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Explosive Email Shows Anti-Palin Author McGinniss, Random House Likely Published Literary Hoax
Big Government.com ^ | Sept 22, 2011 | Andrew Breitbart

Posted on 09/22/2011 5:25:30 AM PDT by libstripper

The awful launch week for the over-hyped, expected bestseller The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by controversial author Joe McGinniss, just got worse. Much worse.

After a week of universally scathing pans from the reflexively anti-Palin establishment media, McGinniss now faces the fight of his literary life: the accusation that he seems to have knowingly submitted a book to his publisher, Crown/Random House, that was filled with unproved “tawdry gossip” and rumors that lacked “factual evidence.”

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Please, please, if you do nothing else, read the whole article, especially McGinniss' 1/22/2011 email. It shows McGinniss and Random House published the smear on Sarah knowing that much of the vilest material was undocumented. That amounts to recklessness, defined by SCOTUS as the "actual malice," in New York Times v. Sullivan, that allows a public figure like Sarah to recover damages for libel.
1 posted on 09/22/2011 5:25:39 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

No doubt in my mind.
Nice work, if you can get it.
He has a history of literary weaselry, does he not?


2 posted on 09/22/2011 5:28:28 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly ("Hit 'em again, Todd!!")
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To: Rational Thought; kara2008; Immerito; Students4Palin; Ladysmith; EnglishCon; thouworm; ...

(((((PING)))))


3 posted on 09/22/2011 5:29:02 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: zot; Interesting Times

Unbelieveable!!! NOT


4 posted on 09/22/2011 5:30:42 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: ozark hilljilly

Ump. b


5 posted on 09/22/2011 5:31:56 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: The flash mob who wonÂ’t leave.)
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To: libstripper
From Joe's email: "Legal review of my manuscript is underway and here’s my problem: no one has ever offered documentation of any of the lurid stories about the Palins."

No documentation, no proof whatsoever. Yet will that stop them from publishing? I hope and pray that they do, and that the Palins end up owning everything, everything McGinniss has ever made, and everything he ever will make. Ditto Random House - put them out of (their unethical) business.

6 posted on 09/22/2011 5:32:05 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: zot; Interesting Times

Unbelieveable!!! NOT


7 posted on 09/22/2011 5:32:25 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: All
McGinniss' panicked email to 'Gryphon':

From: Joe McGinniss
To: Jesse Griffin
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:15 PM
Subject: I have to ask you for help

Jesse–


Legal review of my manuscript is underway and here’s my problem: no one has ever offered documentation of any of the lurid stories about the Palins. Shailey Tripp is the latest example.

APD and Sarah have denied that Todd had any involvement with her. To my knowledge, no one has provided any evidence that he did. TheEnquirer cites AlaskaWTF, which in turn cites the Enquirer: what good is that? I’m also told that the Enquirer is preparing to back off this story and save face by denouncing Ms. Tripp as an unreliable source who promised documentation she couldn’t provide.

She may be mentally unstable and prone to fabrication, delusion, or both. Her joint may be called Blue Hands Massage (brrrrr!), but she’s no Monica Lewinsky with a blue dress with a semen stain, that’s for sure.

Do you believe that Todd paid her for sex? If so, why do you believe that, other than that you wish it were true?

A lurid, sensational, defamatory story about Todd, based only on the account of a woman charged with prostitution, who is no doubt desperate for money, and who sold her story to the Enquirer, is a gift from heaven for Sarah.

Jesse, you can ridicule Sarah for calling in to the execrable Bob & Mark, but the fact is that as far as this story goes, there’s no there there. And rumors about what might come in weeks ahead are not facts. In fact, they’re garbage.

I’ve neither seen nor heard anything that indicates that Ms. Tripp’s story has any basis in fact. None of the endless crap Patrick posted about her before getting the boot from palingates.com offers any substantiation.

And even you write frequently that you know things you can’t yet post, but that soon “all will be revealed.” This has been going on since I first became aware of your blog, but as far as I know you haven’t substantiated a single claim or provided verification for a single rumor that you’ve posted about Sarah’s personal life, or the personal lives of any Palin family members. Thus, she gets to denounce what she calls “lies.”

Neither from you, the Enquirer, AlaskaWTF, palingates.com or anyone else, have I seen a credible, identified source backing any of the salacious stories about the Palin family.

