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Jon Stewart Blasts Media For ‘Wasting Our Time’ With Palin Emails

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In a news cycle dominated by a nude Congressman and an election more than a year away, the Sarah Palin email dump may have almost been a breath of fresh air– had there been anything remote interesting in her files. On tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart berated the media for looking for their Palin drug hit and taking the rest of the country on a wild goose chase through files of mundane bureaucratic files.

Hoping against hope that the Palin emails would contain vulgar Twitter photos, Stewart began the segment biting his nails over the dramatic insights the Palin emails could potentially harbor. What “devastating, newsworthy” stuff could they contain? The media found such insights as Palin debating whether she should pose for a fitness magazine and a letter of a constituent complaining that Palin “was spotted with Trig in a car not wearing an approved car seat.”

“Why are you wasting our time?!” an exasperated Stewart asked, looking deeper into the desperation journalists appeared to have in finding little to nothing interesting in her emails. Finally, after finding nothing new of interest in the large piles of physically printed out emails, Stewart discovered a clip of a reporter trying to find meaning to the entire ordeal, asking whether, in Stewart’s words, the emails were “something, nothing, or somewhere between something and nothing.”

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  • Jaurez

    Ya think jonny boy would be saying the same thing if the “smoking gun” they were feverishly looking for was found? I doubt it, he’s just a little butt hurt…

  • slickerwick

    Hilarious.

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    He might. I saw his piece and he went after mostly CNN and MSNBC for their obvious constant coverage of her and their disappointment that nothing was found that really mattered. Overall, he slammed the media for the idiotically breathless coverage of the e-mails.

    I am happy nothing was found. In fact, it was exactly what I expected – the records of a governor trying to do her job and maintain her public image while juggling a family. I am not a fan of Palin, but I don’t think she has done anything illegal or seriously unethical. I am sure there are some minor things that all of them have like expenses for family, but that is common and minor. And I am tired of the endlessly breathless coverage all of the media gives her, poking for errors and issues where none exist.

    In a direct answer, if something newsworthy had been found, even Fox would have stopped mocking the rest of the coverage and covered it. But, nothing there, so the question is moot at best.

    You know, Stewart is actually way more even handed than he gets credit for.

  • Jackyboy

    Mainstream media, you dun goofed.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Keeva said:
    You know, Stewart is actually way more even handed than he gets credit for.

    Not so much. He would have been aboard the team pig piling on Palin had there been some ‘nugget.’ He just had the structurally easy way out to simply criticize the media and seem above the fray.

    Stewart is still funny, but he’s best appreciated when you know from where he’s coming.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Keeva said:
    You know, Stewart is actually way more even handed than he gets credit for.

    Now that’s as funny as anything Stewart said.

  • Arkansas Steve

    One of Stewart’s better efforts. You just can’t “not like” this guy.

  • Bennybombom

    Arkansas Steve said:
    One of Stewart’s better efforts. You just can’t “not like” this guy.

    true…

    my personal favorites are the Glenn Beck impersonations..hands down

  • Sean68

    Shorter version (because Stewart can’t quite go there himself): Liberal media wastes time desperately seeking something, ANYTHING, that might be used to embarrass or harm Sarah Palin or her family. The end.

  • The Voice of Reason

    I agree but Stewart himself doesn’t stop talking about her. Its not even funny anymore and redundant as hell.

  • Dem4Ever

    The Libs/Progs are beginning to form their circular firing squad. Grab a Coke and a bag of popcorn because this is going to be good.

  • brownsound

    Frances Martel said:
    the Sarah Palin email dump may have almost been a breath of fresh air– had there been anything remote interesting in her files

    How about we get a “Barack 0bama university and law school writings dump”? How about the media do the job vetting 0bama that they should have done in 2007/2008? What a joke.

  • darladoon

    Dem4Ever said:
    The Libs/Progs are beginning to form their circular firing squad. Grab a Coke and a bag of popcorn because this is going to be good.

    i see, so CNN is “progressive”?

    interesting thought!

    is it me, or is the comments section at Mediaite quite right of center, and thus, imbecilic?

  • darladoon

    Sean68 said:
    Shorter version (because Stewart can’t quite go there himself): Liberal media wastes time desperately seeking something, ANYTHING, that might be used to embarrass or harm Sarah Palin or her family. The end.

    wait a second, here. are you arguing that CNN is liberal?

    if so, then you really have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

  • darladoon

    Jaurez said:
    Ya think jonny boy would be saying the same thing if the “smoking gun” they were feverishly looking for was found? I doubt it, he’s just a little butt hurt…

    can prove that?

    didn’t think so…..

