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ABC News Report: Sarah Palin Threatens To Sue Rogue Author Joe McGinniss

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The tension between The Rogue author Joe McGinniss and the subject of his most recent work, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, seems to finally be rolling around to its logical conclusion. ABC News is reporting this evening that the Palin family lawyer has sent a letter to McGinniss’s publisher, Crown Publishing Group, and its corporate overlord, Random House, threatening to sue for defamation.

According to ABC, Palin’s lawyer John Tiemessen sent a letter to Crown and Random House today citing an email McGinniss sent to publishers in May, where McGinniss calls several revelations that eventually made it into publication “tawdry gossip.” The email was made public by Andrew Breitbart and McGinniss later dismissed it as evidence of nothing.

Tiemessen apparently disagrees, as he cites the email as proof that McGinniss and his publishers intended to defame his client:

“The final work that was published contains most of the stories that Mr. McGinniss complains were nothing more than ‘tawdry gossip’ that amounted to the wishful fantasies of disturbed individuals,” Tiemessen writes. “Since both your company, and the author, clearly knew the statements were false, admitted they had no basis in fact or reality, but decided to publish in order to harm Governor Palin’s family, you and Mr. McGinniss have defamed the Palins.”

While no clear public word has been given on the steps Palin may take after this– and the publishers did not respond to ABC News for comment, this is likely a legal story that won’t go away anytime soon, particularly if Palin decides to file a defamation suit.

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  • Michelle

    Cue liberals saying she’s playing the victim in 5,4,3,2…….

    Git R Dun Sarah!

  • Anonymous

    Sloppy Joe’s tawdry screed is a mish-mash of lies. rumor, gossip, & speculation compiled for no other purpose except character assassination. He & his publisher would certainly be sued in Britain and many other countries; but here in the USA, libel & slander suits against public figures usually don’t get much traction. McGinniss has been sued before, and had to pay out  a substantial sum of money.

  • Anonymous

    It’s been said it was only a matter of time before someone crossed a line between outright slander and outright slander that someone can be held liable for in court. Someone pass the popcorn.

  • Dan C.

    Ha!!!!!!!!!!  What a joke!  She’s not running, nor is she suing!  She can’t sue when it’s true and she knows it.  But this fake threat will surely convince her poor fans that it is all lies.  It’s so sad.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EC2LG45C6UPVCBEVNLKOGYR3FA Moshe Jakob

    How ironic is it for a woman to claim defamation, when she’s had no problem falsely accusing people of being radical terrorists, secret Muslims, and socialists out to destroy the country?

  • http://www.IndiaCurry.com Yogi Gupta

    Go Sarah! Hit the author and the publisher where it counts most in their pocket book for knowingly publishing the lies. In this case they can not hide behind the first amendment. The suit will help expose the bias in media who interviewed the author asking him leading questions to repeat the lies, and giving free publicity to the tabloid.

  • ceeza

    No.. Cue liberals saying this is par for the course with Palin…..She’s thinking about running for President.. She’s thinking about suing…She’s always thinking and talking about doing things, and in the end never does ANYTHING…..Either sue him or don’t.. Put up or shut up!!  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Why isn’t the mass media trying to discredit the author of this book, like they are the guy who wrote that book that criticizes Obama? You know, the guy the MSM loved when he was writing anti-Bush books? 

  • Anonymous

    Seeing that her attorney has won all (I believe) past lawsuit allegations, I’m sure they have more evidence than just the email.

    As someone interested in the law, I find this highly entertaining.

  • Anonymous

    Thin skin.
    She is a celebrity and she is going to have gossipy books written about her where most of the facts are wrong.
    If Michael Jackson had sued every time someone wrote lies about him he never would have had any time left to molest young boys.

    Get used to it Sarah.  You are in the same boat as Princess Diana, JFK, Sinatra and Elvis now. Only they had talent and brains.
    Did you really think your life as a millionaire celebrity pit-bull reality star wouldn’t have a down side?

  • ceeza

    She’s so transparently full of shit it’s not even funny… Over a week to “threaten” lawsuit.. HA!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I hope she does sue him, first witness for the defense will be Glen Rice, bwahahahahahahaha.
    She wont though, Sarah Palin has proved time and time again that she is all talk and no action. I just wish she would go away for good.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    I am a liberal and I am with Sarah on this. I can’t believe I am saying this, but for one time in her life, she may be right. If she was indeed defamed, she deserves to win the lawsuit. I do not intend to ever read the book and do not care one bit about it along with any book apparently full of anonymous, salacious claims about a political personality – whether I agree with that person or not.

  • Pablo’s Ex Husband

    Rising above petty criticism acting like a real adult. Oh whoops!! That would be a normal middle aged woman.

  • Anonymous

    You sound reasonable on this issue.

  • Lyle

    Or expose her to her fans -she won’t sue.

  • Anonymous

    Is she going to sue him for Blood Libel?  hahahahahahahahah!!!

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    I predict she will be as successful suing Joe McGinniss as Bill O’Reilly was in suing Al Franken.

    P.S.
    Too bad Andrea Makris settled her lawsuit against Bill O’Reilly prior to going to court.

  • Anonymous

    It’s very hard for public figures to win lawsuits against journalists in the US.  But McGinniss has opened himself up to litigation by stupidly bragging about how he couldn’t prove the sleazy accusations in his book. 

    So Palin deserves her day in court.  If McGinniss and Random House want to make a buck from character assassination, they ought to be held accountable. 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t see the downside in this as I believe Crown/Random House also published other false books. There’s repeated rhetoric.

    Plus, Palin’s attorney has won against all of the ethics violations. I can’t wait for her to win this one too.
    If you read Althouse, a law professor, this is the approach she discussed taking.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    I think you are more interested in blogs than you are in the law.

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

    To be fair, the MSM has developed stories pretty much lambasting McGinniss and the content of this character assassination,……..uh, I mean book.  Hell, even Keith Olbermann finally found a way for some words of support to come out his mouth!

    You know when condemnations are coming from Liberals, this McGinniss guy? - I think he’s pretty well fucked!

  • Anonymous

    This is standard legal behavior from my understanding. She’s not even talking about MSNBC, but she could, since they had him on their programs.

  • larrydavid1

    Go Sarah… We need to get to the bottom of some of this “tawdry gossip” from this fool McGinnes!! I want to see Glenn Rice under oath, or perhaps under Sarah (or on top… I’m not picky) so we can put the “First Dude’s” mind and manhood at ease….

    In all seriousness Sarah… Suing is a horrible idea. You want the conservative southern white male (your base) to get the picture of you rolling around in bed with a black 6 ft 8 inch basketball player out of their mind as soon as possible. You don’t want to prolong it with the discovery process and trial.

  • Anonymous

    Now that……was awesome.

  • Anonymous

    The book is a piece of shit that should be ignored.
    Most people have pretty much forgot about it already.
    I haven’t seen it in the news since last week.
    Of course now there will be renewed interest.
    Imagine if it went to trial?

    She is foolish and way too thin skinned.

