ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin can take down the fence.
Palin‘s neighbor of three months on Wasilla’s Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate.
His arrival in May made headlines and drew an indignant reaction from Palin and a visit from her husband, Todd. The Palins even tacked an extension onto an 8-foot board fence between the homes, leaving only a part of their second-story home visible from McGinniss’ driveway.
Peeping into windows or peering through knotholes was never part of his research, McGinniss said.
“I‘ve been very busy but on Lake Lucille it’s been very quiet,” he said. “As I told Todd back in May — he came over to get in my face about moving in there — I said, ‘You’re not even going to know I’m there. A lot of the time, I’m not going to be here. And when I am, I mind my own business. I don’t care what happens on your side of the fence. That‘s not why I’m here.’”
And that’s how it has played out, McGinniss said.
A Palin spokesman didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail Saturday seeking any comments from the governor on the author’s departure.
McGinniss has written best-selling books, including “The Selling of the President,” on the marketing of Richard Nixon, “Fatal Vision,” an account of the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case, and “Blind Faith,” about a businessman’s contract killing of his wife.
He’s no newcomer to Alaska. Thirty-five years ago, McGinniss moved to the state to see how new oil money would affect Alaskans. He wrote a draft, returned for three months in 1977, and two years later completed “Going To Extremes.” The book has recently been reissued.
McGinniss had been gone from Alaska for 28 years when he returned in 2008 to research a magazine article on Palin’s natural gas pipeline initiative, which she had heralded in the presidential campaign. McGinniss’ critical story in the now defunct Conde Nast publication Portfolio was titled “Pipe Dreams.” He concluded that for all of Palin’s posturing, her only accomplishment in two years of work on the pipeline project had been to award $500 million from Alaska’s budget to a Canadian company and to leave Alaska again at the mercy of Big Oil.
“She said it was a hit piece,” McGinniss said. “For a day she was upset. I said it was a hit piece: It hit the bulls-eye.”
So when McGinniss moved next door in May, Palin may have suspected that his future book was not going to be flattering.
Up went the fence, along with a Facebook posting implying something sinister: “Here he is about 15 feet away on the neighbor‘s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window. We‘re sure to have a doozy 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?”
McGinniss said he didn’t seek out the rental home. During his search for a place to live, he said, the homeowner sought him out. The price was right and it was close to the people he wanted to talk to.
Anybody wanting to spy on the Palins, McGinniss said, would be better off in a boat.
“That’s the funny thing,” he said. “They live in a place where anybody who wants to look onto their property, all they have to do is get a boat and park 10 yards off shore and they can sit there all day and look at the Palin’s yard, if that’s what they want to do. But I don’t know who would want to do that.”
Throughout the summer, McGinniss said, he kept a chain across his driveway to keep tourists out.
“They want to take pictures of ‘The Fence’ or they want to try to come onto my land and climb up on a ladder and take a picture over the fence of Palin’s. I’d say, you can’t do that.”
Two days before his departure, he did not want to be photographed with the fence, lest he unnecessarily antagonize his neighbors after a peaceful summer.
McGinniss would not reveal what his book will say about the former governor. But he did get a taste of the support Palin has inspired.
“It’s just a peculiar thing, but she does, as I found out in May, she presses a button and what comes back is hate,” he said. “The people who respond when she complains about something are just so filled with hate. I got some of the ugliest, most vile e-mails directed at me, my grandchildren, my children, my wife — just ugly, ugly stuff.”
As for his interviews, most people he approached in Palin’s hometown were willing to speak, but he said there was what he calls an “undercurrent of fear.”
“People — I don‘t know if they’re afraid of shadows or whether there’s something real there — she’s no longer in a position of governmental influence but there are people up there who are scared to death to talk because if Sarah ever found out they talked, oh, something terrible would happen to them,” he said.
Once he settled in, McGinniss said, he didn’t have a single unpleasant encounter with anybody in Wasilla. Some people objected to the welcome he had received.
“They started bringing me blueberry pie. I had many offers of handguns to borrow. I turned them all down. But for about two weeks there, I couldn’t say hello to somebody without, they said, ‘I’ve got a couple of guns for you in my truck.’”
He found people willing to talk, as he had in 1975.
“It was the greatest place because there were no closed doors. There was nobody who said, ‘I don’t want to talk to you. And that’s pretty much the way it is today with the single exception of that least Alaskan of all Alaskans, Sarah Palin.’”
He is sure she will run for president.
“Everything she’s doing is geared to that,” he said. “And, she wants to be president. And God wants her to be president, so how can she say no?”
