Joe the Neighbor – Palin Author Moves Next Door.
Time to pop the corn, folks. Joe McGinniss, author of the epic political best-seller The Selling of the President about Richard Nixon, Going to Extremes about the Alaskan pipeline days, and others has his sights set on Sarah Palin. She will be the subject of his next book, and now she’s also… his neighbor. McGinniss is also the journalist who wrote the piece Pipe Dreams for Conde Nast’s Portfolio and was thwarted in his attempt to win an auction for dinner with Sarah Palin.
Perhaps to encourage the muse, or perhaps out of a sense of “why not,” Mr. McGinniss has landed himself on the shores of Lake Lucille, right next door to the Palins. He’s renting the house for the summer. While there is no indication that McGinniss planned to publish photos or information about the personal lives of the Palin children, Sarah Palin has responded to the discovery of her famous neighbor in classic Palin style.
When I said “classic Palin style,” if you immediately thought “wild, inappropriate over-reaction” you can give yourself a gold star. And if you guessed Facebook rant, give yourself another one. This one was just too big for the Twitter limit of 140 characters. With twitchy forced nonchalance, she offers to bake him a pie, offers to lend him sugar and says she’ll keep her youngest son Trig quiet so McGinniss can enjoy his summer of peace and quiet while she constructs a giant fence. In this monologue, which is worthy of every “crazy neighbor” character ever penned, she also speculates (somewhere between the pie and the sugar) that he’ll be spying in Piper’s bedroom window, and watching her do the gardening while wearing skimpy summer clothing. It’s quite something. Reading it is kind of like watching someone spontaneously combust.
And in a brilliant move, to attempt to show how intrusive he’s going to be, and how much he will invade her privacy, she has actually published a picture of him sitting on the far side of the deck, minding his own business. You know… to show how inappropriate he is for whatever it is he might or might not do at some time in the future. Maybe. You know, like taking a creepy spy picture of her that she doesn’t know about and then publishing it online to a hostile audience and asking for comment. He would sink that low, wouldn’t he. Some people…
Of all the words I can think of to describe how Palin has chosen to react to the news of her new neighbor, “presidential” isn’t one of them. Just sayin’.
I’ve posted a similar piece on The Huffington Post
UPDATE:
Just to compound the insanity, Glen Beck has now called for a boycott of all Random House books because Mr. McGinniss has rented a private house.
The Palins have begun work on a new ginormous fence, apparently. Hope it stays within Wasilla building code.
Section16.16.050(19) Appearance. The proposed use may be required to blend in with the general neighborhood appearance and architecture. Building spacing, setbacks, lot coverage, and height must be designed to provide adequate provisions for natural light and air.
UPDATE II:
Glenn Beck has threatened Random House with a boycott unless they pull the plug, and has also announced that the ex-half-gov will be on his program tomorrow talking about it.
Random House Books has issued the following statement:
One of the country’s most respected nonfiction authors, Joe McGinniss, is presently reporting and writing his next book, tentatively titled Sarah Palin’s Year of Living Dangerously, scheduled for publication in fall 2011 by Broadway Books. Mr. McGinniss is the author of Going to Extremes, a classic book about Alaska, and his work-in-progress returns him to the 49th state to examine Sarah Palin’s significance as both a political and cultural phenomenon and as an embodiment of the contradictory forces that shaped Alaska as it moved into its second half-century of statehood. Well regarded for his in-depth, up-close reporting, Mr. McGinniss will be highly respectful of his subject’s privacy as he investigates her public activities.
I have a great idea for Joe. Since he once bid a considerable amount of money to have an EBay dinner with Sarah, I suggest that he invite Sarah, Todd and the whole family over for dinner. He can even make his offer again– a donation to a charity if Sarah comes. As for the blueberry pie, I thought that Sarah’s specialty was a plate of cookies.
As an added bonus, he could promise Sarah that their conversation would be off the record, knowing full well it’d appear on her FB page within minutes. Pretty sure that would put it in the public domain.
Kande, you make an excellent point. It’s not that she is just resistant to anyone telling her to sit down and shut up, she cannot shut up. She simply cannot leave anything well enough alone. She is her own worse enemy.
Gosh, can you imagine having a President behave like this? Mortifying is the word that springs to mind What an embarrassment.
I think a a friendly barbeque would be nice. A get together to mend fences (pun not intended but unavoidable). You know, invite the Palins over at six, have the Alaskan bloggers over at seven – or vice versa. Have someone video the whole thing. Whoa, boy.
Kidding aside, I do hope Joe is not living there alone. He really should have some kind of witness with him. On this point, I am very serious. I would also advise him to stay clear of windows and close the curtains at night.
BTW – Sarah’s nasty slur about him might wanting a peek at Piper’s bedroom – well, if you look at the photo, the windows on HER house sit higher than the windows on the place he is in so if anyone is going to peek, it might be HER.
What a creep she is. Her mind must be a nasty place to visit, let alone live within.
I wouldn’t trust them not to try to poison him with that pie–her psycho followers are already threatening him.
Sarah is a public figure. If she wants privacy she can certainly afford to buy a more secluded family residence. Instead, she plops herself in the midst of the community and dares anyone to invade her compound. What a nitwit.
Oh, now, remember what Bristol said under oath in TN: they live in the middle of no where.
This sure blows that statement to Hades and back again, doesn’t it?
Good point. They are near the highway, the railroad tracks, the Lake Lucille Inn, and have lots of neighbors around the lake, including this very close one. Maybe some of her followers (and the court) will now see how inaccurate that statement was.
Also, too, if he’s “about 15 feet away,” and there’s a setback requirement of 10 feet each, somebody’s too close, or she’s exaggerating again.
Nope, dead moose in chili sauce.
Yum.
One must admit that it is uncomfortable to have someone who is writing a book about you to show up as a neaighbor. That being said, does SP ever have a moment where she looks and says, “I can take the high road and fly through this or I can jomp in the cess pool and start wallowing and throwing STUFF!” and take the high road?
She doesn’t get clicks for taking the high road. She gets excited with her name in big print.
Nothing new here, move on. If Random House cancels the book, I’ll boycot Random House.
She could have taken the high road and said nothing about it. But then she couldn’t play the victim card again. Sooner or later the playing the victim card is gonna come back and bite her. She claims she is a victim of the media, yet she chooses to make a comment about anything and everything to the media for attention. She is the one who chose to put herself out in the spotlight, now she is the one who has deal with being a media figure. What about all of those stars that you never here anything about? If they can stay out of the spotlight, and come out only for interviews then she should be able too. If she can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen!
She’s more like the stars who go to all the hot Hollywood restaurants and party spots and then complain when the paparrazzi descend on them. You can’t have it both ways, folks!
“Look at me…don’t look at me…they’re looking at me…stop looking at me…WHY AREN’T YOU LOOKING AT ME?!?!?!?!”
Perhaps the problem is that she has no knowledge of anything substantial so the only things she CAN spew about are right wing talking points and her dysfunctional family.
Hysterical post but true.
Possible “high-road” options:
–Do nothing, unless for some unlikely reason you truly feel threatened.
–Wave, say hello, be friendly (welcome, great weather we’re having).
–Wave, say hello, be honest (hey, I can’t say we’re happy it’s you but I trust you’ll respect our privacy).
–Build a high fence without telling anyone.
–Offer to take Joe for a tour–share what you know about Wasilla and AK.
–Offer an off the record interview about something simple and noncontroversial
–Host a welcome party for him, introducing him to other neighbors.
–Contact Joe’s people/publisher and make a calm and cogent case against him being next door.
–Move.
Yep, ALL of those are perfect options Mel, especially the last one. But remember this is $arah we’re talking about and not one of your options would make a lick of sense to her. You can’t begin to know how remotely one could live in Alaska without much effort. $arah has the money to get the hell out of the middle (literally) of town. Yet, she sticks around. Lots of people in Alaska who don’t have no where near the amount of money she has, have a remote cabin or home site somewhere. She’s full of it and no one would have paid McGinniss’s mention of living next door to the Palins a bit of attention had SHE not said anything. Sorta like NO ONE would have known who Bristol’s “BABY’S DADDY” is had $arah not said his name on national TV. If this entire exchange hasn’t proved to her followers that she has a screw loose I don’t know what will.
The photo that accompanies the story tells it all and I think I get the picture. A nice lake house whose entrance was destroyed by an assertive neighbor’s inappropriate siting of a larger house is now rented to someone who might prove an annoyance to the assertive neighbor.
Ya gotta love the unregulated lake development.
IMHO, Sarah’s specialty is “Moose Turd Pie.” It’s good though!! (Thank you, Utah Phillips)
I wish Utah Phillips was still around. I’ll bet he would have a thing or 2 to say about that phony b*tch.
He’s invited David Letterman to spend the summer with him.
That way they can peer at Palin’s children’s play area, her kitchen window, Piper’s bedroom, and the family’s swimming hole together.
And check her out when she’s putting on shorts and tank top, strapping Trib to her back, and mowing the lawn.
You betcha.
Priceless, that would be great. I’d invite every liberal lamestream media to a big party. Invite Rachel Maddow, Keith O., Chris Matthews, Gibbs, Obama, Al Franken, Grayson, Frank, great party.
As usual, her response is way over the top.
For starters, only the very creepy would care to know what she was wearing in her backyard. Is she still pandering to that group by giving them that visual? I don’t care what she wears, as long as it isn’t indecent or disrespectful in public.
Assuming she wasn’t showing off her naughty bits and the family wasn’t doing anything illegal or immoral in full view of the neighboring house, there was no need to end her “outdoor adventure” “quickly” and the histrionics were unwarranted, as usual. Surely she has had neighbors living in that house before and apparently managed just fine, as do the rest of us who have close neighbors and lack privacy fences. In her hissy fit, she missed a golden opportunity to show one of her detractors what a normal, average person she could be.
I’d also take exception to “her” Department of Natural Resources, but I think we are just about to see what “her” commissioner Tom Irwin’s activities and “her” policies really mean to the state of Alaska when it comes to oil and gas development, and it isn’t going to be pretty.
LOL! Hilarious, Ratfish!
This is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time! Smile, Sarah – let’s show ‘em just how fake you can be! This is the Sarah who ran around with Piper in the Capitol Bldg handing out cookies with Piper to the Legislators. You know, the ones who got the butt of her ire and lies the very next session! Let’s see how long it takes for those cookies to wear off, and the real Sarah Palin to slime through. Not long, and the thought of her faking it for a neighbor, ALL SUMMER LONG, is just crackin; me up!
Joe, you had a mandation to do this. If nothing else, you are going to throw her off her game. She’s gonna come on to you like freight train – we’ve seen it all up here where she played this cutesy, nicey Sarah to get her way. You better have a better judge of character than Oprah or Barbara WaWa – they not only had the ball, but they threw it away to the other team.
I am laughing my head off – nothing like having a real wordsmith show up next door and say “Howdy, Neighbor!”
I have to agree with ya Martha,I really like Barbara intensive used to miss especially her specials,Don’t watch much of the view and Oprah is just that Oprah out to make money but even she gives to charity unlike the palins
It’s so easy to rile Sarah the Idiot. Didn’t take much. Joe never even said a word – he just rented the house next door.
I don’t think he should live by them. That is kind of creepy. I am not a fan of Palin’s rhetoric but if my children were there- I would build a security fence. And he would be greeted with about 10 German Shepards. At some point, I realize that she puts her kids out there. But, I think kids should be off limits. Just me… Why open yourself up to the garbage he is going to face. He just put a sign on that says- come on Palin fans yell at me.
Her neighbors (the home owners) must be just rollin’ on the floor.
Creepy? How about she yells invasion of privacy then posts a photo of him? Maybe he needs the fence?
I was originally uncomfortable about this also.
Then I thought about it. Palin gets away with whoppers on almost a daily basis (many of them with dangerous suggestions), and no journalist has been able to get access to seriously question her without pre-approved script.
McGinnis tried to WIN that dinner with her, and I understand that the auction was rigged to make that impossible. So, now I think this worked out really well
She really deserves this. Sorry about her off-spring though, but I’d have to feel sorry for them with or without a reporter living next-door.
Diane, there is nothing creepy about it. I don’t believe he is writing about the kids, but about Palin herself. He is not going to hurt the kids as you seem to think. And I believe she is building a security fence.
I personally love this! It will make Sarah go bonkers! even sooner than I thought. She is an idiot, as KO would say.
Are you kidding? He is a freakin writer for god sakes with a very good reputation. You actually think he would ruin his reputation to spy on their law breaking young people. Pleeeese. These kids probably can work rings around you and me. She is afraid because the man is smart and intelligent. She can’t handle that. She has to be in control. Wonder why the neighbor doesn’t live there. The Palins are probably very nasty with their neighbors. You know they are loved like the used to be because their older children get away with breaking the law. The younger ones are probably in training.
So, only Palin fans are allowed to move in next door? Did Her Holiness explain to the homeowners that they must screen renters or that they had to be approved by the ex-GINO? Ridiculous! There is nothing creepy about this.
