Tag: SARAH 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 ...

Everybody's favorite reality TV star ex-governor will finally have her official e-mails released this spring. Major members of the press, including the Associated Press, have been clamoring for Sarah Palin's documents for over two years, but the Alaskan governor's office has repeatedly stated the need for extensions. May 31st however (pending another extension, of course), we will finally be privy ...

Sarah Palin recently described her family's new TLC reality show as "uplifting entertainment" and "a positive family-oriented outdoor adventure." Well, the Palin fans who want to experience her family's wholesome, good ol' family values should probably stick to watching the show -- and stay very, very far away from her daughter Willow's Facebook page. According to TMZ, the 16-year-old Palin ...

University of Tennessee student David Kernell has been sentenced for computer intrusion and obstruction of justice in relation to the hacking of Sarah Palin's personal e-mail in 2008. Kernell will be spending the next year in custody (most likely in a halfway house), and face three years probation. He was found not guilty of the most serious charges, which carried up to a 20-year sentence. ...

Joining the ranks of Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and New York gubernatorial candidates Rick Lazio and (the unlikely) Carl Paladino, former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik has also come out in opposition of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. That's great news for the anti-mosque organizers, but we must remind ourselves that Kerik is also a convicted felon currently serving time in Cumberland, ...

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 ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... While Facebook's membership continues to expand, the site's success has been somewhat marred, at least in the media, by a never-ending brouhaha over privacy issues. The site is now facing a California class-action lawsuit, in which five Facebook members are claiming that the site erroneously announced that its updated privacy ...

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 ...

You love Xbox. You adore Sarah Palin. You've always wondered how to bring them into euphoric harmony. And now, for a little more than $1 million, your life can finally be complete. According to the Huffington Post, an Xbox 360 purportedly autographed by the former Republican Vice Presidential candidate and ex-governor of Alaska was recently re-posted for auction on eBay, at a starting price of ...

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 ...

Sarah Palin may have bid adieu to the national political spotlight last November, but she doesn't seem to have any intention of leaving the media spotlight behind. The former vice-presidential candidate's camp has launched accusations of intolerance at an Alaskan political blogger over a photoshopped image featuring Palin, a conservative talk show host, and Palin's youngest son Trig, a special ...

Remember when Sarah Palin's e-mail account was accessed by a 20-year-old student who guessed the answer to her Yahoo! security question (where she and husband Todd first met)? Well, the former VP candidate is just one of many whose "forgotten password" questions are way too easy for others to guess, according to a new study published in the Technology Review.. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon ...

Right on the heels of Yahoo!'s top search announcement last week, Google has posted its annual year-end Zeitgeist report, revealing the year's most popular searches by country. Not surprisingly, President-Elect Obama took first place in the United States' fastest rising general searches, with former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin taking seventh. Interestingly enough, though, Palin ...

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 ...