She is a creep.

Like I said elsewhere, if this was a conservative writer/journalist moving next to Obama, and a host on MSNBC tried to organize a boycott of the writer/journalist’s publisher, conservatives would have a very different reaction than the one they’re having over Palin/McGinniss. It is selective outrage. Palin is an expert when it comes to using the “lamestream liberal media” as a scapegoat for everything.

I’d be pretty suspect if some goon “journalist” that was out to get me move next door to my house. However, he is “renting” private property, so the actual owner has the right to rent to who ever he damn well feels like.

That said, I wonder if the goon is going to write about how some leftist hack burned her church down during the campaign.

What really irks me about this, though, is that the same people who are all over Barack Obama’s case for ducking reporters are also the same ones who worship the ground that reporter-hating Palin walks on.

How much does Obama pay you to carry his jock strap? If you don’t see the difference in the president of the united states avoiding questions and a private citizen not wanting someone writing a hit piece on her looking over her shoulder 24/7, your nose is too far up Obama’s wazzu for you to see straight anymore.

I’m sure it will be the kind of book where the title tells you everything you need to know, including whether or not you will like it.

Good point Michelle. Barrak McBu$h is the President of the USA, he is not just a public figure, but the public figure. The US taxpayer pays for his wife’s $500 shoes, and his cigarettes. Palin, although I don’t care for her, is a private citizen since she left the Governors office. People have the right to scrutinize her, if that’s what they want to do. But it is completely different.

the analysis is a bit disingenuous. It’s one thing for a politician to grant access, and its another to have one live next door…

Ms. Palin has every right to dislike, and to voice her dislike of, the current housing arrangement. She does not have to suffer in silence.

Mr. Beck has every right to boycott the sponsor of this, just as others have boycotted his sponsors.

Freedom of press, freedom of speech are both rights. These freedoms do not guarantee freedom of consequences such as boycotts or loss of popularity, only insulation from criminal penalties. Random House, and Mr. McGinnis, are fair economic and scorn (not physical or legal) targets for feeling this invasion of Ms. Palin’s family’s privacy is appropriate.

Michelle hit the nail on the head.

No doubt Obama should be speaking to reporters much more often. It’s disappointing.

I can’t believe what I’m reading here. Tommy’s defense of the stalker (not Palin) is laughable. Sarah has been vilified, lied about, slandered, trashed, etc., by the liberal media and you still defend them and then criticize her when she dishes it back. This guy Joe is a stalker, and good for Sarah for calling him out on it. I laugh how you defend the indefensible and then criticize Palin for “implying” something and yet defend your buds for “implying” anything and everything about the Governor.

Tommy is just another Obama lapdog…and by the way…is is the “Palin-hating reporter” not the reporter-hating Palin.

Comparing the President of the United States ducking reporters to a former Alaska Governor complaining about one reporter is so absurd that one doesn’t know where to begin. I mean, that doesn’t pass any giggle test, no matter how low.

Yes, Palin is showing – once again – that she has a thin skin and for her to single out McGinnis is cheap and unwarranted.

But good lord, the President of the US avoiding the press versus Sarah Palin and media scrutiny? Let’s all have a good laugh at that one.

I don’t believe Tommy is very intelligent when it actually comes to the differences and expectation of privacy and accessibility with regards to a private citizen and the leader of the “free” world. My 3 year old daughter has a better grasp on the issue. Or maybe it’s just his blind hatred for a female conservative.

OK, so, Jerome Corsi or a similar writer who is extremely critical of Obama moves next door to him in Chicago in order to research/write a book (after he’s out of office, so he’s a private citizen). A host on MSNBC is outraged and demands a boycott of Corsi’s publisher. Would those of you defending Palin and bashing McGinniss have the same reaction?

Yes I would, paul. Please feel free to bring it back up if that happens.

You are a joke.

So this has nothing to do with politics or Sarah Palin? It’s the fact that a private citizen is having their privacy invaded by a partisan writer?

“She does not have to suffer in silence.”

Hilarious that Palin is “suffering” by having a neighbor. By that definition, 300 million other Americans are “suffering in silence” as well. Hey, my neighbor just looked out his window, I’M SUFFERING! POOR ME!!!

Poor little Sarah doesn’t realize she lives in America, where anyone can rent that house, and interview her neighbors or other citizens of Wasilla. And there’s not a goddamn thing she can do about it but cry about what a suffering victim she is.

This is Palin’s entire public relations strategy in a nutshell: Convince the rubes that she’s suffering at the hands of the liberal media, and then sell books to those same rubes in which she describes what a victim she is.

