Palin e-mail bombshell: Sarah is “Team Edward,” Todd is “Team Jacob”
posted at 7:20 pm on June 10, 2011 by Allahpundit
Kidding, kidding. In fact, I can’t even take credit for that joke; it belongs to John Podhoretz, who’s joining in the Twitter merriment over the media’s idiocy. Still no news from their big fishing expedition as of 7 p.m. ET. Can you believe it?
Oh no, wait. Wait. Here’s something important from MSNBC:
In one email, dated Jan. 2, 2007 (PDF file opens in a new window), Sarah Palin reminds an aide that even though she’s a hunter, she’s opposed to bear hunting in the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary, 200 square miles of protected wildlife habitat located approximately 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. Her argument invokes fond memories of growing up in Alaska. She writes:
“I am a hunter. I grew up hunting – some of my best memories growing up are of hunting with my dad to help feel our freezer… I want Alaskans to have access to wildlife… BUT – he’s asking if I support hunting the bears in the sanctuary? No, I don’t… I don’t know any Alaskans who do support hunting the McNeil bears that frequent the viewing area. Many Alaskan and Outside visitors view these animals on the McNeil river, within the sanctuary, and, as my parents have reported back after their viewing trip, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience to see such beauty on that river.”
So there you go. If Romney brings up bear-hunting in the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary at one of the debates and Palin claims she’s all for it, she’s obviously a liar who’ll say anything to get elected.
We need a palate cleanser, my friends. Via Magic 107, behold the steely determination of a man bent on demonstrating, in the most vivid possible way, the insanity of the hyper-regulatory state.
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This has just got to be the best publicity for her upcoming movie!
What was the media thinking?
idesign on June 10, 2011 at 7:24 PM
Well, that’s a relief.
There are few things worse than being a fan of Twilight.
Count to 10 on June 10, 2011 at 7:24 PM
I ROTFLMAO.
Anyone who’s survived the mean streets of NYC on their bikes can only double over laughing.
great vid.
rickyricardo on June 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM
Playing the media like a finely tuned violin.
rbj on June 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM
Absolutely pathetic excuses for journalists
Will this backfire on them?
cmsinaz on June 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM
BOOM!
BallisticBob on June 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM
Absolutely not.
BallisticBob on June 10, 2011 at 7:27 PM
Naked bike ride tomorrow through Williamsburg. The Ultra Orthodox routinely harass bike riders so now they will get an eyeful.
Blake on June 10, 2011 at 7:28 PM
Dang it Bob
It’s shameful….truly
cmsinaz on June 10, 2011 at 7:30 PM
LOL!
I wondered where you had been last week, Allahpundit. You were making a bike video! Did you get hurt?
portlandon on June 10, 2011 at 7:30 PM
It takes some balls to ride your bike into a squad car just to make a point about being ticketed for doing what would be required to ride around it.
Though, I kind of doubt that the officer ticketed him for swerving out of the bike lane to avoid an obstacle.
Count to 10 on June 10, 2011 at 7:31 PM
I’m a bike commuter in Santa Monica.
It’s rare that a week goes by without me having an extremely close call where a driver wasn’t paying attention and almost slammed into me.
Bike commuting will never become more common in this country until we figure out a way to make biking safer.
That said, I also realize that there are plenty of cyclists out there that are d-bags which is also a huge part of the problem. Trust me, I hate the ‘mass effect’ bikers as much as the next person.
JadeNYU on June 10, 2011 at 7:31 PM
No doubt.
BallisticBob on June 10, 2011 at 7:33 PM
Oh, Allah – on days like this, I’m glad you’re out there doing what you do!
cynccook on June 10, 2011 at 7:34 PM
In Davis, CA, you can get most places outside of downtown by biking through the greenbelt areas or on bike paths that are actually farther away from the street than the sidewalk. Given that that isn’t an option in New York City, maybe they should consider underground bike paths.
Count to 10 on June 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM
Metaphor for Chuckle’s life.
Christien on June 10, 2011 at 7:35 PM
I haven’t read the comments yet, but the best one I came across on Twitter today was this re-Tweet:
RT @stevenertelt: BREAKING: Analysis of #PalinEmails shows a relative in Nigeria died and left her $10 million in a foreign bank account.
don_blanco on June 10, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Reagan went through a the media gauntlet but not like this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone have to put up with an outright witch hunt like Palin has. My opinion of the media was as low as I thought it could go but they’ve found a whole new level of fail.
Big Orange on June 10, 2011 at 7:36 PM
I gotta stop following this email story. My insides are in pain from laughing so much.
MrX on June 10, 2011 at 7:37 PM
Palin’s emails Vs. Weiner’s tweets: Could there be a more stark contrast?
