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Sarah Palin Threatens to Sue ‘Rogue’ Book Publisher
abcnews.com ^ | Sept. 26, 2011 | Jon Karl & Shushannah walshe

Posted on 09/26/2011 3:53:55 PM PDT by Al B.

Sarah Palin’s family attorney John Tiemessen has written a letter to Maya Mavjee, the publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, that Palin may sue her, the company, and the book’s author Joe McGinniss “for knowingly publishing false statements” in his book released last week, “The Rogue,” ABC News has learned.

READ THE ENTIRE LETTER HERE

The book was widely panned by critics for using unnamed sources to criticize Palin and her family. Tiemessen cites an email they have access to in which McGinniss writes that attorneys from Crown Publishing told him “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 is a corner nobody has been able to turn” and that McGinniss “ran out of time” to sufficiently source the book.

A source close to the Palins tells ABC News that the “Palins are fighting back and demanding answers from Random House.”

“Random House is at the top of the food chain and published a book based upon acknowledged unsubstantiated gossip,” the source said. “The revealing email is key as evidence of this defamatory approach to politics through proxies.”

Tiemessen writes in the letter that the email “clearly describes the fact that Mr. McGinniss researched and investigated many false and scurrilous allegations, and concluded that there was absolutely no evidence anywhere backing these allegations.”

Palin’s attorney writes that it is “malicious” for Crown to publish the book when it has proof McGinniss and Crown “were fully aware the statements in the book were false, intended to be false, and were intended to harm.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crownpublishing; crownpublishingfraud; defamationsuit; joemcginniss; libel; mcginniss; palin; palinhouse; palinpublishing; peepingjoe; randomhouse; randomhousefraud; sarahpalin; therogue; waronsarah
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To: Sola Veritas

Tea Partiers want a candidate they’re sure will fight for them. Seeing the Momma Grizzly fight for her family against the corrupt evil establishment will make them ecstatic. My only question is how long has Breitbart been sitting on these e-mails? And had he clued Sarah in on their existence? Had they just been waiting to see whether Sloppy Joe et al would be dumb enough to finish the tort? And if so planning to jiu jitsu liberal hate and stupidity into the most unconventional election launch in history. One that converts three years of the left’s negative campaigning into legally admitted or proven “making things up.”


141 posted on 09/26/2011 8:04:49 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: SamAdams76

What if the basketball player is willing to perjure himself? This could also be a last ditch trap. They would be able to call defense witnesses and make life miserable for a lot of people. How about them putting Bristol on the stand and ripping her life apart like they do a rape victim?


142 posted on 09/26/2011 8:10:40 PM PDT by itsahoot (The MSM will not pick my candidate--I will still vote for Sarah Palin, even if she doesn't run.--)
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To: Al B.
That letter is not a "threat".

That letter is action.

ABC is clueless.

143 posted on 09/26/2011 8:11:23 PM PDT by Tribune7 (If you demand perfection you will wind up with leftist Democrats)
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To: itsahoot; gov_bean_ counter; SeaHawkFan
What if the basketball player is willing to perjure himself? This could also be a last ditch trap. They would be able to call defense witnesses and make life miserable for a lot of people. How about them putting Bristol on the stand and ripping her life apart like they do a rape victim?

Possibly, and that is one of my concerns. But the high risk of ultimately losing, and the scope of what will be lost, should put enormous pressure on defendants to settle. Law as vengance is a fool's game. She needs an elegant way to win this without getting bogged down by it. Else, even if she wins, she may still lose.

Concur SeaHawkFan?

144 posted on 09/26/2011 9:35:49 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Bigtigermike

My bet is that they do pursue the case, and receive a sizeable settlement w/o going to court.


145 posted on 09/26/2011 9:41:15 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: editor-surveyor

I change my mind as well after talking to a friend

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2784203/posts


146 posted on 09/26/2011 9:43:15 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: TruthHound

>> “If she has a case, drag his ass to court and get all the books recalled!” <<

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I think they can accomplish that w/o going into a court room; I’m sure that they will retract, and pay quickly.


147 posted on 09/26/2011 9:44:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Not just Random house, she should also sue Gary Trudeau and the publishers of his editorial/cartoon Doonesbury for the slimey quotations supposedly taken from the book. Slimeballs like that need squishing to where it actually hurts THEM for a change.
148 posted on 09/26/2011 9:49:35 PM PDT by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

>> “McGinnis’s book I think has sold 10 copies and all of them to members of the press, no one with the IQ of plant life would buy that crap.” <<

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He blew it by not understanding his market. Liberals are mostly cheapskates, and they will usually buy only books that reassure their twisted dream world by making their heroes look good, like Bill and Hill.

