You Too Can Help the NY Times and Washington Post Dig Dirt on Sarah Palin

Hey all you wannabe yellow journalists out there, the NY Times and Washington Post needs you! (From the Daily Caller):

NYT, WaPo need your help destroying Sarah Palin -- Yesterday the New York Times and the Washington Post had a simultaneous dumbgasm, putting out parallel calls recruiting their readership to help them sort through the thousands of e-mails from Sarah Palin's governorship of Alaska that are due to be released today. If you're wondering when they've ever done anything like that before, let alone for someone who holds no public office, good question. Well, this "crowdsourcing" effort seems to be a spur-of-the-moment thing, at least at the NYT. They didn't even bother to put out an internal memo. TheDC's Matthew Boyle reports: "The New York Times originally denied making an open call for readers to help 'investigate' e-mails from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which are set to be released on Friday. 'The New York Times has not asked for readers to help with an investigation,' NYT spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said in an e-mail to The Daily Caller, pointing TheDC to a specific news storyabout the Palin e-mails' release. Rhoades Ha appeared to have missed a story her own newspaper published on its website, titled, 'Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-mail Records.'" Oh, that! When informed of this public announcement by the very company she's supposed to be representing, Rhoades Ha followed up with Boyle, saying, "The New York Times will post the emails in a searchable database on nytimes.com and invite readers to do their own search of the documents. The Times has reporters in Alaska to process the 24,000 documents as well as reporters in New York who will review the materials. If readers draw our attention to something interesting, our reporters will review the information before publishing it on our website or the paper.” And if not, they'll just find some other muck to fling at Palin. 

Have the Times or the Post made a similar effort to find out what Obama wrote in college? Or what his grades were? How about any emails he sent when he was a senator in Illinois?

Sarah Palin can get the last laugh in all this. After these organizations have spent all this money to research these emails she can simply tell them "I'm not running for president". Anything they find, which is sure to be nothing more than minor stuff that's probably been taken out of context, will be worthless.