The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss
Authors: Joe McGinniss
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The worst of the filth is coming from commenters on the website of Andrew Breitbart, a right-wing digital media entrepreneur deemed so significant in these times that the May 24
New Yorker
devoted a full-length profile to him. Here are some typical remarks:
“This is one psychotic liberal. I hope someone mistakes him for a moose and puts an end to his publicity stunt. It would be nice if he ends up at the bottom of Lake Lucille.”
“If trapped in a house and not able to get out for food, does anyone know how long a freaky marxist fanatic can survive on a diet of KY Jelly?”
“I hope someone knocks his teeth down his throat.”
“What a spineless creepy bordering on sex-predator freak. I hope he tries to break into the Palin’s yard and gets a gut full of shotgun shell.”
Those are just about me. They get worse:
“hey, Joe, sleep with one eye open, you POS. can’t wait for your grandkids to show up and play in the woods and water.”
And, after publishing my home address:
“Joe’s lonely wife needs mail, phone calls and other assurances of concern and good will in Joe’s absence.”
I can’t help but wish that my friend the late William F. Buckley were around to witness this spectacle. He would have reduced it to size in a hurry. Even more, I wish Bill were still with us and able to skewer the Palinista phenomenon, as he surely and adroitly would have done.
At least Nancy is arriving the day after tomorrow. Maybe together, despite everything, we can enjoy what’s left of this resplendent Alaskan spring. As cummings wrote,
sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
SARAH CAN’T BEAR not to have the last word. She turned down an invitation from the
Today
show to appear in the same segment asme—sharing a screen as we were interviewed on opposite sides of the fence. Instead, she had her PR people prepare a statement that she wanted NBC to read. NBC didn’t. Sarah quickly twittered her displeasure:
Any wonder why public can’t trust mainstream media? I’ll facebook our latest incident w/NBC unbalanced/sensational “reporting”;Don’t trust’em
Facebook it she did, painting herself, as usual, in the black and blue of victimhood, as well as in red, white, and blue:
It’s a shame that Todd and I had another disappointing encounter with the media on Memorial Day of all days. It was time that we could have spent with our kids and on a day when we honor those who have died in defense of our Constitution, including our freedom of the press.
Colleen Cottle tells me Todd wasn’t even in Wasilla on Memorial Day. He and Track were in Texas, visiting Colleen’s son, John.
NBC broadcast her statement this morning, but even that isn’t last word enough. Todd calls Kathleen Parker at the
Washington Post
to say my presence next door has ruined their summer.
Like Glenn Beck, Parker thinks Todd deserves high praise for “trying to keep his cool.” She quotes him as saying, “Coming from me, people twist and turn [what I say] and before I know it, I’ve threatened someone. The media would love for me to go out and hit somebody.” Guess who?
FOR ME, it’s back to work. I drive to Palmer, fifteen miles across the Valley, for a 3:00 PM meeting with Zane Henning, a Christian conservativeand former North Slope oil worker who filed an ethics complaint against Sarah in November 2008, charging that she was using state property to promote her national political career.
He based that complaint mostly on an interview Sarah did with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News on November 11, 2008, from her governor’s office in Anchorage. When asked about her plans for 2012, Sarah said, “Faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator’s hands—this is what I always do. I’m like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray,
The worst of the filth is coming from commenters on the website of Andrew Breitbart, a right-wing digital media entrepreneur deemed so significant in these times that the May 24
New Yorker
devoted a full-length profile to him. Here are some typical remarks:
“This is one psychotic liberal. I hope someone mistakes him for a moose and puts an end to his publicity stunt. It would be nice if he ends up at the bottom of Lake Lucille.”
“If trapped in a house and not able to get out for food, does anyone know how long a freaky marxist fanatic can survive on a diet of KY Jelly?”
“I hope someone knocks his teeth down his throat.”
“What a spineless creepy bordering on sex-predator freak. I hope he tries to break into the Palin’s yard and gets a gut full of shotgun shell.”
Those are just about me. They get worse:
“hey, Joe, sleep with one eye open, you POS. can’t wait for your grandkids to show up and play in the woods and water.”
And, after publishing my home address:
“Joe’s lonely wife needs mail, phone calls and other assurances of concern and good will in Joe’s absence.”
I can’t help but wish that my friend the late William F. Buckley were around to witness this spectacle. He would have reduced it to size in a hurry. Even more, I wish Bill were still with us and able to skewer the Palinista phenomenon, as he surely and adroitly would have done.
At least Nancy is arriving the day after tomorrow. Maybe together, despite everything, we can enjoy what’s left of this resplendent Alaskan spring. As cummings wrote,
sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
SARAH CAN’T BEAR not to have the last word. She turned down an invitation from the
Today
show to appear in the same segment asme—sharing a screen as we were interviewed on opposite sides of the fence. Instead, she had her PR people prepare a statement that she wanted NBC to read. NBC didn’t. Sarah quickly twittered her displeasure:
Any wonder why public can’t trust mainstream media? I’ll facebook our latest incident w/NBC unbalanced/sensational “reporting”;Don’t trust’em
Facebook it she did, painting herself, as usual, in the black and blue of victimhood, as well as in red, white, and blue:
It’s a shame that Todd and I had another disappointing encounter with the media on Memorial Day of all days. It was time that we could have spent with our kids and on a day when we honor those who have died in defense of our Constitution, including our freedom of the press.
Colleen Cottle tells me Todd wasn’t even in Wasilla on Memorial Day. He and Track were in Texas, visiting Colleen’s son, John.
NBC broadcast her statement this morning, but even that isn’t last word enough. Todd calls Kathleen Parker at the
Washington Post
to say my presence next door has ruined their summer.
Like Glenn Beck, Parker thinks Todd deserves high praise for “trying to keep his cool.” She quotes him as saying, “Coming from me, people twist and turn [what I say] and before I know it, I’ve threatened someone. The media would love for me to go out and hit somebody.” Guess who?
FOR ME, it’s back to work. I drive to Palmer, fifteen miles across the Valley, for a 3:00 PM meeting with Zane Henning, a Christian conservativeand former North Slope oil worker who filed an ethics complaint against Sarah in November 2008, charging that she was using state property to promote her national political career.
He based that complaint mostly on an interview Sarah did with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News on November 11, 2008, from her governor’s office in Anchorage. When asked about her plans for 2012, Sarah said, “Faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator’s hands—this is what I always do. I’m like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray,
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