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Exclusive: Joe McGinniss Says Andrew Breitbart’s ‘Explosive’ Email Is Really A Dud

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Over at Big Journalism, Andrew Breitbart has posted an email purportedly from Joe McGinniss that seems to show that even he didn’t think he had enough facts to back up the controversial claims in his Sarah Palin book, The Rogue. The alleged smoking gun is a list at the end of the email in which McGinniss names all the rumors from his book that he still needs “factual evidence” for. As Breitbart points out, nearly all of these rumors still ended up both in the book and McGinniss’ recent television appearances. Ironically, though, in trying to nail McGinniss for allegedly spreading unfounded rumors, Breitbart does the same, printing a Todd Palin rumor that didn’t end up in McGinniss’ book. In a Mediaite exclusive, McGinniss authenticates the Breitbart email, but says it’s not the smoking gun Andrew thinks it is.

The email, for which Breitbart provides no source or attribution (although McGinniss has authenticated it for us. More on that later), was allegedly sent back in January to Jesse Griffin, the head of a now-defunct anti-Palin blog. In it, McGinniss complains to Griffin that she needs to give him better proof for some of the juicy stories on the blog or else he can’t include them in the book. Nearly all of the email discusses a rumor that Todd Palin paid for sex with a prostitute named Shailey Tripp.

“Do you believe that Todd paid her for sex? If so, why do you believe that, other than that you wish it were true?

A lurid, sensational, defamatory story about Todd, based only on the account of a woman charged with prostitution, who is no doubt desperate for money, and who sold her story to the Enquirer, is a gift from heaven for Sarah.

Jesse, you can ridicule Sarah for calling in to the execrable Bob & Mark, but the fact is that as far as this story goes, there’s no there there. And rumors about what might come in weeks ahead are not facts. In fact, they’re garbage.”

As Breitbart admits, the Tripp story never ended up in the book. So, it might seem that this “explosive email,” as Big Journalism’s headline calls it, isn’t quite as exciting as would seem. McGinniss heard a story, realized he didn’t have enough proof, emailed a source saying there wasn’t enough proof, and took it out. However, Breitbart goes on to point out that the end of the email contains a list of other rumors that McGinniss kept in.

From the email:

“No one has ever provided factual evidence that:

a) Todd had sex with a hooker, or with anyone else outside his marriage.
b) Sarah had an affair with Brad Hanson, or anyone else.
c) Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term. Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses.
d) Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes. Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that.
e) Trig is not Sarah’s natural born child.
f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth.”

Everything except the hooker story is in the book. That means that Breitbart, in publishing this email, is amplifying a rumor that even McGinniss didn’t think was fit to print.

We reached out to McGinniss to ask if Breitbart’s email was the real thing, and how he responds to the accusation that it’s a smoking gun:

My email to Jesse Griffin was an effort to secure Alaskan help in obtaining further corroboration of allegations about Sarah Palin that came to my attention during my research. My reporting continued beyond the date of the email, and only information that checked out to my satisfaction and that of my publisher was included in the book. Ultimately, I published only those allegations which I found to be credible. Other allegations that could not be sufficiently verified, including some of those referenced in my email, are not in my book.

While everyone in the media has already derided the book as gossip and even Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann are defending Palin over it, an apparent overreach like Breitbart’s serves only to distract from legitimate criticisms of The Rogue, and its author.

Additional reporting by Tommy Christopher.

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  • Anonymous

    I’d wait a little here, Mediaite.  Usually Breitbart likes to post a small part of his ammunition, wait for the subject to fall into the trap of lying or covering up, then continue to add more, and likely stronger evidence. 

    If Breitbart says more’s coming, it always does.

    Just ask Anthony Weiner.  Actually look back to mediaite’s coverage of the Weiner story.  I suspect the posts on mediaite didn’t believe Breitbart until, of course, no denail was possible.      

  • Anonymous

    Hahahaha you needed two people to do this story. Hahaha that is too hilarious.

    Joe was exposed. That is all. Move along.

    Anyone that’s a Trig Truther, like McGinniss, is just odd.

  • Anonymous

    Also, how does it feel to cover someone that even the NY Times thinks is a goober?

  • Anonymous

    McGinniss also committed a hit and run violation.

    What a stand up fella.

  • Anonymous

    I just hope FOX is covering this drama.  They will have to protect poor little Sarah.  

  • Anonymous

    McGinnis is the dud. Look at that slovenly, sloppy, dough-faced old crud. What kind of medication is he on? His life is leaking down the leg of his shabby trousers.

  • Anonymous

    Fox consistently has negative coverage of Palin.

    Meme broken.

  • Ardiva

    “Jesse Griffin, the head of a now-defunct anti-Palin blog…”
    ‘Immoral Minority’ which is Jesse Grififin’s only blog is not “defunct and is thriving very well as we speak here.
    Looks like you got that sentence off of Breibart’s disgusting website and actually believed it.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    that blog was WTF Alaska I thought, and was defunct the last time I looked

  • Anonymous

    FOX NEWS LIES !!!
    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    FOX NEWS LIES !!!
    *drink*

  • Lizton

    Loathsome smear merchant Andrew Breitbart once again does some dumpster diving and has rewarded us with his latest excrement. LOL. How does he explain it to his children what he does with his time?  Very sad.

  • Anonymous

    What would Sir Walter Scott say about this creepy sleaze McGinniss:” He, doubly dying, shall go down to the vile dust from which he sprung, unwept, unhonored, and unsung”? Old Joe’s sick obsession with Sexy Sarah drove him over the edge & into the pit. Game, set, & match: Sarah Palin.

  • NSG

    Ardiva’s right.  “The Immoral Minority” is alive and very much kicking.

