I honestly can’t think of a more painful thing to do on the weekend than reading the Palin emails, but thank goodness someone out there is:
And in some cases, the documents show Ms. Palin defending herself vigorously against attacks — something she has said her handlers on the McCain campaign kept her from doing.
Perhaps the biggest scar on the governor’s tenure was the scandal known as Troopergate, which involved accusations that her administration improperly pressured the state’s top law enforcement official at the time, Walt Monegan, to fire a trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been in an ugly divorce with Ms. Palin’s sister. The governor later fired Mr. Monegan.
Even as one investigation found fault with Ms. Palin’s action in the case, she repeatedly insisted publicly that she had done nothing wrong. The e-mails show that she was even more emphatic in private exchanges with her closest staff.
“He can try to deflect from the reasons he was let go by blaming it on the Wooten issue, but he knows it’s not true and perhaps he doesn’t want a public discussion about his administrative skills being made public,” Ms. Palin wrote in July 2008 to several staff members from her Yahoo account.
In another note, she added, “Help me get the truth out” about “Walt’s stirred-up controversy.”
If anything interesting happens, I’m sure one of you will let us know.
Davis X. Machina
Sarah Palin…. Sarah Palin…
The name’s familiar. I think it’s the answer to a trivia question. Did she ‘win’ the Boston Marathon by taking the Green Line? First ascent without oxygen of Everest by a woman?
Can’t quite put my finger on it, though. That happens when you get old.
J.
Maybe Conan O’Brien can get William Shatner to read them.
MikeJ
I actually prepared scripts to grep an mbox for interesting stuff and then they release dead trees. Probably because of people like me who know regexs.
jwb
@Davis X. Machina: What does this have to do with Anthony’s Weiner?
eemom
aw shit Cole. Way to make Freddie Mercury roll over in his grave.
Villago Delenda Est
Not only did she insist she’d done nothing wrong, she insisted that the investigator found that, too, when in fact, in his first sentence, he said that she had violated a statute.
Now mind you, she didn’t say the investigator was mistaken in his finding (which she could have done), she said the investigator cleared her.
I swear I am not making this up.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Sarah Palin admits she did nothing wrong, confesses people are picking on her ’cause they’re mean. Film at 11.
cathyx
@Villago Delenda Est: Republicans live in oppositeland.
Alex S.
Didn’t you already use a Killer Queen line about a week ago? Not that it bothers me…
PurpleGirl
@Villago Delenda Est: Yes, I remember that incident. She has incredible gall.
ETA: Since these e-mails are redacted they won’t present much of real value. I’m not interested in them at all.
Ecks
So she doesn’t just put on an innocent front in public, she genuinely is this self-deluded… Anyone here surprised by that?
Me neither.
@eemom: Yeah. But now I have the tune in my head and that puts me in a happy place, so I net it out as a win.
Violet
Funny title, considering:
From Sarah’s assistant:
Sarah replies:
A girl’s gotta have her bubbly!
jacy
@Davis X. Machina:
Being without oxygen wouldn’t certainly explain some things.
Sinnach
@Ecks: This is a front. The request to view these emails came way back in 2008, the emails are redacted by Palin’s republican Lt Gov who took over after she quit, and they do not include her personal email addresses (which you’ll remember she got caught using for state business after that kid got her password).
After fighting this for 3 years her first response to the email release was to brag about how they show her as a hardworking, responsible governor.
Be prepared to be horribly disappointed if you expected even the slightest bit of juicy details from these emails. This is what Palin wants you to see and nothing else.
If the media didn’t salivate at the mention of Palin’s name this would be a total non-story.
AAA Bonds
Words just meander out of her brain.