Yes, only Palin fans are allowed to pay money for a private business deal with her neighbor. God said so.
Not to worry. Her kids are in more danger from her lack of parenting skills and her insistence on putting them front and center before the media than they are from him.
Pardon me. One, Palin put her children in play when she dragged the poor Down’s Syndrome ALL OVER the United States of America during the campaign. Second, Bristol and Levi were a huge story during the campaign to show the world that “they are a ‘wholesome, loving family’. Three, Palin made a big stink about her oldest son going into the military to fight against terrorism and to protect our freedoms. Fourth, Palin jumped all over Letterman for an honest mistake he made about the mixup of her two daughters. Fifth, one of her daughters got pregnant out of wedlock — which blew her family values and holier than thou persona out of the water. Now Sixth, Palin is “alleging” that McGinniss will somehow be spying on her daughters during playtime, undressing, blah, blah, blah. Palin continues to say things that do NOT make sense. This is an accomplished writer who is on his game. He probably is sickened by the fact that he is commissioned to having to write the book on such a trashy subject. I think we need to feel sorry for McGinniss; not for Palin and her family. So it was and will always be Palin who is responsible for constantly putting her family into the national discussion. He is doing his d@mn job. That’s part of being an author Diane! He does not need or deserve to be ridiculed by this garbage woman and her trashy family.
BTW, it’s German Shepherds. And hopefully, he’s armed to protect himself from people like you, Palin and your ridiculous attack dogs. Why in the world are dogs needed?? If you read the article, he’s going basically about town to learn more about her. Nowhere in the story did it state that he is going to disrupt her, knock on her door, ask for cooking seasonings, etc. You pulled that right out of your dumb, Palin-like brain to try to fester something that does not exist. You make me sick. Stick to the story and stop creating crap!
But he will be saying a lot of words in that book. And, of course, this is really going to give him a warm feeling towards his neighbor.
Besides, how many places can there be to rent in Wasilla that have lake views and some privacy?
Ya know reading ADN I had the same thought when people said he should not have rented the place.Why not? It may have been the only decent place available for him and it seems to me palin is spying on him not the other way around.I would think her friends could see that by her taking pictures of the man . If any one is a stalker IMO it is her.Why should he not live where he wants to.Makes one wonder exactly what she and her family may be hiding as some on ADN said.JMO
She isn’t “riled”.
She’s very pleased right now. She drummed this up herself. _She_ planted this in the media with the help of her six-figure PR consultants.
Got the attention off of Nikki Haley and back on herself.
Wrong again, Nikki the sex tartlet is back in the news again this morning and she will be the closer the election gets.
“Mandation”
Thanks for reminding me of that gem!
And she’s just giving him more fodder for his cannon. She’s such an idiot. And I bet he’s laughing his head off.
If Joe is interviewing people about the Quitter, I hope he’ll talk to others besides the Gravel People of Wasilla. As a matter of fact, I wish more media and writers in the L48 would query Alaskans about how most regard the Snowflake as toxic.
what i was wondering…maybe there is some bad blood or they where not aware of who he is.
oops this was suppose to be a reply to karen marie@6
I like that phrase “Gravel People.” Is it widely used there. If so, why or how?
I like the word picture drawn by the “Gravel People of Wasilla.” It sounds like an old monster “B”movie, “Godzilla meets the Gravel People of Wasilla.”
I do wonder if all of the folks in Wasilla are Scarah-tainted or not. during our multiple visits to alaska, we have met some very nice people in the Valley (Matanuska), although mostly in Palmer and out Fishhook Road. From our travels through Wasilla, the image of gravel pits and lax or non-existent building codes hit the target.
Apologies for the capitalization errors – sticking keyboard and lack of attention to editing before submission!
Happens to me all the time
I’m curious as to the neighbor’s motivation for renting the house to McGinness. Could it be that Sister Sarah is reaping what she has sown?
My thoughts exactly, beth.
Or maybe they just don’t care what Sarah thinks about a private business deal.
They might not know who he is, and he is under no obligation to tell them.
Sarah’s already lost the game. The Palins blinked first and are hinting at retaliation.
Todd traspassed when he went onto the neighbor’s property to see who was in the house. They invaded his privacy by photgraphing him, and again by publishing it. And again by pubishing his name and address without his permission.
By putting the informatin on line first Sarah has given McGinnis an opening to tweet or blog about her all summer if he wants, though I suspect he won’t unless they start to threaten him or personally confront him.
Opps. Sarah you just lost the ball while dribbling on the way to driving to the winning basket. No, the other kind of dribble, as in her brain has sprung a leak again.
I bet she is going to be hell to live with for the next 5 months, though I suspect she is already. That one photo of her with her mouth in an unsidedown U and hate glinting out of her eyes says a whole lot about what is inside her, and it is a Big Ugly.
Marnie has a good point. How do they know who he is? I wouldn’t know him if he rented my neighbor’s house – even if I knew what he looked like, unless I were introduced I wouldn’t have the opportunity to see him up close. Sounds like Todd did go over to confront him – not sure if it’s trespassing just to go over and knock on the front door, though.
The fact that she implies he’s going to spy on her children is pretty despicable. I’m laughing though, at the thought of her being self-conscious all summer long about raising her voice.
I noticed McGuiness’s Wikipedia page has been defiled with some hateful language.
His Wikipedia page? My goodness, the pallinbots are restless tonight. Just another example of how ignorant, immature, and violent they really are.
It’s clear that the guy has really gotten into Palin’s head. Not that it’s particularly crowded in there…
“… has his sites set on Sarah Palin.”
Hmmm, either that’s a typo, and should “sights”, or else the guy is running several web sites that he’s going to sic on Sara Palin.
Yes, I noticed it too, and put it down to AKM not being the sort of person who usually uses gun metaphors.
“Sites” or “sights”…either would be fun.
Ha! Thanks. You can tell where my brain usually rests. Fixed.
it’s your birthday AKM!!! besides, we know what you meant.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AKM!!!
“….has his sites set on $arah ‘Moneybags’ Palin’. Get those crosshairs ready….
What is frightening are the NASTY comments about Mr. McGinnis at the end of the piece $P wrote…my goodness, there are some hatefilled radicalized moronic idiots out there BESIDES Palin…..way scairy!!
Of course there are – they are all fans of Sarah! She makes it easy to keep them corralled up and studied. You just noticed them?
I forgot to add – the nastier their comments get, the more worried they are about poor Sarah’s rep. Rejoice in their fear and loathing!
Joe should avoid casting his eyes $arah’s way, lest he turn into a pillar of salt……..
LOL.
Tank top, shorts, strap-on baby and lawn mower…
Good grief, I think she likes drawing attention to herself.
Slam the new neibor while describing what your wearing…
Hope you enjoy the attention.
Middle aged woman who has had 5 kids, doesn’t seem to wear a bra, wearing a tank top, pushing a lawn mower.
Forget the Jiffy Pop I just lost my appitite.
Seriously, does anyone believe she mows the lawn herself?
Trig isn’t a baby any longer is he? Isn’t he two? He must be physically quite heavy for a small woman who doesn’t seem to live on anything other than Red Bull and crunch-wrap tacos (except for the cheap chicken on the speech circuit). Goodness, she is going to blow a disc is she isn’t careful (as if she is really doing what she claims).
She is so obsessed with sexing-up everything. Menopause is not going to be kind to this woman. She doesn’t have the emotional stability to face the changes it brings. Maybe her pheromones that drive Republican men so wild will fade – and then, what will she have going for her? Certainly not a pleasant personality, a charming wit, or a lovely countenance. She will get, with age, the face she deserves.
and then, what will she have going for her? Certainly not a pleasant personality, a charming wit, or a lovely countenance. She will get, with age, the face she deserves.
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Sunflower…. she most certainly will get the face and the body she deserves. where a beautiful spirit and a loving heart will draw people to a death bed to bid farewell to a body otherwise ravished by age or illness i do believe folks who go to honor her will be few and far between when that day comes for her.
Palin’s reference to wearing short shorts and a tank top conjures an image that it enough to “gag a maggot!” The only thing worse than her rambling is the ever-present sub-text.
Please go away, Sarah!
Does the grass even need mowing yet? Tiny buds are out, AKM told us this weekend, but is it really time to mow the grass?
I live in Eagle River. Finished mowing my lawns yesterday — first mowing of the season. Many more to follow. PC, if you like mowing, be sure to drop by.
Hmmm . . . that deck on a lake in Wasilla would be a GREAT place for a Mudstock . . .
Yes to Mudstock! Tunes to be played include, ‘Won’t get Fooled again’, and ‘The Bitch is Back’,
OMG that would be fantastic.
Sarah would explode.
Oh, lordy, wouldn’t that be fun! Maybe we could pitch tents and have a pj party and blog all night …. in the basement
Goodness gracious me, I think you might be able to get folks from the midwest and east coast trek out for that! Wow – why have we not thought about this before?
We could sing all the songs from the civil rights era, hold hands, sway and wave, sway and wave. Beads, flowers and hugs all around. Ah, just the thought of it . . . ought to drive Sarah totally bonkers. Quick – let’s do it! (hehe)
Absolutely! futurexpat and I have attended ten Mudstocks including the first one. If any one can manage it, we will certainly be there. After all, PA is not that far!
I think the Islamic call to prayer, from a large loudspeaker on the roof, five times a day (dawn, midday, mid-afternoon, just after sunset, and at night fall) would be more than appropriate.
Y’all should seriously think about finding out what group rates are at the Best Western on Lake Lucille this summer — maybe Joe McGinnis has a room there just in case the Palins or their ‘bots get obnoxious, and you can make connections with him, share notes…
Knee slappers! LOL!
Yes, please Do it so we can read about it.
Why, oh why would Sarah even mention Piper’s bedroom window? That woman infuriates me! She’s always trying to frame a situation so it appears to involve inappropriate behavior with her children. What is WRONG with her?
My thoughts exactly.
She is creepy.
Although, I hope Joe is already calling his lawyer for Palin’s public suggestion that he is peering into her child window.
Yeah, wouldn’t qualify for slander? His reputation is important, and for her to try and undermine it is totally different than for someone saying something about her because she is legally a public figure.
The same thing that is the problem with all these Christianists, they obsess about sex. She obsesses about sex involving children, specifically her own children.
Gotta wonder why. She keeps doing it. Must be a reason.
Amen.
What is it with Fundies and their incessantly thinking about unseemly, kinkiness?
Sounds like she is afraid of what may be found out and is preparing by her rants.I have new neighbors also but don’t think they are spying on me,Maybe Palin is afraid some one will break and tell some truths about that whole family IMO a bunch of thugs who threaten to get their way if nothing else works
karen marie, you are right, maybe the neighbor was upset that the Palin clan built their house, almost right on top of theirs! I’m sure Sarah didn’t care about their feelings then, guess it’s called karma.
Someone should try to rent the house after Joe!
I think we ought to have a Mudstock to welcome Joe to the neighborhood! All in favor make mudpuppy tracks to the forum and start planning for the best party in Alaska this summer!
Great idea!!!
Grami!!! I will bring the ceveza and the ribs,
Been a long time since the 60′s. I’m ready. BTW, I protested at Palin’s booksigning in Wasilla & the cops confiscated my signs. Would file suit against the city of Wasilla for their illegal actions but it’s a bit spendy to make a point tho one should be made. Seriously, an annoyance factor could help my trampled ego. I was in a walker at the time — hip surgery — and the signs, while factual, were not inflammatory. Seriously Gramian, any action, please invite me !!!!!!!!! And seriously, ORGANIZE IT AND THEY WILL COME.
I wish I lived up there or could afford another trip up .I would love to join in but alas has to be in spirit only.With the house that close you wouldn’t have to have the music so loud that she could get away with stopping it.
Palin just can’t resist herself. She is the perfect blend of needy attention seeking pathology and paranoid illusions.
I wonder if anyone will ever tell her that she honestly IS the embodiment of INDISCRETION. A real lady would never describe to all and sundry what she is wearing on a particular occasion because those actions are precisely aimed to titilate. Palin is so cheap and low class – but she doesn’t realise it (or maybe she does and she revels in it?).
She almost always comes off looking petulant, petty and immature. Quite the trifecta – I don’t think I have ever seen any public figure in any realm act the way Palin acts. She honestly is forever the 13 year old in high school.
I mean, seriously, call me old fashioned but it always astounds me how Palin is almost always engaged in coy sexual innuendos. Does this woman have no shame? SIGH.
Spare me!
i think Palin is a sexual narcissist in that some aspect of sex is always present in her affect toward others especially males.
Remember, she obviously learned this from home. That t-shirt her father wore is a freakishly horrible example.
Aussiegal77, you’ve done it again – good work! I always look forward to your comments.
If I owned that house and the Palins built their house so close to mine I’d want to teach them a lesson too! Reap what you sow. Reap,Baby,Reap!
I hope those Wasilla tongues start wagging, put her out of our misery.