    Yet another cautionary tale not to believe much of anything spewed by Breitbart.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKBYWX6W6YWRX3V6X67A5PL7Q Olivia

    Interesting that those rumors in the”explosive email” that are supposedly so sensational take up very little space in such a large book. Even the part about Glen Rice is just a very small part of the book that attempts to show what made the phenomenon that is Sarah Palin. You all should read the book before you make such wildly goofy and ignorant statements about it.

  • insideguy

    your an idiot 

    *drink*

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    Okay, all you Palin haters, time to eat your trash.

  • Anonymous

    If by dumpster diving you mean examining the liberal media lies, then I’d say you’re right

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKBYWX6W6YWRX3V6X67A5PL7Q Olivia

    Well, none of us are going to eat her, YUCK. Too many others already did.

  • Anonymous

    You’re is spelled you’re.

  • Anonymous

    As opposed to a truther? HAHAHAHA

  • Anonymous

    Someone’s jealous of Breitbart.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry – most of us don’t read stalker’s books by creepy, old men.

    That must be your specialty.

  • Anonymous

    Totally flagged that.

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    I tossed the flag too.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKBYWX6W6YWRX3V6X67A5PL7Q Olivia

    How would you know who is a creepy old man stalker? Someone tell you whose books to read and whose to avoid? It must be awful to be so frightened of the world that you can’t make your own decisions. You belong to Sarah’s witch doctor church, don’t you?

  • Anonymous

    When someone moves in right next door to the person they’re writing a book about, that’s creepy.

    The fact that you can’t see that distinction is also creepy. Now go back to being a disgrace to women everywhere.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKBYWX6W6YWRX3V6X67A5PL7Q Olivia

    You started it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKBYWX6W6YWRX3V6X67A5PL7Q Olivia
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKBYWX6W6YWRX3V6X67A5PL7Q Olivia

    You can’t read a whole book, can you? Try it. Read Joe’s book as a challenge. Or are you afraid you might be seduced by something you can’t deal with?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QJKBYWX6W6YWRX3V6X67A5PL7Q Olivia

    He is Trignostic. Not a truther. Read the book.

  • Ho Li Crap

    Naw, we’ll just throw it into the Bering Sea off Alaska and hope it washes up in Russia.  That’s what Sarah does with her trash.

  • insideguy

    Thank you grammar goddess.

  • Michelle

    You’re such a lady.  Why do you liberals gals feel the need to be so vile?

  • Anonymous

    You are beyond gullible.

  • Anonymous

    Welcome. :)

  • Anonymous

    I don’t need to read his piece of fiction. I will read books that actually have a plot or at least talk about histories instead of some fantasy pipe dream.

  • Anonymous

    Everything except the hooker story is in the book. That means that Breitbart, in publishing this email, is amplifying a rumor that even McGinniss didn’t think was fit to print.

    …and 6 that McSlimebag did see fit to print while admitting that they’re nothing but salacious gossip, with no factual underpinning whatsoever.

    Do you have a conscience, Jon? Are you so stuck in “I hate Breitbart” mode that you’re going to take up for a despicable scumbag like McGinnis? Or are you just basking in his star scum power?

  • Anonymous

    They really become unhinged.

    I just smile. :)

  • Anonymous

    Where did you get an idiotic idea like that? Did you pull it from your well traveled rectum?

  • Anonymous

    Typical RWNJ level of discussion:  5th grade playground personal insults.  We’ve seen what some of you look like at these Teabagger rallies — you’re not exactly Charles Atlas material, any of you, and you project your own inadequacies onto those you attempt to insult.

  • Anonymous

    Todd Palin was arrested for a DUI while up in Alaska.  So there!

  • Sharpo

    except there never is

  • Sharpo

    can I shave your wife?

  • Sharpo

    this coming from you ? #areyouseriousbro?

  • Sharpo

    this coming from you ? #areyouseriousbro?

  • Sharpo

    unlike you who hides under anonyous names while you spread lies in the name of ‘free speech’ ?

    #areyouseriousbro?

  • Anonymous

    The moron that wrote that review was probably born in 1990, and never has read an iota of investigative political or criminal-trial non-fiction that occurred before she was born.

  • Sharpo

    lies.

  • Sharpo

    you are a coward

  • Anonymous

    Brietbart’s reputation is so smeared from his previous outrages claims, you can no longer believe any of what he claims.  Remember how Brieitbart promoted O’Keef’s highly edited video’s that once they were investigated his whole story fell apart.  On the other hand, McGinniss explanation makes alot lot more sense than what Brietbart claimed.  McGinniss also does not make the claim that Todd had sex with a hooker and even states that his e-mail is genuine and if he didn’t have the proof it wouldn’t be in his book, and it wasn’t.  Brietbart also seems to have a personality deficit and it has been claimed several times that he’s an alcoholic.  Knowing something about alcoholic behavior from what I’ve studied, his behavior does seem to pretty much closely matched that of  an alcoholic.  Whether he’s actually an alcoholic or not remains to be seen, but none the less his history certainly makes him questionable.  The only people who want to believe Brietbart are the Palinbots who want to desperatly believe what Breitbart wrote is true so they can say what McGinness wrote is false and a mischaracterisation of their “Gift from God”.  Most people know differently. 

  • Anonymous

    How come you never write an intelligent comment?  Are you so much in love with the “Gift from God” that you feel you have to protect her sorry ars?  That quote by the way is a quote from C4Pee in case you haven’t seen it the many times it has been posted by the Palinbots.  Also, I thought Palin promised to announce by the end of September if she was running or not.  Has she not gotten enough money from the Palinbots for her SarahPac that she has to hold on a little longer because she needs the cash?  So what happen to her promise?

