Why the press sent literally armies of people to pour though the emails from when she was governor of Alaska looking for a scandal. She holds no political office and will likely not run in 2012, so why the hate? She gets as much if not more scrutiny as the sitting president. Why is that? How is this news? Its like the media has turned paparazzi and Palin is now Brittany Spears.
If the reporters are truly trying to expose politicians hypocrisy and lies there is plenty to go round in DC, they don't need to go all the way to Alaska. How about simply fact checking the President's latest speech?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/to...a-antagonists/
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/11/welch.palin.email/index.html?hpt=op
My favorite part
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Three weeks ago, the journalism navel-gazing community was abuzz over an academic study of more than 700 news articles and 20 network news segments from 2009 that addressed a single controversial claim of the health care reform debate.
Was it President Obama's oft-repeated whopper that he was nobly pushing the reform rock up the hill despite the concentrated efforts of health care"special interests?" Was it his oft-repeated promise that "If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan," something that is getting even less true by the minute? Was it the way Obama and the Democrats brazenly gamed and misrepresented the Congressional Budget Office's price-tag scoring of the bill?
No. The cause for Obamacare-coverage reconsideration was not the truth-stretching claims made by a president seeking to radically reshape an important aspect of American life, but rather the Facebook commentary of ... Sarah Palin. "In more than 60 percent of the cases," the authors found, "it's obvious that newspapers abstained from calling [Palin's] death panels claim false." Horrors.
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The press didn't spend its time investigating possible falsehoods and misleading statements about the plan. They dedicated their time to Palin's Death Panel claims, unreal... pass on the real news in favor of a claim from a past small state governor and failed VP candidate.
The funny part is if they simply stop making her news.... she ceases to become news.