Now I’m no Palin fan, but this McGinniss sounds to me like a big ol’ bag of douche. This guy clearly has an ax to grind and I have no interest in the character destruction that McGinniss wishes to perpertrate on the Palin family. Politics schmolitics, Palin doesn’t deserve this (if it’s not true). Even if it is true, what does this contribute to our national dialogue? Nothing, I tell you!

What a cowardly assbite!

All this Mac guy’s book does is drum up new support for Palin, and from the most oddest of places.

Olbermann defended Palin against this book; what does that tell ya?

Seriously!?!?

Even Keith “Expletive Deleted” Olbermann denounced this book.

I hate Palin, and even I see fit to e-punch McGinniss.

Im not going to defend this guy but at the end of the day its tabloid journalism. It happens to almost every celebrity. How many books were written about Bill Clinton being a murderer? Is he a dope for writing the book sure, but this is what happens when you put yourself in the public eye. Hell Princess Diana died because she was chased down by Paparazzi . All you have to do is look on the supermarket rack weekly and see crazy stories about everyone all the time. Or go into any book store pick a politician and there is a book written by some goofball using bullshit sources to try and make a buck. He is a dope but in the world he resides no more of a dope than many many pundits and so called authors. In a way I find it funny because the right accuses the left of going after Palin more than anyone else like she is some type of saint and she shouldn’t be made to go through this grinder like many have before her.  She chose this life. I know I wouldn’t ever want someone going through all my crap in the past. There is a price to be paid for fame and she’s paying it.

Mike Tyson loves Joe McGinniss and, Joe McGinniss loves Mike Tyson.

Hard to take a lecture on ethics seriously from Piers, who wears an “I love Murdoch” button under his blazer.

Wanker Piers used to work for tabloids… guess he knows about “‘tabloid’ tactics.”  

You hate Palin? Really?

You have problems, idiot. I whole heartedly hate Obama’s policies, but I stop there. You need to re-examine your life if some chick who holds zero power to effect your piddly little life derives “hate” in your heart.

I’ll remember this the next time you bitch about someone digging through Obama’s past.

Just couldn’t watch those two crotchety old hags. They make you want to call the Orkin man.

Digging through there past is one thing.  The press NEVER did that on Obama.  They treated him different because he is black.  

Digging through there past is one thing.  The press NEVER did that on Obama.  They treated him different because he is black.  

It’s an “unauthorized” biography; every article written about that makes it clear…you should update your to reflect that.

This guy is a pedophile creep who shouldn’t be giventhe time of day, just like you guys gave Tyson’s garbage air when you should not have, you should not have given this guy the time of day or the benefit of an article.

Racist.

“Hate” is a cheap word in our vernacular. Clearly, no one who posts at this site has a close enough relationship with either McGinnis or the Half-Baked Alaskan to hate either. But I think your reference to President Obama and the dichotomy of feeling you have between President Obama and his policies doesn’t work with reference to the H-BA, Jason. Although with some people and with a number of posters at Mediaite, the strong reaction to President Obama is not policy-based but is inherently and distinctly racial and racist. I don’t put you in that vile, despicable group, and I take you at your word that you feelings are policy-based. But, how could a general feeling of revulsion about the H-BA be policy-based. What policy? Has she ever articulated anything of substance? No. As such, if one has a negative reaction to the H-BA it has to go to either the absence of substance or to matters stylistic or to both.

And, Rupert is the Tabloid Titan. So, what’s your point?

…ahh but just like McGuinness, Mediaite knows that any negative mention of Palin gets hits so…

p.s. come to think of it – Mediaite has never run a positive article on Palin (shocked I tell you)

THATS RICH COMING FROM THE TABLOID KING PIERS MORGAN

Joe McGinniss is a creepy stalker!This book would be universally condemned if this were about a lefty!Even independents can see the craziness from the left. 

So you are suggesting that if someone wrote a book about Hillary or someone on the left, that the conservatives and their news sites/blogs would ignore it? Come on.

    Did Mike Tyson sleep with her too?

You do realize that authorized biographies are fluff pieces designed to promote the subjects and are generally held in very low repute. You’ve mixed the concepts.

Yep, ironic.

The man knows his tabloid trash and McGinniss seeks of it.

gee, so hard to imagine why the Palin’s were upset about this guy moving in next door…. What a jerk. 

And why should an unsourced, unverified alleged coke story matter to anyone? It didn’t do diddly to harm Obama’s political career, and he admitted to using. 

Piers: “So, Joe; you allege Miss Heath & Mr. Rice used either a college dorm room or a hotel for a tryst? So, which was it? Which did Mr. Rice say it was? There aren’t so many hotels around Anchorage, and they keep records: driver’s license, tag number, register sign-ins. Did you “investigate” to confirm or reject the hotel theory?”  Joe: “Aah, no. Just reporter’s intuition, and all…like Dan Rather & Norah O’Donnell…”

The media’s fear of being called racist prevented them from looking into Obama’s college days.