  • Sean68

    darladoon said:
    wait a second, here. are you arguing that CNN is liberal?

    if so, then you really have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

    Part of becoming a full grown adult is learning to accept that people who have different opinions aren’t necessarily stupid. You’re probably still in college. It’s ok.

  • darladoon

    Sean68 said:
    Part of becoming a full grown adult is learning to accept that people who have different opinions aren’t necessarily stupid. You’re probably still in college. It’s ok.

    30 years out of college, with an advanced degree in media studies, thank you.

    i never said anyone was stupid.

  • darladoon

    i’m just sick and tired of the most hackneyed talking points on corporate media, none of
    which is liberal, and definitely not progressive.

    the evidence to support that claim is quite literally mountainous.

  • Sean68

    darladoon said:
    30 years out of college, with an advanced degree in media studies, thank you.

    i never said anyone was stupid.

    What does one do with an advanced degree in media studies? You sound like a thoughtless ideologue to me. And very immature.

  • Sean68

    darladoon said:
    i’m just sick and tired of the most hackneyed talking points on corporate media, none of
    which is liberal, and definitely not progressive.

    the evidence to support that claim is quite literally mountainous.

    LOL. “Corporate media”. Go watch Democracy Now! if you simply want your own view fed back to you.

  • darladoon

    Sean68 said:
    What does one do with an advanced degree in media studies? You sound like a thoughtless ideologue to me. And very immature.

    teach.

    so, i argue that the corporate media is decidedly not liberal, and i’m a “thoughtless ideologue”?

    Sean68 said:
    LOL. “Corporate media”. Go watch Democracy Now! if you simply want your own view fed back to you.

    can you clarify the point you’re trying to make?

    so far, you’ve made no salient points.

  • darladoon

    Sean68 said:
    LOL. “Corporate media”. Go watch Democracy Now! if you simply want your own view fed back to you.

    how is CNN not corporate? or NBC? or Fox? or any other television network?

    do you have ANY idea how much money you need to start a television network?

  • seek

    darladoon said:
    i see, so CNN is “progressive”?

    interesting thought!

    is it me, or is the comments section at Mediaite quite right of center, and thus, imbecilic?

    It’s you.

  • Sean68

    darladoon said:
    30 years out of college, with an advanced degree in media studies, thank you.

    i never said anyone was stupid.

    Excuse me but is imbecilic not synonymous with stupid?

  • seek

    darladoon said:
    30 years out of college, with an advanced degree in media studies, thank you.

    i never said anyone was stupid.

    omg darla. You already admitted you’re a kid. Now cease – it’s getting old and lame. We gave you a pass at 18 – don’t press your luck.

  • darladoon

    seek said:
    It’s you.

    ah, so you’re not right of center? you’re a liberal?

    interesting.

  • darladoon

    seek said:
    omg darla. You already admitted you’re a kid. Now cease – it’s getting old and lame. We gave you a pass at 18 – don’t press your luck.

    i’m in my early 50s! for f*cksssaake!

  • seek

    p.s. darla – 30 years ago you couldn’t have gotten an advanced degree in media studies. lol omg – I can’t believe I’m even attempting to communicate with this know it all child.

  • darladoon

    seek said:
    p.s. darla – 30 years ago you couldn’t have gotten an advanced degree in media studies. lol omg – I can’t believe I’m even attempting to communicate with this know it all child.

    let’s see, 54 years old. 30 years ago = 24.

    masters degree at 24. very easy to acquire in the united states.

    and today, you can actually acquire one from home.

  • seek

    remember you live at home with Mom and Dad – you were moving to Norway because you like their socialist government. Mom and Dad approved. You were a libertarian and then an anarchist. Whatcha doin now?
    painting your toenails?

  • Sean68

    darladoon said:
    how is CNN not corporate? or NBC? or Fox? or any other television network?

    do you have ANY idea how much money you need to start a television network?

    This is classic begging the question. You’re missing a key step in your argument here.

    darladoon said:
    how is CNN not corporate? or NBC? or Fox? or any other television network?

    do you have ANY idea how much money you need to start a television network?

