Posted on 06/22/2010 9:04:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Do bad neighbors make bad fences? I've seen a few fences in my time, but none quite as defiantly ugly as the one now shielding Sarah Palin and her family from what she suggests are the prying eyes of her new neighbor, an author named Joe McGinniss.
McGinniss wanted to rent a place in Wasilla, Alaska, to be close to the subject of his next book, the state's former governor, who is one of the hottest political celebrities of the moment. McGinniss hit the bull's-eye when Sarah and Todd Palin's next-door neighbor offered to rent him her rambler for the summer. A modest abode, it sits uncomfortably cheek by jowl with the Palin's beachlike house, a contemporary-style mansion with tall picture windows overlooking the water. Up went the fence, in a hurry.
As a prop in the theater of contemporary politics, the screen is a masterstroke. This billboard of a fence looks like the heroic, makeshift response of a woman protecting her besieged family from a loathsome spy. Writes Palin on her Facebook page: "Wonder what kind of material he'll gather while overlooking Piper's bedroom, my little garden, and the family's swimming hole?" This, in turn, spawned ugly and threatening responses against McGinniss. "She's pushed a button, and unleashed the Hounds of Hell," McGinniss told NBC's Matt Lauer.
However genuine the motives behind the fence, from a design, horticultural and sheer aesthetic standpoint, it looks like a disaster.
It rises to 14 feet or so, though the exact height shifts with its curious undulations. Instead of the standard approach of taking down the existing fence and replacing it with another, Todd's fence crew simply attached one wooden privacy fence on top of an existing one. Perhaps the idea is to remove the appendage when McGinniss moves on.(continued)
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Ugly neighbor. Ugly fence for ugly neighbor to look at.
looks like a fence to me, what was a fence supposed to look like? have they nothing better to write about? I am glad they fenced that perv out...his prying eyes cannot spy on them as easily.
People wonder why the newspaper business is in hospice care.
Sure, it would be much better if the perv had a better view into Piper’s bedroom.
And this, boys and girls, is an example of "yellow jounalism".
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Geez Louise!!! What the hell is it any of this jerk Higgins business whatever kinda of fence the Palins put up?!?
My fence would have razor wire and machine gun turrets....
It’s a tall wooden fence that looks like a tall wooden fence. Geez louise. Get a life Wapo reporter and editor and publisher . . .
For reasons of privacy and security, I hope that the Palin family will purchase a large amount of rural land and build a house some distance from the road.
Maybe the Palins should live in a compound like Teddy Kennedy and his “clan” did. That way they could run around drunk, naked, raping people, doing drugs, whatever, and no one would see them.
The fact that Palin had to build a fence is evidence of how “normal” she is—she lives that close to her neighbor. She isn’t walled off like the rich Dems.
F off already, adrian.
I am actually surprised the WAPO didn’t find any Macaca on the fence. One thing WAPO knows and thats macaca. They really have become totally irrelevant, haven’t they?
I noted the author of this piece studiously avoided mention of McGuinnnes’s history of nasty criticism of Palin.
This is why I hate the Washington Pest.
I really like how the article mentions that her fence would not be allowed in many other locations.
The last I checked, Alaska is not DC, nor Maryland or anywhere else. They kinda do things different up there (like elect a Governor with balls, guts and clout)!
This is why I do not understand the complaints of people from other states concerning Arizona’s new anti-ILLEGAL-immigration law. This is what the people of Arizona wanted and they asked for and received it - that is their right as a state to decide.
How about we all boycott California for their excessive Clean Air rules (which have raised the prices of vehicles in EVERY state)! Look, if your state wants to make rules for your people (and your people agree with it) then more power to you!
Her column today is NOT set up to receive comments.
So, just so's they know, the WarshPost itself has one ugly, neighborhood hating fence set up around its Springfield VA printing plant.
It's about 12 to 16 feet in height. Composed of chainlink, it's double stranded where necessary (to keep coyotes from digging in or out I suppose).
Ugly death camp style would be a complement for this sucker ~ they have FEW neighbors, which makes many people wonder what they really do over there.
I've seen a lot of newspaper printing plants over the years. The WarshPost is the ONLYplant I've seen that looks to be designed to keep some people in and other people out. The overwhelming majority of publishers manage to do the job with a simple lock on the front door!
Darn!
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