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September 17, 2008Invading Palin’s privacy - UPDATEDRemember in 2000, when Rick Lazio was running against Hillary Clinton for the NY Senate, and he walked across the stage to hand her a piece of paper and was instantly condemned as “threatening” and excoriated for “invading her space?” A lot of people regard that as the moment Lazio lost the race. People didn’t like perceiving a woman as being “threatened.” They did not like her “space” being invaded. Now the Obamaphiles - the angry, crazed, hate-filled part of the left who cannot understand the right and will not play fair - has hacked into Sarah Palin’s email account. They’ve invaded her privacy and that of her family in a way so intrusive it can ONLY be perceived as threatening. People will not like that. WOMEN will not like that. Idiots. Michelle Malkin spells it out:
This article allows that there is nothing problematic about the emails:
I don’t know anyone who has not occasionally used their private email for business and vice versa. But that’s not the point. What they’ve done to Palin is criminal and can bring jailtime. More importantly, is THIS really how they want to win an election? By getting into picayune minutiae of email, trying to find something scandalous, when there is not a politician alive who would want his or her private emails smeared across the internet, of for that matter, anyone else? What gives these people the right to think they can invade someone’s privacy like this? And excuse me, but aren’t the people on the left the ones who have been telling us - without basis - for the last 8 years that “evil nazi Bush” has been “intruding into people’s private correspondences” and that this (if it were happening) would be a bad thing? Can the hypocrisy get any thicker? First Palin is “not a woman”, and “not the mother of her baby,” and all the rest of the looney tunes stuff…now, she is not an American entitled to her privacy? Is she associating with known terrorists? Is that why she was invaded? This is the step too far that we all knew the left would take. It’s going to backfire on them spectacularly. No reasonable person, and certainly no centrist or independent type, is going to think that this was relevant, or fair, or the way to play the game. If Obama doesn’t do some serious damage control, very quickly: game over. These idiots have just brought Sarah Palin enormous sympathy. Now, people don’t just empathize with her, they don’t just “understand” who she is…now, they’ll want to PROTECT her. Stupid, stupid, stupid move. And unethical. And immoral. I wonder what Olbermann and Matthews and Mitchell and the rest will say about it? They’ll probably try to talk about the content of the emails, and get away from the fact that this woman’s privacy, and her family’s has been seriously penetrated. I mean, that’s what the Dems did when someone leaked a memo from the intel committee discussing how to take down Bush via Iraq. The press spouted outraged at the leak, ignored the content. This time, they’ll try to take umbrage at the content, and ignore the leak. If newscasters are people with children and private families, and in fact, they are, then they should be horrified by this, not gleeful. But they sometimes don’t understand that the people they cover are human beings, just like them. Don Surber says in Canada Palin’s phone number has been published online. This is just way beyond the pale. And it gets worse, too. Unable to keep from revealing their real selves, this idiot is trying to bribe Bristol Palin into aborting her baby. Yeah. Because, as the picture shows, money is better than life. And this creature says Trig Palin should have been aborted. Nice people, eh? These privacy-invading-picture-stealing-rumor-smearing-death advocates are the people Jeannine Garofalo says are “fundamentally decent” and good…unlike the narrow, racist, sexist, homophobe, knuckledragging, illiterate rest of us. I have never been more disgusted at a political season, or the treatment of a public figure. And that’s saying something. Breaking headlines on this here. Really…they’re just freaking nuts, now. Wired: quotes a few emails. There’s nothing there, but apparently in a very serious age, with very serious issues at our doorstep, the election is now going to be about Sarah Palin’s Tanning Bed and Sarah Palin’s emails from friends requesting prayers. Oh, and she might have read that on a government email. Or she might not have. It doesn’t matter…let the slipstream fire up. Hot Air (Allah): Sounds like nothing scandalous. That’s not the point, though. Time Magazine: This is not a hoax. Ben Smith: Very sophisticated and probably impossible to stop. Nice. Kim Priestap at Wizbang http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/09/17/invading-palins-privacy/trackback/ 33 Responses to “Invading Palin’s privacy - UPDATED” |
September 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Sarah Palin’s private email was hacked…
This is an absolute outrage. Michelle Malkin reports that some pure nutroots called Gawker have hacked into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account…
September 17th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
[...] The Anchoress sums it up - And excuse me, but aren’t the people on the left the ones who have been telling us - without basis - for the last 8 years that “evil nazi Bush” has been “intruding into people’s private correspondences” and that this (if it were happening) would be a bad thing? Can the hypocrisy get any thicker? First Palin is “not a woman”, and “not the mother of her baby,” and all the rest of the looney tunes stuff…now, she is not an American entitled to her privacy? Is she associating with known terrorists? Is that why she was invaded? [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
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September 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
The secret service should be all over their sorry selves for this. St. Michael pray for us.
