Alaska releases Palin emails

[SlyPokerDog]

I made you a new avatar

 

[PapaG]

Bert the Beaver can never look angry.

Perhaps wikipedia disagrees, though?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Bert the Beaver can never look angry.

Perhaps wikipedia disagrees, though?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Racial hoax by Sarah Palin causes PR headache for McDonald’s

An online hoax by Sarah Palin that falsely suggests McDonald's discriminates against African-American customers is causing a PR headache for the Golden Arches.
Over the weekend, the photograph above circulated widely on the internet. The image shows what looks like an official McDonald's notice in the window of a restaurant, telling customers that blacks will be charged $1.50 extra "as an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo.../racial-hoax-causes-pr-headache-for-mcdonalds

 

[Klinky]

French had his fingerprints all over that "investigation".

...and Palin's were all over the Personnel Board's. I guess both were tainted by politics & agendas. The incident makes Palin look bad regardless. Palin's family was trying to get Wooten(the trooper, ex-husband) fired before Palin was even elected into office & then used her position as governor to put pressure on the Safety Commissioner. A judge even said that Palin's family's intentions bordered on harassment.

Have you researched the trooper who was fired? Do you agree that wife beaters should be troopers?

Who are we talking about? I thought it was Monegan who was the accused wife beater, based on actions that happened in 1994. Perhaps the question should be, why did Sarah Palin hire a wife beater as head of the Safety Commission? He was fired for "insubordination" & not "because you're a wife beater"...

Mike Wooten, the trooper & ex-husband of Palin's sister, was accused of child abuse for tasering his son. His son supposedly asked to be tasered so he could prove he was a man enough to handle it. It was done on the lowest setting. Parents do dumb things all the time, doesn't mean it was done in an abusive fashion. Wooten also supposedly made a death threat against against his father-in-law.

 

[Shooter]

Most of the world KNOWS she's stupid. Even most conservatives have distanced themselves from her.

She would be impeached within months if she somehow stumbled into the Presidency.

At least Sarah Palin knows there are 50 states in the union, and that the current year is 2011, which is more than you can say for Obama.

 

[julius]

At least Sarah Palin knows there are 50 states in the union, and that the current year is 2011, which is more than you can say for Obama.

sorry, he was too busy being President.

 

[PapaG]

Racial hoax by Sarah Palin causes PR headache for McDonald’s

An online hoax by Sarah Palin that falsely suggests McDonald's discriminates against African-American customers is causing a PR headache for the Golden Arches.
Over the weekend, the photograph above circulated widely on the internet. The image shows what looks like an official McDonald's notice in the window of a restaurant, telling customers that blacks will be charged $1.50 extra "as an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo.../racial-hoax-causes-pr-headache-for-mcdonalds

Not sure why you posted this twice. It was obviously a hoax; what is sad is that even some posters on this board believed it was real. The masking tape was the best part of the hoax, IMO.

 

[PapaG]

sorry, he was too busy being President.

He wasn't President at that point. He was still campaigning. This was in Beaverton, OR, May 9, 2008.

[video=youtube;EpGH02DtIws]

Derrrrr

 

[PapaG]

So Sly...

who deleted the McDonald's thread where the OP thought that the hoax was actually legitimate?

Weak modding, isn't it?

 

[MARIS61]

Have you researched the trooper who was fired? Do you agree that wife beaters should be troopers?

I don't think anyone should be a trooper.

I am opposed to the notion of certain citizens being given power over other citizens simply because they crave power. Crime rises proportionately to match the level of law enforcement. The un-infringed 2nd Amendment is the only effective way to have a peaceful society.

As for wife beating, that's a prevalent trait among law enforcement personnel. There are far more wife beaters wearing a badge than there are in prison.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Not sure why you posted this twice. It was obviously a hoax; what is sad is that even some posters on this board believed it was real. The masking tape was the best part of the hoax, IMO.

If you click the link the article doesn't mention Palin at all. I just wanted to add a little more crazy to the thread.

Then Maris61 showed me what crazy is with his latest post.

There are far more wife beaters wearing a badge than there are in prison.

 

[BrianFromWA]

to be fair, though, Sly....I hear there's a ton of radiation in the waters of Beautiful Central Oregon recently.

 

[barfo]

Many of us here talk chess

That's the most delusional thing I've seen on this board in at least a couple of days.

barfo

 

[Denny Crane]

sorry, he was too busy being golfing.

FIFY

 

[Natebishop3]

If I can't use Wikipedia as a source for a research paper, nobody on here can use it for a source either damnit!

 

[BrianFromWA]

http://xkcd.com/906/

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Didn't Palin literally quit her job as governor? Just left the position before her term was up? How can one possibly think of running for President with a record of quitting? Would she quit her job as president when the going gets tough? I figured she killed her political career right there to chase the money. We will see, but that will be a tough one to justify if she does put herself in the middle of press scrutinty by running for president.

