Palin Neighbor Rented Out House to Journalist in Revenge Plot Against Palin

Phancee ^ | 5/28/10 | Juli Weiner

[Nachum]

Sarah Palin, plays photojournalist on Facebook. Salacious new details have emerged about writer Joe McGinniss’s recent move to Sarah Palin Lane, located in snowy Wasilla, Alaska. McGinniss’s son Joe Jr. told Politico’s Ben Smith that Joe Sr. had been courted by Palin’s neighbor in a classic case (?) of revenge-by-rental. “A woman was renting her house and sought out the author because the Palins had crossed her (owed her money for renovations she had done at their request and never paid her for). So she knew McGinniss was writing the book and found him and offered him the house.” Bam!

[nanetteclaret]

Plus she said words to the effect that Arizona is looking good.

[SueRae]

Capital suggestion!!!! Wouldn’t that be a hoot?

[bcsco]

She put up a fence, but why didn’t she put one up before he rented the place?

Because she didn't consider the neighbor a stalker?

[Niteranger68]

AND Ted could play his guitar ALL NIGHT! LOUD!

And shoot his guns ALL DAY! EVEN LOUDER THAN HIS GUITAR!

[Richard Kimball]

Can you imagine what would have been the Liberal media take on some Conservative journalist buying the home next door to the Clintons, to find dirt on them?

I can see the headlines now. "Journalist Commits Suicide by Shooting Self Six Times in Back."

[RichInOC]

You know, down here in California, if somebody hires you to work on their house and they don’t pay you, you can sue them or file criminal charges. Can they do that in Alaska?

(Yes, I’m being a big smartass.)

[latina4dubya]

It doesn’t matter to me. It matters to Palin because she made a public issue of it.

okay--i get where you're coming from...

[truthfreedom]

I agree with you.

I had a lenghty argument with pretty much everybody about this on tuesday morning when Palin first made the facebook post.

My thinking at the time was that Palin should’ve proactively done something, anything, to prevent any potential damage from that property.

I thought that money to the neighbor could have fixed the problem. It turned out that many of the things that I suggested the Palins had already done. Apparently Palin did rent the house last year.

But, boy, try to suggest that anything that Palin did or did not do was other than the perfect response and you can expect an attack from her supporters. I’m a Palin supporter, but in this case I thought that she did a less than stellar job of anticipating potential danger from that wild-card neighbor property. Many of her supporters do not think that Palin should have to anticipate problems, to have to foresee anything. McGinniss is evil and Palin is good and that’s all there is to that.

But it turns out that Palin has tried to solve the problem with the wild card property, by starting the process of building a house that wouldn’t be effected by potential prying neigbors, by renting the wild-card property, and other things.

But most of her supporters thought I was an idiot for suggesting simple solutions like 1) move 2) buy neighbors house 3) rent neigbors house. Palin, potentially the next President, should be able to control her evironment, and should be able to keep someone like McGinness from peering into her house. And legal action isn’t the only means of doing that. Talk to neighbors. Use $.

I feel much better about Palin knowing that she did in fact see the potential problem before it arose and took steps to guard against it. It was right of me to expect Palin to have seen the potential problem, and wrong of my critics to not expect her to see it.

[Eddie01]

YES! ...but as a practice venue for his touring band rather than a home.

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly. Or.., journalist found decapitated in upstairs bathroom, head downstairs in the kitchen. A suicide note written in blood on the outside of the front door.

Ruled a suicide by special Arkancide Task Force investigators.

[Enterprise]

I got the feeling that just asking the questions raised some neck hairs. I didn’t catch the interview with Hannity, so I didn’t know the whole story. But then, that’s why I ask questions.

[bereanway]

Yep, the fact the Palins were trying to contact to owner to rent the house again this summer pretty much exposes little joey’s fib. They didn’t owe this lady one red cent.

Little Joe’s story will collapse shortly.

[SaraJohnson]

This is a nasty world.

[SmokingJoe]

I don't believe a word of this. She supposedly made renovations to her own house and expected the Palins to pay for it.

Pretty much.
Wish my neighbor had been paying for my house repairs all these years. I am sure he'd fall over luaghing if I went over and calmly suggested that he pay for MY repairs.
Story makes no sense.
I think we are essentially talking about a neighbor, who read in the press that Sarah Palin had made $12 million in 7 months, and decided to start his own extortion racket: Pay for my repairs or I go get the most vile creature I can find to come rent my property right next to you.

[SuziQ]

Look, I’d take with a very large grain of salt any claim that the Palin family hadn’t paid their bill for services rendered.

Yeah, my BS meter started humming when I read that. I've never read anything before that said that the Palins are anything but up front and honest in their business dealings.

The recent WaPo article about McGinniss said that the landlord was hesitant to rent to an unknown person, because of the concern for the Palin's privacy. Doesn't sound like someone with an ax to grind. It was someone the landlord knew, who also knew McGinniss, who vouched for McGinniss. Sounds like that go-between gots some 'splainin to do to his friend, the landlord.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, I agree.