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Sarah Palin and Todd Palin unlikely to divorce, biographer Joe McGinniss says
New York ^ | November 1, 2009 | Rush & Molloy

Posted on 11/01/2009 6:49:25 AM PST by Loyalist

Sarah Palin's unwanted biographer, Joe McGinniss, doesn't buy rumors that she and her husband, Todd, may split -but if there is trouble in that marriage, he promises to find it.

The author of "Fatal Vision" and "The Selling of the President" was outbid recently when he offered to pay $59,999 to dine with the former GOP vice presidential candidate at a charity auction. But that hasn't deterred him. He recently spent three weeks in Palin's town in Wasilla, Alaska.

"I stopped by her house," says McGinniss, who brought along a copy of his 1980 book, "Going to Extremes," about his adventures in Alaska. "Her son Track answered the door, [just back from Iraq]. We had a pleasant chat. He said he'd give her the book."

McGinniss was struck by the size of the construction on the lot the Palins have bought next to their present home.

"They're building another house and an airplane hangar," he says. "It's like a summer White House in the making. Just based on the size of the compound, I'd say Sarah and Todd are staying together."

As for reports of infidelity, he says, "I'm not intending to write a salacious book about Sarah Palin's sex life. But if it's true, I'll find out."

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: divorce; joemcginiss; palin; palinfamily; sarahpalin
Joe McGinniss needs real dirt to justify his seven-figure advance.

The problem now is that the MSM's overzealous investigation of Sarah Palin's life has already turned over all the stones and what's left is the droppings from slugs like Levi Johnston.

So Joe McGiniss has to hope for something to happen between now and his publisher's deadline to punch up promotion and sales.

Thus the hints about maybe, just maybe, something about Sarah's sex life.

1 posted on 11/01/2009 6:49:28 AM PST by Loyalist
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To: Loyalist

Obama, senior White House staff, unlikely to turn into patriotic Americans.


2 posted on 11/01/2009 6:50:48 AM PST by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: Loyalist

My God these people are mentally deranged and obsessed with this woman.


3 posted on 11/01/2009 6:51:59 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Loyalist

This is one of those “anything to make a buck” kind of guy. They can be real scum—and it appears that this one is.


4 posted on 11/01/2009 6:52:22 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Loyalist

woman still looks like her after a buncha kids and in her mid 40s and has her head on right like she does, you’d be a fool to leave that..in today’s vapid world


5 posted on 11/01/2009 6:52:52 AM PST by wardaddy (folks, these freepathons are taking too long tightwads, shame on us in front of the kooks)
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To: Loyalist

I’d bet that what he can’t find he’ll make up. Seven figure advance? Who do they think is going to buy this book?


6 posted on 11/01/2009 6:53:12 AM PST by curth
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To: Loyalist

“I stopped by her house,” says Jerk


7 posted on 11/01/2009 6:53:29 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (give total war a chance)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He’d be able to write one hell of a book if he just put half the effort into Obama.


8 posted on 11/01/2009 6:54:36 AM PST by curth
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To: Loyalist
Track should have threw a right cross at him.
God, what is wrong with these fricking people? They are worse than maggots crawling over trash out in the dumpster.
9 posted on 11/01/2009 6:58:48 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (90% of the fedgov is unconstitutional. The other 10% besides the military doesnt know what it's doin)
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To: wardaddy
..woman still looks like her after a buncha kids and in her mid 40s and has her head on right like she does, you’d be a fool to leave that..in today’s vapid world

Amen, brother! You can't trump Sarah with what's out there running the streets. Todd, you lucky dog!

10 posted on 11/01/2009 7:00:50 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: Loyalist

I’m old enough to remember Joe McGinnis and his Nixon book being heralded as a shining new Journalistic star, along with Woodstein, in the Nixon era. Turns out he was a one-trick pony, and faded faster than ANY celebrated journalist I can think of . He sounds more like the male version of Kitty Kelley.


