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There’s a lot going on in the world: we’re at war in Libya; China is about to launch its first aircraft carrier; hearings are beginning in the House on allegations that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms knowingly allowed criminal suspects to purchase weapons and smuggle them into Mexico for Mexican drug cartels; a nuclear expert from RAND has calculated that within two months Iran will have enough weapons-grade uranium to manufacture a nuclear weapon; and the EPA is attempting to destroy the coal industry.
So Friday, when a trove of more than 13,000 emails detailing almost every aspect of Sarah Palin’s governorship of Alaska were released. The mainstream media, including everyone from Mother Jones to Britain’s left-leaning Guardian, claim that they just don’t have enough reporters to go through them all and have asked unknown citizen activists to go through them playing “gotcha,” to find something scandalous. One of the more reprehensible acts by the mainstream media in living memory.
Toby Harnden is the US Editor, based in Washington, for the British Daily Telegraph. He suggests that the email frenzy is backfiring on her media antagonists:
The trove of more than 13,000 emails detailing almost every aspect of Sarah Palin’s governorship of Alaska, released late on Friday, paints a picture of her as an idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane woman slightly bemused by the world of politics.
One can only assume that the Left-leaning editors who dispatched teams of reporters to remote Juneau, the Alaskan capital, to pore over the emails in the hope of digging up a scandal are now viewing the result as a rather poor return on their considerable investment.
If anything, Mrs Palin seems likely to emerge from the scrutiny of the 24,000 pages, contained in six boxes and weighing 275 pounds, with her reputation considerably enhanced.
Sarah Palin remains a lightning rod for the media. I have a hard time understanding the hatred out there, for hatred there is. She was a highly effective governor in a state where the governor’s office is far more powerful than in many other states.
The hatred seems to be based in the fact that she stands in opposition to the Left’s concept of who can be considered a member of the elite. She came out of “nowhere.” Alaska is some sort of backward, uncivilized, place and not a proper state. She is some kind of country person who shoots animals, and her husband competes in snowmobile races, and she has five (can you imagine!) five children. She was mayor of a little tiny town that no one ever heard of. She graduated from the University of Idaho, you know, where they have all those neo-Nazis. And she couldn’t answer the question about what she reads. She doesn’t even read the New York Times!
These pitiful folk who hope to become certified members of “the Elite,” and worry more about their newest handbag and who was seen at the latest cocktail party, have no understanding of real competence and women who are perfectly capable of handling whatever comes along. Meet some farmer’s wives in the Midwest (“flyover country”) or western ranch women who can milk cows, tend a garden, preserve foods, plow, drive a tractor and serve on the school board or county council. The minimal competence of the glossy barbie dolls who report on the news pales by comparison.
Do read “Sarah Palin’s letter from God” from Andrew Malcolm in the Los Angeles Times, written (not for publication ) just before the birth of her son Trig. The media keep following her around, hoping for — what? She is not, at the present, running for anything. She is on a family tour of America, celebrating America and freedom, our history, and Americans, and the media are squawking because she won’t give them her itinerary.
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