The Palinomicron
Color me extremely skeptical that anything of substance will come out of today's e-mail dump of Palin's time as Alaska governor.
The way the media is handling this is another story altogether.
In a best-case scenario, Palin's e-mails affect nothing more than her future as a political candidate. With there being this little issue of her not actually running for any office currently, it would seem that this might not be a good use of scarce journalistic resources. (Maybe you should be looking into how the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is being run? Why isn't anyone screaming bloody murder to get the identities of those companies who aren't getting Obamacare waivers?) The New York Times and Washington Post are getting around this problem by inviting readers to do the jobs laid-off journalists couldn't be paid to do.
Strangely enough, there wasn't a similar media interest or crowd-sourcing effort made when the infamous Climategate e-mails were released, and those documents only offered a look into a lobbying organization scientific enterprise that continues to push for a fundamental transformation of the international economy that would plunge millions in the Third World even deeper into poverty and cost trillions of dollars.
Then there's this headline from Politico that caught my eye:
What the heck is that deckhead supposed to mean? In English?
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