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Ethics, The Left & The Associated Press
September 19, 2008

A leftist activist has stolen and splashed Sarah Palin’s private e-mails all over the internet. News outlets have picked them up and continued the exposure. Palin’s husband and children have had their private e-mail addresses put in print. Intimate family photos are even now being photo shopped to insult and poke fun at the candidate on leftist sites. The Associated Press, refusing to cooperate with secret service investigators, will not release the e-mails it possesses. It does not matter that the e-mails were clearly private correspondence and apparently contained nothing illegal or irregular.

A weasel-worded excuse found in AP wire service articles, used to justify the unethical use of private correspondence obtained through criminal means, uses a concocted a story that Governor Palin may have been conducting state business on private e-mail to escape transparency and oversight, as patently an absurd accusation as can be dreamed up. Nothing is too wacky if it damages this candidate.

The rest of the group think press has run with it and the insinuation of dark e-mail secrets can be found from Mother Jones to FOX. The AP will use anything it can to undermine a Republican candidate who is capable, popular and shaking up a “politics as usual” campaign. She is threatening a leftist candidate the vast majority of its journalists idolize. Sarah is too “American” and too “heartland,” and everything else they despise about their own country and its people. They pretend to be impartial but their hatred is palpable. They simply cannot help themselves.

The disaster of Democrat control of the house and senate is nowhere as evident as in the financial crisis we now experience. The Democrats have diluted or prevented every reform and fiduciary standard brought to the table, protecting their cash cow in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae despite a long history of warnings. As usual, the citizens bail them out with billions of tax dollars. That alone should cost them more than a few votes in November. Palin and McCain will certainly hammer them with it; the evidence is clear, compelling and damning.

The Democrats have drawn to themselves the most hate-filled assortment of radicals one party has ever managed to collect. If the smear campaign against Sarah Palin is any indication, they are pulling out any ethical stop they may have had and will use any tool, whatever the source. The attacks, smears and concocted stories will only get worse. The price the Palin family will have to pay in lost privacy will be a steep one. The children will find that the press and the left are as vicious and petty as any schoolyard bully is; their hair, their clothing and their community will be demeaned and insulted. They will be called hicks, Jesus freaks and Nazis, and that is just for starters. This ordeal will test their mettle and their faith. Most Americans will be behind them, the sense of fair play ingrained in our citizens is still a strong one. Sarah is one of us. The press attacks will backfire. This may in fact be the first time in American history where the press tubes the candidate is supports.

Obama is turning up the heat, telling his followers to get confrontational: "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said in Nevada on September 17. That is exactly the kind of tactics a community agitator would gravitate to, though America is not a Chicago slum and Americans do not like in-your-face politics. Let us hope his followers listen; it is just what the McCain campaign needs, obnoxious Obama-ites accosting their neighbors with shallow rhetoric and faulty arguments, and shouts of “hope” and “change.”