I read Maureen Dowd this afternoon. Oh how she drips venom and sarcasm! She is a hater. I wanted to take a 1/2 not shower using a brillo pad. I dream that one day her car breaks down in my small hometown. I think a week with out backberry and/or mobile phone connectivity and regular lattes from the mega latte store might open her eyes to the real America. But her mind is not open to such change. I love my small town roots. I also love living in the metro megalopolis.
kelleyb
September 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I used to think the Clintons were basically trailer trash, but these people make the Clintons look almost respectable.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
And anyone guilty of this CRIME should be in jail.
I’m not a Sarah Palin fan, and never will be. But she deserves the same privacy rights that each of us wants for ourselves.
I seriously doubt that anyone hacking into an email account like that would be affiliated with any campaign - although they might support one candidate or ticket. This doesn’t change the fact that anyone - ANYONE - hacking into someone else’s email account is a CRIMINAL and should be prosecuted.
I fear that the press will latch onto anything that is posted by the hacker(s) in question, and create even more of a media circus than what we see now. I hope not, but the press has justified my fears too often recently by doing their best to turn an election - which should be about issues - into a circus.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I hope it is game over. But a lot of things should’ve already been game over for Barack, yet were not. The latest is Barack’s encouraging Iraq to oppose United States policy goals.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Of course, a number of the commenters on the Time story have decided this is a Republican hoax to benefit Palin. Though I couldn’t stand to read very many of them (and rational people may have since stepped up), I can’t understand how people who think that way can even drive a car or hold a job.
If I were a conspiracy theorist myself, I would conjecture that the disastrous decline of American schools, from kindergarten to college, has been engineered so our society would reach a threshold number of people like this, so someone like Obama could be elected — naive, weak, and easily pushed aside while the real powers take control.
More realistically, just think about this: The conspiracy conjurers and the Gawker freaks are not Obama’s lapdogs. He’s theirs.
People aren’t one-tenth as scared of the nutroots as they should be.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
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September 17th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Well I am sure lots of lefty civil libertarian types will just jump right up and defend Sarah Palin on this gross and outrageous invasion…
Why do I hear crickets?
September 17th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Quote of the Day
“No wonder McCain doesn’t use e-mail! The guy is a genius.”
H/T to Commentator Mike K at Paternico.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
“No wonder McCain doesn’t use e-mail! The guy is a genius.”
H/T to Commentator Mike K at Patterico for that in response to news Sarah Palin’s personal email was hacked! [Please substitute this for #3, I misspelled Patterico. My bad]
September 17th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
[...] has lots of good stuff, including The Anchoress’s piece on the lovely lefties who broke into Palin’s personal email account and posted the info to the web. Posted by Dan Collins @ 12:43 am | Trackback Share [...]
September 17th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
It’s one thing for the operatives of a political campaign to conduct a third-rate burglary of an office, but to conduct a burglary of a candidate’s private accounts is far more serious.
Are Woodward and Bernstein going to get on this?
September 17th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
“Now the Obamaphiles - the angry, crazed, hate-filled part of the left who cannot understand the right and will not play fair - has hacked into Sarah Palin’s email account.”
Sigh. I had actually resolved, since my last few posts had been taken as adversarial, to leave off weighing in here until after the election, and will likely observe that radio silence in the main, but you really ought to acquaint yourself with the culprits before reflexively linking them to “the Obamaphiles.” If you read the referenced article (published six weeks ago) you will learn about an apolitical, anarchic hacker subculture that makes destructive mischief out of sheer sociopathic spleen, with occasional forays into fraud and blackmail — and both “4chan.org” and “Anonymous” figure prominently in the Times account. File under “Dumb Democrat moves?” Do I then get to tar McCain-Palin and all who sail in her with this sort of thing on considerably firmer evidence of partisan association? I do not, in fact, and (at the risk of being taken to task for “finger-wagging”) I do not think that you should assign the outrage du jour to the opposing side just because you are disposed, now that the dreaded H is no longer a contender, to believe the worst.
Summary: you have no evidence that the hackers were “Obamaphiles,” and the lengthy news account of them suggests that they are hell-raising apolitical sociopaths (unless you are prepared to conflate the Democrats with the anarchists). Surely there are differences enough in policy between the two campaigns that we needn’t have recourse to imported outrages to make the respective cases.
September 17th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Left Wing Hater Hacks into Sarah Palin’s Private Email Account…
I’ve been following this all afternoon but I haven’t written anything until now because I was too pissed. Everyday I am learning that there doesn’t seem to be a rock……
September 17th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Michael Scherer states he “was advised this is not a hoax”, but he does not mention his reliable source. If he is basing this opinion on the email confirmed as “real” by a recipient, according to Wired, that’s not enough.
Real material could have been ported into a bogus account, as could any or all of the information published.