He’s glad Palin is around, because it enabled him to return to a place he loves after nearly three decades.
“The only way back was Sarah Palin,” McGinniss said. “That’s my interest in her. If she was the governor of Nebraska, I wouldn’t be writing about her, because I wanted a reason to come back to Alaska, and she was my key to the door.”
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The_Malcontent
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:20pmHis implication that people are scared of Sarah is just another way of saying he’s got nothing on her, and no one would talk to him. What a jerk. He’s a bully and uses shady practices. Why would anyone take him seriously?
Report Post »Jimt
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:29pmHe had to find a excuse to use anonymous sources; so he invented this excuse.
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 9:35pmLiving in a small community, I can guarantee you that no one spoke to an outsider about someone who lived inside the community regardless of whether they were loved or hated. If necessary, you only repeat what is common knowledge, not dirty laundry. In this case, I would be willing to bet that anonymous=nobody
Report Post »whofarted
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 7:58pmThis guy is just like the clown who wrote that hit article saying tons of people said Sweet Sarah is a big fat liar but they are so scared of her they wouldn’t go on the record……..ooooh, that even scares me.So all his quotes are from unnamed sources, how convenient. so if I wrote a book saying someone saw Obama on his knees praying to Satan wearing a turbin but the sourse is afraid for me to use his name…….is that just ducky?
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:19pmIf palin wants credibility, she needs to lay off the God smack. Any Jeffersonian type thinker is really put off by her nonsense. Leave it alone Palin.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:44pm~3/4 of America is just fine with “the God smack” — and I daresay, Jefferson would be too. get over yerself …
Report Post »Mark Meed
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:41pmAny Jeffersonian type presumably will have read Jefferson and will have no problem with Palin’s references to, and stated dependence upon, God.
Thanks for playing anyway.
Report Post »Ronrico
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:02pmI can see you DON’T GET IT!
Report Post »Hondaman
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 7:20amIf you are 13th generation american, you understand this country was founded with a “God smack”.
Report Post »tisherself
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 3:16pmJefferson attended church services in the capital rotunda. As did many for 100 years. Look it up. 28 signers of the constitution were ministers.
Report Post »Debrabate
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:18pmIF I am to be honest… I hope she doesnt run in 2012. She still has the image that she acquired in the VP run. Maybe 2016 or 2020… but not this time around.
Report Post »I feel that she could serve the public better as a speaker or maybe even the GOP Chair person… she would be great at fundraising and guiding the GOP back in the right (pun intended) direction.
Buckaroo
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:42pmi hear you — but i also feel that ‘12 will be so different than ’08 and, as many a Palinista luvs to point out — she’s found her floor — everything they’ve done has not managed to derail her — quite the opposite!!
soooo, let her run — and let several other governors run too — and a few legislators who have their stuff together — and let the people choose [in closed primaries if you please!!] and see what happens …
Report Post »Debrabate
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:54pmI think that if Palin stumped for a Huckabee/Cornyn ticket that would be a winner. I know John Cornyn has always voted how his constituants told him to… well maybe not always but 97% of the time. I also know he listens to us (I am from TX) and believes in fiscal responsibility. Huckabee has the honor and respect needed for the job and could easily carry the heartland.
I feel Palin is too much of a lightening rod right now… but then again, there is a whole year until the 2012 campaign cycle starts… by the the Commander in Campaign will be out… but then again I dont think he ever stopped.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:04pm‘Cuda won’t stump for schmuck [or for open-borders cornyn for that matter] unless there is really no other choice.
we’ve got a lot of choices for POTUS people — stop focusing on the old, tired ones.
Report Post »Waiting4George
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:09pmThis book is to be published by Broadway Books, a part of the Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Random House,Inc owned by Bertelsman AG. Pheww!!! Anyway– Bertelsman describes themselves as a media company who deals with very specific issues of social responsibility. Enough said.
Report Post »dressseller
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:06pmPlease let the trolls talk to themselves …why engage them? They feed on your engaging them and you make them feel too important I’ve learned..when you respond to them.
At any rate.. ..Joe’s book is just going to be another hit piece on the Palins. Yawn. …And it will be every bit as honest and accurate as the recent Vanity Fair article. ..The moto of the left leaning media seems to be if you can’t FIND dirt….. MAKE UP some dirt.
Hey Joe, how about releasing some of those vile hate-filled emails you got from Palin supporters complete with names of the perpetrators so we can see who these people really are. ….I‘m willing to bet they either don’t exist ……..or they came from left leaning conservative haters bent on making conservatives look bad. That’s the normal MO of the left. ….We’ve seen this kind of dangerous, hateful rhetoric in the past …………from THE LEFT!!
