September 18, 2008
That Was Quick

The person who hacked into the Palins' email account may have been identified.  Let me repeat, may have been identified.  He's David Kernell, the son of a Tennessee Democratic state representative.

Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.

(I am no expert in such matters, so I have no opinion on how strong the evidence against him is.   But I would be interested in hearing from security experts on that question.)

Posted by Jim Miller at September 18, 2008 02:41 PM | Email This
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1. Oh boy. This will be interesting. Vicious illegal partisan attacks by democrats. Apparently the dad's website is down.

Posted by: Michele on September 18, 2008 02:57 PM
2. "Son, I need you do something for me, but only if it can't be traced back to us."

Posted by: Gary on September 18, 2008 03:20 PM
3. And to think. She was using public email to tell her husband her every move.

What an idiot.

Her password was probably sarah or todd I would bet.

Can you imagine this moron running our country when McCain keels over? Scary.

Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on September 18, 2008 03:29 PM
4. Almost as pathetic as your posts, No Facts.

You've replaced your BDS with PDS.

And when it comes to OhDrama, can you imagine that moron running my country if you scumbags get him elected? Scary.

Posted by: Hinton on September 18, 2008 03:33 PM
5. So you nitwit factless idiot,

Is it the fact she actually has a husband and family the thing that offends you, or is it the fact she actually communicates with her husband according the laws and rules in place for her role as a Governor?

And I suppose in your brownshirt, Marxist world you believe that breaking privacy laws is OK if you don't like the person? The ends justifies the means, and laws are meaningless if they don't advance the Slavery Party to which you belong?

Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 18, 2008 03:33 PM
6. If a terrorist's email had been hacked, #3 would be outraged.

Posted by: Gary on September 18, 2008 03:36 PM
7. Smooth move, All Facts. Way to blame the victim, and not the perp. Your uber-partisanship has clouded your assessment skills so badly that you don't even recognize how silly you sound.

Posted by: Michele on September 18, 2008 03:48 PM
8. ..and btw, All Facts, her password was NOT Sarah or Todd. Quit now before you make yourself look even sillier.

Posted by: Michele on September 18, 2008 03:50 PM
9. Speaking of democrats in trouble, Harry Reid has announced "No one knows what to do". People, will you just listen to the man and acknowledge that you should NEVER EVER listen when democrats tell you they can fix your life? YOU fix your life. The republicans will try to make sure you have more of what you yourself earned staying in your pocket along the way, and they'll do a better job of defending the country for sure. But do not listen to politicians (dems are famous for it, esp) tell you they can fix your life. Many of them have no clue. Obama CANNOT fix your life. He's a senator and took six figureS in $$ from Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae and he didn't prevent this mess. I think we do need someone like Sarah Palin who simply says "Just run this country for the good of the people" and stop letting the democrats who ran Fannie/Freddie and took off with their $100 million parachutes after running the place into the ground. They didn't care about the "middle class", did they? Stop buying into their B.S. And if the dems who run the House and Senate couldn't stop this, do you REALLY want them running a national health (s)care program for you so they can do to it what they did to Fannie/Freddie??? ARE YOU KIDDING????

Posted by: Michele on September 18, 2008 04:02 PM
10. I happen to know a bit about what's going on here...can't prove it, all hearsay, but here you are:
1. The password was irrelevant, the identification question to change it and gain access was her zip code.
2. It was done by a member of 4chan, a website of internet pranksters.

Posted by: Jstar on September 18, 2008 04:06 PM
11. Did anyone expect anything less? Of course it had to be a democrap hack. MOST of the attacks on Palin have come from either party members, staff members of democraps or "professionals" in the press.
If you want to find out where unchecked liberalism leads, it's in the Ayn Rand novel "We the Living". I keep wondering how Rand knew the future until I realized she "lived" the past in Russia...she's seen it before. She's met these people before and we're meeting them now.

Posted by: scott on September 18, 2008 04:08 PM
12. Michele @ 9.
You keep talking like that and we are going to have you run for office! Well said.
Even though the Dems admit they do not know what to do, they still insist they can run Social Security better than we can.

Posted by: Diogenes on September 18, 2008 04:23 PM
13. Mine anonymous cellphone data for international calls to terrorists? The left goes bonkers.

