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Sarah Palin Stalker’s Nazi Comparison is Repugnant to Jews
Jews For Sarah ^ | 5/1/2010 | Benyamin Korn

Posted on 06/01/2010 3:41:24 PM PDT by curth

Up until now, one could merely have accused Sarah Palin’s stalker-biographer, Joe McGinniss, of unethical behavior, even journalistic malpractice.

After all, McGinniss’ decision to move into a house just fifteen feet away from the family he is subjecting to hostile research struck even the hard-hearted as unusually crass and callous. It also famously prompted the construction of a fourteen-foot high screening fence by “first dude” Todd Palin, and elicited sympathy for the Palins from a number of usually less-than-sympathetic sources.

But now McGinniss has outdone his already-gross behavior by telling The Today Show’s Matt Lauer that the Palin’s anguished response to his intrusion should be compared to “Nazi troopers” in 1930s Germany.

In making this comparison, no matter how ludicrous, McGinniss further transgresses the boundaries of decency into an area of intense Jewish concern – the history and meaning of the Nazi Holocaust. His remarks, for starters, show gross insensitivity to Jewish feelings.

When McGinniss invokes “Nazi troopers,” for Jews he conjures up the brown-shirted thugs who rioted in the streets of Berlin in June 1935 and garroted an elderly Jewish man to a tavern table, as recounted by American journalist Varian Fry, in an eyewitness account run the following day on the front page of The New York Times. When McGinniss invokes “Nazi troopers,”we remember the expulsion of Jews wholesale from German universities, the violent boycotts of Jewish businesses, and the public burnings of “decadent” books (often by Jewish authors) in front of SS-organized mobs.

When McGinniss invokes “Nazi troopers,” Jews think of the German National-Socialist Party’s special shock forces who led enraged mobs in burning down a thousand synagogues – and many more Jewish sites and businesses – over Kristallnacht, in November, 1939. And of course Jews think of the “Nazi troopers” who rounded up defenseless Jewish civilians in the middle of the night and loaded us onto boxcars “headed for the East.”

This is why Jews are still “sensitive” to facile comparisons with “Nazi troopers,” even by a low-life journalist of McGinniss’ stripe. Because McGinniss’ foolish analogy cheapens the meaning and memory of the Holocaust. Jewish defense organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, would do well to rebuke McGinniss, unless they think he is beneath their purview.

But really, because McGinniss’ comparison of Germany in those dark times to the America of today is so outrageous and appalling, he should be repudiated by all thinking people of good will.

And because McGinniss’ comparison demeans a political leader and a popular movement whose character are overwhelmingly peaceful, democratic and tolerant of all races and religions, all Americans should reject him, and hang on him a letter of shame.

Gov. Sarah Palin, the Tea Party movement, and the awakening voters of America, will not long remember this unprincipled opportunist who calls himself a journalist. But the American people, McGinniss’ publisher, and most of all the Jewish community, should be disgusted that he has so cheapened the public discourse.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: fatalvision; fatalvisionsucks; jeffreymacdonald; joemcginniss; macdonald; mcginniss; obsessedwithsarah; palin; sarahpalin
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To: cajungirl

I’ve never said he was a “stalker.” But it is kinda creepy.


81 posted on 06/01/2010 7:25:31 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: curth

...you think?


82 posted on 06/01/2010 7:25:35 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: cajungirl
You are ILLOGICAL, and you are RUDE.

Kindly cease & desist; I will NEVER read any more of your insipid remarks, and I ask you to NOT ever post to me again.

Goodby and good riddance.

83 posted on 06/01/2010 7:26:07 PM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: onyx

A fence? Why not shades or those curtains that block views of neighbors? Acting as if Piper is at risk is theater, pure theater. Palin is overplaying it. SHe takes that child everywhere in public and now she is worried about exposure. Give me a break.


84 posted on 06/01/2010 7:26:20 PM PDT by cajungirl
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To: hennie pennie

Oh the horror!!


85 posted on 06/01/2010 7:26:56 PM PDT by cajungirl
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To: cajungirl

He was watching her mow the backyard while she was in shorts and tank top and with Trig in a backpack with binoculors. That is totally creepy.


86 posted on 06/01/2010 7:28:23 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: cajungirl

Curtains and shades wouldn’t have sealed Sarah’s garden and Trig’s play area from Peeper Joe’s view. Hence the ugly fence.


87 posted on 06/01/2010 7:30:46 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Uh....if Todd does step aside ....can I have dibs on Sarah’s leftovers? He is the most gorgeous man I’ve seen in a long time (inside and out).