  • Anonymous

    When specifically has she falsey accused people of being radical terrorists or secret Muslims? Did you hear this from the same “unnamed sources” that Mr. McGinnis used?

  • Pablo

    Just Do It!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Nice!!

  • Pablo

    This is a legal notification to preserve all records pertaining to the book. It’s the appropriate first step.

    …and in the end never does ANYTHING…

    She drives y’all nuts. Short drive and all, but still…

  • ceeza

    We shall see then…. The story was effectively dead… It will look awful on her part if she ends up not following through… Should be interesting..

  • Anonymous

    This probably isn’t about the book at all.

    This is about getting back at Joe for moving next door.

    What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is an old-fashioned hillbilly feud.

  • Rick Patel

    The thing is, Sloppy Joe’s tabloid trash was dead in the water, floating face down in the oxidation pond with the other Sarah-bashing books. Now, people will read it to see exactly what the lawsuit is all about. Hmmm. But, Sarah usually seems to have some method in her madness…Good luck with setting some sort of precedent against these garbage peddlers.

  • Brincar

    Hey Sarah…over here…come get some soul in your bowl….once you go black…..you got my vote,boo!!

  • Pablo

    They’re tougher for public figures, but they can and do succeed. And with that email from McGinnis to Jesse Griffin in hand, that he acknowledges sending, this is a really easy case to make.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Poor little Sarah Palin!! Seems she can dish it out more than she can take it!! How about Palin considers suing the people she knew who told McGinniss the information??

    When is Palin going to stop playing the victim card??

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Why would she sue, to protect her sacred name? LOL..

  • Pablo

    Who has she called a secret Muslim? Quote please.

    Ayers and Dohrn are terrorists, so there’s no foul there.

  • Anonymous

    Did you hear the buzz about this being a way to find out if the Dem. Party had any sort of affiliation?

  • Anonymous

    I think you are more interested in stalking. This can be proven. Now can Joe prove his story?

  • Anonymous

    Her kids were mentioned in it. Her family was mentioned in it.

    As a female, you wouldn’t understand that. Plus, I’m sure there’s more scandal than what meets the eye right now. Breitbart said that he had more than the email. Both sides can be argued for suing or not. Althouse already covered this.

  • Pablo

    Yeah, why should she care about the creep that moved in next door to her publishing a mass market hit piece that he acknowledges is bullshit?

    You can go ahead and say what you always say. She’s doing it for the money. Me, I think it’s for the satisfaction.

  • Anonymous

    For someone you can’t stand, you sure like to write about her a lot.

    I will enjoy this.

    Do you like the Solyndra and Fast and Furious stories? Obama is done.

  • Pablo

    Petty criticism like that your child is not really your child? Uh huh.

    BTW, where’s my check, deadbeat?

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    I haven’t heard Glenn Rice deny that he had sex with her.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Man ! He went from hero to rough  pretty quick.
    I just heard,  kiss your mortgage deduction good by with the new 4 day DC deal.

  • Pablo

    How did that imaginary suit work out in your imagination?

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

    Lee…….come on now.  None of the individuals who offered the more salacious comments in this rag were properly sourced, unless you consider being quoted in the National Enquirer as credible?

  • Anonymous

    “Obama is done. ”

    Previous WCinWI predictions…

    Sarah Palin will run.
    Sarah Palin will be the next President
    Sarah Palin will be Perry’s VP

    Your predictions suck.

  • Pablo

    She doesn’t seem too worried about airing that allegation out.

  • Pablo

    No. But I did hear that the CA Dem Party turned up in Solyndra’s BK filing as a creditor.

    ????

  • Anonymous

    Good for you.

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

    Are you a racist Larry?  Does the image you described above have your blood boiling?

    Notice how it’s only the liberals here who make comments about Sarah’s alleged dalliance with Glenn Rice?

    Realy makes you wonder who is really bothered by this thought?

  • Pablo

    You haven’t heard her deny it either. Then again, I haven’t heard you deny that the Oakland Raiders pulled a train on you.

  • Anonymous

    None of my predictions have been proven to be false have they?

    I like Palin. You seem to think that if she doesn’t run, I’m going to curl up and whimper. Not the case, my dear. I’m ABO, as will be most independents.

    In the legal world, there’s this beautiful thing called discovery.

  • Bill Adkins

    How entertaininig – can you imagine the information exchange, the depositions, the document production?  If I were McGinniss, I’d say “bring it!”

  • Pablo

    Yup. Hang his hide out as a warning to the next one that slithers along.

  • Fudge441

    The nit wit will never sue as this will mean that more will actually come out about this slut.

  • Michelle

    Guilty as Hell, free as a bird – Billy Ayers

  • Anonymous

    I agree.  This book says everything and nothing to back it up.  Don’t bring up crap you can’t prove.  At least have people on the record.  I hate this when repubs do the same too.  Have facts before you bash.  Sue his ass.  I just thew up a little.  Backing Sarah Palin.  Man, I wish I drank, because I could sure use one.

  • Anonymous

    Heard that too. Granted, I’m not sure how bankruptcy filings work so I’m not sure if it was a procedural thing.

    Either way, there are a ton of stories on the periphery. Don’t mess with the Cuda.

  • Michelle

    No one brings out the liberal crazies like Palin.  She’s really got a gift.

  • Anonymous

    Nit Wit !!  Slut !!  HAlf-Baked Alaskan !!

  • Doyle

    You’re still lurking around all things Pay-lin?  You need a life outside of Sca-rah.  

  • Anonymous

    Lawsuit or Not - Obama’s replacements don’t need the drama and neither do the rest of us, stay out it Sarah… please. Stay classy Governor.

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

    Here we are again with another example of a liberal focusing on the black man vs white woman angle.  As I pointed out earlier, why is it that only liberals want to have this discussion?

  • Anonymous

    lol…actually predictions 2 and 3 are diametrically opposed to each other.

  • Anonymous
  • TbagsRstupid

    why has she only threatened and not actually sued

  • Fudge441

    The gift of slutiness.

  • Anonymous

    And your point is?

    You’re the one that has issues with her not running? People on Mediaite that support Palin don’t care if she runs or not. We’re ABO.

  • TbagsRstupid

    I believe he acknowledged

  • TbagsRstupid

    I believe he acknowledged

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Sarah, please sue so Nancy Grace and Court TV can have a field day at your expense.

  • Anonymous

    I dunno, I just don’t see that email as a smoking gun.
    Joe says he could only find gossip and he pretty much reported it that way in the book.

    Now if those “friends” and “anonymous sources” in the book never existed he has a real problem.

    But I’m no lawyer.  I also am no fan of McGinnis and fault him for making my side look petty and deceitful like so many others have.

  • Anonymous

    This thread is no different than a Rachel Maddow or Debbie Wasserman Schultz thread.

  • Anonymous

    Threatening to sue, what the hell is that. If you think you were statements were false then sue. It sounds to me that she is on another one of her victim tours.
    She cannot make up her mind if she is running for President, she cannot make up her mind to sue. What can she make her mind up about.

  • Anonymous

    It’s called discovery. This is standard legal procedure.

