TROOPERGATE JUST BLEW UP BIG! Troopergate e-mails from Sarah Palin.

[endthewar]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/new_emails_suggest_holes_in_pa.php

TPM link about WaPo publication:

"The Washington Post has obtained emails sent by Palin to then-Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, which show Palin complaining about the fact that trooper Jim Wooten -- who was embroiled in a family dispute with the Palins -- was still employed. The emails don't explicitly show Palin pressuring Monegan to fire Wooten -- but they do appear to undercut Palin's claim said that she only ever discussed Wooten with Monegan in the context of security concerns for her family.

Here's the Post's description of the key emails:
"This trooper is still out on the street, in fact he's been promoted," said the Feb. 7, 2007, e-mail sent from Palin's personal Yahoo account and written to give Monegan permission to speak on a violent-crime bill before the state legislature.
"It was a joke, the whole year long 'investigation' of him," the e-mail said. "This is the same trooper who's out there today telling people the new administration is going to destroy the trooper organization, and that he'd 'never work for that b****', Palin'.)"

[Cha]

1. Good..I knew tom fucking brokaw was blowin' out his a$$

when he said it was a "blip on the road"..nothing there.

I'm pulling for Walt Monegan!

[4themind]

8. Yeah his "ignore the man behind the curtain"

doesn't seem to be flying

[Jackpine Radical]

48. ...but the monkeys are.

[King Coal]

96. I must be slow, but why is this a big deal? I hope it is, but I can't see how it is.

[NMDemDist2]

105. abuse of power in a personal affair

her sister was married to the trooper, they were in a bitter divorce (custody IRRC) and Palin wanted her exBiL fired from his job.

blatant abuse of power.

When the Director guy refused, she fired HIM instead and put in a crony to do her bidding. The Union pitched a fit and the State AG had to investigate. the Investigation is ongoing.

[badgerpup]

109. ...and then, just to make things interesting...

..the crony had some troubles of his own...
Seems he was one of them damn foreigners...you know, Russian hands and Roman fingers?

http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510080.html

Palin's replacement for Monegan, Chuck Kopp, was forced to resign just two weeks after he was appointed because of a sexual harassment complaint that had been filed against him when he was the chief of police in Kenai.
Palin, in a news conference announcing Kopp's resignation July 24, said she was unaware that the Kenai city council had reprimanded Kopp as a result of the complaint and would not discuss how her staff had vetted Kopp before naming him to replace Monegan three days after Monegan was fired.

Ended up leaving two weeks later...with a $10,000 severance package.

Ooops. :blush:

Is it just me, or is this damn near criminal negligence in laissez-faire attitude toward vetting seem to be developing into a sort of theme here?

[NMDemDist2]

113. ooooo, I had forgotten that! thanks for the refresher. the hits were coming so fast

I lost track of that one

:hi:

[bobd0]

114. Palin vetted Kopp about as well as McCain vetted her

[Hyper_Eye]

116. Seems the poorly vetted wasn't very good at vetting either. n/t

[ildemo]

117. It isn't.

Wooten is a Republican alcoholic abusive thug cop who was beating the shit out of Palin's sister. So naturally Palin did what any sister here on DU would have done -- she tried to get him fired.

But on this sanctimonious forum, since Palin is running for VP, all of a sudden the Wooten asshole is an innocent saint. DU -- the forum that is against drunken cop wife-beating -- unless it might win us some political points in the presidential election. I have been lurking here for seven years, and I have never seen DU sink lower than it has this week by defending this scummy trooper.

BTW, the cop is just 35 and he has been divorced four times already. Does that give you a clue to his character?

[stopwastingmymoney]

119. it is

whatever Wooten is, it's still abuse of power and that is a big deal

[ildemo]

122. Waaah.

Poor Republican drunk abusive cop is being picked on.

[mazzarro]

126. Even Wooten Deserved Due Process

The fact that Wooten may be "a rotten molester and abuser" does confer on the Governor the power to administer arbitrary justice on behalf of her sister. There are better ways for her to have helped her sister than to throw the weight of her office abusively into the whole issue of the divorce.

[kristopher]

131. I'm curious

"Wooten is a Republican alcoholic abusive thug cop who was beating the shit out of Palin's sister."

