When the NYT says its not a witch hunt, its a witch hunt.
They’re motivated!
NYT:
News organizations mobilized teams of reporters and even recruited online volunteers to scan more than 24,000 pages of e-mails…MSNBC.com deputized 40 volunteers, chosen with the help of the League of Women Voters and the Retired Public Employees…
The New York Times and The Guardian sent reporters armed with scanners and then solicited readers’ assistance. Politico enlisted a dozen editors, reporters and interns who worked as a team from their Northern Virginia newsroom “plowing through” the documents, as one editor described it. The Washington Post initially asked for 100 volunteers to sift through the documents. They were quickly overwhelmed…
“This is not a witch hunt,” said Jim Roberts, an assistant managing editor at The Times. “There are 25,000 documents here, and we can use all the eyeballs we can get.” The Times, like The Post and others, uploaded the e-mails onto its Web site and invited readers to sift through them…“From our perspective, we’re just providing the public records to the public, who own them,” said Bill Dedman, a reporter for MSNBC
Question: when they say “this is not a witch hunt,” what is it? (A convoy?)
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When the 2-year hate of Palin starts losing Left-feminists …
[Darleen Click]
The delightfully named Dr. Violet Socks
Other former vice-presidential candidates or potential presidential candidates whose entire email archive from their time in office has been released so the press (or just people who read the WaPo online) can comb through looking for something interesting …
You know, I can’t think of any. Nope, not a single one.
Look, we’re all feminists here. We all know the real reason for the Palin email panty-sniffing extravaganza. I’d just like to know what excuse, if any, the trash-pickers are using for treating this email archive like it’s the fucking Pentagon Papers. I haven’t seen anything online.
I wonder what they tell themselves in the privacy of their own minds, or on whatever has replaced JournoList. “Oh, it’s important that we do this because, unlike every other ex-governor/senator/congressperson who has ever run for vice-presidential or presidential office, Sarah Palin has been genetically determined to be the spawn of Satan—it’s a scientific fact!—and so we must be vigilant for the sake of our republic.”
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UPDATE: Seriously, people—if anybody comes across an attempt at justifying the panty-sniffing, I’d like to see it. As far as I’m aware, nobody’s even trying. The conventional wisdom [HAH!] on the left is that Sarah Palin has absolutely no chance of being elected president and is far more likely to serve as a spoiler for someone like Rigel. In other words, the more popular Palin is, the more likely Obama is to be reelected. Which explains why it’s so crucially important for “progressives” to scrutinize every scrap of email from Alaska in order to discredit her even further…uh, no, wait. Oops.
h/t Little Miss Attila who adds:
And while it’s soooo important to go through a former governor’s emails with a fine-tooth comb that WaPo is enlisting help from the general public in this important endeavor, it’s apparently not important to find out more about Anthony Weiner’s serial sexual harrassment of young women.
So the mainstream media is worthless lately, even for them, and this makes me even more appreciative of Kristen Powers’s willingness to say what needs to be said about Rep. Weiner.
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