    Jesus. No wonder our universities are turning out such shitheads. The idea that the media is “corporate” is a red herring. I put it in quotes not because it isn’t literally true, but because of what you are trying to imply by using that term. Are you suggesting that if something is “corporate” it can’t then be liberal?

  • seek

    darla – 30 years ago they didn’t have “media studies” doofus. Now quit smoking whatever you’re smoking – put down Saul Alinsky and go back to sexting with whoever, cause tonight you’re not making a whole lot of sense.

  • King Of Hell

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Liberal Tormentor says:

    Just trying to figure out if this dimwit is a ‘liberal who torments’ or ‘ one who torments liberals’. See you in Hell for having an insipidly useless name!

  • darladoon

    seek said:
    remember you live at home with Mom and Dad – you were moving to Norway because you like their socialist government. Mom and Dad approved. You were a libertarian and then an anarchist. Whatcha doin now?
    painting your toenails?

    this makes absolutely no sense.

    libertarian? since when? anarchist? yes, somewhat.

    Sean68 said:
    This is classic begging the question. You’re missing a key step in your argument here.

    Jesus. No wonder our universities are turning out such shitheads. The idea that the media is “corporate” is a red herring. I put it in quotes not because it isn’t literally true, but because of what you are trying to imply by using that term. Are you suggesting that if something is “corporate” it can’t then be liberal?

    correct, if something is corporate, especially media, it certainly cannot be liberal.

    liberals/progressives are less interested in protecting the bottom line of gigantic corporations,
    and more interested in protecting workers, the environment, etc.

    media is not “liberal” because they criticize republicans, and support the democratic party. fyi.

  • seek

    darladoon said:
    this makes absolutely no sense.

    libertarian? since when? anarchist? yes, somewhat.

    correct, if something is corporate, especially media, it certainly cannot be liberal.

    liberals/progressives are less interested in protecting the bottom line of gigantic corporations,
    and more interested in protecting workers, the environment, etc.

    media is not “liberal” because they criticize republicans, and support the democratic party. fyi.

    I know it makes no sense – we kept trying to tell you that, but like most teenagers, you are hell bent to seek your own “truth” lol

    so,,,,,, you go girlfriend.

  • darladoon

    seek said:
    darla – 30 years ago they didn’t have “media studies” doofus. Now quit smoking whatever you’re smoking – put down Saul Alinsky and go back to sexting with whoever, cause tonight you’re not making a whole lot of sense.

    yes, look up dallas smythe, marshall mcluhan, herb schiller. i studied under smythe
    and schiller…..

  • darladoon

    seek said:
    I know it makes no sense – we kept trying to tell you that, but like most teenagers, you are hell bent to seek your own “truth” lol

    so,,,,,, you go girlfriend.

    seek, just shut the f*ck up, you’re annoying.

  • TangledThorns

    Damn, thats cold. Sarah Palin wins again!

  • seek

    darladoon said:
    seek, just shut the f*ck up, you’re annoying.

    truth hurts sweets? You figure because we’re older, none of us remember what you said last week? lol

    I might have egg-timers, but I think I can match wits with a teen sweets.

    (egg-timers – good memory – only lasts 3 minutes – it would appear you are suffering from said disease)

  • Sean68

    darladoon said:
    this makes absolutely no sense.

    libertarian? since when? anarchist? yes, somewhat.

    correct, if something is corporate, especially media, it certainly cannot be liberal.

    liberals/progressives are less interested in protecting the bottom line of gigantic corporations,
    and more interested in protecting workers, the environment, etc.

    media is not “liberal” because they criticize republicans, and support the democratic party. fyi.

    Well, as it is late, and I have a real job, I can’t spend all night arguing semantics with you, and even if I did, I don’t think I’d get very far. You have a very simplistic view of the world. One is either in favor of overturning our entire economic system or one is conservative (and therefore an imbecilic “corporate” rube).

  • darladoon

    Sean68 said:
    Well, as it is late, and I have a real job, I can’t spend all night arguing semantics with you, and even if I did, I don’t think I’d get very far. You have a very simplistic view of the world. One is either in favor of overturning our entire economic system or one is conservative (and therefore an imbecilic “corporate” rube).

    actually, it’s you who has a simplistic view of the world, as it is seemingly impossible for you
    to even entertain the idea that gigantic multinational conglomerates, who own all four major
    television networks, care about informing citizens, rather than simply selling advertising to
    the highest bidder.

    take a few minutes, and watch my mentor break things down in an entertaining way.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MqIYJf13Hw

  • seek

    Silly doofus girl studied under a man who taught at Simon Fraser (that’s in Vancouver sweet stuff – Canadian eh?)
    many years ago. Marshall McLuhan another very famous Canadian writer and Lit Prof. – long dead

    Girlfriend – is that the page that fell open on the book you’re supposed to be studying?