As per Syrin, that’s already beginning to happen. Sarah will be fuming and stomping and storming about things people will say about her, but I’m afraid she’s outnumbered if they begin to speak up. If she trashes her whole town, she loses all the charm she’s trying to inject into her living in Wasilla. Sometimes, it just takes someone who is thinking outside the compound (thank you Joe!).
Well now ..the house owner will have a fence built at Palin’s expense so they don’t have to see her anymore. *sly grin*
Not only that, but the Palin’s offers should be well above market value by the time Joe leaves. You know Ms Controlfreak will try to prevent this from happening again.
LOL Never thought of that but is is one way to get it done isn’t it?
This is hilarious!
It’s from Ben Smith at Politico.
“I haven’t been able to reach McGinniss, but did send an errant email to his son, the novelist Joe McGinniss Jr., who replied, “Sadly, she’s right. We tried our best to intervene, but alas, the heart wants what it wants. We can only pray for him now. He’s convinced that Todd will step aside and when the time is right, he’ll be there, right next door, to pick up the pieces.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Annals_of_journalistic_enterprise.html?showall
That’s a great reply!
Oh that is hilarious!
The most excellent reply. This is just so funny, I’m loving it.
Oh, gosh, I can’t stop giggling. I just hope Todd doesn’t take it literally. Just saying, no telling with those folks.
Too funny!
I thought Joe McGinnis Jr.’s reply was clever and very funny. “The heart wants what it wants”? Great! I was stunned that anyone took it seriously.
Too subtle, Joe!
Now if it was a high end condo in N.Y.C in the millions, the board could decide who and who isn’t appropriate to buy or rent etc. And other tenants could possibly black ball someone they find objectionable. I don’t know I never tried to buy an upscale condo myself.
Otherwise most people knowing it is a free country, rent or sell to whomever they please.
I don’t think anyone would want Palin as a neighbor, not with her kids. I don’t think they liked her much in Juneau and she was the Governor living in the Governors mansion. Palin said some rather snarky stuff about her Juneau neighbors and how her girls were threatoned ? Something highly unlikely.
And now she implies that the writer is going to spy on her nine year old daughter in her bedroom.
I guess she never heard of window blinds, shades or curtains.
This woman has an earworm about her girls being violated.
Then she talks about weeding a non existant garden. Taking in the rays of the setting sun while mowing with a thirty pound squirming child strapped to her back. HUH?
She always gilds the lily. Not enough to weed a non existant garden with a kid strapped to her back, she has to mow a lawn, and dress in some mildly revealing outfit to do so. (for her male toadies.) We know what she looks like without her stuffed push up bras and without her war paint. A bit long in the tooth, and not really hot stuff. Think Hawaii….
She always overdoes the folksy. As if any mother in her RIGHT MIND would strap a toddler to her back whilst lawn mowing. It’s SO far out there and such a ridiculous notion that it is instantly recognised as BS. She really must take her supporters for morons.
Next stop for Palin: Gretchen Wilson videos. All tanked up? Youuuuuuuu betcha’!
hahahahahaha!!
She’s right. They are morons.
If I remember right, her followers spelled it “Morans”.
VernD
She really must take her supporters for morons…..why yes. she does. rightly so because they are in fact morons. and that’s putting it mildly.
Other posters remind me that Sarah loves to start her $100,000. speeches by asking, “Do you love your freedom?” The line generates great cheers. So, for the sake of the troops, doesn’t that same freedom apply to Joe?
Nope, it only applies to her true believers. I really hope her longed-for Rapture happens soon – the world will be much better off without the likes of her and her followers.
But she has to remind everyone of her sacrifice not to abort the DS baby, so Trig has to be mentioned and Piper, well, bonus!
Gosh, if she really was the frontier woman she wants people to think she is, she should have said she strapped Piper to her back.
You know, this is yet another example of how poor a parent she is — that she would even consider saying she would mow with a kid on her back is child endangerment considering how common it is for debris to fly up from the blades.
They are morons.
Yep, she pissed off several neighbors quite nicely. She pissed off many of the long time staff, too. Then she went about pissing off the Troopers here, and much of the town with her lies about Juneau. I’m actually quite certain we will never be slimed with her presence again here – and that’s cause for great rejoicing on our part!
And if the owner were in the house the owner would get the eye full and maybe snap a pic send it to their kids and it ends up on you tube.
Either way if you live that close to your neighbors you need to remember you may have an audience when you go outside.
What difference, in terms of her or Piper’s privacy does it make who the neighbor is.
Oops on me I Replied onto the wrong entry.
No offense Martha, just a spacial miss on my part.
The problem with Palin and her proud followers is they are convinced that America is only a free country for them. This reality check won’t take but it is so entertaining to watch them freak out like the monsters from the movie Alien.
Screech away, screech away.
I always thought of her as narcissistic and as a sociopath, but now I think she has paranoid thoughts as well.. A fixation on female violation at a pre- pubescent,or adolescent stage. Or she is trying to get her male admirers outraged at the thought of her girls being violated in some way.
Very disturbed woman.
Very disturbed following who are talking arson.
Your comment about “A fixation on female violation at a pre- pubescent,or adolescent stage.” really hit me. I hadn’t paid attention before, but you are right. It sets me thinking about what might have caused that. Is it a fantasy about what she didn’t get and wanted at that age? Daddy is kinda weird…. We know she was something of the town slut in High School. It really makes me wonder.
Its been an ongoing subplot almost from her nomination.
I can’t believe that her trainers have explained why she needs to stop talking about her daughters being molested, 1) when the aren’t, unless granddad or Todd are sickos, and or 2) putting ideas into some actual sicko’s mind relative to her daughters.
Where’s Track these days he is never around and never mentioned.
i am curious about Track only because i wonder about his military service. many national guard are pulling two and three tours of duty ‘in country’ and not by choice. so i wonder if he is still in the military or if he has been discharged because perhaps his unit has been recalled back to the states. in any case, i hope he came back o.k.
It is a totally dysfunctional fixation. It can only serve to perpetuate her view of her family as victims.
I live in a nice Condo. I have a single male neighbor. It never occurred to me that when he is out on his deck grilling ribs for dinner, he is really thinking about how to get hold of the neighborhood kids. Never occurred to me.
She can’t direct her anger at the real perpetrator in her life, so she accuses other men instead.
My psych 101 theory.
May be right, there is certainly something going on in that gerbil wheel up there, but to use her own daughter?
Major sick woman who really needs to sit down and talk some some professional about why she images her daughters as sexual victims, and why she publicises those images over and over. And what kind of life long damage she has an is doing to them.
Isn’t her church into male dominance? And Todd is always looking over her shoulder. Which fits in with Granddad Heath saying she doesn’t make the decisions, and would actually make sense of why she is so nervous and jumpy all the time, if she is being harshly judged by the dominant male, and make to feel like she is always falling short.
I would still have no sympathy for her but it does kind of fit.
Oh this is a baaaaddddd week for Sarah. All of her endorsements have screwed up. BOR contradicted her today about the oil spill. Her speech to the retailers went down like a lead balloon and the CSU speech and fees are making the headlines.
Karma is a b@tch. Sarah!
Yeppers, my schadenfreude is peaking.
This is hilarious…WTF is $arah afraid of???
EXACTLY. By reacting this way, she just basically started off a bunch of questions as to what she is hyperventilating about.
Plus, it’s kinda dumb to ANNOUNCE the event to the WORLD via FB – and then whine like a moron about your privacy. Geez, she is such a dunce.
And now every media outlet in America will know who to call to take close up at home pictures.
I think she is afraid of herself. Look at it this way. Our fears are grounded in some sort of past experience – which can have absolutely nothing to do on the surface with said fear. I honestly believe that her father is one very horrible man. Very horrible. Sarah’s fixation on men having perverted thoughts about her daughters just is NOT normal.
jimzmum: I second your thoughts… I think there are reasons for her paranoia… going back a long way… how horrible! But the damage she does to others prevents me from feeling sympathy
I am not callous, but I am acutely awar that victims, once liberated, become oppressors…
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they do. don’t they.
I couldn’t imagine where the house was, but then one of the other sites posted a aerial picture again. Wow, that house really is right next door! I’ll bet the owners just love all that trash being constructed so close nearby. The Palin “compound” is too many huge buildings crowded together for a residential neighborhood. That newest appears to have warehousing attached to it. Wasilla has no zoning, I’m assuming.
Sarah’s reaction is typical for her. Its all about her. Bet, she never even considered what all their construction did to the neighborhood.
Of COURSE it’s about her. It’s about HER house and how somebody who is writing a book about HER is moving NEXT DOOR!
Who ELSE would it be about?
I’m afraid I have no sympathy for her. Why is the neighbour’s house so close.? Because SHE removed the planning restrictions so she could build her house there! (And most probably with building materials she got from the sport’s complex).
SHE was the person talking about pallin’ with terrorists on the campaign trail. SHE is the woman that is dividing America. SHE has just accused your president of being in BP’s pocket, when in fact SHE has accepted more money from BP than he did. HIS contributions were from BP employees, not the company.
SHE is the woman who brings her children up every chance she gets. SHE is the one who drags sex and innuendoes into all sorts of topics.
SHE is the woman who stands up at every speech and shrieks, “Do you like your freedom.”
In my opinion, Joe McGinniss is free to rent whatever house he wants, and to hell with Palin’s feelings on the matter.
And she does these things in the public square, which is exactly where we should fight her. Here on this website. On Fox News. On CNN. On MSNBC. On the streets and at the ballots.
This is her home and if we sit in her backyard waiting for her to make a scandal we’re not bloody better than her.
But what does she do in the private square? The problem is that the media have been giving her a free pass for the last two years and promoting her. I think this is why it has come to this.
I do respect your feelings on the matter and if it were anyone else I would probably feel the same as you. However, I feel she is a very dangerous woman.
You are right, but I don’t see that Joe has done anything but sit on the far side of his deck,and talk to Todd. Its Sarah who is telling everybody. We don’t even know that Joe is writing a book about Sarah, or why he chose to rent that house. I don’t see that Joe has invaded her privacy nearly as much as she has invaded his.
True enough that Sarah has been, let’s call it preemptively nasty, but I mean, c’mon, I stand by the fact that she does have reason. I mean, she KNOWS he’s writing a book about her and has a negative view. Sure as Hell more certain of that than Bush was with Iraq’s WMDs.
Also, Irish, I do agree she’s dangerous. Or more accurately what she represents is dangerous. That’s precisely why I believe it’s all the more important that we try to be noble in our actions. None of us will convert the “other side” through this sort of tactic. We entrench the opposition when we do things like this.
Well and truly said, Irishgirl, well and truly said.
Hmmm….I think if I knew someone was attempting to write a book about how nasty I’ve been I’d spend some time trying to show my GOOD side, not prove his point.
Elizabeth, it’s not a residential neighborhood. Don’t you remember Bristol’s testimony at the Tennessee trial. They live waaaaay out in the dark, spooky forest.
Oh, you’re right! I forgot! Looking at the aerial picture, it doesn’t look residential because of all the garbage the Palins have been building.
If you do a map search of Wasilla Alaska you’ll find that Lake Lucille is right next to Wasilla. So the Palins live on one of several roads that exit a major highway that runs right next to the lake.
Definitely, not out in the boonies. Probably only a mile or two from town.
Actually, Lake Lucille is in the city limits, as is her house, and it is definitely not “waaaaay out in the dark, spooky forest” or even slightly remote.
I think what looks like a warehouse is Todd’s airplane hanger or is that air-machine?
Why do convention organisers keep asking Palin to be the keynote?? She is useless!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/palin-speech-in-vegas-pan_n_588699.html
Who is brave enough to photoshop a picture of SP in a tank top and strap-on baby?
Certainly I will not! Photoshop is an expensive program. I am afraid it will turn up its figurative toes and die a horrible death should that be attempted.
One does not have to use “photoshop” to do stuff like that. There are much cheaper programs like PaintShopPro and PhotoImpact.
I’d need a week to accompish that!
accomplish
Calling FlyInyereye
Be sure to put Eddie Burke’s face on also
OK MimiC, I spit out my coffee! I did NOT see the word “baby” on the second line of your post.
Oh Lori I saw baby but the same thought crossed my mind oh get the brain out of the potty (that is difficult when discussing $carah
Priceless, simple priceless!
Wasilla has no zoning as per Sarah’s term as mayor. That being said Joe is welcome over at my lake anytime, for r&r and a sanity break.
Wasilla does have zoning. It does not have a building code, however.
Hey Joe! Leave Trig alone!
You are kidding, right?
yeah.. big Pete is kidding. don’t worry Sunflower Big Pete has a big heart and a sweet nature. he jest funnin’.
So Mudflatters, why do you think she is perpetually preoccupied with someone being inappropriate towards her girls?
She certainly has an unhealthy fixation with it!
Some parents think of their children as mini versions of themselves. So because Scarah thinks she is so attractive and irresistable, of course her female children would be as well.
On the other hand, could have been an experience she herself had. Which, in that case, she shouldn’t make light of it.