 Hey Joe, you racist lying piece of tabloid tras. The reason the good people of Wasilla did not want to talk to you was not intimidation, but an underrstanding that a journalistic hack such as yourself was not interested in the truth about the Palins’ success story. No, your interest lies in sensationalism and hearsay. Your nothing but creepy little man, a gossip collumnist with an agenda. An agenda to smear someones name in the hopes the uber left will embrace you as some sort of hero. You are all disturbed people who need to get a life 

Actually the support for Obama is 100% racial which is from black racists and extremely guilt ridden white people.

Wow this is the guy that wrote that book?! What a loser, and we’re to believe what he says because? This had to be evediance that he thinks all of us are stupid to believe him. Oh well what am I saying 52 % voted for Obama, so maybe hes playing to them.

Don’t you wish someone had dissected Obama like they have been doing to Palin for 3 years. Our nation wouldn’t be in the toilet right now. Plus no one is going to do this to Obama while running for second election. When you say this is what happens to people when they put themselves out there. Well no more then Obama as the president.

A typical tabloid type book about a typical tabloid type person.  I’d be surprised if this book sells much – there’s been too much about it on the news and it just confirms Palin’s persona.

Sarah’s finished anyway – this book comes on the tail of a flameout.  Soon Sarah will announce she’s not running and will go back to Alaska.  She’s been awful quiet since Labor Day.  I think even SHE is tiring of the game.

So very true. Maybe some of these ” white guilt” people will put aside for the good of there nation. I have friends that did that and said that they did that. I ask them you sold out your nation for making a statement that you’re not a racist?! What a price to pay. Blacks are proven to be racist and they could care less if you know it. So what are talking about here. One race can do it and be excepted and another race does it and they get crucified. Not saying that racism is exceptable but call out both races when they do it.

“You are all disturbed people who need to get a life.”
Like by supporting Sarah’s run for the presidency?

I disagree about your reason Wasillans wouldn’t talk about Sarah.  It’s a small town and few will want to speak against her – it won’t be long before she moves back, though I can see her moving somewhere else after she declines to run.

Is the Wasilla Sports Complex paying for itself or is it a financial burden?

 None of this matters – it’s just trash.

No, and I’m sure neither did Glen. But why not say you did if you want to give your career a jolt, use Palins name. The media loves to report anything and everything nagative about Palin. So make up anything about Palin, however it has to be nasty and vicious. And the next day you will be interviewed by the Today show. Or otherwise known as ” Obama re-election headquarters”

That’s the real issue – admitting one has/had faults and moving on, or saying everyone else is bad and you (and your followers) are the only good people/Real Americans while supporting ones existence with constant criticism and finger-pointing.  

You think! They know that any article on Palin is going to bring out the haters.

Not at all… McGinnis is just trying to make a few bucks.
I’m an independent and consider the book a none issue – and I see more craziness from the right (mostly because they think “trickle down” economics will work).

I have no idea, nor do I care, whether Obama dated white women before he went to college.  I am interested in his relationships with Bill Ayers, the pastor of the church he attended for 20 years, his voting record (“present”) as those are relevant to the beliefs he’ll operate under as president.  Whether Palin as a single gal slept with a black basketball player in her sister’s dorm room?  Not so relevant.

I think the only question is what new scheme she will cook up to keep her name out there. 

I don’t know how much of the book is true, and I don’t much care. The Half-Baked Alaskan’s bright lights were only a small grease fire in a skillet. What gives me pause about the coke story, however, is:

- It does have a ring of authenticity to it. She, the Second (or Later) Dude and other White Trash gathered around snorting coke off of dirty, rusty oil barrel. Sounds very Alaskan to me.

- The Half-Baked Alaskan comes out swinging at even the smallest, most inconsequential slight. She has been uncharacteristically muted about this.

    Boy, you don’t know a joke when you read it. And Today as re-election headquarters? Paranoid, a little? Actually, this morning they interviewed an author who has a new book that is negative about the Obama White House. Now, back to your basement and wipe the Cheetos dust off your pajamas.

It is already quietly accepted among many blacks that Barack Obama dated white girls while in college and possibly in high school in Hawaii.  After he met Michelle, there were no other women for him.

As Obama and Ayers both have said, their relationship did not extend beyond their being on a community or some such board.  Period.  There is nothing underneath those sofa cushions.

As for his relationship with “the pastor,” Jeremiah Wright, it was said that he was a black father-figure to Obama.  Examine your relationship with your dad.  You don’t always do things the way he wanted you to do, do you?

Half-Baked Alaskan !!!
Half-Baked Alaskan !!!

*2 drinks*

Did celebrity Mr. Morgan get a bonus from teabagging debate channel CNN for being their rabid attack dog on a guest who is besmirching the Queen of the Teabaggers honor? Talk about lamestream theatrics by a “host” who already had their mind made up before the guest entered. Now imagine what kind of interview Larry King would have done. Even if he may disagree with a guest, he was always respectful while getting to the meat of the matter. How I miss him!

