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 children’s play area" and "overlooking Piper’s bedroom." Alternately sounding angry and mocking, she refers to "the family’s 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 they’d 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 ...
YES! Whenever someone from the WH mentions her, she wins!
~snip~
Even the most concrete new development in the Palin family, an enormous structure rising beside their existing 3,400-square-foot house on Lucile Lake, is something of a mystery. Based on the limited evidence in the planning department at Wasilla City Hall (the city does not require building permits), the building's footprint alone is 6,000 square feet, but much of it is two stories. Various sources have said the project includes a television studio (Fox News, [Sarah Palin's father Chuck] Heath said), apartments for Mr. Palin or the Palins' older children (Bristol Palin, 19, has said, however, that she is living on her own with Tripp and paying her own bills with the help of handsome speaking fees) and a well-appointed office for Ms. Palin.
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Along with rintense, I like to think she's building the WESTERN WHITE HOUSE!
THANX for a much needed LOL!!!
Actually "the real Northern White House"!
These are the same guys that gleefully trash Sarah and her family, but as soon as she turns around and says ‘boo,’ they wet their panties, whine and cry ... “mommy, Sarah is being mean to me!”
NORTH TO ALASKA! You’re right!
David Weigel - has started at the Washington Post as their man reporting on the conservative movement
Weigel worked previously at the Washington Independent, where he published a stream of leftist screeds against conservatives and the tea parties. For example, "‘N-Word’ Sign Dogs Would-Be Tea Party Leader", and "Tea Partiers Want You to Remember the Days When the Left Was Crazy".
David Weigel, "‘Right-Wing’ Rhetoric on Hold After Museum Shooting." It's a pretty strong attack on those who take exception to the left's smear against the conservative movement as a bunch of "Christian fascist eliminationists."
What she aught to do is rent another place, with NO NEAR HOUSES - for 5 months...
a fence isn't going to do it - I'm sure he has listening devices that will enable him to hear conversations in the house.
Just rent another place, bake him a cake, take it over and say “Golly, sorry we're going to miss your stay. But do have a great vacation.”
THEN, if he follows and rents another place close by - I would think that could be legally called ‘stalking” - altho’ I don't understand why this isn't. He rented the place for one reason, to spy on her.
But she should think about moving altogether. Some one who has become as famous as she has, especially when considered a threat and a target of some very evil people, she should not be living where there is a house just 15 feet away. There would never be safety for her and family.
Heck, I'm far from famous, but I couldn't stand having someone living that close to me. I love my privacy. I look out and all I see is sky and forest and sun...and the furred and feathered folk. Best neighbors that can be had.
There’s no THERE there. Here is the 3D overhead from outerspace upclose picture of the spot identified with that address. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=7%20Pine%20Tree%20Circle%2C%20Amherst%20MA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
LOL. Yep, same as the keyboard warriors, but they’re “journalists.”
Hahaha, indeed!
Just when you think the MSM hasn't drifted far enough to the left or gone off the deep end........
He needs Clearasil or whatever the acne medication is nowadays.
This crowd could as easily be a gang of assassins, or sexual perverts, or pedophiles, or arsonists ~ there’s no crime they’d stop at.
There’s no “there” in his head either.
And here's Dave Weigel:
I bet McGinnis and Weigel are hot tub buddies. Hide the kids.
It’s in Pelham, MA.
LOL.
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