  • Anonymous

    You believe everything your Goddess says don’t you.  I also would quess that you take whatever she says as truthfull without ever questioning any of it.  The reason why you can’t read the book is because your afraid to read something negative about Palin because it would turn your world upside down.  Most Palinbots are the same way and it’s not surprising that almost all of the remaining supporters are from the far right evangicals.  You and the others believe Sarah like you believe in the Bible, and you never question either one. 

  • Anonymous

    Why yes! And the top post right now is digging into the truth of the birth of Trig NotPalin!

    Immoral minority, indeed.

    You people are completely fucking demented.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe I’ll buy it when it hits the dollar store. So gimme a week or so. 

  • Anonymous

    Even his son is ashamed, and told him not to move to Wasilla. That’s how you tell.

  • Anonymous

    What story fell apart? As ACORN’s own “investigator”, former MA AG Scott Harshbarger said “They said what they said. There’s no way to make this look good.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21pubed.html

    BTW, how is ACORN doing these days?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5XJIPON3BCMTPZ5IT6UK5SWAFA josh
  • Anonymous

    Oh, and how’s Weiner doing?

  • Anonymous

    So just for the helluva it…

    You keep saying this, but I seriously doubt that your name is Sharpo.  ROFL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Huettner/1016336310 John Huettner

    Yeh.  The fact is, McGinniss is complete scum.  We’re not going to shoot him, we’re just going to let him burn.

    This jerk thinks he’s living in the days before the Internet; where even then his lies and distortions were exposed and he was forced to pay damages to a convicted murderer for his libelous garbage.

    This time, he won’t get away with it, and I hope that Palin, her entire family, and all the other losers he libeled in his crummy little book sue him and demand that he pay up.  She’s the only public figure here; while the rest of the defamation is directed at private figures.

    Time to drive a stake through this turd once and for all. 

  • Anonymous

    Seems to me the NYT thought Palin was a goober (?) in previous stories….

  • Anonymous

    Oh my, obama said he was going to fundamentally transform America but I didn’t realize that also included shortening the month of September to 22 days instead of 30.  Darn him!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    Mr Weiner discovered otherwise ;)

  • Anonymous

    Actually IM is a defunct blog—-MORALLY DEFUNCT!

  • seek456

    one small nugget you forgot to mention.  Breitbart was proven to have been telling the truth.  So, you can safely believe his claims.  

  • Anonymous

    insideguy gets the game wrong!

    *Don’t drink because that’s not how the game goes*

  • Anonymous

    What’s funny about the hit and run situation is McGinniss called the APD about 2 hours after the accident to report the OVER-DUE rental car had been stolen.  The police had impounded after witnesses contacted the police about the hit and run.

  • Anonymous

    Gee, you must be a fervent watcher of Fox to be able to definitively tell us that.

    Yet you still get it wrong.

  • seek456

    Who seriously would spend a penny in reading absolute crap that a liar, cheat, stalking low life writes?  

    An ignorant statement was you trying to justify anyone readying that crap.  

  • seek456

    Well I suppose with your logic you should read books on pornography so we could decide that yes, it really is pornography.  Goofy logic.  It must be awful to have to post dumb posts for Joe.  Doesn’t he just make your skin crawl?  He does, for most people with a brain.  

    You can see what a freaking liar he is on his “interviews”.  The man has no redeeming qualities.  Next you’ll try to convince us that he’s really a nice guy under all the slime and dirt.

  • seek456

    I’ve read most of the negative blogs about Palin.  Heard all the dirt that’s been proven false but you guys are still peddling it.  What is the matter with you?  

    We’re afraid all right.  Afraid that there is something dreadfully wrong with you and whoever has sent you here.  That is creepy. 

  • Anonymous

    I see she’s sent out another SarahPac plea for more of your hard earned dollars: shell out, or she may not run.  She’s practically blackmailing you worshipers!!  Keep digging deep in your pockets, she won’t pay a dime of that for a campaign team, she’s juking you, you’ve made her a multi-millionaire, and the only jobs this one has “created” are the two ladies she pays to raise “her” child, Trig.  Don’t read Joe’s book, your buyer’s remorse might be too much to handle.

  • Anonymous

    MediaiteMatters running to McGinniss’ aid and attacking a conservative website…SHOCKER!

  • seek456

    I’m afraid I’d vomit.  Why are you trying the kids trick to get people to read a trash rag?  Go to the library and take out a book of fiction – about as factual as McGuinness.  
    Your brilliant comments:

    - you’re afraid
    - you have to read it to rebut it (bull crap)
    - you’re too dumb to read
    - you belong to Sarah’s witch coven

    Now – see how silly you sound?

  • seek456

    what did Andrew do?

    You did read the story about McGuinness ruining someone else’s Palin book by leaking the entire manuscript before it was published so that McGuinness wouldn’t be upstaged.  The guy has proof, so what say you?  

  • Anonymous

    Funny, that, how Mediaite approaches this story – as if the inveterate, stalking hater with a tell-all book filled-to-the-brim with rumor and innuendo get the benefit of the doubt and that others are looked on as having to provide credible proof to satisfy a requirement to knock down McGinniss’ allegations.

    And in the context of journalistic credibility, no less.

    The verification of information.  Not so much a tenant of journalism around here so much as it is a punchline.

  • seek456

    You lie – Griffin had another blog before and this one “thriving” is stretching the truth by???? lol

    Breitbart doesn’t lie and actually has facts to back up what he posts.  I realize you don’t need facts.  Facts are for sissies.  You want to go where no man’s gone before, into the realm of nonsense 

  • Anonymous

    That would be FANTASTIC if Palin sued!!  Many have tried to get her to, but she refuses.  See, the problem is, it’s all true.  So Palin will never, ever sue.  Much as you would like her to, it wouldn’t end well.

  • seek456

    he also spelled his name gryphon.  Wonder why he had to change that.  Perhaps “Olivia” knows.

