North To Alaska Movie

O'REILLY: The great Sarah Palin email hunt goes bust

Because I am a simple man, allow me to pose a simple question: What the deuce were 30 reporters doing in Juneau last week sifting through 24,000 pages of emails written by then-Gov. Sarah Palin? Why did a bunch of news agencies spend money to send their people north to Alaska after the state government released the correspondence?

Maybe they want to know more about oil shale on the North Slope. Perhaps fishing off the coast of Nome interests them. Could it be urban renewal in Skagway?

Sure. We all know the reason why the media barbarians descended on Juneau. They wanted to find something on Palin.

As Don Henley once sang: "Give us dirty laundry!"

And not only did the reporters go on location, but incredibly, both The New York Times and The Washington Post asked for unpaid volunteers to read some of the emails with the hope of finding something, anything, on Palin. So I guess this is the journalism of the future: "Hey, you, can you research this story for me? I have to go to dinner."

After all that, here is what The Washington Post came up with: "The e-mails provide a revealing look at an ambitious rookie politician finding her way in the corridor of power." If that's not Pulitzer stuff, I don't know what is.

Here's The New York Times' assessment: "Yet what is clear in the 24,000 pages of her e-mails ... is that her governing style was not necessarily an either-or proposition. Sometimes she seemed to be everything all at once." Really? Fascinating.

Like Casey, the media struck out. The laundry was clean and neatly folded.

The Palin email exposition is the best example of a political witch-hunt that I have ever seen. Did the media demand to see Sen. Obama's correspondence while in office? How about Gov. Mitt Romney's email experience? No, they did not.

A fair-minded person has to wonder what it is about Palin that makes the press so aggressive toward her. Putting aside her conservative ideology, which makes many media people ill, I think it's her glamour. The governor is good-looking and feisty. She commands attention by her very appearance.

In our shallow, reality-show-driven society, Palin has become a star not because of her public service, but because of her movie starlike marketing. There she is in the Alaskan woods looking great on camera. Here she comes in a new film touting her love for America. Move over, Jennifer Aniston. There's a new friend in town: Sarah Palin.

Danny North to Alaska

We’re coming to Alaska for this movie project, we love watching your boat and crew on the series. Where will the boat be in June. I’m enclosing a copy of our story and project.

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My name is Danny Miller and I’m a quadriplegic, but I’m not the typical person you think of when you see a chair. I’m filming a documentary on my trip to Alaska to help raise awareness for handicapped people. I will be driving a special modified adaptive motorcycle from my home in Murrieta CA all the way to Kodiak Alaska. This will be over 6 thousand miles on a bike and to my knowledge, the first time a quadriplegic has ever attempted such a trip. I’ll be bringing a camera crew along to video the entire journey and I’m asking for any form of support or sponsorship for this very costly project. A night in a hotel or lodge, fuel card, activity cash or anything you could provide would help. An activity or adventure would be the most help so that we can show that everything is possible. I’m paying for this project entirely myself and could really use any support you can provide. I’m in a manual chair and do not require anything special. I can do anything as normal, just a little slower. If you operate a lodge, hotel, business, Tour Company, or any sort of activity you could gain exposure by people seeing your location & event in magazines and film. In return, I will promote your company in the movie, magazines, news articles, Facebook and your company logo on the bikes. We are doing a press photo shoot on June 19. I will also provide you a copy of the finished movie. This movie will be shown as an independent film being viewed at theaters, hospitals and online. We just received an offer the preview the movie in New York at the film festival. I will be also sending hospitals that deal with spinal cord injury a free copy of the movie so that others could see that if I can do this, they also can live a normal and fun life. We’re in the process of negotiating a possible showing on a major network. I’m also contacting all news media and the governors of the states that I’ll be passing thru. My goal is to show this movie around the country to show people that even if you’re in a wheel chair that there is still life out there. I’m leaving Murrieta on this June 20th and plan on taking 6 weeks to complete the journey. There will be 3 motorcycles and a support vehicle traveling, 8 people total. If someone you know has suffered a spinal cord injury and might need a little motivation or inspiration I would be happy to assist in any way. So many people helped me to make my life better this is my way of giving back and hopefully help someone else. If you’re not able to help, please pass this on to others. I’m enclosing a copy of my story.

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