The "email hack" is a classic Rovian diversion trick. DON'T FALL FOR IT! Remember these ones?

[scheming daemons]

In 1986, Karl Rove bugged his own candidate's office

From WIKI:

"1986 William Clements, Jr. gubernatorial campaign
In 1986, Rove helped Clements become governor a second time. In a strategy memo Rove wrote for his client prior to the race, now among Clements's papers in the Texas A&M University library, Rove quoted Napoleon: "The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack."

In 1986, just before a crucial debate in campaign, Rove claimed that his office had been bugged by Democrats. The police and FBI investigated and discovered that the bug's battery was so small that it needed to be changed every few hours, and the investigation was dropped. Critics, including other Republican operatives, suspected Rove had bugged his own office to garner sympathy votes in the close governor's race."

In 2000, Karl Rove was suspected of having a videotape of George Bush's debate practice sent to Gore's offices

A Cheney low-level aide ultimately took the fall:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998233,00.html?promoid=googlep

In 2004, Karl Rove was suspected of setting up the whole fake TANG documents, otherwise known as "Rather-gate"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathergate

This whole thing is a DIVERSIONARY tactic to get the media to quit talking about the Wall Street meltdown.

If you fall for this, pardon my french, you're a fucking idiot.


Anybody starting threads that say "Hacking Palin's email is wrong" is either stupid or a troll.

Anybody starting "concern" threads that this may be "bad" for Obama is most DEFINITELY a troll.



Don't feed the trolls.

[TomInTib]

1. When the found the bug, it had a ten-minute battery in it.

Some Radio Shack deal, if I remember correctly.

[scheming daemons]

2. Dont just Rec this, people.... kick it too.... keep it up top to remind people

[Wickerman]

3. Hacks suck - keep your eyes on the ball - the important issue is

Governor MooseBreath was using an unsecure email network to conduct state business. :wtf:

What the fuck, indeed, she was doing so to avoid having to turn over said emails in an investigation. I suppose one could call that obstruction of justice.

If it isn't OoJ it is just plain butt-ignorant, not what we need a heartbeat away from the nuke button.

[sasha031]

4. an excellent point, saw the so called breaking news on CNN

they are following the Rove playbook.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. Excellent point n/t

[lolamio]

6. My thoughts exactly. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

7. Yep.

Which is why we don't need 20 threads on this.

Yours is a good one though. The others should be left to sink.

Folks are actually discussing whether the Obama camp might or might not have done this.

Guess Rove can thank them very much.

[alsame]

8. And Traitor Joe hacked his own website and tried to blame

Lamont. This is right out of their playbook.

[Geek_Girl]

9. And the Email posted are of cute family pictures and boring emails

Rove is so behind this!

[anneboleyn]

22. Exactly -- not what one would expect in the Veep's inbox -- just "victim" material

In the sense that she can claim that her famly was victimized by this.

[me b zola]

27. That's what caught my eye as well

Does anyone believe that Palin is as innocent as her e-mails portray her? I don't believe i for a minute.

[AlCzervik]

10. if there was something damning i'd agree but it's all just boring shit.

[quiet.american]

11. K&R -- this is just another reason that this pig man needs to be cuffed and imprisoned. nt

[FrenchieCat]

12. I just sent copied and pasted your post and sent it to

CNN TIPS.

Told them that NO, not this time!

[K8-EEE]

13. Yep her whole value is as a distraction

So YAWN on all this shit and GOOOOOOO BAMA!

[yourguide]

14. Sigh

ATTN: DU - A well known hacking group took responsibility for hacking Palin's email

Anonymous

This loose group of Internet vigilantes (vaguely centered around, but not officially connected to, the site 4chan) often harasses unsavory but small-time people, but they did help with the arrest of pedophile Chris Forcand. Their usual tactic is a simple denial of service attack like the one against Scientology.org, but they occasionally get more sophisticated; members tell me they plan to hoist banners above some Church branches. Inspired by the release of Tom Cruise's secret Scientology video and the Church's attempts to suppress it, Anon promises an all-out war.


So any of you knuckleheads even suggesting that Obama OR Rove may be involved etc get that thought out of your mind.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Pardon my skepticism...

but can anyone prove that the well-known hacking group Anonymous is responsible? Is there a method of communicating with this group to prove this? If so, why haven't they been arrested?

And finally, why the knuckleheads bit? Aren't we all Dems here? Or do you just enjoy insulting people when you feel you have information that other people haven't picked up?

[blogslut]

33. They're Anonymous

Avoiding scrutiny is what they do. Well, that and troll for LULZ and drama. Personally, I stay the hell away from /b/. But if you want to go and ask them personally, just look for a website named 4Chan and find the forum named /b/.

I think /b/ did it. Governor Palin has their attention.

[Teaser]

38. I'm sure it was /b/

If it wasn't, and someone is trying to false flag them here, well, that someone is in for some fun times in the future.