Great strategy for separating fools from their money, but a really fantastically poor strategy for ever getting elected president. See, Americans don’t like their leaders to be professional victims who cry 24/7 about how unfair life is and how everyone is out to get them. Palin got to where she is by playing victim, but it can’t get her any further. Fortunately for America, she’s too stupid to figure that out.

Along the lines of my comment to the previous thread… I assume Beck’s suggested boycott is just some hyperbole that came off the top of his head because not only would it mean that he’d have to “boycott” O’Reilly’s book, but he’d most likely have to setp down from the “Bold/Fresh Tour” and I know that if I were the President of Fox News (Roger Ailes), I certainly wouldn’t want one of my employees leading a boycott against my publisher.

Palin is a joke, doesn’t she ever get tired of whining and playing the victim? All she does is throw out her hateful rhetoric, and when she doesn’t like how something is going, she plays victim. Why did John McCain ever introduce this grifter into our politics. I’m a woman & and an independent and she embarrasses our sisterhood. I see now she has her daughter on Harper’s Bazaar dressed in $30,000 worth of accessories, apple doesn’t fall from the treee does it. Are our young girls supposed to take from that ” it pays to get pregnant, it can be a great life.”?

Tommy,

You’re claiming Chip Reid worships the ground Palin walks on? (Your reference link to Reid story where Reid claims his frustration toward Pres Obama for ‘ducking reporters’ questions.) Not sure Reid would agree with you lumping him into that generalization. Uh, generalization being the key ord there.

No Nails here, just wishful thinking…

I’m a woman & and an independent and she embarrasses our sisterhood.

I’m a woman and I think she’s GREAT for the sisterhood! The problem is you feminazi’s hate any woman who doesn’t tow the liberal woman’s line and it drives you CRAZY!!

I see now she has her daughter on Harper’s Bazaar dressed in $30,000 worth of accessories, apple doesn’t fall from the treee does it.

You just sound bitter.

So if a female does not like Palin she is a “feminazi?”

No, but liberal woman do seem to have a problem with conservative woman, in my experience. If you need help researching that one, let me know, it’s pretty easy if you pay attention to the news.

I need no help, thank you. It just seemed that calling her a feminazi was harsh.

MichelleF,

Good point. While I don’t care for Palin, it seems that if a woman or minority disagrees with the DNC or other liberal views, that they are severely attacked. Independent thought, as individuals and not as a member of a collective hyphenated identity, is extremely looked down upon on the left.

A conservative just called someone else a name for criticizing Palin, so looking down on independent thought apparently has no political affiliation.

Remember folks… A reporter moving in next to Palin is a-okay. However, a reporter walking along the street trying to ask a question of a public figure is wrong, dangerous, and threatening. So in short… this guy is good (because it’s Palin), but Jesse Watters and Bill O’Reilly are wrong.

It’s not hypocrisy! It’s just the acceptable double standard of the left!

paulmdoro says:
May 26, 2010 at 3:09 pm
A conservative just called someone else a name for criticizing Palin, so looking down on independent thought apparently has no political affiliation.

Blah, Blah, Blah

SARAH PALIN GAVE OUT HE ADDRESS OF A PRIVATE CITIZEN ON THE INTERNET AND YOU TEABAGGERS DONT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!!??!?!?!?!?!?!

Didn’t you idiots just spend two days here complaining that blogger “Glen Bovine” did the same thing? THE HUMANITY!!!

Now there are two things Sarah can see from her house…

Joe and Russia.

BFD,
I didn’t agree with that, if it actually happen. You better go back through the forum before you make blanket statements.

Feminazi–Isn’t that Limbaugh speak? Palin has done nothing for the sisterhood, she is much more interested in pleasing the men, can’t you tell!! Women like yourself, should ask for a little cheese with that wine!! Palin does nothing to try and bring the country together, which she would do if she were interested in the country, and not just her bank account. Not bitter about the daughter, I just think it is sad, that she is learning to do the same thing her mother does–be a grifter.

I agree that the President should answer more questions from more reporters, and have said so. At length. I also think it’s OK to ask Sarah Palin what she reads. Neither constitutes persecution. That’s the inconsistency that irks me with Palin’s fans.

DonnaK says:
May 26, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Feminazi–Isn’t that Limbaugh speak? Palin has done nothing for the sisterhood, she is much more interested in pleasing the men, can’t you tell!! Women like yourself, should ask for a little cheese with that wine!! Palin does nothing to try and bring the country together, which she would do if she were interested in the country, and not just her bank account. Not bitter about the daughter, I just think it is sad, that she is learning to do the same thing her mother does–be a grifter.

