Creepy Lib: Sarah Palin Builds High Fence to Block Eyes of Stalking, Peeping Tom Liberal Journalist from Watching Her Family from Next Door (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 27, 2010
Good for you, Sarah. If you can’t beat ‘em, build a fence to keep their freaky, stalking eyes out.
We could use you and Todd in Arizona to build another fence, Sarah…
FOX News, Wasilla Stalker – Palin Builds Fence to Keep His Prying Eyes Out
Jim at Gateway Pundit reports…
Border Walls Work–
Sarah Palin built a wall today to keep her stalker neighbor from peering in at her husband and children. Palin-hater Joe McGinnis moved next door to the Palins to work on a book he’s writing about the former governor.
Countdown to liberals slamming Palin for building the fence on her property, for taking action to protect her family from a lib sicko and calling it an “overreaction” or “publicity stunt” or some other crapolla… 3… 2… 1…
From Washington Post, Palin’s new neighbor turns out to be a legendary journalist:
Sarah Palin has a new neighbor in Wasilla, Alaska, and he’s not just any old regular joe.
The former Alaska governor posted on her Facebook page Tuesday a shot of the back of a blue-shirted, chino-clad man who she says is famed author Joe McGinniss.
“Yes, that Joe McGinniss,” Palin writes. “Here he is — about 15 feet away on the neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window. Maybe we’ll welcome him with a homemade blueberry pie tomorrow so he’ll know how friendly Alaskans are.”
McGinnis is perhaps best known for his youthful book on the Nixon campaign, “The Selling of the President 1968,” which has become a classic of political journalism. But he has also written a book on the oil pipeline in Alaska, and his “Fatal Vision” from 1984, on the Jeffrey MacDonald murder trial, became a popular cause celebre.
His son, Joe Jr., confirmed Tuesday night that his father is renting the house in Wasilla.
Palin expressed surprise to see him overlooking her lawn and her daughter Piper’s bedroom.
“Upon my family’s return this morning from endorsement rallies and speeches in the Lower 48 states, I finally got the chance to tackle my garden and lawn this evening! … Needless to say, our outdoor adventure ended quickly after Todd went to introduce himself to the stranger who was peering in…” she writes.
“Joe announced to Todd that he’s moved in right next door to us. He’s rented the place for the next five months or so. He moved up all the way from Massachusetts to live right next to us – while he writes a book about me. Knowing of his many other scathing pieces of ‘journalism’ (including the bizarre anti-Palin administration oil development pieces that resulted in my Department of Natural Resources announcing that his work is the most twisted energy-related yellow journalism they’d ever encountered), we’re sure to have a doozey to look forward to with this treasure he’s penning. Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?”
An e-mail to McGinniss’s publisher, Broadway Books, and to McGinnis, as well as a voice mail left with his agent, were not immediately returned. Broadway Books told the Associated Press, “McGinniss will be highly respectful of his subject’s privacy as he investigates her public activities.”
“Will be highly respectful of his subject’s privacy.” Uh, isn’t that what other stalkers claim?
What if McGinniss was peering into Demi Moore’s backyard and house? Or Barbra Streisand’s? Or the Dixie Chicks’ or Gwyneth Paltrow’s or Alyssa Milano’s or Oprah’s?
Oh, wait, here’s famed, unhinged Palin basher and hater, liberal loon Andrew Sullivan… that didn’t take long:
I’m hardly surprised that Sarah Palin has had a conniption over someone threatening to commit journalism in her vicinity… Palin’s implication that Joe McGinniss is some kind of pedophile is de rigueur but still disgusting.
No, Andrew, what IS disgusting is that Palin’s reasonable expectation of privacy at her home has been grotesquely violated… and that someone, especially another liberal male like yourself, peering into her home and watching her young daughters on her property every day is OK with you. You want us to believe that McGinniss is somehow above reproach on being a potential pedophile and/or pervert because he’s a liberal writer who is as obsessed with Palin as much as you are. Sorry you didn’t think to move in next door to her, Andy?
Double standard from liberals on lawlessness and invasion of privacy… no surprise.
From The Powers That Be, Sarah Palin Builds Anti Creepy Stalker Guy Fence:
Creepy, Palin-obsessed stalker-guy writer Joe McGinniss rented the house next door to the Palin family so he could spy on them for an upcoming book, but he’s going to have to do it from atop a ladder now, which will make it a lot more difficult to balance the note pad, camera, Jergens and box of Kleenex…
I’m sure McGinniss will now run to City Hall and spend a week feverishly researching if the Palins obtained the proper building permits.