  • darladoon

    how do progressives want to “overturn the entire economic system”?

    by……GASP!…….raising taxes on millionaires?

    by……GASP!……attempting to lower healthcare costs by insurance pooling?

    by……GASP!…….arguing that we should end the wars?

  • darladoon

    here’s another great interview with the master:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vpqXGW9sE

  • Jaurez

    darladoon said:
    30 years out of college, with an advanced degree in media studies, thank you.

    i never said anyone was stupid.

    Uh huh. We had a “constitutional lawyer” on the other thread a few minutes ago…

  • Nature Freak

    I weep for my country.
    Both sides in this debate have some good points.
    But both can not see the forest for the trees.
    Being able to get your point across without anger or malice is a talent few on this website have.

  • Nature Freak

    This thread is another example of why American exceptionalism is a myth.
    Check out English language discussions at non western websites.
    Foreigners laugh at us and have more of grasp of issues than us.
    We are a dying country, and Mediate proves my point.

  • franj

    Stewart does an excellent job of conveying how utterly useless and insipid tv journalism is.
    They are below average in intelligence and seem only capable of collective shaming rituals of valuable members of society. Fire the lot of them (Maddow and O’Donnel the exceptions). Disgusting to refer to any of them as journalists.

  • CRW

    darladoon said:
    i see, so CNN is “progressive”?

    interesting thought!

    darladoon said:
    wait a second, here. are you arguing that CNN is liberal?

    if so, then you really have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

    darladoon said:
    Sean68 said:
    What does one do with an advanced degree in media studies? You sound like a thoughtless ideologue to me. And very immature.
    teach.

    THAT is a PERFECT illustration of how this country has gone down the toilet. If I think CNN is liberal or progressive, then I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about? And YOU teach? And there are thousands more just like you. That might be the most frightening thing I have read in the last week or so. Those idiots at CNN fell all over themselves getting Obama elected. Thankfully (hopefully) there are enough of us left in the country who see through the media propaganda enough to save us from another four years of the “left-est” leftist president the country has ever suffered through, courtesy CNN, MSNBC, ABC, et.al.

  • Just4thefax

    darladoon said:
    i see, so CNN is “progressive”? interesting thought! is it me, or is the comments section at Mediaite quite right of center, and thus, imbecilic?

    Fact: It’s you. Mediaite is left and you are nuts.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Stewart is a little late but kudos.

  • ChrisNH

    I’m anxious to see which Manhattan skyscraper the haughty Paul Krugman will jump from, because I want to be there when it happens. He’ll either do that, or run away to the ‘safety’ of ‘academe’ where everything, you know, is ‘theoretical.’

  • TfT

    Dear Dan:

    Please hire an editor for your columnists/writers.

    These are the same people who make fun of Sarah Palin for not being able to speak clearly, and yet they write like kindergartners.

    Geeze Frances, you should proof read before you post.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    TfT said:
    Dear Dan:

    Please hire an editor for your columnists/writers.

    These are the same people who make fun of Sarah Palin for not being able to speak clearly, and yet they write like kindergartners.

    Geeze Frances, you should proof read before you post.

    Perhaps, some common sense solution is at hand.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Hey Progressives,
    Did you hear Stewart is going to be on FOX News this Sunday?

    One by one we’re bringing them back from the DARK SIDE!
    Soon the Democratic-Communist Party in America will be a footnote in history!
    lol!

  • Just my Opinion

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Perhaps, some common sense solution is at hand.

    OK..
    .Start counting !!

  • Pablo

    darladoon said:
    how is CNN not corporate? or NBC? or Fox? or any other television network?

    do you have ANY idea how much money you need to start a television network?

    Ted Turner does. He’s pretty liberal, right?

  • Alz

    Looks like Stewart is pivoting because Palin looks pretty good in those emails.

    Just a wild guess that Stewey would be all over this if there was a smoking gun.

  • Pablo

    darladoon said:
    correct, if something is corporate, especially media, it certainly cannot be liberal.