Report Post »Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:36pm@DRESSSELLER
Report Post »Concerning the emails: I was thinking the exact same thing. Name names, McGinness.
wianno94
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:06pm“People — I don’t know if they’re afraid of shadows or whether there’s something real there — she’s no longer in a position of governmental influence but there are people up there who are scared to death to talk because if Sarah ever found out they talked, oh, something terrible would happen to them,” he said.”
Oh no, she’s the antichrist. No, check that, Obama has that job.
Report Post »other_box
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:16ami wonder if he sees the mass grave in the Palin’s backyard…she is such a hateful person that she was willing to have her son instead of killing him in the womb…this woman is indeed evil…all joking aside, sometimes i feel like the media has lost their souls.
Report Post »tthomas
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:05pm“Peeping into windows or peering through knotholes was never part of his research, McGinniss said.”
Lie.
Then why did he move next door?
Report Post »Jack007
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:02pmI can’t wait to see Sarah in a televised debate, Sarah will wipe the floor with Comrade Obama’s lying ass Ha Ha Ha
Report Post »PAlibertybelle
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:57pmIgnore the troll. Eventually he‘ll have to come up from his daddy’s basement for some fresh air.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 10:21amBravo. You are wise in the ways of the internet. Don‘t feed the trolls and they’ll find other places to be attention whores. danglingbags is a textbook troll.
Report Post »warmac9999
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:55pmThe leftist attacks on Palin and her family are truly amazing. About the only one they don’t attack is Todd Palin because they fear he might actually take it personally.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:53pmdanglingbags, you clearly have no ability to think. You just repeate the same old leftist garbage. You belong on huffpo where you’ll be with those who believe as you do. TheBlaze is for people who actually think things through, for people who see reality. Clearly you dont belong here, but its a free country, you have every right to make a total fool of your self. This guys book is perfect for you!! I suggest you buy extra copies for all your friends, if you have any…..
Report Post »DaveInNC8
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:52pmMcGinniss has an agenda — to sell a book. As he has a potential profit to make, he has to say whatever he thinks will sell more books. That makes everything he says, suspect. I guess the house next to the Palin residence was the ONLY ONE available for rent in the entire town (or at least, that is what he tried to make it sound like). He got a lot of free press for moving in next door (again….agenda on his part). His book sounds like a waste of paper to me. Ohhhhh…..maybe the environmentalists will get on him for printing waaay more books than will actually sell, causing trees to be needlessly slaughtered!
Report Post »Jimt
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:23pmHis agenda is to vilify and destroy Sarah Palin; spreading gossip ,lies and misinformation about Sarah Palin.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:38pma good point to be made there — wanna ensure said agenda is not met — don’t buy the book — let the s.r.m. run their fawning reviews and then sit back and enjoy the bewilderment on their faces when the first printing sits on shelves for weeks and the smart retailers dump it into the bargain bin after a couple months …
Report Post »:-)
Jimt
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:50pmIf Joe McGinniss wanted to write an unauthorized biography, he could certainly do that without moving in next door to the Palins. In fact, it’s hard to figure what Joe McGinnisswould learn from that kind of physical proximity that has anything to do with politics or activism that couldn’t be learned through regular research and footwork.
Anyway, Joe McGinniss has written several Palin hit pieces over the past year and a half. He wrote a piece for the no longer existent Conde Nast’s Portfolio. This piece is full of quotes from noted Palin detractors. The false claims made in this piece regarding McGinniss’s assertions have been debunked. McGinniss also made an attempt to win an auction for dinner with Governor Palin, the proceeds going to Ride2Recovery effort for combat victims (Cathy Maples won the auction).
Report Post »He lives in Massachusetts, by the way. Well, he did–until he moved into the Palins’ backyard.
Ghostflames
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:48pmPoor liberal trolls… Reverse psychology ceased being effective long ago. They are TERRIFIED of Sarah running for office, which is exactly why she should do it! 2010 is only step one of the Great Liberal Extinction Narrative (GLEN). 2012 will be step 2, and that is when Sarah sends Obama and the rest of the radical nutjobs in Washington packing. CAN’T WAIT!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:38pmI really don’t know where all of the allegations for hate comes from. If you disagree with a liberal does that make you a “hater”? I have not heard of any Conservative spot hate like I have heard from liberal icons like Ed Schultz or Keith Oberman. Now those guys know how to hate.
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 11:34pmITA. The right has been seen to sling the poo like monkeys on occasion, but I have never seen the level of absolute viterol that is comming from the left since 2008. Its very disturbing.