Wait a second. Let me see if I have this right- an author is writing a book on Palin that will be, very much odds are Anti-Palin, and moves in next door, NEXT DOOR, and her getting upset, especially about potential spying, is “wild, inappropriate overreaction”?
Whether or not Palin has earned this is debatable. However, I fail to see how she’s overreacting.
Did you read her FB message?
I did. It was certainly nasty- there’s no denying that. I’m just saying, here it seems to me she has just cause to be nasty.
She brought this on herself. She has become what she wanted to, a celebrity making millions of dollars. She will have all the uncomfortable things that go along with it. Papparazi and lots of scrutiny.If she wants to live a quiet life, she should get off FB, twitter, stop doing speeches and go back to only driving people in her own town crazy instead of the whole country.
If you want privacy, you do not build a house 2 feet away from a neighbor. She certainly has enough money to move. So, I don’t think we need to have a pity party!
I agree, B in CO. Maybe NOW she will see what she has done to herself and to her family.
The way we treat celebrities is this nation is, quite frankly, pretty sick. And that comment goes both ways- if it weren’t for her celebrity status, she wouldn’t be making millions upon millions of dollars and she would have faded into obscurity. Food for though.
Just because we casually use the word “papparazi” doesn’t mean we should think there’s anything okay about what they do, no matter who they do it to.
There is a reason celebrities lived behind gates just like when they go on vacation they don’t hang out at public beaches when the hotel has a private area for only Hotel guests, like she did in Hawaii.
Sorry D.K. But she should have known what she was getting into. You cannot say, “Look at me,Look at me, Look at me!” Your President sucks, he’s a socialist, he has death panels he’s not securing the border, so on and so on…And then say, “O.K. Not convenient, don’t look at me!”
My family is “off-limits” but how about a cover photo for your magazine, how about my daughter lecturing for big bucks, how about dragging Trig and Piper from town to town.
She is not a victim, she created her own reality, and if she doesn’t like it she should look in the mirror!
Sorry guys, this one really gets me going!
B in CO,
Attack the use of Trig… as far as Trig is being used as a prop. Attack Bristol…. as far as Bristol’s image is being publically used. Attack the half-term Governor…. just not on her own home like this.
A couple of summer’s ago, a woman I did not like (she did something wildly inappropriate to my family ) bought the house next door to me. Did I write an insane Face Book rant? NO – I reacted like an adult and welcomed her into the neighborhood. Of course we were never friends, but I was always pleasant, looked out for her kids and pets. She’s since moved, and I’m happy I always maintained my poise and dignity. I’m a better person because of it . Can you imagine if you found out your neighbor wrote such venom filled cr*p about you or another person? You’d think they were unhinged.
Yes, I would. However, I would also think it was at least somewhat warranted if I was, y’know, writing a book about them. To quote Star Trek- “Of course I’m paranoid: everybody’s trying to kill me.” My point is not that Palin reacted well- she didn’t. She acted poorly. Very poorly. However, that doesn’t change the fact that 1) It was in DIRECT response to an also extremely inappropriate act on behalf of McGinniss and 2) No matter how others act, it doesn’t change how we ourselves should act, as you yourself point out. McGinniss started this particular altercation, not Palin. She might have taken it to another level….. but she can honestly say she didn’t start this.
DK, umm, actually NO one has “just cause to be nasty”…being Nasty is Nasty, we don’t do that.
The man rented a house next door, period. So what?
He hasn’t said or done ONE thing so far…so who is all full of paranoia over some “suspected” happening in the future that hasn’t happened? Scarahfied, that’s who.
He wrote some good decent books, and she is all full of delusions about his “evil intent” though he could be vacationing and resting, she doesn’t know squat what he is doing or will do.
IF he is going to write about her…she automatically decides it will be a BAD THING. Hmmm, that says more about what she thinks of herself, than what is wrong with him or his motives.
Again, you give me one good reason why he rented that particular house when no doubt cheaper accommodations were available and I’ll tell you Palin’s just being paranoid.
So, what is she going to do once she declares for the Presidency (if she does)?
Everything she is, has done, is doing, has said, is saying – everything will be fair game as will Mr. Todd.
How is she going to handle that pressure?
Think how she would react as President and another world leader pops off about her? Would she start a war to avenge her reputation? I would say “honor,” but she has proven time and time again she doesn’t understand what honor means.
Sure, it is understandable that she could be upset. Anyone would be if someone you knew disliked you or was trying to discredit you moved in next door – BUT – and this is the key to why we are dissing her on this: she over-reacted as is her hallmark. She should not have had published that photo, nor should she have slander Mr. McGinnis, Todd should not have trudged over to the rental property unless invited – or should have used the front door. She should not have made those comments implying he would peek into windows – again, I ask folks to look at that photo – her windows seem to sit higher than his so would be the likely peeper?
Anyway, it was her over-the-top, totally crazed and slimy reaction to this that popped our corks and made us fizz in a little laugh fest frenzy.
She disrespected his privacy. She made up slurs and then added-in all the details about her attire, her sacrificial Trig load, and then inserted an implied threat that Todd will get handle him.
Gees, I mean, to be unnerved or uncomfortable is one thing. To go ballistic is quite another.
Sarah is unstable, unqualified to be President or even a political spokesman not only because of her stunning ignorance, but primarily because of her emotional instability. The world is too dangerous to trust our security to a woman who can’t handle neighbor she only perceives as unfriendly minding his own business.
I hope she understands that if any of her family or her followers does anything to harm Mr. McGinnis and his guests or the property itself, she will be held accountable as an accessory for whipping up this hysterical reaction and unnecessarily casting herself and her family as victims – particularly her daughter. That was odiously immature and distasteful.
Her potential as a president (or a governor, for that matter) is completely beside the point. She overreacted, yes. I admit that (my original post on here does seem to say the opposite- I poorly worded it. While she did overreact, we’re acting like it was baseless and we jump on it like rabid dogs).
She disrespected his privacy, maybe, but after and only after he moved in next bloody door to write a book about her. Why is it that everybody ignores that last point? Why is it that only Governor Palin can do anything wrong and no matter how disrespectful WE are to HER, it’s beyond forgivable?
ks sunflower,
Thank you for your sensible, well thought-out assessment of the current Sarah debacle. Cearly this is why normal well-balanced folks go ballistic over the actions of this woman. To think, to imagine this woman in the White House is something that ought to scare every American half to death.
Because her neighbor exercised his property rights and rented to someone? Because Joe exercised his rights and rented a house? Who gave her the right to dictate who her neighbor can rent to.
Isn’t Sarah all about this is a free country?
I think she has wanted out of AK for a long time–Sarah, but not Todd. I bet she uses this to move–or stay away.
The exercising of rights does not make one not an ###hole.
Until he steps out of the bounds of good neighborly behavior, which he apparently has not done, she has no cause to be nasty.
They built their house chock a block next to the neighbors house which was there first. . Palin does not own the air space around the property next door. It is a free country, and if she doesn’t want neighbors she doesn’t approve of, she should rent that house herself.
Why talk about her 9 year olds privacy being compramized. Why talk about it at all. A fence is a fence is a fence. as practical Gertrude Stein would say. Curtains, blinds and shades are available at Walmart. A favorite of Palins.. Problem solved for a few dollars. Though the balcony does not overlook the Palins house, and they never seemed to worry themselves that anyone else could look in their yard at her scrawny hide in flimsy shorts and tops, if she is so inclined to dress. that way at home.
So she is not happy with her new neighbor who is a talented writer who exposed a psychopath and who will expose her completly along with Geoffrey Dunn. Too bad. Maybe she should have been an honest woman. She wouldn’t have to worry about being exposed if she was not a pathological liar.
So now her bots are threatening to make sure no one can ever rent again. Arson is suggested as a problem solver by these morons and sociopaths.
A barrier fence, a couple of curtains, and some less skimpy clothing if she feels she is wearing something revealing would solve these problems without stirring up her violent following.
If there is violence, she will be to blame. And it is clear what Toad was stewing about when he said “What goes round comes round” to the NYTimes reporter.
the renter next door for 5 months is like a chigger under their hides, and they won’t be happy till someone does something.. Like the English King and Thomas Becket. Who will rid me of this burr?
who we rid us of ms.Thang.
“Who will rid me of Ms. Thang!” is what Joe will say the first time he gets a gander at those cottage cheese thighs is a pair of shorts! YUCK!
Quite frankly, I like the fact that I can do something like pick my nose or take care of a wedgie on my own property without fear of pictures becoming national jokes. Have I made the claim that what what Mr. McGinniss has done is illegal? Have I claimed that there were not ways the Palins could maintain elements of their privacy?
The fact is he’s writing a book on Palin and has moved in next door. Next. Door. I could understand moving to Wasilla for some months to get an idea of the town, but next door? If “He wants to spy” isn’t even a thought that crosses through your head about this, you are either exceptionally naive or so vehemently against the Palins that you consider any action acceptable and forgivable.
My point is this- attack her. Fight her. Fight the woman tooth and nail in the public square, which is the battlefield SHE chose. However, this is her home. Disgusted a woman as she may be, and legal as Mr. McGinniss’ actions may be, she has every bloody right to feel insulted and violated.
Whatever lies she’s told in court, whatever deceptions she has told the people, whatever money she has made on false claims- that’s not just her house, it is her HOME and the home of her family.
I think it’s…priceless. For exactly all the reasons you mention. No one knows anything for sure, and it’s all the guessing that is going to drive her nuts. I have no hopes for pictures, or a book, or anything else from Mr. McGinnis. I just think it’s funny that he pulled one over on her, no matter what he does or doesn’t do. If for some reason, he acts like a bad neighbor after all, then I would not condone that. But you are guessing at everything, also, too – instead of waiting to see what really happens. She has fallen into the trap head first so it seems.
I myself am of a…. paranoid disposition, so the fact is I sympathize. I very much believe that one’s home is one’s castle and that that is a line that shouldn’t be crossed save for purposes of genuine, non-metaphorical war.
And has big parties with Alaskan bloggers, MSNBC staff (especially Maddow & er girlfriend) and, of course, a weekend with the Obama & Pelosi.
For DK – my mother was of a paranoid and suspicious mind and she was always warning us that someone was “out to screw us.” I have tried very hard not to be like her in this way and find I most often ascribe the purest of motives to people and make them prove me wrong. Surprisingly, I have not been disappointed that often. It’s a mindset I recommend. You can call me naive, but it’s worked well so far.
I feel ya’, Physicsmom. I do not advocate suspecting the worst in the people, but I also believe one should be reasonable. As I keep saying, /he/ moved in /next door/ to write a book about /her/. You don’t have to be a paranoid schizophrenic to see this is basically the grown-up equivalent of standing as close as possible to somebody and yelling “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
I agree with you about a person having an expectation of privacy in their own home. However, when you have neighbors that live that close,no matter who they are, it’s very hard to really keep everything private. I have lots of neighbors and over the years I’ve heard couples fighting, heard them yelling at their kids. I know when they are mowing their lawns or working in their yards. I hear them having parties and hear their dogs barking. It’s part of having neighbors.
My neighbor, who is a great neighbor, put up a tree house a few years ago for her sons. When the boys sit in it, they look right into our back yard and into the kitchen. If I don’t want to keep waving at the five year old, I close the blinds. We live at the bottom of the hill, so I learned a long time ago to not go in the backyard in anything I wouldn’t wear in the front yard or to the store – everyone uphill can see into our back yard if they want.
So, in a way, I can understand Sarah not being happy about an author who is writing a book about her moving next door. However, bringing up that whole thing about Piper is weird. He’s not writing a book about Piper, so why would he even care – and for her to imply that he would spy on a nine year old is what’s creepy.
If Sarah doesn’t have anything to hide, why is she so afraid? Here’s a chance for her to show McGinniss that she is a great mom and the normal ordinary person she claims to be.
Besides, she’s hardly ever home, so he’s not going to see much anyway. And since she usually takes Piper with her, no worries there.
If it is truly such a big concern, move Piper’s stuff to a room in the other house, or the third house they are supposedly renting.
Or use curtains like every other NORMAL HUMAN BEING!
She and her followers and puppet masters are whackos.
She sounds like she’s been in a cult of pedoph:les.
An excellent point, by and large. But again, /the dude is writing a book about her./ It’s an entirely different story than if a Democrat who campaigned for Obama moved next door.
Also, as I’ve said in other comments, the point about Piper was uncalled for. She’s definitely using Piper as a prop. She’s definitely overplaying the victim card. I just stand by what I’ve said, that McGinniss did something wildly inappropriate and Palin’s response is, well, understandable.
The facebook post failed to mention anything about McGinniss doing anything inappropriate. Even the picture showed him looking off the other side of the balcony, in the exact opposite direction of the Palin home. I hope for everyone’s sake that no photos of the Palin family/friends at the Palin compound show up in the book he is publishing. If McGinnis acts like a normal neighbor, no cameras or binoculars aimed at their house, then I don’t think there is a valid reason to complain.
JennAK, if nothing else McGinniss is hanging a Sword of Damocles over her head. He /can’t/ do nothing at this point because he’s already done something. I don’t deny he has had every legal right to rent that house, but I also argue that his actions are distinctly immoral.
