pondering if the press were really performing a public service, or just wasting a lot of time in scouring mundane and overall meaningless emails, saying, “It’s really not hard to think that the joke might somehow be on us.”

Indeed, it is.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: emails; freepressforpalin; media; obama; palin; palinemails; press; presstitutes; sarahpalin

1 posted on 06/13/2011 10:29:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
CAPONESVALUT
2 posted on 06/13/2011 10:30:45 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FrankR

Anyone find emails from the Illinois State Legislature yet? Anyone? Helllooooo? Anyone out there?


3 posted on 06/13/2011 10:33:53 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t you just love to have the emails of Obama, Pelosi, Reed, ad naseum?


4 posted on 06/13/2011 10:36:27 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Waiting for the mainstream media to request and go through Obamas emails ...
< crickets chirping ... >


5 posted on 06/13/2011 10:40:01 AM PDT by dartuser ("Dealing with preterists is like cleaning the litter box ... but at least none of the cats are big.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
The whack left media hits the wall again.
6 posted on 06/13/2011 10:43:41 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Photobucket
7 posted on 06/13/2011 10:46:48 AM PDT by xuberalles ("The Right Stuff" Conservative Novelties http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

FLASHBACK-Obama records requests prove fruitless [ALL 7 Years of his Ill State Senate emails GONE]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2734025/posts

“most transparent administration” , EVAH !


8 posted on 06/13/2011 10:51:19 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s compare this to the amount of time they spent looking for Obama’s birth certificate?


9 posted on 06/13/2011 10:54:35 AM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: xuberalles

Outstanding!


10 posted on 06/13/2011 11:04:31 AM PDT by Chong (How's that HopEy, changEy, (thingEy) stuff working out for ya?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Chong

Thanks!


11 posted on 06/13/2011 11:26:09 AM PDT by xuberalles ("The Right Stuff" Conservative Novelties http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: FrankR

Well, at least Sarah created some jobs. lol


12 posted on 06/13/2011 12:19:59 PM PDT by annieokie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson