McGinniss is just doing his job, Sarah (Worcester Telegram)

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Dianne Williamson
dwilliamson@telegram.com

If you listen to Sarah Palin and her somewhat hysterical supporters, you'd think her new neighbor was armed with a pistol instead of a pen.

On Fox News, the pundits have dubbed author Joe McGinniss a stalker, a creep and a threat to Sarah's family. An apoplectic Glenn Beck has called for a boycott of McGinniss' publishing house. And the spinmeister herself, never missing the chance to play victim, once again frames the issue as an unfair attack on her children:

“People have said already, oh, the guy, he has his freedoms too, and he can live wherever he wants to,” Sarah said. “Well, of course he can, and he can do what he wants to do. However, I think any mom, in my position, if they put themselves in my shoes, that they would feel the same way. You do your thing, you keep your distance, and you better leave my kids alone.”

Of course, there's no indication that McGinniss has any designs on Sarah's precious and politically expedient children. But he is writing a book about their mother. And when an opportunity fell in his lap to rent the house next door to his subject, he took it. He's a reporter. He goes where the story is. But I trust he has no interest in catching Sarah mowing the lawn in her underwear.

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Sarah Palin Welcomes New Next-Door Neighbor: ‘Scathing’ Journo Joe McGinniss (Mediaite)

Cover of The Selling of the President

by Glynnis MacNicol
Mediaite
May 25th, 2010

I have to imagine that when legendary (“scathing”) political writer Joe McGinniss (The Selling of the President) landed a book deal with Random House last fall to pen a “investigative narrative of Sarah Palin’s significance as both political and cultural phenomenon and as an embodiment of the contradictory forces that shaped Alaska as it moved into its second half-century as a state” he did not take into consideration Sarah Palin’s Facebook page. Or maybe he did and this is a part of a secret, ingenious, PR campaign. Either way, Sarah Palin says ‘Welcome.’ Actually, she says: “Hi, neighbor! May I call you “Joe”?

McGinniss has apparently rented the house next door to Palin’s in Wasilla, Alaska in order to research his new book, and has been taking the view from over the fence; something Palin does not fail to make sound slightly creepy. This is how Palin greeted him on her Facebook page:

Spring has sprung in Alaska, and with this beautiful season comes the news today that the Palins have a new neighbor! Welcome, Joe McGinniss!

Yes, that Joe McGinniss. 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.

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