Sarah Palin Takes Up Fencing

It's been a few days since the Palins learned Joe McGinniss moved in next door. Love thy neighbor as thyself, then build a fence.

"Fences make good neighbors," promised her Facebook blog. Not sure at which of the five colleges Palin studied Robert Frost's Mending Wall , but I think she missed the point. Perhaps it was the, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" part.

Within a few hours Sarah had launched a "Joe The Stalker/Pervert" campaign. Glenn Beck called for a boycott of Random House publishing, and Random House held their ground. The Paliban swarmed with comments of "stalker", "reload", "let's burn it to the ground", and "get 'em, Todd". The following morning the Palins super-sized their fence. The "waterin' hole" must be defended.

Joe the Neighbor should have told Todd he was writing a book about Russia and heard he could research from his porch. He didn't.

But why the outrage now?

The home Joe McGinniss is renting used to be an Oxford House from 2005 until 2008. The tenants were men recently released from prison who were recovering addicts. What? No fence to protect sexy Sarah in her tank top? Dear God! Who was lurking in that house watching her children play?

The Palins themselves rented the home McGinnis is staying in for six months in 2009, but weren't interested in purchasing it. They didn't want to spend the money. Last October they were "done with the house". During the election, the Secret Service guarded the Palin home from the backyard now occupied by Mr. McGinnis. Here's a hint, Sarah - if you want to dictate who lives in the house, you should have probably bought it first.

It's predictable Palin.

Sarah has a habit of shooting down hill. One of my daughter's friends has a black eye from shooting down hill while bear hunting. It's not just a proverbial lesson, it's a literal one.

Last week, she attended a funeral with her youngest daughter. I called her daughter a "human shield". Sarah validated my metaphor with her attack on Joe McGinnis. She evoked provocative images of herself, then accused a respected journalist of "peering" at her young daughter. "I'm hot! He's a pervert!"

Ask David Letterman how accusations of pedophilia worked out. Initially, Dave looked like he'd gone too far with his tasteless joke. But her strike back about having to protect her fourteen year old daughter from David Letterman? No one was buying her manufactured outrage. She quit three weeks later.

This week, the New York Times quoted Todd Palin, "What goes around comes around".

I'm looking forward to Joe McGinniss's book.

 

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Comments

[Katzencats]

07:53 PM on 06/02/2010

I soooooo wish George Carlin & Molly Ivins had been around for $ister $arah. Molly would have had an amazing time with her, & George's opinions wouldn't have been printable - but we could watch them on YouTube. :D

Thanks, Shannyn for living this & reporting on it, so we in the lower 48 don't have to. ; )

[Womanvoter4Obama]

10:21 AM on 06/02/2010

One thing I have always hated was women playing the victim. Be a woman about it. He's not stalking you or your daughter. There is absolutely NO reason she can't continue to live her life without trying to make this man out to be some pervert. She is beyond ridiculous with her accusations and I hope he sues her for libel and slander. I really hope that legal action is taken against her.

[racerx577]

03:08 AM on 05/31/2010

I post this opinion, To Joe Mcginness, I just read the craigs list on the woods,,Joe please take this threat seriously, please,,you must get out of there. I'm very concerned for your safety,,It's not worth it Joe. Please your dealing with some serious crazies up there..the threats, the hate speech especially from the palinban camp..please joe get the hell out of there on the next plane,,you are not safe,,,this is my opinion only,,,,

[racerx577]

02:47 AM on 05/31/2010

Again, I say this woman and her ilk are scarring the beegeeses out of me. Words hurt and can lead to violence,,I know, I was a corrections officer for twenty years.. I've been in several altercations, words can also heal,,,lets start, as Burning Spear sings, who are you? Are you my friend, my neighbor or my enemy. Who are you? sarah, for a now, public person. You now have a responsibility. Your words will haunt you one day. I'm sorry for you. I'm saddened by the damage you are doing now, and in the future. America is not a better place with your hatefull speech,,,lee atwater comes to my mind..Sarah you should meet my two kids, 22 and 20 I believe in all my heart, the world is a better place with them here. Sarah listen to the children of america. they will teach all you need to know, to grow, also make friends with my mentor Arianna Huffington, Her politics were to the right at one time, but, not anymore. People can grow and change. Nothing in America moves forward with the republican party of no. Despite them, we as a people must push ahead, for, peace, ending racism, corporate responsibility, american rights should be, health care, a job, free education, thanks for letting me vent 15 fans now, thanks you are my friends...

[Aquinnah1]

05:42 AM on 05/29/2010

Definitely a next-door matchup made in hell. Here are a few more (hypothetical) pairings that would be fun to watch if the wrong people moved in next door to each other: www.eightfits.blogspot.com

[greymom]

01:59 AM on 05/29/2010

The irony is that he will sell 5 times as many books as he would have without the publicity. It goes on my Amazon wish list as soon as it is published.