But bust into somebody's personal e-mail account and spread the contents all over the Web? They blame the victim.

I am more then fed up with these clowns.

Posted by: jimg on September 18, 2008 04:28 PM
14. then = than

Still fed up with 'em.

Posted by: jimg on September 18, 2008 04:30 PM
15. Scott, it appears many of the people attacking Palin are from her own party..... I think she makes them sick too. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand how un qualified she is, much less how ignorant. Appointing her classmates to top posts in her state. I loved the person who liked cows being the head of agriculture, because... well they liked cows!

I loved it when Karly said Palin couldn't run a large company, and neither could McCain. They sure shut miss HP up lickety split!

Watching you clown defend the indefensible is laughable.

Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on September 18, 2008 04:32 PM
16. jimg

Get a warrant.

Posted by: All Facts Support My Positions on September 18, 2008 04:37 PM
17. Zero facts,

it appears many of the people attacking Palin are from her own party

Name one. Please. You just lie and make stuff up because it's what baby killing Slavers do.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand how un qualified she is, much less how ignorant.

You're the ignorant one - because if Palin is unqualified, Obama is moreso! I've posted links dozens of times showing the public believe Palin more experienced and better suited for the Presidency than your Obamassiah.

But beyond that, former President Clinton even lavished praise on McCain and Palin. And had nothing positive to say about Obama other than he is following the healthcare and budget plans of his wife.

When your LAST PRESIDENT refuses to endorse your candidate and, instead, calls the opposing candidate a great man and his VP an effective leader, you know you have problems.

Once again factless, you've proven to be intellectually as bereft as the Gobi desert is dry.

Get a warrant.

Tell that to SLAVERY PARTY REPRESENTATIVE JIM MCDERMOTT. Oh, too late - he already broke the law. Of course, breaking the law and being fined a million dollars just means he's now qualified for Slavery Party seniority... You can't become a Lead Slaver unless you murder a baby, or break a few laws, or cheat the Government out of tens of thousands of dollars of taxes, or take billion dollar bribes.

Posted by: Shanghai Dan on September 18, 2008 04:55 PM
18. Facts,

What Carly Fiorina actually said was,

"I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation. I don't think Barack Obama could run a major corporation. I don't think Joe Biden could run a major corporation. But on the other hand a major corporation is not the same as being the president or vice president of the United States."

The Obama campaign has conveniently clipped her quote at the first sentence and posted the resulting interview on YouTube. Not exactly truthful, is it?

Fiorina went on to say, "Obama is the least qualified of any of the candidates to run the country."

I guess that didn't make it into the Obama talking points for the week, did it?

More here: Fiorina: Obama Camp 'Deceitful' in Clipping My Quote, which has links to the original and clipped interviews on YouTube.

Posted by: Smoley on September 18, 2008 04:58 PM
19. HEY ALL FACTS WHY DONT YOU GO BACK AND LISTEN TO THE ANSWER.SHE ALSO SAID THAT OBAMA AND BIDEN COULD NOT RUN A LARGE COMPANY.THATS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU EDIT THE TAPE TO MAKE IT SAY WHAT YOU WANT.YOUR A LIAR THATS THE BOTTOM LINE.NOW BACK TOHA WHERE SCUM LIKE YOU BELONG.OH YA ONE MORE THING GOT A CALL FROM ZOGBY AND I TOLD HIM ID BE VOTEING FOR OBAMA.HAHA ILL BET THERE ARE MILLONS OUT THERE WHO TELL THE POLLSTERS THEY ARE FOR OBAMA BUT WHEN THEY PULL THE LEVER IT WILL SAY McCAIN.

Posted by: PU on September 18, 2008 05:02 PM
20. ALWAYS Democrats that do this sort of thing? Isn't it ALWAYS the GOP that jams phonebanks and purges eligible voters from rolls with intent to suppress voting in battleground states? How else can your party win? It surely can't be because they have done a good job of leading the country the past 8 years.

Keep this site alive because I always like coming here for a good chuckle...

...and listen to Chuck Hagel

Posted by: SP is Hilarious! on September 18, 2008 05:08 PM
21. AFSMP - Thank you for admitting that I am correct.

If that puzzles you, look up "Ignoratio Elenchi".

