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She Could See This Guy From Her House [NYT Slams McGinnis Book on Palin]
NY Slimes ^ | 09/14/11 | Janet Maslin

Posted on 09/14/2011 4:01:25 PM PDT by freespirited

On May 22, 2010, Joe McGinniss moved into a strategically well-situated house in Wasilla, Alaska. It was next door to the home of former Gov. Sarah Palin and her family, but that understates the highly exploitable proximity of the two places. They were very close together. The Palins could probably hear tweets from the newly hatched birds that Mr. McGinniss excitedly uses as filler for “The Rogue,” his book about his summer-long experiment in homesteading. “The grebe chicks have hatched!” he needlessly exclaims. ...

Mr. McGinnis, who has been writing best sellers since “The Selling of the President” in 1969, starts this book by affecting a gee-whiz attitude about his amazing new digs. (“Forty years in the business and I’ve never had a piece of luck like this.”) But he doesn’t get far with that attitude. Ten pages into “The Rogue” he has already blown his cover, printing a map to the Palins’ isolated house. He describes having gone to the Palin door with a signed copy of his book about Alaska, “Going to Extremes,” and exploiting this encounter to engage the family’s older son, Track, in conversation. But had Mr. McGinniss been a good neighbor, he would have delivered that book without showing up unannounced. ...

Although most of “The Rogue” is dated, petty and easily available to anyone with Internet access, Mr. McGinniss used his time in Alaska to chase caustic, unsubstantiated gossip about the Palins, often from unnamed sources like “one resident” and “a friend.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: joemcginnis; pages; palin; sarahpalin
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To: EDINVA
McGinnis is just plain sick.

You are only STARTING to get close... check this.

Janet Malcolm does not reopen the MacDonald case in her book, "The Journalist and the Murderer." Rather, she examines the issues behind a libel suit that MacDonald brought in 1984 against his supposed friend, Joe McGinnis, author of "Fatal Vision." Joe McGinniss posed as an ally of Jeffrey MacDonald for years. McGinnis lived with MacDonald for a while and even joined his defense team. McGinniss sent MacDonald sympathetic letters in support of his cause. In these letters, he frequently expressed his belief in MacDonald's innocence.

It was only after "Fatal Vision" was published that MacDonald discovered the truth. McGinniss did not believe in MacDonald's innocence; on the contrary, he portrays MacDonald as a psychopathic murderer. The author posed as a friend for the sole purpose of keeping MacDonald in the dark so that McGinniss would continue to have access to his subject. "Fatal Vision" became a huge bestseller and it eventually became a miniseries.

http://www.amazon.com/Journalist-Murderer-Janet-Malcolm/dp/0679731830

What sorry scum! The POS actually moved in with his target!

Actually it is beyond scum, it is sick. And traitorous, backstabbing, narcissistic, mentally ill, morally dead.

Fits right in with bammy's 32% mentally defective hard-core base.

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41 posted on 09/14/2011 6:21:04 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Cobra64

That bottom picture has a remarkable resemblance to a trout!


42 posted on 09/14/2011 6:24:10 PM PDT by Tucsonican
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To: freespirited

“...the liberals’ praise is a warning bell you must heed. Trust me on that.” - Sarah Palin


43 posted on 09/14/2011 6:30:07 PM PDT by CDB ("...the liberals' praise is a warning bell you must heed. Trust me on that." - Sarah Palin)
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To: LibLieSlayer
I read some of the threads this morning. The man is one sick puppy, and anyone who would repeat his drivel as if he were an ally to them are just as sick.

What was really disappointing and somewhat infuriating (no, not somewhat) were the few (maybe a dozen, maybe twenty) on FR that chose to pile on, making scenarios about how what this scumbag wrote is probably true, or a dozen other disgusting scenarios that fed their PDS.

They make me want to throw up.

44 posted on 09/14/2011 6:31:12 PM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Cobra64

Those feminists appear to be doing designer drugs. Yuk.


