Katie Couric's Notebook: Palin's E-Mail Hacked
There's been a heated debate swirling on the blogs about Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, and whether she may have conducted official state business there. The question certainly raises eyebrows, but the FBI is now focused on another incident involving her personal e-mail.
On Tuesday, an anonymous person or persons hacked into Gov. Palin's account, changed the password, and proceeded to forward her personal information around the Internet. That included private photos of her kids that ended up on websites such as Gawker and Wikileaks.
Sarah Palin is a public figure, but she has the right to privacy and so does her family. The scary lesson here is how easy it is to invade that privacy online, and the damage that can be caused by just a few mouse clicks.
If she used her personal account for the wrong reasons, it's up to the authorities to investigate it – not hackers.
Video: On Tuesday, an anonymous person or persons hacked into Gov. Palin's account, changed the password, and proceeded to forward her personal information around the Internet. That included private photos of her kids that ended up on websites such as Gawker and Wikileaks.
Sarah Palin is a public figure, but she has the right to privacy and so does her family. The scary lesson here is how easy it is to invade that privacy online, and the damage that can be caused by just a few mouse clicks.
If she used her personal account for the wrong reasons, it's up to the authorities to investigate it – not hackers.
First it is laughable that she even has a Yahoo email account and second it is laughable that she set it up to be easily hacked.
Her handlers are not doing their job.
First it is laughable that she even has a Yahoo email account and second it is laughable that she set it up to be easily hacked.
Her handlers are not doing their job.
"Moi arrezt vous all in zee name of zee leahw!"
A VP CANDIDATE''S EMAIL ACCOUNT WAS HACKED INTO! THERE WERE NO SECRETS THERE, NO IMPROPER USE OF THE ACCOUNT!!! But you just put it out there as a little nibble for the liberal radicals to run with on their blogs. Give me a break!
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I have been around the block and seen many elections.
This election is a disgrace in many avenues.
Women are being disgraced and African Americans are acting more racists than ever.
Obama is not being vetted, but protected.
The media needs to do their job, big time.
A Plea to the Media:
Vet Obama!
Below is a limited list of areas where the media has failed to investigate Obama.
This list does not include Obama%u2019s many policy reversals or outright fabrications, like the statement that the Kennedy family facilitated his father coming to the United States.
It does not include Obama%u2019s habit of voting present%u2019 as a member of the Illinois State Senate nor his strange maneuverings regarding a born alive bill.
Instead, the list below concerns Obama%u2019s associates and business dealings.
It is a sordid group, comprised of the America-hating, anti-Israel, and explicitly racial Left. There is big money involved, as with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and bizarre organizations to which money was funneled.
Obama%u2019s milieu is the intersection of Chicago politics and the fringe Left; there is much to be explored and explained about Obama. Below is a partial list where Obama remains unvetted:
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1. Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama%u2019s 20-year membership in an explicitly racist church, a church with rhetoric too hot for Oprah.
2. Rezko. Obama%u2019s ties to Tony Rezko and the 2005 purchase of the Obamas%u2019 home. Obama funnelling money to Rezko%u2019s sleazy businesses.
3. Ayers. Obama%u2019s extensive ties to unrepentant terroist Bill Ayers.
4. Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Obama and Ayers together dispensing tens of millions of dollars supposedly for educational organizations.
Although now just being investigated, it%u2019s known that money was funnelled to Ayers%u2019 friend, radical Mike Klonsky, a founding member of the Maoist Party of the United States.
5. Minister Louis Farrakhan. Obama is surrounded by people like Rev. Willie Barrow, a friend and admirer of the anti-white, anti-Semitic Farrakhan.
If the media doesn%u2019t do their job, we may end up with this guy as President.
But an issue I see that is of more harm is Palin''s record in respect to victims of sexual assault. Wasilla city documents and media interviews have shown that during her years as mayor the city shifted from previously providing rape kits free of charge to suddenly charging rape victims for the rape kits. City police records also show that Wasilla has had a high rate of sexual assault (over 2 per 1,000 residents) and the *** Offender database also shows a very high percentage of *** offenders living in the town (over 8 per 1,000), while the rate in the state is 4.7 per 1,000 residents.
So I hope you will ask Sarah Palin why her police chief switched to this policy and why she as mayor signed off on it.
And then just last week her lawyers said that Alaska''s public safety commissioner was fired for the "rouge" action of seeking to create and fund a new program to tackle sexual assault. I hope you will ask her why a person from a town with comparatively high rates of sexual assault and a high number of sexual offenders, in a state that leads the nation in the rate of forcible rape would, as governor, fire the public safety commissioner for taking initiative on this issue? When a reasonable person would assume that fighting sexual assault would be a priority for her governorship, why is it not?
It is purely a judgment issue.
She showed very poor judgment in using yahoo mail for government communications of any kind regardless of her motivation.
Our political loyalties should not outweigh our ability to assess candidates%u2019 judgment and performance else we run the very real risk of promoting poor leadership.
She either did not know any better or worse yet knew better and felt her need for concealment outweighed her need for security, either way it shows very poor judgment and the last thing we should even be considering is employment advancement opportunities for a person so utterly lacking in reasonability.
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
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http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
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http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
She claims she is fiercer than a pit bull!
She wants us to believe that she could lead the country.
She wants us to believe she can go toe to toe with our advisories from Iran, China, Russia, Venezuela and so on, if God forbid she were to become President.
She wants us to believe she%u2019s soooo tough%u2026
Yet she%u2019s intimidated by the press, and won%u2019t take their questions.
Am I missing something?
Only the clucking of a chicken wearing lipstick.
CHICKEN PALIN IS RUNNING from the Press!
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by fotofun-2009
September 22, 2008 12:46 AM PDT
- She can stare down a moose!
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See all 32 CommentsShe claims she is fiercer than a pit bull!
She wants us to believe that she could lead the country.
She wants us to believe she can go toe to toe with our advisories from Iran, China, Russia, Venezuela and so on, if God forbid she were to become President.
She wants us to believe she%u2019s soooo tough%u2026
Yet she%u2019s intimidated by the press, and won%u2019t take their questions.
Am I missing something?
Only the clucking of a chicken wearing lipstick.
Why does she run from the press