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In widely reported Twitter and Facebook postings, Palin's bread-and-butter method for advancing the complex nuances of American democracy, Palin characterized the Clinton "email scandal" as "shady and corrupt." She followed those up with an oft-cited "opinion piece" on the Fox News website, in which Palin did what she does best -- she went into martyr mode and played the pity card. And, of course, she lied.
"I know something about how annoying FOIA requests can be for public officials," she wrote. "After I returned home from the 2008 vice presidential campaign, the state of Alaska was flooded with innumerable FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] requests to see literally every single email I ever wrote while governor."
She went on:
"The only emails redacted were the very few that were protected by attorney/client privilege -- a determination agreed upon by my lawyers and the Attorney General's office who reviewed them... Because nothing was kept secret in any way. Everything was done in the most transparent way possible."
What a crock. An absolute crock. But not once in reporting on the Clinton-Palin dustup did the national media challenge Palin on these utterly duplicitous renditions of what happened during her tenure in Alaska. (Kendall Breitman's shamefully uncritical piece in Politico provides an excellent case in point). In fact, the process of obtaining access to Palin's emails lasted nearly a half-decade, and Palin's personal lawyers and her hand-picked attorney general did everything in their power to keep those emails from ever seeing the light of day. In the end, many Palin emails and passages from emails were redacted or withheld for reasons that had nothing to do with "attorney-client privilege" (she claimed "executive privilege," "deliberative process," "personal privilege," and "privacy," on almost all of them). Others were destroyed. It's all simply another Palin lie.
Geoffrey goes on to take Palin's argument about her "transparency" point by point, and quite easily reveals that she is hip deep in her own bullshit.
As always it is a well written article and I urge all of you to click the link and give it a read.
Shady and Corrupt? The Real Story Behind Sarah Palin's Deceitful Response to Hillary Clinton's Emails
ReplyDelete...She went on:
The only emails redacted were the very few that were protected by attorney/client privilege -- a determination agreed upon by my lawyers and the Attorney General's office who reviewed them... Because nothing was kept secret in any way. Everything was done in the most transparent way possible.
What a crock. An absolute crock. But not once in reporting on the Clinton-Palin dustup did the national media challenge Palin on these utterly duplicitous renditions of what happened during her tenure in Alaska. (Kendall Breitman's shamefully uncritical piece in Politico provides an excellent case in point). In fact, the process of obtaining access to Palin's emails lasted nearly a half-decade, and Palin's personal lawyers and her hand-picked attorney general did everything in their power to keep those emails from ever seeing the light of day. In the end, many Palin emails and passages from emails were redacted or withheld for reasons that had nothing to do with "attorney-client privilege" (she claimed "executive privilege," "deliberative process," "personal privilege," and "privacy," on almost all of them). Others were destroyed. It's all simply another Palin lie.
Palin skewers the truth from the get-go, namely by contending that the FOIA requests came after she "returned home from the 2008 vice presidential campaign" (which, of course, those with less-inflated egos refer to as a presidential campaign). Indeed, long before Palin became a national laughingstock, a pair of open-government advocates in Alaska, Andrée McLeod and Zane Henning, believed that Palin and various of her henchmen (most notably Frank Bailey and Ivy Frye) were engaged in bold-face political machinations while on the state payroll and began to demand access to government emails.
Roughly 1,100 emails from McLeod's and Henning's initial requests were withheld by Palin with a handful of bogus legal arguments that simply didn't pass the straight-face test. Once again, so much for Palin's commitment to transparency.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/sarah-palin-hillary-clinton-emails_b_6924830.html
..."One of my favorite Palin administration email interactions that I discovered was sent out almost as soon as Palin assumed the governorship. In December of 2006 (the day after Palin had been sworn in), when Palin's Coordinator for Public Relations, Michelle Fabrello, responded to a request from the head of Palin's so-called Pipeline Team, Marty Rutherford, regarding a potential meeting to discuss interstate gas issues, Fabrello said that she didn't always check Palin's official email address "for hours." She noted that another Palin sycophant also on the government payroll, Kris Perry, "might have a better email for her." Wink, wink. Rutherford responded: "I have the governor's personal email, so I'll just use that for a while." The sham was on from the start.
