Release of Sarah Palin emails angers US conservatives

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Rightwingers accuse media of vendetta against possible Republican nominee and ask why Obama was not targeted too

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/sarah-palin-emails">Read the emails and help catalogue them

Ewen MacAskill in Juneau | Saturday June 11 2011 10.04 BST

The release of the Sarah Palin emails has provoked a backlash from grassroots conservatives accusing major US newspapers and the Guardian of engaging in a vendetta against the former Alaska governor and possible presidential candidate.

More than 24,000 emails from her time as governor were made public on Friday under freedom of information.

Conservatives bombarded newspapers, rightwing websites and other media outlets with complaints that Palin had been singled out for special treatment and that other politicians were not being subjected to the same level of scrutiny, in particular Barack Obama.

Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News journalist and one of the few members of the media trusted by Palin, labelled the treatment of Palin "a media colonoscopy" and suggested some news organisations were on "a mission to destroy".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/11/sarah-palin-emails-conservative-reaction

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:rofl: @ the fact they're getting this upset over the release of these heavily redacted emails and the real tooth and nail fighting for the 2012 Republican nomination hasn't even started yet.

[No Elephants]

1. U.S. conservatives are always angry.

[nonperson]

4. Angry over Thatcher snub. Angry over Palin emails. Angry over everything.

They're always angry because they can't survive honest criticism of their dishonest ideas and agenda.

If they're ever forced to join the real world and face genuine peer and public scrutiny they'd be rendered extinct within minutes.

[SemperEadem]

12. perhaps if they can be kept angry

they will stroke out.

but you're right--they can't stand their own exposure for what they are.

[ejpoeta]

2. the fact is that this goes back to 2008 and it has taken 3 years to get them

released. she hasn't been singled out. she was the vp nominee in 2008. it might seem that way to these idiots, but that's because someone told them to think that.

[pinboy3niner]

3. "a media colonoscopy"

Palin still trying to come out ahead with Couric, but she always seems to be Number Two. :rofl:

[sce56]

11. Colonoscopy! Yeah they did that to me due to age in fact it is reccomended for all over fifty

Colonoscopy! Yeah they did that to my asshole due to age in fact it is recommended for all over fifty. In her case we know she is an asshole now we might unveil the polyps.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. A colonoscopy will not work on a republican...

The machine can't figure out where to start on a GOPer, because they are all TOTAL assholes. So full of shit a bowel prep would last for eternity.

[Tippy]

14. You got that right.......

[indepat]

20. Wow!

:thumbsup:

[titaniumsalute]

22. LMAO

[titaniumsalute]

23. A republican colonoscopy

[valerief]

37. Badda bing! Good one! nt

[MurrayDelph]

25. Well, we are...

trying to find out what was in her head.

[ladywnch]

26. yeah, Greta, you would know since you are so far up Palin's ass

you can probably see Russia through her naval!! It's probably pretty crowded up in there now!

[Mopar151]

5. All part of the "teaparty" worldview

Fearful, paranoid, with inferority and persecution complexes run amok. They love their fellow flag waving, God-using, pistol-packin' phonies. Like Ollie North, for instance....
And the phony part seems to be a strong requirement, for a whole pile of reasons that make me want to lose breakfast.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. I don't know why these people are upset. It was a republican lady in AK politics that

called for emails. I think they use to be close friends until she realized that Palin was no better then the other governors. Palin and company tried to destroy this woman. Obama had nothing to do with this issue. I don't understand why they would put this woman in the same light as the president. She is a freaking private citizen who couldn't even finish her term as governor.

[sendero]

7. Revealing the truth..

... is a "vendetta". Only in the fucked up minds of Republicans.

[wordpix]

8. 3/10/08: "We're going to grab some coffee. Would you and like some?"

If I were gov, I'd read over my emails so the typos don't indicate I should go back to grammar 101.

:rofl:

[DWinNJ]

9. Palin is being singled out for special treatment

If we don’t protest against the lame stream media …

Next they will be hounding her to prove she’s a U.S citizen in spite of irrefutable proof already out there!

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

32. hysterically funny blinders on this BULL moose...

Repugnants demanded all emails of a college professor in hopes of proving he said something they could use against him. Since when is a half-term governor and failed vice presidential candidate not subject to the same open information rules as lowly state employees? Repugnant blinder-vision is totally amazing. Almost as stupid as their history-revisionism - Paul Revere rides again, but this time to warn the British. LOL. "Stupid is as stupid does."

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. We learned from Weiner's tweets that he has a dick.

And we'll learn from Sarah Palin's emails that she has no brain.

[HopeHoops]

15. How is THAT learning anything?

:shrug:

We knew that LONG ago.

[SoapBox]

28. ...but she seems to have balls.

More man than woman...but for her, it's no compliment.

[wordpix]

16. I read some, it's hard to stop. Putting her kids on travel expense for state biz

in one. Sent to Guardian.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

17. Greta Van Cistern, a vessel for holding all of Faux's talking points in one head at the

same time.

[Doctor_J]

18. roaches hate lights

[Zoeisright]

19. Anything that makes repukes angry is a good thing.

[somone]

21. Oh well. Fuck 'em.

[liberal N proud]

24. Where is their anger over the treatment of Weiner?

:rofl:

[SoapBox]

27. Hilarious! ConservaTurds are angry...LOLOLOL.

...they're also constipated.

ANY thing that makes these freaks "angry", I'm all for.

[underpants]

33. Yes but some question why we haven't seen the LONGFORM emails with a raised stamp

:rofl:

Greta is such a tool it is amazing. She might as well be Palin's actual spokesperson.

[DallasNE]

29. The Word "Transparency" Is Not

In the conservative vocabulary. Maybe if they would do a little reading up on open government and transparency they wouldn't come across as such idiots all of the time. The are not for little government as they like to claim. They want an all controlling government that crushes those who would disagree, including extra-legal means. Wisconsin is a case in point.

[Populist_Prole]

30. "Conservatives angry...." Who gives a shit?

And why does even The Guardian frame it in such a way that we or anybody else should give a shit...like it has consequences to be reckoned with?

As was noted above, US conservatives are ALWAYS angry. Let 'em stew. It'll just cause their next moves to be that much more spontaneously and recklessly acted out...eroding their credibility even more.

Who is it who stated "If your enemy is angry, irritate him"?

[Plucketeer]

31. HAH!

Appropriate that Greta would characterize it as a "colonoscopy". With a last name like Van Suck Stern, what could be MORE appropriate???

[JJW]

34. Boo-Freakin-Hoo

What are they so afraid of?

[dogfacedboy]

35. Nobody who matters cares what the right-wing thinks or feels.

[wordpix]

36. p. 3887 WOLF prog---highly suspicious, includes info re: Sen. Murkowski

trying to "neutralize" efforts of the "radical environmental gang."

I am pretty sure this is a brief sent to Palin and not from Palin, although it's p.2 and doesn't say.

[wordpix]

38. P. 5725 Palin vetoed making Juneau park handicap-accessible

what a nice person :sarcasm: even a Repub complained in this letter to her

[alp227]

39. Freakin' Palin Zombies. And conservatives think that Obama brainwashed the young voters.

There's actually a book by Jason Mattera called Obama Zombies that argues that case. I'm not kidding. And I can't believe that enough people are outraged over PalinLeaks to warrant attention in a British paper.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

40. oh really, what a bunch of wiener's

[theaocp]

41. Dial Whine-One-One

Your waaaaaaahmbulance is waiting, pukes. Fuck you.

[nc4bo]

42. Whining and panty wringing over sanitized emails? Republican reactions = really silly & dumb. nt