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CNN Bozo Accidentally Outs His Source; Palins Threaten Legal Action On Divorce Smear
American Spectator ^ | 8.2.09 @ 8:53PM | By Robert Stacy McCain

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Alaska
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To: SideoutFred

No problem - I wasn’t sure if there was something I missed in the movie either. Wasn’t one of the students a girl whose Father was a gynecologist and said “my daddy says boys have a penis and girls have a vagina”?

There were a lot of little things in that movie that made one laugh - even innocent things from a babes mouth like that.


281 posted on 08/03/2009 1:21:18 PM PDT by jurroppi1 (We need to reward the people that carry the water instead of the people that drink the water!)
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To: jessduntno; Brytani

This “educator” says that being a kindergarten teacher’s assistant isn’t his “main job”, but that he has time during the day, so he is using it to help children by teaching them to read.

He sounds like such a sweet, and tender-hearted young man. /s

Wonder what the kiddies would think of their “educator” if they knew of the vile comments he’s been making about Sarah Palin and family?

Wonder what the parents of the kiddies will think? I know I wouldn’t want him anywhere near any of the kids in my family.

It will be interesting to see who the “trusted source” is, if that person is revealed.


282 posted on 08/03/2009 1:27:30 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: Al B.

Hope so, along with his trusted source.

283 posted on 08/03/2009 1:35:45 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Male kg teacher—icky, icky, ick!


284 posted on 08/03/2009 1:39:05 PM PDT by Palladin (Me to Gubmint Healthcare Counselor: "Get your ass out of here or YOU will be in intensive care!")
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To: DKM

Looks like a big fat fairy to me!


285 posted on 08/03/2009 1:41:10 PM PDT by Palladin (Me to Gubmint Healthcare Counselor: "Get your ass out of here or YOU will be in intensive care!")
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To: rvoitier

I agree! From who? Independent from who?


286 posted on 08/03/2009 1:43:01 PM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: rvoitier

“helping them become independent”—I think Jesse uses that term in the same way Michael Jackson did.


287 posted on 08/03/2009 1:47:38 PM PDT by Palladin (Me to Gubmint Healthcare Counselor: "Get your ass out of here or YOU will be in intensive care!")
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To: Melian

Excellent questions to ask Jesse, the “Child-Lover”.


288 posted on 08/03/2009 1:55:50 PM PDT by Palladin (Me to Gubmint Healthcare Counselor: "Get your ass out of here or YOU will be in intensive care!")
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To: Z80_Inside

[I think he is getting more attention than he ever counted on or wanted. ]

Yeah, that’s what I was meaning when I wrote about it.


289 posted on 08/03/2009 1:56:23 PM PDT by potlatch ( There is no education in the second kick of a mule.)
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To: jessduntno

Does NAMBLA have a membership directory online?

Wonder if they have a Jesse Griffin listed?


290 posted on 08/03/2009 1:56:50 PM PDT by Palladin (Me to Gubmint Healthcare Counselor: "Get your ass out of here or YOU will be in intensive care!")
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To: Twotone

[I hope he’s bankrupted with legal bills like they’ve done to Sarah!]

Me too!


291 posted on 08/03/2009 1:58:38 PM PDT by potlatch ( There is no education in the second kick of a mule.)
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OMG this is FR at it’s finest,I’ll be sure to let Gryff know he’s a “star” on FR....


292 posted on 08/03/2009 2:04:18 PM PDT by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
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To: Al B.

Are we allowed to post links to tweets?

If so, please post!


293 posted on 08/03/2009 2:20:52 PM PDT by TitansAFC (Socialism is a disease; Sarah Palin is the cure. Palin/Romney 2012 or Palin/Gingrich 2012!!)
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To: LucyJo
He thinks his rear end is covered legally.

She's a public figure but I think she has a case.

To prevail in a libel case against you, in addition to showing that your statement is untrue and caused significant harm, a public official or a public figure must also prove "malice" -- that you acted in reckless disregard to the facts known to you and with intent to harm.

When she sues, he's going to have to reveal his source and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be him.

294 posted on 08/03/2009 2:31:09 PM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: TitansAFC
Are we allowed to post links to tweets?

If so, please post!

Dunno but here it is anyway.

295 posted on 08/03/2009 2:36:59 PM PDT by Al B. (Sarah Palin: Government "can't make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise".)
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To: denydenydeny

You mean hours


296 posted on 08/03/2009 2:38:55 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 (“Play those rhythmically suggestive tonal patterns Caucasian male adolescent.”)
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To: John 3_19-21

I think it is time for Griffin to go moose hunting with Sarah.

Sarah says, “Hey, kindergarten boy, go look over there in the bushes, there is a giant moose.”

Griffin says, “Yummm, I love moose, but I don’t have a gun.”

Sarah says, “You jump on its back to distract it and then I will shoot.”

Oops.


297 posted on 08/03/2009 2:47:22 PM PDT by billsgottago (Government is like a baby. A big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other end.)
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To: billsgottago

Best tag line I’ve read in a while. Too funny

This guy is going to mistake all this attention as ‘positive”.

Look out talk shows here he comes!


298 posted on 08/03/2009 2:57:18 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 (“Play those rhythmically suggestive tonal patterns Caucasian male adolescent.”)
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To: billsgottago

“I think it is time for Griffin to go moose hunting with Sarah.”

Probly wouldn’t go with Sarah...TODD he would go with...


299 posted on 08/03/2009 3:01:14 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: OrangeHoof

Mrs. Plangent, who has been incensed at the appointment of “Fister” Kevin Jennings as Presidential Advisor for Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/index.html
Opined that Griffin likely loved the little fists of Kindergarteners.


300 posted on 08/03/2009 3:03:04 PM PDT by plangent
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