    But, perhaps not since Olivia bought the Shelley Tripp (how cute – one of the Palin Kid’s name) nonsense that was proven to be one lie after another.  

  • seek456

    lol 

    ahhh shucks.  I can’t believe it!  Was there a public flogging?  

  • seek456

    He’s also a douche.  I don’t read books by douche’s.  It’s bad for my health.

  • Whatever

    I think you have McGinniss confused with Joe Miller.

  • seek456

    please please please can I buy his book?  Pretty please?

    What a dumb attempt to flog a rag.
    It’s probably got thorns in the paper so won’t even work as toilet paper.  

    I’ll pass thanks, although I don’t know how I can resist your “selling tactics”.  

  • seek456

    right cause she’s lost all those cases filed against her – oh wait….

  • Anonymous

    That McGinniss E-mail proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what a left wing scumbag this guy really is. 

    You demand verifiable proof of an accusation, not simply ask  “Do you believe that Todd paid her for sex? If so, why do you believe that, other than that you wish it were true?

    I also find it to be comical that not one MSM reporter is delving into the veracity of those 700 hours of taped interviews with Obama insiders and confidants that are the basis of Suskind’s book.
     
    Libs are so predictable and mental challenge and gay it’s sickening.

  • RPerry

    Breitbart is lower than pond scum.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.

    So many things wrong with Joe.

  • Anonymous

    Breitbart has multiple articles on Joe. Check ‘em out!

  • Anonymous

    You never make any sense. Seriously, stop.

  • Anonymous

    Haha good one.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not my fault if you stalk sites like C4P. That’s your problem, dude.

  • Anonymous

    Palin’s won all of her cases so far. There’s no need for her to sue Joe as of this point.

    Seriously, as someone interested in the law, you need to stop.

  • Anonymous

    I will vote for her in 2012 and haven’t given her a dime.

    Meme broken.

  • Anonymous

    One would know only while living among the bottom feeders…

  • Anonymous

    That’s the main problem with Libs; they never made it past grade school where everyone was learning that September has 30 days.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the North Pacific currents move in the opposite direction.  When Sarah tosses her garbage in the sea it goes down to California where it properly belongs.

  • Anonymous

    First of all, they are not liberals–they are leftists.  Leftists often have no class.  They don’t know the truth and many have no moral compass, so they have to use ad hominem  attacks or throw out irrelevant stuff to deflect from their inability to defend their defenseless positions.  Most have been brainwashed since childhood into believing all the propagandist lies and talking points they have been fed all their lives. They don’t know how to think independently or do research on issues with an open mind. If they could, a lot of them would know that they are supporting an ideology that is counter to what their intended goals are. This is what happens when people do not learn critical thinking and only see simplistic answers that sound good.  But just because something sounds good doesn’t mean it is good. 

    The biggest deficiency in their education, besides not being able to use reason and critical thinking, is the fact that most of them don’t know history (some have been educated in the revisionist junk that comes out of public schools, but many don’t even know that garbage) and none of them know ANYTHING about economics and finance. If they did, they wouldn’t support this administration or any of the leftist agenda (unless they were part of the elite in power who are intent on gaining control over everyone else’s lives and amassing wealth at the expense of the rest of the country *or* they are at the other end of the spectrum and are healthy, able-bodied leeches who don’t want to work and are looking for a way to live off the government.) Anybody with personal responsibility and who believes in self-determination and individual freedom would NEVER knowingly support the leftist agenda. It destroys the economy, takes away opportunity and true equality under the law and lowers the standard of living for everyone.
     

  • Anonymous

    Highy edited??? says you and no one else….

  • Anonymous

    Too bad they don’t still have dime stores…

  • Anonymous

    WRONG!   I don’t believe in the Bible other than it is a good book written by men inspired by God.  I am not religious.  I am also not a robot (unlike 99% of the lefties I have ever spoken to who have no ability to think independently or critically).  You lefties repeat the same stuff like parrots.  It is hilarious.  When was the last time you read a book besides Harry Potter or something from Sue Grafton.  If you want to expand your thinking, why not read ”Race and Economics” by Walter Williams?  If you like fiction, try Ayn Rand instead of Stephen King.  It may take you a while, but you might learn something.  If all that is too much for you, start off slow with ”A Wrinkle in Time” ( but that may still be a little too complicated at your grade level). But seriously, Palin is not what your leftist media has been portraying her to be.  She is very capable and accomplished more in her 2 years in office than most governors do in several terms.  Look at her REAL record.  It is her true record that encourages people to support her besides the fact that she is not part of the corrupt establishment and wants to restore this country as it was founded.

  • Anonymous

    Reading Joe’s book is like reading the National Enquirer in the 1970s.  Have you ever read anything REALLY challenging?  “Atlas Shrugged or “The Fountainhead” are challenging.  “Moby Dick” and “Crime and Punishment” are challenging.  How about just reading something relevant to today’s problems that might actually open your eyes, like reading “Race and Economics” by Walter E. Williams?  How about reading The Federalist papers and getting an education about our country?  Can you expand your mind beyond salacious gossip attacking people you don’t understand?  You may be surprised, if you opened your mind, that things are not necessarily what you have been told they are.  You probably don’t even know that the Republicans had consistently pushed for civil rights since the Civil War and were instrumental in finally getting the Civil Rights Act into law much more than the Democrats ever were.  There is a lot of revisionist history out there, but the true record is out there still.  You have to bypass subjective partisan commentaries to find the truth–but it is out there. 

  • Anonymous

    That is just nasty!  Get your head out of the toilet!  Why do leftists always lower themselves to the absolute gutter? 

  • Anonymous

    Next up for McGinniss…How Palin was involved in the 9/11 Conspiracy. LOL.

