Sarah Palin Shall Have Her Revenge On The Mainstream Media (VIDEO)

Today is the big day everyone! Thousands and thousands of emails from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin have been released into the wild, and every single news organization will be trying to aerially hunt the news that might be contained within them. Perhaps Sarah Palin has something to worry about, but I have to imagine that this evening, as she relaxes her way into another weekend, she will think on this and laugh. Mainly at us.

Like many other organizations that cover politics, we at The Huffington Post have made our arrangements to obtain the emails, have handed out assignments to reporters and are hopeful that a crowdsource army will help pick up the slack. What are we expecting to find? Who knows? Maybe a lot of Comic Sans. Maybe some penetrating new story about Palin's Alaska reign. Maybe it will be a hot pile of nothing! Yeah, that's right: One possible outcome of this exercise is that it will be a complete bust.

Don't get me wrong. There's always some nominal value in paging through the communiques of a public figure, and Palin -- who's been as public a figure as any -- is a good candidate for this attention. But it's really not hard to think that the joke might somehow be on us. After all, so what if we find something damning about a former public official whose not likely to be anything more than an itinerant rich person for the rest of her life? Perhaps we will uncover some heretofore unknown brilliance that propels her to the top of the 2012 food chain and restores her in the eyes of the public? Are you ready for that, America?

Mainly, I think the media -- and I'm implicating HuffPost, and me, in this as well! -- is going to open itself up to some worthy public criticism. "This is something you'll spend time and resources to cover?" you will say. And you will be right.

If it means anything, your reward will be that you will have a much more enjoyable weekend than any of us.

Ahh, this week. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: blurry photo renderings of a man's genitals, campaign staffers evacuating en masse from Newt Gingrich. I watched tens of thousands of emails glitter on my laptop screen in a searchable PDF database. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

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Comments

[SteveDenver]

02:16 PM on 06/20/2011

I'm glad Palin is keeping her relationship with the media ANTAGONISTIC.

[Aarroonn Fleszar]

11:53 AM on 06/14/2011

Sarah Palin's had over 3 years of revenge on the main stream media. I hope it ends soon.

[Ricardo01]

11:52 AM on 06/14/2011

I thought that Palin's revenge on the mainstream media was calling it 'lamestream media'.

[dvncmdy]

02:57 PM on 06/13/2011

Oh, how scary.....the Palin Revenge.

[dvncmdy]

02:56 PM on 06/13/2011

Looks like she's attempting to flip the bird in that picture

[morosemoose]

05:10 PM on 06/13/2011

I like the "air quotes." They are so last millenium. Kind of like her thinking.

[shadowgirl52]

10:00 AM on 06/14/2011

She took a semester in air quoats at her journalism collage she went to.

[dvncmdy]

11:27 AM on 06/14/2011

what do you expect from an air head?

[AyeChart]

01:47 PM on 06/13/2011

That final "Blade Runner" reference was great; the rest, not so much.

[Wow Unbelievable]

12:56 PM on 06/13/2011

Oh how terrible!! Palin owns a used tanning bed... that SHE paid for!! She should be hung by her big toes for that!

Palin is playing the MSM like a fine violin and it's a beautiful thing! They may have demonized her so much that she'll never be able to run for public office... But she's making mince meat out of them now!

[AyeChart]

02:13 PM on 06/13/2011

I agree with everything but her not being able to run for public office.  How much you wanna bet?

[luval22]

12:16 PM on 06/13/2011

Senator, great points. If you haven't noticed they only go after those on the right. She isn't even in office or declaring that she isn't going to run and they are trying to dig up dirt on her? Perhaps they are afraid of her?

RSH, why should they be coming after Palin? This woman and her family have been smeered enough. Why don't you focus on "Wenis" instead and look at what he was sending out to underage girls? Oh I forgot he is a liberal and we should take pity on him! The lame media as you refer to them has been beating up on her for years. Now you have an issue with them following her. Somewhat reminds me of how they followed Obama back in 2008. Put it this way she is much smarter than those who have this fatal attraction to her.

[rshrink]

08:06 PM on 06/12/2011

If the media was really mainstream, it would really be coming after her. She has not been held accountable at all by the lame media that we now have. They only follow her around for entertainment. Personally, I would find that very boring.