You state that as a fact. According to the Chief of Public Safety that lost his job, there were no negative allegations made nor complaints filled until the divorce became acrimonious and a custody battle ensued. That hardly seems like a basis for concluding that the man actually did what he is accused of. I'm not defending either side of the divorce case, but Palin's actions are unquestionably wrong. It meets the spirit of the definition of abuse of power at least, and possibly even the legal definition.

[Gore1FL]

139. And this would be handled by the Governors's office,why?

Additionally, this is not who she fired.

If you are going to argue the story, the at least know what you are arguing.

[John Q. Citizen]

143. Why didn't the sister file charges? Please do tell.

[flying_wahini]

144. If her sister married him, what does that say about her?

n/t

[jhrobbins]

127. It's similar to the Bush firing of those federal attorneys that would not

tow the party line.

[ildemo]

129. Were they drunk wife beaters with guns and badges too?

[jhrobbins]

130. This is an argument right out of the Republican play book - this is

NOT about the brother in law - it is about the official that was fired when he would not capitulate to her demand. I have been hearing this argument from a lot of Republicans, but not from Democrats. New to DU are ya.

[ildemo]

132. If there were no politics involved ...

this board would be treating this drunk abusive cop like the scum-sucker that he is. DU has always been the first place to call out corrupt cops. Why has the situation suddenly changed? How would you like this thug to pull YOU over after you've had a single glass of wine? How would you like this thug to be married to YOUR sister?

[stopwastingmymoney]

136. because

because we're not talking about him, we're talking about her and abuse of power by a public official, Wooten is not the VP nominee

are you intentionally missing the point?

[nxylas]

140. If there were no politics involved, it wouldn't be an issue

The issue is that the governor ordered the firing of a man who had just divorced her sister. It doesn't matter how much he deserved it, it's still an abuse of gubernatorial power.

[savistocate]

147. This many assertions you cite..there has to be a record. Where is a source name. Logically in the

custody battle still ongoing this physical abuse will be presented..but if severe as you say leaks would be specific. He'd have to have a very convincing lawyer.
Again no reports of her calling domestic disturbance, complaints or neighbors, or witnesses in public places.

[trueblue2007]

26. Walt Monegan SHOULD SUE Sarah Palin!!!!

Wouldn't that be a sweet deal?

[Major Hogwash]

37. That's why she just recently got her own lawyer for "troopergate".

Everyone there is telling him to sue her.
He should file his suit next week, right after they get done with their convention!!

[glinda]

148. Palan Patrol Gate

If this becomes a Civil matter this is bad news because no legal action can result from that. It has to become an actual Legal matter that charges can be filed.

[DaLittle Kitty]

69. Sweet Ly'n Lil Sarah Needs to Be PULLED In Disgrace! Is She Just Going To Continue...

To LIE HER F'ING ASS OFF AND GET AWAY WITH IT? SCOT FREE? :wtf: ? She is going to be the M F'n Vice President and in 5 f'ing minutes she's lied more than Cheney has throughout his entire tenure as the worst piece of crap in history?

Dump this b**** NOW!

[texshelters]

82. She's terrilble and I hope

that she stays in. That would help Obama.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[lark]

98. I can feel your emotion

but your facts don't hold water. No way she lied as much in a few minutes as Cheney has over the last 8 years - sorry, she may be awful but is nowhere near the Cheney league of pure evil. She does not seem to meet the Bush std. for awful - celebrating and promoting death and destruction. She's just a oil whore - and tool of the religious right, nothing more.

[rgbecker]

149. I think there will more of Cheney in this than you think.

Picture Dick showing Sarah around the office and instructing her on what the VP does all day!
"By the way, Sarah, my dear, remember the office of the Vice President is not part of any branch of the government, so feel free to just do as you please, like I have over the last 8 years."

[L. Coyote]

77. Breakng news. The troopers union sued today,

[EmilyAnne]

83. Really? Do you have a link? If not, I'll google and post it.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

84. Link? n/t

[Myrina]

133. here you go ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3471035

:bounce:

[Flirtus]

95. in the google (09/03)

(Best Syndication News) New ethic’s complaint is being filed against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin today before the end of the business day. The complaint outlines misconduct by the Gov. and her office staff alleging records where improperly made pubic.

