Joe the Neighbor – Palin Author Moves Next Door. (Updated x 2)

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.

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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.

http://www.codepublishing.com/ak/wasilla.html

http://www.themudflats.net/2010/05/25/joe-the-neighbor/

Joe the Neighbor :rofl:

The constitutionally guaranteed freedom of 'life,liberty,pursuit of
happiness' granted to Joe McGinnis to live where he wants.

Freedoms not so juicy when you don't get to call the shots...

poor Sarah, the perpetual victim.

she sure doesn't look creepy to me. She looks A OK

Must've been hitting the bottle pretty hard that day. Doubt she even got a permit.

Seeing inside the minds of these people is SCARY.

what a flop-flipper.

that she can control completely and that never paints her in a negative light, while she is free to trash anyone she wants.

What whining, narcissistic brats the Tea Bag Right-wingers are.

in the form of attention. Just ignore the quitter & loser of 2008.

whoring her book. Doesn't she understand about the Free Market?

What a dimwit.

I love it.

That would drive me batty. In the morning I like to take our doggies out in my jammies since I'm a lazy arse and couldn't handle having someone right on top of us peering over. I'd imagine a privacy fence will take away from the scenic views, however.

Maybe McGinniss should do the same and the Palins will stay inside to avoid him.

:evilgrin:

Don't get me wrong: Palin's reaction is as classless and bitchy as one would expect. But for McGuinness to move right next door to the Palins while writing a book on them does strike me as kind of creepy.

and since Hunter S. Thompson is dead we need all of it we can get.

then she can build a box around her house