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Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove

Posted by timothy on from the hey-baby-I-love-your-corpus dept.

itwbennett writes "Surely you've got better things to do this weekend than read 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's email. But just in case you don't, the NY Times is looking for volunteers to help 'identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight.' And, for your easy reference, MSNBC has posted the complete collection online."

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  1. Re:They will never focus on Obama by Microlith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I understand that you hate Obama (and probably all Democrats,) but your point seems to be mostly irrational.

    She isn't even declared as a candidate for the next election yet it seems as if the line to be part of the character assassination just continues to grow.

    Maybe it's because there's a large, idiotic segment of the population that does want her as president. And people want to see exactly how (un)ethical of a person she is before they try to put her manipulative ass in the White House. That they've taken great pains to ensure that these e-mails are difficult to get and stripped of useful information, I suspect they've worked very hard to hide things.

    If they even tried this with Obama there would be lines of people screaming racism.

    Why? Official e-mails are part of the public record. The reason people are all over this is because of the deliberate actions taken to make these records hard to get.

    I have no sympathy for Palin. She's manipulative, power hungry, and has show no evidence that she would be remotely capable of handling the role of the Presidency. She killed McCain's run, simply due to the fear that if anything happened to him, she'd end up in the hot seat.