Tennesee Democratic State Representative’s son is the Sarah Palin email hacker!
Posted by Carlos C. on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
This is David Kernell.
His email, rubico10@yahoo.com, is the same email address as the hacker’s email address! Plus, David Kernell’s father is Tennessee Democrat House Representative Mike Kernell!
The Tennessean is reporting that David Kernell has been contacted by the FBI!
State Rep. Mike Kernell confirmed Thursday that his son, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville student, is at the center of heated Internet discussion into the hacking of the personal e-mail of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Kernell, a Memphis Democrat, confirmed that it is his 20-year-old son, David, who is being widely named on Internet blogs and chatrooms in connection with an unfolding story about Palin’s hacked e-mail accounts.
The FBI and the Secret Service started a formal investigation on Wednesday into the hacking.
David Kernell is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Mike Kernell said he spoke to his son on Thursday, as he does on a regular basis.
Kernell otherwise declined to comment, or discuss his son’s whereabouts.
Has Mike Kernell endorsed Barack Obama for President, yet?
Hat Tips: Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin, and Right Voices
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Not surprised that the hacker is a pot smoking son of a democrat!
DC
Fuckin liberal doper baby!
Mr.L
I’m glad they found the little punk that did this. Time to pay up now.
And holy crap, his dad’s office is like 10 minutes from my work.
Haven’t seen this on the MSM yet. Or is this just going to be a non story like the Obama Logan Act?
Isn’t Mikey guilty of obstruction of justice?
Yes, this will be interesting. The kid’s an idiot. He even missed correlating that the subject lines for some of those messages confirmed that Palin was using her private email address for Government activities. Oops!
“Isn’t Mikey guilty of obstruction of justice?”
You mean for cooperating with the investigation, and then not providing more information to _the press_? That holds water like… the Titanic. Oh look, a double entendre.
“pot smoking son” “Fuckin liberal doper baby”
Geez, with all of these pot comments, I feel kinda bad that I *don’t* smoke pot. I’d roll one just for you guys and gals!
Well Duh, I didn’t think it was going to be ET
Watch the same people that called out Palin on her daughter’s pregnancy try to cover for this guy by saying he couldn’t have possibly controlled his son.
This couldn’t get any better.
[...] or other countries. Guess who hacked Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account? Well according to ScoopThis and The Tennessean, it was none other than David Kernell. Who is this kid? He is none other than [...]
those messages confirmed that Palin was using her private email address for Government activities. Oops!
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Hold on there Ken dont bring that up you want republicans to know Palin breached security rules that shes supposed to follw as a head of a state ? We all know thats a minor thing to them.
Watch the same people that called out Palin on her daughter’s pregnancy try to cover for this guy by saying he couldn’t have possibly controlled his son.
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He isnt 17 and in high school . Hes a adult and its all on him not his dad . You must be forgetting at 17 you are still a minor and your parents should be held accountable for your actions. I guess you forgot that huh ?
It’s their own fault for not having her on the government’s own secure network, plus it just shows how weak your personal internet and e-mail security really is.
I have no comments for idiots, I just forget them. People like this wouldn’t understand anyway.
“Watch the same people that called out Palin on her daughter’s pregnancy try to cover for this guy by saying he couldn’t have possibly controlled his son.
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He isnt 17 and in high school . Hes a adult and its all on him not his dad . You must be forgetting at 17 you are still a minor and your parents should be held accountable for your actions. I guess you forgot that huh ?”
I’m not really interested in this dubious argument. I’ll let the liberals worry about the gossip column. All I’m responding to say is, thanks for confirming my point.
Sarah Palin never conducted any state business on her Yahoo account.
I NEW IT WAS A DEMOCRATE. HE WILL HAVE TO BE PUNISHED OR ANYONE CAN DO THE SAME THING. OBAMA SENT OUT 30N LAWYERS TO ALASKA. THIS MAN IF THATS WHAT YOU WANT TO CALL HIM WILL DO OR DAY ANYTHING FOR POWER. IAM ADRAID OF OBAMA
Anna,
Obama’s previous paths to victory are to exclude his opponents from the ballot because he knows that the more exposure he gets, the fewer votes he will receive. This is why is campaign speeches and commercials have become a form of elitist stand up comedy where he makes fun of and belittles those who disagree with his socialist policies. You never hear him talk about himself in any specific terms but you know he thinks those who disagree with him are “confused” or “clinging to religion and guns.” There is a pattern here and the polls finally show that voters are realizing it.
