WHY is Palin's record being scrubbed before we can see it? This might tell us something...

[Blue_Roses]

Ted Stevens who is now under federal indictment for corruption. Read further and see who's pipeline she's pushing for.

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Stevens & Palin: "Singing from the Same Sheet of Music"
by: Dean Barker
Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 22:42:59 PM EDT

When I saw here that a "Young Trigg" had spruced up Sarah Palin's Wiki 45 minutes before the Veep news was leaked, I thought I had better do some searches earlier than later in the event important data get scrubbed, as was the case just today with Stevens' endorsement of her.

Sure enough, when I went to search for connections between Ted Stevens and Palin on her gubernatorial website, I found that the links to her press releases go dead starting from the middle of July 2007 and all preceding.

So I went to the Wayback Machine. Some oddities popped up there too. I couldn't get links to press releases from newer versions of the website, but did manage to track down this page, which lists, in March 2007,

• Governor Meets with Senator Stevens

And when you click the link, you get this release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 29, 2003 No. 03-122

Murkowski Announces Grimes as Head of State Troopers

Hmmm....

Not to be deterred, I tried a basic google search for "Governor Meets with Senator Stevens." A-ha! There it is. Except that long sought after link clicks to a list of releases that does not include the Stevens' one.

Thank goodness for the cached option:

"It is so encouraging to hear again that Senator Stevens and I are singing from the same sheet of music," said Governor Palin. "In his address, he pushed for action this year on a natural gas pipeline. I also have the Senator's assurance that once the state has acted on the AGIA, our Congressional Delegation will do everything it can do to expedite the federal review of the natural gas pipeline project."

I have to wonder whether that choice paragraph had something to do with why I had to go through several hoops to track down this press release (which I will reproduce for posterity below the fold).

And if you're wondering about this natural gas pipeline, it's the same one Dick Cheney was discovered to be personally bullying the Alaskan legislature about on behalf of Stevens (as he himself explained to VECO's Bill Allen).

But that's not really the point. The point is that this is another example of a possible internet cleansing of Palin's digital history, and if this is indeed a pattern, it ought to be looked into by people who get paid to do journalism for a living. Because it's not like she would be a heartbeat away from the presidency, or anything.

Update: In the comments, Mike C. adds to the evidence that this may be an intentional scrubbing:

Google cache reveals this page was removed sometime after 7:21 GMT this morning.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q...

and here's webcite to preserve the page:

http://www.webcitation.org/5aR...

SO let's see 7:21+5= 12:21 EST?

This page was being cleaned up AFTER the announcement. this was without a doubt cleaned up on the day of the announcement... how vetted does that look to you?


http://www.bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4999:freak: Stevens & Palin:

[predfan]

1. It's insulting to think we citizens are too stupid to care

about the person who could very well be President one day. For Davis to say the electorate will care more about perception than the issues is a slap in the face, or should be.

Republicans certainly don't overestimate the intelligence of the American public, and not only get away with it but are usually successful.

[nc4bo]

2. Nice digging. What you say is true though, the internet is being scrubbed and santized of ALOT

of facts and information to ANY one related to or involved in the Palin/Mccain campaign

[blm]

3. Send to Obama campaign and media outlets. AND left blogosphere.

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[chill_wind]

4. Excellent searching and points made.

Needs to get on the GP pronto..

K & R

[Blue_Roses]

5. Link Update here:

http://bluehampshire.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4999