[ywcachieve]

03:03 PM on 05/29/2010

She has been the best publicity for the book, McGinniss could ever have had..LOL I might not have heard about it at first. But now, I certainly will read it.

[Mr Universe]

03:56 PM on 05/28/2010

I'm not certain how renting a house next to chez Palin would be of any use for empirical research for a book. I am certain, however, that it's a great way to drum up PR in anticipation of publication by creating a lot of chatter on the internets and other media.

I might be a little creeped out about it myself. But then, I don't really have anything to hide nor do I live in cognitive dissonance land.

[joyce2]

05:42 PM on 05/31/2010

He can keep all those threats and use them in his book to show how she uses the people who believe in her to incite violence. Along with the story about the released convicts,addicts and she did nothing then but now she does It is really laughable

[corrai]

11:34 AM on 05/28/2010

Kind of strange how Sarah Palin describes her skimpy outfit she wore outside on after learning Joe McGinniss rented the house next door on her Facebook page. But then wants to start talking about how concerned she is now for her kids with this man, or as she puts it, "stalker", living next door. The man is a respected journalist, I doubt very seriously he had any intention of hanging outside, or staring from behind closed curtains, ogling her children! Just another pathetic attempt by Sarah Palin to drag her children into the spotlight and act like they are the ones being harassed somehow!

[CTtransplant]

12:40 PM on 05/28/2010

She's just looking for more publicity/attention. That's what she does.

[Ellde]

09:01 PM on 05/28/2010

As you state Corral, kind of strange! Were was Palin living in 2005-2009? It's stated in the article that the previous people were men recently released from prison who were recovering addicts. Was there any concern then for her children? Were there any outcries then?

[jdevans]

10:55 AM on 05/28/2010

Seems Sarah Palin's read Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" and took to heart the line "Good fences make good neighbors", not realizing that it was being said by the moronic neighbor who parroted his father's saying despite there being no need of a wall.

Here's the text of the poem. http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html

[Morrisminor24]

09:50 AM on 05/28/2010

I may lean to the right around here, but Sarah Palin is an utter disgrace. The only things more contemptible then she is are the legions of Palindrones and FOX News which is now her campaign manager.

[Freesia2]

09:38 AM on 05/28/2010

I was just reading at the blog Palingates. They had an update. It seems that Joe is the one with stalkers. He's gotten a death threat in the Anchorage Craig's List. This is the screen capture that the website linked - and I imagine (hope) that it's being investigated and taken down from Craig's List:

http://anchorage.craigslist.org/rnr/1760954852.html

Joe McGinnis is going to need security. Palin's supporters are bad news. I hope he is taking precautions. She attracts some really unhinged people.

[siamao]

01:14 PM on 05/28/2010

You must have been reading some of them on this thread!

[CTtransplant]

01:33 PM on 05/28/2010

Thanks for the link! Checked it out...and it does sound like Palin or one of her supporters...really sad that people actually post this kind of junk on Craigslist!

[siamao]

10:56 PM on 05/28/2010

CTtransplant, I read it, too, and it's just bizarre. Someone is taking poetic license
with Robert Frost's poetry, and as far as I'm concerned, that alone is blasphemy.

[AbeMartin]

09:02 AM on 05/28/2010

"The Palins themselves rented the home McGinnis is staying in for six months in 2009, but weren't interested in purchasing it. They didn't want to spend the money."

I hope that Mr. McGinniss hires Servpro to do a basement-to-roof cleaning including fumigation for whatever the Palin's left behind.

[ipogo]

08:49 AM on 05/28/2010

After reading your piece I decided to look up some famous quotes on fences. I thought the following was the most appropriate one.

Fear is the highest fence.
Dudley Nichols

I think Ms. Palin has been building THAT fence for the entire nation, ever since she hit the national scene.

[rowf]

11:29 PM on 06/01/2010

here's one I read somewhere - be ye man or be ye woman, be ye gone or be ye comin' - be ye early or be ye late, donna forgit to shut the gate! Hope Joe keeps his gate closed because I'm afraid the Palin's are a comin'.

[Susanmg]

08:28 AM on 05/28/2010

Barry Switzer: "Some people are born on third base and grow up thinking they hit a triple." I think Palin was born on home plate!

And is she is SO worried about her kids and their privacy, why did she jump on a jet and head to DC for the NRA speech yesterday, just one day after she feigned outrage again? I guess she really needed the money, so she's sacrificing her kids' needs for her kids' needs. Also.

[siamao]

01:17 PM on 05/28/2010

Oh, no! Joe McGinniss take cover. Now, she's gonna mobilize the whole NRA to
help protect her against "the stalker." Scar-eee!

[Lawrence Byerly]

07:21 AM on 05/28/2010

The fence is fine as long as it keeps her inside and out of the lower 48.

[Libgirl746]

12:18 PM on 05/29/2010

I posted almost the same sentiment yesterday and you are hereby fanned.

[joyce2]

05:55 PM on 05/31/2010

Too funny LOL