“a form of elitist stand up comedy where he makes fun of and belittles those who disagree with his socialist policies”
Keeping in mind that this is coming from someone who made an attempt at humor by belittling my education, adding: “maybe it’s because [he] went to private school.”
“Moral equivalence! Moral equivalence!”
Thanks for putting things into perspective Kenneth. You’re doing excellent work here. Give yourself a cookie.
But if you want to call me an “elitist” for going to “private school,” I think you should first find out what I had to do to pay the tuition. But then again, you could just continue being the prejudice assumptive troll and elitist you think you aren’t.
Let me remind you of the context. You were feigning superiority, specifically expressing concern for the state of education in public schools, in the context of casting aspersions at my own education.
e·lit·ism [i-lee-tiz-uhm, ey-lee-]
1. practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
2. consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.
I guess they didn’t teach you how to use a dictionary in private school.
Took me a few minutes to find it but:
In case you care, which you likely don’t, here’s a link to a blog I wrote where among other things, I answer the question you should have asked.
Justification of how your still right and I’m wrong in 3…2…1…
I like being an elitist.
Yes, you’re good at reading dictionaries. Not so good at comprehending what you read, however.
Speaking of which, I’m late for class at the school I’m working hard to pay for. (Me and my “elitist” ways).
“Not so good at comprehending what you read, however.”
That’s a gloriously vague statement.
‘(Me and my “elitist” ways).’
I didn’t actually call you an elitist. I framed your hypocritical response with your previous statements. To put it into the context of the use of the term for this election, I would have to jealously consider you in some way of a higher caliber to use that term, and I assuredly do not.
“I would have to jealously consider you in some way of a higher caliber to use that term, and I assuredly do not.”
Are you sure you don’t want to go back and re-read that definition of yours again? I know you’ll deny it but I know you don’t think of me as an equal to yourself which only leaves one other conclusion to draw from the above statement.
This time I quote myself: “To put it into the context of the use of the term for this election.”
Talk about reading comprehension…
My bet is the little bastard just shot his father’s shot at re-election.
Brian,
It’s possible. Tennessee is a “Red” State after all. I’ll bet his father is always one step away from losing to begin with. This just might be the thing that pushes him into the proverbial ditch.
It may reflect on his dad, whether or not his dad was involved..
I still find it interesting that it’s a politician’s son doing it, and whether the son came up with the idea on his own.
As far as the petty critics of Palin on this, I find it more noteworthy that maybe 1 in 100 of our neighbor’s has a locking mailbox, let alone email.
The blame all rests with the young fool who tried to pry into messages that were not his. The secretiveness alone, shows acknowledement that it was wrong and immoral.
Once the investigation progresses, he, and not Palin, will be the object of attention on this.
I think a lot of people will have an unfavorable opinion of the young man, because the typical internet user detests internet hackers.
Cheers,
M. D. Vaden of Oregon
You can’t say much further than this. The kid was 20 years old and just starting out in the world. By no means are most 20-year-olds completely responsible or independent adults. This is why parents often have to pay their bills and continue to provide guidance. Few parents of a 20 year old “young adult” would tell you that their kid completely has his or her act together. While you hope that you instill your values in a child, they don’t always listen and sometimes do the exact opposite of what you tell them to do. As a parent myself and previous guardian of my now young-adult sister, I can tell you that there’s no way we can completely “blame the parents.”
I think the only thing that may tie back to his dad is perhaps the political ideology that his son grew up in. Perhaps this ideology so blinded the son, that he thought committing extremely immoral invasions of another person’s privacy was perfectly ok since his victim was a a member of the “hated” Republican party, the enemy perhaps, according to his family.
Nonetheless, I think that it is likely that voters will not view this with the kind of perspective and understanding that I, a parent can bring to the table. The same may and is applying to how the public views Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. Only parents that have been through the experience of raising children to adulthood can possibly understand what it’s like. Everyone else doesn’t have a clue what they’re talking about.