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Sarah Palin Email Saga is Embarrassing Mainstream Media
Yahoo! News ^ | June 13, 2011 | Todd Jacobs

Posted on 06/13/2011 11:12:51 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

COMMENTARY | The mainstream media is consistently manipulated by Sarah Palin. The same Sarah Palin they criticize for being dimwitted is beating the news media at their own game. The release of more than 24,000 pages of emails by the Alaska governor's office is just the latest incident Palin has orchestrated to once again keep he name in the news without committing to run in 2012.

The 24,000 plus pages of emails released to the press Friday were in printed form as reported by Yahoo! News. The release of the emails was an embarrassing feeding frenzy as media outlets loaded up more than six large boxes containing the emails. The press had requested release of the emails when Palin accepted the nomination to run as the vice presidential nominee on John McCain's ticket for his 2008 failed presidential run.

Palin is taking advantage of the media's obsession with her private emails and using the situation to promote herself as the CEO of Alaska during her reign as governor. Palin is also using the media's obsession to promote her new documentary, "The Undefeated."

The last several months the media is now addicted to Palin and they cannot resist the temptation to continue their 24 hour coverage of her every move. It is a curious obsession that is gaining Palin political clout she would never have experienced. The media covers Palin now for the simple reason that she drives ratings and creates buzz by the mere mention of her name.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: emails; palin; sarahpalin; yellowjournalism
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1 posted on 06/13/2011 11:12:55 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Maybe you can answer a question I have about the Commies’ witch hunt, are these emails all alleged to have been written by Sarah? Or does it include her staff?
2 posted on 06/13/2011 11:15:18 AM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“....Embarrassing Mainstream Media”

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What again?

The openly propagandizing CommieMedia is an ongoing, daily embarrassment to the “profession” of journalism.


3 posted on 06/13/2011 11:15:50 AM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

But there is no media bias.................


4 posted on 06/13/2011 11:16:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: arrogantsob

This I do not know.


5 posted on 06/13/2011 11:17:02 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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Of course they found nothing in the 24,000 emails released. What about the 2,275 pages that were withheld? Those have all the 'dirt!'

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Before flaming, please read the tagline...

6 posted on 06/13/2011 11:18:41 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.


7 posted on 06/13/2011 11:19:04 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Honkies for Herman!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Hey RWI -- wanna join me to check all of Rep. Weiner's e-mails???

** We might have to treat them with latex gloves **

8 posted on 06/13/2011 11:20:10 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

And how’s this for serendipity... now that those emails are out and made public, people who do take the time to read them will see for themselves that Palin actually was a good governor and a competent administrator. LOL


9 posted on 06/13/2011 11:21:34 AM PDT by redpoll
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10 posted on 06/13/2011 11:21:51 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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WILDGOOSEGO
11 posted on 06/13/2011 11:21:54 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: EyeGuy

There are no journalists. Since the 70s J-schools have been producing political advocates. All liberal/progressive all the time. They see their job as bringing down US nationalism and urging one world government.

They lie about everything in the name of enhancing their dogma. They are a new type of religious zealot.


12 posted on 06/13/2011 11:21:59 AM PDT by kjo
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The release of more than 24,000 pages of emails by the Alaska governor's office is just the latest incident Palin has orchestrated to once again keep he name in the news without committing to run in 2012.

Not that a OLM hack like Jacobs will ever even read this, but is there a factual basis for this allegation? So far as I know, the release of the information was on Alaska Government Standard Time with which Gov. Palin has no connection, other than she probably knows a number of people in the government. We shouldn't let any instance of push comment to pass by without at least pointing it out.

13 posted on 06/13/2011 11:22:21 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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To: arrogantsob
The emails are to Sarah and from Sarah that passed through the state of AK servers.
14 posted on 06/13/2011 11:22:21 AM PDT by JPG (Hey, LSM, how are those emails workin' out for ya?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Is the media requesting copies of Gov. Romney’s e-mails, too?

Probably not.

These people are easily amused...when it comes to Gov. Palin.


15 posted on 06/13/2011 11:22:30 AM PDT by RexBeach (Mr. Obama can't count.)
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The mainstream media is consistently manipulated by Sarah Palin. ... The release of more than 24,000 pages of emails by the Alaska governor's office is just the latest incident Palin has orchestrated to once again keep he name in the news without committing to run in 2012.

Palin is taking advantage of the media's obsession with her private emails and using the situation to promote herself as the CEO of Alaska during her reign as governor. Palin is also using the media's obsession to promote her new documentary, "The Undefeated."

Where's the mega hurl alert? The author blames Palin for all the attention on her!!! As if she was responsible for filing a FOIA on herself and, yes she acted as CEO of the country's largest state because she was!

16 posted on 06/13/2011 11:22:38 AM PDT by CedarDave (Things are so bad at the NY Times they have to outsource their investigations.)
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To: Red Badger

Of course there is no media bias. Look at how they relentlessly pursued 0bama’s academic records and how they called for volunteers to dissect Romney’s e-mails from when he was governor of Taxachussetts.

No bias here, let’s move on.


17 posted on 06/13/2011 11:24:08 AM PDT by henkster (Every member of Congress must put the fate of the nation over their next re-election campaign)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The Socialist Democrat Media were ejaculating all over themselves at the thought of finding an e-mail describing a Republican Black Mass in the Governor's office. And yet, they feel no shame.

You'd think they would be just as interested in Efwad's college transcripts, or even, dare I say, his REAL birth certificate? How can Rachel Madcow look in the mirror and shave in the morning?

18 posted on 06/13/2011 11:24:23 AM PDT by jonascord (The Drug War Rapes the Constitution.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The release of more than 24,000 pages of emails by the Alaska governor's office is just the latest incident Palin has orchestrated to once again keep he name in the news without committing to run in 2012.
Since she's no longer the governor, just how did she supposedly orchestrate their release?
19 posted on 06/13/2011 11:25:19 AM PDT by Bob
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Based on a small sample I examined; a lot of the emails are addressed to Palin — some of these were written by staff (or non-partisan public servants).

Some were obviously written by Sarah's administrative assistant. They go out on Sarah's account, but the assistant makes it clear that she is writing on behalf of her boss. This (administrators answering on behalf of the boss) is a standard practice in government and business.

20 posted on 06/13/2011 11:25:26 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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