11 posted on 11/01/2009 7:00:52 AM PST by supremedoctrine ( A, you're a-dor-a-ble, -------B, you're bus-ted.........)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

My Dad wrote about other people. Mostly he was an “AS TOLD TO” writer, but there were a few he wrote without the authorization of the person. Never, ever ever would he be so low as to write something that was totally salacious. He never ever went digging about people’s sex lives. Honestly, I don’t even think he thought about it. But then again, I’m the daughter, and my daddy would never do that! LOL!


12 posted on 11/01/2009 7:02:58 AM PST by Hildy
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

My Dad wrote about other people. Mostly he was an “AS TOLD TO” writer, but there were a few he wrote without the authorization of the person. Never, ever ever would he be so low as to write something that was totally salacious. He never ever went digging about people’s sex lives. Honestly, I don’t even think he thought about it. But then again, I’m the daughter, and my daddy would never do that! LOL!


13 posted on 11/01/2009 7:03:07 AM PST by Hildy
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They are worse than maggots crawling over trash out in the dumpster.”

You hit the nail on the head!!


14 posted on 11/01/2009 7:03:27 AM PST by diamond6 (Is SIDS preventable? www.Stopsidsnow.com)
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To: Loyalist

He doesn’t need dirt - he needs a dirt nap.


15 posted on 11/01/2009 7:04:17 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Loyalist
Joe McGinniss needs real dirt to justify his seven-figure advance.

All he has to do is talk to Levi Johnston apparently.

16 posted on 11/01/2009 7:06:58 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Just so. Maggot alert.


17 posted on 11/01/2009 7:07:10 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The army of Democrat lawyers and political operatives that invaded Alaska in an attempt to malign her was one of the most sordid and malicious politically motivated attacks in American history.


18 posted on 11/01/2009 7:11:28 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Loyalist

Man, I feel so much better that this little weasel assured me.

WTF?


19 posted on 11/01/2009 7:14:29 AM PST by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Starboard

“The army of Democrat lawyers and political operatives that invaded Alaska in an attempt to malign her was one of the most sordid and malicious politically motivated attacks in American history.”

And what did they get for all of their effort!? After all of the digging and scratching what have they to show for it?? Sarah Palin has emerged as the leader of the conservative movement in America?


20 posted on 11/01/2009 7:15:39 AM PST by timetostand (Defund the left!! Defund the Federal Beast!)
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To: wardaddy

yeah no kidding, she’s got it all. Still wouldn’t trade her for my 45year old hottie!


21 posted on 11/01/2009 7:16:43 AM PST by henry_reardon
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To: Loyalist

I’m old enough to remember Joe McGinnis and his Nixon book being heralded as a shining new Journalistic star, along with Woodstein, in the Nixon era. Turns out he was a one-trick pony, and faded faster than ANY celebrated journalist I can think of . He sounds more like the male version of Kitty Kelley.


22 posted on 11/01/2009 7:17:00 AM PST by supremedoctrine ( A, you're a-dor-a-ble, -------B, you're bus-ted.........)
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To: Starboard

I know about that whole dirtdigging operation ( in better days, it was called muckraking, and even though these creeps probably think of themselves like that, it’s actually sleaze of the worst kind.)I wish I had more eyewitness or firsthand accounts of just what happened and how far they went.
It would be interesting. Any links you can provide?


23 posted on 11/01/2009 7:25:22 AM PST by supremedoctrine ( A, you're a-dor-a-ble, -------B, you're bus-ted.........)
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To: Loyalist

Sarah is a baptized Catholic, although not a practicing one. This makes complete sense to me.


24 posted on 11/01/2009 7:26:47 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Loyalist

We can play this game, too:

No Evidence that Obama a Pervert.

Obama a Jihadist? No proof.

Rumors of Drug-Filled Obama Orgies at WhiTe House Unfounded.

Ad nauseum...