Donna,
Just because she doesn’t subscribe to the pro-abortion, I can open my own door, screw being a stay at home mother to my kids, don’t need a man to make it, men are the devil feminist rants, doesn’t mean she has nothing to offer. You can keep the Rosey O’Donnell, Kathy Griffin, and Maureen Dowds of the world and we will gladly keep Palin, Coulter, and Malkin.

Tommy Christopher says:
May 26, 2010 at 4:17 pm
I agree that the President should answer more questions from more reporters, and have said so. At length. I also think it’s OK to ask Sarah Palin what she reads. Neither constitutes persecution. That’s the inconsistency that irks me with Palin’s fans.

Tommy,
We aren’t irked that Katie Couric asked her what she reads and I think you lefties know it. It was the condescending way that she ask it, like “you do read right?”. I think even you can agree Palin has NOT been treated the same way by the press that those on the left have.

Because there are only two types of women in the world: Ann Coulter/Sarah Palin, or Maureen Dowd/Rosie O’Donnell.

MichelleF–I’m an independent, I have a lot of republican, libertarian as well as liberal women that I admire. Where do you get off mentioning just liberal women as people I admire, that’s what you repubs do, as narrow minded people yourself, you just think because someone supports the President, or doesn’t believe Palin they are on the extreme left. Grow up and seek some moderate people & ideas once in a while, and maybe you won’t be so bitter.

Not bitter at all Donna, although I was thinking the same about you.

and ps DonnaK,
You give others way too much power to offend you. I gave my opinion, just like you did yours. If you don’t like it, that’s ok, you don’t have to.

Yeah, I’m sure it just so happened that “the most suitable” place for him to rent in the extremely tiny state of Alaska is right next door to the Palin family. He wanted to live somewhere else, but purely by coincidence he ended up in a house overlooking Palin family compound — at the same time he’s writing a book about Sarah Palin. Tell me you don’t really believe that Tommy.

No one said anything about pedophiles and nobody said he didn’t have a right to rent that house. However, just because he has a right to rent that house doesn’t make the whole thing any less creepy. The guy is obviously trying to provoke and intimidate by getting that close. Only people with an axe to grind who hate Sarah Palin see nothing wrong with this.

All that said, McGinniss should enjoy his view while it lasts because Todd Palin is in the process of putting up an 18 ft. fence to block him out. From what Sarah told Glenn Beck they’re going to try and buy that house from the owner to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.

MichelleF–You are very good at assuming things, I give you no power to offend or even enter my world, this is just a conversation–that is my opinion. I’ve noticed since I’ve been on this board you do not engage in conversation, you always try to attack or snark on people, you must not be able to debate back and forth with intelligent ideas..

Donna,
As you will recall on a previous thread, I did attempt to debate with you. Remember, you railed on about how everyone is SO MEAN to obama. And how you voted for Bush and then Obama. I then ask you very nicely what it was that you think Obama has done well that Bush failed at and I never heard back. I’m sorry if you don’t like my “style”, but I won’t lose any sleep over it.

DonnaK says:
May 26, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Palin is a joke, doesn’t she ever get tired of whining and playing the victim? All she does is throw out her hateful rhetoric, and when she doesn’t like how something is going, she plays victim. Why did John McCain ever introduce this grifter into our politics. I’m a woman & and an independent and she embarrasses our sisterhood. I see now she has her daughter on Harper’s Bazaar dressed in $30,000 worth of accessories, apple doesn’t fall from the treee does it. Are our young girls supposed to take from that ” it pays to get pregnant, it can be a great life.”?

And ps, how is this comment of yours enticing civil debate exactly. Get real!

president of the united states avoiding questions

How is he avoiding quetions? He gave over 27 press conferences in his first year. Only Nixon gave more. He also gave 158 one-on-on interviews, more than any President in recent years. He also went to 23 town hall meetings and took questions from citizens. Much more than any recent President.

BTW He’s giving a press conference tomorrow.

MichelleF-Well, Palin is a joke and more intelligent minds than mine agree. So, let’s just agree to disagree about her, and in November we will see the outcome of her influence. I feel like she is losing that slowly but surely, as the public finds out about her and her money grubbing to sell herself to the highest bidder. She tries to sell her ideas to people that are in dire straights right now, and if I know people, they will eventually see her for what she is.

her money grubbing to sell herself to the highest bidder.

How is her making money any different from others who do the same thing. Are you disgusted by the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars that Al Gore is making off of something that a large number of people don’t agree with? How about the money other people make from speaking engagements? What about professional athletes and musicians. I mean is it just Palin’s money-making that disgusts you or capitalism in general?

