Posted on 08/02/2009 8:18:27 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
An attorney for Sarah Palin has delivered a letter threatening legal action against an anti-Palin blogger who was the source of a divorce rumor that the attorney for the former Alaska governor called "categorically false."
Publication of the letter at a Web site that repeated the rumor has uncovered circumstantial evidence that the anti-Palin blogger "Gryphen" is a kindergarten teacher at an Anchorage elementary school....
CNN stringer/anti-Palin blogger Dennis Zaki published ... a copy of a letter from Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein, ordering "Gryphen" to retract the allegations -- calling them "complete fabrications, false and defamatory" -- or face legal action. The Van Flein letter, published by Zaki with the name of the recipient blacked out, ended with this sentence:
"If you do not have an attorney, please let me know if you want to be served with the summons and complaint at the kindergarten where you assist or at your residence." (Emphasis added.)
By publishing the letter, Zaki inadvertantly provided valuable information to an anonymous tipster who compiled online research indicating the identity of "Gryphen," ....
Media in Alaska will not be able to ignore the news that the state's most notorious anti-Palin blogger is a kindergarten teacher at public school. Having spent part of my early career as a newspaper reporter covering the education beat, I can predict that "Gryphen" will soon at the center of a maelstrom of controversy....
"Gryphen" [is] Jesse Griffin, a part-time teaching assistant at Trailside Elementary School in Anchorage. At his Immoral Minority blog, Griffin now confirms the basics (without using his real name), saying he has "every confidence that I will be vindicated."....
Good luck with that vindication, Mr. Griffin. Im sure the taxpayers of Anchorage won't mind you calling Mrs. Palin all those ugly names ....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Now we’ll see if the good people of Alaska will be willing to offer the consequences he justly deserves for his anonymous drive by media tactics.
lol. You sure have a way with words. You are 100 percent right though.
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Thanks. I remembered him having another connection of sorts but I was not sure it was a paying position or not. However, I should have known. Liberals have a way about getting on the payroll of a government agency or a “charity, trust or foundation.”
Average cost of living in Alaska is quite high compared to the continental US, because it is extremely remote and has harsh weather and a very short growing season, so very high food costs and heating costs.
If you’re into hunting and fishing, this is defintely the place. Definitely better than living in other high cost of living states like the New England states and California where the high cost of living is caused by high taxes and excessive regulation and profligate government spending driving up the cost of everything.
This man is bad talking about our gal and future president. We need to let him know we will not tolerate it.
Todd can’t react BUT we can.
“Ahh, this is very interesting. Hope Jesse gets the attention he deserves now.”
I hope he’s bankrupted with legal bills like they’ve done to Sarah!
I would lurk but never post from a govt computer.
"Gryphen laughed off the threat, telling Alaska Report, "Nothing that I wrote in my post was meant to be malicious. I trust my source and simply reported what I had been told.
Threatening to serve legal papers to an educator in a room full of five year olds? Now that is malicious."
He's laughing it all off and saying that he had no malicious intent, just repeating what he was told by his source that he trusts. He thinks his rear end is covered legally. I hope he's wrong.
Writing now - all sources talked to and more. Co-blogging w/ Stacy McCain. 2 much 4 1 blogger - think Jesse Griffen is toast.
In the Immoral Minority thread, I noticed “CelticDiva” made a comment as well. She’s one of the chronic “ethics complaint”-filing anklebiters. Sounds like a lot of people have wayyyy too much time on their idle hands.
are we allowed to post his picture and email?
is it 100% certain he is the person?
“Threatening to serve legal papers to an educator in a room full of five year olds? Now that is malicious.””
wonder how he would feel about a perp walk?
“is it 100% certain he is the person?”
He admitted it on his vile blog...
>>>I would lurk but never post from a govt computer.<<<
You’ve got a good point, too, but it brings home why people need to be temperate in their presentation on the Internet. If I’m called on the carpet, it’ll be for inappropriate use of the computer, not an libelous or racist comment.
On the other hand, I’m here at the edge of the treeline next to the Arctic Circle, and to say some of the rules are a little more relaxed here than they are in the Lower 48 is to understate the situation. As long as I do my job well, folks aren’t going to bother me much. Politics doesn’t mean a lot up here - and I have a year in the overpoliticized California schools with which to compare the situation. There’s several other good reasons to put up with the gnats and mosquitoes.
Anyway, thanks for the comment.
Sure thing! When it suits their purposes and political leanings, absolutely. Then they can hide behind the fraud and facade of "not being the first to say", or, as Katey Coric says, "Some people say..." Or just plain, "Sources say..."
Remember Dick Nixon's dirty tricks division? How scandalous it was? How the democrats and news media tsk- tsked it and shook their heads. Well, today's democrats and news media make Tricky Dick look like a Boy Scout.
One of the first things I said about this was his “friends” the other Palin haters, are going to throw him under the bus so fast..
It sure will be interesting when he is forced to reveal his “sources” in a deposition.
I love watching the left get what’s coming to them...
Sorry...for a second I thought you were calling me out....it’s always tough to read someone’s intent on forums.
Appreciate the follow-up.
:)
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