    Is MSNBC not liberal, or is it not corporate? The false dichotomy you’ve constructed fails.

  • Alz

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Hey Progressives,
    Did you hear Stewart is going to be on FOX News this Sunday?

    One by one we’re bringing them back from the DARK SIDE!
    Soon the Democratic-Communist Party in America will be a footnote in history!
    lol!

    I agree, but the only way the “Democratic-Communist Party in America will be a footnote in history” is if some treatment is invented – a pill or something. Maybe some gene therapy.

  • tatboy

    Bennybombom said:
    true…

    my personal favorites are the Glenn Beck impersonations..hands down

    They make drugs now for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  • BatBoy

    TfT said:
    Dear Dan: Please hire an editor for your columnists/writers. These are the same people who make fun of Sarah Palin for not being able to speak clearly, and yet they write like kindergartners. Geeze Frances, you should proof read before you post.

    It is the “Rush to print” anything about Sarah Palin thing.

    “Grammar” can come later!

    “Facts” – well, let some other publication print that!

    Isn’t it interesting that the very people who despise Sarah Palin, her family and everything she stands for, who will write volumes of material with the sole intent to destroy her, are the very people who make a living off of her hair, her glasses, her clothes, her kids, her hobbies, her thoughts, her prayers, her everything she has ever done or thought about doing.

    There has got to be a word for that, any ideas?

  • tatboy

    King Of Hell said:
    Just trying to figure out if this dimwit is a ‘liberal who torments’ or ‘ one who torments liberals’. See you in Hell for having an insipidly useless name!

    I feel very sorry for the you and the world you have created in your mind.

  • tatboy

    No other network was more humiliated than NBC/MSNBC. Yes the other networks went overboard… but NO other network was as gleefully looking forward to this more than NBC/MSNBC. You could see them salivating as the time ticked down. And you could see their faces racked with disappointment as the e-mail were poured through. Like election night 2004 NBC/MSNBC just couldn’t believe the “returns” they were reading. Nothing there… all that hype… all that drama… all that speculation of the great things they would find in this non-politicians e-mails. Just to be crushed with the realization that this person they have portrayed as stupid and evil personified is a pretty good, normal person with a loving family. Maybe not who I want as prez…. but not the evil, stupid, hateful, vile person she has been made out to be on NBC/MSNBC. And certainly not deserving of have statutory rape jokes made about her then 14 y/o daughter.

    This one exposed the MSM for the left wing tool it is and has always been. And reinforces the need for “other” sources of information. Even the folks that don’t get involved as much in politics and news as much as those of us around here will see this as the witch hunt it is and as always been.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Or even more ridiculous is the week and a half long obsession about Tweeted dick pics and not a single peep about the $6.6 billion in tax payer cash the Bush Administration “lost” a few years back….

    http://my.news.yahoo.com/bushs-stolen-6-6-bln-cash-aid-iraq-065255349.html

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Perhaps, some common sense solution is at hand.

    Aren’t you going to tell Jon Stewart to get some “paranoia” drugs… like you’ve told everyone else?

  • BatBoy

    darladoon said:
    if something is corporate, especially media, it certainly cannot be liberal.
    liberals/progressives are less interested in protecting the bottom line of gigantic corporations,
    and more interested in protecting workers, the environment, etc.

    ” if something is corporate, especially media, it certainly cannot be liberal.” Obama’s Wall Street Donors in the 2008 campaign would probably have a different idea. Those BIG MONEY guys gave him Million’s upon Million’s in donations.

    “liberals/progressives are less interested in protecting the bottom line of gigantic corporations, and more interested in protecting workers, the environment, etc”
    Ask GE about this…you know the light bulb company who has closed up every manufacturing facility in the US and will only be selling the mercury filled curly cue bulbs (The ones that are going to fill up our dumps with mercury) and the new LED lights (I saw some 40 watt LED bulbs the other for $35/ea)

    Now tell me, how are all of those people who were laid off going to be able to buy a freaking light bulb. Maybe GE can get a government contract to clean up the mercury filled dumps in a few years.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Just my Opinion said:
    had there been anything remote interesting in her files.

    Frances….there was a lot of interesting stuff, just not to whack-job libtard “JournoList” agitprop lizards who populate the punditsphere—-TRRK is still getting ten negative hits for every green thumb up, so use him as an example of how you should write your stories.