Kataklysmic on June 10, 2011 at 7:37 PM
the media has not only jumped the shark tank.. it is the shark tank… and the Malachi Crunch brothers… and Pinky Tuscadero… and the Big Ragoo… &tc, &tc…
mjbrooks3 on June 10, 2011 at 7:37 PM
I wonder what the LSM take for their Palin hangovers?… I foresee a doozie comin on soon…
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RalphyBoy on June 10, 2011 at 7:37 PM
Team Edward / Team Jacob?
Ya means that freakin’ vampyr movie with that little sissy pale skinnd boy and that dark one? Is that the one where that girl pouts and whines how she wants to be dead and finally gets her wish?
Gayg. Mammy told me that fad was ovur. I’m a guessin’ not.
Question: Will Mitt make a cameo if they makes anymohr of them crapola teenage Dracula movies?
PappyD61 on June 10, 2011 at 7:40 PM
That’s it!
This shows that she’s an eco-freak and that she supports illegal immigration.
davidk on June 10, 2011 at 7:40 PM
If he tried to flee the cop on his bike, would that be a violent felony, too?
Christien on June 10, 2011 at 7:40 PM
Who are Edward and Jacob?
Tony737 on June 10, 2011 at 7:40 PM
Agreed. This is the most ridiculous spectacle! I am just embarrassed for the press. They have sunk so low.
petunia on June 10, 2011 at 7:41 PM
That video is priceless. Particularly the end.
John the Libertarian on June 10, 2011 at 7:41 PM
Now that was funny!
Kini on June 10, 2011 at 7:41 PM
Nothing wrong with jumping Pinky Tuscadero, but Leather was even cuter.
malclave on June 10, 2011 at 7:41 PM
Palin is a hunter and s savy female who grew up in a smart family. She and her husband fish for a living. She just threw out some bait. I don’t know her intentions but she is far smarter than those who underestimate her. Watch how she leads her opponents into a trap.
Zelsdorf Ragshaft on June 10, 2011 at 7:42 PM
Er, this one line concerns me:
“I am a hunter. I grew up hunting – some of my best memories growing up are of hunting with my dad to help feel our freezer… (bolding by me)
Freezer fetish analogy from the media in 3, 2, 1…
madmonkphotog on June 10, 2011 at 7:43 PM
As long as they don’t crash into Arnold’s chicken stand.
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Oops. Anyone want some slightly damaged wings?
malclave on June 10, 2011 at 7:46 PM
OT: Can a FOIA request go to retrieve Governor Romney’s emails?
portlandon on June 10, 2011 at 7:47 PM
Potential love interests of the main character of Twilight, or so I’ve been told. She apparently has to decide which one is going to ravage her and turn her into a monster.
Count to 10 on June 10, 2011 at 7:48 PM
We should start going through the trash of all the media big wigs and see what they do.
tim c on June 10, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Please no. We are broke.
antisocial on June 10, 2011 at 7:49 PM
Awesome video. Love it, love it, love it.
Splashman on June 10, 2011 at 7:50 PM
According to my extensive review of Sarah Palin’s e-mails, she may have already won the Spanish lottery!
Good Solid B-Plus on June 10, 2011 at 7:54 PM
There’s also the third option: Team Weiner.
Good Solid B-Plus on June 10, 2011 at 7:55 PM
Wow, I was just about to post this particular item in the other Palin thread. Kills another LSM meme that she is a slaughterer of all things.
carbon_footprint on June 10, 2011 at 7:55 PM
Looks like CNN is going to be Sarah’s PR firm. http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/06/cnn-concedes-governor-palin-was-a-hard-working-governor.html
heshtesh on June 10, 2011 at 7:56 PM
She’s not even trying hard. They are convinced that this person who puts herself forward as “Sarah Palin” HAS to be a lie. She is simply being honest and driving them nuts. The hardest ball to hit in politics is the straight pitch. The hitters are always looking for curves.
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on June 10, 2011 at 7:56 PM
So, are the NYT and WaPo going to join forces again and crowdsource the 50,000 documents NSA declassified?
Christien on June 10, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Oh, that was a Twilight joke? Now I get it.
Ah, Beta males and their Twilight humor.
j/k AP ;-)
KeepOhioRed on June 10, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Oh, right.
Well, if it ever comes to having to shut down the subways for lack of funds, it would be something to do with the tunnels.
Count to 10 on June 10, 2011 at 7:59 PM
There has to be a new phrase coined in the spirit of “jumping the shark” for this media fiasco.
Any ideas?
carbon_footprint on June 10, 2011 at 8:00 PM
The best way to discredit the media?
Get them to do it to themselves.
