"The Spy Next Door III: Summer Rental" Edition...
Daria DiGiovanni:
"In this latest and most disturbing demonstration of PDS to date — as if hacking into her private email, photoshopping her Down syndrome baby, promulgating the repugnant theory that her youngest child was actually the offspring of her eldest daughter, spreading false divorce rumors about her and her husband Todd, and mis-characterizing her every word and action weren’t enough — McGinniss just achieved an unprecedented low by taking up residence just 15 feet away from the Palin’s Alaskan home. Despite the fact that countless biographers before him have managed to write about their subjects without actually invading their privacy, supporters of McGinniss have defended his move from Massachusetts to Alaska as business-as-usual for an investigative reporter."Tim Blair:
"So, according to Weigel, little Joe McGinniss is the innocent victim here. How dare Palin use the might of Facebook against this gentle fellow?"Daniel Cecchini:
"If you have to be a creepy stalker to find dirt on someone who’s been investigated, slandered, and trashed nine ways to Sunday already, chances are there is probably not much to find. If there was, it would’ve been in the news a year ago. Note to Joe: People like guns in Alaska. Don’t get caught digging through their garbage."Caleb Howe:
"Anyone who can’t see the creep factor in this either has their blinders on or their blinds closed and their binoculars out. (Lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground.) The smarmy lefties batting their eyelashes and coyly pretending not to see a problem aren’t fooling anyone... Bottom line: they’ll come to your home. Whether in a mob of 500 for an afternoon, or an army of one guy in boxer shorts and black socks clutching a pair of binoculars on a deck overlooking a child’s bedroom. Like Megyn Kelly said, it may not be illegal, but it is 'so wrong.'"The Las Vegas Badger:
"This is shameful conduct by the author and his publisher. This is out and out intimidation by this stalker."Marooned in Marin:
"The Left since 2008 has constantly given Sarah Palin the typical derision they give all conservatives--dumb, hayseed hick. Well, if she's that unintelligent, why does this stalking muckraker McGinnis feel the need to move next door. They won't admit it...they're afraid of her because she's the real thing! Sick liberals are cheering this stalking of a public figure. I thought liberals were the ones who lectured us about "privacy." So much for that. Of course, they could care less that she's also a mom with young children."Mark Hemingway:
"Wow. Just wow."Catron:
"If you thought Andrew Sullivan’s morbid obsession with Palin was seriously weird, you were right. It would appear, however, that there is at least one creep who has managed to surpass sicko Sully... And it gets even creepier... I guess the Sarahphobes are already drooling just imagining the salacious BS this peeping Tom is going to feed them. How empty their pathetic little lives must be. How neurotic our politics have become."Kevin Drum:
"I have to wonder: am I the only lefty around who finds McGinniss's action a little disturbing?"Michael Silence:
"One journo opines, 'It should come as a surprise to only naive newspaper readers that every day journalists treat the subjects of investigations the way Joe McGinniss is treating Sarah Palin.' Um, hello. That's not true. In my neck of the woods that's called stalking. And she's being investigated? For what? To see if the pricey dresses were ever returned? Let's just call it the way it is: McGinniss is looking to sell books. Nothing wrong with that. It's just the way he's going about it is downright creepy."Flopping Aces:
"Dude….seriously? What a freak!"HillBuzz:
"Creepy McGinniss — an author who has rented the house next to theirs so he can peep into little Piper’s window, spy on the Governor as she works in her garden, and generally be gross and stalkerish for the next five months. Maybe he’ll even pose for Playgirl, too. That’s what the louses who normally stalk the Palins do... The part that really bothers us about all of this is that this man, Joe McGinniss, has been seen with binoculars trying to peep into Piper’s window."Truth or Wisdom:
"The Palin family must now deal with someone who calls himself an author, Joe McGinniss, but he is more like a parasite, leach, or flat-out scumbag."Assistant Village Idiot:
"Sarah Palin seems to have this remarkable ability to get people to say stupid things when they attack her. So sure that this time we've got the goods, they say the most amazing things... Now it is ramping up to doing insane things. A furious critic, intent on writing an unauthorised biography, has moved in next door to her to watch her. That is more than a little creepy. I don't know there's anything illegal about it, but it smacks of an enormous intrusiveness and depersonalization. It's just nuts... Sarah Matadora. Olé."Doug Powers:
"I’m sure McGinniss will now run to City Hall and spend a week feverishly researching if the Palins obtained the proper building permits [for the fence]."Kelly McBride:
"I don't think renting the house is necessarily crossing the line, but gathering information that can be distorted and taken out of context that you're gathering from renting the house next door -- that's problematic. She's essentially being put under surveillance -- that's what she's afraid of, and that's what I'd be afraid of too. There's so much that can be misconstrued. Families are pretty complicated, and what you observe will need to be put into proper context with other forms of more traditional reporting."Bluegrass Pundit:
"McGinnissis a creep and borderline stalker. There is nothing wrong with him writing a book about Sara Palin, but when you move next door for research, that is the stuff of thriller movies."Quiddity:
"That's my view, that a place of residence is off limits from the eyes of a reporter, at least in this case. It's not as if Palin is doing something of note at her home, like counterfeiting money or cooking up moonshine, that mandates a peek. McGinniss is out of line."Freedom's Lighthouse:
"This is beyond creepy."A Traditional Life Lived:
"Mr. McGinnis is writing an expose' about the former Governor and he just can't get her to cooperate willingly so he has decided that peering into their home from his new back deck is just the way to get the dirt he needs. Maybe he can write about what's in their trash.....that outta fit right into a book like this."- JP
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