Posted on 05/25/2010 7:24:09 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Sarah Palin took to her Facebook account today to inform her readers that Joe McGinniss, an award-winning reporter and author, had rented the house next door.
I saw Ben Smith flag this earlier today but did not really appreciate how strange and, frankly, immature Palin's post was until I read it.
Palin informs her readers that McGinniss is "overlooking my childrens play area" and "overlooking Pipers bedroom." Alternately sounding angry and mocking, she refers to "the familys swimming hole," which at first reference sounds like she's accusing McGinniss of checking out the Palins in their bathing suits, until you realize the family's "swimming hole" is Lake Lucille. And she posts a photo of the space McGinniss is renting, captioning it, "Can I call you Joe?"
Can somebody explain to me how this isn't a despicable thing for Palin to do? She describes McGinniss as the author of "the bizarre anti-Palin administration oil development pieces that resulted in my Department of Natural Resources announcing that his work is the most twisted energy-related yellow journalism theyd ever encountered."
Another way of putting it would be that McGinniss is an investigative journalist who wrote his first best-seller at age 26 and was shopping a book about Alaska and the oil industry when Palin was named John McCain's running mate. And another way of describing those "bizarre" pieces is that no one has ever challenged the facts in them.
Palin, who has an undergraduate degree in journalism, should understand that articles don't become untrue when the subjects don't agree with them.
Has McGinniss gone to an extreme to get a story? Well, we don't have his side yet -- not that this has prevented every other media outlet from typing up Palin's Facebook post like some lost Gospel.....
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
What are you doing up?
I want to the the shuttle land.
But what's shuttle land......
*Ponders cryptic answer*
I want to see the shuttle land!
I must need coffee.....
Ha ha ha.
Did I miss something in the sneate going to shuttle land?
:-)
Okay, I give up, what's shuttle land.......
So now we have a specialized detachment of Journo-Monkeys from the Collective who have been assigned to stalk Sarah Palin, and Support Monkeys who will write covering articles pretending there is no stalking going on.
Nice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McGinniss
Joe McGinniss (born 9 December 1942) [68 year-old pervo] is an American author of true crime and non-fiction novels...
In the 2009 McGinniss began probing the explosive rise of Alaska governor and Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He published a provocative and controversial article, Pipe Dreams, in the April 2009 issue of Conde Nast's now-defunct Portfolio [2] and in September [2009] he bid $59,999 on Ebay to dine with Palin. Cathy Maples of Huntsville, Alabama, won the Ebay auction with a $63,500 bid.[3]
McGinniss is said to be working on a book, tentatively titled Sarah Palin's Year of Living Dangerously, which will be published by Broadway/Random House in 2011.
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After reading that bio, I'd get a restraining order, and have a look at the sex offenders list in his home state...
LOL -- this is just some wannabee author, not James Bond.
Huh? She auctioned off a dinner data, and it's "absolutely frightening" for somebody to bid for it?
DUH. When the bidder was the obsessed with her Joe McGinniss at the amount of $60,101.01, what do you think, or do you think?
Well, let me tell ya from the point of view of an investigative reporter , (retired)- who knows the tactics some will go to - when they are of this man's ilk - a muckraker hoping for a tid-bit, ANY tid-bit, one tiny phrase, one tiny action, to get himself a best seller.
By deliberately renting the house 15 ft from her backyard, he shows himself to be a bottom feeder.
And listening devices are available online to anyone, these days, cheap.
I "betcha" that EVERY one of you pooh-poohers who think Sarah is being paranoid or too sensitive would be screaming bloody murder if someone deliberately moved into your back yard with a view into your kids bedrooms - and you knew they were going to write a book about everything they saw and heard, your every activity, your comings and goings, etc - and that book would be published and read by hundreds of thousands - you'd sing a different tune.
And don't bother with "I wouldn't care 'cause I have nothing to hide." - You'd be incensed.
Add to that the fact that the person is hostile to you from the get go - they can take the most innocent thing and turn it into a buzz phrase, twisted to make you bad - to the world.
You would NOT enjoy living in your own house like a bug under a microscope -
Meh. It’s the nature of things that a celebrity public figure is like a bug under a microscope.
Now THAT puts it in perspective!
They'd be hauled off to jail - or run out of the country.
This man is despicable. From his recent comments, he's not getting the print and payola he's used too. So he's not only despicable, but desperate = and with a hostile agenda.
That's a dangerous situation. One could wonder if he is unsuccessful in getting the 'scoop' he has now locked himself into having to get - what might he invent or create?
In itself, no. Combined with other facts, it indicates a disturbing pattern of stalker-like behavior.
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