    There’s A LOT of paperwork in the legal industry. When I worked in litigation as a secretary, I had edit and type up so many documents.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Hello, Mr. McGinnis.

    Meet Mr. Lawsuit. You’ll be traveling together to Discoveryland.

    Enjoy.

  • Anonymous

    Which is why the attorney is going after email discovery. I also agree that the one email is not enough. However, I never thought there was only one email. :)

    McGinniss will have to name these sources.

  • Anonymous

    This is typical legal procedure. You don’t just sue someone. Unless you want civil damages. But even then, you need a paper trail.

    Her attorneys have won every lawsuit that they’ve fought against on her behalf. This is why this one is interesting.

  • Anonymous

     As much as I can’t stand Palin I hope she takes this guy to the cleaners.  She’s wacked be he’s alot more wacked for moving right next to her.

  • Oh yes he did!
  • Tobias2012

    Not a Palinista. But hope Palin sues this guy and the publisher for all they got.

  • Anonymous

    This is a very Presidential move on her part. It is a good thing no one ever write controversial books about the President.

  • kllwhitebabies

    I luv this! So Palin the pure American woman, the real American woman …. just can’t get nuff of the Black Mamba. I see why white men hate my race, because your slutty women can’t keep their panties up when one of us ninjas walk by. I see it everyday at my job, flat ass no lip having white women trying to show their goods at me & other brothers…. We just lol & now call all women like this Palin! HAHA! how it feel whitey that your Tea Party Queen likes her coffee BLACK! maybe sum Dr. will make a pill to give white real junk & not ones the size of a pinkie! lol I see why you hate us. :)

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Oh, you come on now!! The people who talked to McGinnis had to do anonymously so they wouldn’t later be shot from a helicopter by Palin!!

  • azgrandma

    That would probably be never,  That card usually gets her the most attention.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! If those people go in a court of law and repeat the same things as they did to MiGinniss, and have it on the record… Palin is TOAST!! Does she really want to take that chance??

  • TbagsRstupid

    Hey how ya doin?
    I just quoted your famous line the other day
    RINO

  • TbagsRstupid

    Civil damages come when something is said that is not true

  • TbagsRstupid

    who said HAlf-Baked Alaskan !!

  • Anonymous

    Damn that Andrew Breitbart and his email!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    LMAO!

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

    LOL – is this guy for real?  You have to be a redneck plant – have to be.  Only a white racist would make himself sound so ridiculous at the expense of the person he was purporting to represent.  Go away provocateur – no one’s buying your redneck crap!

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

    Not sure what that means Tbags.  If she can prove that the comments contained in the book were the product of malice on either the writer or source’s part, she’s got a very good suit.

  • Anonymous

    This isn’t a go to court type of case.

  • Anonymous

    By civil damages, I meant simplistic lawsuits  that you would see before a Judge Judy. Typically $5,000 or less.

  • TbagsRstupid

    best laugh ive had all day

  • Anonymous

    You have no idea how the law works, do you?

    Here is a little overview on law not based on Judge Judy:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure

    While she may be able to get damages, the burden on her is way, way higher than it would be on you and me. That is why a crazy person can publish a book like “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” and not be sued. It’s more than just saying mean things. She has to prove malice. Not being a good journalist is professionally bad, but it isn’t actionable civilly.

    I think it is a dreaful book that Joe McGinniss wrote. But bad writing doesn’t make it libelous.

  • TbagsRstupid

    then sue

    if this guy is such a turd, what are you waiting for?

  • Cecelia

    Actually, both  your homies and Palin hate you because you’re full of more shit than a Christmas goose.

  • Anonymous

    you’ve been reported.

  • Cecelia

    ” and fault him for making my side look petty and deceitful like so many others have”

    Well, that is probably because you are…

  • NDanielson

    Wow, so Moshe, “radical terrorists” flew planes into the Twin Towers Sept. 11, 2001. Did you hear about that? Now, some of them might try to keep their worship of the pedophile, Mohammad a secret, as to not be given a second glance, I cannot understand why, as Jews, and blacks have more crime perpetrated against them than any other group in America, but I digress, and finally socialists are trying to destroy America, cupcake!

    Today in America, you can only be called a radical terrorist after you have shot soldiers, killed or threatened  cartoonists, been caught plotting to blow up things, or fly planes into buildings, and even then you liberal clowns will whine about it and defend them by calling them Christians. If you do find a Muslim being secret about his or her religion, chances are there is some other Muslim out to kill him or her, because lefties would give their lives defending them, and finally if she called someone a socialist, they are not too hard to spot, most in congress have a D, by their names, and the others aren’t ashamed to be a full throat socialist. And guess what, genius? They are destroying America. So what’s your problem with Palin, again, sweetie?

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

    TELLING THE TRUTH IS NOT DEFAMATION! And the law recognizes this!  THE TRUTH is a clear defense to any libel. Proof will be whether she files any suit or not. The liar is using this for more publicity. As usual.

  • Anonymous

    Well sweet cheeks – she’s won every law suit that was filed against her.  It would take an army of lawyers to sue for all the slanderous, vile, fate filled crap that people have posted about her knowing that not one word of it was true.

    You just added to that vile, slanderous pile of crap.  Good for you – be proud.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Dockter/1596236310 Tyler Dockter

    So before you can sue someone for defaming your character you must first release a press release announcing you are entertaining the idea?  Please, it’s obviously another successful attempt by Team Palin to keep her name at the top of the toilet bowl full of turds that has become the Republican party. 

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

    Doesn’t matter if he can back it up, as long as he can prove, one way or another that it’s TRUE.  Funny how Geoffrey Dunn, who wrote “The Lies of Sarah Palin” that was published several months ago, hasn’t been sued. Gee, wonder why? Could it be that everything in the book was, well, true?

    Can’t wait for the Sarah to finally admit she lied about Trig’s birth.  

  • Anonymous

    He’s going to have to “out” his sources isn’t he?  This should be interesting.  Will you make the list with your pile of crap?

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

    Yes, she drives any sane person nuts with all her incessant lies. The woman wouldn’t know the truth if it hit her in the head.  She is a classic sociopath.

  • Anonymous

    why don’t you hold your breath till they come out and speak on the record?  Can we watch?

  • Cecelia

    Nah.  I think she’ll merely sue him for the sort of malice that you so obviously have toward her.

    That’s malice enough. 

    That’s all the malice in the world.

  • TbagsRstupid

    Why would you need discovery if it was untrue?

     Discovery means
    A category of procedural devices employed by a party to a civil or
    criminal action, prior to trial, to require the adverse party to
    disclose information that is essential for the preparation of the
    requesting party’s case and that the other party alone knows or
    possesses.

  • NDanielson

    What is obvious about the liberal lapdogs here is that they are clueless as to the cost of lawsuits, and how difficult it is to prove defamation. McGinnsis will just pander for legal defense dollars, and win or lose, Palin supporters will know she was slandered and defamed, and liberal lapdogs will still be liberal lapdogs and believe that Palin is a threat to their socialist utopia in America. And in the end, McGinnis will give them wet dreams for months and months into the future with their little imaginations running wild.

