"The Spy Next Door IV: Sargent, Weigel and Sullivan, oh my!" Edition...
Michael Crowley:
"Joe McGinniss should not be living next door to Sarah Palin... This feels like a publicity stunt —- a brilliant one, to be sure, but not a mark of serious journalism... It is bad for journalism. It plays right into the hands of the many people -—including Sarah Palin, who [are] shrewdly ridiculing McGinniss -— with an interest in portraying reporters as creeps with no sense of decency. Journalism faces a credibility crisis, and reporters' motives are under attack by outlets like Fox News, Media Matters and a thousand merciless blogs. Joe McGinniss's very clever but utterly hollow stunt, it seems to me, exacerbates that problem."Vicki McClure Davidson:
"Double standard from liberals on lawlessness and invasion of privacy… no surprise."Gary P. Jackson:
"We have talked about the fact that McGinnis has been stalking Sarah for some time. We talked about his bidding $60,000 to have dinner with her. What we failed to mention is the fact that he pursued her on her book tour. McGinnis 'broke' the story that Sarah Palin, as shocking as it sounds, flies on airplanes. This loon seemed shocked that Sarah Palin wasn’t on her tour bus 24/7 and wrote a hate filled, nonsensical piece about it. You see, what this gutter snipe either couldn’t grasp, or in his zeal to smear Sarah, didn’t care, is the fact that Sarah’s schedule often saw her at a book signing in the morning, with afternoon and evening signings hundreds of miles apart. Many times it was simply impossible to go from one signing to the other by bus, because the distance was greater than the time allotted for travel would allow. As such, her publisher: HarperCollins provided air travel. Pretty standard stuff. We’ve also learned that McGinniss, ignoring all sorts [of] “no trespassing” signs, actually showed up on Sarah’s doorstep trying to give her a book he had written. This is beyond creepy. It’s sick."Jim Treacher:
"The next time some celebrity complains about the paparazzi, ask them if that includes what’s happening to Sarah Palin. If not, why not?"Tennessee Guerilla Women:
"Predictably, normally-sane-sounding bloggers, such as empathy-challenged Greg Sargent, now sound shrill as they defend the 'journalist' and dismiss Sarah Palin's concerns as paranoia... Paranoia? What kind of 'journalist' rents the house next door to your family home in order to write a book about you? So sorry to give you a serious pause Sargent, but Sarah Palin has small children in the home while an obviously sick and obsessive compulsive nut peers from next door."Politik Ditto:
"Wow, creepy...esp. when you consider that Palin has children. Sad that the obsession with citizen Sarah sees no end."Jake Boot:
"First it was Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. Then it was Sarah Palin’s very existence. And now, courtesy of the once-interesting but now completely unhinged blogger/amateur gynecologist Andrew Sullivan, it’s the Palin Family Fence... Poor Sullivan. Once one of the most interesting writers in the blogosphere, the Prince of Provincetown has managed to parlay an exalted state in both the MSM and online into a crude caricature of his former self. The occasion for his latest burst of high dudgeon is the Palin family’s newly constructed fence between their property and a rental house being leased by Joe McGinniss, the writer whose last major book, the true-crime thriller, Fatal Vision, was published in 1983, yet whose name still retains some cachet among his former journalistic brethren. McGinniss is currently at work on a book about… wait for it — Sarah Palin... And media folks wonder why the media is held in such low esteem."The Drawn Cutlass:
"When Sarah Palin Promises To Build A Fence... you can take her at her word"Cristina Espinosa:
"The 'journalist' McGinnis is renting the house next door to Sarah Palin’s home because he is writing a book about her. She is so 'uninteresting' that she deserves all this attention. But he cannot submit to conventional and even unconventional 'acceptable' methods for his research. He is doing it this way because she is a woman, and because not only does he have society’s consent, but a cheering crowd. Jack Shafer of Slate described McGinniss’s approach as 'journalistic a__holery' -– apparently a compliment... Halane’s Perspective: 'this is basically a bully effect... People in our society condone bullying if the bully serves their interest. People are stalking Palin and bullying her and no one cares bc it’s just Sarah. Makes for more joke material for the unclever at cocktail parties.' Again, the big news here is the media condoning and cheering this act"Weasel Zippers:
"I think Mr. McGinniss better get out of Wasilla while the getting is good. From the sound of some of the locals... he’s not going to find any sympathy from anyone there in what he is trying to do."Joe Clarke:
"Ultra Palin-Hater, and author with peccable ethics, Joe McGinnis is attempting to outdo some of his previous sleeze journalism after moving next door and inhabiting a house 15 feet from Sarah Palin's household of children and grandchildren. Evidently, he was lured by a Palin hatin' neighbor... Maybe a study of the mystery and intrigue of those associated with the publisher Random House, and how it has forefeited all virtue and integrity by not just enlisting an author to 'peek into Piper's bedroom' (according to Palin), but so many other distortions of truth and Americanism provided by Random House through the years. How would the editors and publishers at Random House enjoy snoops tracking them down and invading their lives?"Silent E:
"He Can Dish It Out But... apparently Sarah Palin’s new neighbor/stalker, Joe McGinniss can’t take the same crap he dishes out"Penny Nance:
"Palin is a conservative and, therefore, fair game because there is a double-standard. What if the public figure we are discussing was Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California)? The so-called 'feminist' groups would go wild. If a conservative blogger moved in next door and monitored her comings and goings 24/7 (perhaps even listening in on her conversations) we would never hear the end of it. Of course, the left would be right to be upset because it’s WRONG... Where are the feminists on this? I recommend the left carefully think through their reaction to Sarah Palin’s plight, otherwise, they may find their friends in similar circumstances."Larry Johnson:
"McGinniss pulling this stunt says a whole lot about him and his character. The sheer arrogance and hubris of such a move, figuratively and literally, is telling indeed."Rachelle Friberg:
"This guy is out to target and destroy Sarah, and it seems nothing other than maybe a very high fence can keep him out. I don’t deny that it is this man’s First-Amendment right to write any sort of book he wants to, but did he really have to move right next door to the Palin family to write it? This is not only creepy, but downright outrageous... This man is acting more like a member of the paparazzi than a friendly neighbor. If this man has any dignity at all, he will respect the Palin family’s privacy, but something tells me this man will not give up until he has the expose he seems so intent on writing. I do not blame Sarah for being upset. I find it hypocritical that members of the loony liberal left are calling her a crybaby, but defend celebrities from the paparazzi. I do not see the difference. Once again, the liberal left have no shred of common decency when it comes to defending Sarah Palin. They are unable to clearly see when a line has been crossed."Mo Elleithee:
"I am no Sarah Palin fan. But on this, she is absolutely right... This journalist has crossed the line."Jedediah Bila:
"This is an awful, disgusting, sickening situation. And if that was in any way unclear, it’s downright creepy. The fact that author Joe McGinniss and his publishing house—Random House—deemed it appropriate for him to move into a rental space fifteen feet from the Palin home for several months while he writes a book about Sarah Palin, is detestable. I am in no way suggesting that McGinniss doesn’t have the right to author a book about Palin, but I’d like to know what exactly he’s writing that requires him to be within fifteen feet of her house... It’s important to note that Joe McGinniss isn’t just a random author who decided that trampling on Sarah Palin’s privacy is the best way to make a quick buck this year. In March of 2009, he wrote a column for Condé Nast’s Portfolio that was dishonest at best, in which he claimed that Palin was the true impediment to the development of Alaska’s gas-pipeline. In the Fall of 2009, McGinniss bid $60,100 at a Ride 2 Recovery eBay charity auction in order to win the featured prize, dinner with Sarah Palin... In the Fall of 2009, McGinniss stopped by the Palins’ Wasilla house to deliver a copy of... his 1980 book. He also happened to be in The Villages in Florida when Palin was there on her book tour. And now he’ll be sleeping, dining, and peering from just 15 feet away."Jim Hoft:
"Palin-hater Joe McGinnis moved next door to the Palins to work on a book he’s writing about the former governor. That’s weird."Gary P. Jackson:
"Joe McGinniss... is the most unhinged, unethical, untrustworthy, bottom feeding parasite, in what can laughingly be called 'journalism...' It’s well documented that McGinniss has been stalking Sarah Palin for some time... It’s funny, now that the Sarah, and millions of her powerful supporters are calling McGinniss out on his deranged pursuits, and turning up the heat on him, he’s... playing the victim card... And you Dave Weigel, shame on you for giving this degenerate a forum to spout his nonsense, and shame on the Washington Post for letting you get away with it."Bill Lawrence:
"McGinniss does appear to have a fixation on Mrs. Palin, almost like something of out a Robert Mitchum movie -- think Cape Fear or Night of the Hunter."- JP
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