[clconcepts]

12:56 PM on 06/13/2011

Held accountable for what.

[rshrink]

02:06 PM on 06/13/2011

For knowing something.

[Wow Unbelievable]

12:57 PM on 06/13/2011

I know.. they should really be going after her for owning a tanning bed!

[rshrink]

02:08 PM on 06/13/2011

I know. I think it fried her brain.

[ummm]

07:41 PM on 06/12/2011

Forget emails, what is with the Star of David as fashion accessory?

[TheBaffler]

09:17 PM on 06/12/2011

Good question.

[Cleverboots]

09:21 PM on 06/12/2011

Now I know I'm not imagining things. Thank you.I saw that and thought I was imagining the Star of David Odd in view of her Blood Libel comments.Is this a Reverend Hagee thing? F&F

[senator11]

06:35 PM on 06/12/2011

Liberals are whacked....what do you say we research Barack's emails (can he?) between he and his handlers. Now, that would make for some interesting background to explain some things. It is very sad that the NYT"s, HuffPost and others feel that they need to solicit the help of citizens to find "dirt" on Palin, while at the same time, burying their heads in the sand while their boy Barack wreaks havoc on the United States. That will catch up on you...

[j hawkins]

07:30 PM on 06/12/2011

Put your crack pipe down !

[dvncmdy]

03:34 PM on 06/13/2011

what do you expect from a crack pot?

[rshrink]

08:07 PM on 06/12/2011

Oh yes, such havoc. My life just hasn't been the same with all of this havoc. Maybe I need to watch Limbaugh so he can tell me what a mess I am in because of Obama.

[clconcepts]

12:59 PM on 06/13/2011

See that wasn't hard to figure it out there is hope for you yet

[bdazz]

05:12 PM on 06/12/2011

I think Palin would rather have Oprah's job rather than Obama's job. This is all just a warm up.

[rshrink]

08:08 PM on 06/12/2011

Problem is she isn't smart enough for either of those jobs. She would need to master the english language first and then try to learn something.

[mollysmomma]

09:54 AM on 06/13/2011

and we all no she is too lazy for that.

[frw55]

01:42 PM on 06/13/2011

She's better at the English language than the "Austrian" language.

[bdazz]

05:10 PM on 06/12/2011

How come Madeline Albright never got this much attention?

[shieldvulf]

05:45 PM on 06/12/2011

Sec'y Albright is a competent professional person with a substantial record of achievement. So I'm not sure where you draw the comparison.

[rshrink]

08:10 PM on 06/12/2011

I guess bdazz cannot distinguish between a competent professional and a glitzy entertainer wannabee.

[clconcepts]

01:00 PM on 06/13/2011

Yea list them

[bdazz]

06:23 PM on 06/12/2011

I was just joking. She's brilliant. Unlike SP. Unfortunately brains don't get as much press or attention these days.

[PickOneTwoThree]

04:59 PM on 06/12/2011

Newspapers are crying poverty and cutting back on news bureaus and journalists and they have time to waste on plowing through these emails.

Who cares what Palin wrote - not I. I expect nothing of any value to come out of them.

[AyeChart]

02:33 PM on 06/13/2011

The valuable thing is that there was nothing wrong in any of them.  Palin's normal, intelligent, hard working.  The beauty is just gravy...

[libobstruction]

01:10 PM on 06/12/2011

Another seek and destroy mission and still she remains strong. Go get'em SP!!

[NJmikeV]

03:21 PM on 06/12/2011

Strong? In what respect Charlie ? Aside from her dedicated Christotalibani that hang on her every tweet, she has no support.

She is un-American. She would destroy the Constitution and replace it with the Bible if given the chance.

http://www.theocracywatch.org/dominionism.htm

[babybelle]

04:23 PM on 06/12/2011

replace it with the Bible if given the chance.

....
and Sarahs version of the Bible eliminates the Golden Rule.

[Rocco Lore]

03:37 PM on 06/14/2011

You Democrats are the Taliban. You are anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and you are pro-Sharia. You are un-American. You want to replace the Constitution with Sharia Law.

[Sandmanj]

03:40 PM on 06/12/2011

Define "strong".

BWHAHAHAHA!

[Hardyman1966]

04:03 PM on 06/12/2011

(Has a pulse.)