  • K m
  • K m

    Hard to vote for someone that isn’t going to run…

  • Paradigm Shift

    Liar and you cannot provide a link to any conviction of a hit and run violation by McGinniss because it is not true. Why are you Palin supporters always such liars?

  • Paradigm Shift

    She had to pay back money to the state of Alaska for claiming per diem in order to live in her own home while she governor. She had to pay back money to the state of Alaska for improperly charging travel expenses for her children. She was ordered to return all the money collected for her illegal “Alaska Fund Trust.” Google it. So settling ethics violations by agreeing to pay back money or being ordered to pay back money is not exactly winning all her cases. Money, money, money. She operates like a Nigerian scam. 

  • ROTFLMAO

    Caution!
    Be sure to never let Joe McGinnis be alone in any
    situation that would have him in a room with 8 year old,
    or younger, girls !

  • Anonymous

    While she did reimburse the State for her children’s travel expenses, she was not required to repay any of the per diems you claim. Also, her “illegal” legal defense fund was only “unethical” because they used the word “official” in it’s description. A new fund was established, all money from the “unethical” fund was returned to all donors, who immediately turned round and gave that money to the new fund. All other ethics complaints (17 or so) were dismissed as having no merit.

  • Anonymous

    I see two photos of a pregnant woman. Where do I collect my prize?

  • Anonymous

    Ok, wait. let me guess. You think Trigg is actually Bristol’s kid, right? Now explain how Bristol could give birth to one child, then get pregnant and give birth to another child 8 1/2 months later. A good explanation of THAT is what you should offer the ten grand for.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    You might want to read the updates on the Big Govt. story. Doesn’t sound like McGinniss referenced any new evidence/sources other than those he was aware of prior to writing the email….

    UPDATE: Yet almost all of these accusations appear in McGinniss’s book, without any substantial proof beyond gossip, and without any apparent new information to address the lack of “factual evidence” in January 2011. http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2011/09/22/caught-random-house-published-palin-smears-after-lawyers-allegedly-told-mcginniss-no-proof-existed/UPDATE: McGinniss did not, apparently, describe to Mediaite what new facts, unavailable to him on January 27, 2011, had emerged to justify the publication of allegations he described at that time as “tawdry gossip” and lacking “factual evidence.”http://bigjournalism.com/jpollak/2011/09/22/random-house-rogue-scandal-update-mcginniss-confirms-griffen-fumes-hooker-responds/

    UPDATE: First Random House promised Joe McGinniss would respect Sarah Palin’s privacy.Then Random House boasted about how McGinniss had exposed Sarah Palin’s personal and family life.
    http://bigjournalism.com/jpollak/2011/09/22/random-house-on-sarah-palins-privacy-a-tale-of-two-press-releases/#idc-container

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    You might want to read the updates on the Big Govt. story. Doesn’t sound like McGinniss referenced any new evidence/sources other than those he was aware of prior to writing the email….

    UPDATE: Yet almost all of these accusations appear in McGinniss’s book, without any substantial proof beyond gossip, and without any apparent new information to address the lack of “factual evidence” in January 2011. http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2011/09/22/caught-random-house-published-palin-smears-after-lawyers-allegedly-told-mcginniss-no-proof-existed/UPDATE: McGinniss did not, apparently, describe to Mediaite what new facts, unavailable to him on January 27, 2011, had emerged to justify the publication of allegations he described at that time as “tawdry gossip” and lacking “factual evidence.”http://bigjournalism.com/jpollak/2011/09/22/random-house-rogue-scandal-update-mcginniss-confirms-griffen-fumes-hooker-responds/

    UPDATE: First Random House promised Joe McGinniss would respect Sarah Palin’s privacy.Then Random House boasted about how McGinniss had exposed Sarah Palin’s personal and family life.
    http://bigjournalism.com/jpollak/2011/09/22/random-house-on-sarah-palins-privacy-a-tale-of-two-press-releases/#idc-container

  • Paradigm Shift

    http://www.adn.com/2009/02/17/693695/palin-owes-tax-on-per-diem-state.html

    Palin owes tax on per diem, state says

    http://www.adn.com/2009/06/23/841059/palin-reimburses-state-8100-for.html

    Palin reimburses state $8,100 for family trips

    The governor of a state uses the word “official” when soliciting money for her personal use and you don’t see a problem with that?

    And another thing, legislation gets passed while she is governor for a huge give-away to companies filming in the state of Alaska then she promptly quits as governor so she can cash in with her crappy reality show.

    How many people did she appoint that “ethics” board?

  • Sunshine1970

    WTFAlaska was defunct, but is now back, and crazier than ever.

  • Sunshine1970

    What other blog are you talking about? The only other blog that was defunct but now is back is Alaska WTF

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what your definition of “lie” is, but Breitbart isn’t all
    that interested in facts. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109190009

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/201108190020

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107140031

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107050006

    I could give more examples, but these are enough to demonstrate that if “facts are for sissies,” Breitbart is no sissy.

  • Anonymous

    No, it’s quite easy, really. Assuming you can spell.

  • Anonymous

    Uh, I’d make that “children”, period.

  • ROTFLMAO

    Correction
    Children
    Thanks.
    The old turd is a creep, is he not

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Joe McGinniss is a slug, a vile creature slithering through five inches of sediment at the bottom of my cesspool.  This is a man, a psychotic perhaps, who sourced his book from National Inquirer articles, the word of many people who for whatever reason didn’t like the Palin’s.  The tactics used by this piece of shit are unlike any I’ve seen in recent history and the mere fact that this cretin whined when the Palin’s objected to his ‘random’ and ‘coincidental’ choice of a flop pad goes beyond pathetic.  I really have to commend Todd for the restraint he has shown regarding this prick because had I been in his shoes, McGinniss would be talking through a wired jaw.