What I can completely see happening in today's world is a reality show based on Palin running for President. But it would be nothing more than a media stunt to sell another reality show.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/mama_grizzly_exposed_kPWihWBKwREXdyFlbh20RK

Mama grizzly exposed

Could Big Media look any dumber?

The all-points-bulletin attention that national media organizations gave to the release last week of official e-mails from Sarah Palin's tenure as Alaska's governor sure backfired.

Not only was Palin not discredited by the emails, but they exposed to the public a competent leader and a rather decent human being.

 

[Natebishop3]

Didn't Palin literally quit her job as governor? Just left the position before her term was up? How can one possibly think of running for President with a record of quitting? Would she quit her job as president when the going gets tough? I figured she killed her political career right there to chase the money. We will see, but that will be a tough one to justify if she does put herself in the middle of press scrutinty by running for president.

What I can completely see happening in today's world is a reality show based on Palin running for President. But it would be nothing more than a media stunt to sell another reality show.

I don't think she has much of a political career left... but for some reason the media is still obsessed with her.

 

[Klinky]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/mama_grizzly_exposed_kPWihWBKwREXdyFlbh20RK

Thousands of the e-mails were "redacted due to security or privacy concerns". Also a months worth of e-mails are missing. Part of the "circus" surrounding the whole thing was due to Alaska printing out all the e-mails rather than putting them on a CD, usb stick or this thing called "the Internet".

What's really dumb is saying "all the information was released & it shows Palin is a great person" when really all the information wasn't released. Approximately 3,000 e-mails were not released, that's almost 1/3rd of the total e-mails that were actually released. It's like demanding Obama's birth certificate & only getting the bottom 2/3rds.

 

[julius]

Thousands of the e-mails were "redacted due to security or privacy concerns". Also a months worth of e-mails are missing. Part of the "circus" surrounding the whole thing was due to Alaska printing out all the e-mails rather than putting them on a CD, usb stick or this thing called "the Internet".

What's really dumb is saying "all the information was released & it shows Palin is a great person" when really all the information wasn't released. Approximately 3,000 e-mails were not released, that's almost 1/3rd of the total e-mails that were actually released. It's like demanding Obama's birth certificate & only getting the bottom 2/3rds.

Or like demanding his BC, and getting one that can be photo shopped by some crackpot so it would look faked and then Osama Bin Laden gets killed.

 

[Ed O]

I don't think she has much of a political career left... but for some reason the media is still obsessed with her.

Agreed on both points. I don't quite understand what the media was thinking they'd find in her emails or why it would be relevant to anything.

Ed O.

 

[tlongII]

Agreed on both points. I don't quite understand what the media was thinking they'd find in her emails or why it would be relevant to anything.

Ed O.

It's because they're a bunch of liberal a-holes.

 

[julius]

It's because they're a bunch of liberal a-holes.

because if people weren't interested in her, they wouldn't show it on TV. It has nothing to do with political affiliation as much as monetary affiliation. What makes them the most money.

 

[Natebishop3]

because if people weren't interested in her, they wouldn't show it on TV. It has nothing to do with political affiliation as much as monetary affiliation. What makes them the most money.

I don't think people are that interested in her. I think she's one of those people who says things that a large demographic like to roll their eyes at and have a good laugh, but I don't think people are actively looking her up to see what she's doing. She's a punchline, and though I think the media had a large hand in making her a punchline, I think she had a part in it as well. Either way, I think she's run her course and it's time to let her go. If she weren't attractive to a lot of guys, I think she would have faded away long ago.

 

[julius]

I don't think people are that interested in her. I think she's one of those people who says things that a large demographic like to roll their eyes at and have a good laugh, but I don't think people are actively looking her up to see what she's doing. She's a punchline, and though I think the media had a large hand in making her a punchline, I think she had a part in it as well. Either way, I think she's run her course and it's time to let her go. If she weren't attractive to a lot of guys, I think she would have faded away long ago.

I think THAT'S why people are interested (the punchline thing, not the attractiveness thing. Mostly since I don't find her attractive).

Donald Trump kind of has the same thing. He's such a tool, people almost want to see him make an ass of himself.

 

[Natebishop3]

I think THAT'S why people are interested (the punchline thing, not the attractiveness thing. Mostly since I don't find her attractive).

Donald Trump kind of has the same thing. He's such a tool, people almost want to see him make an ass of himself.

I could see that comparison. They appear to be cut from the same cloth.

 

[PapaG]

Must not have been any smoking guns in these 24k emails?

Oh well, on to the next smear of Palin!

 

[Klinky]

Must not have been any smoking guns in these 24k emails?

Oh well, on to the next smear of Palin!

Perhaps those were in the 3,000 they didn't release...