John Cyr of Wasilla, Alaska the Executive Director of Public Safety Employees (PSEA) told the Laguna Journal that “our attorney Steve Sorenson of Juneau Alaska will file the compliant before the end of the business day today.” The grievances will include the illegal release of records of Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten the former brother-in-law of the governor, according to Mr. Cyr.

edited for link
http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=node/16805

[krkaufman]

58. Yeah, I saw him say that on MSNBC earlier ....

... and was shocked (yes, I know I shouldn't be) that Brokaw was dismissing the whole issue.

In the tank.

[Plucketeer]

71. Damned Liberal Media!

:banghead:

[redqueen]

60. He's gotta do his part to help catapult the propaganda. (nt)

[loveable liberal]

93. Brokaw is a hack.

For christ sake I can read a damn teleprompter, wtf does that have to do with news.

[autorank]

103. He's been a phony from day 1

He's good at it too, unlike Brian Williams and that Katie person. They're flat out trolls.

[jhrobbins]

125. I am pretty much 'over' tom brokaw lately-he seems a little dotty

[Ian David]

128. Brokaw says the real story is in Jallallabad.

Or as he calls it, JahhHHhhhh--yaAAhhhaa--aaayaHHhh-bahd.

[MadMaddie]

2. Yummy!!

:popcorn:

[valerief]

3. keek

:kick:

[hatrack]

4. Lovely, just lovely, just LOVELY!

K&R

[Mojambo]

5. We need to push this through the afterglow of her speech.

Abuse of power.

More of the same.

[countryjake]

79. Especially here in wa...

on the heels of the deputy shooting!

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Wooten is, from all accounts, a slimeball.

Sarah would have been so much smarter to turn McCain down and just deal with this little issue before getting herself out on the national stage.

[roguevalley]

46. true and I hear he feels pretty damned good right now. Sarah is

an autocratic dumbass.

[Blue_In_AK]

56. Yup.

She looked pretty pathetic tonight, didn't she? I think her political career in Alaska will be over after one term. She's embarrassed the hell out of us.

[roguevalley]

63. truly

[redqueen]

66. Pat and Norah were raving about how great it was.

I couldn't even watch much of the commentary.

The whole thing was just stomach-churning.

[DaLittle Kitty]

73. What Speech? She READ A F'ing Teleprompter. She Wrote NUTH'N. Created NUTH'N

C'MON THIS IS RIDICULOUS She READ A Fucking speech written by a PROFESSIONAL REPUBLICAN SPEECH WRITER... That IS IT! PERIOD! FINITO! ANY ONE OF US COULD HAVE READ THAT STALINIST MANIFESTO JUST AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!

LET'S GET TO THE BOTTOM OF ALL OF HER LIES AND GET HER FIRED... BECAUSE THE REPUB IDIOTS WILL VOTE FOR HER NO MATTER WHAT... AND MCCAIN DIES AND WE ARE STUCK W/ A FASCIST ABUSER OF POWER THAT WILL MAKE GEORGE W. LOOK LIKE A BOYSCOUT!

[southerncrone]

76. Is she always that acidic?

The lack of experience is bad enough, but her lack of DIPLOMACY is what scares me!

Is she as big a bitch as she seems?

[lark]

99. Yep, I think she is a Queen B----

I'm sure you noticed that her whole speech is how wonderful John & I are, how honest, and Obama is everything evil. She didn't have one positive thing to say about moving the country forward, no ideals, no ideas, no policy. It was all hate all the time - look at that guy with the funny name over there, he's scary. The Repugs have nothing to run on besides fear and a pretty face. They are so morally bankrupt! God, I don't think I can stand it if they win again.

[Blue_In_AK]

101. No.

She's actually been very persuasive and has worked well with the Democrats in our state legislature (mainly because she had strong opposition in her own party), plus when I met her personally in 2006 when she was running for governor, she was quite charming, even knowing that I was supporting a progressive Democrat for the U.S. House seat. She was almost unrecognizable to me last night. Obviously she had been coached to be the attack dog. I kind of liked her personally, even while totally disagreeing with her politics, but she's lost me now. Too easily molded into what they want -- after she's played on her authenticity here.

McCain never should have come here -- we could have taken care of her ourselves.

