Posted on 06/09/2011 4:36:31 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
(Washington, D.C., 6/09/11) The following statement will be released tomorrow regarding the campaign to recruit 100 people to sort through the Palin e-mails:
"We read with interest and amusement the comments left on our website by far right-wing Republicans accusing us of a liberal, anti-Palin point of view with regards to our request for 100 people to help us sort through thousands of e-mails generated by Palin during her partial tenure as Governor of Alaska. We are not looking for dirt, we are in search of the truth as we see it."
"However, after careful consideration, we have decided to amend our decision to hire volunteers to help us. Looking through 24,000 e-mails is a lot of work and we'd have to actually pay our staff to do this. In requesting volunteers, we're following the Arianna Huffington model of getting all the help you can for free."
"In view of this, we are wanting only registered Democrats who are registered users at the unbiased Huffington Post and the middle of the road DemocraticUnderground to help in this matter. Their unbiased opinions and willingness to get all the facts before making up their minds on any given matter will be extremely useful to us during our investigation. They can be fully trusted to not make up facts to fit their agenda and trust all information will be provided so we can immediately publish their findings."
"We have also been accused of deliberately not investigating President Obama and ignoring the many alleged gaps in his career. We'd like to take this opportunity to inform our detractors you simply can't investigate what doesn't exist."
Developing..
Yeah! Somebody should score some blog hits over this!
The “middle of the road” Democratic Underground? Didn’t they forget to add “vulgar”?
It took me about 10 seconds to figure it out..for a second I actually fell for it but once they mentioned getting p eople from the DU and Huffington Post I was like AWWWWWWWW U GOT ME LOL
Maybe I wasn’t paying attention, but I don’t remember the Washington Post soliciting help to go through all of Obama’s Senate office emails and correspondence before he announced he was running for President. Prince Philip: “All those journalists do is wait around trying to catch us picking our noses.”
Note to WaPo: if you "hire" a volunteer, they cease being a volunteer.
No thread tonight :o(
Hope FF’s dad is recovery OK.
Interesting post, but, yeah, the link’s important.
‘We are not looking for dirt, we are in search of the truth as we see it.” -———
Yeah they always spout truth as they see it.
Doesn’t mean it’s truth.
tmz,wapo.. paparazzi.
Just as they chased Princess Di through the tunnels in France they now chase Sarah.
It’s ok it got a few people here I initially believed until that sentence and then kept on reading or giggles
It IS a spoof, but the Post has backed off of this plan as has the NYT though the NYT erroneously denied they ever tried to pull this stunt.
“The New York Times has not asked for readers to help with an investigation,” NYT spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said in an e-mail to The Daily Caller, pointing TheDC to a specific news story about the Palin e-mails’ release.
Rhoades Ha appeared to have missed a story her own newspaper published on its website, titled, “Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-mail Records.” The two paragraph story, published on the Times’s Caucus blog, reads:
“On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails, which we will be posting on nytimes.com starting on Friday afternoon E.S.T.
“We’re asking readers to help us identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight. Interested users can fill out a simple form to describe the nature of the e-mail, and provide a name and e-mail address so we’ll know who should get the credit. Join us here on Friday afternoon and into the weekend to participate.”
No excerpt, no link to a disease-laden blog.
I'm thinking you aren't too clear on the concept.
Particularly when you consider the number of potential felonies and impeachable offenses committed by Teh One and his cabal -- which, far from being examined, are assiduously covered up...
Cheers!
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