Palin Complains About Invasion Of Privacy In Sarah Palin’s Alaska‘s First Ep [Updated]

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by Hillary Busis | 12:56 pm, November 5th, 2010

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Everyone’s soon-to-be favorite reality show, Sarah Palin‘s Alaska, premieres on November 14. ~~For a time yesterday, though, the first episode of the show was already up on TLC’s website—long enough for Sam Stein at the Huffington Post to take a look at it.~~ Sam Stein at the Huffington Post, though, couldn’t wait that long. He’s already watched the first episode—and pointed out one moment of particularly delicious irony contained in it: Palin complaining about “an invasion of our privacy” to the cameras recording her every move for a TV series.

In the clip, Palin is discussing Joe McGinniss, the reporter who made headlines when he rented the house right next door to the Palins this spring. McGinniss, who is writing a book about Palin, dismissed Palin’s angry rebuke of him as “hysterical” in May. Here’s what she has to say about him on the show:

“Our behavior has certainly changed this summer because of this new neighbor,” she says at the show’s onset. “I think it is an intrusion, an invasion of our privacy and I don’t like it.” Palin later adds, “It’s just none of his flippin’ business.”

Todd Palin, too, slams McGinniss: “[There's] a new neighbor next door who is writing a hit piece on my wife. I mean, life is about being productive, but these people want to seek and destroy.”

Sure, McGinniss’s actions were unnecessary at best and incredibly creepy at worst. Either way, Palin’s comments make us want to suggest to her that if she really cares about her family’s privacy, maybe she shouldn’t have signed up to have them recorded for a reality show. ~~We have reached out to TLC to see why the clip was removed — but Stein’s negative post could have had something to do with the decision.~~

Update: According to a representative from TLC, the episode was never on their website in the first place, despite Stein’s claim. “The episode was sent to reporters in an E kit for review purposes only,” she wrote us in an email. “Unfortunately Huffington Post chose to post it, so we had to disable the link.”

Joe McGinniss, Reality Show, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin's Alaska, TLC

Big Eddie

Sarah’s right . How would you fill ? … Actually , her accent is great . …The fence is terrific . Imagine Obama and his buddies , Ayers , Farrakhan , Joy Behar and Barney Frank building a fence . Hard to picture that , ain’t it ?
paulmdoro

The best thing to do when you feel like your privacy is being invaded? Get your own reality TV show.
lazzzlo

paulmdoro said:
The best thing to do when you feel like your privacy is being invaded? Get your own reality TV show.

Exactly…control the message.
tws258

Hillary Busis said:
Either way, Palin’s comments make US want to suggest to her that if she really cares about her family’s privacy, maybe she shouldn’t have signed up to have them recorded for a reality show.

Creepy stalker moving next door looking to write 2nd hit piece , versus contractual business arrangement with clauses to protect privacy.

*sigh*
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

Clearly, logic is not Palin’s forte: bitching about a loss of privacy on a recording of a reality show. Mind boggling.

Of course, her apologists can see this, right Big Eddie? The irony flies by because of his selective perception. He just didn’t catch the obvious contradiction. Of course, if his strung together thoughts made a modicum of sense, his “ideas” might be worth debunking. Joy Bahar is building a fence? Big Eddie; what planet did you wake up on today?

The mind will do amazing things to help ideologues avoid understanding of facts that don’t comport with their beliefs.

http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/07/why-becks-followers-cannot-understand.html
paulmdoro

lazzzlo said:
Exactly…control the message.

And have it both ways at the same time.
cjd ohio 1

come on guys, she was stupid for saying that filming a reality show i give libs credit on this one
felixw

The left keeps on saying that you can’t take Palin seriously. Yet every day for more than two years they have been obsessing about her every move. Everything she does, no matter how small, fuels their obsession more and more.

There is something ridiculous about this. But not about Palin…rather about the people who are fixated on the lady. Hacking her email account, spying on her home, parsing her tweets, focusing telephoto lenses on the palm of her hand, dragging Levi Johnston on to a TV set for another mindless interview…C’mon progressives, get a life. You’re the ones looking foolish here.