[sandnsea]

54. What about the rest of her problems

What about heading up Stevens' 527. What about hiring lobbyists to get earmark money. What about the people she had fired in Wasilla. What about a $20 million debt. What about lying about the bridge, and lying about building bridges in Alaska without any federal help. What about opposing sex education. What about creationism in schools and believing parents should have 100% control over what their child learns in school. Why in the world would you think she should EVER be on the national stage. She's a lunatic.

[johnaries]

78. But it's not about Wooten, it's about MONEGAN.

Monegan is the one that was fired under false pretenses. You would be better qualified than I to judge what kind of a job that Monegan did, but from all accounts I've read he did a good job and her reasons for firing him were bogus. Wooten was the motive, not the crime.

[liberalaska]

106. Who cares if he is a slimeball?

She abused her power, she probably broke the law, and she has been lying about it ever since. I have been following this pretty closely since day one, like pretty much everyone else up here. And every where you turn there are people talking about what a sleazy dude Wooten is and how he shouldn't be a trooper. But that is just a distraction from the real issue at hand. That Sarah and Todd are just as sleazy as Wooten. I mean they are all from Wasilla, and I think the one thing I can agree with Ben Stevens on is the valley.

[Kdillard]

7. This problem is not going away. Seriously how much longer

will the McCain campaign fake that this was a good idea.

[musicblind]

17. Sadly to the bitter end

which will not end well for them.

[Bette Noir]

72. If this fiasco ends the careers of McCain and Lieberman,

it'll be worth it.

That Palin's career is over goes without saying.

[pokercat999]

90. You way under estimate the stupidity of the American people. nt

[janet118]

92. Coalition of the Clueless

Sarah can bring in the Wal-mart vote, the Christian fundie vote, the PUMA (should they really exist) vote, the anti-abortion fanatics, the gun vote and the "ain't she purty" vote. That's not counting the macho, racist vote that McCain already has.

All the wedge issue voters will flock to this ticket. Our only hope is that there are enough Independents and Republicans out there who recognize their own self-interests and finally realize that, unless they are very wealthy, they are going to be screwed again, economically and other ways not yet imagined, if they vote for these two puppets.

[lark]

100. No real Dem will vote for her /McSame- PUMA or not

She is the antithesis of Democratic - she's more right wing than McCain. The person that is shilling for McCain was interviewed and guess what - she hasn't voted Dem since Clinton so calling herself a Democrat is bogus when she votes Repug all the time except once. I don't buy this whole story, it's bogus. I know a lot of Dem Hillary voters here in No. FL. and only 1 (a guy) who is not voting for Obama and he's sitting this one out. I'm not saying none will vote for McCain, but only the dem in name only, or a stubborn fool like my friend's husband mentioned above would do that.

[The Hope Mobile]

120. Sad but true.

The red-staters I grew up with saw her as dynamic, feisty, strong-willed, unconventional (in a good way) and able to do the job. SCARY!!

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Tip o'the hat to Josh Marshall at TPM Muckraker!

Meanwhile, Tom Blowjaw and the rest of the corporate media slide farther into irrelevance.

[Hepburn]

10. LMBO...as she gives her speech, her lies blow up in the press around her!

I fucking love it! :rofl:

[City Lights]

11. K&R while grinning from ear-to-ear!

:7

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

14. Ditto.

:7

[Cha]

19. Kick and a I love your username,

BurgherHoldtheLies!

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

23. Thanks...

:hi:

[knixphan]

12. ooh!

:popcorn:

[musicblind]

13. This better be on the FRONT FUCKING PAGE of their paper!!!!!

This is big and we cannot let them ignore it!

[cliffordu]

15. ....

[madmax]

16. Allllrighty!! n/t K&R

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

18. "These are not the droids you're looking for"

Move along, Move along

[4lbs]

50. Unfortunately for them....

All the "stormtroopers" that could be swayed by this are already in their own party.

[4lbs]

51. Unfortunately for them....

All the "stormtroopers" that could be swayed by this are already in their own party.

[kath]

20. Woot! Do we get to see McLame blow his stack on national teevee now?

Puh-LEEEEEZE??