  • Anonymous

    Former Rep. Weiner, the former CEO of NPR and others would disagree… 

     

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Does anyone know how Brietbart’s new career in film editing is going since the great job he did editing the Sharrod video??

  • Ferry Fey

    Jon Bershad also refers to the male Jesse Griffin (AKA Gryphen) of The Immoral Minority as “she”, in addition to wrongly claiming that Gryphen’s blog is “defunct.” If Bershad doesn’t quite understand who the players are, or how to find their blogs, maybe he should sit this one out until he is better informed about the issues.  Gryphen’s blog is fast-moving, he often gives in to name-calling and statements he can’t corroborate. Yet from time to time he and his readers do turn up interesting information on Sarah Palin and her dysfunctional family, and their skewering of Palin’s hypocrisy, ignorance and compulsive lying can be right on target.

    Bottom line on the Trig issue is this: While she may call herself Trig’s mother, there isn’t yet an iota of verifiable proof that Sarah was actually pregnant with and gave birth on April 18, 2008 to the child known today as Trig. Sarah herself has given conflicting claims about both where the child was born and how premature he allegedly was. Photographs and descriptions of her alleged advanced pregnancy show changes in her appearance that suggest the occasional donning of a fake belly, given that her belly could simply not expand or contract as photos show. Her accounts of her reckless “Wild Ride” (the trip from Alaska to Texas to give a speech while supposedly in the beginning stages of labor) are full of contradictions, and her approach to the medical needs of a premature, special-needs baby show a staggering irresponsibility. Every detail of the Trig story keeps turning up new information that is always weird and “off,” never normal or common or appropriate.

    Why follow the Sarah Palin saga so closely? The story all along has not really been about Sarah Palin, but about the total  failure of the press and the political system to vet this bizarre, ignorant, pathological liar who was nominated to be a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.

  • Immoral

    The Immoral Minority is not defunct. It’s at http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/. A little basic factchecking, please!

  • Anonymous

    Well-said!

  • Anonymous

    True.

  • Anonymous

    Rep. Weiner disagrees.  ABC also disagrees.  

  • Anonymous

    I think $arah is the stalker…. Chasing after the spotlight…inserting herself into situations where she isn’t invited…SCREAMING for everyone to notice HER…and if that doesn’t work..she’ll just wear her push-up bra… THAT’S the ticket! But where are her kids? Did the older ones even graduate high school??? Did they even attend school? She bailed on her state…how could she guide our nation?

  • Anonymous

    The ‘gift from god’ needs a new push-up bra…

  • Rio

    Paradigm Shift,

    The three current members were appointed by Gov. Frank Murkowski.  Palin reappointed one, Debra English of Anchorage, last January.

    http://www.adn.com/2008/10/13/555288/boards-troopergate-probe-casts.html

    Why is it not surprising that the crud crew shows up again simply because Mediate posts another Palin story.  Sarah Stalkers, one and all……..McGinness pay any of you for the lies and distortions?  If he did, I suggest it be used for therapy and medication.

  • Anonymous

    We already know Media Mutters lies. Can you come up with something about Breitbart?

  • Anonymous

    Pay? No, obsessives to it for free.

  • Rio

    I think it’s just because they are delighted with their new ”upper 50″ fan club that’s hitting the send button.  Or maybe it’s the–like minds— they are wanting to attract.

  • Anonymous

    Try either offering evidence of where Media Matters has lied.  Or demonstrate how they’ve misrepresented Breitbart in instances I’ve linked to.  Otherwise you’re better off just ignoring my post.  Witty as “the Media Mutters” jab is, it’s not really helping your cause.  (Who would have thought changing just one letter could have such comedic effect.)

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure the legal folks at Random House are going through their emails to make sure marketing and legal did their homework here. national review does a nice review of Breitbart’s email find here.   http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278032/shock-some-claims-mcginnis-book-may-not-have-been-exhaustively-documented-corroborated#

    bottom line is this email is a HUGE deal at face value,to pretend otherwise is silly.   More a Random House scandal in the making, most sane people already knew ‘stalker Joe’ was just looking to make a buck and spread some lies. 

  • Anonymous

    eww.  don’t use a child’s name in a political term, that’s awful.  Just because the child has a disability, don’t discount his value as a beautiful, productive life.  I’m hopeful it’s not your intent, but seriously, ewww.

  • Anonymous

    you might as well source the alaskan prostitute, I’d trust her facts MORE than media matters.  

  • Anonymous

    TRANSLATION: I didn’t bother clicking the links. 

    Well, if I can get the hooker to post something, I’ll let you know.

  • Anonymous

    also, if that happens, get a restraining order.   There’s a short walk from stalker to crazy dangerous person.  

  • Anonymous

    he moved in next door.  what sane person would think that was ‘normal behavior’?

  • Anonymous

    he has a life, why would he wast even an hour reading garbage?

  • Anonymous

    She can sure guide black bones into her mouth.

  • Ferry Fey

    Neither Trig’s birth date nor Tripp’s have ever been verified. Trig’s birth was announced to be April 18 but never confirmed, and some photos of him allegedly taken at the time do not appear to show a premature newborn. Tripp’s birth was proclaimed by someone said to be a great-aunt, who doesn’t live in Alaska, Court papers? Bristol’s been caught lying in the past, and Levi’s not shown himself to be trustworthy. I wouldn’t assume anything without knowing that the court had a certified birth certificate in hand.

    If Bristol had given birth earlier than April, she’d still have time to have another baby by the end of the year.