Report Post »The answer to your question RickfromIllinois, is no if your liberal and slinging hate, you are enlightened and fighting against all the conservative hate/lies. You are the truth-slayer. A liberal friend of mine told me so. Right after she told me Im a racist because I dont want to sign over my pension check to the poor. Go figure!
PoorRichard2
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:53amAll I have been seeing is honesty, love, restoration of faith and an urgency to derail the freight train to totalitarianism through big government-engineered bankruptcy. How does that translate into hate and racism? I don’t know for sure, but I suspect there is fear and guilt involved.
Report Post »Selfreliance
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:34pmRight after “And God wants her to be president” he forgot the most important one of all: “And Joe McGinniss desperately wants her to run for president.” That’s going to be the difference between McGinniss selling several hundred thousand books or ten copies to himself. It’s obvious how this book will position Palin, and people only buy one-sided to get upset about them or reinforce things they already believe.
There is no possible way he just happenned to move in right next to his target in a city of 10,000 people. This guy is as sleazy as they come.
Report Post »Buckaroo
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:34pmactually on that — I’ll take him at his word — the douche-bag neighbors prolly did reach out to him — “have we got a deal for u!!” — and of course he accepted.
/Were I Todd, I’d take a few % of the Going Rogue proceeds and just buy that piece of property outright at a premium — as Piper and Trig get older it’ll surely be worth it …
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 9:30pmI read an article from an Alaska paper that said there wer three other houses for rent in the area, and two of those houses had cheeper rents. Of course he moved in next door to annoy her and garner cheap publicity for himself.
Report Post »EZBurns
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:32pmI’m not interested in him. Without Sarah Palin, he’d have faded back into obscurity. Now, what I like is Todd getting in the azzhats face.
Sarah for President and Todd for First Dude. We need adults back in the WH.
Report Post »boydboyd
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:26pmHis book will be an eye-opening expose of Sarah Palin’s “Button of Hate”.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:30pmOf coarse it will! HAhaheeheee! Make my day idiot!
Report Post »Hondaman
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 7:17amSounds like BoydBoyd is a progressive liberal too.
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 7:49amso let me get this right. a peeping tom is writing a book about someone hes been looking through windows at. what it gonna be called? diary of a peeping tom? the perv next door? or how i spent my summer vacation? you lefties are really pathetic. God help you all.
Report Post »COjohngalt
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 2:42pmWhich means that no one will read it…I have news for you, progressives do not make up the majority in the U.S. Guess it will just be you and the staff at MSNBC that pick it up.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:19pmI hope there are some adults who respond to this article. I for one would be upset if an author who was writing an unwanted book about me moved next door. I think it very unlikely that he just “happened” to move next door to her. I believe that he decided to move next door to her, I don’t think that he has really found out anything “important”, and I think that what ever book he writes will have allot of unsubstantiated allegations, rumors, and frankly just things that he makes up. As for the “hate” that he whines about, how much hate to you have to have in order to move several thousand miles away in order to move next door to someone you hate in order to spy on them? This “author” is a whiney piece of scum with a political agenda trying to do a hatchet job on someone.
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:01pmThis type of author is a slime ball, he will push his agenda and only the sick and twisted people will spend their hard earned money to buy it. By the time it comes out the pervert that he is will be so evident that even the Left will throw him under the bus where he belongs…Those that like Palin will not change their minds because of what he says, no more than the article in that magzine last was published, everyone hated it, even the left… He had no proof about anything he wrote… I forgot the name of the rag, thats how much of impression he made on me…I didnt read it, but I saw the reports on it…
Report Post »IAMABLAZE
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:16pmGAaaa… I just saw his photograph! Ha!! Looks like the guy ate his lunch on his shirt …
Report Post »on.second.thought
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:19pmI know right? What a creeper.
Report Post »Suzee
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:53pmThis was on my large screen and it was very clear and I didn’t have my glasses on. I looked at the picture and said , “Wow Glenn Beck looks like crap, fighting this battle is really aging him, he looks so old. Oh no, he looks like he just got off a bender, geez I hope this didn’t push him back to the bottle!”
Report Post »My son said, “Mom this isn’t Glenn Beck, get your glasses on.”
Sorry Glenn, but this might be what you would have looked like if you hadn’t of stopped drinking!