ReplyDeleteSeveral key figures in the Palin administration played the secrecy game, and when the demands for transparency began, they circled the wagons. It's all part of what McLeod has dubbed "a culture of corruption" in the Last Frontier."
The '2008 vice presidential campaign'?
ReplyDeleteTHAT is hilarious.
Remember, according to Palin, it was the Palin / McCain campaign. The woman is an idiot!
DeleteThis description sums up granny grifter perfectly..."
DeletePalin did what she does best -- she went into martyr mode and played the pity card. And, of course, she lied."
Be sure to annoy your favorite c4per! Vote AGAINST Palin!
ReplyDeleteNo login in required!
http://www.muskogeepolitico.com/
Is that the same poll they have been whinging on about for days? there are less than 1000 voters in the Palin/Paul section!
DeleteIs that the same poll they have been whinging on about for days?
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yes, and they complained that paul-bots were rigging it by double voting, so they posted instructions how to double vote! and they say atheists have no morals!
Off Topic, because I'm sick of talking about the has been, Palin.......
ReplyDeleteSome of Scott Walker's support has been revealed. And it looks like there has been a quid pro quo.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-photo-charlie-114429739886.html
This particular story is a Palin, so if you are truly sick of the subject, you might want to skip the Palin headers...
DeleteGonna check it out. Walker is bad news.
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All Palin stories do now days is give her oxygen to breath.
DeleteSomebody sure wants us to cease dissing Sarah....
DeleteMany new Palin stories to come. It is just beginning. Thanks to the wedding planner.
DeleteNo one is going to stop with all that is waiting to burst forth!
Not until we know who is in the wedding party, who will be invited. The romantic church setting and the magnificent reception and honeymoon.
No one will stop with the Palins, at least until we see the wedding gown.
Bristol's wedding gown?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/474x/a6/f1/62/a6f1625dfd264e574b1bf2c087737997.jpg
Mother of the bride with the groom. Oh what an occasion!
6:31 is that GWTW? LOL! Perfect!!! Its been so long since I read that book and seen the movie. Wow, you are spot on!
Delete2:37 you can diss Sarah Palin all you want. I have done it plenty myself. But I have come to realize all it does is give her cred with the Pee Pond folks.
DeleteAs for the wedding, all I want to know is who will throw the first punch in the brawl.
DeleteThey had better hurry up, before the Junker baby arrives.
DeleteThis is only for Sarah to break as many rules as possible. It will be fun to watch all her deviant twists and turns.
Deletehttp://www.emilypost.com/weddings
The Engagement
While the engagement process is an exciting time for all of those involved, certain guidelines exist for announcing the news and beginning the preparations for your future wedding. Be excited for you and your fiance, but get ready to balance a good deal of planning. No doubt you will encounter many unexpected questions and concerns as you move through the months following your engagement.
Levi ... time to grow some balls and fight back .. it is time to call Geoffrey Dunn and have him write the REAL Sarah story.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Sarah is shopping for her dress. There isn't much time. If she waits to long she will have to do the same old Saturday Night Live trick... lol
DeleteIt's not like someone couldn't afford to find Sarah a new dress.....
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2015/02/sarahpac-has-been-given-new-look-you.html?showComment=1424058770447#c2141148229787137650
... fashion consultants for Sarah's Las Vegas trip.
https://a2-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/88/854581bc92ef5891a6a12767f6366d05/full.jpg
Anonymous5:46 PM
Bristol's dress again. Sarah wore it to the Kentucky Derby, too...Now SNL! That white dress has been around!
Anonymous7:50 PM
Sarah also wore that dress a few years ago to the Kentucky Derby. At the Kentucky Derby, women wear beautiful garden outfits, big hats, a jacket and long lovely skirt, but not Sarah. She showed up in what looks like a cocktail dress-- in the daytime.