Even the McCain spokesperson stops short of acknowleging the illegal acts included a real hack of an active Palin account.
I hope the perpetrators of this scheme to embarrass and harrass Palin get theirs. However, the crimes may not actually include breach of her actual email account.
If it does, I hope the punks who did it see the inside of a prison.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
unless you are prepared to conflate the Democrats with the anarchists
Yep, I am. Kos, Move-on, ANSWER, La Raza, MS-NBC — they’re all subsidiaries of the Democratic Party.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Kos, Move-on, ANSWER, La Raza, MS-NBC — they’re all subsidiaries of the Democratic Party.
This does not surprise me, Bender B. Rodriguez, in the context of your previous posts. We will see whether the Anchoress endorses this take of yours.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
In addition to those groups, you may remember Democratic operatives intercepting the telephone calls of Newt Gingrich or Democratic operatives obtaining Michael Steele’s credit records or Hillary Clinton going through the confidential FBI records of Republican opponents.
This is nothing but standard operating procedure.
Some idea of change!
September 18th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Obama Backer Hacks Palin Email…
Send in the Secret Service.
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September 18th, 2008 at 5:29 am
rcareaga:
The original hacker admitted he was looking for dirt on Gov. Palin. Who but an Obama supporter would do that? Now, do I think that Obama and/or his campaign were behind it? No. Even he is not THAT stupid.
SarahW:
Private family pictures were published. That certainly suggests that that her account was breached.
Bender, don’t forget the DU. And if not subsidiaries of the Democratic Party, they ARE surrogates whose actions Obama can implausibly deny.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:40 am
[...] by Loony Left Posted by tigermeg under Politics | Tags: Allred, email, hacker, Palin | The Anchoress has done an excellent job of putting together the basics on the hacker who spread Sarah [...]
September 18th, 2008 at 7:47 am
“Is THIS really how they want to win an election?”…
The Anchoress on the hacking of Sarah Palin’s e-mail… …I don’t know anyone who has not occasionally used their private email for business and vice versa. But that’s not the point. What they’ve done to Palin is criminal and can……
September 18th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I remember when William F. Buckley was litigating a “freedom of speech” issue and requested the ACLU to step up and support his expensive defense of civil liberties. I also remember that they practically laughed at him.
When is everyone going to get it - it is always with these people “do as I say, not do as I do”!?
September 18th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Leader worship, and no limits on the means to obtain power. Dare we call it fascism?
September 18th, 2008 at 10:40 am
[...] The Anchoress says: I don’t know anyone who has not occasionally used their private email for business and vice versa. But that’s not the point. What they’ve done to Palin is criminal and can bring jailtime. [...]
September 18th, 2008 at 11:54 am
rcareaga, hate to break it to you but Obama works very hard to come across as the Hip Hop Presidential candidate. He wants very much to be perceived as “cool”. All his lackeys in the media write article after article about how “cool” he is and I don’t ever see the Obama campaign address that as a perception of their candidate they do not want.
Now, the rest of Smith’s article smacks of gangsta rap idiocy, and it’s ludicrous on it’s face.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I always figured much of the left’s accusations against conservatives were due to projection. ‘[A]ren’t the people on the left the ones who have been telling us - without basis - for the last 8 years that “evil nazi Bush” has been “intruding into people’s private correspondences” and that this (if it were happening) would be a bad thing?’ Now they’ve shown us that the baseless BDS fears of the left were due to the fact that they’d do exactly that if given the chance.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
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September 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Come on now. These are people that go around with Che t-shirts — celebrating a murderous thug. Of course the Dems would do everything they can to destroy their opponents.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
rcareaga-looks like the hacker is an Obamacon. Spawn of a democrat Tennessee state representative. Here’s the link to the story….
Now are we REALLY supposed to act surprized? I think you might’ve been the only person who doubted it.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am
The attack on Sarah Palin’s privacy is inexcusable. Citizens do have rights, the right to be secure in their papers among them. In a poorly worded statement, the Associated Press informed the Secret Service, “No way dude, are we givin’ up them emails ‘till we get the moose stew recipe. Like get your own story man, this one’s ours.” Due to the nature of the electronic medium, the Palin case should be groundbreaking. For the less technologically inclined: whenever one’s cell phone is switched on, not necessarily making a call, just turned on, even if it’s not a GPS enabled device, it emits a signal that anyone who obtains your SIM card number may track with an array of inexpensive software. GOOGLE GPS tracking devices. The phone’s speaker can also be remotely activated for use as a listening device. Perhaps you’re wondering, as did I, how certain individuals seem to know your whereabouts, or manage to show up when and where they do. High tech devices lend the good, the bad & the ugly a level of sophistication hitherto unimagined. Cell phone option: remove battery when not in use: http://theseedsof9-11.com