Joe McGinniss: Palin Unleashing 'Hounds Of Hell,' Using Same Tactics As 'Nazi Troopers' (VIDEO)

In an exclusive interview on NBC's Today Show Tuesday morning, Joe McGinniss charged his new next-door neighbor in Wasilla Sarah Palin with unleashing "the hounds of hell" and exercising a "Nazi"-like tactic amid controversy over the author's decision to relocate in such close proximity to the ex-Alaska governor who happens to be the subject of his upcoming book.

"The power Palin has to incite hatred and her willingness and readiness to do it... She has pushed a button and unleashed the hounds of hell and now that they're out there slavering, and barking and growling," McGinniss told NBC's Matt Lauer. "And that's the same kind of tactic, and I'm not calling her a Nazi, but that's the same kind of tactic that the Nazi troopers used in Germany in the '30s and I don't think there's any place for it America."

McGinniss' harsh remarks come on the heels of the author receiving "thousands of angry emails and a few death threats" in response to his temporary move to Alaska.

In response to critics who have called McGinniss "creepy" for moving next-door to Palin, the author fired back by slapping the very same label on the ex-governor.

"If I lived here and did something creepy, if I did what Sarah Palin is suggesting, that would be creepy," McGinniss said. "I'm not observing them at all. I don't care what they do in the privacy of their own home. I'm here to talk to people who have known them for 40 years in Wasilla."

Last week, Palin took to her Facebook page to post a picture of McGinniss along with a message questioning his character. "Wonder what kind of material he'll gather while overlooking Piper's bedroom, my little garden, and the family's swimming hole?" the ex-governor wrote.

When McGinniss was asked how he'd feel if his and Palin's roles were reversed in the situation, the author had this to say: "I would go over and shake hands and give them a plate of cookies and say 'Welcome to the neighborhood.'"

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Comments

[NewsJunkette]

11:43 AM on 06/24/2010

So Palin accuses Letterman of heinousness for somewhat implying something about her underage daughter and a baseball game, and now Palin kind of implies that an adult next door neighbor plans to peep in her underage daughter's window--and that's NOT the same thing? She can't take it but she can sure dish it out....

[jimbeaux1961]

11:40 AM on 06/03/2010

Dear Joe,

If Sarah brings over a plate of cookies, DON'T EAT THEM.

[FACTISFACT]

02:39 PM on 06/02/2010

The Beauty Queen has become a game for the GOP politicians known as the GROUP OF POPULAR SEX HOUNDS opined the prominent Social Workers.

May be the writer does not know the present background of her changing professional career from Politics to Lobbying to get customers,

May be the writer would like to talk to her and become her permanent customer opined Eminent Social Scholars .

[iconoclast6]

02:12 PM on 06/02/2010

"OK, everybody out of the gene pool! The Palins pεed again..."

[sippewissett]

10:09 PM on 06/02/2010

HIlarious.

[JUSTSAYING--]

01:39 PM on 06/02/2010

Anchorage Daily News comments on Palin - the Greenies are the cause of the oil spill-

http://www.adn.com/2010/06/01/1302909/palin-headlines.html

[George Global]

01:35 PM on 06/02/2010

From the article, "Last week, Palin took to her Facebook page to post a picture of McGinniss along with a message questioning his character. "Wonder what kind of material he'll gather while overlooking Piper's bedroom,..."

Palin consciously played the "librul pervert" card again...just like her manufactured rage over Letterman's writers unintentional swap between Bristol and Willow (the under-aged daughter) in the monologue that launched a million hate mails.

Since you're supposed to think this guy located there just to spy on a child's bedroom window, how did Sarah think his emails would be running?

Ginning up anger is her wheelhouse...the common-sense she praises is not...definitely not.

Why bother trying to reason when you can do more damage smearing character?

And all this from someone who is WAY too easily offended.

y

[hatmadder]

03:23 PM on 06/02/2010

"Easily offended" works so very well for $arah: It keeps her in the public eye at no cost, but it also renders everything she does and says suspect.

[NewsJunkette]

11:45 AM on 06/24/2010

Should have read your reply before posting my own (above). We think alike.

[JUSTSAYING--]

01:29 PM on 06/02/2010

If Sarah has nothing to hide why isn't she showing Joe what a good person, mother, wife, patriot, Christian she is. If she had nothing to hid she would invite him to church, make him some moose stew, take him fishing , be a good neighbor. She could be such a great neighbor IF SHE HAD NOTHING TO HIDE...

[gisellestwocents]

01:45 PM on 06/02/2010

Good point. I mean, what did the guy actually DO?? So he lives next door. There's a house next door. Someone lived there b4 he did and someone will live there after he's gone. The CHRISTIAN thing to do would be to invite him to church. The Palins need to get back into the WORD and then they would be at PEACE about trivialities such as what innocuous person just moved next door.

I'm really disappointed in Sarah. I thought she was going to at least try to be a christian leader. Maybe the Lord will meet her on the road to one of her stump speeches.

[cutesky]

02:20 PM on 06/02/2010

Or Sarah could have gone over with a plate of gefilte fish to show what a good cook, patriot and yenta she is.

[treadway123]

01:19 PM on 06/02/2010

He ought to do more interviews like this one! He sounds like a good person, be a good nieghbor! Nothing in his back ground would alert the FBI, or Alaska police Dept. This is Sarah just being Sarah a insighting a riot/ bad feelings/ hate like she does all accross this country about our President an anyone she don't like. We should just shut people like her off to the media, but than Fox wouldn't have anything extreme to make people go over board with their hate machine if they did that! Really, they should really look at the propaganda Hannity, Beck an the much spew over there some time in a different/calm light once in a while! Alaska should cool their jets where Sarah is concerned an treat her just like a normal citizen, after all thats all she is now! It cost them Tons of money to protect her, when she's the one stiring up all the hate,threatening mail! She causeing her town/state far to much money with her big mouth an lies these days!