  • Cecelia

     ”She is a celebrity and she is going to have gossipy books written about her where most of the facts are wrong.”

    “Get used to it Sarah.  You are in the same boat as Princess Diana, JFK, Sinatra and Elvis now. Only they had talent and brains.”

    You make it oh so clear, BFD.

     It’s a blood libel.

  • TbagsRstupid

    Classy

    hahahahahaha

  • TbagsRstupid

    WCinWI 37 minutes ago in reply to Leedog
    This isn’t a go to court type of case.No we certainly wouldn’t want a Black man doing a tell ON THE RECORD

  • Cecelia

    Oh, my lord… you say… McGinniss makes my side looking “petty and deceitful”…but shut up, Sarah, and take our fists as something you deserve for having the temerity of being out there in the first place!

    You really are quite beyond belief! 

  • Anonymous

    Your absolutely correct, she’s an idiot and if this is true it will prove to us three things which we already knew about Sarah, one that she is thinned skinned, two she has an anger management issue, and three she’s a sociopath.  Nothing new there except, she has slide to an all time low.  Seeing how she is not the sharpest knife in the drawer or this might only be a ploy, she is a public person and a politician which does not offer the same protections as common folk like us.  But I hope this news is true because she’ll have to be disposed and they can ask just about any question they want since his book covers so much territory.  And if she lies, it’s perjury!  For instance, what if they ask her the question about her sleeping with the college football player and at the same time getting pregnant by Todd.  Was it few days apart, or was it just hours apart?  Or how about if she did have an affair with Todd’s expartner, is Todd’s expartner going to be disposed and lie inorder to protect Sarah, or is he going to tell the truth and confess the affair.  I honestly can’t think of any way this is going to be beneficial to her, and in fact I firmly believe it will do her far more damage and probably ruin her celebrity and cash flow.  She could also be doing this as a ploy to try to convinse the Palinbots she is innocent and again is a victim of those liberals sinners.  The Palinbots of course will buy it untill they realize she is not going to run for office and has been just milking them of their money all along to support her high life style.  Much fun could be in store for all of us in the future, but my money says she will only file a complaint to start the lawsuit, but will then sit on it hoping the public forgets about the whole thing.

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

    bags – This guy is a turd and I think even you’d be willing to concede this point.

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes, a douche liberal white guy pretending to be black. Then again, he pretends to be a chick on IRC. Yer dick ain’t black there, homes, it’s orange from cheetos and that multi-tasking right hand of yours. :)

  • Nature Freak

    Sarah Palin and her family is not relevant anymore.

    She is yesterday’s news. I am beginning to find her rather boring.

    This is my one and only comment.

    I still plan on reading Todd Palin’s ‘tell all’ book after the divorce.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The suit doesn’t look imaginary to me!!

  • Tim Tebow

    Sweet, sweet, pretty Pablo…

    Why, pray tell, dost thou concern thee self with such scabrous drivel?

    McGinniss is a bloated toad, to be sure, sniffing the cracks around Palin’s panty liners, but so what?

    Both are bottom feeders. In a couple of years both will be living in a house with Potsy from Happy Days–a Fox reality show in which the three scheme to somehow break O.J. out of jail. Greta and Geraldo will report from a 7-eleven parking lot across the street. The Octomom will guest appear. It will be droll…

    Retire from this madness and join me now on the veranda! We shall sample a lovely 1953 Port from my personal collection; we shall nibble on smelt, marinated in peanut oil and maple syrup. Yummy!

    We will sit and watch the sail boats come in, thinking of Goldwater and what might have been. Later I will regale you with a tawdry episode from my time with Ayn Rand and her gang of ‘debutantes’ in the late fifties. What a ‘randy’ time, indeed! Hee hee!

    Come now, Pablo…

    You’re better than all of this.

  • azgrandma

    That is what a normal person would do but this is about palin – sarah palin – what a moron

  • Anonymous

    Palin Derangement Syndrome !! Time For An Hour On A Psychiatrist’s Couch !!

  • Anonymous

    I’m no legal expert and I hope this creep moves to Siberia or Cuba where perhaps he’ll be happier (at least I will be) I don’t see how Sara’d have a case.  What about all the Kitty Kelly books from the 80′s?  They certainly had all kinds of innuendo though at least I suppose she could say 1st hand witnesses gave  her the details otherwise she didn’t  include them.

  • david r

    You are owned by the Democrat Party like a piece of furniture.  Try thinking for yourself.  You’ll get called a Tom by all your “progressive” friends.

  • DMA

    What we have here is an invasion of privacy.

     

  • Anonymous

    The law has MANY formalities. Sorry if you don’t understand that concept.

    The Other McCain has a nice breakdown thus far. Here you go:

    http://theothermccain.com/2011/09/26/not-a-threat-palin-lawyer-gives-mcginniss-random-house-legal-notice/#disqus_thread

  • Anonymous

    Correct.

    Call it paperwork.

  • Anonymous

    And the legal department’s rights are essentially waived, if I understand it right.

  • Anonymous

    Where did I state that Palin wanted damages? There is email proof that Random House put forth a book that was based on falsehoods. Most cases don’t have this damning email. Now, we do.

    I don’t base my understanding of law on Wiki. Sorry. Nor do I base it on Judge Judy.

    The Other McCain has already detailed this, as has Althouse days ago. Althouse said that this is the route that lawyers could go. This case may be over in a week or two. No one knows the direction.

  • Anonymous

    There wasn’t the blatant attempt that Joe M. showed in his email about the legal department thinking that he needed more sources.

    There are various angles to go with this. There is written proof, which is often hard to get, of a legal department going forward with gossip. That’s the first smoking gun. I’m sure there’s more. Much like Solyndra and Fast and Furious, it’s all a slow trickle out.

  • Upton

    Stupid thin-skinned Sarah Palin takes the bait and makes sure the story stays in the public eye that much longer. McGinniss should send the clueless woman a thank you card.

  • Anonymous

    wingnuts like you believe in free speech…….YOURS !!!…everbody else be damnned…..sarah needs to convince todd that she didnt get any of glen rices 11 inch black wonder wand….OUCHHHHHH….bet that hurt

  • Pablo

    No matter how you slice it, that’s a big WTF?! How does the state party become a creditor to a solar panel company? Unless they’re owed a bunch of cylindrical solar panels, something is really fishy here.

  • azgrandma

    Her daughter, the other victim took the headlines away from momma for awhile and so we all know she can’t stand anyone stealing all her thunder!

  • Owl22

    When you already have no character there is nothing to defame. 

  • DMA

     And when you defame, you have no character.

  • Pablo

    No, no. I’m all aboard with hanging a sleezeball and the publisher that enabled him out to dry.

    I’m tired of liars and I see no reason to abide them any further. Hang ‘em high..metaphorically, of course.

  • Pablo

    They’ve got Jungle Fever.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously. That may be the single dumbest thing ever said.

    Why do you think she will sue him? To make him her butler? Do you even know what a civil lawsuit is?

    You are just an amazing work.

  • Tex45

    Glenn Rice already confirmed that Palin went down on him.

