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 ...
Liberals LIE. It goes with the territory.
“These people are sick, I swear liberals come from parents who spent their lives dropping acid. Only way such a large group of people can come out that screwed up.”
They also come from broken families, families who weren’t educated, they grew up being lazy, into drugs, the MTV culture and trying too hard to be hip instead of working hard to achieve.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/
Warning: Please Be Careful Of Comments
Update: Given that the threat mentioned below did not include links to inappriate comments, I was forced to search the site for certain troubling words. Everything I have been made aware of has been deleted as of now. Stacy and I continue to work to try and get this story posted. But I must ask your indullence at this time. Please do not post criminal allegations, or threats of any kind here. If I’ve missed anything, plese send me an email if you caught it, so that I can level inapropriate comments.
As I’ve just received a threat which seems to be from Jesse Griffin and suggests lawyers are already involved, please refrain from making any comments here that suggest Jesse Griffin is guilty of any crime, particularly as regards children. I have suggested no such thing.
Had I seen them, they would have already been deleted. Now, I must stop the serious work and go in and delete comments in this regard.
That only serves to push Stacy and me further back, assuming we get approval at all. So, please discontinue any such commentary here immediately.
Thank you. I am unaware if Stacy has received a similar threat. You can check in at his blog here
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/08/griffin-investigation.html
The thing is a lot of us are starting to recognize an astro turf when it starts... now if the rest of the country would wake up to it.
As I had hoped to advance this story tonight in some way, but I'm really just not sure I should, I thought I'd at least give you a look a Jesse Griffin's email to me. Seems to be a different standard he wants to invoke, as opposed to that to which he applied to Sarah Plain and her family. Wouldn't you say?
That was my thought, anyway. - Dan
Via Jesse:
I am going to give you the benefit of he doubt and assume that you did not see these, but now that I have brought them to your attention I hope you will have them removed. As well as the information and e-mails concerning the school I work at.I'm just guessing, but I think that last statement from Griffin about watching the Alaskan papers is the latest sleazy rumor going from basement to basement in the Alaskan blogosphere, something to do with the recent resignation of Palin's Director of State Boards and Commissions, Frank Bailey. It's the latest of many "icebergs" these moonbats swear will sink the SS Palin. They never quit.The school has a powerful filtering system they probably won't get through anyhow. But trying to smear me in the eyes of my coworkers because I posted something you did not like is fairly ridiculous don't you think?
If you want to show the world that I am evil than it seems logical to not do even worse things yourselves.
I have sent this information to my attorney and to the ACLU just in case you don't take me seriously.
And hey for future reference if you think an allegation or rumor is incorrect then just wait it out and make fun of the person after it proves to be false. That keeps your integrity intact and makes you seem like the better man.
By the way watch the local Alaskan papers closely for the next week, you may learn something.
And the press wonders why they have zero credibility.
The left and their media hounds are not content until they destroy the Palins - even when she bows out gracefully, they remain on the attack with their lies and their smears because they want nothing short of utterly destroying Sarah Palin and the image of her - because she is everything the left and the feminazi’s detest, and worst of all, her mere existence shows in the light of day the complete and utter lie that is feminism and leftism.
They simply cannot allow such a wonderful person to exist and be seen by the masses.
bttt....Gryphen has apparently removed his fake divorce story from his website. My lawyer-detection device is beeping like crazy....LOL.
Should be able to run for Prez on the Dem ticket with those credentials...a “teacher” of innocent kids but full of hate.
Another rep of the Party of Hate.
My mistake...apparently the story is still up on Gryphen’s site....now on the 2nd page.
And happily willing to lie.
What the heck does a kindergarten “teacher assistant” do?
“What the heck does a kindergarten “teacher assistant” do?”
I think that’s for him to know and for us to find out...if you know what I mean...
Dan Riehl is doing a great job on this story. Riehl is one of the original cybersleuths. I’m glad he has turned his attention to nailing this creep, Griffin.
You almost owed me a new keyboard.
He's an overachiever.
Wow! A job a real man would be proud to call his own!
FAIL!
More liberal lies. Why is that news?
Threatening to serve legal papers to an educator in a room full of five year olds? Now that is malicious."
Um, hey Griff. They wouldn't be serving papers to an educator. You're a teaching assistant. A gopher.
Of course, it's a moot point now anyhow :-) Good luck with the job change!
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