Obama’s Netroots Supporters Defend Hacking Sarah Palin’s Email

It shouldn’t surprise me. After all, I’m a person who began the 2008 campaign as a liberal Democrat, but after that fraudulent primary and the trashing of Hillary Clinton by party bigwigs and their media allies, I re-registered as non-affiliated. And Lord knows, I’ve read enough sordid, misogynous comments by Obama’s online supporters to keep me firmly planted at the center of the political spectrum for the rest of my life – no lunatic fringe for me on either the left or the right.

So why am I shocked this morning to read the comments by Obamaphiles across the Web defending the criminals who hacked Sarah Palin’s personal email and brazenly posted family photos and other personal information on a public Web site? The Washington Post’s coverage of the flagrant invasion of Palin’s privacy is followed by over 300, mostly abusive remarks by those, er, upscale, well-educated liberal Democrats that I abandoned in disgust a couple of months ago.

Wapo's Michael Shear and Karl Vick write:

“A group of computer hackers said yesterday that they had accessed a Yahoo e-mail account of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, publishing some of her private communications to expose what appeared to be her use of a personal account for government business.

‘“The hackers posted what they said were personal photos, the contents of several messages, the subject lines of dozens of e-mails and Palin's e-mail contact list on a site called Wikileaks.org. That site said it received the electronic files from a group identifying itself only as ‘Anonymous.’

‘“At around midnight last night some members affiliated with the group gained access to governor Palin's email account, 'gov.palin@yahoo.com' and handed over the contents to the government sunshine site Wikileaks.org,’ said a message on the site.

“Rick Davis, the campaign manager for Republican presidential nominee John McCain, issued a statement yesterday afternoon condemning the incident.


“This is a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law,’ he said. ‘The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them. We will have no further comment.”


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