[krkaufman]

64. How about an effin' interview with Palin? nt

[HillbillyBob]

124. I Pray to the Goddess of truth

That we get to see him chew some priceless rug to shreds
in one of his infamous temper tantrums.
In Living Color (tm)
Before the election.
I am so tired of the rightwing fascist propaganda that has been fed us for
for so many years. In fact I got so sick of it all those years ago
I thew the tv out on the curb, and eventually left there never to return.
Imagine my dismay when RonnyRayguns driver left his limo on my lawn.
I m thinking why me? I had been put out of the Navy (homosexual discharge) and
and could not get hired by the FAA even though I was a trained air traffic controller.
and here this sombitch is parked on my yard. To watch a ballet performance by RonJr
at the school across the street from where I lived.

[BlueIdaho]

21. Wooten is a bad guy -

but that doesn't give Caribou Barbi the right to abuse her power. This story may have reached critical mass - regardless of anyone's wishes - this story has a life of its own.

[goodgd_yall]

123. I'm disagreeing

Moneghan isn't going to get much sympathy once people learn more about Wooten.

[Chasing Dreams]

22. k & r - now we're talkin'!

:yourock:

[RoadRage]

24. How have the repugs not been able to BUY their way out of this yet?

They just got $10,000,000 from the Evangelical Fudies this week when she jumped on their boat.. i assumed that the money would be sent to Alaska to shut up, bribe and quiet any "issues" that weren't fully vetted.

But, I guess with Babygate, Troopergate, Bridge-to-Nowheregate, AIPgate, What-does-a-vice-president-dogate, Ice-Hockey-Rinkgate, Library-book-bangate, and the brand new AFFAIRGATE, Ten Million Dollars just doesn't buy Rove what it used to. I guess he forgot that the dollar has gone down in the past 4 years.. and he needs a bit more to cover up this mess.

FUCK. :eyes:

[drm604]

68. Affairgate?

Is that something new? What is it?

[rebel with a cause]

75. new story saying that palin had an torrid affair with her husband's

business partner. Just started, don't know if it will go anywhere.

[psychmommy]

104. she turned her back on the repubs up there.

that's how she assumed the reformer mantra. but, now nobody is gonna help her.

[dennis4868]

25. the problem is....

that Frank Bailey, a key witness against Palin, today cancelled his deposition with the investigator. Obviously, someone got to him (McCain's lawyers did go down there for a reason). The investigator will have to subpoena him to get him to talk.

[AwakeAtLast]

29. Then they can go after McCain for obstruction of justice.

Works for me. ;)

[crickets]

Works for me, too!

Hee, this is gettin' good!

[me b zola]

27. K and R

:kick:

[vixengrl]

28. Oh kick--

She was all up in that firing and it was personal as hell. (Oh, and part of a pattern.)

[wvbygod]

30. Has tpmmuckraker talkingpointsmemo been right on these hunches?

My narrow history has it at 0 for 66.

[krkaufman]

62. Why the hate? And why the mischaracterization?

What "hunch" is TPM reporting?

[chill_wind]

91. Examples?

In my experience, they've often tended to be months ahead in stories about the GOP.

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. Tom Brokejaw said tonight that it was just a bump in the road after calling

Obama ... Osama

[bevoette]

33. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???

Tom BROKAW did that??

OMG

[berni_mccoy]

39. I saw that. I don't think he knew about the emails. And since when has that guy been right

about anything?

[spanone]

32. ooh that evil media....ooh they are soo mean to that poor widdle wady

[Pisces]

34. She is toast. Hopefully they let her accept the nomination. We need her on the ticket.

She is an easy target with so much garbage that the McCain campaign did not vet. It is the holy grail of scandals.

[MsLeopard]

35. How bad is McLame going to look when

he has to face that she needs to go? Great decision-making, there, Johnny. :rofl:

[Major Hogwash]

36. Geez, he's lucky to still be walking around from the sound of it.

She is one vindictive woman!!!

Not presidential material at all.

[Jackpine Radical]

49. Whaddya mean, "not presidential material?"

Vindictive worked pretty well for the current crowd.

[berni_mccoy]

38. K&R

[RedLetterRev]

40. Kick it up a notch and rec t'boot! n/t

[President Decider]

41. NICE!!!! ...... ** MAN THE LIFE BOATS, SHE'S TAKING ON WATER!

[endthewar]

43. Submarine Sarah!

:rofl:

[jberryhill]

42. "Palin's personal Yahoo account"

You know, EVERY account she has is a "Yahoo account", no matter what the address.

