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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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Thanks freespirited.
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."

61 posted on 09/14/2011 7:15:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: freespirited

I looked outside...sky still blue.
The way-back machine has spun us back to ‘79 soon to be ‘68.


62 posted on 09/14/2011 7:19:44 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Lakeshark

We won the prospects championship in Travese City tonight.

You know the one hosted by your belove Wings.


63 posted on 09/14/2011 7:33:15 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: Lakeshark

I think some of them are - ahem - from the other side.


64 posted on 09/14/2011 8:14:23 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Tucsonican

Actully I think her title is Governor Palin.


65 posted on 09/14/2011 8:15:52 PM PDT by Chickensoup (In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
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To: Tucsonican

Nah... If I caught a trout that looked like that, I’d toss it out on the bank to eliminate pollution of the gene pool...


66 posted on 09/14/2011 8:33:03 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: winoneforthegipper

I looking for brimstone myself. Really hard to believe this was published in the NYTimes.


67 posted on 09/14/2011 9:04:04 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: indylindy
Face it, there is something funny about this.


68 posted on 09/14/2011 10:17:27 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: SunkenCiv

That’s what I thought. McGuiness spent all that time and money moving into a house next to the Palin’s. And then came up with nothing “new” on her for his efforts. Just unsubstantiated internet gossip that he could have gotten for free, sitting in his Manhattan apartment.


69 posted on 09/15/2011 12:04:48 AM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: freespirited

every time the NYT uses MS. instead of MRS. they show their true corrupt colors, and cannot be taken seriously....


70 posted on 09/15/2011 2:29:43 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: bvw

I’m glad I’m not the only one. Do not trust them, ever.

Now that they’ve successfully tanked Gov. Palin’s poll numbers by harping on and on about “fish or cut bait” to the point where her supporters are repeating it, and that ridiculous “she’s a quitter” that so many people have swallowed whole, they’re going to try to get her nominated so that the Demwit candidate will win.

The Republican candidate that they push will turn to a steaming pile of gecko guano in their editorials so soon as he or she gets the nomination.


71 posted on 09/15/2011 5:19:54 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: freespirited; LucyT

The NYT failed to ask the obvious question,” Who is backing McGinnis with secure funding for his trash, defacto litigation and liability insurance for defamation and slander?”

I hope the Palins take them for every cent they can get.The publisher should be sued along with him.


72 posted on 09/15/2011 5:48:18 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.amercanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Clyde5445

YOIu gotta know how to defend against being called a fascist:

Its Conservatism 101:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


73 posted on 09/15/2011 8:53:13 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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