When this is all said and done, and the biggest bombshell uncovered is a surprise party for Piper, the entire MSNBC, WaPo, NYT, feeder fish outfits working with them on this fresh diversion from having to actually report on the epic failures of “Duh One”, you’re going to see an utter collapse in the viability of those media outlets and, just my opinion, more than a little vindication for Palin, plus a rehab of her public image as people realize two things:
1. The media wasted all that time and effort fixated on one person who isn’t even an elected official and not in any way responsible for the worst economy since the The Depression, rather than looking into and holding to account the persons who are…and start to wonder “why?”.
and
2. Everything they were ever told about this woman, by those same fools in the media, is complete and utter bulls***.
They don’t understand that, the beating they gave her that damaged her “favorables”, etc… is going to be the same thing that brings those numbers up as they continue their now completely discredited onslaught.
SuperCool on June 10, 2011 at 8:01 PM
Sarah scares these people.
blatantblue on June 10, 2011 at 8:02 PM
IIRC, the new one is “nuking the fridge,” from the 4th Indy movie.
Good Solid B-Plus on June 10, 2011 at 8:03 PM
So another stupid little Liberal plan blows up in their smarmy little Liberal’s faces…
She made the Left look absolutely ridiculous chasing her tour bus around last week…
And now she has them all digging through her emails looking like a bunch of mindless drooling vultures….
I can’t wait for her movie where she shows the world how sick and deranged the Left is on The Big Screen… man, I got my pop-corn… this is going to be good… :-O
The 2012 campaigns have not even started yet and this pretty little lady is destroying the nasty Left…
idesign on June 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM
I’m not sure it’s fear; just instinct and typical lib groupthink.
Sarah is a red cloth, and the MSM and their lib cohorts are the bull. They are not capable of rational thought when it comes to Palin, just blind, seething hatred. It’s pathological and, quite frankly, scary.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we eventually see a reprint of “The Poisonous Mushromm” with Palin as the new main character. Yeah yeah, I know, I Godwin’d this, but seriously, it gets frightening how deep the left’s hatred of Palin sinks.
Good Solid B-Plus on June 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM
oh yeah…and since it’s a blue state I would say it could be fast tracked
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:05 PM
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Here, I found one of them.
Sender: Mitt.Romney@Awesomehair.com
Recipient: Mitt.Romney@Awesomehair.com
Subject: RE: My hair
God my hair looks good. *swoon*
Good Solid B-Plus on June 10, 2011 at 8:06 PM
“Professional journalists”
malclave on June 10, 2011 at 8:08 PM
“Feel our freezer”? Doesn’t the dumb b**** know the word is “FILL our freezer”? What a profoundly stupid woman. Sarah Palin, you should be ashamed of yourself. Just go away!
Paul-Cincy on June 10, 2011 at 8:08 PM
Digging out the pony?
Christien on June 10, 2011 at 8:08 PM
Was that Charles on the awesome bike ride?
onlineanalyst on June 10, 2011 at 8:09 PM
What about “checking the email”?
For example:
“Why isn’t the media reporting on the fact that the President has thumbed his nose at Congress and is continuing his war in Libya without authorization?”
“Oh, I don’t know. They’re probably busy ‘checking the email’”.
Another usage:
“Is the media seriously reporting another non-story about Sarah Palin’s bus tour?”
“Of course! You know how they like to “check the email” when she’s involved.”
JadeNYU on June 10, 2011 at 8:09 PM
Twilight Book and Movie series: Edward is a vampire and Jacob is a werewolf. They both are passionately attracted to Bella, who is filled with teen angst and attitude.
I read them; as I am Romanian gypsy in heritage and a fan of vampire fiction, I was curious as to the direction this generation was taking the story. I enjoyed the last book best.
Personally, I am “Team Jacob” all the way. He is a classic “alpha” to Edward’s pale “beta”.
Mutnodjmet on June 10, 2011 at 8:10 PM
Couple of tweets from Iowahawk…….
__The Palin Email Project : 25% McCarthyite witch hunt, 25% Central Park wilding, 50% pimply 7th grade Facebook vendetta.
__The news media used to investigate gang rapes. Now they organize them.
idesign on June 10, 2011 at 8:10 PM
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:12 PM
OMG, Allah, you owe me a new spleen. I ruptured mine laughing at this gem.
Geochelone on June 10, 2011 at 8:12 PM
drudge headline…..
Press hunts mama grizzly
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:16 PM
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:17 PM
You know what’s also funny. The CNN people saying it’s unfortunate it wasn’t released in binary form so that they could search it. This means they have to actually read accounts from Palin that they normally wouldn’t want to read. This has to make it very difficult to maintain the bubble they live in.