This poor guy (McGinnis) could probably benefit from some counseling.
jerseypatriot
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 8:25amHey wasn‘t this guy the inspiration for Johnny Depp’s Secret Window
Report Post »IAMABLAZE
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:15pm“People — I don’t know if they’re afraid of shadows or whether there’s something real there — she’s no longer in a position of governmental influence but there are people up there who are scared to death to talk because if Sarah ever found out they talked, oh, something terrible would happen to them,” he said.
Ooooo …. booga! Booga!
I always thought of Alaskans as fearless people. I doubt that they were “scared to death”… What a slam to the people of Alaska.
Maybe all those people who offered him the hand guns meant for him to use for purposes other than self-defense — although he obviously thinks the Palins are fair game.
But my question is, did he eat the pie?
“And God wants her to be president, so how can she say no?” … this guy shows his true arrogant elitist colors …
Remind me not to buy his book.
“lest he unnecessarily antagonize his neighbors after a peaceful summer” … yeah right… wait til his book is released … I’m sure that it will be anything but antagonistic to Sarah Palin.
Report Post »Redd
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:13pmPoor lil’ McGinnass! He gots some ugly, foul emails directed at him and his ugly family, waaa, waaa !!!!!
Report Post »Get lost you creep and stay out of Alaska.
danglingbags
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:11pmIt still does not quite seem real to most Alaskans that there are all these thousands of people in the Lower 48 turning out for … Sarah. It seems all the more unreal because Palin’s image as an engaging, down-to-earth small-town hockey mom was more or less accurate until two years ago. To be sure, some elements of that image were never true to life. “This whole hunter thing, for Sarah? That is the biggest fallacy,” says one longtime friend of the family. “That woman has never hunted. The picture of her with the caribou she says she shot? She got out of the R.V. to pose for a picture. She never helps with the fishing either. It’s all a joke.” The friend goes on to recall that when Greta Van Susteren came to the house to interview Palin “[Sarah] cooked moose chili and whatnot. Todd was calling everyone he knew the day before—‘Do you got any moose?’ Desperate.” In any event, her life is very different now: flying by private jet, driving a gleaming new Escalade ESV with tinted windows, and speaking to the whole world via a Fox News feed from her house until the network installs a TV studio on her property, where contractors are now also finishing a 6,000-square-foot stone-clad château that will contain an airplane hangar for Todd’s Piper Cub, two private apartments, and an office for Sarah.
on.second.thought
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:15pmJealous much?
Report Post »timeisnow
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:53pmDingleburry
Report Post »We just love people like you who are Social Justice Freaks and scared to death of Sarah Palin..because she and Glenn have exposed your Socialist Agenda, and are not afraid to speak out….What she and Glenn Beck have singlehandedly done to the Progressives is making your friggen head spin… I love to watch your self destruction it just makes our day!!!! November is a commin!!!!LOL
Jimt
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:31pmSarah Palin has been in executive level politics for almost 20 years.
Some of Sarah’s accomplishments.
In Alaska, Sarah’s top priorities included fiscal restraint, limiting the size of government, resource development, education, equitable oil valuation as well as transportation and infrastructure development. Sarah Palin fought for ethics reform and transparency in government.
Sarah Palin has a long record of achievement and experience in public office.Prior her election as Governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council and two terms as the mayor of Wasilla. During her tenure, she reduced property tax levels while increasing services and made Wasilla a business-friendly environment, drawing in new industry.
Under her leadership as Governor, Alaska invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding and protected Alaska’s natural resources. She created Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office to provide oversight and maintenance of oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure and the Climate Change Subcabinet to prepare a climate change strategy for Alaska.
During Governor Palin’s first year in office, three of her administrations major proposed pieces of legislation passed—an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws, a competitive process to construct a natural gas pipeline and a restructuring of Alaska’s oil valuation formula.
Palin is past chair of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, a multistate government agency that promotes the conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment. She also served as chair of the National Governors Association (NGA) Natural Resources Committee, which was charged with pursuing legislation to ensure state needs are considered as federal policy is formulated in the areas of agriculture, energy, environmental protection and natural resource management.
Sarah Palin’s successful efforts to stop the cronyism and reform the energy business in Alaska were so impressive Kay Cashman, the publisher and executive editor of Petroleum News, wrote the book entitled: “Sarah Takes On Big Oil” (http://tinyurl.com/ygkeo2f) . This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the leadership Sarah Palin has exhibited in the area of reforming government and industry.
We should also remember that Sarah, while working as the state’s chief energy and environmental regulator, found massive corruption within her own Republican Party. Those included were the party chairman, and a former Attorney General. When she was through fines were paid, and some were trotted off to prison.
While Governor Palin has a history of being a reformer and taking on powerful interests for the benefit of ordinary people, Obama’s history is that of a tool of special interests, be they unions, trial lawyers, ACORN, or Wall Street.
