*News item written by the AP's Dan Joling:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sarah Palin can take down the fence. Palin's neighbor of three months on Wasilla's Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.Blogger Wesley M says he's learned many things from reading this piece by "Real Journalist Dan Joling," including the following:
His arrival in May made headlines and drew an indignant reaction from Palin and a visit from her husband, Todd. The Palins even tacked an extension onto an 8-foot board fence between the homes, leaving only a part of their second-story home visible from McGinniss' driveway.
1) The Associated Press does not provide its Real Journalists with a telephone. Because if they did, a Real Journalist like Dan Joling would have picked it up and called the Palin camp for their response to Joe McGinniss' claims and accusations. Instead, those AP penny-pinchers limited Real Journalist Dan Joling to sending a single e-mail, on the Saturday of a holiday weekend, to the Palins requesting their comments for an article that was being published that same day! Give your Real Journalists a phone, Associated Press!Read more at Wesley M's blog here.
2) Joe McGinniss didn't "seek out" the rental home next door to Sarah Palin, the subject of his current book. The homeowner "sought him out" and, apparently, made Joe an offer he couldn't refuse. Joe McGinniss had no choice but to move in next door!
3) Joe McGinniss, a best-selling author who has admitted putting words in the mouths (and thoughts in the minds) of people he has never even interviewed (to "distill an essence") and who is making you the subject of his next book is no different than any other average, run-of-the-mill neighbor. Former Governor Palin, tear down that board fence!
4) Sarah Palin has an actual button she can press that creates hate among her followers. Or maybe just the distilled essence of a button. Either way, Joe McGinniss has received ugly, vile e-mails from Sarah Palin supporters, which is telling, because Sarah Palin has certainly never been on the receiving end of any vile ugliness, or Real Journalist Dan Joling would have mentioned that for context. America cannot afford Sarah Palin's finger on the button!
5) Thirty-five years ago, Joe McGinniss lived in Alaska. Since then, however, he has been mysteriously prevented from ever returning to the "place he loves" unless he wrote a book about Sarah Palin, which is Joe McGinniss' only interest in her. Joe McGinniss just wants to see his beloved Matanuska-Susitna Borough again, Sarah Palin!
- JP
Let's face it, all McGinniss' book will be is a book length version of the VF hit piece. Both Gross and McGinniss used Shannyn Moore, Munger, Devon, Griffin and others to line up "sources" for them to talk to. If you check Amazon you'll find that there are already at least 50 books about Palin, and several others, like Game Change which devotes a lot of time to her. In addition there are literally tens of thousands of articles. Besides that, Geoffrey Dunn of the HuffPo is busy scribbling out a book with his crayons as we speak. I'd say that the book market, in regards to Sarah Palin, has probably reached its saturation point. The only book about Palin that has sold well is Palin's own book. My bet is that the sales of all the others combined don't come anywhere close to the sales figures for Going Rogue, probably not even a tenth as many.
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