25 posted on 11/01/2009 7:37:00 AM PST by piytar (This tag deleted by the Ministry of Truth. Love Big Brother. Or else!)
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To: headstamp 2

She should take out a stalking complaint against this guy.


26 posted on 11/01/2009 7:46:57 AM PST by Dem Guard
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To: Berlin_Freeper
“I stopped by her house,” says Jerk

yeah! with the pretense of delivering a book so maybe he could get her to say something worthy of news. Bet he had a hidden tape recorder. I hope she was there and waited till he left. She can't take the chance of trusting anybody!! Look at 'traitor' Levi. They trusted him.

27 posted on 11/01/2009 7:49:57 AM PST by shiva
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To: Loyalist
ROFL !

man they are so stupid.

Obama is more likely to embrace capitalism than the Palins are of getting a divorce.

28 posted on 11/01/2009 7:51:17 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: Starboard

Yeah, and they found NOTHING......you know how I know?

Because if they had found any dirt on Sarah, it would have been on the front page of the NYT for a month......

AND on CBS for a month.............AND on MSNBC for a month......


29 posted on 11/01/2009 7:58:41 AM PST by RRTJSP...........
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To: Loyalist

He will make it up.


30 posted on 11/01/2009 8:00:19 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: RRTJSP...........

31 posted on 11/01/2009 8:00:48 AM PST by They'reGone2000 (I regret having to report THEY'RE BACK.)
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To: RRTJSP...........
"Because if they had found any dirt on Sarah, it would have been on the front page of the NYT for a month...... AND on CBS for a month.............AND on MSNBC for a month......"

Well, coming up empty just means they'll invent something that will be headline news for a month.

32 posted on 11/01/2009 8:09:00 AM PST by Starboard
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To: shiva

33 posted on 11/01/2009 8:11:56 AM PST by shiva
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To: Starboard

Yeah, you are probably right, since they have been making stuff up about her for more than a year........already....


34 posted on 11/01/2009 8:24:37 AM PST by RRTJSP...........
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To: Salvation
Sarah is a baptized Catholic, although not a practicing one. This makes complete sense to me.

Oh? I didn't know that ... maybe she'll come back to the Church ...
35 posted on 11/01/2009 8:35:37 AM PST by mlizzy ("It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: Salvation; Loyalist
Sarah is a baptized Catholic, although not a practicing one. This makes complete sense to me.

Where did this rumor start ?

She identifies herself as a follower of the Christ, not as a Catholic.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
36 posted on 11/01/2009 8:40:55 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: headstamp 2; Loyalist
My God these people are mentally deranged and obsessed with this woman.

That's because she's completely irrelevent.

;-)

37 posted on 11/01/2009 8:48:18 AM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Starboard; RRTJSP...........
Well, coming up empty just means they'll invent something that will be headline news for a month.

Instead they filed endless frivolous ethics complaints which she had to defend. The accusations were enough for the MSM to tout them as true and it cost her and the state lots of money to fight. When she resigned to end the charade they blamed her for quitting. Even some Freepers still call her a quitter.

The campaign of personal destruction is SOP for the Left and some "Freepers" are really not.

38 posted on 11/01/2009 2:08:12 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Loyalist

Joe McGinniss wishes.

39 posted on 11/01/2009 2:10:02 PM PST by kcvl
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To: diamond6

McGinniss’s 1993 book, “The Last Brother,” about Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was roundly criticized for flimsy reporting and the liberties that he took in the writing

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Dermot Cole at the News-Miner reveals that McGinniss has been lying about his interview and photo requests to the Governor. For instance, he’s been saying that Palin would not cooperate with him unless she got a guarantee the piece would be favorable. Sharon Leighow, Mr. Bill’s deputy, released the actual e-mails in question, and they reveal that Joe McGinniss is full of crap.

http://tinyurl.com/yk3pldh


40 posted on 11/01/2009 2:23:10 PM PST by kcvl
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