  • BatBoy

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Or even more ridiculous is the week and a half long obsession about Tweeted dick pics and not a single peep about the $6.6 billion in tax payer cash the Bush Administration “lost” a few years back…. http://my.news.yahoo.com/bushs-stolen-6-6-bln-cash-aid-iraq-065255349.html

    6.6 Billion the Bush Administration lost a few years back. I would like to get that back.

    But right now, I want the 3 – 4 Trillion Obama spent, with nothing to show for it, other than he line the pockets of his doners.

    How about this Jackie, lets you and I work on getting some of the Trillons back – it is right here in the states.

  • lane

    Sarah Palin has done more to reveal how biased, unprofessional and lazy the majority of the media is than any person in modern history. This is the ‘Al Capone’s vault’ moment for the entire MSM,

    I didn’t watch any of the coverage, so the clips were very funny and very, very pathetic….

  • lane

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Or even more ridiculous is the week and a half long obsession about Tweeted dick pics and not a single peep about the $6.6 billion in tax payer cash the Bush Administration “lost” a few years back….

    Seriously? This guy is a voting member of the house of the US congress, which allocates taxpayer money. His judgement and ethics matter.

    Rather than diving through her emails, why not figure out where the stimulus money actually went to? Where are the roads, bridges, trains, etc? Where are the jobs? That’s worth spending some time on. Go back to the Bush era and analyze who still owes loan money back? Are Fannie Mae/Mac still bleeding us dry? There’s a few hundred billion more. Ditto with AIG and with GM/Chrystler.

    Sure find out about the $6B, but I’d rather know where the $878B stimulus money went first. I’m not partisan, but I am a taxpayer!

  • AlexRadcliffe

    The greatest moment of all the Palin coverage was MSNBC trying to play down the Weiner issue as a personal matter, go to another story so their fish-brained viewers forgot they said that, then proceeded to cover Palin for a good 5-10 minutes, even bringing a panel out to disucss. Incredible.

  • puck30

    Could ‘Big Media’ have looked any dumber?

  • JR

    puck30 said:
    Could ‘Big Media’ have looked any dumber?

    Oh I have faith that they’ll continue to do this sort of thing. It’s not the first time, nor will it be the last. They never miss a chance to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, or something like that.

    Seriously, dumber than the proverbial bag of rocks and the more they keep talking about nothing, the more ridiculous it gets.

    I think that Stewart unplayed their stupidity. You don’t declare a news story until…you actually have something that someone might find ‘news’. This was like Geraldo opening Capones’ vault, only multiplied.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    franj said:
    Fire the lot of them (Maddow and O’Donnel the exceptions). Disgusting to refer to any of them as journalists.

    Actually, Maddow & O’Donnell are also lazy drone-by-the-numbers slackers. FIRE EACH AND EVERY ONE.

  • TeaPartyNation

    Can the lamestream socialist get any lower ?????

    Everyone understands the behavior of drug addicts who don’t get their drug fix – they become uncontrollably violent, resort to insane acts that destroy property and kill and injure innocent people and do whatever they can to get money for their next dose.

    Remember that while thinking about the fact that the massively PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) – inflicted lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists, whose hatred for one of America’s most effective and accomplished political leaders knows no bounds, have totally, utterly and completely FAILED in their latest effort to find the slightest bit of dirt on the distinguished former governor after pouring through thousands and thousands of her e-mails. They wound up with Zilch, Zero, Nada, Nothing, Zip – and they didn’t get their drug FIX !!!!!

    Like the drug addicts they so resemble, the PDS lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists are now likely to explode into even further uncontrollable fits of anger and violence against NORMAL, SANE, PATRIOTIC American citizens. They will make their follow lunatics, the GOONS and THUGS of public-sector unions, look like tame pets in comparison. The burning of Greece by their fellow socialists will probably serve as a guide to the actions of the d-cRAT socialists.

    Please prepare to protect yourself and your family from the predictable behavior of these out-of-control d-cRAT socialist extremists and their stooges in the lamestream socialist fake-news media.

  • juan

    Sarah always out-SMARTS ‘em!

  • Gasket
  • Sam M.

    juan said:
    Sarah always out-SMARTS ‘em!

    Who, the tea-party nit wits? I’d agree with that then.

