During the last presidential election, the sons of a Democratic congressman and the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee were caught slashing the tires of 25 Republican Party get-out-the-vote vehicles on Election Day. Are you shocked, shocked that the investigation into who hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account leads to David Kernell, the son of a Democrat state representative from Tennessee? What a coincidence that young Mr. Kernell's PeekYou page lists "hacking" as an interest. You don't say? "I really wanted to get something incriminating," the hacker anonymously explained, lamenting that he found "nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped." Any doubts about the political motivations behind this despicable invasion of privacy?

I never had any doubts and have no clue what Ben was talking about and linking to in your earlier post.

This reminds me, I suggest that at some point everyone seriously look at exactly what was done which amounts to the Watergate scandal. And then look at things like this Palin Yahoo-gate and ask yourself, how the flip were the baby boomers so completely unhinged over Watergate and how much our political mores must have deteriorated since then as evidenced by this episode and others like it.

I'm not seeing lefties in my soup Ben.

Boy, are these a-holes going out of their way to make Suzy Creamcheese look like the Wicked Witch of the North or what?

My words were not intended for Ben, here. I think what Ben was getting at is that there is a hacker mentality, an ethic if you will, that just causes chaos for the fun of it, not for any political reason. That doesn't seem the case here, but I understand where he was coming from (and he seems to know a whole lot more about these people than I do).

Watergate! Not even close. This is a 20 year old kid, not the President of the United States. Don't get me wrong, this definitely stinks to high heaven, but let's try not to blow this thing out of proportion. I'm already reading "THIS IS WAAAAAAR" posts on some blogs. No, it's really not.

The fact is that this wasn’t the act of some non-partisan uninterested internet prankster as I took previous comments to mean. This person (or persons) had to know what they were doing and put some considerable effort into targeting Palin specifically to get into her personal account by stealing her password and impersonating her and absconding with private information.

To make matters worse, personal phone numbers and pictures of her family were spread all over the internet and, I’d venture to say, now reside in the files of select Democratic officials. Furthermore, the AP (house media outlet for the Democrats) was complicit in this mess and initially refused to comply with the Secret Service and other agencies.

asdf,

just go back to watching Faux News and stroking your 'ego'

I can't. I'm sitting around worrying about Bush, Rove and Cheney reading my emails and listening in on all of my phone conversations. They will stop at nothing!!!!!

Wasn't saying you were seeing lefties in your soup, I was informing you about who anonymous is. It isn't a political group, regardless of whether or not this particular actor was political. You weren't really interested so I gave up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7mn4mo-QYE&eurl=http://blizzforums.com/showthread.php?t=20538

This is also anonymous' handiwork. Hardly part of the Democratic Party machine.

Sarah Palin shouldn't have anything to hide, so what's the big deal if someone hacks into her private email?

"so what's the big deal if someone hacks into her private email?"
That depends on what the definition of "is" is. or wait... what. I must be drinking the democratic juice. Does privacy matter when in public office? I think it does. It matters for the average American, so why should it matter for anyone running for office. We shoul be able to see their bedrooms at night and see how they have sex and all. Does any of that make sense?
If not then you are not alone.

Ben, you're right. I'm really not interested if whether or not the perp is just some anonymous hacker. That's wonderful. What I am interested in is the damage that's done and not the means. Have it your way if you like but I think you might agree that there was an agenda regardless of how much you might like to believe this an innocuous act.

Mike, Eric is just looking for a rise. He would be all over this if it were one of his own that was compromised. The left is so dishonest that when they make a funny, it isn't.

"Ben, you're right. I'm really not interested if whether or not the perp is just some anonymous hacker. That's wonderful. What I am interested in is the damage that's done and not the means. Have it your way if you like but I think you might agree that there was an agenda regardless of how much you might like to believe this an innocuous act." - asdf

Yea man, I just leap to defend the democrats at every chance, that's me. Don't be a fool, you know I hate the left as much as you do. I thought you might be interested in knowledge for its own sake, but clearly not.

ASDF, I don't understand. If Sarah Palin has nothing to hide, why are you so upset that her 'privacy' has been invaded?

Eric W, the same reason I get upset when the neoCons invade my emails and websurfing.

I am sorry, but this country is doomed.

No one gives a rats a$$ about issues anymore.

Like our politicians, we have all become a bunch of poo-flinging zoo monkeys.

Who gave who a hummer? Did Palin want to ban books not yet published? Is McCain old enough to have witnessed evolution? Is Obama the descendant of some militant Muslim? Does it matter????????????

If we do not get our feces consolidated, we will be just another failed experiment.

Be well,

Sponge

Sometimes people just can't be edumacated. Thanks anyway.

Issues? Issues? I keep hearing the O campaign talking about going back to discussing the issues but everytime you turn around, they're hurling another stink bomb.

Truth be told, Obama and his handlers have no substance and they know it. So, they revert back to old style Chi-Town gutter politics whenever the polls are negative.

This young man,who committed the crime should be locked away in a federal correctional facility.
That would give him plenty of time to think and realize that all actions carry consequences.

Then again, since the mid 1960's and that misearble quamire, referred to as the "war on povery' had been a misearble failue in the eyes of everyone except the left, who inhabit some alternative reality.

I get angy everytime I think about one of Plastic faced Pelosi's constituents, John Walker Lind, who fought for America's enemies, getting off with nothing more than the equilivent of a love tap on the hand. It was a disgusting when Walker,Lindh, or whatever the hell his real name actually is, assisted in the killing of a CIA agent and he will not pay the price that should be warranted. Then his pitiful excuse for a father had the nerve to tell the judge and media that John loves America! What a joke!