88 posted on 06/01/2010 7:31:23 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: sabe@q.com

You know he was watching with binoculars?

I am curious as to how you know that and curious as to why a woman who now has the means to either hire a yardman or a perfectly good husband to mow, is out in shorts mowing with her kid on her back.

I guess any guy who looks at any woman in shorts is a stalker now?


89 posted on 06/01/2010 7:31:45 PM PDT by cajungirl
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To: onyx

well, neighbors look at the people next door Iguess. But do you think this man who is writing about her is interested in her garden and her kid? What is he supposed to do, wear blinders, not look at the yard next door.

Anyonw who needs that much privacy that nobody can look at them needs a big farm and doesn’t need to be a public figure who goes from one podium to another. She is no shrinkoing violet in spite of what people seem to think.


90 posted on 06/01/2010 7:33:57 PM PDT by cajungirl
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To: cajungirl

there was a picture of him posted on the deck of the house he was renting looking in the direction of their property while using binoculors. You haven’t seen it?


91 posted on 06/01/2010 7:34:04 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: sabe@q.com; 2ndDivisionVet; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; SmokingJoe; SunkenCiv; Nachum; MestaMachine; ...
>>>> "He was watching her mow the backyard while she was in shorts and tank top and with Trig in a backpack with binoculors. That is totally creepy." <<<<

He's a Stalker who is obsessed with Sarah Palin, and Random House should be embarressed it gave him an advance.

His family should have him taken into the shop for a complete neuro-workup, maybe he's senile; perhaps it's incipient dementia which ain't so incipient anymore?

92 posted on 06/01/2010 7:36:17 PM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: cajungirl; onyx

have you ever looked into your neighbor’s backyard with binoculors?

I gotta admit I’ve never even looked into a neighbor’s backyard period let alone high up on a deck and with binoculors.


93 posted on 06/01/2010 7:36:52 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: sabe@q.com

So a pic of him on his deck with binoculars that you assume he was using not to see a bird or a tree or whatever but to spy on Palin.

I sit with binoculars on my deck all the time and aim them wherever something interesting is, usually a bird but sometimes a raccoon or other wild life. If a famous person was next door to me, I might look at them. Once Woody Allen was at a garden party next door and I peeped out the window the whole afternoon watching.

That is not stalking.


94 posted on 06/01/2010 7:40:10 PM PDT by cajungirl
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To: cajungirl

it is kinda peeping thomish. while not meeting the legal definition of it by law it comes awfully close.


95 posted on 06/01/2010 7:44:08 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: onyx

Ok. I have to ask. All that money and that’s the best fence they can do?


96 posted on 06/01/2010 7:44:50 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: GOPJ

He is the Michael Moore of ‘journalism’.


97 posted on 06/01/2010 7:50:43 PM PDT by rintense (God bless Israel!)
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To: cajungirl

I and a whole lot of others think he shouldn’t have moved in next door to her in Wasilla, Alaska to write his book.

He purposely created all the problems and now he’s crying victim and accusing her of using Nazi tactics etc.

He wants attention and the LSM is giving him plenty.


98 posted on 06/01/2010 7:52:06 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: cajungirl
Did you know:

1. He showed up at her front door, requesting to talk to her, but instead talked to her son, Track? McGinnis gave him a copy of his Alaska book to give to her.

2. His own son reveals an obsession with Palin, saying his 'the heart wants what it wants' and his father wants to 'pick up the pieces' after Todd leaves her.

3. He attempts to win a dinner with her on eBay.

4. Conveniently uses his career to mask his obsession with her.

Now tell me, if this were your sister, your mom, your daughter, and he did all these things, would you NOT have a serious problem with it?

99 posted on 06/01/2010 7:56:18 PM PDT by rintense (God bless Israel!)
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To: XenaLee
It's a temporary fence.

What Is Sarah Palin Building, and What Does It Mean?

~snip~

Even the most concrete new development in the Palin family, an enormous structure rising beside their existing 3,400-square-foot house on Lucile Lake, is something of a mystery. Based on the limited evidence in the planning department at Wasilla City Hall (the city does not require building permits), the building's footprint alone is 6,000 square feet, but much of it is two stories. Various sources have said the project includes a television studio (Fox News, [Sarah Palin's father Chuck] Heath said), apartments for Mr. Palin or the Palins' older children (Bristol Palin, 19, has said, however, that she is living on her own with Tripp and paying her own bills with the help of handsome speaking fees) and a well-appointed office for Ms. Palin.

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THE NEW NORTHERN WHITE HOUSE. :)


100 posted on 06/01/2010 7:56:19 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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