Comments on: Feds probe hack of Palin's e-mail account

Wikileaks posts portions of what appear to be Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin's e-mail inbox, drawing a complaint from the McCain-Palin campaign and an inquiry from the Secret Service.

[HighwayHome]

As a public figure, anything is fair game. Just like public figures believe that anything is fair game against the citizens they are elected to supposedly represent. This is the first incidence I know of where an individual running for VP is "not allowed" to talk to the electorate. If this whackjob was more forthcoming, looking into her affairs would not be necessary.

[open-mind]

Anything is fair game ... unless it's toward a democratic candidate, right? It's almost funny that liberal extremists (including the one who did this) are disappointed that nothing incriminating or inappropriate was found in her email. Or it's just pathetic.

[TheCounselor]

I was amused by Declan's opening quip, "Now we know the real reason why John McCain doesn't use e-mail."

Thursday morning's Chicago Tribune contained an editorial commentary by Jonah Goldberg, a journalist serving in the acknowledged role of commentator, titled "Dishonest ad, wrong viewers" (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-oped0918goldbergsep18,0,4046367.story).

The editorial did not deal with the hacking of Gov. Palin's email. However, coincidentally, in pertinent part, Mr. Goldberg wrote, "One reason McCain is not versed in the mechanical details of sending e-mail and typing on a keyboard is that the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered both of his arms. As Forbes, Slate and the Boston Globe reported in 2000, McCain's injuries make using a keyboard painfully laborious. He mostly relies on his wife and staff to show him e-mails and Web sites, though he says he's getting up to speed." He also stated, "And if the Obama campaign didn't intend to mock a disabled veteran, what does it say about his supposedly cyber-savvy staffers that they don't know how to conduct a five-minute Google search?"

Thus, in attempting to craft an attention grabbing opening for the demographic, did this "mock a disabled veteran" or just show a woeful lack of "cyber-savvy'?

Mr. Goldberg's editorial, as a whole, is more of an unknowing, unintentional retort to Declan's prior post, "John McCain helped to create the BlackBerry? Really?" Maybe it is just easier to serve up a self-deprecating role to the masses as uninformed about tech, the majority of which could care less about whether he can send or receive e-mail, rather than detail the actual explanation, painful injury. Better to seem unknowing than a cripple.

So, Gov. Palin's e-mail was hacked. Really?

[j_a_s_p_e_r]

Welcome to the 21st century Rip van Winkle. The term "cripple" is offensive. Charlie Ragel called Sarah Palin "disabled", obviously forgetting that her son is in fact truely disabled. I'm all for straight talk instead of political correctness, but offensive speech is offensive speech however you want to flavor it.

I'm glad you did some more research than most of the idiots posting here, look how people latch on to rumours. Lets get some facts straight

A McCain aide held up a blackberry and jokingly said "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create." Obviously poking fun of Al Gore's now famous gaffe. McCain campaign called it a "Boneheaded joke". Its a far cry from Al Gore saying this in person on camera, but media spin turns only counterclockwise these days.

Sarah Palin's account was not hacked. A single individual used the lost password system, he guessed some of the security questions and used public records for the rest of them. The investigation is focusing on the 20 year old son of a State Representative in Tennessee. For info, the guy who hacked Paris Hilton's blackberry got 11 months.

Bill Clinton sent only 2 emails during his 8 year presidency.

[ElDudde]

Hope this little dude gets a couple of years in jail. You don't take someone's mail out of their mailbox, read it and then show it to the neighbors - unless, of course, you are a young idiot with no value system. Just because you don't like someone politically doesn't give you the right to break the law and abuse them.

[dkriss]

It amazes me how liberals can justify breaking the law when it suits their needs.

[ferretboy88]

There is nothing more annoying than reading that 20 year old libtards post about how he hacked the email.

I hope they put the little punk in prison.

[mdarmocida]

If the laws can be broken because the end is supposed to justify the means then none of us are safe. Don't you idiots get it, even if she was doing something wrong the evidence was gained illegally, which makes the people obtaining it worse than the person they are trying to expose... The laws have to stand for everyone or no one at all.

[mdarmocida]

If the laws can be broken because the end is supposed to justify the means then none of us are safe. Don't you idiots get it, even if she was doing something wrong the evidence was gained illegally, which makes the people obtaining it worse than the person they are trying to expose... The laws have to stand for everyone or no one at all.