Mainstream Media Fools Again Play Right Into Sarah Palin's Hands (E-Mail hysteria)

Business Insider ^ | 06/10/2011 | Joe McGinnis

[SeekAndFind]

There hasn’t been such a mass mobilization of mainstream media resources in anticipation of a single event since President Obama’s inauguration.

And The New York Times and Washington Post want readers to help sort through the whole mess.

It’s like a contest where the winners get to work for big, rich media organizations for no money.

You, too, can be an unpaid intern for a day or two or three.

I have no idea what they’ll find, nor how much redaction there will be in the 24,000 pages, but I am certain that the nearly 2,400 pages that are being withheld by the state of Alaska would make for far more entertaining reading.

In any event, plenty of media fodder to fill a slow weekend in June.

How over the top is this media frenzy about emails from the administration of a half-term governor of a state with three electoral votes who was a defeated candidate for vice president and who has not held any elective office for almost two years?

It’s mass media hysteria. I’ve seen nothing like it in regard to government documents since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers forty years ago.

And as The New York Times wrote at the time, the Pentagon Papers “demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance”: the Vietnam war.

Here’s the irony: the very same mainstream media whose paid pundits tell us over and over again how inconsequential Sarah Palin has become are treating the release of Palin administration emails as an event of transcendent national interest and significance.

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[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing that if the media really thought there was anything newsworthy they would do everything possible to prevent the public from seeing it before their artistic editors dressed it up for public consumption.

[CaptainK]

Is this the same Joe McGinnis (aka ass**** )who moved next door to the Palins while writing a smear piece on her?

[wayoverontheright]

The contrast with how the MSM "vetted" our current President is instructive. We still don't have his grades at Occidental, Columbia, or Harvard.

These papers wouldn't hire a janitor without more background than they've provided us on Barack Obama.

[FrankR]

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RE: Is this the same Joe McGinnis (aka ass**** )who moved next door to the Palins while writing a smear piece on her?

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From the Business Insider website:

http://www.businessinsider.com/author/joe-mcginniss

Joe McGinniss is an American author who has published 11 books over the course of 40 years, including The Selling of the President, Going to Extremes, and Fatal Vision. His next book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, comes out this September.

[kevkrom]

How over the top is this media frenzy about emails from the administration of a half-term governor of a state with three electoral votes who was a defeated candidate for vice president and who has not held any elective office for almost two years?

About as over-the-top as stalking said governor to the point of renting a house so close you could peek into her windows?

[CitizenM]

Here’s the irony: the very same mainstream media whose paid pundits tell us over and over again how inconsequential Sarah Palin has become

I have said this over and over. It is hysterical that the MSN states Palin is not a worthy candidate, that she is stupid, that she can't win, that she has no significance, etc. while they stumble all over themselves trying to catch her. Whether she is in her bus and they are chasing her, or trying to play "gotcha" every time she speaks...they are continually being hypocritical and always trying to catch up to the lady who out foxes them every day.

What is going to be really funny is that the released emails will probably backfire on the liberals and probably show what an adept, intelligent, concerned, governor and administrator she was and how responsably she led her state. Won't that just float their boats??? LOL

[SeekAndFind]

This is how he looks like...


It says in his bio...

In his critically acclaimed book about Alaska, Going to Extremes (1980), the fledgling state itself was his subject. Although he didn’t hesitate to reveal the many flaws and contradictions behind its “last frontier” image, McGinniss fell in love with the land and its people.

Thirty-six years later, he returned to Alaska in search of its most famous current resident, Sarah Palin. The result is an extraordinary double narrative that alternately traces Palin’s curious rise to political prominence and worldwide celebrity status and then recounts the author’s day-to-day experiences as he uncovers the messy reality beneath the glossy Palin myth.

Readers will find The Rogue at once bitingly insightful, hilarious, and profoundly ominous in what it reveals– not just about the dark underpinnings of a potential presidential nominee but also about the huge numbers of Americans who passionately support her.

[Arrowhead1952]

Hey you state run media. Why didn't you spend 1/2 the time investigating Ø as you are looking at Gov Palin's email?

You are trash in my books.

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[BwanaNdege]

“Other parts of my comment # - - are self censored by Arrowhead1952.”

Telepathy must be real!

I’m thing the very same things!

[Anima Mundi]

Hypocritical and HYPER critical at the same time!

[tips up]

Let’s all participate. Point out all the smoking gun emails, like when she forgot to place a period or didn’t indent properly. Bombard the NY Slimes with a bunch of bogus smoking guns.

[Jim Scott]

Sleazeball Joe McGinnis writes that Sarah Palin is totally irrelevant and castigates the media for obsessing over her. Yet, McGinnis moved into the house next door to Palin to spy on the Palin family and has a smear book about Sarah Palin ready for the 2012 election season. Can we say ‘hypocrite’? Yes, we can.

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RE: like when she forgot to place a period or didn’t indent properly.

And TYPOS, Don’t forget the TYPOS. Remember when Dan Quayle couldn’t spell ‘POTATO’ ?

Well, comb through the 24,000 emails and find TYPOS and bring them to the Time’s attention.

[The Bronze Titan]

Wonder what they would say if they found a ‘Weiner underwear’ pic in there.

[spokeshave]

So Palin releases 24,000 e-mails of her 18 months as Gov of Alaska.

So why isn't the Main Stream Media asking the question of 0bama:

WHERE ARE YOUR E-MAILS..?

[philman_36]

It’s like a contest where the winners get to work for big, rich media organizations for no money.
You, too, can be an unpaid intern for a day or two or three.

What you're asking on the other thread is no different.

[JPG]

The MSM are hyperventilating over the Palin emails because they don't have anything left to try and mount an attack on her. This is the last arrow in their quiver and the ‘scandal’ well has run dry. Sarah has outlasted them with truth, determination and perseverance.

[Arrowhead1952]

I am so ****** at the SRM, I can’t even type right today. If I actually posted what I am thinking, I’d get a time out.