  • Tex45

    Glenn Rice already confirmed that Palin went down on him.

  • Pablo

    No, it isn’t a press release. It’s a letter to Random House. If you were paying attention and reasonably intelligent, you’d already know that. It’s a legal notice, actually:

    Accordingly, since both your company, and the author, clearly knew
    the statements were false, admitted they had no basis in fact or
    reality, but decided to publish in order to harm Governor Palin’s
    family, you and Mr. McGinniss have defamed the Palins. This letter shall
    serve as written notice under AS.09.30.070 (b)
    that a claim may be
    brought against you, your company and Mr. McGinniss for knowingly
    publishing false statements.

    In the interim, please take note of the following:  It is unlawful to
    delete emails or destroy records upon being notified of the need of
    business records for litigation purposes. In addition, courts may impose
    civil sanctions against a defendant that destroys emails and other
    documentation.  Please immediately provide notice to your employees to
    save and back up all records pertaining to the Palins and the book “The
    Rogue.”…

    See what they did there?

  • DMA

    Confirmed?

  • Pablo

    It doesn’t look like O’Reilly v. Franken to me.

  • Pablo

    Have you read McGinnis’ email to Jesse Griffin? That’s exactly the problem. There are no credible sources. Not only does he admit that, he’s complaining about it. 

    If she’s got nothing to hide, she’s not taking a chance. Did that ever occur to you?

  • DMA

    First of all, it’s being deposed (not disposed).    And, of course, you want the news to be true.  I’m sure the author hopes so too.   Sounds like a lot of juicy lies and gossip to sell a book to idiots who have nothing better to do in life. 

  • RPerry

    Palin wouldn’t be the first woman to give a NBA player a BJ. There’s no crime in that.

  • DMA

    You have not one ounce of class.

  • Pablo

    Hey, TbagsRstupid, it’s actually you that’s stupid. This is a procedural letter, a legal notice from her lawyers to preserve the evidence in the case. This is how a defamation suit against a publisher begins. The lawyers wouldn’t release it to the media if they didn’t plan to follow through. 

    Duh.

    If Sarah has nothing to hide, which seems awfully likely (your moonbat fantasies about her aside), this is a slam dunk and McGinnis’ hide will make a nice prize for her trophy wall.

    Don’t f*#k with people who can field dress a moose.

  • Pablo

    Yeah, I’ll bet that’s exactly what he’s saying right now. Sue Me!

    His wish is going to be granted.

  • DMA

    That’s only if you go to small claims court.   Civil cases can be won for any amount.

  • Kelly Cannon

    Sarah Palin’s lying garbage is all. -Liberal, Kelly Joanne Cannon

  • bhodie

    Why doesn’t she just go ahead and sue, run for President or whatever else she is going to do—quite talking about stuff, Palin, put your big girl pants on and do it…..Palins only look for publicity, they never follow through with any of it….All this is for Bristol’s new reality show….

  • Kelly Cannon

    Also,if what Joe McGinnis, said about poor, widdle victim Sarah Palin, and her so-called “perfect” family are just mean, hateful lies, why didn’t she, and Todd angrily threaten to or actually sue him earlier than this?  Thus, THAT leads me to believe they really aren’t lies at all. No, I really don’t believe they are. Not a bit.———–Liberal, always, Kelly Joanne Cannon

  • ceeza

    Don’t bother DMA ..This goof WCinWI likes to play lawyer on the internet..

  • Kelly Cannon

    What’s more, Sarah Palin, why not threaten to or actually sue Levi Johnston as well for his book about you, and your family? Ha! Because you know you can’t because you know you’ll NEVER really get away from the cruelty both you, and Bristol cast upon them, and their family, will you? Besides, you definitely know they’re right about you, and are not lying at all, don’t you, bitch? Thus, you figure why add more insult to the heartless injury you’ve already caused them, right? Oh, how very cowardly condescending of you, Sarah. You, and Bristol really are lying, mean, and miserable assholes is all. ——————————————–Liberal, always, and always honest,  Kelly Joanne Cannon

  • Kelly Cannon

    I meant one of my last sentences in my second above post to be thickly sarcastic is all. Like “Awwwwww, how very generous, and cowardly condescending of you, Sarah Palin.” My grammatical overlooking is all.————Liberal, always, and always honest, Kelly Joanne Cannon

  • Anonymous

    lol – you’ve got a quota to meet?
    Liberals always honest?  Well then you ain’t no liberal there girlfriend.  You’re just a mud sucking hater. 

    Cruelty on Levi? lol
    Life is cruel for fools – I guess that’s your problemo there also.  Now kiss him on the forehead and send him to bed,  

  • Anonymous

    and you’re our resident roads scholar or scooter or some damn thing.  

  • Anonymous

    right……

    and then you went down on Glenn?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks – excellent line.

    More trash from trash and they think they invented the wheel.

  • Anonymous

    If you only knew how your post has illuminated you as being the dull knife that the garbage disposal mangled.  

  • Anonymous

    Palin is going to own that publisher and so called author by the time she’s finished.

  • http://twitter.com/PhilipMunger Philip Munger

    At a book salon I hosted at firedoglake on Sunday, McGinniss wrote this:

    Bottom line: not only my editor, but Random House attorneys verified every source, in some cases speaking directly to the sources themselves. I have dozens of hours of recorded conversations. Random House attorneys listened to them all, then made an independent judgment about the trustworthiness of the sources. No material from an unverified source is included in the book. Many details were omitted for that reason. Obviously, any writer would like to be able to name every source. In this case, the climate of fear the Palins created in and around Wasilla made that impossible. After seeing how Sarah reacted to my moving next door, many people became afraid for their own safety and said they’d talk to me only if I guaranteed confidentiality. When I felt I had to, I did. Anonymous sources have a long and honorable tradition in U.S. journalism. Look at Woodward and Bernstein and “Deep Throat.” Just last week, the NY Times had a story about the Mets third baseman and quoted an anonymous source. In twelve books written over 42 years, I’ve never been through a legal vetting like this one. It lasted for months.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    McGinness would LOVE for Palin to sue him: all that attention, plus either a cheap court win on the fair comment about public figures principle, or a big victory when the jury finds for him.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO   the Palins keep proving what complete white trash they are on a daily basis. They barely need to be egged on to show their lack of dignity, intelligence, worth, and class.

  • Anonymous

    Phil, just letting you know that they are editing your comments over at c4p.

  • Anonymous

    If you actually read the email properly you will see that it exonerates McGinniss. He wasn’t willing to print anything that couldn’t be verified eg. he didn’t print the Shailey Tripp allegations. He obviously was able to verify the other allegations. Remember the email was written back in January.

    I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if McGinniss himself leaked the email. It has gotten him more publicity and his book is climbing back up the Amazon charts. Palin just made a monumental blunder.

  • Rio

    You unwittingly just described yourself, a real nutter.

  • Rio

    Good grief, you’ve got to be a plagerist, a dumb one, as no intelligent human being would bother to post such drivel let alone waste a moment in time dreaming that stale crap up. 

    Also, if you aren’t over 10 you should not be posting here..