[endthewar]

44. LOL!

:rofl:

[Brotherjohn]

94. Glad I wasn't taking a sip of my coffee when I read that!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[HughMoran]

45. SO she is a redneck b****

...at least according to her neighbors and acquaintances.

[4lbs]

47. But, hey, it's the media's fault for digging up the truth.

After all, the nasty truth should be buried, and instead the media should be falsehood peddlers taking their orders from the Rovian GOP machine. :eyes:

[kestrel91316]

52. K&R

[fishwax]

53. great timing!

:woohoo:

[Willo]

55. k&R

[bushisanidiot]

57. SUCK IT, BROKAW!!

speed bump my ass!

[myrna minx]

59. K&R n/t

[Frank Booth]

61. The media should be running with this.

Let's see if they've been cowed by McCain's playing the refs. For some reason, I bet they have.

[krkaufman]

65. Maybe you noticed the MSNBC poll posted today...?

.... where they were asking "should the media stop looking into Palin's background?" Or maybe all the media hand-wringing about their coverage?

The McCain campaign has been at least partially successful by making the story about coverage... for now. But hopefully skewerings like on tonight's Daily Show will help 'em grow a case.

[Frank Booth]

70. I'd like to think so, but experience tells me they'll just lie down and let McCain walk

all over them.

[iconicgnom]

67. WOW. just ... WOW

[countryjake]

74. Thank you thank you! This will be fun to pass around!

Here's the WP link for those who need something in print:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303210_pf.html

The thing on her firing of the Wasilla police chief went over real good in my area, now, any proof of her attempts to screw with the Alaskan "trooper organization" should be like icing on the cake, to those in this red nook of wa. It won't matter anymore if she's ever found guilty of such actions, it's simply that she's fucking with "law and order" and right wing nuts do not like that.

The AIPgate discovery has been the biggest strike against her, so far, but her wrestling with the "blue wall" is making conservatives absolutely wingy-dingy. We just had a horrific shooting here, one deputy sheriff dead, a trooper shot, five other civilians murdered, three others shot or stabbed. I may just run off this WP article and get it around, in time for all the memorials. Practically half the troopers in this state were in my county today.

[ClayZ]

80. Sweet poporn... no, buttered with salt, I think!

:popcorn:


edit to K and R

[texshelters]

81. Should the Dems wait

until it's too late for McCain to chose a competent but terrible replacement for Palin like Romney before bringing out all the dirt?

Just a thought.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Omerrrta]

85. Sarah Palin files ethics complaint against self in ‘troopergate’

Sarah Palin files ethics complaint against self in ‘troopergate’

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1116754&srvc=rss

August 3, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wants a state board to review the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan - taking the unusual step of making an ethics complaint against herself.

[Douglas Carpenter]

86. Kick and recommended -- very important !!!!!

[savistocate]

87. It's BLIMP on the road -sittin right on that road. What it tells about her.

The link cannot be missed to custody fight also -they want to say he dorsn't have any job so couldn't provide anything for kids.

[Arm Chair Politician]

88. K/R

[McCamy Taylor]

89. The speech did not do her much good. The posts at the WaPo are not sympathetic.

[AuntPatsy]

97. The ground roots really need to ensure all the truth becomes fact for every single

american citizen by printing these out and handing them out, we seriously cannot count on the media to ensure the truth becomes known by american citizens, its why they are attempting to bash the internet investigators once again....its pretty obvious they are attempting to once again threaten the media, they speak truth and then the next day it's like they have been switched by the notorious pod people brigade, but they cannot fight the ground forces no matter how hard they try...family, friends, strangers, its our duty to ensure they do not remain as ignorant as our government would love for them to remain.

[Bigleaf]

102. Link to last nights ABC Nightline with Brian Ross. Troopergate Audio Taped phone calls included!

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline


Click the video in the top right corner. 5 1/2 minute story. She's so fucking deep it's not funny.

[INDIA]

107. kick kick KICK! REC! n/t

[AZBlue]

108. From the WaPo article - she's either lying or incredibly stupid:

"In August, Palin acknowledged that 'pressure could have been perceived to exist, although I have only now become aware of it.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303210_pf.html

[underpants]

110. Wait wait wait...SHE SENT EMAILS????

Holy crap what a moron.