They don’t want a book about Palin; they just want to hate Palin.


149 posted on 09/26/2011 9:51:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: Mountain Troll

He included family members; she has already won.

Also, there are three or four states that require criminal penalties for leveling false charges against candidates and public figures.


150 posted on 09/26/2011 9:56:17 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: Springfield Reformer

>> “Which raises the question, how did Breitbart get those emails?” <<

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When you send an email, unencrypted, it can be found by search engines on the servers that they pass through, using key words. Police do this regularly. Anyone that has one of these search engines can do it.


151 posted on 09/26/2011 10:10:38 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: Will88

>> “I’m continually amazed that so many people will put potentially incriminating information in emails.” <<

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McGiness isn’t intelligent enough to recognize what is incriminating.


152 posted on 09/26/2011 10:12:39 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Sarah Palin - 2012 !)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Books not doing well at all....few quotes picked up along the way....

The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” sits at a modest No. 58 on the Amazon new releases list. It appears nowhere on the top 100 best-sellers list for Amazon or Barnes Noble.

When asked how the book was selling, Doris Blechman, assistant manager of Anderson’s Bookshops in Naperville, gave a simple answer:... “So far, it isn’t.”

“We don’t even have it out on the front table,” she said, noting that the store had sold only one of its five copies as of Friday.


153 posted on 09/26/2011 10:18:22 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

RH must be out thousands of $s. Consider the ‘advance’, probably picked up some of the tab for the sleazeball, editing, publishing and so forth.

If Palin sues, it should put a real dent into RH’s financials. Best case scenario: hurt RH so severely that it will be impossible for them to recover.

Sue their socks off!!!


154 posted on 09/26/2011 10:27:59 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Back to square freakn' one...)
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To: Mr. Jazzy

I look at this from the standpoint of trying to put myself in Palin’s shoes... For 3+ years, she and her family/children have been subject to a near constant barrage of attacks on her professional life, her personal life, and their personal lives. New “ground” in “journalism” has certainly been broken...accusing someone of faking a pregnancy! (on top of all the other ludicrous accusations). The media has invested countless millions of $$ attempting to destroy this woman. Yet, as we all have marveled, she keeps plugging on, smiling, optimistic, serving as a source of inspiration for many. But, she’s only human and no one could withstand that sustained, high octane, viciously personal barrage without it having some effect. Perhaps, this “book”, done by someone who forthrightly stalked her and her family in the most intimate forms possible, is the breaking point and she wants to put an end to the “open season” on the Palin family. I would imagine she would go through with this, Prez run or not. She does not seem like someone who you would want to make tremendously angry. I can envision a “Carrie”-like scenario (in legal terms, not literally, of course) where she will make such a definitive statement as to take the personal Palin family “issues” off the table and serve notice to wannabees like Letterman and the other uber-Left snark-meisters that there are consequences to their actions.

Just MHO, of course...


155 posted on 09/26/2011 10:29:58 PM PDT by nuvista (Obama-care - you think that arrogant Marxist "cares" about you?)
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To: editor-surveyor

Hmmm.. that is just a tad unnerving.


156 posted on 09/26/2011 10:58:49 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Shadow44
I’m tired of the moron I work with who actually buys such slanderous trash as truth.

I know someone just like that. She actually announced at a lunch table that she had seen obama's speech the day before and AGREED WITH EVERYTHING HE SAID.

157 posted on 09/27/2011 4:23:13 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: JohnBovenmyer
And had he clued Sarah in on their existence?

Todd or Sarah probably gave the emails to Breitbart after they intercepted them in Wasilla from Griffin's blogger network, in which McGinniss was reaching out for help.

158 posted on 09/27/2011 5:21:06 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

That’s why she has a lawyer to handle this situation. Suing Random House and this idiot will put others on notice to be very careful with what they say and write.


159 posted on 09/27/2011 5:23:47 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: itsahoot
What if the basketball player is willing to perjure himself?

How did that work out for Roger Clemens? Roger hasn't been convicted, but he is spending a bundle on his lawyer.

160 posted on 09/27/2011 5:25:36 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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