Ed Morrissey has the details:
Nutcase bloggers will have to find another smear against Sarah Palin … again. Did you hear that Todd Palin’s former business partner tried to get his divorce records sealed? Conspiracy theorists immediately began speculating on line that Sarah Palin — that vixen! — must have had an affair and broken up the marriage. Why else would the partner suddenly act to seal his records?
As the Smoking Gun discovered, Scott Richter wanted them sealed — to protect himself from conspiracy theorists:
So when the blogosphere discovered today (via an online court docket) that Scott Richter, a Palin associate, personally filed a sealing motion in Alaska Superior Court, well, conclusions were jumped to. Was Sarah Palin named as the other woman in a messy divorce action? Well, since Richter’s September 3 motion, a copy of which you’ll find below, was denied yesterday, his divorce filings remain open to the public. And a TSG review of the 98-page file shows that the Palins are only mentioned in Richter’s sealing request.
According to the filing, Richter wanted the documents deemed confidential in a bid to cloak details about his home, workplace, and phone numbers because “reporters and news agencies” were using that information to contact him. Richter, a 39-year-old contractor, noted that he is “friends and land owners in a remote cabin” with the Palins and, as a result, journalists were intruding on the “cabin life and private life” of him and his 11-year-old son.
Isn’t that an extra dollop of irony? Mr. Richter wants to protect his son from lunatics. What happens? The lunatics use that as “evidence” that Palin had an affair with Richter and descend on him to get the dirt.
Read the rest here.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Too bad that vaunted liberal theme of the Constitutional “right to privacy” doesn’t extend to their opponents or anyone that ever met them, huh?
September 6th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Well…The National Enquirer is coming out with the affair slam…This actually is evidence that it probably didn’t happen…
September 6th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Live feed. McCain and Palin.
http://www.krdo.com/
September 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
CP #2,
The NE issue is already out. I saw it while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store last night. It was right next to the US Weekly rag… Gotta love the impartial, unbiased media in this country, right?
September 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Gallup 47-45 Obama…getting closer!!! 2 more days to see the final bounce…
September 6th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
There was a front-page story at the Politico site on exactly that this morning. Their reporter in AK was photocopying the divorce records at the local courthouse and dutifully trying to call all the phone numbers listed. Talk about a full-out media assault on the lives of private individuals.
The story also had the “fun fact” that, after slimy rumor-mongering Andrew Sullivan linked to that courthouse’s IT system, the courthouse website had crashed and been unavailable for a couple of days.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
The desperation of Obama supporters keeps becoming ever more clear. We’ve now had them smear Palin and her daughter as sluts, notably Conan O’Brien and his crude “crease” reference on his show last night. Palin’s mothering quality has also been slandered, and her decision to have a successful career derided by those who would normally sneer at stay-at-home moms.
Keep it up — please. Keep informing the public that women have to stay on the ideological reservation or they have to stay in the kitchen, and that they’re not really free to have their own minds. Keep punishing those who express their own opinions and defy the media with despicable slurs and innuendo and by all means keep attacking their children. None of that will have any effect on Palin’s credibility — but it will strip her critics of theirs.
I wish I could figure out how to format stuff in here. Oh well.
This is a great point. The thing that really frosts me is when I see people I used to respect come out with this same crap. Like conservative women contributors on Fox who come out with the “she has a baby at home” line. If her child is being cared for by his father, that’s the business of their family. He’s not neglected and she’s not a bad mother. It’s a choice that many American families make when the wife has a greater earning power than the husband does. They need to get over it.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Linkage to #6.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
The book-banning smear is falling apart, too:
http://michellemalkin.com/
Given that Malkin is hardly a unbiased source, I want more documentation, but the Anchorage Daily News article she quotes seems pretty clear: “Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.”
September 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Sad. The worst part is that the rumor mongers and smear artists were the ones screaming the loudest when Obama was the target of similar antics (like Andrew Sullivan). I don’t understand how people like that can justify themselves.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Man the desperation of the left is quite hysterical.They really fear this woman don’t they? One smear falls apart and they just make up another.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I’ve got to say, Sarah Palin is very lucky to have all of this stuff come out during the generals when the whole party is rooting for her. If she had been attacked like this in the primaries she wouldn’t have had the whole blogosphere rooting for her.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I personally do not condone this type of slandering on either side of the aisle but the left better smarten up soon because, if this keeps up, the Republicans will unleash the attack dogs and the libs will once again be in way over their heads. Hopefully it doesn’t get to that point.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I personally do not condone this type of slandering on either side of the aisle but the left better smarten up soon because, if this keeps up, the Republicans will unleash the attack dogs and the libs will once again be in way over their heads. Hopefully it doesn’t get to that point.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I personally do not condone this type of slandering on either side of the aisle but the left better smarten up soon because, if this keeps up, the Republicans will unleash the attack dogs and the libs will once again be in way over their heads. Hopefully it doesn’t get to that point.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I personally do not condone this type of slandering on either side of the aisle but the left better smarten up soon because, if this keeps up, the Republicans will unleash the attack dogs and the libs will once again be in way over their heads. Hopefully it doesn’t get to that point.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Sorry about the repeat posts…I don’t know why it did that.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
2 men have now been mentioned — the carwash partner Brad Hanson and Scott Richter??
September 7th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Why would Sarah Palin have an affair when she has Todd at home??