Posted by: Jim Miller on September 18, 2008 05:11 PM
22. Son of a Democrat. I'm shocked. Dad probably indoctrinated his kid with a daily dose of left leaning ideas much like Goldy does his daughter. What is it with the left, indoctrinating young kids with Bush hatred and sex education. They just can't let kids enjoy their childhood.


Posted by: Jeff B. on September 18, 2008 05:11 PM
23. 'facts'

Get tossed.

Posted by: jimg on September 18, 2008 05:20 PM
24. Jstar and all, there were a couple of password type things the hacker had to get through. One of them was "where did you meet your spouse?" He took some time to research her life and eventually hit on the answer. But yes, it was a few different steps. And no, he didn't just type in "sarah" or "todd," A.F

Posted by: Michele on September 18, 2008 05:25 PM
25. And don't forget the personal information such as her personal email account address and most of her SSN were released by the dems.

Read emails between two terrorists planning to blow up the Pentagon and libs $**t their pants; read private emails from a sitting governor and VP candidate and win a Pulitzer.

This, my friends, is what passes for "nuance" on the left.

Sick.

Posted by: Obi-Wan on September 18, 2008 06:36 PM
26. Look, I actually believe Biden when he says that he wasn't the best pick for the VP slot... and that OhDrama isn't ready to be president.

?My question for the leftists infesting us here is this:

If *I* believe Biden... then why don't any of yuou?

Posted by: Hinton on September 18, 2008 06:44 PM
27. Just sickening how this works.

My advice: Change your password to a letter-number-punctuation sign combo with capital letters sprinkled in too.

Posted by: Spokesman on September 18, 2008 07:26 PM
28. Jeff B @ 22 I work with an off the rails leftist who brought her five year old son into work back in 2004 so he could entertain all the rest of the kook fringe leftists with his little "I think all Republicans should be cut up and burned in a fire place" routine.

Well I guess it isn't quite a gassing and incineration the left's fascist fore bearers wrought on European Jewry, but it's too close for me to feel comfortable around.

Posted by: JDH on September 18, 2008 08:05 PM
29. Oh and by the way - if you are wondering the kid is a real "son of a baster." I ain't sh*ttin'
ya' folks, we may never know how dear ol' dad feels about this....at least last time I checked I would have a hard time eliciting an opinion from my turkey baster - ifn' ya' get my drift.

Yep, I have met quit a few in my day who one could advance the claim that "daddy was a rolling stone," but by God this is the first acknowledged "son of a baster" I have ever met face to face.

Posted by: JDH on September 18, 2008 08:18 PM
30. PU: OH YA ONE MORE THING GOT A CALL FROM ZOGBY AND I TOLD HIM ID BE VOTEING FOR OBAMA.HAHA ILL BET THERE ARE MILLONS OUT THERE WHO TELL THE POLLSTERS THEY ARE FOR OBAMA BUT WHEN THEY PULL THE LEVER IT WILL SAY McCAIN.

I hope that's not true, PU. There are lots and lots of moderates and independents that are holding out on their decisions until November and the polls may have a large influence on their decision.

If we want McCain/Palin to be successful, we need to be keeping the ticket competetive in the polls. I get your point, though.

Posted by: Lynnwood Evangelical on September 18, 2008 08:40 PM
31. The Dems will say or do anything to get their people elected. Don't we all remember 2004 in this state??

Posted by: Susu on September 18, 2008 10:09 PM
32. Trump even said tonight he was supporting McCain and Palin, he said and I whole heartedly agree, if Obama wins, you will see a depression even to or worse than the Great depression.

All we need to start that is the Election of Obama on November 4th.

You will immediately see the sell off of massive capital gains investments, and a total collapse of the US economy.

Go ahead - Vote for Obama, you will need Moses to part the seas after that group gets through robbing you blind.

Posted by: gs on September 18, 2008 11:47 PM
33. I hope they throw this kid to the wolves and let everybody see. The Democrats have been getting away with illegal wiretapping (Bohener), encouraging illegal leaks (Several times over the past several decades), stealing people's credit information (Steel), and other such things for far too long.

Someone needs to be made an example of.

Posted by: Cliff on September 18, 2008 11:48 PM
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