  • Anonymous

    You have just expressed your ignorance by not expressing any intelligent reason why McGinniss is wrong about Sarah Palin.  Remember, much of what he wrote has been written before.  Your obviously a Palinbot.  What srtikes me about Palinbots after reading their comments on C4P, is how irrational and emotional their comments are and how they lack any creditable facts..  Their view of Sarah is from a religious view point and they believe everything “Their gift from God” tells them without question, the same way in how they view the Bible.  The only response from the Palinbot express, like your own comment, is childish name calling and unfounded accusations.  So do us all a favor and write your comments on a higher level than a child and include facts in your comments.  As it is, your only making groundless opinions and you know what opinions are worth, they’re like ars holes, everyone has one. 

  • Anonymous

    Cute, but childish comment.  If you don’t have anything better to say, say nothing at all so your not taken for a fool.

  • Anonymous

    Are you trying to tell me you actually believe what O’keef actually said after so many people pointed him out as fraud?  Your obviously behind the curve, in more ways than one.  Another childish comment with no substance from the far right?

  • Anonymous

    The false accusations made by O’keef, later proven to be false, and his highly edited video.  Do you still believe he dressed up as a pimp, if so he’s pimp you to.   

  • Anonymous

    Uh, Mediate does know that both Joe McPenis and the recipient of the email have fessed up that the email is authentic?  And there is much more to come, AB teases with the lure, then when the fools take the bait, he sets the hook and reels them in, stay tuned.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    M_Baker – are you an idiot or do you just play one on TV?  You assume much when I make comments about that slime ball, Joe McGinniss.  You must believe that I am a Palin supporter which of course would be the natural belief of someone suffering from Palin Derangement Syndrome.  Would it surprise you to learn that I hope to hell Palin stays out of this presidential race and politics in general?  My focus here is purely on the piece of shit who wrote this book, backed by no citation or reference other than the innuendos, smears, and outright lies from unattributed sources.  Not exactly what ‘facts’ I’m to bring to the table – the book pretty much speaks for itself and has been roundly criticized in not just literary but polical circles. 

    If you didn’t like the way I spoke of your father…….oh well!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    The ImmoralMinority site is NOT “defunct.” I have no idea who that particular rumor (heh) got started or why the media can’t type in the damn URL and confirm/deny it…

    http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/

    There’s a new post today. 
    Professsor Scharlott introduces the Palin Birth Truthometer!

    So much for being “now defunct.”

  • Anonymous

    If that’s the case, please provide your evidence that what he’s saying about McGinness is truthfull.  I don’t want opinions, just the proof.  McGinniss explaination makes far more sense than Breitbart’s.

  • Anonymous

    Seek456, it’s kind of hard to reply to you when you turn off your notification.  In replying to your last comment to me, prove to me what McGinniss has written is false.  You have absolutely no evidence that that anything he wrote is false.  And don’t try to use the same false reasoning C4Pee uses.  t’s amazing watching them desparately trying to keep the faith up for Palin’s cult, or of their feeble attempts to try to discredit those who speak badly of Palin.  It obvious they’re struggling in their efforts to keep their faith up.  

    I also have the feeling what I’ll get in a reply from you, if anything, will not have any substance and only be your a feeble attempt to protect Palin.  And is this site another C4P in your mind where they can’t face anything that revolves around reality?  I’ll be waiting for your proof.

  • Anonymous

    lane 1, you make it difficult for me to reply when you turn your notifcation off.  In addressing your comments, there was nothing illegal with McGinniss moving next door, especially when he got a great deal from the property owner who offered him a great deal.  Beside, from what I read the owner was mad at the Palins for not repairing damage they caused and promised her they would make the repairs, but never did.  Where do you come up with the idea of restraining order.  That doesn’t make any sense since McGinniss didn’t do anything illegal.  And apparently you are a Palinbot thinking McGinness was acting like a stalker.  If he was, why didn’t the Palins report it.  Palin, though, went into her normal tantrum and promptly sent out a false fabrication of the truth to all of her followers.  She didn’t end it there, however, she continued to make herself look like a fool by sending out more messages to her followers, and by pointing to the house and making some a childish remark during her reality show.  She ended up giving McGinniss great advertising for his book while at the same time showing how unfit she is for the Presidency. 

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    What I can’t understand is how/why Geoffrey Dunn’s book, “The Lies of Sarah Palin” has received almost zero publicity.  He gives people, places, and names and exposes Queen Sarah for the vengeful lying sociopathic, money-hungry bitch that she is.  

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    What I can’t understand is how/why Geoffrey Dunn’s book, “The Lies of Sarah Palin” has received almost zero publicity.  He gives people, places, and names and exposes Queen Sarah for the vengeful lying sociopathic, money-hungry bitch that she is.  

  • Anonymous

    That would be because Dunn’s book is almost 100% complete unadulterated bullshit.

  • Anonymous

    What color is the sky on your planet?

    The birth dates of both Trigg and Tripp have been very well documented. Unbiased news reports, photos with embedded dates, etc. were all posted on the web long before leftists started to smear Gov. Palin with all of this “Trigg Birther” crap.

  • Anonymous

    “Paradigm Shift” at first claimed that Palin “paid back” her per diems, but now claims she just paid back taxes. Which is it?

    If Gov. Palin is such a greedy wh*** then explain why she sold the Alaska Governor’s private jet, fired teh Governor’s personal chef so she could cook her own family meals, and refused a $25,000 per year pay increase?

  • john.kliber

    Seems as if ol’ Joe should change the name of his book to “Things I Wish Were True About the Palin Family (Who I Don’t Like)”

  • Anonymous

    Demented is a good word for it.  

  • Anonymous

    i can read the paper but i don’t read the national enquirer. Get it?

  • Anonymous

    you’re missing everyone’s point.  it’s not about palin, it’s about the weirdo McGinnis.  most of us would find it stalker behavior if it’s anti palin or a book about the Obamas or Hillary Clinton.   You don’t live next to people you’re writing about and people unless you have a screw loose.  No one should have explain this.  