Report Post »southlan
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:46pmHey Dangle bag glad you are here; I suggest everyone here on Blaze join me over on huffpo to do what this bozo does here! I love to play pull the tail on the donkey!!! They are so easy to get going!
Report Post »slwolfgram
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:59pmAnd your point is?
Report Post »slwolfgram
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 6:02pmAnd your point is???
Report Post »Ronrico
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:44pmHey danglebag, your cutting and pasting is getting old!!
Report Post »OldFlyGuy
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 10:14pmDanglingbags is like some little yippy dog tryig to hump on our collective ankle. Ignore the little pest, he’ll eventually go away. If he doesn’t he will just continue to show what he is. Pathetic and shrill.
Report Post »antirino
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 10:23pmAnd where do you get your information?
Report Post »1911
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 11:40pmyour hate is obvious , get some help ……. kool aid dependence is a terrible waste Bags
Report Post »BTW your user name , tells me you have issues ,,,,, very sad ……… SHAPE UP TROOP !
TheyMustBeStopped
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 4:22amHow much is George Soros and his organizations paying you to troll this website?
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 7:39amim glad she bothers you so much. your true colors show when she speaks. she is doing a great job exposing the nutbags like you to the world. if you dont like what america is and stands for you can always leave. i got a feeling none of you liberals are gonna like it here real soon. GOOD!
Report Post »rush
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:54amSo Beck says ‘Social Justice = Bad‘ and now it’s a bad label?
So was it bad when Reagan created ‘The Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice’, proposed by the ‘Center for Economic and Social Justice’ in 1985? Maybe Ronald Reagan was a communist too?
My wish is that Sarah Palin does go for president, and wins, for 8 years, and maybe Beck or Limbaugh will man up and actually hold responsibility in some government, so they can show us the ‘true way’. Talking is too easy.
I think 8 years of Bush presidency did not teach americans enough about the dangers of the crazy mainstream conservatives (because real conservatism is not even on the ballot) and they need maybe 8 or 16 more years before they wake up.
Report Post »on.second.thought
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:10pmPretty typical of today’s bipolar journalism…
“It was the greatest place because there were no closed doors. There was nobody who said, ‘I don’t want to talk to you. And that’s pretty much the way it is today with the single exception of that least Alaskan of all Alaskans, Sarah Palin.’”
Then he says…
“People — I don’t know if they’re afraid of shadows or whether there’s something real there — she’s no longer in a position of governmental influence but there are people up there who are scared to death to talk because if Sarah ever found out they talked, oh, something terrible would happen to them,” he said.
Sarah trigger fear to the liberals…as it should be.
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:07amAgreed, if Scott reported this factually, this guy already has hate in his heart and Sarah knows it. Why give him the time of day. This guy is going to make a lot of money off Sarah. That is the capitalist way. I do not see Sarah running for President from anything that I have observed. She is out there making a lot of money for a lot of people, you know, helping the economy.
Report Post »danglingbags
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:01pmOH NO !!!!!SERIAL VICTIM SARAH PALIN HAS NOTHING TO WHINE ABOUT. I HOPE THIS GUY”S BOOK WILL FINALLY BRING DOWN THE BIGGEST FRAUD IN DECADES. I WILL BUY THIS BOOK!!!!
timeisnow
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:21pmdanglingbags
You belong on HufPo, not the blaze… you are probably a paid Government Hack, Hufpo and DB are full of them. This guy went to Palins to create a Hit Piece on her and everyone knows it… I am sure all the nice things people said about Palin will never enter your book, only the made up or Liberal Spin that any Radical would publish.
danglingbags
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:23pmPLEASE LORD!!! LET SARAH WIN THE GOP NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT. IF THIS HAPPENS THEN THERE REALLY IS GOD. One more thing……BUY GOLD. GOD IS GOOD BUT GOLD IS GREATER!!!!
timeisnow
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:24pmAs for Sarah, I am dam glad that she is scaring the hell out of Obama, Trumka, the and the Dems, someone has to stop THE SOCIALISM THEY ARE TRYING TO FORCE DOWN OUR THROATS!
YOU GO SARAH!!!!!!!
