Opening the Troopergate

November 3, 2008
Opening the Troopergate

Now that it is essentially too late the non-partisan (and procedurally valid) investigation of the nonsense the punditocracy labeled "Troopergate" has been released. The only truly remarkable part of it is that the McClatchy-owned Alaska Daily News titled their article on it: "New Troopergate Report Clears Palin".

Apparently now that it is too late for most of the electorate to learn about it in time to make a difference they decide they can be honest with the title.

As was crystal clear all along to those of us who were paying attention, the new legitimate!) report finds that:

- There is no cause to believe Palin violated the state ethics law in deciding to dismiss Monegan as public safety commissioner.

- There is no cause to believe Palin violated the state ethics law in connection with Wooten.

- There is no cause to believe any other state official violated the ethics act.

- There's no basis to conduct a hearing to "address reputational harm," as requested by Monegan.

As a matter of fact, I read the inital "Troopergate report" and it also exonerated Governor Palin, although not quite as definitively. And I said so! I titled my article "Mediagate aka Troopergate Report" because I thought the real travesty was the fact that the Alaska McClatchy News (aka Alaska Daily News) decided to entitle the article on the initial report "Troopergate report: Palin abused power" even though the primary finding of that first report was that what Palin did was "proper and lawful".

In fact, much of the coverage of this entire election by the jack-booted punditocracy marching in lock-step to destroy Palin's reputation should be a tremendous "Mediagate" scandal.

I would rail at some length about that, but time is too short. The world frankly needs to know about this even though it is probably too late to do any good. So, excuse me while I go attempt to inform them :-)