2:17 PM Wasillabillies don't know any better.
DeleteI am hoping she has the orange hand wave with that special cream she uses. I am real excited about all the engagement parties and wedding planning. I hope the press will cover it, that is the best part. Of course, the wedding is the main event but the thrill of the build up and all the stories about a Kentucky celebrity like Dakota Meyer will be a lot of fun entertainment. A bonus that he marries a reality show failure. lol
DeleteLove Southern Weddings!
The preparation will last longer than the wedding!!
Delete6:14 AM
DeleteI can't wait to meet the attendants. I know this will be wild and crazy so Sarah won't have to keep to a structure but they will have family, friends and best friends. They are a wild bunch that love a crazy party.
Who Should Be the First to Know About My Engagement?
Avoid broadcasting the news (photos included) to social networks before sharing your engagement with family and friends. If you have any children from a previous marriage, they should be told first. Parents, family members, godparents, and anyone you are particularly close with should also be told before the news is public knowledge.
http://www.emilypost.com/attendants
What is a 2008 vice-presidential campaign? Was Sarah Palin running on her own ticket? How stupid is she about Politics? How stupid are the voters in Alaska to elect an uneducated, unqualified fool as Governor? No wonder she was the Political joke of the century.
ReplyDeleteI heard she was going to pick John McCain as her President if she won Bahahahahahahaha...........
Delete1:32 Good one!
DeleteLOL, I just posted a comment about that photo in the previous thread. Sarah's looking really rough there. Mini-me waitress did'nt do her hero any favors.
ReplyDeleteThe forehead sisters ROTFLMAO
DeleteYou mean that isn't piper?
DeleteThat's what I thought at first glance. Yeah, sarah looks like shit in that picture. Bristol must be too busy stringing dakota along to help sarah with her face.
Delete@ V Dell - Those are what we call "FIVEheads".
DeleteAnd this DISGUSTING man who is Sarah's butt buddy is sick in the head and the hero of the right wing:
ReplyDeleteDuck Dynasty Star Fantasizes About Rape And Murder Of Atheist Family At Prayer Breakfast
At a Friday prayer breakfast in Vero Beach, Florida, Duck Dynasty star, Phil Robertson gave a truly bizarre speech where he fantasized aloud about an atheist family being raped, tortured, and murdered. Robertson, the reality TV star turned right-wing folk hero, was trying to expound upon the dangers of atheism at the prayer breakfast. Robertson’s tirade against atheism took a bizarre turn, however, as his speech turned into a gruesome, macabre tale. Robertson told the audience a graphic morality play, as follows:
I’ll make a bet with you. Two guys break into an atheist’s home. He has a little atheist wife and two little atheist daughters. Two guys break into his home and tie him up in a chair and gag him. And then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot them and they take his wife and then decapitate her head off in front of him. And then they can look at him and say, ‘Isn’t it great that I don’t have to worry about being judged? Isn’t it great that there’s nothing wrong with this? There’s no right or wrong, now is it dude?’
Then you take a sharp knife and take his manhood and hold it in front of him and say, ‘Wouldn’t it be something if this [sic] was something wrong with this? But you’re the one who says there is no God, there’s no right, there’s no wrong, so we’re just having fun. We’re sick in the head, have a nice day.
Robertson was attempting to point out the dangers of atheism, but instead he revealed his own depravity. For a religious fundamentalist like Phil Robertson, God is needed to prevent men from raping, torturing and killing their fellow human beings
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/24/duck-dynasty-star-fantasizes-rape-murder-atheist-family-prayer-breakfast.html
Holy SHIT!
DeleteWell, he's an unhinged psychopath but who has to clarify when saying decapitated "her head off"? Did this moronic fool get past 6th grade? Definitely same level of intelligence as sarah, dumb as a box of rocks.
DeleteRight, 3:00 PM Robertson is too stupid to realize that 'decapitate' means cutting one's head off. He is a sick
Deletefraud.