[ieoeja]

112. It's the John McCain Keating-5 defense.

She means she only now became aware that someone might perceive what she did as applying pressure. John McCain's defense in the Keating-5 incident was that he didn't understand that what he was doing was wrong. And everybody bought it because he just isn't all that bright.

[AZBlue]

134. Aren't they quite a pair?

[vanderBeth]

111. HaHa

:popcorn:

[zanne]

115. One question.

Why can't we get to see the actual emails?

[happygoluckytoyou]

118. AND THESE JOKES JUST KEEP ON WRITING THEMSELVES....i am only the conduit

GOP VS NFL...... 1) NFL pays a living wage 2) VICK knows PITBULL for fighting, Soccer Mom for getting coffee 3) McCain position... BenchWarming Throwback 4) Sarah position... Sympathy Receiver 5) In case of a tie, the NFL Team cannot buy the Supreme Court decision 6) NFL = Instant RePlay, GOP = Instant RePAY 7) GOP fantasy league includes CINDY on SARAH mudwrestling half-time show 8) In NFL Liarman couldn't trade HIMSELF to another franchise 9) In NFL you have Quarters and Halves, in the GOP you have Haves and Have-NOTs 10) In the NFL you would never play a woman just because she does not have a penis
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SOCCER MOM VERSUS PITBULL………… the comparison continues….. 1) pitbull not so good in bed 2) pitbull smarter on international affairs 3) pitbull won’t bring president john THE BUSH REPUBLICAN mccain coffee in bed 4) pitbull won’t fit in with a CINDY vs SARAH Wet T-Shirt Contest on the whitehouse lawn 5) pitbull trained to keep her mouth shut 6) soccer mom wears lipstick 7) pitbull doesn’t have 17 year-old (119 in dog years) pregnant daughter 8) pitbull doesn’t put unborn baby at risk by flying to alaska after water breaks (huskies however do) 9) if you have sex, and your balls are still attached, it was a pitbull 10) pitbull doesn’t mind being called BITCH PLEASE ADD YOUR OWN TO THE LIST….

[goodgd_yall]

121. This issue isn't worth the energy

Even though she may have abused her power, once people know what a sleaze Wooten is, they will think "good on her"! I myself am sitting on the fence about it. Maybe Moneghan deserved to get canned? Many people have a love/hate relationship about cops. Many feel their own police chiefs aren't doing a good job. When cops do well or they risk their lives or lose their lives in the line of duty they're sympathetic, when they themselves abuse their power, people hate them. I just can't automatically get enough empathy up for Moneghan myself. I dislike Palin intensely but I'd rather other issues involving her were focused on---her hypocrisy about "special needs" children for one amd the true story behind the "bridge to nowhere" for another.

[endthewar]

138. They can get her for lying to the legislature and she looks like she will abuse executive power

just like Bush.

[mudderfudder77]

135. Backfire - big time...

You do realize this is going to backfire - big time - right?


People won't care that she abused power, allegedly, all they'll care about is that she was protecting her sister from an abusive thug.


Can't wait to see this play out.

[endthewar]

137. Yeah, people are going to vote for the power abuser after Bush abused power.

:crazy:

Step aside, the rest of us have an election to win. :rofl:

[1Hippiechick]

141. The Repukes will call it a hoax, their followers will believe it. End of story. n/t

edited to add K&R

[nankerphelge]

142. Alaska police union files complaint against Palin

http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/04/1347737.aspx

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/04/palin.investigation/

[Enthusiast]

145. One thing for sure.

She has the Republican inclination to lie down pat. She would make a perfect replacement for W.

[Sick Of Their Lies]

146. Palin Impeached?

My gosh. Is it possible that McCain/Palin will make Bush/Cheney look good, even to Democrats.
The Republicans have the worst people running in the History Of The World



http://www.bluebloggin.com/2008/08/31/hey-mccain-sarah-palin-could-face-impeachment-as-governor/

[BumRushDaShow]

150. The last I heard, she is now refusing to participate in the investigation

until the inquiry panel is replaced with her hand-picked cronies. Her equivalent to "executive privilege".