Or here’s another idea. If you disagree with Palin, respond to her advocacy of a smaller, more responsible government. Oh, I forget, you RUN AWAY from those issues. So I guess you will need to stick with Levi Johnston for another two years. Have a big time!
paulmdoro

As long as she sells papers and magazines and generates hits and viewers, she will stay in the spotlight. It’s not like she is shying away from it either. The same media she hates and bashes made her rich and famous.
chatmandu002

Gee, only 5 of the top stories on Mediate have something, mostly bad, about Sarah Palin. Mediate must be slipping.
cjd ohio 1

i give you that one to paul
chatmandu002

Oops, 6 stories about Sarah, mostly bad, from Mediate.
AntiHyperbole

Apparently Hillary B. doesn’t know the difference between INVASION & INVITATION. There is a subtle difference between the two. Look them both up if you don’t believe me.
tws258

AntiHyperbole said:
Apparently Hillary B. doesn’t know the difference between INVASION & INVITATION

Word
Nachi

Palin has no “Privacy.” She is a foul, mutated specimen – and needs to be put on public display – to be viewed by similar life-forms.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

felixw says:” If you disagree with Palin, respond to her advocacy of a smaller, more responsible government.”

Smaller is less responsible.

The American people want effective gov’t, not small gov’t. That’s a reactionary, Glenn Beck, tea party, 19th Century notion.

We don’t need the amount of gov’t action that Obama has used since coming to office normally because normally the economy is not circling the drain. In other words, I’m not arguing for $787 billion stimulus packages every year. That’s too much gov’t. However, without that stimulus, the unemployment rate would be well over 10%.

Palin needs to get off her computer and hit the books because Rove is right about her. (Felix, Rove is not on the left.) Palin lacks the gravatas to be President. A year of intense study might make her sound a bit more qualified.
felixw

GlennBeckReview said:
felixw says:” If you disagree with Palin, respond to her advocacy of a smaller, more responsible government.”

Smaller is less responsible.

The American people want effective gov’t, not small gov’t. That’s a reactionary, Glenn Beck, tea party, 19th Century notion.

We don’t need the amount of gov’t action that Obama has used since coming to office normally because normally the economy is not circling the drain. In other words, I’m not arguing for $787 billion stimulus packages every year. That’s too much gov’t. However, without that stimulus, the unemployment rate would be well over 10%.

Palin needs to get off her computer and hit the books because Rove is right about her. (Felix, Rove is not on the left.) Palin lacks the gravatas to be President. A year of intense study might make her sound a bit more qualified.

I give you credit for standing up for Obama’s expansion of the federal government. Most people on the Left dodge that issue. And I also agree that Palin is not a strong candidate for President. But I think her message of smaller, more responsible government is the right one. In truth, there is no other option. Currently the Federal government is borrowing another $100 billion per month (mostly from the Chinese) to prop up its programs. That won’t last. Within a matter of a few years, the US government will be like Greece, and no one will lend us any more money. At that point, the federal government will need to shrink no matter who is in charge. We might as well start the process now and try to make prudent cuts so we can at least salvage Social Security, Medicare, etc. in some form.
paulmdoro

It is oh so easy to claim that you stand for a smaller, more responsible government. Didn’t Reagan say that too?
shootfromthehip

Yet another fail by Sarah.
Thelonious Funk

She’s so smart
murphy0071

Thelonious Funk said:
She’s so smart

And so are her moose friends.
hgovernick

Big Eddie said:
Palin complaining about “an invasion of our privacy” to the cameras recording her every move for a TV series.

In other words, Sarah Mascara’s “reality show” is really nothing more than another platform for her to pitch herself for President in 2012. Hypocrite… snake.
hgovernick

CORRECTION: Big Eddie did not say this: It was from the article itself. Apologies, Big Eddie.

