Posted on 09/27/2011 4:35:47 AM PDT by tobyhill
An attorney for Sarah Palin is threatening to sue over a new book that he says defamed the Palins and contains "a series of lies and rumors."
John Tiemessen, in a letter to the publisher of Crown Publishing Group Monday, cites an email that author Joe McGinniss allegedly sent a blogger in January seeking substantiation for several rumors that have surrounded Palin's family. That email was posted online last week by Andrew Breitbart.
Tiemessen says McGinniss' book, "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin," contains "most of" the stories that merely "amounted to the wishful fantasies of disturbed individuals."
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Most of the posts on this thread are entirely missing the point of this letter. The purpose of the letter was NOT to threaten a law suit.
The purpose of the letter was to serve a notice and demand that Random House take all necessary steps to preserve evidence for discovery - INCLUDING correspondence between McGinnis and Random House’s lawyers, for which McGinnis has effectively waived attorney-client confidentiality by sending an extraordinarily ill advised e-mail to a private correspondent in Alaska.
McGinnis has crippled the ability of Random House to defend either McGinnis or the book, and Palin’s lawyer’s letter has unambiguously shoved Random House’s nose right down into the stinking pile. They are going to be extraordinarily motivated to get out from under this.
I think the book will be pulled within two weeks, much as was J.H. Hatfield’s tell all about GW Bush, Fortunate Son. Remember that one?
The difference here will be that along with withdrawal and destruction of the book, there will be a substantial cash settlement to the Palins - all with no actual action in court. Random House will not want that - the situation is that bad for them.
Yay! A thought-filled posting! I was wondering about the public figure angle.
Thanks!
Palins attorneys already have the McGinniss email Breitbart has stating that none of it can be proved. Rice never stated anything to McGinniss. Even the NY Times shot that down.
Your PDS is getting the best of you.
Give a live link to a quote please.
That story about you and Barney Frank is probably true. But that’s no more damaging to you than to anyone else who has had a one-nighter with a gross slobbering Congressman.
Oh hey, see how that works?
There is no story about Palin and Rice: it’s a lie by McGinnis which has not been supported by any other evidence or testimony, and which has been denied by the Palin family. You are either credulous or you are a concern troll.
I think, if it happened, it would be better to hammer down the timeline.
To the best of my knowledge, Palin was a single woman in Washington when it happened, so there’s no infidelity here.
If George Bush can be let off for drunk driving thirty years, can’t we overlook a little bit of young hormones 24 years ago?
I think those who would have trouble with this would have trouble with her anyway.
I’m on a Blackberry, so I can’t do that.
If you’re on a computer, you can go to that website and do a search yourself.
If George Bush can be let off for drunk driving thirty years, can’t we overlook your youthful indiscretion in Barney Frank’s basement?
Seriously: post a link to your ‘proof’. We’ll pass it to the Palin’s lawyers.
That would be a great tactic! Todd has less public exposure, and is attacked in the book.
In an email MCGinniss admits none of it is true.
Come back to me when you stop being thirteen years old. Then we can have a mature discussion.
It looks as though not too many here remember that Carol Burnett sued successfully. And the Mirror (or whatever publication it was) was not suffering from PDS (or BDS).
except for the few creeps in West Hollywood and Boystown who buy it.
Boystown? My cousins were in boystown decades ago. They were not in trouble, they were orphaned & wanted to go there rather than family. Has something changed? Sometimes things happen right around you and you don’t know it.
Thank you for your public service.
Her intimate life was never a big issue.
Excuse me? YOU are the one spreading lurid gossip as truth.
YOU are the one spreading unsupported lurid gossip as truth.
Glen Rice never said that anything happen between the two of them! He wasn’t even asked!!!!!!!! That irks me that people on FR would state a claim that is simply not true
BTW you forgot the email that McGinniss sent to Jesse Griffin that is the centerpiece of the potential case! Libel case are difficult to prove but in this case that email proves there was malice and that email makes RH liable to opening up their correspondence between RH and McGinniss, something RH would be foolish to allow in discovery phase. They will settle out of court before that happens
You have no link and no proof, and when confronted you started to pretend that your outrageous insinuation about Sarah Palin was no big deal because she was single.
Admit it.
Thanks DJ: I can’t access that site from work but I have saved the link.
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