45 posted on 09/14/2011 6:32:56 PM PDT by libbylu (Game On!)
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To: MestaMachine
Bump to your post. I was so angry at those who swallowed this crap I could have spit blood.
46 posted on 09/14/2011 6:33:02 PM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Sarah has a real chance of picking up a ton of dem votes with this book, one glancing at headlines might think she is like WJC, lol,... the more sordid the better the left likes politicians.


47 posted on 09/14/2011 6:35:31 PM PDT by libbylu (Game On!)
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To: greene66

The Slimes is circling the porcelain God and they are trying pull themselves back from the brink of irrelevancy?

Are they figuring out their support for the empty suit was the biggest mistake of their entire existence?

Hmmm....

I won’t hold my breath.


48 posted on 09/14/2011 6:39:26 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Tucsonican

You just insulted all fish! ;)


49 posted on 09/14/2011 6:40:00 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: libbylu

No doubt!


50 posted on 09/14/2011 6:40:26 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: greene66

Methinks you’re on to something there.


51 posted on 09/14/2011 6:44:15 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Lakeshark
I know... I understand completely. Palin is who she is... 26,000 emails prove that as hard fact. What this book insinuates are things that cannot be... because Palin is not that person. EVERYTHING that the left could find and many things that they made up out of whole cloth... have been thrown against the wall... nothing sticks because there is NOTHING there. Perhaps some will learn from this event. I didn't believe all of the personal trash that was dumped on Perry last week... rumors of affairs etc... I have enough genuine concerns about him without falling into a cesspool of leftardia.

LLS

52 posted on 09/14/2011 6:48:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Is the person that you support a Crony Capitalist... A.K.A. CRAPITALIST?)
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To: Lakeshark
Misrepresentations about Mr. Heath are actionable and Governor Palin now has more than enough money to pursue it.
53 posted on 09/14/2011 6:48:45 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: libbylu

Well, the only reason that scumbag wrote that idiotic book is to make her look bad..but really, supposedly sleeping with an ex-Laker..as a die hard fan I dont think that’s a bad thing, I always thought she was a Celtics fan LOL..slimeballs like McGinnis give me the creeps, he’s one of those guys you’d see in a dark alley and run like hell from


54 posted on 09/14/2011 6:49:07 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Lakeshark

I went AWAY from the computer for most of the rest of the day. Being furious was part of it, but utter revulsion at the way some people were reacting so gleefully to this, especially those who post heavy, heavy holier than thou religious threads all the time, just had my blood boiling. I was shocked down to the core.
None of them even considered what crap like this would do to her family, her friends, her younger children. These are not people I care to know or discuss anything with ever again.


55 posted on 09/14/2011 6:49:24 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Bovina Sancta!)
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To: MestaMachine

I hear ya but really, dont worry about it..the ones you see trashing Sarah never liked her to begin with..the things that they say are word for word what comes out of the mouths of leftists..this “book” if I can even call it that, won’t sell 5 copies and I’m being generous..its utter crap, I wouldn’t use it to pick up my dog’s poo its such slime. Oh and the ones that talk about “Oh My God she supposedly had sex before marriage” ya know the ones that claim that they are better then everyone else, I’d love to see the skeletons in their closet, I bet its juicy


56 posted on 09/14/2011 6:53:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MestaMachine; LibLieSlayer
I had to leave the computer too, it was too much to read what these few people were saying, even though it was only somewhere between a dozen and twenty. I don't normally swear, but there are way too many @ssholes on this forum, posting sick scenarios like that just makes my blood boil.

And for what? Helping humiliate a conservative who has put herself in the line of fire to forward effectively at least 90% of what they themselves believe. They willfully propagated a slimeball liberal's smears and go their jollies doing so.

Revulsion. Now that's a word.......

57 posted on 09/14/2011 6:59:41 PM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: sauropod

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58 posted on 09/14/2011 7:02:10 PM PDT by sauropod (ObaMao: Let them eat peas!)
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To: Lakeshark

I called one out this morning and got called a fascist.

How nice is that.


59 posted on 09/14/2011 7:07:23 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: "You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Clyde5445
I thought all Sabre fans were fascist...../s

:-)I didn't want to post anything for 8 hours it was so sickening.

60 posted on 09/14/2011 7:09:51 PM PDT by Lakeshark
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