MrX on June 10, 2011 at 8:17 PM
Paul-Cincy
Please tell me that your simply forgot the sarc tag.
BTW, people, there is a distinction between typos and spelling errors, and neither is an indication of intelligence.
goddessoftheclassroom on June 10, 2011 at 8:22 PM
Future Drudge Headline: Mauled
SuperCool on June 10, 2011 at 8:23 PM
I like!
Say, do you know what the media will never do to “the obama experiment”? Check the e-mail.
carbon_footprint on June 10, 2011 at 8:25 PM
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/06/race-read-sarah-palins-email-live-blog/38709/
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:27 PM
nice
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:28 PM
the biggest unreported news to come out of this today. Was that Obama giving a speech in MI in 2007 stoled several of Palin’s ideas (on energy) and never credited those ideas to her nor her staff nor her state
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:29 PM
That video is effin hilarious.
rbendana on June 10, 2011 at 8:30 PM
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Today the left learned the meaning of a bridge too far.
Maybe Palin can give them a history lesson…
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Well, it should have been released in binary.
Oh, still on paper, of course… but converted to binary.
malclave on June 10, 2011 at 8:33 PM
atlasshrugs
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:36 PM
Holy cow. How can this CNN reporter keep his job? I can’t believe this guy! Palin should hire him!
That anchor was doing everything to gin up something but Drew was just giving it straight. Unbelievable.
Dongemaharu on June 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM
God, I hate the Friday afternoon news feeds……
itsspideyman on June 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM
I just wanted someone to repost me. Gives me validation. I’m needy. What can I say.
Paul-Cincy on June 10, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Allah, you gotta link that CNN report.
Dongemaharu on June 10, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Watching Spitzer on CNN….
He had on Matt Lewis. Taking about e-mailgate.
It was fantastic! I hope some one recorded it.
idesign on June 10, 2011 at 8:42 PM
ROFLMAO…i wonder if they think in the dark of nght mayb e its them and not us:
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:42 PM
OMG!!!111!!!! what a mean boss that Gov Palin is:
http://www.crivellawest.net/palin2011/pdf/8122.pdf
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:45 PM
OMG!!!111!!!! What a mean mother that Gov Palin was:
http://www.crivellawest.net/palin2011/pdf/7104.pdf
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:47 PM
OMG!!!111!!! that GOv Palin wanted her son to learn about the government process!!!! ho dare she expect her child to learn stuff…
http://www.crivellawest.net/palin2011/pdf/5366.pdf
unseen on June 10, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Actually, according to Andrea Mitchell, Sarah Palin’s legal team went through it and didn’t request any additional redactions from what the state had already made (removing personal and privileged info). I’ve seen a couple of pages that were completely redacted, so it looks like what was passed out is the whole enchilada from those years.
What’s funny is that Sarah Palin couldn’t have been too concerned about the contents since her legal team had seen it all before. She told Chris Wallace that some things could be twisted out of context, but as for the facts — she lived through it all. She knew that there was nothing serious to worry about.
Aardvark on June 10, 2011 at 9:05 PM
ALASKAN GOOSE AND HAWAIIAN GANDER! Link contains screen captures of comments from WaPo and the NYT articles requesting volunteers and an update on an FOIA request pertaining to Obama’s Illinois Senate record.
Mutnodjmet on June 10, 2011 at 9:17 PM
This should put an end to the silly meme that Palin has been lying all her life about being a hunter, and in the episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska in which she shot and field dressed a caribou to the horror of Aaron Sorkin.
Emphasis on the word “should.” (Rolling eyes)
L.N. Smithee on June 10, 2011 at 10:49 PM
Playing the media like a finely tuned
violinvuvuzelaFIFY.
PKO Strany on June 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Love the video. Makes me think what Chevy Chase on a bicycle would look like.
Desert Gardens on June 11, 2011 at 3:13 AM
That vid was great fun! I LOL’d!
ornery_independent on June 11, 2011 at 4:08 AM
An elevated bike and pedestrian level would be cheaper, and open up another level to window shopping.
Slowburn on June 11, 2011 at 6:07 AM
I’m not sure that would be cheaper, though it would be nicer.
Count to 10 on June 11, 2011 at 7:05 AM
Sarah’s been under a microscope for 3 years and they find nada. We can’t even be sure Barry’s a citizen and can’t see his grades or passport info. How can people still say there isn’t a double standard in the msm.
Kissmygrits on June 11, 2011 at 9:09 AM
By being liars or blind idiots.
pannw on June 11, 2011 at 12:17 PM
They’re too much in Captain Ahab mode WRT Palin to bother with thinking.
Gator Country on June 11, 2011 at 8:09 PM