Tag: PALIN

Wonkette believes that it may have uncovered the private Facebook page of Sarah Palin. While reading through a leaked copy of a memoir by a Palin staffer, the D.C. gossip blog noticed that a personal e-mail address of the former Alaskan governor had accidentally been left unredacted. They punched the address into Facebook and voilà: an account for one Lou Sarah ("Lou" maybe being short ...

Share A few days ago, Republican prizefighter Sarah Palin posted a Facebook note titled 'An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground.' In the statement, Palin railed against a proposal to build a new mosque near the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, comparing the proposed construction to a "stab in the heart" for many Americans. [Ed. Note: As New Yorkers who pass this daily, we'd like ...

Matthew Continetti, associate editor of the conservative political rag the Weekly Standard, has an interesting editorial on CNN.com, in which he argues that Sarah Palin is "a pioneer in the political use of new social media." He claims that Palin is leading a quiet revolution based on Facebook and that she hasn't received any credit for it. Party affiliation aside, there are gaping holes in ...

Sarah Palin may be receiving a surge of new friends on Facebook, but she's not getting quite the same warm welcome over on Twitter, where dozens of fake Sarah Palins tweet away. "Unfortunately fake 'Gov Sarah Palin' twitter sites r doing their thing today, So sorry if u recv false info @ fake site," Palin tweeted in response to the plethora of Palin impersonators. According to Bloomberg, ...

Whether you love her or wish she would find herself partially devoured by a Kodiak bear in the Alaskan wilderness, there is no denying that Sarah Palin is a popular, if polarizing, figure. One way to measure popularity in the Web-era is by counting friends on sites like Facebook, and by that metric Sarah Palin has managed to make herself more popular by stepping down as Governor of Alaska. Tech ...

Regardless of your political affiliation, there's no denying the historic nature of today's presidential race. Turnout for the U.S. election is expected to reach record numbers. So how do you keep up with the election and gather relevant information without succumbing to the noise and theatrics of the 24-hour-cable news channels? Well, the Internet (and NPR) are here to help offer you more ...

A comedy duo called 'The Masked Avengers' from a Montreal-based radio station pulled off an impressive feat when they managed to get Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin on the phone and convince her she was talking to French president Nicholas Sarkozy. Palin doesn't seem to figure out that it's a prank call, despite obvious clues. The prank caller makes a joking reference that Sarkozy can see ...

If you've been getting most of your information this election cycle via the Internet and e-mail, chances are you've come across a series of rumors about the candidates that are just flatly false. The nature of the Web spreads the flames of these lies like the Santa Ana Winds during the dry season. The candidates are fighting back as quickly as possible by using the Web themselves. Obama has a ...

With November 4th rapidly approaching, the McCain-Palin campaign has ratcheted up the number of automated phone calls going out to potential voters. According to Shaun Dakin, a Virginian "anti-robocall activist," the McCain campaign is currently issuing 12 automated telephone campaigns, while the Obama camp is only conducting four. The Republican candidate's phone-intensive politicking is, no ...

Politics is one of the most popular topics for spam. Don't believe us? Go check your spam folder. We bet that you'll find e-mails about how Obama is a secret Muslim and Sarah Palin hunts moose from a helicopter in between offers for cheap Viagra and penis enlargement systems . According to a report from Secure Computing, it appears that spammers prefer Obama over McCain and Palin over Biden ...

We have to thank the John McCain and the Republican Party for giving us the greatest source of Vice President humor since Dan Quayle. In fact, Sarah Palin has single-handedly made 'Saturday Night Live' worth watching again, thanks to Tina Fey's babbling, wide-eyed impression of the Republican VP candidate. But shows like 'SNL' and 'The Daily Show' aren't the only outlets reaping the comedic ...

We can only assume the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has snatched up the domain name VoteForTheMILF.com in an effort to prove that they're more tech savvy than they've let on. When originally discovered, the URL redirected visitors to JohnMcCain.com (which just happened to display a video introduction from Palin), but clearly someone at the campaign thought it wasn't such a great idea to ...

The wily, if careless, hacker who weaseled his way into Governor Palin's private Yahoo! e-mail account may now be in the cross-hairs of the FBI. According to witnesses on the scene, the apartment of David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee who is suspected of the hack, was raided by the FBI after the agency obtained a search warrant. The agents broke up a party to search the ...

In what is being called a "a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy," Scientology-hating hacker group Anonymous managed to break in to Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail inbox, posting much of its contents online for the world to see. Palin apparently used an account with Yahoo! Mail for much of her personal correspondence, and apparently drafted some work-related ...