Between her and Glenn Beck, they have the Radical Social Justice Freaks on the run, and without them just think what shape this country would be in! “ Spread that Wealth Baby”
D. LeBag
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:32pmDo not engage this flamer.
danglingbags
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:33pmPalin does not always treat those ordinary people well, however—it depends on who is watching. Of the many famous people who have stayed at the Hyatt in Wichita (Cher, Reba McEntire, Neil Young), Sarah Palin ranks as the all-time worst tipper: $5 for seven bags. But the bellhops had it good in Kansas, compared with the bellman at another midwestern hotel who waited up until past midnight for Palin and her entourage to check in—and then got no tip at all for 10 bags. He was stiffed again at checkout time. The same went for the maids who cleaned Palin’s rooms in both places—no tip whatsoever.
jfire976
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:38pmI find it so interesting that people find her so “stupid” and “not even a threat”…..and they also report it every, every, every night on MSNBC. My theory is the more they say someone is nothing to worry about, the more they are scread as hell that they are. Watch MSNBC in the evening and see who they bash every night….Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Fox News…….
Report Post »I can see November from my house and it’s lookin pretty good……………..start to worry MSNBC
TigerCat
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:47pmfor Rickfromillinois, You are such a jerk. Because a woman stands up and tells the truth about Obama, you male pig, you can’t stand it. It a shame that men like you love to fall in line with Obama and this neighbor who has continually aggravated Sarah’s family, that gives you the “Hots” to sit and read a book about her, when you don’t know her. This gives you a real hipe to have something to talk about in Illinois. Considering you probablly voted Democrat also.
Report Post »I hope his book flops.
Rob
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:56pmWe pray for you.
Report Post »Jimt
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 4:10pmJoe McGinniss has no credibility.
Report Post »He has written several Palin hit pieces over the past year and a half.
stevesmithjr
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:07pmFolks, don’t feed the trolls. Plain flat out ignore them and they WILL go away.
Report Post »debak
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 5:32pmI doubt you can muster up enough Obama money to buy the book and I am sure by the time you get around to attempting to read it the author will be long gone, the book will not be known by anyone, and you will have forgotten who MOVEON.ORG, your current employer is.
Report Post »plowboy56
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 6:11pmHello Mr Communist I see why you have the stupid name danglinbags – you think you have a set. I think your just hateful But I will pray for you and maybe some day you will see the truth.
Report Post »FToth84
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 6:43pmHey! there DANGLINGBAGS. First and foremost I would like to Thank you for posting here on The Blaze so often. You really give people the opportunity to see just how foolish and what buffoons Liberals/Left WIngers/Environmentalists/Marxists/Communists (is there really any difference?) really are. I love how when there is nothing left for you to say you resort to “how well somebody tips.”
Ummm.. FYI Like it or not, not everybody tips well. I personally don’t like it. However, the way somebody tips doesn’t mean they are not good at what they do. Not to mention chances are you’re probably unemployed just like the rest of the country. Thanks to the wonderful job our President is doing (cough cough). Or you just never had a job because you always rely on the gov’t. So how could you ever tip well? And now since that is what you find to be Oh so important. I guess that makes you a bad person as well. Oh yeah… And be sure to keep giving everyone such great info to BUY GOLD!!!!!!!! That is probably the most educate thing that has ever spewed from your mouth.
Blue Eyez
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:03pmHey, numb minded one….why don’t you get a job? Bet you are a parasite! Sad…..really sad.
Report Post »alkmetro
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:14pmWe are all so impressed with your lack of creativity
Report Post »Luv2dance
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:31pmThe worst, most painful insult you can render to anyone is to utterly, thoroughly ignore them.
Report Post »garylee123
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 7:33pmYawn……..Boring.
Report Post »BruskiReport
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:38pmYou are so out of touch! Do watch the words you type?
You’re anti-Palin rhetoric is doing nothing to damage Sarah Palin or wither away her constantly growing support. Instead, your anti-Palin rhetoric is being ignored – being ignored by the masses.
This author is a liberal. His book will have nothing but liberal-minded rhetoric on page after page. He’s only there to slam Sarah Palin and make her look like some kind of a fool, and that will not work.
You liberals and “Conservatives” always make me laugh. Get a life!
Report Post »wwwjr
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:58pmTimeisnow:
You said “You belong on HufPo, not the blaze”. Why? Republican, conservative, libertarian, et al does not matter. When any believe in silencing others it surely leads to disaster.
Report Post »HM-IL
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:59pmThe biggest fraud in decades is in the whitehouse!
Report Post »AmericanFreedom
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 9:16pmThis is a fantastic example of what a corrupted government will go through to keep an honest politician out of office, end of story.
Report Post »GetBacktoBasics
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 10:13pmDanglingbags you are quite the moron aren’t you? Sarah Palin is a strong woman who has opposing views to you so you attack her. Why don’t you crawl back into your closed mind. The future is Sarah Palin along with I believe Mitt Romney. Giants who ACTUALLY HAVE COMMON SENSE. You guys are completely jealous of the powerful messages that are gripping the wiser people of this nation. GO SARAH GO!!