  • Rio

    I love her site, her blog community is creative and fun, like some of the posters were here before the format change, sigh, where did they go?  I haven’t ever posted there, just reading through it is a hoot.

  • TruDat

    Don’t threaten baby, just do it!  With the e-mails Breitbart uncovered it’s a slam dunk.

  • TruDat

    Don’t threaten baby, just do it!  With the e-mails Breitbart uncovered it’s a slam dunk.

  • Rio

    If there’s any going “in a court of law” there better be dates, times and corroboration.  No hearsay, third person removed garbage that is going on in the Alaskan blogs. 

    For instance, the Trig birtherism; the Anchorage Daily News photographed the grandparents holding the baby in the hospital the day he was born.  Alaskan bloggers have created a whole cottage industry of rediculous nonsense out of that baby’s birth that “a court of law” would not be patient with. 

    The Todd Palin prostitute story has already been discredited by the police.  It’s vile gossip brought on by ignorant Alaskans that McGinness stupidly attempted to capitalize on because he couldn’t get anything else.

  • Rio

    If they were so concerned, they would not have talked in the first place.  They did so anonymously because deep down they know it isn’t true.  They’ve allowed themselves to get so carried away that at this point many appear to be mentally ill, those are your witnesses. 

    Look up Palin stories and start reading comments, it’s the same names, all lead back to the Alaskan blogs.  They’re ill and now it’s reached a crescendo, I see the fools snapping right and left over this.  And McGinness was stupid and greedy enough to attempt to make money off the Palin name that he stuck his foot in that messed up gene pool up there and he’s going to get what’s coming to him.

  • Rio

    This is giving them warning that it’s serious.  In this early stage the publisher might start thinking about settling out of court and pulling the book if their sources aren’t strong enough to prove what has been published won’t fly in court.

  • Rio

    Don’t you just love how by the time you finish reading Palin haters rants they wind up proving themselves to be worse that what they are accusing her of.  M-Baker, AZ granny and Irene, etc. being prime examples.

    BTW, McGinness and Random House will be the ones having to prove this crap is true, there will be no “Sarah in the witness stand” drama.  My guess is settlement and pulling the book.

  • Guest

    Ok, I guess michelle should have said “Cue liberals using four lines to say nothing of substance at all but still display their distaste for her”

  • Rio

    I see the Alaskan three ring circus clowns have  arrived.

  • TruDat

    Yep, and the left-wing press will again follow her along like newborn puppies.

  • Pablo

    No, that’s not it. She’d have to prove that Dunn KNEW what he wrote was not true, which is not easy to do. With a public figure, you have to prove malice. McGinnis laid all of that right out in writing.

  • Pablo

    Which you can tell by the way she’s been faithfully married for 23 years.

  • Pablo

    The malice is made evident by that email. Discovery will allow her lawyers access to all of McGinnis’ emails, as well as Random House’s. They’re going to as much fun with those as you thought you were going to have with hers.

  • Pablo

    News flash: Sarah Palin is not the President.

  • Pablo

    No one ever had Kitty Kelly on the record admitting that her book was absolute crap.

  • Pablo

    “After seeing how Sarah reacted to my moving next door, many people became afraid for their own safety…”

    OMG! She put up a fence and called you a creep. What a nut!

  • Pablo

    I’d love to know where he got that.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for your, as always, enlightening comment. I was not aware that she was not currently President.

    You are truly a national treasure.

  • Anonymous

    I haven’t seen much of Sista’ Sarah since the revelation that she had a one night stand with a black bone; I’m guessing she figures that the TeaBaggers won’t approve of her teabagging those balls…..especially out of wedlock and all.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, it’s been a real long time while Sarah Palin has just coyly played with our heads over just toying with deciding whether or not to run for President of our nation in 2012. She recently promised to make an announcement of her decision regarding it in August, or September, and now it’s recently been written that she may not announce it until sometime in October. That’s not right, doesn’t show common sense, it’s not acceptable, ethical, or forgivable at all, especially in my book. I’ll NEVER, EVER forgive her for that, or accept that that’s okay behavior for someone who could be our President, someday. It’s just way, way too late is all for her to prove herself a trustworthy, and honest candidate for President of our nation for next year or ever. She lies, is what’s true about her.   More ” coy game-playing than actual doing for control, and money” is just what she’d be like as President is all she’s proved lately. That’s just it.  And some of her followers have the nerve to now say that she OWNS us liberals, and republicans, or others whom know her true colors, and despise her for them? Uh-uh. No way. I’m here to write bluntly to each, and every single one of those people, that nor Sarah Palin, her family, nor you followers own us at all, and never will, again. We’re no longer scared of Sarah Palin, or any of you, at all, and never, ever will be again. We WILL keep continuing to stand up to her, and you daily, is all, no matter what she or you all say or do. We just will, won’t ever just back down in fear, again, of her, or you. I/we whom don’t like Sarah Palin at all, and won’t just roll over, take, or accept her stupid, coy, and nasty games, anymore, are also here to write that I/we really just don’t give a flying fucking shit about her just suddenly, and recently deciding to become real angry over this man, Joe McGinness, and his “so-called” lies about her, and her family. I’m real angry at Sarah Palin, too, mad as a hornet, in fact, and not her, nor any of her family, nor followers gets to control that about me, or tell me when to stop being angry at her is all.——————————-Very Sincerely,   Kelly Joanne Cannon, liberal, always, and forever, and always honest, telling it just like it is

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    You’re really not as stupid as this post of yours just made you look llene, are you?

    LMAO

    “TMP”

  • Katty

    Being from Alaska, having read the book, I do think most of you should also read it before passing judgement on the author. It rings true and all can be backed up. You don’t really think an author like McGinnis would leave himself open to lawsuits do you?

  • Anonymous

    It appears your a Palinbot which explains why your trying to defend this piece of work.  With all the lies your idol has made over the past 3 years, there are plenty that have a great potential to back fire on her, which is why she won’t go through with the suit.  The fact you don’t see her as a fraud says a lot about you as well.  Why is it that the only defense you can muster is to call those who oppose Palin, in your words ”haters”, instead of using an intelligent defense on rational grounds.  It just proves to everyone, except those who see her as a “Gift from God”, that your comment is actually not a defense at all.  Your only “defense” like that of many on the C4P’s and others pro Palin sites, is to call those who are against Palin childish school yard names.  Why do you think that 60-70% of the Republicans don’t want her to run, and do you also still believe she is going to run?  

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    There wasn’t any truth in the book. This is a slam dunk for Palin.  

    “TMP”

  • caconservative

    Just exactly, what are those lies you keep ranting about? Please, give us a couple examples.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like she gets to live in your head rent free. Who is the person doing nothing now?

  • Anonymous

    Yes you are.