“Palin complaining about ‘an invasion of our privacy’ to the cameras recording her every move for a TV series.”
The Real Royal King

Let’s see, she jumps in front of any camera coming within 100 miles of her, she tweets constantly, she trots her children out to prance around stages, and she is worried about privacy?
sickoftheNoise

When is this woman going away?!?!? So sick of her, I SCREAM every f*cking day!
philipjames

The entire first episode was on a special site for the press to preview prior to the show running. We got a link somehow at conservatives4palin.com for about 30 minutes and I was fast enough to watch it before the show canceled the link because I think it was being passed around and it kind of defeats the purpose if hundreds of thousands of people would be able to watch it before the first episode aired on network tv…. kind of takes away the mystery factor. Anyway, let me tell you….. the first episode is great fun to watch and I am really looking forward to the entire documentary series.
As for that dolt next door, I personally would have gotten a couple of skunks and let them loose in his basement and smoked the guy out that way…. what a jerk…
out of the millions of acres he could have sat down and written his hate piece on Sarah Palin, I think it was a shot at her to be next door so all power to her to take shots at him every time she has a chance. After all, he was the one who moved, not her.
As for the series, you know that unfavorable number she has with women and independents…. well, I venture to say that in January when the series is over that number will be a lot more favorable… so too bad, tough luck to the lousy liberals… she is building the base. Whether she runs or not, she is going to be a thorn in the liberal socialist side for a long time. And I say …. Yahoo.
The_Reasonable_Lib

paulmdoro said:
The best thing to do when you feel like your privacy is being invaded? Get your own reality TV show.

Yet they still wonder why we view this woman as an idiot.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Caplinger/1530802200 Mark Caplinger

Gee,I wonder why Sarah doesn’t want to go on the other media outlets? Maybe it’s because they are all LIBERAL,and they all constantly ridicule and insult her. Is there anyone posting on this site that would purposely visit someone’s house when they knew the people living there would insult and ridicule them?
Hugo Daun

paulmdoro said:
It is oh so easy to claim that you stand for a smaller, more responsible government. Didn’t Reagan say that too?

It’s what they ALL say…and the same people fall for it, every time.
The Lantern of Truth

Nachi said:
Palin has no “Privacy.” She is a foul, mutated specimen – and needs to be put on public display – to be viewed by similar life-forms.

im ted . you look like a munkey !
esd2000

Sarah said something that didn’t make sense? Really? What a surprise.
george L

Aside from the reality show thing, I can see why SP would be uncomfortable about being watched day and night by anyone. At least she knows the guy isn’t a sexual predator. That is why I think it was senseless for her to mention her kids as though she thought that was the “neighbor’s” intention. It is a hint of him being evil, and that is inappropriate.

On the other hand, I have no sympathy for her “privacy” in this case, and I’m still not talking about the “Reality Show.” How do rich folks and politicians protect their privacy? They buy up a big enough plot of land to keep neighbors far away. Building a bigger fence is also common, so no credit for brains on that one.

I am reminded of a time long ago when I was shown a house for sale. Immediately behind the house was a large Forrest. That would seem like it offered a screen from neighbors, etc for a lifetime, but two years later, that same house was in the middle of a much larger development. That’s life. Get used to it SP.
Darklady

I just want to make sure I fully understand Sarah Logik…

Award winning writer with a lot of Alaskan history unexpectedly is offered to rent the house next to the Palins.

Not being an idiot, he takes it.

He does NOTHING at all creepy.

Palins slap up a 14 foot fence (which is used in the “non-political” trailer as an example of how to handle our borders)

Sarah Palin suggests Todd drill a hole in the fence… so SHE can peep at the guy renting the house next door.

And it’s the writer sitting on the porch reading a book who’s “creepy” and somehow a risk to Palin’s kids?