Apparently the Duck Dad actually attended college; looks like none of it stuck.
DeleteSo HE wants to hold another man's junk in front of him? Come out, it's ok, there's nothing wrong with being gay. Set the beard and stubble free and shake it like a polaroid picture!!!!
DeleteMost of his classes were in basket weaving.
DeleteMaybe this is about Scarah?. Creepy.
DeleteOne of my friends in San Fran wrote this this morning.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz is trending. Chris Christie is not rushing into a decision. Donald Trump says America needs him and is exploring. Hillary Clinton is deleting emails and raising bazillions. Elizabeth Warren is being coy. Sarah Palin is incoherent. Mitt Romney is sitting this one out to babysit his 432 grand kids. Late night comedians must be drooling with joy.
I really don't know why you and Geoffrey, and anyone else... spends time on comparing the Palin email scandal to the Clinton email scandal, even if Palin is egging you all on to do so.
ReplyDeletePalin isn't running for anything... Her political scandals are long in the rear-view...nobody cares. Hillary however, is expected to run, and it is all fair game if you are running.
We were not comparing them.
DeleteWe are simply revealing the hypocrisy of Palin weighing in on Hillary's "scandal."
Did you not even read Geoffrey's article?
If you do not wish to hear about a subject do not read or comment about it.
DeleteReminds me of the "nothing to see here, move on", troll that was so persistent right after the brawl. Interesting timing.
Delete"and it is all fair game if you are running."
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Did you miss the part that Sarah ran and it WAS NOT FAIR GAME to bring up TriG, The AIP etc.
And since she is not running....ummm why does she have a pac Troll?
Pointing out the Hypocrisy of the idiot palin is never OLD. Not until she gets rid of her PAC and Shuts the fuck up, for good....
If Sarah Palin gives her opinion on political candidates, then she and her nasty mouthed tribe are fair game for the politicians. You, 1:20 PM don't run shit here.
Delete1:20 PM - "Palin isn't running for anything..."
DeleteDo the pee pond people know this? When is she going to tell them? She only gives a very small percentage of her PAC dollars to other candidates; what is most of the money being used for?
Rhetorical of course.
She has a PAC to grift from, nothing more, and if this is the start of what is to come in what's to come, careful what you wish for, $arah!
DeleteA couple of people have replied on HuffPo concerning this, even mentioned IM, Malia, Shailey, PGate. Get it out there, IMers!
Oh is that the legal advice for Palin's past and present crimes..
DeleteLol at all your responses. Seriously get a life folks. A troll am I? It is probably me Sarah Lou lol... yes yes 2:40... so interesting.. conspiracy afoot!
DeleteGryph, I glanced at it... It seems like mostly the same rehashed old boring Sarah 'scandals' or whatever you want to call them. I don't see how you can't call at least the portions regarding emails not comparing.
To everyone else... of course anything Sarah is fair game... but it doesn't matter does it, she isn't running for anything. As far as Sarahpac slush fund goes, no doubt they have their lawyers and accountants give the green light, they know how the game goes.
@ 4:40 -
DeleteYeah, yeah we get it. We're all so pathetic here for talking about Sarah Palin when everyone knows she's irrelevant. All we do is sit here and say the same shit over and over. It's very lame, as you like to point out in every goddamn thread with this same fucking speech that you give us while reading every word we say so you can inform us how lame we are. We wish we could be winners like you, oh superior one.
Marina Lupas should write a book.
DeleteI would read that one.
Too bad she is "loyal" to the Palins.
She will no doubt do well in the Asian marketplace and all her other little business adventures.
5:51 now you're getting it! Join the winning team bud!
Delete2:40 here. I feel honored to be singled out...must of hit a nerve! Everyone chooses their own path to living vibrantly! Mine just happens to be by reading about and commenting on an irrelevant, has-been.