  • Anonymous

    so smeared that ABC News worked with his last source to do a story about rep.  Weiner.

    No, nice try.  Media Matters?   Too much effort involved here to be a typical poster … 

    Breitbart is now the go to source for people with a story about liberals and democrats.  Get over it… 

  • Tan

    No, Alaska WTF is Denis zaki’s blog not jesses, although they’re friends. It is no longer defunct anyway and has been posting again.

  • Tan

    No, Alaska WTF is Denis zaki’s blog not jesses, although they’re friends. It is no longer defunct anyway and has been posting again.

  • Anonymous

    You wish!  Have you read, really read any of the books?  I’m betting – no.   Both Geoff Dunn’s book & Joe’s are well researched & documented.  Palin’s former Chief of Staff -Frank Bailey’s book Blind Allegiance also confirms many of the facts contained in Geoff & Joe’s books. 

    There’s more to come so put on your tin foil hat & get ready for the ride.  She’s done, suck it up. 

  • Anonymous

    Shows how much you know,  Random House is NOT Joe’s publisher.  The National Review is a twisted RW propaganda blog and a Palin apologist.   Keep drinking the kool aid.

  • Anonymous

    The author needs to do some research Jesse Griffin’s blog Immoral Minority (theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/)  is not defunct, it is alive and kicking ass. Much of what McGinniss writes about he has already posted on his blog long ago. I live in Alaska and I know what can happen when you speak up and tell the truth, it is dangerous here. Palin has many people in place yet still protecting her. There is no way many will allow their names to be used, but the stories are all true. The Rice story was the only one I had not heard about. If the story is true there will be no legal challenge and that is the criteria for getting it past the publisher. 

  • Anonymous

    Laughing so hard my sides hurt.   You guys are really funny.

  • Anonymous

    Sure you’re not a Palin supporter.  You’re also a liberal Democrat who’s seen the error of his ways & realized the RW Rethugs are the ones who have it right.   Since you haven’t read the book & don’t realize just how well authenticated it is, all I have to say is – A swing & a miss.  Nice try though.

  • Anonymous

    UPDATE:  Random House is not Joe’s publisher. 

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t it funny that anyone who criticizes Sarah is immediately accused of being a pedophile?   One of her favorite terms with no basis in fact.  Grow up.

  • Anonymous

    Have you heard of Libraries?  You can read for free.  Oh wait …. you don’t have to read to slavishly follow your queen.  If all the things coming out about Sarah aren’t true, she’ll just sue to set the record straight won’t she?   Other “celebrities” have successfully sued and won their cases against the National Enquirer, so surely THIS time she’ll sue & collect big time won’t she?    I say THIS time because the NE published the story of her affair with Todd’s business partner Brad Hanson, three years ago & not a peep from the Palin’s.  This time they can really rake in the dough, which we all know she loves.  Don’t hold your breath.

    Professor Brad Sharlot is offering $20,000 & counting (pledges still coming in) for proof positive that she is the biological mother of Trigg.  All she has to do is send him a copy of Trigg’s birth certificate to collect & silence her critics forever.   Guess what – crickets…..

    Someone else is offering a million dollars for Sarah & Todd to take polygraphs which conclusively prove they have never had affairs or frequented hookers.   Easy money.   Will they accept?  Don’t bet your life on it.

    Get a new idol, she’s not who you want her to be.

  • Anonymous

    Where is your proof?   None?   It never happened, just more garbage.  You guys and gals always scream about verification from us but never provide any yourselves.  When we provide proof, you ignore it. Facts? Don’t bother us with facts. You just like to spout lies & then either ignore requests for proof (none existing) or go off on another tangent to try to change the subject.

  • Anonymous

    Trignostic is a “political term?”  Seriously.   For your information, she’s using Trignostic (agnostic) as a term that means Joe sees serious questions about the truth of Trig’s birth, but isn’t entirely convinced it’s a hoax.   There’s not one of us who aren’t seriously concerned about Trig and his welfare.  Sarah’s neglect of his welfare has been one of our main concerns & criticisms.  We feel tremendous sympathy for all the Palin children.  It hasn’t been easy for them growing up in that dysfunctional household.

  • Anonymous

    Did you read Sarah’s & Bristol’s?

  • Anonymous

    Do you have “proof” before spreading stories?

  • http://threebrain.blogspot.com Ennealogic

    Sorry, neither birth date has been verified beyond being told/announced by members of the Palin family.  try again.

  • Anonymous

    Jon-are you high?  Had Breitbart left out the complete contents of the email, the left would have gone nuts on it as an “edited” version and tried to discredit it that way.  Since he printed the thing in toto, no such charges can be made and it does exactly what it purports to do–expose McGinnis’ book as a fraud by someone who’s far more interested in sliming Palin than looking for facts. You’re smoking something

  • Alexanderthegreat_2

    If you read the book (which i’ve almost completed) the author interviews a plethora of people who have worked with the Palin’s and are close friends…if a handful of stories appear to be inconsistent i would say i’m not surprised….however, when the rest of the stories are solid and just as damning, i’d say the book has done it’s job and is legitimate…

    The most important thing part of the book isnt the use of cocaine or their sexual escapades or illegitimate children etc….it’s Palin’s political meandering and her “dominionism” she wished to bring to the White House.  She threw her friends and political allies under the bus for some questionable ideologies which she wished to bring to the WHITE HOUSE…this is the essence of what the book attempted to elude and illustrate…

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Alaskan Ice On Rice

    Sarah, the info babe, didn’t think twice
    When she got her first chance to entice
    A black basketball star
    ‘Cause she loved that coal tar
    So she hit it like she was “White On Rice”!
    ___________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

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