The kids who drink, slash tires, trash houses while the owners are on vacation, don’t attend school regularly, and appear to either be left entirely alone or packed around the country like a 3-D backdrop?
naughtymonkey

Read “Uh oh! Mama Grizzly may have just invaded the privacy of the WRONG neighbor.” http://bit.ly/9izHIl Looks like some legal action may be taken if there is not a cease and desist of use of images of Joe McGuinness on the first episode of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.” Palin needs to sit down and shut up.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

felixw says:
“And I also agree that Palin is not a strong candidate for President. But I think her message of smaller, more responsible government is the right one. In truth, there is no other option. Currently the Federal government is borrowing another $100 billion per month (mostly from the Chinese) to prop up its programs. That won’t last. Within a matter of a few years, the US government will be like Greece, and no one will lend us any more money.”

First of all, she’s calling for less gov’t, not more responsible gov’t. Who doesn’t want more responsible gov’t? Yes, there IS an option to smaller gov’t: Reverse the Bush tax cuts, and increase the marginal tax rates up to what they were when the middle class in the U.S. was growing. Back during the 50′s and 60′s, the marginal tax rate was 90% and Kennedy dropped it down to 70%. Ever since Reagan’s tax cut, the middle class has stopped growing; but the rich have gotten much richer. Combine those tax increases with a new, focused military effort designed to fight terrorism and not WWIII, and the fed. budget would be in the black within a few years. For the graph, see:

http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/10/vote-you-cast-may-bite-you-in-ass.html

Marginal tax rates are not middle class tax rates. The middle class tax rates need to stay where they are for now. Once the economy takes off again, then the Bush tax cuts for the middle class can also be reversed. Remember, Clinton left the gov’t with budgets in the black AND Bush’s first Treasury Sec. QUIT when he saw what Bush’s tax cuts would do to the budget.

BTW, Rand Paul’s idea of a “balanced budget” would NEVER pay off the debt. We need an imbalanced budget that’s in the black for decades.
Harry S

This woman (Sarah) lives RENT FREE in their (Libs/Proggies) heads.
Biscuit

Remember, world, THIS is the best conservatives can come up with.
Biscuit

“As for the series, you know that unfavorable number she has with women and independents…. well, I venture to say that in January when the series is over that number will be a lot more favorable… so too bad, tough luck to the lousy liberals… she is building the base. Whether she runs or not, she is going to be a thorn in the liberal socialist side for a long time. And I say …. Yahoo.”

What’s a liberal socialist, PhilipJames? Much like a Dittohead/Nazi? Fascist/Conservative? Right-wing moron?
tstev

felixw, the “right” has funded a billion dollar career for this women that the left believes to be an opportunist who has ended up with this career in politic through sheer luck. The “right” has provided the financial rewards for her musings because they know that she irritates the “left” and that they respond to her senseless rants. I personally have given up following her rants because they are repetitive and cliche.

GlennBeckReview, to say that promotes small government and tax cuts is rather irritating too because she has not only not invented that wheel of cliche rants but also she has participated in over spending as a mayor and as a governor. Small government for USA means small military and the right tries to side step the real meaning of small government and she participates in that charade.

She is not presidential material but yet the “right” claims that she is and so do those that participate in her charade. I think that she will run for presidency although it can be observed that she she lacks competency for that role.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

philipjames says:
“Whether she runs or not, she is going to be a thorn in the liberal socialist side for a long time.”

Newsflash for you there Philip: if she runs, she’s going to be a thorn in the conservative side if she wins the nomination, and if the base building does what you think it will, she could win it. As conservatives within the Republican Party are saying, this would be a BOON for the President in 2012 because THEY, the conservative Party establishment, know full well that she can’t win the general election.

The only people that she’s not a thorn in the side of is the reactionary, tea party segment of the population.
http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/06/what-is-glenn-beck-politically.html
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

tstev says:
“GlennBeckReview, to say that promotes small government and tax cuts is rather irritating too because she has not only not invented that wheel of cliche rants but also she has participated in over spending as a mayor and as a governor.”

So she’s a hypocrite. I won’t argue with that.