Sarah Palin's Anonymous Source Hypocrisy: She's Used Them Too

For the past few days, Sarah Palin has been beefing with Politico after Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei published an article about how the GOP establishment plans on "stopping" her presidential ambitions, such as they are, because they threaten their plans to unseat President Barack Obama in 2012. The Politico account was riven with anonymous sources -- because who did you think was going to comment on such a piece?

The people who write Palin's ideas for her hit back against the heavy reliance on anonymous sourcery in an email to the Daily Caller:

"The 'reporters' who continue to cite 'unnamed GOP-insiders' as hard news sources are deemed impotent by the American public as we rise up and say, 'The state of journalism today stinks. Let's clean it up and expect some accountability'," Palin wrote in an email to The Daily Caller.

Palin also mocked Politico's use of anonymous sources, saying, "I suppose I could play their immature, unprofessional, waste-of-time game, too, by claiming these reporters and politicos are homophobe, child molesting, tax evading, anti-dentite, puppy-kicking, chain smoking porn producers...really, they are... I've seen it myself...but I'll only give you the information off-the-record, on deep, deep background; attribute these 'facts' to an 'anonymous source' and I'll give you more."

The hilarious thing is that in a July dustup with Mitt Romney's campaign staff, Palin had previously decried the use of anonymous sources, through anonymous sources:

"It shocks me that anyone would try to do that," the aide said. "You'd think we'd all be working together toward a common goal - that being 2010 - and that should be the focus right now. Those who try to claim the mantle of Reagan would be good to follow one of his most sacred tenets."

"For Washington consultants to sit around and personally disparage the Governor anonymously to reporters is unfortunate and counterproductive and frankly immature," the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, continued.

Naturally, on that occasion, the Palin camp was happy to deliver its message on the pages of Politico.

Comments

[conservicide]

10:39 AM on 11/04/2010

Palin supporters are mostly undereducated with low IQs. just a fact.

[DanBeach]

06:33 PM on 11/03/2010

Sarah...it is Karl...you cant't be this $tupid

[munki]

05:11 PM on 11/03/2010

Anything new?

Is this a first grade test?

[RockyMissouri]

02:17 PM on 11/03/2010

This person is an insult and offense to all women--(I include myself) Her speech patterns are becoming more and more painful... as she gets more desperate ....she needs to be sedated..!

[munki]

05:11 PM on 11/03/2010

But media is in illusion - thinking covering her makes more $$$ or attention...

The reality is... many of US are tired to even see her... aren't you?

[RockyMissouri]

10:25 PM on 11/03/2010

Dear god YES!

[lvbrun]

12:11 PM on 11/03/2010

Watergate was surfaced and exposed as a result of an anonymous source. Without them there would be more secrecy in government and we don't need that. Palin has a degree in Journalism, but I'm not surprised that she doesn't seem to know the importance of unnamed sources, or perhaps she does and is only outraged because it played against her. The Queen of Mean is on the war path...

[RockyMissouri]

02:24 PM on 11/03/2010

We must be afraid of $arah....now we will know why we fear the night...! SheWhoMustBeObeyed is a very scary lady..we will not want to see her angerrrrrrr!!!

[twinskids]

02:58 PM on 11/03/2010

I guess this means she didn't get a history lesson on anonymous sources and how it effects journalism? Surely her classes in college covered the fact that an anonymous source brought down a sitting US President-Remember DEEP THROAT? Watergate? It was all due to good journalists using anonymous sources that would lead to bringing NIXON down.

[coloradoanimallover]

12:04 PM on 11/03/2010

Hiprocracy and Palin in the same sentence? I'm shocked. (NOT!)

[emanafunk]

11:43 AM on 11/03/2010

The Mo' money ex-gov is what she called the media "a corrupt basterd".

[RockyMissouri]

02:27 PM on 11/03/2010

Fanned! She is indeed...she IS....!

[bigredsuperjock]

11:14 AM on 11/03/2010

Didn't read the post. Just wanted to say that that is my all time favorite Palin photo. When I saw it the voice in my head said "Duuuuurrrrrr."

[warriorwoman73]

01:17 PM on 11/03/2010

LOL - I thought the same thing. Fanned and faved.

[ComaDivine]

10:56 AM on 11/03/2010

With all the wealth of knowledge she does *not* have, you have to admit that she has the corner on immature.

[warriorwoman73]

01:17 PM on 11/03/2010

She certainly does! F & F.

[RockyMissouri]

02:27 PM on 11/03/2010

Without a doubt..!

[jokerdanny]

10:53 AM on 11/03/2010

But she's OK with anonymous donors.

[kareemachan]

11:43 AM on 11/03/2010

Totally.

[gnorrfa]

10:20 AM on 11/03/2010

sarah palin is yesterday. she's not a grizzly but a coyote, baying at the moon.

[RockyMissouri]

02:29 PM on 11/03/2010

She's barking mad alright...!

[twinskids]

09:05 AM on 11/03/2010

Ms, Quitter Queen-

Anonymous Sources are stock n trade for journalists.
Ms. QQ, you know the degree you supposedly got in those 4-6 colleges you attended?

An Anonymous source brought down a sitting US President-Remember DEEP THROAT? Watergate? It was all due to good journalists using anonymous sources to Bring NIXON down.

[BookmanIIII]

08:48 AM on 11/03/2010

Such an angry woman. No wonder Todd races snow machines for weeks at a time.

[Tugar]

07:23 AM on 11/03/2010

Folks..... We've got to face it !

Sarah Palin is cute ! But she's at a total loss when it comes to actually sticking with, or running anything ! And being POTUS takes stamina if nothing else ! An attribute that Sarah lacks in bucket loads ! So, anything the GOP has to do to keep her from crashing their wagon, then SO BE IT ! ...... And none of them will ever say, they're doing anything against her, because that would not make them look good at all ! But everyone of them knows that Sarah Palin would be their worst nightmare, and would sink their boat worse than the Titanic went down, as their 2012 Presidential nominee ! LOL, LOL, LOL !

[jaschrod]

07:49 AM on 11/03/2010

I would not laugh if I was you. Our voters just unloaded two of the most trust worthy people to have held office, Alan Grayson, and Russ Feingold. The people either do not know the truth when they hear it, or they do not want to hear it. My conclusion is, if the people can unload these two, they can upload someone like Palin.

[Ed C Atlanta]

09:04 AM on 11/03/2010

Nah, the good ole boys are never going to let her dimmwittiness have the office of president, trust me,,,,,

[RockyMissouri]

02:31 PM on 11/03/2010

I don't understand how they could turn on Feingold... an honorable man....!

[lastpost]

06:05 AM on 11/03/2010

“Palin also mocked Politico's use of anonymous sources, saying, "I suppose I could play their immature, unprofessional, waste-of-time game, too, by”
supporting the unending supply of gifts, bribes, and campaign funding from anonymous sources. But I say….shusssssh, keep your voice down. We don’t want everyone knowing what we’re up to. They might think we were hypocrites.