Before getting to the moose meat of the 24,000 pages of newly released Sarah Palin e-mails, a few quick observations:First, why is the Deranged One being singled out to release her e-mails? She's no threat to ever be elected president, and very little threat of garnering her own party's presidential nomination. Hell, she probably won't even run in 2012. Boring white male retread GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty are former state governors. Where are their e-mails from office? Where are Obama's e-mails from his time in the U.S. Senate and the Illinois legislature? I don't get it. I really don't.
Second, I very much feel sorry for the peon staffers at some of these so-called "mainstream" "news" organizations who have doubtlessly had to spend hours upon hours this weekend wading through the six banker's boxes of Palin e-mails. You know what? The higher ups (editors, producers, etc.) at these "news" outlets ought to get that shit detail. Give the little men and women the weekend off, for chrissakes.
Those points out of the way, let's get down to the heart of the matter -- because these Palin e-mails do contain some shocking revelations if you're willing to really pick them apart with a fine-toothed comb. My own personal review (although admittedly at this point preliminary) has already dug up these Top 10 total jawdroppers:
10. Palin sought staff help in the Alaska governor's mansion to keep alcohol away from young people there. (MSNBC) [TIR: The right-wing prude!]
9. Palin tells an aide to remind a reporter of office perks that as Alaska governor she declined to use or accept. (CNN.com) [TIR: The unmitigated nerve of the babe!]
8. Palin complains that as governor, she doesn't have as much time as she'd like to go for jogs. (Huffington Post) [TIR: Putting herself before her office -- the B*tch!]
7. Before being named as John McCain's running mate, Palin got her dates wrong concerning the republic partisan National Convention, thinking it continued until September 5, 2008, when it actually ended on September 4. (CBS News) [TIR: This is telling: This ditzy broad can't even read a damn calendar!]
6. Palin encourages aides and friends to vote in an online poll to disagree with an Alaska Supreme Court decision regarding abortion rights. (MSNBC) [TIR: Truly damning!]
5. A political consultant tells Palin to "hook up with a guy named Pete Rouse," and Palin says she's "game to meet him." (ABC News) [TIR: Only one small problem here: They were to meet to talk about boring political issues, nothing else. Damn pesky surrounding details!]
4. Palin's e-mails are "sprinkled with mentions of God." (New York Times) [How typical and sad: After all, you can't spell "GOP" without G-O-upside-down-d.]
3. Palin didn't care for reporter questions about a tanning bed located in the governor's mansion. (LA Times) [TIR: This is Palin in a nutshell: The press is just doing its job, asking the hard-hitting questions, and Palin fights them tooth and nail every inch of the way.]
2. Palin paid "significant attention" to how her administration was portrayed in the press, and she was "often blunt and frequently impatient," and had "often strained" relations with fellow politicians. (Washington Post) [TIR: This stands in stark contrast to most other politicians out there, who are routinely indifferent to media portrayals of their records, are patient and beat around the bush to the last, and nearly always get along with their fellow politicians.]
1. Palin would sometimes use such terms as "unflippingbelievable" and "Holy flipping A." (MSNBC) [TIR: Right There -- Palin's political future is T-O-A-S-T.]
Well, that's it so far. But back now to my review of these e-mails. I plan to spend hours on this over the weekend, and I will be providing live blog updates (just like the aforementioned "news" outlets) throughout the weekend. (Or not.)
AND A PALIN ENCORE LATE FRIDAY NIGHT: The Latest From MSNBC (no surprise they were the only "news" outlet with multiple entries on my Top 10) -- the Real Smoking Gun from them!: "Palin aide spread rumors about Troopergate investigator's wife!!!" (MSNBC) [TIR: I might just be doing MSNBC a disservice over here, since I'm going from memory and it's possible I actually saw that one on TMZ.com or TheHollywoodGossip.com. Regardless, only a leftist 20 percenter goof would even recall the particulars of "Troopergate" or care about them. I sure as hell don't, and I remember Everything (important, anyway). Good Grief, what a yawn! The leftist 20 percenters' total obsession with this largely irrelevant woman still to this day makes me laugh on end! Dumbasses.]
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