Media Gives Palin’s Emails Anal Exam – Yet Ignores Obama’s Missing Records
Media Puts Palin Emails Under Microscope- Yet Ignores Obama’s Missing Records
10 June 2011 by Sheri Urban
realfeminist.com
The New York Times and Washington Post raised eyebrows this week by hiring a bunch of additional staff to go through every snippet of Sarah Palin’s emails as Governor – even asking the public to help them sift through every last syllable:
"More than 24,000 e-mail messages sent to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska’s governor will be released Friday. Join The Post in digging through them. We are looking for 100 organized and dilligent readers who will work alongside Post reporters to analyze, contextualize, and research the emails. Think of it as spending some time in our newsroom.
"Our hope is that working together, we can efficiently find interesting information and extract new stories that will lead to further investigation."
The Los Angeles Times announced it would be putting up an “online database” of this supposed treasure trove of correspondence from 2006 through her naming as John McCain’s running mate in 2008:
"Today the state of Alaska released nearly 25,000 emails from Palin’s tenure as governor. Our team is in Alaska and scanning them in. They will appear on this page through the day. If you find anything we should be writing about, email a tip to documents@latimes.com"
Curiously though, this same L.A. Times has – for 3 years running – repeatedly, despite numerous requests, refused to release a video it possesses of Barack Obama reportedly praising Palestinian radical Rashid Khalidi at 2003 Chicago dinner. The same Khalidi who has called Israel a “racist” state and who called suicide attacks a justified response to “Israeli aggression”. The same Khalidi who organized a 2000 fundraiser for Barack Obama’s unsuccessful congressional bid, and whose Arab American Action Network received a $75,000 grant from the Woods Fund of Chicago, while Mr. Obama served on its board.
Yes, THAT Rashid Khalidi, the lavish praise for whom by then-candidate and now-President Barack Obama the L.A. Times apparently finds less relevant than Sarah Palin’s emails sending Merry Christmas wishes, or updating staff on the latest techniques in waste management.
I wonder why the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have not hired any staff to look into the information that is completely unknown about Mr. Barack Hussein Obama. You know, little things like…
• Punahou School records
• Occidental College records
• Columbia College records
• Columbia Thesis paper
• Harvard College records
• Records of who paid for his college credits
• Passport records
• Complete medical records (not a 2008 brief)
• Illinois Bar Records
• Illinois State Senate records
• Illinois State Senate schedule
• Law practice client list
• Harvard Law Review articles that were published
• University of Chicago scholarly articles
• Annenberg Challenge Board Minutes
• Emails as State Senator
• Emails as U.S. Senator
To name a few. Sorry to be nitpicky there. I just thought for a moment perhaps these legendary American publications were engaging in hypocrisy. Or sexism. Or both. |