Then maybe she needs a home where the zoning (which she herself abolished) requires better setbacks and larger lots. Or maybe she needs to go inside if she wants to pick her nose or extract a wedgie. Perhaps she should have used some of her Going Rogue proceeds to buy up the properties all around her.
Maybe if she truly had a “servant’s heart” she’d stop injecting herself into every nook and cranny of US policy, stop dressing like a call girl, step back out of the celebrity spotlight for a while, and cease impugning the motives of her new neighbor (or our President) and anyone else who doesn’t agree with her extreme positions. Maybe if she truly was a pillar of goodness and light she’d have nothing to be afraid of.
Insulted because someone moved in next door? Violated? Please. She’s a professional victim, DK, and I simply have no sympathy for her royal outbursts and protestations. Besides, she has both the freedom and the means to make her HOME in countless other un-spyable places. That’s what celebrities do.
Amen!
Indeed it’s what celebrities do. They shouldn’t have to, though.
And quite frankly, saying “Insulted because someone moved in next door? Violated? Please” is exceptionally disingenuous and unfair. There is a difference between “a neighbor” and “a neighbor who’s writing a negative book about you.”
Wasilla has zoning.
Wouid anyone have even known Joe was her new neighbor if *she* hadn’t trumpeted it on the proverbial ‘town square’? Sure, maybe a couple-three dozen folks might’ve known he had rented that particular house, but by *her* announcing it [in all her imagined-gory/delusional/paranoid details] on FB, *she* is playing, again, the ‘poor me – the lefties keep invading my privacy and keep going after my children’ card.
Question: Is it that someone has moved into the house next door OR is it that a person *she* doesn’t like (Joe), has rented and moved into the house next door? What, really, is getting her panties in a wad?
Wouldn’t *anyone* renting a property cheek-by-jowl near her house be able to see (if so inclined) all that was going on in her yard and/or through her uncurtained/unblinded windows…or is it just Joe who would be able to do that? Would she be ranting and snarking on FB if the renter had been anyone *other than* Joe? I *highly* doubt it.
Sorry, DK, it can’t be both ways – it can’t be claimed that the person(s) renting the next door house is somehow intruding on “not just her house, [but] her HOME and the home of her family” if she’s not uttered a peep [which, she, apparently, has *not*] about renters of that particular property until Joe happened to rent it. Would she rush to FB to ‘out’ me and mine if we had rented the house? Would she have posted on FB *my* picture, if I had rented it? I *highly* doubt that, too.
And, like it or not, Joe’s home for the next five months is the place he has rented on the lake…he should be accorded the *same* respect from $P as *she* expects from him. Her posting his picture –on the deck of *his* home!, to boot– on her FB page, is *not* the way to go about showing that respect. Conjuring up wild imaginationings of what evil and twisted things he *might* do while he’s there, surely is not.
Does Joe, as a renter, have a right to feel insulted and violated by $Ps ‘outing’ him to millions on FB? In my book: You betcha! What *she* did was/is *totally* uncalled for…although, I must say, it *does* play, oh, so very well, into her whole well-cultivated and well-nurtured: “Love me; send me money; I’m a victim,” ethos. I’m not sure but what you, too, fell for it? beth.
Okay, wow, $P? Yes, you’re totally selling me on your argument.
If you want to flat-out lie to yourself and tell me that there’s no difference between a regular neighbor and a neighbor who is ACTIVELY WRITING A NEGATIVE BOOK ABOUT YOU then go right ahead, but I’m not buying it. Try again.
Other than Sarah herself, has anyone ELSE stated that the book is definitely going to be negative? Because the title (to me) doesn’t come across that way. ‘Sarah Palin’s Year of Living Dangerously’ connotes a brave epic; or at least certainly sounds less negative than… oh… say, the title ‘Going Rogue’. But maybe that’s just me.
As a person with a paranoid disposition, DK, I imagine that, if you were in Sarah’s place, you would wonder if ANY renter of that property was snooping, and would have taken the proper precautions to minimize any casual opportunity as soon as the thought occurred to you.
But then, I doubt you would have constructed so close to your neighbor’s property line. I know I wouldn’t, and I’m not particularly suspicious (just shy!)
FWIW, (and this is just my own opinion) I’d rather know my neighbor is nosy, rather than just suspect that he is. That kinda’ thing eats at you, ya’ know?
In a way, she set herself up for this, by building so close to a property she didn’t own.
MonaLisa, consider that Palin doesn’t even mention the book by name, so obviously that information was released elsewhere. Still… hmmm, were I in her place? I’m not actually sure how I’d respond. If I had to take a guess I’d probably be a little suspicious but I’d also try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Not in this case, though. *shrug* Still, for all I know he came up to them and shook their hands and was very direct in saying exactly what the book was going to be and said he’d happily let them fact-check everything, etc. etc. etc. No idea.
I have a house on a very large lot. My neighbors can see and are welcome to see anything I do out of doors. Good god, a wegie or a picked nose? Worry about that? He isn’t photographing her. He has rented a house next door, done nothing at all she can complain about.
Most of us are not living in guarded compounds or so private as to exclude anyone seeing our activities out of doors. She can dress anyway she chooses. What is she so afraid of?
I think Maginnes has every right to his rental. He hasn’t done anything wrong. He hasn’t intruded on the Palins. Except in her imagination. And her peculiar preoccupations with her daughters sexuality. There isn’t a hint of pedophilia in the writers background or life. Why would he spy on Piper? Curtains from Walmart would take care of that in an hour.
No one knows what happens inside Palins house, except for her paid Magazine covers and her T.V. interviews with Matt Lauer, Greta van Susterin. She invites the world inside her home. So much for my home is my castle. And privacy. She shows what she wants to show publicly.
His rental is for 5 months more, and who knows who will rent it after that. If she was smart she would buy the damned house. She is rich enough.
And she wouldn’t hesitate to ruin you if you got in her way. So much for sympathy. Like she screwed over her mother in law in the mayorial race.
All right, I’ll bite. Please tell me then, why would he rent that particular house? I mean, surely there are cheaper accommodations to be found in Wasilla? You answer that and I’ll humor the idea.
I personally don’t think living next door to Sarah for 5 months is going to give him much to write about. Sarah also, unwittingly, just gave him some good publicity for his book, if he is writting one. By writting what she did in her FB, also rewarded him by showing her anger towards him moving next door, which is probably exactly why he moved next door to her, just to get on her nerves. Also too, if any harm does come to him, or the property, Sarah should be held responsible. Some of her fans and the people she attracts, seem to be somewhat mentally unstable and could easily do harm to him just to help out Sarah out, who they worship. I also wouldn’t be surprised if that is the reason she put it in her FB.
Reply to DK: Of course I don’t know why he rented this particular house — perhaps he wanted a dead-lake view — but I imagine it was to put a bee in her bonnet. And if so, it appears that he has already achieved “Mission Accomplished”.
Do I think this was a “nice” thing to do (i.e., would I do it)? No. It’s clearly a provocation. In some mitigation, it could hardly happen to a more deserving provokee than the Mistress of Slurs.
Does Palin have a right to be upset, and broadcast that emotion? Of course, just as she would have the same right no matter who the neighbor was, and just as mudpuppies have the same right with respect to Palin.
Do I think that Joe rented the house so he can “spy” on the Palins? I gather from some of your prior comments that you believe this to be the case, but I think it’s an absurd idea. If one sets out to spy on somebody, one does not proceed by publicly renting the neighboring house.
As a thought experiment, how far away do you think would be an acceptable rental location for someone writing a negative book about you?
BTW, I disagree with you when you say that celebrities “shouldn’t have to” acquire isolation if they want privacy. My disagreement is based on my understanding of the meaning of the word “celebrity”. It is not the same thing as “famous person” or “public figure”. A celebrity is someone who is routinely “celebrated” by the media, and is almost always an active participant (at least partly famous for being famous).
You have to choose to be a celebrity, if the opportunity presents itself, and if you do so choose, one of the consequences is some loss of privacy. Another is the need to put some serious distance between your outer wall and your lot line if you want privacy at home.
strangelet,
Spying doesn’t always have to be Tom Clancy espionage. Really, the majority of it is merely very close observation- pay attention to habits, to detail, to abnormalities, to trends. You don’t have to hide your face to spy or pry or snoop.
Do we know for a fact he is writing a book about Sarah or is that just her idea?
… and that house, her home, ends at the property line! Please do not forget that one!
He is a well respected author and journalist, he is not a reporter from the National Enquirer.
And look at the publicity he is going to get for his book since she did the FB rant. LOL
He is not there to write gossip about what kind of underwear is on the clothesline, but if wants to shake a tree to loosen secrets, he is succeeding.
He sure as Hell gets less respect from me as he’s pulled a stunt like this.
Yeah, but doesn’t she have two homes on her property? Isn’t there a complete apartment in the new place which is quite removed from the dreaded deck? Oh, I forget, that is for Todd.
Goodness, how much room do these folks need?
They have no garden – at least not that you can see from the photos of the place. Do you really think she mows the yard? Probably as much as Bush really cleared the fields with his little chain saw (I bet someone had to start it for him).
The point, again, is not that her privacy is being invaded. She invaded his first. Then she went on to smear him on her Facebook page.
Has he published a rant about her? Has he slandered her because of her attack on him? Not that I’ve heard.
It is her reaction – her over-reaction – that we are all riffing on about. She made this an issue because of her inappropriate, over-the-top reaction.
Well, if I’d had the treatment he got with the no-dinner dinner, if I had enough money I might just rent the house next to her just for the sitting on the deck and listening to her go off her rocker about it. So far he hasn’t done a blamed thing and she’s screaming like a stuck hog.
If you put yourself out in front of a whole nation full of people as somebody to pay attention to, then don’t be a crybaby when they pay attention to you.
My son is autistic, an adult. Socially, he’s a major dud. His new neighbor (he lives independently) last year began first a smear campaign against him, then went to the city council about ” “those people” living in our normal community”. Son basically ignored the whole thing and issued instructions for the rest of us to please not say anything to Mr Jerk. He only lasted 6 months before he moved to a “nice gated community” a couple towns over, where he is now having trouble with his neighbors. Big surprise, huh?
It’s about conducting oneself in a civil manner. Palin not only is not civil, she in her paranoid, maniacal behavior and drags everyone around her down with her.
If she didn’t want close neighbors (just who do we think she WOULD have approved of?) she shouldn’t have built structures practically on the property line.
Why didn’t she complain about who lived there before McGinniss?
I dunno…. maybe because they probably weren’t writing a book about her? Just a thought.
But what if it was a really really good book about her? I’ll bet if it was pro SP- she would love it…..
She just can’t handle the heat. What this guy did was very bold and as savvy as a move for his future fame and fortune as the moves Palin has made to exploit her own fame and fortune.
She is blowing it though- this will make her look like an idiot and certainly begs the question of where is the anger coming from- what is she afraid of- and what is she trying to hide.
Personally it was an obnoxious thing to do- but it’s legal- and it’s paying ff huge dividends for this author.
Well, I can certainly imagine being a writer and moving to the town where my chosen subject lives. I’d have to find a place to live. If the place next door to my subject happened to be available, I’d be a fool not to rent it – wouldn’t I?
The fact that the neighbor agreed to rent it speaks volumes about what the neighbor thinks about Sarah Palin.
I just love the fact that she’s going to be self-conscious the entire time.
I’ve only heard about two families in Wasilla – the Palins and Johnstons. Neither would be capable of making charming dinner conversation. It could be pretty darn lonely up there. McGinniss is taking a hit for the team, I’d say. Also, too … Palin’s on the road all the time, if no one mows while she’s gone, the grass will cover the windows.
A fool? Perhaps. But also a more courteous person. Also also somebody who saves more money.
The guy moved in. Period. He did NOT peek in Piper’s window. He did NOT spy on any of them. He did NOT take pictures of them and post them on FB. Her rant is complete lunacy and paranoia.We could all get upset about “potential” issues, but when there is no evidence of these events occurring there is no rational reason the be upset. It’s all in her head.He moved in, period. And if she has nothing to hide, why is she so upset?
I’ll pretty much just carbon copy what I’ve said multiple times now.
Tell me WHY he picked THAT house rather than a no-doubt cheaper location in Wasilla and I’ll explain Palin’s paranoia and lunacy.
He chose that house because it’s next to the subject he’s writing about. Hundreds of writers do their research the exact same way. I do understand what you’re saying, DK. The fact is, it is a free country and he can live where ever he wants. His book hasn’t been published yet. If Sarah had tried some of that warm down home charm on him, I’m sure he would put that in his book. He is not overly critical of his subjects and does not write anything that isn’t true. He really does try to peel the layers away and lets his readers come to whatever conclusion they wish. I’m sorry you’re paranoid….must be awful to feel that way.