  • Anonymous

    Can you be less relevant an more crude? In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,

  • Anonymous

    As do we you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Defamation????
    Now that’s rich!!! Once again, Palin and her kind don’t like the truth. It was
    about time that a book like this came out. However, I doubt that anyone could write
    a book that actually defames the truth and the facts about Sarah Palin as there
    is nothing anyone could do to her that she has not already done to herself. For
    those with eyes wide open it was not difficult Sarah Palin is just another half
    educated GOP hypocrite who mixes very twisted political extreme right wing
    political views with very skewed and twisted religious views that she herself
    does not even try to live up to.  She and
    Laura Ingraham should start dating.  They
    would make one very cute couple as they are both very poorly educated, they
    constantly rewrite history and make up their own facts that stupid red necked
    hate mongering idiots love hearing.  They,
    like all repugs and sexually repressed tea baggers, live in an alternative
    universe where history and reality are continually altered and truth has no
    place.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares? I haven’t heard him deny that he had sex with you either.

  • Anonymous

    The past can’t come back, either, no matter what, back to Reaganism, or wherever the hell Sarah Palin wants to take our country back to. I don’t think she, Michelle Bachman, or Donald Trump even know anymore. That’s not cynicism, either, just realism is all. The truth is just this, that Sarah Palin is just a past frequent quitter of political positions, mean, sociopathic-like, definitely shows, and has shown both lack of humility, and any intelligent discretion, dishonest, unethically manipulatively controlling, at times, real unrealistic, spitefully vindictive, very self-serving, very selfish, stupidly nosily obsessive, childish, impulsively unreasonable, bigoted against both homosexuals, and blacks, especially since she wants them to only have the short end of the stick, and never the longer one. As long as they stay down, and accept the short end of the stick, she’s okay with their just existing in the world. However, their wanting the longer end of the stick, she’s not okay with at all. I recently read in a small article online that Sarah Palin just doesn’t care about blacks at all. She refused to hire any, and what’s more stated that she didn’t feel she should have to hire any blacks at all, either. Some of her followers have tried to tell me in reply to my posts that that’s just a big lie made up to discredit her is all. That she’s so not racist because she married an eskimo Todd. Yet, also in this article titled “Sarah Palin Just Doesn’t Care About Blacks”, in the picture of her, she had the most ruthless, and cold look on her face is all. Imagine trying to take our country back to a totally backward, and outdated time period of prejudice that most of us in this country are just glad is practically over for the most part. I know I certainly am, love blacks, and have many black friends. Sarah Palin, that’s just going way, way too far is all, you miserable, lying bitch. Thus, how can that article just be a big lie only to discredit her? I’m saying bluntly, honestly, and factually that it’s definitely not, and never was, either. Uh-uh. No way. She’s also proved herself in her long, and recent past, that’s she’s also incoherent, at times, regarding facts, words, answering normal, and intelligent questions, well let’s just face it, she’s just behaved sluttily, she’s hypocritical, again, more “playing than actual doing”, as she’s certainly proved with her coyly toying with her decision of whether or not to run for President for next year, and still doing, now, as if it has nothing to do with the rest of us Americans, but again only with her, and her family is all, she’s also definitely violence-believing, and violence-loving. Again, overall, definitely, not someone who should be President of our country, next year, or ever. It’s just way, way, way, way, way, WAY too late, now, is all for her to prove herself a trustworthy, and honest person, or leader. And she has the nerve, now, to suddenly act outraged, and spout that this man, author, Joe McGinness just cruelly wrote lies about her, and her “so-called” perfect family? Ask yourself this, people, if what he wrote is just mean lies to discredit poor little victim Sarah Palin, then why didn’t she threaten to sue, or actually sue him before right now? Why is there also an online article only published a few days ago stating that her political career was now over, that he did, indeed, expose all her dark secrets, nastiness, and lies that would result in it’s being just political suicide if she decided to run for President, now? Why is she just suddenly being so self-righteous and saying all he did was just “lie” about her, and her family, now? Because she’s the only one lying now is all, which is what she’s very skilled at, and always has been. NOT Joe McGinness at all. Believe me, Sarah, lies do come back around, right back at you, and always will, too. What goes around ALWAYS comes back around. Oh yeah!!!—————————-Very Sincerely, Liberal always, and always honest, just telling it as it is,  Kelly Joanne Cannon  ,

  • Anonymous

    Because they are salacious gutter vermin? Because they lie even when they are lying about lies? Because they make welfare look so fabulous? Because they can’t help stealing us blind? Because they are completely insane and inane?

    Need I continue?

  • Anonymous

    Such a violent reaction for someone they don’t know and have never met? Now that IS insane!

  • Anonymous

    Tyler, you have to be an idiot for even suggesting this. Too bad you are too liberal to understand.

  • Anonymous

    Nice libtard spin you have going there – are you dizzy now or did you start out that way?

  • Anonymous

    No it wasn’t.

  • Anonymous

    No it’s not.

  • Anonymous

    I hope she guts him like a fish, figuratively speaking of course.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    It’s what Weiner did!

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Random House will never let this get to court. They will settle and turn States evidence because as anyone who knows anything about publishing, they were responsible to fact check this book.  They knew there were no credible sources sighted in the book.

    McGinniss will be hung out to dry.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    It wasn’t a threat, threats and warnings have no teeth, but  a demand letter, which has very long fangs with intent to use them.  A demand letter, is a precursor to pending legal action.  The demand letter gives Random House the option of admitting wrongdoing and retracting.

    The demand letter also made it very clear that Joe Mcginniss had revoked any lawyer client privilege when he disclosed to a third party in the email what he and RH lawyers were discussing and not to hide or destroy any correspondence relating to the matter. This means that any and all correspondence RH lawyers had with Joe and others would have to be given to Palin’s lawyers if she pursues legal action.  I very much doubt RH wants all their dirty laundry aired in public during discovery process. They may just retract, pull the book, and offer Palin an out of court settlement.
     
    This could get very interesting in short order.

  • Anonymous

    You know what? Sarah Palin’s still the liar, not Joe, and God knows that, too. NOTHING at all she can do or say changes that fact, and never will, either. That, really, underneath her bullshit bravado just makes her a coward is all. She’d never, ever sue Levi Johnston for his book about her because she definitely knows nothing he wrote about her, and her family are lies. What’s more, she, and Bristol also definitely know they’ll never really ever get away from the cruelty they cast upon the whole Johnston family. She just figures, now, why do more damage to them then I already have? Once more, face it, she, and Bristol are both just nasty, little, and cowardly liars. Oh, and by the way, Sarah Palin’s not the Governor of Alaska anymore. She quit in 2009. Thus, it’s just false, delusional, cowardly, and very stupidly retarded for her followers to keep referring to her still as “Governor Palin” when she’s really just not anymore, and never will be, again.————————- Liberal always, and forever, and always honest,  Kelly Joanne Cannon  

  • Nonna376

    palins running out of money so she will sue,seeing that her flock is realizing she lap dances for money that allows her a life of luxury. the media whor-

  • Nonna376

    palins running out of money so she will sue,seeing that her flock is realizing she lap dances for money that allows her a life of luxury. the media whor-

  • Anonymous

    LOL, really hit your nervey thingy hey.

