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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. WTF? by jmorris42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok, we have a media frenzy about a 1/2 term governor of Alaska who was an unsuccessful candidate for VP. Gotta examine every last email she ever typed.

    Meanwhile we have a POTUS where we know almost nothing of his history other than a ghostwritten highly fictionalized (read the intro in the damned thing, it is fictionalized) autobiography. All of his IL Senate records are 'missing', all of his records from Columbia and Harvard are sealed and the media are totally incurious about this. We don't know how the hell a community organizer paid the freight to get a degree at Harvard, not exactly known for it's low low prices. We know almost nothing of his community organizing days with Alinsky founded organizations and with ACORN.

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    1. Re:WTF? by jmorris42 · · Score: 0, Troll

      > He was magna cum laude. Verified by Harvard. Not as high as summa, but the point
      > remains that he was top 10% of his class at Harvard.

      Not so fast. Back when Zero was in Harvard they were going through terrible grade inflation. I have on another tab a 1999 LA Times piece announcing a new system at Harvard where only 10% will get magna cum laude. It says that under the previous system 76% of Harvard Law grads got honors. Granted that he DID get a law degree from Harvard and that ain't easy peasy. But isn't it interesting that we don't know what sort of classes he took? Did he take the easy stuff or take classes under the profs that give the hard work?

      http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/10/news/mn-46135

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    2. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      How about Obama's military record? Oh, right........he doesn't have one. OK then, how about Obama's business record? Oh right, he never ran so much as a lemonade stand. And speaking style? Hahahahahahahahhaha! You're talking about a guy who can't order a glass of water without using a teleprompter?