From Michelle Malkin, Todd Palin for border czar!:
You’ve no doubt read about the Palin family’s snoopy new neighbor, author Joe McGinniss, who has rented a house 15 feet from the Palins’ backyard to conduct binocular-aided research for his Random House book. I’ll share more thoughts later on the media ethics issues and media double standards involved.
For his part, Todd Palin wasted no time doing what needs to be done to protect his borders from unwanted invasion.
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I nominate Todd Palin for border czar.
If only our federal government acted as swiftly and decisively to protect the nation’s borders from intrusion…
From Jim Treacher, The Daily Caller, Why move next door to Sarah Palin? Because everybody hates her!
At the very least, the Palins can take comfort in this: As a journalist moving into a new neighborhood, Joe McGinniss is required to go door-to-door and inform his new neighbors that he’s a registered facts offender.
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The next time some celebrity complains about the paparazzi, ask them if that includes what’s happening to Sarah Palin. If not, why not?
In response to a liberal piece that WaPo’s David Weigel wrote, asking what’s so wrong with McGinniss moving next door to the Palins, Rich Crowther had these strong words to say, at Conservatives4Palin:
…McGinniss turned up at a Going Rogue book tour event, and made a publicised personal call at the Palin house, and then a publicised unsuccessful bid to win the auction to dine with Governor Palin, and perhaps that’s why he’s now renting the house next door to the Palin family…. he has a book to sell and the publicity could be useful.
It’s harmless enough, surely?
Well the Palins see things differently, Mr Weigel. They have a different perspective, one borne of distressing, real life, personal experience.
They and their children have lived through the unprecedented harassment of the last 20 months: the email hacking which led to frightening phone calls to their eldest daughter in the middle of the night; the 26 ethics complaints which stifled the Palin Administration and came to nought; the deliberately malicious attempt to cause controversy and split a family with fabrication about divorce; the attacks on their most vulnerable child; the lie that the Palins were under federal investigation for embezzlement; the burning of their church; the hate speak Trig Troofing conspiracies of Andrew Sullivan and Jesse Griffin and a notorious European blog; the misogynistic invective of a local Alaska Democratic Party office holder…. they’ve lived through all that and more David Weigel… and could perhaps be forgiven that they seem inclined to be wary, less magnanimous than you, less inclined to exercise equilibrium.
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Secure in his office at The Washington Post, I imagine it suits David Weigel’s purposes not to feel the anxiety of the Palins quite so much, to pretend that he is not aware that there is ample justification for the Palins to be wary of Joe McGinniss moving in barely more than 15 feet from their home.
Perhaps in his life he doesn’t experience the sort of daily pursuit which all the Palins experience, that he doesn’t have to adjust how he lives his life in quite the same way as they do in order to cope with the harassment of such as Joe McGinniss, and those of his associates who devote time each day inciting others to the abuse of the Palins.
From HillBuzz, STRATEGY NEEDED: How to help Sarah Palin and her family with their stalker, and new neighbor, Creepy McGinniss:
We want you to put your thinking caps on today, and to help think of ways to defeat the Palins’ stalker, Creepy McGinniss — an author who has rented the house next to theirs so he can peep into little Piper’s window, spy on the Governor as she works in her garden, and generally be gross and stalkerish for the next five months. Maybe he’ll even pose for Playgirl, too. That’s what the louses who normally stalk the Palins do.
Here’s the dilemma: our gut is that book publishers love controversy, so Random House, which is funding this misadventure, would love any publicity it can get for McGinniss’ upcoming tome. Therefore, we don’t know how much good a big letter writing campaign to Random House would do…especially if it makes the execs there think they’ve got a hit on their hands, with all these people generating buzz about the project.
Our next thought is to maybe go a side route here, and organize some kind of boycott of Rand House’s current titles…to show the company that its support of McGinniss is detrimentally impacting the sale of other Random House authors.
But, boycotts are hard to launch and manage, and Random House has so many titles in print, we don’t know how effective this would be in terms of targeting which particular authors.
Can a lease be ended early if a homeowner wants to end it?
That’s our next thought: who owns the house next to the Palins…perhaps that person can be shamed into evicting McGinniss, for being so creepy.
Maybe THAT’S who should be receiving mail from thousands of people coast to coast…the person who rented this house to the creep.
Because the creep isn’t going to budge on his own. We doubt Random House is going to budge on its own. So, we need to find a creative angle upon which to apply pressure if we want to help the Palins have a decent, Wasilla summer free from peepers and whackadoodles next door.
More… Diary of a Mad Conservative: Joe McGinniss, such a jerk
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