Mama Who
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 10:51pmDo not give this bag of foul gases the acknowledgment he seeks, and MAYBE he will go AWAY…
Report Post »C_Era
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 11:13pmBased on the stupidity of your comments, I’m surprised that you can read at all.
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 11:28pmIm told Ted Kenedy was a horrible tipper, and with all that money yet!
Report Post »Cynewulf
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 11:43pm“I WILL BUY THIS BOOK!!!!”
Judging by your writing, you should probably wait for the Cliff’s Notes.
Report Post »OneRepublic4us
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 12:34amWhy don’t you go stand in line right now?
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:09amQUIT YELLING!
Report Post »MIM
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:31amWe will be praying for you Baggy-Baby!!!
Report Post »PoorRichard2
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:36amDid anyone check if the hotel workers at the Hyatt belong to the SEIU? If so, I could understand her reluctance to tip the hop. They pay like $6 per hour in dues to the SEIU so they can donate millions to democrat ad campaigns across the nation.
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 10:35amDanglingbags = internet troll. It’s a “*********” reference.
*** PLEASE DON’T FEED THE TROLLS***
For those uninitiated to the web world, a troll is someone that wants to stir up controversy and attention. You’ve wasted pages of posts making this attention whore feel good about himself. Notice how he’ll keep it going as long as possible. When one bomb-throwing comment is played out, he makes another to get us all riled again.
Ask yourself a few questions when someone’s post makes you eager to respond…
- Why would a guy taking that stand even be here? (i.e. going on a Toyota Owners forum to say “I hate Toyota’s. Why would that person even find and join that group?)
- Is there any value in trying to “set this guy straight”.
- Has the discussion/argument wandered away from the original topic? If so is the troll poking and nudging at the majority at every opportunity? (In which case refer to first question)
- Is the point of the forum/discussion area in question to win over people, or allow for communication of the folks he’s poking? Does this thread of conversation benefit the group or distract from the cause?
These are signs that the poster’s intentions are probably to gain attention, distract from the community where they post, and to keep their thread going.
Starve the troll and they’ll go away.
Report Post »[above text pasted in from file saved for such occasions so trolls don't get my time]
butler180
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 11:07amYou are the fraud.
Report Post »lcb_florida
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 12:26pmobviously those “danglingbags” are over your eyes and… ears as well. Get real, if not to spy, why move next door if he wasn’t going to be there much. You are on the wrong site, Bags, [unless you really wish to hear some truths]
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 2:08pmDon’t be a schmuck!
Report Post »Saddletramp
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 3:47pmYou’d waste your money. Thias guy is just a yellow dog Democrit
Report Post »jlee80644
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 4:16pmI can’t wait for the debate. Truth and honesty about the situations we’re in are what Americans need right now. No or FALSE hope.
Report Post »31Bravo
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:36amDanglingbags needs a hug.
Keep trollin’ partner, your rage strengthens me.
Report Post »1st a Father
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 6:08amI think the man got exactly what he was looking for. The hate mail he claimed to receive will be very good to promote his next book. Whether he actually received it or not will not matter. For some, the fact that he was there and the Palin’s had built a taller fence is enough to convince them. He sure suckered you in Mr.DingleBags.
Report Post »smclean150
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 7:18amIt is instructive to observe the unhinged left (redundant) and their desperate attempts to sell their ideology by knocking their competition – using school yard bully tactics. A good salesperson knows that the only way to sell is to highlight their own ‘product’ and related benefits (NOT freebies/handouts) of said product. Like the bipolar next door neighbor we’ve all encountered, the best way to deal with these people is with consistent kindness, at arm’s length. To engage a fool is in itself foolish – you risk being perceived a fool for doing so. If our fellow foolish Americans wish to continue their narcissistic navel-contemplation, let them. It comes down to choices, as in all things. The more people that unite as Americans FIRST, the better – so we can discontinue the politics of polarization that the MSM and the elites peddle daily. Remember in November.
Report Post »Ely
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:02pmLiberal Socialist Progressive Left Dems. Ignore their words. They are lies. Judge them by their deeds. And to the post below, Ted Kennedy was, in fact, a big tipper. He tipped a whole car into a lake once.
Report Post »teekat
Posted on September 6, 2010 at 3:38pmIf there are any hitmen reading Dinglebags rhetoric and hate, please consider just practicing you trade on that twit!
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