Please, Moon. Please tell me where I’ve said what he’s done is illegal. I haven’t said that. McGinniss has done NOTHING illegal, not that I know of anyway. I don’t even /suspect/ he’s done anything illegal. My point is that he’s done something immoral- I have no problem with him living in Wasilla to write. Living in the same neighborhood? I dunno, that stradles the line. But living next door? I find that at /best/ in extremely bad taste and definitely immoral, as well as invasive in regards to the Palins. You don’t have to agree with me, but I stand by what I’ve said.
Obnoxious yes- immoral? What does morality have to do with it? Where is the higher moral ground being trod upon here?
He making money and getting famous- that pretty much sums up everybody’s relationship with Sarah.
Again, I get your point. But if he is writing a book about her, then he just hit the jackpot. And since the house was for rent and he had a choice of where to live, any good investigative writer/reporter (which he seems to be), would do the same. He’s free to rent wherever he finds a place and she can’t do anything to stop him. Until he posts photos of her or writes personal things about what she and her family are doing in their house, she has no grounds for complaining. It makes her look paranoid and rather silly.
Now, that’s not to say that he won’t do those things. Should she be wary of him living there? Probably. But not because he can see into Piper’s room (still creepy on all levels), but because he will have closer access to seeing what Sarah is up to.
Again, though – if she has nothing to hide, she shouldn’t be worried. She should take the opportunity to show him that she is the wonderful person she keeps telling the world she is. My guess, however, is that she does have things to hide. The woman doth protest too much. And if she is hiding something and he figures it out, I hope he does tell everyone what it is. She’s gotten way too many passes on all those lies that she tells.
Great points. She took an opportunity to win him over and trashed it by trashing him.
She seems to have no other option but attack mode. I’d feel sorry for her, but she has the money to seek therapy and figure out why she reacts this way. Her family should insist upon it, unless they are too afraid of her or Todd.
Oh, wait, maybe DK has a point after all – we shouldn’t be blaming Sarah for this silly rant on Facebook because she doesn’t make decisions. Someone else does. Todd? God?
“The woman doth protest too much” is a great way of putting it. She does. I also agree that this woman has gotten way too many free passes. Believe me, I’d like to see her pay for her crimes and for her lies. I’d loooove it. I just think, at least this once, her reaction is understandable, especially as McGinniss took the first shot.
Little story. When I was in high school marching band, every year for the Homecoming game we’d dress up. My section did a stereotypical Catholic schoolgirls costume and one of us, Joanna, realized her shoe was untied. She had no way of getting to her sholace without *cough* exposing herself thanks to a tiny skirt (we were all wearing ‘em and the rest of the section was guys, including me obviously) so she asked one of us to sort of hide her. She bent over to tie her shoe and another guy just stood /directly/ behind her. Funny picture and we all started laughing. He said “I stand here. I do nothing.” He was right. He didn’t actually DO anything. He just had to stand in the right spot in the right way to make somebody else look ridiculous.
why wouldn’t he pick it? Wouldn’t you, if you were writing about a subject and a house became available nearby?
why’d the neighbor agree to rent it – answer that and add it to your explanation.
I might pick it, but I like to think I’d admit it was a sort of low blow against the Palins. I also wouldn’t blame them for being pissed off.
DK, does it really matter why he chose that house? We have a big backyard but we also have 6 houses that have a direct view of our yard and a busy road. We don’t do anything we would be embarassed about, as you say we don’t pick our noses or disengage wedgies, so I don’t know what all the fuss is about. What do these people do in their backyard that they are afraid to be seen, they live on a lake where anyone could go sailing by?
Now that I know about his book (thank you, Sarah) I will be sure to pre-order it!
Ah, there’s something she didn’t think about – making a big fuss just increases his sales! Do-dah. I will pre-order as well. Bestsellers List, here he comes!
Well, sometimes I do fix a wedgie. I assure you I’d stop immediately if I thought it might become a national photo op. That would make my day much worse (I HATE wedgies)
D.K., I suggest new underwear, the wedgie-free kind!
You’re so boring DK. I think you’re probably in a very good position to explain paranoia and lunacy. Know her well? You know nothing about Joe’s motivation for moving in but immediately assign all kinds of evil intentions to him. Do you know what he’s paying as rent? Know that there are cheaper locations in Wasilla? For all you know, the owners couldn’t rent the house to anyone else BECAUSE of its proximity to the Palin house and gave it to him very cheap. You’ve explained your position – outrage on Sarah’s behalf – very nicely. Please give it a rest.
What evil intentions have I assigned? Please offer quotes. I’m so boring you have to make things up, eh? I know I’ve seen the picture and that, hey, in general, odds are better for than against that he could definitely find a cheaper place elsewhere. It’s entirely possible that place is dirt cheap. Possible and likely ain’t the same.
Ditto Kat.
‘Cheaper’ is relative. Here in CT, lakefront rentals run about $2500/month in the off-season (summer rates can easily run $8000+ per month, even in the ‘rural’ areas – not that there’s much of THAT here!).
This is the first I found on Lake Lucille http://www.free-rentals.com/united-states/alaska/lake-lucille-bandb.php so I don’t know if it’s par for the course, but even if calculated at the daily summer rate of $89/day, he’d pay $2759/month in rent.
But SHE did make a stalker’s move, snap a pic and post it.
And she provided hilarious though creepy descriptions of what her new neighbor might see if only he will look–scantily-clad Sarah packing a baby on her back while mowing the lawn [oh yeah, that's realistic], little Piper innocently cavorting in her private bedroom [aren't there shades or curtains?], the Palin family swimming in some body of water that ranges in size from ‘swimming hole’ [her words] to Lake Lucille [right next to their house].
I’m betting if he looks he’s going to see creepier stuff than that.
Agreed. If I took a picture of my neighbor on the deck of his house, and posted that picture on the web — complete with his name and a rant — that would be pretty stalkerish.
$P is showing classic passive-aggressive behavior. “He’s going to invade my privacy!” she wails while invading his.
DK, of course she has a right to be upset, but how she reacts to that upsetness is what is telling here.
She invokes, completely out of the blue, sexual imagery and suggests the man is a perv who will be gawking at her young daughter in her bedroom. There is zero evidence for that . She inserts the sex into it, which I find very inappropriate, unprofessional, maternal, or presidential.
There is very good reason to believe the details she is relating are mostly lies – lawnmowing, after just getting back from weeks of travel, Trig on backpack (egads, how unsafe is that?), garden …. what garden?). And the stuff about the pie and the cup of sugar is just pure sarcastic snark, indicating a brain that hasn’t emotionally matured since about 10th grade.
Does she have a right to be upset? Yes, but she should also expect to be judged by how she handles her feelings. She made this public on Facebook, which says she is more afraid of not having her name in the newscycle than any threat from the neighbor. Otherwise, why wouldn’t she and Todd just deal with it personally or with local law enforcement as (if) appropriate?
Any neighbor there could see into their yard on their own deck. If they want their privacy, they need to make whatever legal improvements to their property they can do to insure that. They have plenty of money to do so.
Basically, in other words, the Palin’s could simply have built the big fence without announcing it to the world.
So one has to ask, why would she write such a piece? If she and Todd were going to build a fence (my parents built a fence, and we weren’t even as close to the next house as they are), why personally publicize it? What is the reason?
victim-hood…plays so very well to her base. ya know the big bad gov’t w/their rules and stuff…and freedom for everyone…the audacity! me me me me me me me
Sarah keeps talking about freedom. The house next door was there when they built theirs. If they were so worried about privacy, they could have sited their house to have more; they could have built a big fence. They have used their freedom to buy the lot next door and build a huge, ugly building on that lot. The neighbors didn’t have any say; Sarah saw to that. Apparently the neighbors decided to leave their modest home on the lake. Now they have rented it to a famous writer for the summer. They have that freedom. If Sarah isn’t happy, she can move into either the new house, or the white house. It seems as if they have plenty of choices.
exactly…relatives of mine bought property and built cabin…they planned ahead by buying the lot down from them to insure their view would be unobstructed…it’s doable! palin is not a thinker, she’s a reactionary!
I think your post is right on Yes she has a reason to be upset but…. it is the way she vented her anger that brings out the worst in all of us. I think if this happened to one of our favorites we would be posting supportive comments…..but again most of our favorites would not have vented on FB, posted a pic of the “offender” etc etc
Actually…. I’m totally with you. I mean that. Hand to God. It’s just, wouldn’t you be paranoid is somebody writing a book about you move next door? What McGinniss has done, in my mind, is just totally beyond the pale.
Short answer (and admittedly hypothetical, since no one has written a book about me): no, I wouldn’t be paranoid. I might be annoyed, but what do you think the guy is gonna do?
Honestly, I doubt he’ll do much of anything. Sit on his porch? Drink tea, read a book, write? I doubt he’ll do much of anything.
Ya know I can see where you are coming from DK I was with someone whose whole life from the time we met until 19 years later was one big lie,everything and I mean everything was a lie even his family and what he did for a living.It took an accident for me to find out the truth and finially ask the right people the right questions.This person was so paranoid he wouldn’t even meet his own son alone at a restaurant with out someone to back him up,I always wondered about that one.At any rate I no longer like or trust this person and I can still go online and see he is still telling his lies and people are falling for them but I do not strike out at him like palin did.I did and do not send thugs after him.I think that is the point.I have t tell ya the man knows my phone number and where I live and even my email address because I may not like him but my grandson does.If he moved next door I would ignore him and IMO that would have been what palin and her family should have done.
Why publicize it? My personal belief is to get a pity party and make all her supporters feel bad for her and to hate on the evil lamestream media!
She fell for a trap. I just think McGinniss struck first.
I am sure the intention was to see what she would do, which is not polite but –
If she believes in the rants of Rant Paul, the neighbor had the right as a private business person to contract with anyone they wanted to and she should be good with that.
All she has to do is act like an adult, and not make a public spectacle of herself.
She had an opportunity to make a positive impression on her neighbor, and she blew that out the window the first day.
Let’s not kid ourselves that Sarah isn’t loving the attention, and loving the chance to erect another martyr’s cross in her own mind.
Obama would have asked the new neighbor over for hamburgers and a beer.
Salomon would have done something similar.
Christ would have stood on the steps of the Temple and debated with the new neighbor.
Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at great risk to their lives and with much strained trust, sat down together to end a war.
Sarah’s got three other houses, let her move into one if it bothers her so much.
Hehe, I don’t think she truly believes in Rand Paul
Still, I argue he made the spectacle first. She fell for the trap and followed suit, but still…
Ok, so I know that Dems and Progressives / Liberals etc feel like sometimes the WH and Obama neglect their base. I somewhat agree with that, on a case to case basis.
But you guys….check out the massively depressing new GOP site, America Speaking Out:
http://wonkette.com/415621/dumb-new-gop-website-actually-a-heartbreaking-document-of-americas-devastation
Wonkette posted some of the comments and seriously – America is totally depressed. And no wonder:
- An IDIOT makes $12 million from doing nothing but spitting out the same speech at each event, but with different wigs.
- A freaking oil spill from hell that just won’t stop and NO ONE knows how to bloody turn it OFF. –
- Unemployment STILL hovering around 9% and the people in charge can’t agree to EXTEND unemployment benefits.
- MORE Idiots on Fox News making us scared all day every day about everyone and everything around us – they may as well put up posters everywhere saying “Do you have feet? Then you MIGHT DIE!!”
- The new immigration law in AZ is just a powder keg waiting to explode.
- Some idiot who is running to be KY Senator actually had a problem with corporations NOT being able to turn away non-whites, the government being meanies to BP and who described the Massey mine accident and the Oil Spill from Hell as “accidents” that “happen”.
Seriously – if it wasn’t for the fact that there is an intelligent President in office, I might just be tempted to despair entirely.
And as the final insult, the GOP is broke, so this shiny new Republican-leaning website “America Speaking Out” is being paid for not out of RNC coffers, but by ALL OF US American taxpayers!
Doesn’t that just frost you?
$Ps father wears a t-shirt touting how ‘hot’ his daughter is; $P, herself, presents to the world scenarios involving *highly* inappropriate, unlawful, ick-saturated behaviors towards her female offspring**. Is this ‘a familial’ thing?
Methinks there is some *serious* dysfunction in the area of s3xual fantasy restraint in the ‘brain’ of the almost-half-term governor. For a mother to even suggest that, let alone dwell upon –out loud– *any* such horrible things [might be] visited upon her offspring, is truly disturbed. And disturbing.
Hmmm, on second thought, might she just be sick enough to be projecting scenarios she’d like to have visited upon *her*? Ewww, for as creepy, unbalanced, and unstable as she is, that’s just too high on the ick-factor to even contemplate. Then again, we *are* talking about creepy, unbalanced, and unstable $P… She is truly one sick, sick, sick piece of work. beth.
**[not only is she, now, offering the world the suggestion of Joe peeping-toming into her youngest daughter's bedroom, but remember the 'threats of r@pe' [gang and/or otherwise] made to her elder two daughters…the ones she did *not* report to her security detail or any one in law enforcement, but ‘reported’ to her bots worldwide in ‘her book’? b.]
