Bloggers, not mainstream media, has the scoop on Palin resignation
So, where do we go to get some insight on why Sarah Palin decided to quit and not run for reelection as governor of Alaska?
Do we go to the Washington Post?
Palin’s decision to exit the governorship was as sudden and unexpected as her arrival on the national stage when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) defied all predictions and selected her to be his 2008 vice presidential running mate. From that day in August, to yesterday’s announcement that she plans to step down, she has been one of the country’s most compelling and controversial politicians — and almost always one of the most enigmatic.
Analysis? It’s like the guy sat down and just rattled off some stream-of-conscious nonsense.
Instead, we can go to The Brad Blog:
Okay, I’ve now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin’s house and the Wasilla Sports Complex built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the “same windows, same wood, same products.” Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources.
And then there is Max Blumenthal over at the Daily Beast:
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
So why are the deep thinkers of the MSM going “wha th’?” while the bloggers are able to come up with rational explanations backed up by details? Because the bloggers did much of the original reporting, that’s why. They kept on top of the story about the developers, while the MSM focused its attention on lame-ass, nothing issues like whether Dave Letterman was going to apologize for *gasp* telling a rude joke.
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I hope she runs for President in 2012. Oh please run.
Not me. The last anti-intellectual the GOP nominated ended up winning.
Of course, Google Adsense tosses a “Palin PAC” banner ad on top of this page. Ha!
why would someone just up and quit their duty because they wanted to do the same, but more difficult job a few years later?
Don’t worry, boys, this wacko will be another bad footnote in GOP history in about 12 months, after all the investigating is complete. I read the Vanity Fair article at 6pm last night, I kid you not, as I had purchased a copy for Diane to read about Heath Ledger and for me to read about Psycho Bee-otch from Alaska.
She’s goin’ down, boys, she’s goin’ down. And from what I’ve read, it couldn’t happen to a “nicer” person…using the term “nicer” quite loosely here, if you do some reading from her former friends in Alaska.
This is all well and fine, Billy, IF the blog speculation about possible federal charges against Palin prove true. Otherwise, it’s just more of the same idle speculation that bloggers engage in all the time. It’s easy to be first when your career doesn’t depend on being right.
Hey, I’m a fan of blogs and read them all the time, but time will tell on this one whether they were right or just merely among the first to be wrong.
Better be careful folks, because Palin’s legal counsel absolutely denies these reports and is threatening to sue for defamation any media outlet that repeats them…
Also, did anyone bother to notice that if these allegations stemmed from Palin’s term as mayor of Wasilla, the five-year statute of limitations for prosecuting any such offense is long past, since she left that office in 2002?
I am quaking in my boots: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24521.html
From the AP, regarding Palin’s response to rumors of a federal investigation:
“The FBI reiterated that claim Saturday, telling the Los Angeles Times for a story Sunday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not investigating Palin’s activities as governor, a former mayor or in any other capacity.
‘There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we’re investigating her or getting ready to indict her,’ Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, the bureau’s Alaska spokesman, said.”
“The coach’s job is safe,” said every football executive known to man just before they fired him.
Too many bloggers have “cried wolf” about Palin investigations for any to really be taken seriously when there sources are “…local Alaskan sources…”
And why more venom for her than for the good ol’ boys in Alaska that were doing this long before she came along and cleaned them up, which was what everyone agreed upon before the women landed on a national ticket.
I was at a parade this weekend and got so pissed off when I saw Congressman Dingell (D-Mich 15th Dist) that I screamed at him about cap and trade and how Goldman Sachs boys should be hung for treason. His wife (Debbie) looked scared, but John pointed a bony finger at me and yelled back that I was right about Goldman Sachs.
Ah, yes, the good ol’ American tradition of screaming at a parade participant how people should be hung during a 4th of July parade.
Sheesh.
At least I was screaming about Goldman Sachs rather than Sarah Palin. Uh, how is it that she has raided the US Treasury for several trillion???
Chase, I’m curious if your arm ever breaks from continually patting yourself on the back?