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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (431514)	6/12/2011 5:13:51 PM
From: FJB	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

RE:her image has hardened into one of a brittle, even paranoid, politician who seethes with resentment This critic like most liberals is completely detached from reality. Do you see paranoia and seething when you see Palin on tv? I see someone who is happy and totally in control.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (431514)	6/12/2011 6:07:55 PM
From: steve harris	10 Recommendations Respond to of 793914

I see it as Palin is a visible source of the truth. Just as Joe the Plumber was. Joe the Plumber wasn't running for office either but made Obama look like a fool on the national stage, becoming a target of Obama's BrownShirts.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (431514)	6/12/2011 6:34:33 PM
From: Tom Clarke	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Any reporter who sees her like that has to be projecting, they must be pulling their hair out now. Amy Holmes was terrific on Reliable Sources today. >>KURTZ: When the state of Alaska released all those Sarah Palin e-mails under a Freedom of Information Act request from the media, what happened is that news organizations did what bloggers have done for years. And Jane Hall, they asked their readers and viewers to help them sort through 24,000 e-mails. Is that a kind of a milestone, or is this just unique to Palin? HALL: Well, I think it's unique to Palin, and I think the media should cop to that. They think they're going to find something entertaining. I mean, it's not, you know, something -- in my mind it would have been better to have crowd sourcing on the war in Iraq or health care or something -- you know, this is not a big, serious subject. It is an entertaining subject to the media, who care a lot about Sarah Palin maybe more than the Republican voters do. KURTZ: Here is what somebody wrote to "The Washington Post" ombudsman about this exercise, Dana Milbank. "Sickening. Trying to recruit 100 Palin haters from the general public to sift through Palin's personal e-mails looking for dirt to generate more anti-Palin stories." Wow. That's how it looks to a lot of people. MILBANK: I can see why it might look like a waste of time. You know, I think our newsroom had actually ordered in pizza for all the people doing it, like it was an election night or something. I'm glad to say I was home doing other things, sending out Twitter pictures. But, you know, look, it's going to be done by somebody anyway since the information's available in a public realm. Wouldn't we do the same thing if it were, you know, from George Bush's White House or Obama's White House? It's just something out that everybody can't get through in that period of time. It turns out it was a dud, but -- KURTZ: Well, a dud in the sense that Politico had a headline, "Palin E-mails, No Bombshell," but because -- and a lot of it was about her doing state business as governor. I think she looked good, not bad. And there were some politics as usual, and there were a few embarrassing things. And we found out she doesn't think much of the media. But because so many journalists went to Alaska -- CNN sent somebody, MSNBC sent Mike Isikoff -- they almost were invested in having to do stories to justify the initial expense. HOLMES: Right, I think that's true. Someone described it as if they were trying to record the moon landing with all of this. It's just totally ridiculous. I think it was as disgraceful as it was ludicrous. And no, the media does not do this to other politicians like President Obama with this feeding frenzy, and sending everybody everywhere to try to get the media -- try to get the public involved. MILBANK: If he released his private e-mails -- HOLMES: Well, these were not private e-mails. MILBANK: -- I'd even go into the office for that. HOLMES: This was a FOIA request for government e-mails. KURTZ: Right, these were state government -- (CROSSTALK) KURTZ: But why disgraceful? Why was this -- HOLMES: Right. And it's absurd. She's not an elected politician. She is not sitting in office. She hasn't even yet, if she's going to, throw her hat into the ring to run for president of the United States, or the United States Senate from Arizona. KURTZ: I'm short on time. Why was this a disgraceful exercise by the media? HOLMES: The media, it seemed to me, it was like they were putting out America's Most Wanted tip line to try to find something to try to nail Sarah Palin. All we found out from this is that she wanted a tanning bed. This is ridiculous. And I think the media needs to go to rehab with Anthony Weiner and get over their obsession with this woman. KURTZ: All right. You've got your marching orders. Find a clinic for yourselves. Amy Holmes, Jane Hall, Dana Milbank, thanks very much for joining us. transcripts.cnn.com