Palin and sexual imagery? Never!
http://i39.tinypic.com/wvzo68.jpg
Oh slap me now I’m really falling in the gutter, help me out of the cesspool
Hooker, strap on, perversion ………..
Sorry couldn’t resist
….with her old guy handlers….
Wish you hadn’t used the word “handlers.” I was sipping some water and it squirted out my nose. (I know, I didn’t have to be so specific, but it’s my revenge for making me laugh so hard my nose burns.)
Sarah loves her some hooker boots and street walker shoes.
$P has a problem with boundaries — all kinds of boundaries. Personal, familial … and now residential. I wonder just how close to the property line the Palin house actually is?! Did they actually build right up to the property line or within inches of it? Does $arah actually know where the boundary line for their property is? If there was ever a “spite” fence constructed, the one announced so peevishly on FB would certainly epitomize it.
You know, I don’t think that woman even knows the meaning of “no comment.” Which in this case would have been taking the high road.
SP has never been able to locate the high road. Apparently not on her map….
Michelle— priceless comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Michelle….that’s a good one.
Other children will ask Piper about the guy and her bedroom window. Not a nice thing to do your own child, Sarah.
Now, that is a thoughtful comment. A good mother would think about the consequences of her words and actions on her children. Well done! You must be a good parent or had good parents.
Also sets up in Piper’s mind that ALL people (except those who look and think just like Mommy) are to be feared and suspected of being dangerous and perverted. Children should be taught common sense, and stranger danger is certainly a real concern that should be discussed, but to automatically attribute disgusting motives to a person who has done nothing to deserve them is the wrong lesson to teach Piper. But, of course, fear is the favorite flavor of the right-wingnuts and she always seems to bring up sexual comments in connection with her kids so this should come as no surprise.
Between dragging Piper all over creation, putting her in overly-mature, inappropriate clothing (HOW much was that purse?) and talking about several different sexual scenarios involving several of her children, she’s done some potentially serious damage to that child. It would seem that she’s 0 for 5 on the childrearing score.
The woman is an idiot! Lied in Court recently and now mentions having a ‘new’ neighbor 15 feet away from her home (per her Facebook page), which is contrary to what she and Bristol indicated under oath! Using sexual language as to her daughter, Piper as to the writer/renter. The woman has no ethics as to her own family. Absolutely amazing! She needs mental help there is no doubt. Get a life, Sarah!
Amazing how many houses there are way, way, way out there in the middle of no where. And if they’re already rented, how handy, a hotel, too. Wilderness my ‘arse.
The property owner could sell that house to Keith O. & MSNBC if they wanted to, and possibly since there are no building codes — could build their own Wasilla studio. Does the former half term gov. demand “right of refusal” to a tenant on property she doesn’t own? That isn’t very neighborly. Course if Sean H or Bill-O rented the property…..
Guess Wasilla isn’t one of those places ‘rill Americans live. The bots are saying the Queen of Quit is being stalked, however….. it is a free country and Mr McGinnis is under no ethical or legal constraint as to where he can rent. He could rent a house boat & live 25′ off her shoreline if he chooses.
Tank top: $10
Shorts: $20
Getting a close up look at Palin’s cellulite: Priceless
It’s easy to see that Palin romanticizes the notion of workin’ in the yard as if seeing her in short and tank is a good thing. Yikes. We all saw those photos from Hawaii.
Regarding her comments about Piper’s bedroom……She really is a sick woman.
Strapping her baby to her back while mowing the lawn? OMG, she has to be the worst mother in the world. What if a the mower hits a rock and goes flying? Sane people don’t have babies anywhere near a lawn mower. Is it even grass cutting season yet?
BTW, it’s a free Country Palin! All those freedoms that you keep talking about aren’t just for YOU. Real American’s can live anywhere they want to live, and so can you. If you don’t like it…..move. Hopefully, to Russia.
He*l, we’ll even help ya’ pack.
If she does move to Russia it would be a very short trip.
By all means start damaging TriG’s already underdeveloped hearing by running a lawn mower near him. That will help his development a lot.
What’s that you say Sarah? “Let’s use some Common Sense?”
That is a good point. She just never seems to think about consequences and her children, does she?
Dare we hope for a ‘Voices for the Flats’ post by new neighbor Joe?
Voices FROM the Flats
Would someone please remind Glen Beck that it is a free country which his BF Sarah keeps reminding us of everytime she gives a shoutout to those in uniform who are fighting for our freedoms. Joe is exercising his freedom! Go Joe, Go!
I see that Trisha08 above has already said this … go Trisha08! You are so right.
The more he is riled up, the better off we are! Joe’s move has him by the short hairs, too. Why oh why are they all so worried? Why oh why is because they are morans, and actually know how much they lie and how it could all turn on them in a heartbeat.
I’m surprised she didn’t tell him “I’m your biggest fan.” Now THAT would have been creepy. LOL.
As far as the peeking in her daughters windows… everytime she does this “pervert-my kids” thing all I can think of is those gay haters. You know, the more they talk about the sin and horror of gayness, the gayer they turn out to be. Does that work the same way with people who are obsesses with perverted stuff about kids? Especially their own kids? Just wonderin’…
PG has a great post on this that includes an additional letter Palin wrote to someone regarding those pesky tourists driving by the overnors mansion via bus. Worth a read (and a laugh).
Also, too, It looked to me like the deck was a 2nd floor one -ya know, the kind that’s perfect for peekin’ over fences. But who would want to spend their summer peeking at her cottage cheese thighs?
Good sing along…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IGmbd3PDA4
That was awesome – funny and very well done.
The problem with Glen setting a fatwa on Random House, is that most of Sarah’s supporters don’t even know what Random House does. They’re not into the booky ready thing.
Not to mention some of his ideological brethren might be published by Random House?
Here’s one:
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=41963
I’d be soooooooo upset to think that people will boycott buying Ann Coulter’s books …
Ann will b*tch slap Glen and having him crying real tears. The problem with the radical right is they don’t even think one step ahead of their high pitched screaming. (Case in point–every time Sarah opens her trap.) Now Sarah will go on Beck’s show to whine about getting too much attention from the media–thus getting more attention from the media. Trashy.
It makes me laugh and throw up a little in my mouth though.
Palin’s a circus freak riding around on a monkey and a turtle with a dunce hat on eating something fried on a stick, swatting flies and babbling nonsense on the only outlet that encourages absolute stupidity. FAUX. Popcorn, popcorn. . . . .
Ann will slap Glen until he cries real tears. Let’s face it–she’s got bigger balls than him.
Excellent get.
Booky-ready…..that’s excellent!
Yes Toad….. What goes around, comes around.
All he (Joe) has to do is be there and the quitter, et al, l will spin themselves into oblivion.
Just sit there Joe and admire the dead lake. They will do themselves…
HAR HAR HAR
No one could have written this!!!
VernD
will spin… not i will spin.
(proofread before submitting)
lol
duh!!! slapping self upside my head. for a moment there i had a senior second. i got Mr. Mcginniss mixed up with the author of The Lies of Sarah Palin. oh boy, now that would have been the one thing that would have sent ‘miz lady’ ’round the bend.
Well I guess now that Todd is off the roof he can build a fence so his wife can prance around the backyard in a tank top. Any word if she was wearing the Sharpie Hawaii visor?
With those big windows, I can see Toad sleeping on the couch from here!
it’s hard to believe there are building codes where they live (let alone ones that she would comply with). Citing “appearance”, “required to blend”…just look at their compound.., it’s NOT aesthetically pleasing in the least, and how many city officials are still on her payroll?!! Let’s face it! palin gets to do what she wants, when she wants, how she wants…all the spotlights and all the criticism/reporting matters not! …in my opinion and going by past history.
When Shannyn was reading Palin’s facebook earlier today on her show, I thought for sure it was a joke, complete satire, but I was so wrong. Palin is paranoid, and she should worked on zoning laws. If Joe had posted a picture of her on his facebook, if he has one, she would have gone ballastic and contacted her lawyer. Joe is better than she is.
But she has set the gound rules for photo posting. Sarah has not forethought.
Bad joke for my childhood. Two men at the first Tee, one pro one am. The Pro asks for the amateur’s handicap is told it is a two poke handicap. Pro doesn’t know what that means but says OK.
Pro bends over to put his ball on the tee for his first stroke and the amateur rams the handle of his wood up the pro’s behind. After some conversation amature explains that it was the first poke and he has one more. Amateur wins match.
Sarah is going to have to spend the next 5 months wondering when the first poke is going to come. because she has set poking as an acceptable neighborly behavior.
This is so funny! Popcorn time indeed!
Sarah always starts her screeches lately with “Dontcha love your freedom?”. Hehe….Hey Sarah….dontcha love JM’s freedom to live wherever he wishes?
The city code also says you can’t clearcut native vegetation from a lot that’s bigger than 7200 sq ft. The Palins ignored that one and clear cut all the trees to the edge of the lake. From a structural standpoint, it isn’t practical to build a wooden or vinyl solid fence more than about 12 ft high because the wind will eventually blow it over. If you look at Palin’s stalker picture and the aerial pictures there is already a fence between the two houses that stops at the red shed. There is probably a certain number of feet setback from the lake and I’ll bet the edge of the red shed is right at that limit. I would have been pissed if someone had built that red monstrosity so close to my house. It would be impossible to see inside the upstairs windows of the red house from the smaller house. Sis is lying again.
Frankly I have no real interest in this “my home is my castle ” routine by Palin.
But burn down the rental of the man who dared to rent a house next to Palin, possibly killing and cruely maiming those inside at the time, and that is O.K..??? No problem with the palinbots.
Insane.
I checked a photo of Sarah’s kitchen window and she has a window blind and it was closed. The photo was from the Mothers’ Day article earlier this month. The view would have to be of the side of the rental house which would have been the Palin’s choice when they planned and built the house. And her little garden…where on that lot could she have a garden? Also, the Jim Wilson photo of the Palin Compound in a May 24, 2010 piece in The New York Times doesn’t show a lush green lawn that would need to be cut. Perhaps Joe next door would have a better perspective of what he viewed.
The best thing he can do is sit tight, keep his mouth closed and collect clippings for the last chapter of the book. It will write itself.
He’s alrady got the title “Welcome to My Neighborhood.”
Love your suggestion!
I wonder . . . .Remember when Sarah stepped in when her daughter was involved in trashing a house? Remember that only the boys were penalized (even though it was thought that she led them to the home?)
Could she possibly stir up enough “stuff” to get McGinnis thrown out of there? Is there any mudpuppy out there that knows who owns the house? Was this deal done through a realtor? My hope is that the owner has a grudge and will not budge. But if it’s a realtor, could they rescind the agreement? I hope not – this is too funny!
How does one invade the privacy of a media whore?
Ha! Great point.
CLAPPING wonderful post
heheh
giggling at “Joe the Neighbor”!! Priceless!
And the number of puns that can be made from tank, top, breast, grass. etc.
Bravo! Best post today!
Re: Update II
Well. So much for civil liberties. Apparently, in Beck and Palin’s America – freedom of the press and freedom of speech can be censured at will. Interesting stance. Anyone notified the Tea Party yet of the wolves among them?
If the Palins were good friends with the owner of the house next door, this probably would not have happened. I can’t imagine that the owner of the house was pleased with the complex the Palins built and the Palins probably did not talk with the owner beforehand. A real stalker unknown to anyone could have rented the house and be much more dangerous than Joe would ever think of being. I can’t imagine he’s going to spend much, if any, time actively “spying,” but it looking to understand the “favor” of the area and her life. Big deal! It’s the price of the fame she has worked to gain. I do hope his being there makes her very uncomfortable, and now that’s she’s advertised it, maybe some people in Wasilla will go to him. I hope so.
This is amazing! Hi Joe! Hey $arah! This is rich! Just when we think things are going to calm down, she stirs things up again. Wow. I’ll bet if we tried to spin this episode and all of the other “episodes” into a book of fiction, it would be rejected for publication because it was too implausible. No one acts like this in real life. Wow. And Joe, I have read all of your books, and really really look forward to this one, too! $arah, um, haven’t gotten around to reading yours, and never will.
Yep! You just can’t make this chit up!
I hope Random House and Joe McGinniss give Beck and Palin a cut from the increased sales he will have as a result of their focus on him and his book.
And is that the same Glenn Beck who was pissed off because someone slammed a gold company that he pimps for?
Ratfish, yes indeedy doody, the same Glenn Beck….and I will just bet this brings him to tears.
geez when I heard about this a couple of hours ago I thought….dang I need to get some popcorn ready. But you beat me to it. This is hilarious. I can just see SS mowing the lawn with a hand mower with a 2 year old on her back. Halter and all. And then putting in a garden. I wonder if she knows that blueberries don’t come out until…later on?
my guess is that prima donna palin knows nothing about the earth, blueberries or the rest…only that oil is in the ground and ppl will pay $ for it – she’s following the money!