Given her previous rhetoric, it would seem like she might be hiding somewhere for a while. She can not ignore the rice hook up, she may need to give a tearful Dianne Sawyer explanation centering on her repentence and subsequent re-birth in the Lord.

I’m thinking she may rent the worlds largest hot-air balloon and land on the white house lawn. That should do the trick.

This comment reminds me of a rape victim who “allegedly” deserved what she got because she had the audacity to become a public figure. Disgusting, really.

Morgan is hardly running solo. The New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer have all called out this loser author for what he is. Too bad it pops your thought bubble.

Go back into the dark tunnel you came out of Chris. You’re just upset because it doesn’t fit your ambition of trashing a female who has more testosterone than you.

You’re living proof that web sites should require a proof of age.

2 drinks of your own leakage.

Sounds like a reach, but do as you wish. 

Sarah washed out a while back – 70% of everyone saying you shouldn’t run means it’s time to give it up.  If Sarah was going to run, she’d have entered the race before/soon after Bachmann.  Now even Bachmann is washing out.  O’Donnell is gone and I don’t think she’ll make another attempt – some people don’t know when to quit.  Seems voters are getting more serious about major issues and who might be able to beat Obama.  There’s not enough room for a lot of sideshows at this point.  Palin dragged it out too long, and Bachmann tossed it when she promised $2 gas – O’Donnell got nominated because normal Republicans sat out the primary (that won’t happen again).

The McGinnis book is no different from Bristol’s or Levi’s books – both cater to the Enquiring mind. Let ‘em make money if they can… hopefully they’ll circulate earnings and help the economy.

You dodged the question: Is the Sports Complex a burden on Wasilla’s budget or does it draw enough events to pay for itself (and hopefully generate some revenue)?  It was a huge cost for a small city.

You’re comment “You’re just upset because it doesn’t fit your ambition of trashing a female who has more testosterone than you” makes no sense.  I’m not trashing anyone – I’m just stating some points.

I’m old enough to do anything…

Sarah’s actually done pretty well about responding to BS.   She ignored Rove’s thin skin comment (though proved his point during the O’Donnell/Indianola issue), and she’s made no comment about this book – and just as well.

Her time is drawing down.  She said she’d announce by the end of September, and even though she could postpone it, primary registration deadlines start Oct 31.  I think she’s afraid of backing out because of disappointing her supporters and the media losing interest (not to mention a flurry of “see I told ya she wasn’t gonna run” articles and posts) – some of her extremely dedicated supporters will be emotionally crushed.

 I think she’ll retire…   When she declines to run, her credibility will be ruined after taking so long to “decide” (i.e. dragging the game out to the last minute) to a point where her endorsements won’t help anyone.  This book may be an embarrassment, but it won’t affect her political standing – not after the Fox poll showed 70% of all voting blocs (Republicans, Tea Party members, and Dems/Indys) don’t want her to run.  Also have to wonder how many she could draw at fundraisers after this.  Gotta remember how few put out effort to see her movie – and I’ve heard nothing about PPV sales (and is Walmart still supposed to receive 250,000 copies of The Undefeated on Oct 1???).  The whole thing is falling apart.  I think “Palin burnout” is even contributing to reduced interest in Bachmann.

 Don’t they bring up his past all the time? Didn’t the republicans bring up John Kerrys past when they swiftboated him? This guy is out to make a buck in the sleezeball world of tell all books nothing more nothing less. Palin is his target big deal. I don’t even care because she is irrelevant.

Hey formerly TfT:

Back up the pedophile claim.  Seriously.  Back it up with something other than what Palin said about him (and Letterman).

Had you left out the pedophile word, I just would have thought “yep, good ol crazy TfT”. 

But I’m sick of you Palinites propogating that claim without ANYTHING to back it up.  Just like your idol, $acred $arah who likes to hail from her Facebook Fortress.

No kidding, Zacky.  ”Pot…meet Kettle.”  

Morgan was an entertainment reporter for The Sun (1989–94), and editor of News of the World (1994–95) and the Daily Mirror (1995–04). He did plenty of damage to people’s reputations at all of them, and laughed about it all the way to the bank. Lying, exaggerati­ng, going for the jugular…­the whole ball o’ wax.

After having practically been run out of Britain on a rail, Morgan took Simon Cowell’s advice and moved to the U.S. where American viewers don’t really know his tawdry tabloid history. Now Morgan’s sordid past is being exposed along with every other low life snarling jackal at NoTW, etc. Without a public acknowledg­ment–inde­ed, an apology for deceiving the public during his years as an editor for not one but three notorious British tabloids–­I don’t think Morgan will ever be able to wash the stink off himself from being mentored by Rupert Murdoch and Kelvin Mackenzie, both repulsive yellow journalist­s. Now he’s trotting himself out as a quality but “dangerous­” mainstream interviewe­r on CNN. Shame on CNN for hiring this disreputab­le and lame excuse for a journalist­. It’s a sad day for journalism when Piers Morgan is considered “quality journalism­.”

Piers Morgan is questioning someone else’s tabloid tactics? Seriously? Hand the phone tapper a mirror.