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.

It’s been a long week for The Rogue author Joe McGinniss as he has toured the media in anticipation of the release of his Sarah Palin biography. But he began this one with one of the harder interviews he has encountered yet– with Piers Morgan, who questioned his foray into the “tabloid mire” and asked directly whether his methods in writing the book weren’t borderline “creepy.”

Lawrence O’Donnell has made a bit of a sub-segment on his program of playing Duck Hunt with what he considered ridiculous presidential threats from sure losers. He first shot down, repeated, the potential Republican presidential bid of Donald Trump, and now that Sarah Palin is “echoing Donald Trump’s looney mantra of ‘I can win,’” O’Donnell is out to make mincemeat of that prospect, too.

Blind Allegiance author Frank Bailey promised that his book would uncover the horrible scam that Sarah Palin perpetrated on Alaskans when she lost sight of her promises to the state and sold herself to the limelight. But the Palin he thinks he depicted in his book seems to have eluded Bill O’Reilly, who in his interview with Bailey last night insisted that the Palin in his book was “pretty good!”

The recent release of thousands of emails from the period in which Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska amounted to no surprises or scandals, and while the request was from 2008, the mainstream media is receiving plenty of heat from observers who considered the excitement over the release overkill. Among the unlikely supporters of Palin in this battle are stars Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, who took to Twitter to decry the email review as “repulsive.”

In a news cycle dominated by a nude Congressman and an election more than a year away, the Sarah Palin email dump may have almost been a breath of fresh air– had there been anything remote interesting in her files. On tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart berated the media for looking for their Palin drug hit and taking the rest of the country on a wild goose chase through files of mundane bureaucratic files.

Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino appeared on Fox & Friends this morning and enjoyed the fact that Sarah Palin was able to score a victory over the media. Steve Doocy asked Perino for her thoughts on newspapers asking their readers to do their “dirty work” and sift through Palin’s emails, something Perino found amusing especially since Palin won in the end.

The three-year-late Sarah Palin email dump has yet to produce any illegal behavior or seedy language (other than some talk about rock bands), but it certainly has raised some suspicion on her aesthetic choices– namely, her contemplation of installing a tanning bed in the governor’s mansion. Last night/this morning, the Red Eye crew explored the recent developments from the release and the potential scandals that could actually harm Palin’s reputation.

While the thousands of pages of email correspondence released this week from the years Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska have yet to provide any smoking guns, they certainly have their amusing moments, as Rachel Maddow explored last night. Among them, messages about controversial religious figures, some notes about rumors surrounding her family, and invitations to concerts that suggesting bringing “beef, tequila, and condoms.”

As the time for Sarah Palin to make a decision on a potential presidential campaign approaches, many are speculating that a general election run would require the brazen conservative to embrace the center in a way the national audience has yet to see. But those who doubt her talent for bipartisanship must know little about her career in Alaska, where Atlantic senior editor Joshua Green writes Palin made her name on the political corpses of corrupt Republicans and supported both gay rights and reproductive freedoms..

According to a report in the Anchorage Daily News, a leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin‘s closest aides from her time as governor charges that Palin broke state election law in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and was consumed by petty grievances up until she resigned. The News, which says it obtained a leaked copy of the manuscript Friday, describes the book by Frank Bailey “opens with an account of Palin sending Bailey a message saying ‘I hate this damn job’ shortly before she resigned as Alaska’s governor in July 2009.”

America awoke this morning to a new civil war– no, not in Libya (that one’s old by now) or Syria or Yemen, but on the internet, where Sarah Palin used her regular column on Facebook.com to trash conservative site The Daily Caller. How did the site that took down Ezra Klein’s Journolist become public enemy #1 for Lady Columbia herself? Simple: they deigned to publish a quote of hers in the second page of an article, where no one with Palin’s attention span would ever read it.

Sarah Palin took a break from the neverending political firestorm that surrounds her today to address a badly-sourced National Enquirer story linking her husband Todd to a madam/prostitute arrested in Anchorage last March. Calling in to a radio talk show in Alaska this morning, Palin noted that such “b.s.” was especially “painful” because it came from Alaskans and went viral internationally thereafter.

Most people following the case against Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange would probably argue that he and his legal team are in no position to be thinking about prosecuting anyone else, but that hasn’t precluded Assange’s attorney from threatening to do just that. In an interview with NPR, attorney Robert Stary threatened legal action against, of all people, Sarah Palin for “incit[ing] others to commit violence” against Assange, a crime, he says, that could result in “private prosecution.”

Only one more episode until TLC‘s Sarah Palin’s Alaska calls it a season. But before the fun is over, Sarah Palin, meet chainsaw. On the “Logging” episode of her reality show, Palin learned how to chop down a tree and jumped right in to “one of the most dangerous jobs,” by taking a chainsaw to the tree faster than she can fire off one of her tweets.

I’m taking a quick sojourn away from my normal home over at Sports Grid, because an announcement of the World Cup’s future host nations is kind of important. As you may have heard, the United States bid to host the 2022 games fell short, and the Middle East’s Qatar will bring that corner of the world it’s first truly major sporting spotlight in just twelve years time.

Breaking: Sarah Palin has said something negative about the media. Today, the ex-governor chatted with the hosts of Anchorage’s Bob & Mark Morning Show—and, sure enough, the talk soon turned to the mean old people of the press. Specifically, Palin was discussing former Mediaite contributor John Ziegler‘s documentary, Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.

Likely Alaskan Senate race winner Lisa Murkowski sat down with the most famous Sarah Palin-interviewer, Katie Couric, yesterday.

Murkowski sounded confident she’d win in the CBS Evening News interview – and also took some shots at Palin.

Alaska’s polls were the last to close in the nation last night (or today, depending where you are), but it may be a while before we know who snagged the hotly-contested Senate seat there. Reports this morning indicate that “Write-in Votes” was leading the results with nearly 40 percent of the vote.

Alaska network KTVA, which came under fire when two employees were caught on an inadvertently recorded phone conversation conspiring to find negative stories on Alaska Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller, has released a press statement defending their coverage and announcing the dismissal of the two reporters on the phone call from their duties with the channel.

The Alaska Senate race remains one of the most interesting – not just because there are three candidates, but because all three candidates actually have a shot of winning.

While Joe Miller was dealing with the lamestream media over the weekend, it was his opponent Lisa Murkowski involved in some campaign storylines.

Apparently, people aren’t done making video imitations of that infamous Old Spice commercial just yet—even Sesame Street recently jumped on the bandwagon. Now Joe Miller, Alaska’s Republican Senate candidate, has made his own Old Spice Guy-inspired campaign ad.

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has poised herself to become the Alaskan Charlie Crist by launching a write-in campaign to keep her seat in November. Her former primary opponent Joe Miller reacted to the news that he had to defeat her a second time on last night’s On the Record, where he told Greta van Susteren he wasn’t completely surprised with her “stunning” decision, given the “fairly nasty voicemail” she left him after losing.

As planned, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck appeared together on stage last night in front of a crowd of 4,000 screaming fans (some screaming less nice things than others, apparently). The line to get in was so long that the show reportedly started 45 minutes late. The NYT reports: “One protestor…stood outside holding a “Palin and Beck 2012” sign captioned “Lipstrick and Dipstick.”

Author Joe McGinniss, whose rental of the property next to Camp Palin in Wasilla, Alaska earned him his own Facebook note and a decent month of bad publicity at the hands of Governor Sarah, is calling “mission accomplished.” McGinniss told the AP over the weekend that his controversial stay– and his research– is over.