Delete@1:20 PM & 4:40 PM You say Sarah isn't running for anything, but just last month Sarah Palin stated during an interview that she was seriously considering running for President in 2016. I'm not sure where you get your information but you were wrong about that. Many people, just like you, assume Hilary Clinton will also be running in 2016, however to the best of my knowledge, Mrs. Clinton has been even more evasive than Palin on the topic. So this isn't fair game, at least not until she makes it official. Palin definitely shouldn't be making false accusation about Clinton's email without proof to back up her claims but that didn't stop her from doing it! And that's really the point.
DeleteWhether or not they are running for President is irrelevant. What's relevant is the fact that Sarah Palin continues to lie to the American public. She needs to be called out on her BS until she's completely discredited and unable to profit from politics. Mr. Dunn has done an excellent job with his latest article on HuffPost. The more people who read it, the better.
Please do us all a favor, take your own advice and get a life. Your life must not be very fulfilling if you are posting multiple comments about a topic you feel nobody cares about. And in the future don't post a comment unless you read the entire article first. If you simply glance at it, you'll just continue to post stupid comments. Ya Burnt!
12:06. You are really kind of a dim bulb aren't you?
DeleteIt's called projection, blaming other people for your own worst faults. In Sarah's case, she likes the added excitement of the "Catch me if you can" dare.
ReplyDeleteThe 2008 Vice Presidential campaign. Yes, Sarah was running her own election campaign in her active imagination, thinking that if she beat Joe Biden, she would have been the Vice President, no matter who was elected President. It doesn't work that way. It has always been called the Presidential Election. McCain lost so that means that Sarah lost too also besides in addition to.
ReplyDeleteHow much you wanna bet there is a sign outside the restaurant stating, "No Coloreds Allowed."
ReplyDeleteI read Mr. Dunn words in his article. I admire his writing skills as much as his candor. Long live Mr. Dunn!
ReplyDeleteHe also has grit!
Read his book on $P,it's great.It exposes her for the lying,crazy POS that she is.
DeleteRead his book only if you enjoy reading text books. The book is packed with information but much of the book reads like a technical government document. I couldn't get through it all because, for me, it was really boring! I enjoyed "The Rogue" and I wanted to read Blind Allegiance but I don't want to pay for it! LOL!
DeleteKeep running your mouth, you stupid bitch. You've been the best fundraiser for Democrats since you came on the scene. Deep down you know this but you're so fucking delusional and attention-starved that you just HAVE to throw your 2 cents in on EVERY subject, even though you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, ever. Keep talking, dumbass, we appreciate the help, even if the sight of you makes us want to projectile vomit.
ReplyDeleteI've always marveled that none of them, right down to RAM, ever think before they post their diatribe. I sure would like to know who's advising her. Everything she touches turns to shit.
DeleteI think that whoever is putting those $ in her slush fund (sarahpac) gets to decide what she will spew about on any given day.
DeleteIt's disgusting right claw looks just like Marilyn Monroe's, and yes i know she's been dead for many years. Such a loathsome creature that one.
ReplyDeleteWatch out for That Duhkota dude queenie, he just might decide that if he cant have you, nobody can and BABOOM. No more sarah.
Marilyn Monroe... Didn't JFK stash her in Alaska...
DeleteJust more of the same from the holier-than-thou liar. Sarah is as unashamed of being a hypocritical shithead as Todd is of being a pimp. They represent the slimy underbelly of our society.
ReplyDeleteI think I missed the occasion Sarah Palin faced tough questioning on any subject except "What The Fuck Does She Read"? When was she given a single question about her half hidden and heavily redacted emails? Show me the evidence Palin Worshipers or Queen Bitch Liar herself!
ReplyDeleteThank-you, Gryphen. And now to all of us readers, please actually click on the HuffPo link to the original article....might help elevate it on front page do more people read it. I typically never click on Palin articles on other sites because I don't want then to use the number of clicks as reason to continue to keep her in the news.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to HuffPo for many years, don't want to give them the clicks, but if anyone wants to visit without giving them the clicks go to:
Deletehttp://www.donotlink.com
and then enter the URL and you can visit the page without increasing their web traffic rating.