[GirlieQ]

42. Indeed!

Finally, someone here who knows something about the corners of the 'webs. According to my husband who reads 4chan, it was all over the board today. I don't read 4chan because I only surf on my work laptop and don't want to get linked to kiddie porn, but I'll accept that my husband knows what he's talking about.

IT WAS ANONYMOUS, NOT SOME ROVIAN TRICK. STOP BEING PARANIOD, DU'ERS!

[Overseas]

15. Democrats didn't do it. And it is NO BIG DEAL.

That's the best way to handle things.

Compared to Republican voter suppression, this little hacking is chump change.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. K&R...What do we know about the "hackers"?

The article describes them as "an activist group calling itself 'anonymous'"

It could easily be KKKarl and his KKKrew.

[yourguide]

23. sigh

Anonymous

This loose group of Internet vigilantes (vaguely centered around, but not officially connected to, the site 4chan) often harasses unsavory but small-time people, but they did help with the arrest of pedophile Chris Forcand. Their usual tactic is a simple denial of service attack like the one against Scientology.org, but they occasionally get more sophisticated; members tell me they plan to hoist banners above some Church branches. Inspired by the release of Tom Cruise's secret Scientology video and the Church's attempts to suppress it, Anon promises an all-out war in the following hokey but entertaining video:

[bushisanidiot]

17. AGREED! THIS IS ANOTHER REPUKE DIRTY TRICK.

it's all they know.. they are incapable of running a clean campaign anywhere in this country!!

[adoraz]

18. Could be, but also may just be a regular hacker...

trying to get news attention. If I had to bet, I would go for the second option, but you can never underestimate the Republicans.

[Parker CA]

20. Or it could easily be an annonymous hacker group being paid by Rove to claim what they did.

[adoraz]

26. That is what I meant by Rove

Rove himself won't do the hacking.

[tbyg52]

21. Either way, there's lots of other stuff on her. nt

[cynatnite]

19. Anyone who posts 'don't fall for it' threads are trolls...

Anybody who calls someone who posts a thread about hacked emails a troll is a troll.

Yes, it's stupid even when you do it, too. :eyes:

[Cha]

24. Yeah, I remember this one particularly..

"In 2000, Karl Rove was suspected of having a videotape of George Bush's debate practice sent to Gore's offices

A Cheney low-level aide ultimately took the fall:<"/b>

This guy named Tom Downey was helping Gore with the debates and after rove mailed the shit..he had to drop out and paul begala took over..suggesting Gore "roll his eyes" and sigh heavily"

I wasn't on the internet yet so I read it in one of the weekly mags at the time..everything except rove's name.

[KathieG]

25. Yeah, I'm not buying it

[Avalux]

28. I have another one to add - his very first -

Rove posed as a Democrat and stole letterhead from the Democratic candidate's office. Sent out invitations on the letterhead to tons of people inviting them to a party at the candidate's headquarters.

When the evening of the party rolled around, a crowd showed up and the Democrat's office was dark and no one there (but of course!!).

[Sodan]

29. K & R

[JoFerret]

31. (Im)moral outrage is his mo

Delicious though it may be - illegal behavior is no way to be.

[cui bono]

32. Good call. I think you are right.

Perhaps we should start a media campaign to remind them of this too?

[Nevernose]

34. You forgot the "Bush on Cocaine" story

It was supposedly Rove who leaked it to Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son. He then backed out of the story, leaving the coke allegations as just that -- allegations.

[chknltl]

35. KnR. Hadn't fed any trolls, now forwarned, thanks eom

[Teaser]

36. it's a pretty lame trick then

If Rove did do this, and attempted to blame Anonymous, well, I'd love to watch the hell his life is about to become.

[zulchzulu]

37. Of course it is...

[backscatter712]

39. Important safety tip.

I personally can't say for sure whether this email pwnage is due to Rovian manipulations, or whether it's genuinely due to Anonymous hackers hanging out on 4chan.

Either way, it's definitely illegal, and best for the Obama campaign to redirect to things like the tanking economy and McCain's lobbyists...

[bluethruandthru]

40. kick n/t

[CitizenPatriot]

41. I was pretty dubious

due to the exceptional grammar displayed - and I'm not being sarcastic. The woman can't string a sentence together in person and she misuses words. Her emails didn't read like her at all.

[libertypirate]

43. Rovian reversal webmail.alaska.gov would have been a better hack

Anyway if someone wanted to make fun of her leadership they would have hacked this one.

https://webmail.alaska.gov/Exchange/

[Generic Brad]

44. I have yet to see mention that the FBI was investigating

That detail is conspicuously absent from all the stories I have seen about this. If the FBI has not been brought in to investigate, then this claim is total bogus. I'm not biting on this one.

[truthisfreedom]

45. I'm with you 100% on this one. The whole thing is ridiculous. It's a total distraction and has no

meaning.

[D23MIURG23]

46. I thought it was cool.

Kind of an anarchic answer to FOIA (thats what she was using that email address to avoid in the first place).

But you are right; this is far less important than the crashing economy.

[harris8]

47. K&R nt