Thus–as Random House lawyers are already pointing out to me–nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. The proof is always just around the corner, but that’s a corner nobody has been able to turn. Maybe Jeff Dunn has, in which case I’ll be the first to congratulate him. But frankly, at this point, I’m tired of it, and I’ve run out of time.

No one has ever provided factual evidence that:

a) Todd had sex with a hooker, or with anyone else outside his marriage.

b) Sarah had an affair with Brad Hanson, or anyone else.

c) Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term. Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses.

d) Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes. Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that.

e) Trig is not Sarah’s natural born child.

f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth.

Jesse, you were going on and on about Bristol being pregnant while doing Dancing With The Stars. And, if I recall correctly, at the time of her brief glossy-magazine-payday “reunion” with Levi, you surmised that she was pregnant by Ben Barber, or at least by someone who wasn’t Levi. You’ve recently suggested she’s had an abortion, publishing photographs that show her chubby then and thin now. But doesn’t that seem a little “thin” to you, based on nothing besides magazine pictures?

So much has bubbled at the salacious rumor stage for more than two years, but no one has been able to take even one story further.

Jesse, if you can put me in touch with people who are willing and able to substantiate any of the above, now is the time to do so. Otherwise, I hope you won’t complain that there are no startling new revelations in my book. My publisher and I think it’s damning enough without airing the family’s dirty laundry, but because Sarah’s hypocrisy about her family is one of the things that galls me most, I’d like to be able to publish facts in regard to a) through f) above, but I emphasize facts.

Not malicious speculation or third-hand rumors relayed by those who hold a grudge.

For any or all of those who’ve told you they’ll speak out, but not yet, now is the time. My book represents the last best chance to put the truth about Sarah in front of the American people in a documented, verifiable way. But I need facts that I can rely on. I didn’t live this long and work this hard over so many decades to wind up as AlaskaWTF between hard covers.

as always, and looking forward to seeing you in spring or summer,

Joe

8 posted on 09/22/2011 5:34:36 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: libstripper

very early into the machinations against his smear book so it’s too early to call

but I hope he gets taken apart


9 posted on 09/22/2011 5:34:41 AM PDT by wardaddy (, Dick Cheney ....get his book...he should have been President)
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To: libstripper; Virginia Ridgerunner
If this is correct, the Palins may own Random House soon.

The first new book they publish should be fun.......

10 posted on 09/22/2011 5:34:53 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: libstripper

How did he get this email???


11 posted on 09/22/2011 5:35:46 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: libstripper

How did he get this email???


12 posted on 09/22/2011 5:35:55 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: libstripper

Sarah and Todd should sue the heck out of this lying scumbag m-fer.


13 posted on 09/22/2011 5:37:08 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint /Palin, DeMint/Bachmann, DeMint/Cain, DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!!!)
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To: libstripper; Al B.

It would be great if someone had the original email (with headers) proving that it is genuine. If so, that would be FANTASTIC.


14 posted on 09/22/2011 5:37:39 AM PDT by HalfFull ("Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" -PHenry)
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To: libstripper
Last time I checked, "tawdry gossip and rumors" sold books.

Nothing new here, folks.

Move along.

15 posted on 09/22/2011 5:38:17 AM PDT by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: libstripper
If she just says yes Sarah Palin will be the most vetted candidate in history.

Like another Sarah you just can't kill her.


16 posted on 09/22/2011 5:39:41 AM PDT by McGruff (Vetting - The process of examination and evaluation of a candidate's record.)
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To: Gadsden1st

That’s my question too! From Griffin? He is an sick hate-Palin blogger, he certainly wouldn’t out himself as well, would he?


17 posted on 09/22/2011 5:39:55 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Lakeshark

So, again, just another “Random House” of ill repute ~ filled to the brim with liars, perverts, bottom-feeders,.......... and, as usual, fornicators.


18 posted on 09/22/2011 5:41:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: libstripper
There is no "Absence of Malice" here, McGinnis and Random-House need to get their asses handed to them in court.

"When I leave here tonight, someone's ass is going to be in my briefcase."

Even though they are all real life libs, they made a great movie where the good guy gets even with the newspaper.

19 posted on 09/22/2011 5:42:15 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

LOL! Holy crapski! (And I thought my emails were long winded.)
Looks like Lil’ Joe has got some ‘splainin’ to do!
Maybe Todd won’t have to publicly beat the crap out him afterall! ; ) Like Sarah has said: “We know the way to the courthouse.”


20 posted on 09/22/2011 5:42:15 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly ("Hit 'em again, Todd!!")
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