There is no end to the funny scenarios here – there are endless possibilities. Wasilla itself is at the heart of the controversy – the book will include a lot about the valley, its history, etc. Pretty much all of that once again contradicts what Palin tried to make Wasilla out to be – her (fake) accent, its remoteness (not), its laws, it’s history of doing everything in its power to move the capital there for all the wrong reasons. It even was a beautiful area once, and has been referred to as the Ugly Strip Mall Capital of Alaska for at least 30 years.
With an author in town, who knows what Wasillans will and will not talk about, or will and will not do. When fame and fortune is just around the corner, sometimes people do the most unexpected things. I have a lot of fun just thinking about all the opportunities for a whole new chapter in life of Sarah Palin.
nebraska, could be what really tees her off is that he actually can write
LOL!
Yeah, all by his own smart self.
I said it earlier today, and I’ll say it again: I’m just pissed that I didn’t think of it first! You can’t tell me there aren’t enough of us who would’ve pooled our money & used it as a time-share! Oh, the scoopage we’d know!
And I seriously doubt he’ll have to do much more than crack a window of that rental to hear everything he needs to hear….she’ll be shrieking at peak volume for weeks on end now.
And, hell–she’s never there anyway–what the hell does she care who’s living next door? Who the hell builds their stupid compound that close to the neighbor’s house anyway? If she were my neighbor & built that monstrosity on top of my property, I woulda rented to the National Enquirer!
Bet the National Inquirer didn’t know there was a rental lol But now she has announced it to the world who will rent it next Those owners now have a GOLD MINE
yes now that the world knows about this rental…Nat’l Enq, paparazzi long lenses, and owner falling into financial security…this could get interesting. she’s her own worst enemy…must be mind exploding to encourage so much attention to ones self.
love the time share angle! wouldn’t she just do it in her pants? we could put up our Mudpup signage, AKM, Moore Up North, etc. someone should contact the owner…lol
my paranoid side tells me that all the bots who read this are informing her every step of the way, so really nothing should surprise her.
I hope that the people who make the decisions for Sarah (thanks, Chuck for the heads up) are reconsidering her stability as a presidential candidate. This teen aged face book comment is the response to an author moving next door for a few months. We all know that Sarah cannot handle criticism, jokes or unscripted gotcha questions. She exercises almost total control over everything, so this unexpected snag has really thrown her for a loop. Great cred for a presidential candidate.
The Matanuska Valley history has a lot more to it than Wasilla, which is a fairly new community. My mother’s family is from the Valley, her grandmother relocated there after an unhappy life with Baptists who had removed her from her native family near Kodiak. I hope Mr. McGinnis does go into the true history of the area, people write mostly of the Colonists (dust bowl farmers transplanted to Alaska) and not the Natives.
This is why a lot of people will want to be a part of that book. Old families like to establish themselves in history, new ones want to share their dreams for their futures. Wasilla was populated in a completely different way than Palmer, and I’d like to know a lot more about that. Sarah’s info is poison and not one thing out of her mouth believable. I’ve been as upset about her rewriting Mat Valley history to suit her needs as anything else – much of my family is still there.
I meant her “mother” (my grandmother) relocated there…
So, Martha, when you go to give a speech there, you can tell them all about how your family is from the area and you’re all Wasillans!
Make sure you have a good anecdote about the local color–probably a mom and pop establishment like Target.
The guy has more courage than I do — between the scary followers threatening him and the not-so-oblique pedophile-peeper implications from HerSelf (setting the stage for further accusations?), I don’t think I’d have the guts to do this. I appreciate that he does, but oh, boy!
The Palins, if they have an ounce of good sense will make sure that everybody knows that this man and his property are not to be touched and that he is well received and well treated.
Whatever they do it will end up in his journals and notes.
He is probably smart enough to make sure that each day’s work is backed up somewhere out of reach of Wasilla, hackers and anybody but his agent or family or publisher.
Basically, he is black mailing Sarah et al., and Wasilla etc into good behavior whether they want to or not.
Any harm that comes to him or his property will end up at Sarah’s feet.
Reluctantly heading for bed. Hope you had a great birthday AKM.
Hope YOU had a good birthday too, Irish! Love you!!!!
Yup she definately Jiffy poped.
With its high salt content and low nutrition value.
Not to mention artificial butter.
And of course that fact that they are as close to him and his windows and yard as he is to them is not a fact to keep her from planting another cross for her self to hang on or a while.
I thought she was an Ayn Rand Paul supporter, you know freedom to do what you like, like renting a summer house in the cool Alaskan summer.
Isn’t it interesting that in a state as large as and lightly populated as Alaska that these two house are jammed as close together as row houses in any city.
Anybody know who build first and where the boundry lines are?
I doubt she knows who Ayn Rand is or what books she wrote unless Beck talked about it over lunch at during the makeup prep.
Which brings me to the point that I have to say goodbye. Got to save some sanity for tomorrow, because Sarah and Glenn are going to do their dog and pony show and you know there will be things to comment upon after it. Gees, it has been fun, but exhausting – and to think Round Two is tomorrow. Whew.
And don’t forget SP’s over-reaction when letterman joked that A-Rod knocked up her daughter.
I love that her neighbors hate her so much that they willingly rented their house to someone who’s writing a book about her. Talk about Passive-Aggressive! I love whomever owns that house.
Yes, happy birthday AKM. Hope my message on your birthday board went through. And Irishgirl: Happy Birthday to you.
Have a happy day AKM! Baking pies yet $arah?
LOL!!!! Talk about Pie Spy! Joe the Neighbor is a Pie Spy! LMFAO!!!
And happy birthday wishes to all those to whom it applies!
R’ipley in CT, clever!
“I Spy Pie With My Watchful Eye!” Joe McGinness said, as he watched the psycho lying fraud next door implode….
Gosh, I wonder what Mrs. Palin could possibly be so nervous about? There’s nothing strange about her family life. Hmm.. scratching my head???
Happy B’day AKM may you have many years to blog ahead.
AKM, congratulations on another trip around the sun! Wishing you many more……Happy Birthday!
oh yeah, Beck and Palin teaming up…..it doesn’t get any better than that!
AKM are you sending a thank you note to Sarah for sending you this fantastic surprise b’day present?
With words like – Oh, you shouldn’t have, or – It just perfect.
Love, love, love your comment.
How thoughtful of Sarah to do a rant on AKM’s birthday. Does it get better than that? I think I can safely say we have all had great fun and many laughs at Sarah’s crazed reaction.
Happy Birthday, AKM!
Wasn’t Sarah renting that house at some point? Not sure where i read it, or when, but I seem to recall some sort of conversation about her renting the house next door. If that’s true, this is her own fault for not continuing to do so. *shrug*
As for Mr. McGinniss, whether or not he’s writing a book, he’s sure brave renting that house. After she so publicly commented on it like she did, I certainly hope he is careful. There will be watchful eyes on HIS every move, you can bet. I’d also hope he is on the lookout any of her rabid fans. Who knows what one might do. I’m sure he thought this was a cute thing to do, after the brouhaha from the auction and everything since then. Maybe he can get a photo of her actually at a desk, typing into a computer, “writing” her own material…..
She was renting the one on the other side.
didn’t read you before I posted.
Someone on IM, I think, suggested he hire Wooten as his body guard….I almost fell off the chair laughing!
Oh how perfect that would be.
OMG – I may never get to bed. Keep finding gem like yours nswfm! Thanks for another giggle!
I think he knows exactly what he is doing. Some people have Palin and her gang of thugs nailed immediately. If he’s been planning a book, he’s been following her whackjobbery and there won’t be too many surprises.
I remember that also NOLA about her renting the house,maybe it was for Bristol and now that she lives in Anchorage they they it go. Shrug I certainly home he has someone with him just in case he needed an alibi and sure would not let the palins know about it.The Bots complain about people saying things about the palins but they are the only ones I have ever seen threaten people with violence.Makes one sick to think of people like that.
The property owner is brilliant! How better to get a fence built between them and the obnoxious Palin’s without having to pay for it! Who knows, maybe they wanted a fence all the time but the Palin’s resisted. This is great!
Wow I didn’t think of that. Great move.
Gee, if the fence isn’t placed just right, and it goes over the property line, it will have to be taken down and rebuilt. Good luck, Toddy boy.
I know where I live it has to be on their side of the property line and the best side has to face the neighbors side,
Why is she complaining about having a writer next door? She has a Fox studio in HER house, for crying out loud!
Gosh the bloom is finally coming off the Palin family. I guess the people around there must be pretty pissed that their wild bunch get away with breaking the law so much. I wonder if they threaten the owners of the home who rented the house. If I were them I’d sleep with one eye open on the Palins place. LOL
Hey..beckster and the swag-hag.. together again… nothing like smashing both of them in the face with a brick simultaneously… beckster actually declaring a boycott of Random House is hilarious !!!
Random House really couldn’t have asked for better PR for this book. I bet the number of pre-order copies just jumped exonentially.
I imagine that Joe was looking for a house and the realtor suggested this one and – how could he turn that down and still think of himself as an all-out investigative journalist? And maybe a teeny bit of, “Well, they refused to honor my dinner auction bid, so lets see what happens now” was in there too.
I’d love to have heard Todd vent when he came back from the visit…
But Joe, watch out for the spy pie or cookies- do you have a food taster?
Hah, Mr. McGinniss doesn’t have to do a thing. She will bring it all right to his doorstep with all her attentions and posts and diatribes, his research will be doing itself…what an easy assignment!
He won’t have to ask one question, she will be filling in the blanks faster than he can type.
Everyone that has a tale will bring it to him, gift-wrapped with plenty of down home quotes and easily verified. What an assignment!
She really does imagine herself to be quite the sex symbol…Daddy has certainly been pushing that point…ahem! That is too creepy, yuck.
Because she sleeps alone most of the time, she is obviously sexually frustrated…announcing it in every post and outing in some form. Poor Sarah…oh so sexy and oh so unfulfilled…tsk tsk, couldn’t happen to a more deserving “fixated at 13 yrs old” mentality, a sick female trying to slime our President across the country and insulting every brain that breathes.
This will be some best-seller, what a great way to start, go get her, Joe. I can just see him sitting on his deck, with his feet up, smoking his pipe and grinning quietly every evening as the sun sets. What an assignment….
If what he writes is true, and so far I’ve seen nothing to indicate it isn’t true, why call it a “negative” book? Why not just call it a plain old book? Did he move in there to totally p**s her off? More than likely, but so what? If she has nothing to hide she wouldn’t be upset by a book, right?
And yes, she is a one-woman weirdo squad. Hauling Piper around all the time makes you wonder why Willow doesn’t get a chance to travel with her. And using Trig to show what a good woman she is, raising a baby with DS is just cruel to Trig. Good moms don’t use their children to make themselves look good. They don’t single one or two children out and ignore the rest. They love their children equally and are equally proud of all of them.
I don’t think willow minds staying home without supervision
No one has said it yet in 238 comments, so it’s a mandation that I have to!
Say it ain’t so, Joe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! Bwahahahaha!
MUYS – quite right – it was a mandation and you did well by it !
( hmmmm…. my spell checker is rejecting “mandation ” . must be broken )
I added it right away – now my spell checker is Palin ready (after adding about a hundred more words which she either mangled or made up)!
It is an actual legal term, but not used very much. Just something Sarah used to try to look smart, and managing to show the opposite.
But you have a point, maybe she should stick to words in the spell checker.
Love this! Thank you Martha. I’ll be saying this to myself all night and all day tomorrow as I keep up with this latest Palin drama.
ROFL
Yes it is and a good one too
He’s brave, I’d be worried about her psycho followers retaliating… Seriously, yikes!
That’s exactly what she counts on…most of the time. Then you have those who face down the bullies with laughter and really smart counter moves. The more they freak, the more attention his book will get, he knows this.
What’s freakin’ out Sarah is not that he’s going to look in her windows, it’s that he’s going to get the town to talkin’. She’s blowing smoke, as usual – it’s always been her tactic to attack and encourage others to do so in her name. She’ll try to keep the focus on Joe for awhile – but the real tell is the rest of the town. No one is interested in Piper’s window, but Sarah will play that one up and a million more before she’s through. Hmmmm…she’s through. That has such a nice ring to it! Maybe now, maybe later – but definitely a done deal.
There she goes, being so presidential again. -ha. Why would she be upset, if she had nothing to hide? -hmm?
Or…the infamous
”Can I call you Joe?” adding… “Or should I just call you an @sshole before we even get started?”
Number one….those houses are sooooo close together. And the rental was there first. While Palin had all the construction going on in the compound, you’d think they build a privacy fence…or plant some more trees.
Number two….I think her house is ugly. And she shoulda snapped up that neighbors house too. She has plenty of cash.
P.S. Glen Beck is a tool
Another thing that would just be glorious is for her to go too far in her accusations – like the Piper window comment. That’s grounds for legal action if so desired…
Now, she can fly away all summer and go pukespeak for money to hide from the writer – but then that leaves the mice to play while the cat’s away. And summer in Alaska is something you live for all year long (most of us), so this is really gonna throw a monkey wrench in that enjoyment if she stays.
“Should I go? Should I stay? Why won’t this evil man just go away? Waaaaaaahhhh, I want my daddy!”