"The Spy Next Door V: Alinsky Rules" Edition...
Stacy Drake:
"Dave Weigel is standing by his man, providing a forum for renowned 'creepy stalker,' known liar, and suspected plagiarist, Joe McGinniss... Mr. McGinniss has no idea who the Palins are. He is testing their ability to put up with an enormous amount of crap from a deranged old man with nothing better to do than to harass a family that just so happens to have a mother that doesn’t agree with him politically. He’s trying to see if he can push their buttons enough to provoke a reaction he can write about in his book and generate more publicity for it’s release. He is going to fail and he is going to fail miserably. The Palins will not be provoked to do anything and he is simply going to have to rely on his old method of lying. Joe McGinniss… Go to Hell and take Dave Weigel with you."Verum Serum:
"It was a foregone conclusion that his book would be a leftist hit piece, so this really isn’t a surprise. Stalker Joe McGinniss goes whining to the Washington Post... claiming that Todd Palin was mean to him"Whitney The Pipsqueak:
"For someone who threatened to call police [on] ABC reporters who stopped by his temporary home, McGinniss certainly has no problem speaking with Washington Post 'reporters'... McGinniss calling others 'obsessive' is both a serious case of projection and the pot calling the kettle black. McGinniss is the one who has said in the past... 'I'm not intending to write a salacious book about Sarah Palin's sex life. But if it's true, I'll find out.' And McGinniss expressed outrage over how Todd Palin spoke to him? With statements like that, it's no wonder that Todd took time to speak to McGinniss... It is no surprise that the Palins and their friends were so quick to get a fence built to give themselves greater privacy. Regarding Governor Palin's supposed inciting of violence? There is only evidence to the contrary! The Palin's response was one of swift practicality in protection of their family."JammieWearingFool:
"You can't make this stuff up. A deranged stalker is now so worried about his own privacy he threatens to call the police on a reporter."Moonbattery:
"Palin Hatred Justifies Everything.. You remember how creepy, stalker 'journalist' Joe McGinniss moved in next to Sarah Palin so he could leer over her family. All decent people were disgusted by this, because we recognize that a family's private home should be a refuge and a place of safety... But people who have lapsed into derangement over Sarah Palin's existence have lost any sense of decency... It's one thing to not want Sarah Palin to be president -- or hold some other office -- because of a philosophical disagreement with her political positions... I may disagree with the progressive left politically, but that is no reason to hate them. It's their utter lack of basic decency that makes me despise them."Kate Campbell:
"The hypocritical reporter sought friends for some damage control and a pal from Washington Post presents a fluff piece to try to sell a softer version of his duties keeping track of the Palins 24/7."God, Guts, & Sarah Palin:
"So, Joe McGinnis feels the need to clarify to David Weigel why he moved in next door to Sarah Palin. Uh, dude? We know why. You're writing a book and you thought the best way to come across as a serious, responsible journalist was to go paparazzi on the family. That's why. Honestly, how did you think the Palins were going to take it? The person who has written hit pieces on her administration and who has dined with Trig-Truthers moves in next door to write a book about her, and you thought what, that they were going to throw a welcome-to-the-neighborhood party?"Jamison Koehler:
"As a writer and journalist, Joe McGinniss sure has a knack for becoming a part of the news instead of simply reporting on it."Niall O'Dowd:
"Joe McGinniss is wrong to move next door to Sarah Palin in Alaska in order to gather material for his book on her due out in 2011. McGinniss is well known for pushing the envelope when it comes to his subjects. His 1983 book on the Jeffrey MacDonald murder trial result ended in a lawsuit by MacDonald alleging he had been set up by McGinniss. There was an out of court settlement. His next book on the Kennedys brought similar reaction from that clan who felt that McGinniss had greatly altered the key facts... Sarah Palin has a large young family and she and her husband, Todd are entitled to the privacy at their family home in Wasilla... McGinniss is clearly enjoying the publicity stunt but he should move along. There is nothing to see."Morgan Freeberg:
"Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin received a whole lot of criticism this week for the terrible crime she committed of being-spied-on."Jack Marshall:
"If you have a friend or colleague who can’t stand Sarah Palin... the Joe McGinniss story gives you an infallible [way] to gauge their ability to be fair and objective, as well as their ability to apply the Golden Rule. Palin and her family are victims of a bad neighbor and an unscrupulous, venal and predatory author. The fact that one doesn’t like certain victims of wrongdoing because of their political beliefs, their accents, or their talent for uttering simplistic sound-bites calculated to drive Democrats crazy shouldn’t obliterate one’s ability to determine right from wrong... Clearly, Joe has passed on his complete lack of empathy and decency to his son, who also mocked Palin’s objections to the arrangement... You don’t have to love your enemies, but ethics demands that you still have to respect them as human beings. See if the Palin-haters in your life can understand this, and agree that principles of justice and fairness apply to everyone, even Sarah Palin. If they can, you’ll know that their ethical instincts can overcome their biases."Lawrence Auster:
"Joe McGinnis, writing a book critical of Sarah Palin, rents the house next door to the Palins' house and looking onto their property, a grossly aggressive and intrusive act, and HE'S offended by THEIR 'hysterical' response to this move?"What the...?!:
"'Get off. You're tresspassing.' Sarah Palin to an investigative reporter? Nope. That would be the reporter himself speaking through his window to an [ABC] news team looking to ask him why he felt he needed to rent the house directly next to the Palin residence in Wasilla, Alaska... as is the way with the press in general, they just don't like the scrutiny. The poor dears... Of all the places he could live while writing about Sarah Palin, he chose the house directly next to her family residence? Why not just move into the basement? Creepy... One of the appealing aspects to Sarah Palin is the fact that she is a common person... and despite the Soros efforts to distract and discourage her, Sarah Palin takes it in stride and keeps moving forward. These clowns must really be worried about her. They just wont let it go. If a common person can't rise to political prominence, then we are no longer a people that have a government, but have become a government that has a people. "Cranial Cavity:
"Not to put too fine a point on it but this scumbag is the very same one who bid $60,000 to have dinner with Sarah. He later admitted he didn’t have the cash if he had won the bid."Right-Thinking from the Left Coast:
"America’s Leading Amateur Obstetrician — Sullivan — is trying to make Palin the villain here for posting a [photo] of McGinniss on Facebook... I’m actually sort of with Palin on this one. McGinniss gave an interview with Weigel where he tries to play this off, but he comes across as self-serving and rationalizing. He sounds like the criminals I used to hear on jury duty, trying to make everything they did seem innocent and routine. There were many places he could have rented in Alaska. Why take the home next door if not to annoy her? Moreover, McGinniss has a history. He famously cozied up to Jeffrey MacDonald to get his story even after he became convinced that MacDonald had brutally murdered his wife and kids. A lawsuit resulted, with a hung jury. When you manage to make a jury equally sympathetic to you and a triple murderer, you’ve pretty much crossed the line into the part of the map that reads, “Here There Be A__holes”. "Sen. John McCain:
"How low can you sink? There should be an outcry amongst the media. What he’s doing is just terrible. It’s unbelievable that somebody would sink that low."Stacy McCain:
"Weigel’s 'See-No-Evil' attitude toward Joe McGinniss, who moved in next door to the Palin family to work on his anti-Palin book, seems absurdly naive... Remember Jesse Griffin, who masqueraded behind the 'Gryphen' pseudonym as a vicious anti-Palin blogger and Trig-Truther? And remember how he lost his job at an Alaska elementary school after his identity was revealed and school officials learned how he’d been promoting pornography and masturbation on his blog... while being paid by taxpayers to supervise young children? Well, guess what? Joe McGinnis is a 'huge fan' of Jesse Griffin, as confirmed by none other than . . . Jesse Griffin... And why doesn’t it bother Dave Weigel that McGinniss is such a 'huge fan' of a vile joke like Jesse Griffin and the obnoxious gadfly 'AKM' (Jeanne Devon)?"Jerry Fuhrman:
"Anti-Palin Author Living Next Door Threatens To Call Police On Reporter... They invented the word schadenfreude for moments like this."Rich Crowther:
"Weigel’s fatuously disingenuous sweeping aside of the harassment which the Palins have experienced over the last 18 months, the total absence of any acknowledgment or sensibility on his part of the fact that every member of the Palin family has been hounded ceaselessly by people intent on their personal destruction, seems to speak volumes about his motives... It’s harmless enough, surely? Well the Palins see things differently, Mr Weigel. They have a different perspective, one borne of distressing, real life, personal experience. They and their children have lived through the unprecedented harassment of the last 20 months: the email hacking which led to frightening phone calls to their eldest daughter in the middle of the night; the 26 ethics complaints which stifled the Palin Administration and came to nought; the deliberately malicious attempt to cause controversy and split a family with fabrication about divorce; the attacks on their most vulnerable child; the lie that the Palins were under federal investigation for embezzlement; the burning of their church; the hate speak Trig Troofing conspiracies of Andrew Sullivan and Jesse Griffin and a notorious European blog; the misogynistic invective of a local Alaska Democratic Party office holder.... they’ve lived through all that and more, David Weigel… and could perhaps be forgiven that they seem inclined to be wary, less magnanimous than you, less inclined to exercise equilibrium. When Joe McGinniss moves in next door they don’t see that action as divorced from the context of the previous 20 months, as you appear to do, Mr Weigel."FireAndreaMitchell:
"Robin Roberts seems to enjoy the fact Palin is being stalked by left wing nut job Joe McGinniss, even saying this whole sick stalking episode would be a great SNL skit with Tiny Fey. Of course, had the same thing happened to her... I doubt she’d be as giddy."- JP
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