    Why should she sue a worthless little punk like Levi, his wittle book was dead meat before it was even released.  Joe McPenis his now whining that even Olberman at Current TV has standards and canceled his interview, same with Maher at HBO, as well as Mourning Joe at PMSNBC, PBS, NPR and other lefty venues.  They smell blood in the water and do not want to expose their deep pockets same as RH and Joe have done.  Joyless B and her gang slapped McPenis around like a pinata about his Palin lies when he made an apperance there.  Same for CNN, Piers Morgan on his show ripped McPenis apart about his unsubstanciated lies.

    By going after a deep pocket enemy like Random House and their tawdry little companion Joe McPenis, she is going to win and send a message to your punk friends to take a long pause before messing with the mamma grizzly.

    Have your heard Rice the BB player smells green $ and may be considering his own law suit against McPenis and RH for lying about what he said.  This is in addition to “GOVERNOR” Palin’s brother, her father, the Palin’s exbusiness partner are all rumored to be lawyering up to bring suits.

    Oh, and as to GOVERNOR Palin?  What about your cigar sex pervert hero, convicted liar, disbarred lawyer  and impeached Bill Clinton, no doubt you still refer to him as president clintoon.  Right?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    Sister Sarah is at her best playing the victim role. She always turns it into $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    You’re a lunatic. Thanks for your ignorant reply.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    GO…SARAH….GO!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Moose-Woman’s not gonna sue anyone.  Too much truth & reality out there.  She keeps forgetting she’s a Rat-Wing hillbilly.

  • Rio

    Keith Olbermann a Palinbot too?  One does not have to be a Palinbot to see the hate being generated by a few loose cannons.  I see no objectivity in any of the postings of the Palin haters, you are all becoming quite deranged before our very eyes.  Rational? lol!  do you even understand the definition of the word?  If so, try it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    I don’t think Sarah will win this lawsuit if she sues Joe McGinniss even know the book is nothing but lies & slander & smears as well it will be hard to prove that it’s defamation.

  • Anonymous

    This is just only for Sarah, and Bristol Palin, especially “former”, and “former only, and always former Governor “quitter” Sarah Palin, who just recently commented in an article, that she just likes to stir things up at times, just to get people fighting aggressively, and bullyishly, and promote the completely ungodly false, and stupid ideas that apologies and forgiveness are wrong, stir up war, basically, death is more romantic, and not actually senseless, cruel, and just stupid, using wrong actions as a sympathy card to hurt, and control other people is right, according to her, taking responsibility for one’s actions is wrong, and that peace is wrong. That “more game-playing than actual doing”, and relying on manipulation, and dishonesty to get through endeavors is right, and acceptable. Now this from the woman who’s now STILL just “game-playing, more so than actual doing” wants to now act patronizingly, and patheticly, as though, she has some control, and power over our self-esteem, and not us, ourselves, by promoting, stirring, these completely false, and wrong ideals, again, as if she’s God, and God’s not really God. Well, I’m just here, again, to write, to confirm to her, and her followers, that that’s again, nothing but a total, and complete bullshit lie as well, very untrue, indeed. Sarah, honey, I had that big strength, and fire, within me, far, and long before I ever even heard about you, lady, and your corrupt political shenanigans. You didn’t ever give it to me or ever bring it out within me,  not once, thus you, nor Bristol get that credit, at all, never will, only I, and our lord, God did. That’s all, and that’s what’s really true, and always will be. Ha!———————————Very Sincerely, Liberal, always, and always tells it like it is, always,  Kelly Joanne Cannon

  • Anandaloha

    If she wants to file a lawsuit she will have to prove the claims are false (discovery). Joe will then have the the right to subpoena ANYBODY with knowledge and force them to testify. There’s not a chance in hell she’s going to sue anyone. It took his lawyers 4 months to go over his information. Do you think they’d let that happen?

  • Anonymous

    I’ve decided that now, I really do truly forgive Sarah and Bristol Palin for their evil, and dishonest games in my heart, and for God. Make no mistake at all, I still don’t believe what they did is right. I certainly don’t regret or take back one bit anything I wrote towards either one of them,and never will. Also, again, Sarah Palin, nor Bristol never were, and certainly, not now, or ever, in any way, shape, or form, responsible for my fiery tigerish, lionish assertiveness, or self-esteem. And if Sarah decides tomorrow, or sometime soon, oh I’m back in my political game of “playing more so than doing”, I’ll only fully jump right back into my fiery as a blazing furnace, tigerish, and lioness form, and keep right on fighting for what I believe is honestly, and ethicly right for God, regarding our country, not what’s dishonestly and unethicly wrong for it, because that’s my right as an American, too, and I really do care about the rights of myself, my wonderful family, my friends, and other people in the world whom I don’t even know, always will. My liberal voice is loud, and  counts as much as anyone else’s and always will. Nobody tells me what to do. I’m only in charge of me, what I do, and what choices I make. Nobody else at all, ever, has controlling power over me, and honestly, never did. I know me a helluva lot better than anyone else in this world ever could. I’m not afraid of anyone, anymore, in the least.  Nobody tells me when I should forgive, nor when I shouldn’t forgive, either. I only listen to God, and my heart is all. Thus, again, now, I really do forgive these two people deep within my heart, and for our wonderful lord, God, and his son, Jesus. May God continue to bless them, and their family, now, and always, daily, with safety, great happiness, and great health.—————————————————–Liberal, always, and forever, and always, really just tells it like it is, and always will,  Very Sincerely, Kelly Joanne Cannon        

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know. Maybe Sarah Palin’s out of the game, and maybe, right now, she’s still in. I’d certainly never talk about she, and Bristol, as though, I like either one of them at all, and never will, ever, again. Uh-uh. No way at all. I also just can’t lay down though in the way of allowing some idiot fool clowns like them, to muse/think they actually have power over what I do, or say, and not me. No way will that ever happen, or ever did happen. Uh-uh. Thus, that’s also a big part what my above forgiveness post is about. President Obama has been working very honestly, and smartly, on our country’s job plan, diligently, daily, and minding his own business, some others might actually be more productive to our country if they’d only done the same instead of turning their lives into a stupid, blondelike, comedy, gossipy, coyly, vindictively backbiting, and just completely nonsensical soap opera storyline like some other politicians have been doing for the most part, lately.  He’s also been adamantly against any short-term extension, like that would just automatically fix the nation’s deficit, and job problem because he knows it could just cause our country’s credit rating to be downgraded, causing harm to our economy, just putting more Americans out of work, causing every American to pay higher credit cards rates, and also for home, and car loans. Obama’s also not stupidly greedy, and doesn’t only want more, and more on his plate than he deserves. He only wants to do what’s right for our country, and just works real hard at it, daily. He’s also not absurdly oversensitive to what tv comedians, book authors, or any other people say about him. He doesn’t care about that, and knows what’s really important. He’s not unrealisticly backwards, or prejudicedly backwards. I trust President Obama fully. He’s a good, kind man, and president. I will most definitely fully support him, his job program for Americans, and vote for him in 2012. —————————Liberal, always, and forever, always really tells it like it is,    Kelly Joanne Cannon

  • Anonymous

    sarah palin no good

  • Anonymous

    Sarah palin no good

  • madeline owens

    You Idiot, did you see anything of the 2008 presidential election?

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