More Quote of the Day Honorable Mentions, Part 57

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"The Spy Next Door VI: Mein Kampf" Edition...

Ed Morrissey:

"McGinniss himself decided to grant an interview to NBC’s Today show and Matt Lauer after demanding that ABC leave the premises last week. In the interview, McGinniss goes on offense, offering an absurd rebuttal that even Lauer doesn’t buy and then comparing Sarah Palin’s criticisms of his move to … Nazi Germany... That’s not just ridiculous, it reveals yet another journalist who has no idea what the Nazis did in Germany. Nazis didn’t issue complaints about the locations of journalists as a tactic. They beat people in the streets in order to intimidate them out of the political process, mainly Communists, but also defenders of the doomed Weimar Republic. They murdered people by the hundreds in the years leading up to their takeover of Germany, and their closest modern equivalent would be the Basiji in Iran. Criticism of the press does not equate in any rational sense to what the Nazis did in Germany, and anyone who thinks it does has either lost all sense of perspective or is, frankly, an idiot. "

Flopping Aces:

"McGinniss 'isn’t calling her a Nazi', then goes on to draw the comparison... Looks like I’ve become a 'hound of hell, slavering, barking, and growling' at the push of a button from Palin."

Verum Serum:

"He says he isn’t calling her a Nazi; he’s just noting that she uses the same tactics. I seem to recall the SS being known for things like Kristallnacht more than for their Facebook postings... So just to recap…This guy who has written previous hit pieces on Palin rents the house next door to hers, literally 12 feet away with a deck that overlooks her back yard. That’s no big deal. But her taking a photo of him and complaining about it on Facebook is a Hitlerian outrage."

Kathryn Jean Lopez:

"I've gotten a lot of e-mails today from people who were giving the author the benefit of the doubt until they saw that morning-show interview today."

Jimmy Orr:

"Joe McGinniss might as well have offered up some oceanfront property in Kansas while appearing on NBC's 'Today' show. After all, he was on a roll…. McGinniss, the true crime author who is writing a book on Sarah Palin, implied on national television Tuesday morning that his renting of property right next to Palin’s house in Wasilla, Alaska, was just coincidental. 'The fact is, I would be living in this house if the Palins lived on the moon,' a straight-faced McGinniss told 'Today' host Matt Lauer. Even Lauer -- even Lauer -- couldn’t let this one go. 'So it’s just coincidental that you’re in the house next door?” Lauer asked. “You’re not just simply to observe them?' McGinniss ignored the first question..."

The Black Smoke:

"And all this time I thought Nazi trooper tactics involved things like hunting down an ethnic minority and sending them to camps to die by the millions. Little did I know the Holocaust was really just Nazis posting messages on Gesicht Buch..."

Kirby's Korner:

"Joe McGinniss... wants to write a book about someone he doesn't like, Sarah Palin... To do so, he felt it necessary to move next door to her, and this I find reprehensible. Is it legal? Yes. Is it what a decent, honorable person would do? NO! This is the act of a bully who has never grown-up... He did it to provoke; a childish act from one of McGinniss's years. He then had the nerve to say all the 'threats' against him just proved how powerful Palin has become. To an extent, this may be true. It may also be true that she is well liked in Wasilla, that good people see his move as I see it, an invasion of privacy and a childish act at best, and that those in Alaska value their freedom and respect the personal space of others.
(In short, Joe McGinniss is a jerk and I believe one to not be trusted. Palin, to date anyway, has not done anything that I consider out-of-line from a personal perspective.)"

Andrew Bolt:

"The maddest thing about Palin is her critics..."

The Cranky Conservative:

"A journalist rents a house next door to Sarah Palin with the sole intent to write a book about her, Sarah Palin writes some fairly tongue-in-cheek things in response to this development, and it the latter who is 'despicable?' Gee, I wonder why the Washington Post has roughly zero credibility at this point."

Weasel Zippers:

"Do they have liberal jackass hunting season in Alaska?"

David Riddick:

"A neat little twist in the McGinniss/Palin FenceGate saga... Eric Boehlert at the allegedly objective MediaMatters fancies he has landed a telling blow against Sarah Palin when he reveals that the place next door was for several years a halfway house for recovering drug addicts and alcoholics... But the Palins, with all those children bouncing around the grounds, never raised a peep about the addicts and alcoholics just 15 yards from their property? Maybe it’s because they believe in live and let live and giving folks a second or even third chance. Or maybe they would prefer to have a group of ex cons as neighbours than someone who is a special friend of Jesse Griffin..."

Jim Hoft:

"The kook who rented the home next to the Palin family in Alaska is looking for sympathy. Dream on, crackpot."

Chicago Ray:

"What a hypocritical Lib who can’t see anything wrong with stalking a private citizen to write a lousy hit piece of a book, but starts whining like a baby when ABC news shows up at his rental door to have a little chat. Yet another loon caught with his... 'do as I say not as I do' pants down. These people are forcing America to come up with a new word for their egregious hypocrisy."

Oldcatman:

"Give 'em hell, Sarah!"

Ocean Kayaker:

"Joe Mcginnis is not only a stalker; he's also a hypocrite. He has no problem invading the space of Sarah Palin - and her family - but will not even open the door of his rented house to a reporter. He seems to value his own privacy while at the same time depriving the Palin family of theirs. What a guy!"

Tom Faranda:

"As the woman says in the interview, 'I'd be creeped out.'"

Another Black Conservative:

"Both my BS Detector and my Hypocrisy Proximity Alarm went off with this story. Only the most severe PDS sufferer could buy any of McGinniss’ nonsense... Riiiiight. We are supposed to believe that old Joe is all innocent and everything. Meanwhile the creep is really good friends will all of the creepy anti-Palin Alaskan bloggers."

Matthew Archbold:

"Wow. This guy is nuts..."

The American Catholic:

"For revealing the demented and comical hatred that a strong conservative woman, who is, gasp!, also attractive, a mother and happily married, forments in many minds on the port side of our politics, Sarah Palin is worthy of the thanks of a grateful nation."

Steve Krakauer:

"If McGinniss is hoping to ingratiate himself to the Palins, as he continues to maintain, this interview may not be the best way to do it."

- JP