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.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
No doubt in my mind.
Nice work, if you can get it.
He has a history of literary weaselry, does he not?
(((((PING)))))
Unbelieveable!!! NOT
Ump. b
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.
Unbelieveable!!! NOT
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 heres 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? Im 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 couldnt provide.
She may be mentally unstable and prone to fabrication, delusion, or both. Her joint may be called Blue Hands Massage (brrrrr!), but shes no Monica Lewinsky with a blue dress with a semen stain, thats 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, theres no there there. And rumors about what might come in weeks ahead are not facts. In fact, theyre garbage.
Ive neither seen nor heard anything that indicates that Ms. Tripps 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 cant 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 havent substantiated a single claim or provided verification for a single rumor that youve posted about Sarahs 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.
Thusas Random House lawyers are already pointing out to menothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. The proof is always just around the corner, but thats a corner nobody has been able to turn. Maybe Jeff Dunn has, in which case Ill be the first to congratulate him. But frankly, at this point, Im tired of it, and Ive 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 Sarahs natural born child.
f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripps 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 wasnt Levi. Youve recently suggested shes had an abortion, publishing photographs that show her chubby then and thin now. But doesnt 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 wont complain that there are no startling new revelations in my book. My publisher and I think its damning enough without airing the familys dirty laundry, but because Sarahs hypocrisy about her family is one of the things that galls me most, Id 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 whove told you theyll 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 didnt 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
very early into the machinations against his smear book so it’s too early to call
but I hope he gets taken apart
The first new book they publish should be fun.......
How did he get this email???
How did he get this email???
Sarah and Todd should sue the heck out of this lying scumbag m-fer.
It would be great if someone had the original email (with headers) proving that it is genuine. If so, that would be FANTASTIC.
Nothing new here, folks.
Move along.
Like another Sarah you just can't kill her.
That’s my question too! From Griffin? He is an sick hate-Palin blogger, he certainly wouldn’t out himself as well, would he?
So, again, just another “Random House” of ill repute ~ filled to the brim with liars, perverts, bottom-feeders,.......... and, as usual, fornicators.
"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.
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.”
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