Thoughts on the Sarah Palin Email Thing

A) All parties involved aren’t that bright. It’s stupid for any public figure to use a Yahoo account for anything that you might want to keep private, like say potential government-related business. It’s equally stupid to break into the email account, regardless of where it’s hosted, of a Vice Presidential candidate. That tends to attract the attention of the Feds, and that proxy your hiding behind ain’t gonna cut it.

B) I knew this would get Michelle Malkin into a complete hypocritical tizzy. It’s perfectly OK to violate the privacy of “potential terrorists;” it’s quite all right to publish the email addresses and phone numbers and home addresses of those “stinkin’ liberals,” so that your minions can unleash on them; but to publish the equally private emails of a “true conservative” like Sarah Palin? Oh the horrors! What about privacy!

C) That said, I found what I believe to probably be the most accurate account of what actually went down at her site, and this was not “a hack.” It was a bored teenager using Google. You want real hacks? Go here. Or here.

D) All of you so-called liberals that are gleefully celebrating this as some kind of victory might want to remember your reactions to one Malkin doing equally unethical things. I’m just saying.

E) Anonymous and /b/ at 4Chan are still assholes.

F) Sarah Palin is still an asshole.

Quotation of The Day

Upon seeing this picture posted all over the internets the last few days (both by people looking to get their rocks off and people using slut-shaming as an argument against her, as if her political views aren’t enough), I knew it had to be a fake. The odd, super-long neck is enough to give it away. So, I went to the always trusty Snopes (Snopes is your friend, people!) to find out the real deal. Of course, it’s fake. I got a quotation of the day out of it to boot:

It’s an unfortunate aspect of modern life that just about any woman who enters the public sphere at a national level is presumed to have posed for risqué photographs (anything from cheesecake shots to nude pictures) at some point in her past, and that (whether she has or not) examples of such photos will inevitably be fabricated and put on public display.

And by “unfortunate,” I assume they mean “completely fucked up.”

What He Said

The latest installment from Jay Smooth on the Republican Hater’s Ball

Not Cool

Well, it took all of what? ten minutes, maybe half an hour after I’m done complaining about Sarah Palin that I have to point out that, despite the transparency of this pick, it’s really not ok to refer to Gov. Palin as a VPILF. And there’s a friggin’ website?!?! Already!?!? My god you assholes are quick. If anything, I’m now reminded why I don’t read Wonkette.

McCain/Palin

John McCain picks Sarah Palin to be his veep. Kevin shakes his head and sighs.