  • Azarkhan
  • seek

    Gasket said:
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/12/the-sarah-palin-i-know/print/

    Did you read this article? Zeigler does not say anything bad about Palin. You realized that I’m sure.
    He’s not crazy about some of the people around her – but he seems to have great respect for Palin.

    Must just rot your socks right off doesn’t it?
    How many pages of e-mails did you have to read? Did you wonder if some ugly stuff was written in invisible ink? I’d check into that if I were you. One can never be to careful.

  • Nature Freak

    Todd is probably the only one who has a clue with what actually goes on in Sarah’s mind.
    I see a tell all book from Todd about 10 years from now. Maybe sooner.
    Todd is the key to the puzzle.

    Seriously, because of Sarah, Todd has power and prestige beyond whatever he probably ever thought possible (BTW Sarah is not without charisma, but her charisma only works on 20- 30 percent of the American population­). Todd’s power is similar to the power wife’s of famous politician­s have had in history. Women have had enormous power over public policy, it just isn’t in the history books. Todd’s involvemen­t in Alaskan government behind the scenes was extensive. As women continue to gain power in American politics (and this is a good thing), expect more Todd’s (hopefully not all Todd’s will be Tea Baggers).

  • Sam M.

    The emails are almost irrelevant. I think it’s already been decided that the half-term nit wit is an incompetent boob.

  • seek

    Nature Freak said:
    Todd is probably the only one who has a clue with what actually goes on in Sarah’s mind.
    I see a tell all book from Todd about 10 years from now. Maybe sooner.
    Todd is the key to the puzzle.

    Seriously, because of Sarah, Todd has power and prestige beyond whatever he probably ever thought possible (BTW Sarah is not without charisma, but her charisma only works on 20- 30 percent of the American population­). Todd’s power is similar to the power wife’s of famous politician­s have had in history. Women have had enormous power over public policy, it just isn’t in the history books. Todd’s involvemen­t in Alaskan government behind the scenes was extensive. As women continue to gain power in American politics (and this is a good thing), expect more Todd’s (hopefully not all Todd’s will be Tea Baggers).

    Seriously, have no idea what your point is or what you’re trying to say. Todd is Todd. He is there for his wife.

  • david r

    Looks like the e-mails show she is a nice person to work for. Has anyone been under this kind of scrutiny since JFK ? What a silly media freak show. And we’re the freaks. She is just an average person who has landed in the spotlight, and likes the way she looks on camera. Time to get this woman a talk show.

  • Sam M.

    seek said:
    Seriously, have no idea what your point is or what you’re trying to say. Todd is Todd. He is there for his wife.

    Not what I’m hearing.

  • Nature Freak

    Sam M. said:
    Not what I’m hearing.

    Sam, I heard that as well.

  • Nature Freak

    seek said:
    Seriously, have no idea what your point is or what you’re trying to say. Todd is Todd. He is there for his wife.

    Todd is a human being and I am interested in his motivation. That is why biographies are written.

    That is all.

  • seek

    Nature Freak said:
    Todd is a human being and I am interested in his motivation. That is why biographies are written.

    That is all.

    gee are you interested in Obama’s “history” at all? Suddenly you’re interested in Todd Palin. Who knew?

  • Nature Freak

    seek said:
    gee are you interested in Obama’s “history” at all? Suddenly you’re interested in Todd Palin. Who knew?

    Yes I am and most of it was gone over with a fine toothed comb during the 2008 election.

  • dougx

    I would have been more impressed if Stewart had decried the email exercise before it actually happened. Seems like he is jumping on the bandwagon. If they had contained embarrassing stuff on SP, he would have been laughing it up and ridiculing her.

  • seek

    Nature Freak said:
    Yes I am and most of it was gone over with a fine toothed comb during the 2008 election.

    biggest pile of bs. bah bye – not interested in dumb

  • mediadoubt

    I have never uttered the term “lamestream media,” but this monumental idiocy demands the use thereof.

    Do they even know how much of their tattered credibility they have expended in this ridiculous snipe hunt?

  • mediadoubt

    dougx said:
    I would have been more impressed if Stewart had decried the email exercise before it actually happened. Seems like he is jumping on the bandwagon. If they had contained embarrassing stuff on SP, he would have been laughing it up and ridiculing her.

    I also think that Stewart needs to be making jokes about what happens several months from now. If not, he’ll justly be seen as nothing more than a peripatetic loser.

    Comedy about *current* events is for wimps.

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