Arrgh!
Forget spending $10,000 for Sarah Palin’s emails–there’s no guarantee you’ll get anything good:
The records would then be sent to the state’s Department of Law (which is headed by a Palin appointee) for "privilege review." That is, individual emails could be withheld on the basis of various exemptions.
In this economy, the bargain pays off! Fox News DC reporters scored lots of McCain info for a deep discount simply by shelling out $20 a piece for a pair of used Blackberrys at the McCain-Palin campaign headquarters’ fire sale held Thursday at the campaign offices in Arlington, VA.
Trisha Thompson and Rick Yarborough of Fox DC report:
When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well as hundreds of emails from early September until a few days after election night…The emails contain an insider’s look at how grassroots operations work, full of scheduling questions and rallying cries for support. But most of the numbers were private cell phones for campaign leaders, politicians, lobbyists and journalists.
ZOMG! Srs facepalm.jpg!!11!
The reporters called the McCain-Palin campaign, who said:
It was an unfortunate staff error and procedures are being put in place to ensure all information is secure.
But one person who was contacted by reporters via his phone number on the purchased Blackberry was far more direct:
They should have wiped that stuff out. Given the way the campaign was run, this is not a surprise.
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Sad, there was a story on second hand DC crackberries last summer, guess it was not on their reading list (or put in front of Palin as she reads what is put in front of her).
Heh..why am I NOT surprised. I wonder if the Bush Administration laptops will be sold in a similar manner?
I’m hoping that some new schadenfreude emerges from those blackberries. This is one of the really funny political stories of the past few days.
Along with the marriage in Florida with the divorced bride done up in traditional virgin white. Is there a proper number for being a blushing bride?
Plenty of schadenfreude to go around when right from the get-go, you’ve got a bunch that were in such a hurry to ‘get out of Dodge’ that they left their muddy footprints all over the electronics. Where’s their IT guy? Gone with the wind?
There’s no accounting for taste.
You know, even I erase my disc when I get rid of computers, and I’m no tech geek. I have a computer consultant who has done it for me. The last time I bought a new one, the motherboard got fried on the old one. They were able to physically extract the memory, which I still have, so when I trashed the bad laptop, nothing to find.
Every time you read another story about R incompetence, it blows your mind again.
Good Morning, Pups!
Big Bang Baby – Stone Temple Pilots
Including Mrs. W telling the Pres.-elect family “not in my neighborhood.” Can’t make this stuff up. Vanity Fair had a great article about Tina Fey and humor; seems to write itself, doesn’t it?
You have to be off-the-charts stupid to have done this. Hugh should start another list: “Evidence that McCain/Palin are Idiots”
1)Palin’s interview with ‘Sarkozy’
2)Palin’s turkey interview
3)McCain calls Purim ‘Jewish Halloween’
3)McCain calls Purim ‘Jewish Halloween’
Well, on a totally shallow “they dress up and party, right?” basis, McCain had a point there, but just another example of his lack of sensitivity. What’s next, “Chanukah is just Christmas for 8 days with potato pancakes”?
It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.
Kevin Phillips replay on Book-TV, talking about the Bushes:
It’s like in Egypt, where they worshipped insects for awhile.
My son was visiting a friend at a very upscale apartment bldg in NYC a few weeks back. He was emptying the trash for his friend and found in the trash a computer/monitor/keyboard. Well, he took it. It works great so he can’t figure out why anyone would throw it away (other than they’re wealthy and bought an even better one). It was also clean of any previous data. Anyway, the previous owner was dumb enough to toss a $3000 computer but not so dumb to leave any info on it.
Here’s a Q. How expensive are new blackberries, and how much can you get for them used? Wouldn’t seem to be worth the effort, instead of just destroying them to make sure no one gets the stored info. But perhaps they had so many, it was financially worthwhile.
Haven’t the past 8 years been tragic? Starting with Fla and the Supreme Court….I have felt that I have not been living in my own country. I grew up putting my head under the school desk so I wouldn’t get bombed…but this time the enemy was within. I had a true note of hope yesterday on a Christmas card from a very Red, longtime Repub friend. I knew she had “switched” during the race, but her card said “I have never seen the populace so hopeful.” I so hope all that is well-placed.