[iconoclast6]

01:21 PM on 06/02/2010

It worked. Have you seen the lovesick teabaggers on this blog? If it were night time and there were about a dozen of them behind me, I might get nervous. Now these moose-obsessed fanboys are h€lla creepy.

[JUSTSAYING--]

01:16 PM on 06/02/2010

Check out what the commenter are saying in the Fairbanks Newsminer in Alaska-

http://www.newsminer.com/pages/full_story/push?blog-entry-Great+Wall+of+Wasilla%20&id=7763080&instance=blogs_editors_desk

[iconoclast6]

01:19 PM on 06/02/2010

Haaaa! Classic. If Sarah Paranoid can't take one small, elderly writer in her proximity, how does she expect to be able to handle national politics?

Methinks "Sarah Barracuda" is more of a guppy. And I can only hope that Joe's book fillets her.

[treadway123]

01:35 PM on 06/02/2010

Ok, people---------Can u imagine this frighten lady who stir up such hate-------Being the president of the United States? Oh my God, Putin flew over, must blow him up to teach him a lesson! She has the cops in her home town doing double duty, as if they don't have anything alse to do, an have all the budget in the world to run like chickens with their heads cut off to defend herself from this nice old man who moved next door to write a book about her. She took a picture of him leaning on the rail over looking the other side of his property to a vacant lot, talking on on cell phone an made up a lie he was over looking her daughters bedroom, as if he was a peeping tom with NO EVIDENCE TO THE FACT! SHE'D BLOW UP ANY OTHER NATION THAT LOOKED AT US SIDE WAYS! This lady is a danger, hyper bowl who has made up lie's to sale books/get her face on T.V------She even use's her kids as pawns in her scheam to get attention for herself! Sarah Palin is a very SICK

[iconoclast6]

01:03 PM on 06/02/2010

Joe's watching
Dern it Tah-dd, Joe's watching
Joe's watching me

I'm just a hockey mom
With a Gulfstream jet
I grift from hοrny cons
Hey, h€ll, ain't been caught yet
All I want is to be adored
In my swimmin' hole
But why do I always feel
Like Briston is Joe's paid mole

I always feel like
Somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy
Tea-hee-hee
I always feel like
Somebody's watching me...

[BoTurney]

01:00 PM on 06/02/2010

If Palin were smart, she would jump all over this to show herself as an open and friendly person, embracing the small-town values she tries so hard to align herself with.

This guy isn't spying on her, he's writing a book on her, interviewing people she knows, and seeing what that world is like. He immersing himself in the environment, something that is necessary to paint a fair and balanced literary picture.

Oh wait...Sarah doesn't know anything about fair and balanced, even if it could work in her favor. (IMO)

[jcinco]

01:08 PM on 06/02/2010

but of course "if palin were smart" she's not and will never make an effort to remedy that situation.

[iconoclast6]

01:14 PM on 06/02/2010

"If Palin were smart?"

If my aunt had βalls she'd be my uncle.

[jcinco]

01:11 PM on 06/02/2010

"if palin were smart" fortunately she's not because if she was and her intelligence were paired with her bottomless pit of h8 she would most likely lead us to the end times.

[Totto]

12:48 PM on 06/02/2010

Oh! Poor Paranoid Palin!

[iconoclast6]

12:50 PM on 06/02/2010

Poor Paranoid Palin picked a pity party

[Totto]

12:52 PM on 06/02/2010

Great minds think alike!

[iconoclast6]

12:38 PM on 06/02/2010

The teabaggers are certainly expressing their undying love for their girlfriend this am, aren't they? What with her salacious "shorts and halter" story and all, I bet there's a lot of Κleenex and man-lotion selling at Wal-Mart™ today!

[CynAnne]

12:41 PM on 06/02/2010

ROFL, icon....with a side of "Ewwww!" at the mental image... ;)

[RBLRDR]

12:44 PM on 06/02/2010

SpookyTwo should rename himself SpookyOne(handed poster).

[Baileys Mom]

12:47 PM on 06/02/2010

Yuk - I need another shower now....

[iconoclast6]

12:49 PM on 06/02/2010

Now defined in Urban Dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mooseturbation

[liberalOrgonian]

12:31 PM on 06/02/2010

We get to witness another Palin cat fight.
She just loves a good CAT FIGHT, proven to be a good scrapper,
now has degraded to a neighbor basher.
When will she start acting like a Christian?
I hope Joe's children are safe from the Palins.

[iconoclast6]

12:34 PM on 06/02/2010

The scary bit is, they think they ARE acting like christians.

[Baileys Mom]

12:38 PM on 06/02/2010

They are priming the lions as we speak.

[jcinco]

01:01 PM on 06/02/2010

when in reality they're acting like children, as always.

[SpookyTwo]

12:28 PM on 06/02/2010

Imagine the outcry if a book author moved in next door to Tipper Gore after her separation announcement. Can you imagine the Libs outrage?

[RBLRDR]

12:30 PM on 06/02/2010

Is Palin going through a separation or divorce?

[SpookyTwo]

12:31 PM on 06/02/2010

If you are trying to make a non-point, you have succeeded.

[Wong23]

12:40 PM on 06/02/2010

Exactly. Tipper Gore is also not expected to run for President.

[HKB]

12:34 PM on 06/02/2010

No, not really.

And if someone did move next door to her, it is likely she may put up a fence for extra privacy, but very unlikely she would be broadcasting this on her facebook site and all over her Fox buddies shows.

Tipper Gore doesn't come across as the "constant victim" and the loud mouth Palin does.

[SpookyTwo]

12:39 PM on 06/02/2010

Irrelevant to my post.