Paul,
I know you said you didn’t need it, but I saw this and thought of you:

Sarah Palin Brings Out the Hypocrisy of Jessica Valenti and the Feminist Left

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/05/25/sarah-palin-brings-out-the-hypocrisy-of-jessica-valenti-and-the-feminist-left/

Palin is winning this isn’t she? She is drawing attention to this guy and his obvious need to be near her. Even a far left liberal should be able to understand that he is the creep.

Palin is not a private citizen. By her own choice, she is a PUBLIC FIGURE – and has been ever since she took her first “fancy pageant walk.” She makes regular public announcements (putting the “twit” in Twitter), is a paid commentator on FakesNews, and is a paid shill for the Tea Parties – along with anyone else who can afford what she charges.

All of that is fine, but she cant have it both ways: shoot her mouth off about public policy and make paid public appearances, then decry her lack of privacy.

McGinness is writing a book about this public person. Writers routinely relocate near their subjects to learn more about them from local sources. As long as he obeys the law, he is free to do so.

I hope he includes verbatim transcripts. Maybe then more people will realize that much of what she says doesn’t make literal or rhetorical sense.

For all the talk we hear about weepy liberals, this “cry-baby con-woman” sure has the righties all teary-eyed (and not just Glenn Beck).

Mr. Christopher can be intelligent, but not this time. I don’t have the time to take his inanities apart, but does one Facebook comment qualify as “obsessively blogging”? And the notion that she is stalking Mr. McGinniss–by putting up a tall fence?–may be the most bizarre claim I have ever read. But then, my contempt for lefties is sufficiently great that I avoid reading much of their stuff, since one cannot learn anything that is true or that might be true from them. And none, including MoDo, has much wit of any kind.

Joe McGinniss worked at the Worcester Telegram as a reporter after graduating from Holy Cross, the same college that produced Michael Harrington (you’d have to be old to recognize that name), Chris Matthews, the guy who writes Obama’s speeches, and, as a counterweight to those lightweight lefties, Justice Clarence Thomas. I lost touch with Joe; it saddens me that he decided to pull off this publicity stunt to spur interest in his coming book, apparently for Broadway Books.

Mr. Weigel had much to write that also is weird, to be kind. He claimed that no one has ever challenged the facts in stuff that Joe McGinniss wrote that Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources staff considered yellow journalism. Mr. Weigel included a link to a McGinniss piece that called the quest for a natural gas pipeline “The great white whale of Alaskan resource development.” McGinniss also wrote that by excluding the oil companies that control the gas development from the pipeline process “all but assured that the “largest private-sector infrastructure project in North America” would never be anything more than her personal field of dreams.”

But if one goes to Alaska’s government Web site, one learns that one of those companies, ExxonMobil, and TransCanada agreed to the pipeline last June. And a TransCanada official was in Alaska this past May talking about the pipeline’s prospects. As befits a private operation, people involved won’t commit fully until they can be assured that prices the gas will get will be sufficient. But that will happen, and estimates are for the gas to be coming by 2020, mostly through to Alberta, with a developed pipeline system, with a spur of liguefied natural gas to Valdez. AT an estimated $30 billion, it won’t be cheap to build, but the U.S. blew what, $200 billion last year on a joke of a program to get people to junk gas guzzlers in the U.S. What benefit did that produce, compared to a natural gas pipeline?

Again, it is no fun to discover what has happened to Mr. McGinniss. He likely used the “great white whale” image because it projected something of himself: he is Ahab, Sarah Palin is his great white whale, his obsession. Better he should be off somewhere following English football or playing in touch football games, not making a jerk of himself in Wasilla. But given the raging hatred and venomous bigotry of leftists, any book he writes will find some readers. Al Franken found readers, after all.

I am embarrassed by the errors in my piece, from rushing it. But it’s late and tomorrow will be busy. I just had to respond to yet another bizarre hit piece on Sarah Palin and the usual hate-driven comments by leftists here.

Sarah Palin is not perfect, but she is one heck of a sight better than her enemies. And, while i prefer Gov. Mitch Daniels to be the next President of the U.S., since so many of our great challenges will be financial in nature, with either Gov. Bobby Jindal or Rep. Paul Ryan as VP, Sarah Palin would have been a far better President than the current demagogue and fanatic who’s wrecking this country both internationally and domestically. Had to get that in, too.

Sarah is great! And if she is being STALKED by a creepy writer, she needs to get a restraining order on this nutcase. For this JERK to follow her to Wasilla and rent the house next door, that is STALKING in my book! Dirtbag!

Palin could be all the rotten things the Left claims about her but the author who moves in next to her is still a creep. I find it amazing how in loony lefty world up is down, right is wrong, and apparently Palin is the stalker for being made uncomfortable by a reporter moving to Alaska right next door to her with a line of sight vantage point a paparazzo would die for