Did you see Moyers last night with the discussion of the Bush tragedy?
Caller on Kevin Phillips sounded like he reads FDL, talking about Geithner & Summers being cut from the same cloth as Paulson. So I hope your deep red friend’s hopes are realized, but I retain my doubts.
I saw Greenwald on Moyers. He did a good job. Too bad Obama doesn’t see it that way.
One of the DH’s coworkers came to him yesterday. She’s very conservative; had been active in the local and state GOP for years. She said, “I hate those guys – any bunch that would sell American workers down the river to make a point will never get a vote of mine ever again – local, state or federal.”
Frankly, I didn’t know McCain knew how to USE a Blackberry?!
Are you thinking Obama will say let’s start anew? I think I doubt that; he is lawyer-smart, knows how low W has fallen, as well as Speaker Nancy for doing nothing. We’ll see.
Goopers like Palin and Bush consider Change in the Social Order the End of The World.
At the bottom, the Goopers are about Control.
In the Red – The Molotov (h/t Eureka Springs)
lol “ZOMG! Srs facepalm.jpg!!11!”
ah, that goes well with the coffee
I was the first questioner on the session at Netroots Nation that included John Dean & Cass Sunstein, the latter being Obama’s buddy and legal advisor. I averred that the worst thing that happened wrt holding prez accountable was Nixon’s pardon because it told all future prez that they are above the law, just like Nixon said. That launched Dean into the usual paroxysm about tearing the country apart. Greenwald handled that moderately well last night. But Sunstein said: Let’s not criminalize policy differences. With legal advise like that, what do you think Obama will do? He doesn’t even think that what W did was criminal.
Torture has been criminalized…so I don’t know. Of course, Greenwald’s point also was that the Dems are also involved. I thought his ideas for a commission were the most promising.
Speaking of Netroots – are you going this time? The DH and I are considering it pretty seriously, though I’m not quite sure what I should expect to get out of it.
To The Hague!
Yes, the complicity of the Ds is key.
We’ll see. I would like to have a different forecast from the one I have, but I don’t see the evidence for it yet.
Disclaimer: I was an economic forecaster for nearly 30 years, so I can’t stop myself from projecting into the future on the basis of what we know now, using rules that have been useful. *g*
I’ve finished loading a book on my ipod and I must extract myself from my computer & get outside before I get too lazy.
Have a great day everyone.
I haven’t signed up, but will be vastly attracted if more FDLers are there. So let me know. I found it a useful & interesting experience, but not a life changing one. Sessions like the one I told about were eye opening. And the dissing I got from Obama’s reps.
Really must go.
thinking of Y’ALL today ,will ATTEMPT…SUGALESS chocolate TRUFFLES ,(best freinds diabetic)…ill let you know
Well, look at it this way.
If they couldn’t manage to do the obvious thing and sanitize their PDAs, then the Republicans ought to feel glad they lost.
How on earth could they expect to evade prosecution if they didn’t even have the basic smarts to cover their tracks, when it came time to actually commit some felony or other?
PW is up at the mothership
Anything happen since the electricity went out on Thursday? Been a little cold and dark here in NH… sort of like the last administration. Any scandals? Any nipple slips? Any new Palin jokes? Any new wars…are the old ones still going on? Is BlagoScam is going? Almost 2 days without FDL and I am a bloody wreck.
SUGARLESS
My favorite “recovered” email:
“From: brad@snowmachinesRus.com”
“To: drillafromwasilla@mccain08.com”
Hey babe, Luv U!!1!!11 You ROCKED the other day!!!!
Drill, baby drill? Hmmm…where have I heard that before?!? hehe…(smooch)
When r u gonna git back up to god’s country? I REALLY want to go “check the pipeline” on my Polaris. I know how much u like to deliver the “crude.” God bless Alaska!!!1!!1!111
Still thinking about dropping the “Todd and chain” when this is all over? U know these lovin arms will catch u!!!! I’ll even wax my back if ya want!11!
Can’t wait to see ya, and good luck with yer talk with France’s Prezident, even though he’s a commie.
PS: Where’d ya git all those crazy clothes?