The next possible Idiot-in-Chief, Sarah Palin, has apparently been using her Yahoo! email account for official Alaska business. This was first revealed months ago, but only just resurfaced because she got caught! Hackers have infiltrated the account (big surprise), revealed some of its contents and now the Secret Service is asking the Associated Press for copies of the records (too convoluted to explain, just go here if you care that much).

Of course this explains how she became the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee! Everyone knows how much spam Yahoo’s filters don’t catch, well apparently Palin clicked on the email entitled, “Be McCain’s VP for a day” hoping it would give her a boost of sexual prowess. Palin was just looking for a hunting partner, but didn’t even blink when McCain asked her to be his soul-mate instead. This now makes sense why everyone was surprised when Palin was picked as McCain’s running mate, but the folks over at Yahoo! were too busy saying no to the merger with Microsoft to bother saying no to this sacrilegious partnership. Well, chalk up another win for Google: On the recommendation of Karl Rove, infamous for using unofficial email accounts for official business, Palin is now using Palinisafox@GMail.com.

Oh, by the way, here are a couple of screen shots of Palin’s actual Yahoo! email account thanks to Duncun.

UPDATE - Sunday evening - Apparently, because the 20-year old college student knew enough to be dangerous, but not enough not to get caught, his identity has been revealed and he has been arrested. You can read more on the technical details of this case here.

Kate Klonick of Talking Points Memo blogs:

“Buried in the 50-page report on Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch released today by the House Oversight Committee, is a priceless quote from none other than the new head of the AP’s Washington Bureau, Ron Fournier.

Straight from page 21 of the report:

“Karl Rove exchanged e-mails about Pat Tillman with Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier, under the subject line “H-E-R-O.” In response to Mr. Fournier’s e-mail, Mr. Rove asked, “How does our country continue to produce men and women like this,” to which Mr. Fournier replied, “The Lord creates men and women like this all over the world. But only the great and free countries allow them to flourish. Keep up the fight.”

Although it took Fournier a couple of hours to react, he finally released an entirely useless apology to his employer, the Associated Press:

“I was an AP political reporter at the time of the 2004 e-mail exchange, and was interacting with a source, a top aide to the president, in the course of following an important and compelling story. I regret the breezy nature of the correspondence.”

So in other words, because you were corresponding with a source, it is OK to make snarky comments in support of the administration’s blatant profiteering and propaganda relating to Pat Tillman’s death? Shame on you, Mr. Fournier for again blurring the line so that we cannot distinguish who is reporting the news from who is making the news.

23/6 has a great post outlining some of the things McCain might use in the general election to derail the Obama train from winning the presidency. They do it in the form of a “letter” written by McCain to Karl Rove. This thing is so full of compliments, back-handed mentions and corruption that it could be confused for President Bush’s letter to Santa Claus (although he actually calls him Turd Blossom). Let’s imagine for a moment what the New York Post, Fox “News” and the Los Angeles Times would look like if, even for a day, they took all of these issues and elaborated on them in their “coverage” to see what happens… Well, we probably don’t have to imagine because the general election is about to start and all of the above-mentioned media and more will surely be picking up on all of these points. In the meantime, enjoy the irony and again, thanks to 23/6 for posting. (Note: If this is hard to read, simply click on the image to go directly to 23/6 and magnify.)