Asshole still wants to kill it, but he'll use it when he needs it. Fucking hypocrite. Not surprised Sarah sucks up to him.
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz Will Sign Up for Obamacare
“We will presumably go on the exchange and sign up for health care and we’re in the process of transitioning over to do that,” Cruz told The Des Moines Register on Tuesday. The decision comes following his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz’s announcement that she will step down from her job at Goldman Sachs to join the Cruz 2016 campaign full-time.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-will-sign-up-for-obamacare/
And poor Rushboy is having a hard time with the mocking of Ted Cruz...from the right.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-some-conservatives-making-up-creative-reasons-to-disqualify-cruz/
And how many of Mrs Clinton's "e mells" were "cc;d" to her husband? This pruned piece of gristle always inserts herself as the most persecuted being in history.
ReplyDeleteNice photo. Who's the waitress standing next to the cardboard cutout of the former Governor? Seems "tight abs" aren't hereditary in that family, right Sarah?
Sarah doesn't look like she washed her hair/wig. Her right hand looks old, spotty, pale and veins of an elderly, Sick woman. She looks like she needs a good soak and soap. I live just a few miles from Dakotas home town. Bristol will not like living in such a small backwoods town.
ReplyDeleteSarah in Kentucky really looks like the domineering mother who has orchestrated and managed this romantic engagement.
ReplyDeleteThe Grifting Queen still knows how to make a buck though, first it was the Bibi t-shirt now it's a bumper sticker.
ReplyDeleteRenalin at C4P , "I just got an e-mail from Sarah, am sending 20 bucks for a bumper sticker, "If Reagan was still President ISIS would be WAS-WAS" .Twenty dollars for a bumper sticker? Nice profit there Grifter Granny! those suckers will buy anything.
My reaction, exactly!
DeleteWasn't Reagan President during Grenada?
DeleteIsn't Reagan dead?
DeleteYes, but they'd prop his corpse up int eh Oval Office and let Cheney just run the country into hell, just because they don;t care the Reagan lied, grew government and raised those damn taxes three times! He broke the air union, damnit! He rode horses. He was a movie star!
DeleteNice grammar Sarah....If needs were, but your idiots don't know any better.
DeleteReagan ... the man who ILLEGALLY sold Iran 1500 missiles and had ordered the Marines in Lebanon NOT to load their guns.
DeleteYeah, real,real tough.
Reagan who ILLEGALLY sold Iran 1500 missiles, provided arms to Nicaraguan terrorists and ordered the Marines in Lebanon NOT to load their guns.
DeleteYeah, real, real tough.
8:30 PM
DeleteDidn't you see the photo of ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin riding horses together?
Proof that he lives. I am sure it will be in every school book to teach the children how wonderful they are together.
Cynical
ReplyDeleteUneducated
Narcissistic
Trollop
I watched her latest video on her Facebook page. Wearin' her red "presidential" jacket/dress, a cross necklace/prop, background flag props, hair up...
ReplyDeleteI swear that woman is every hateful teacher I had in high school, mixed with my Baptist friends holier than thou mom!
She also reminds me of the inexperienced news reporters who haven't figured out how to appropriately modulate their voices and don't put their emphasis on the correct words in the story.
It is so painfully annoying.
They look like twins only one is a Granny.
ReplyDeletePoor Sarah is looking tired in that photo. Notice the sagging eyelids. and look at those old liver spotted hands & the NECK! I feel sorry for her because she's trying to remain "youthful" and it looks like the botox etc is not helping.
ReplyDeleteAnd what's up with that girl trying to look like piper...lol
Anyway, I think Sarah has turned into Sally.
I read it yesterday.
ReplyDeleteIt is a thing of beauty.
Glad it at least made it to the Huffington Post. Hopefully a few will read it.
Not like it will make the nightly news or major news sources.
The girl must have a really FU*KD up life to think $carah is some kind of hero. SOOOOO uneducated.
ReplyDeleteWhat did she finish doing in the closet? Just prior to this pick. Hahahaha.
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