I’m not one to dump on Sarah Palin over every little thing, but this one struck me as an impressively stupid and self-centered use of the victim card. And it’s right from her Facebook page.
But most of her FB post seems to be stuff that she’d be able to get riled up about, no matter who moved into the house next door:
Well, if you don’t want neighbors looking into your backyard, then maybe you should just buy the house next door. You’ve made a shitload of money since you decided that governing wasn’t what you were cut out to do.
Oh yeah: according to WaPo reporter/blogger Dave Weigel, the “family’s swimming hole” that Palin refers to is actually Lake Lucille, and not some unnamed, semiprivate body of water.
She’s such a poor writer that I don’t quite follow her complaint.
If she’s complaining that the new neighbor is staring at her like he was Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window, she’s got a legitimate gripe. But if her complaint is that the man is standing on his deck, and it’s the deck that overlooks her property… yeah, I’m right there with the OP.
She’s an idiot. Instead of complaining in her blog, she should have waved to her new neighbour, said, “Hi, Joe – I’m Sarah – but I guess you probably know about me already,” and then invited him over for afternoon tea, or barbecue, or whatever they do in Alaska. As a wise person once said, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
A 21st century woe is me; I’ve made myself a celebrity but I’m not rich enough to live in seclusion and ohnoes, the neighbor might write unflattering things! Whatever shall I do? I know! Post a whiny screed on my Facebook, that’ll solve my problems!
I have about as much sympathy for Sarah as I do a mosquito. I do feel badly for her children, though. They shouldn’t have to live under the close scrutiny of a “neighbor” who may have plans to surveil them because of who their mother happens to be.
Heh - I am not rich at all and yet I have no neighbors in the back that can look in my yard. How did I do this amazing feat, you ask?
Well. I rented a house from a club and they only hold their meetings behind me once a week and a few events in the summer. On the left, I have a fence. On the right, a huge distance - the entire club’s property, plus the driveway - between me and the next house.
Would you look at that? I’ve got it better than Palin.
I hate the SD. It’s actually making defend Sarah Palin.
A writer moving in next to his intended subject is just creepy. I’d be irritated too. For what legitimate reason related to writing could he possibly need to do that? Follow her around in public as she (inevitably) says asinine things, fine. But check into the local hotel and catch her on the way to work.
Anything but blind stupidity to rule out that he didn’t?
Get real. If one was a writer,known to be writing a book on a public figure, and they moved thousands of miles to rent property that just happened to be next to their subject, would anyone on the face of this earth think that was a coincidence?
If Palin is elected President will she put a little heart over the “i” in her name when she signs bills? her writong is like nails on a chalh board, it’s even worse than listening to her. I wouldn’t mind seeing her sun vath naked, though
ETA: Left my spelling errors in to atone for my sins
OK, I have to say that I woudl hate to have someone writing about me and living next door. I think it’s creepy too. I have no sympathy for SP, but her children do deserve to be able to squabble int he living room or back yard without it’s being recorded for posterity.
And even though he may well be a man of integrity who only choses to publish information related to SP as it relates to her work and public life, she has no way of being sure of that int he mean time. It would be a very long wait full of fear and uncertainty about wht that book might say.
Mind you, her housekeeper or paper boy could also write a book some day, and she wouldn’t have been forwarned to eb careful inf ront of them. . .
This is why I have no desire for power or fame. I’ll settle for money and influence, thank you!
Unless there is some evidence that he’s actually trying to spy on her or is violating her privacy, there’s nothing creepy here.
Palin is engaging in her standard tactic of making herslf a victim and demonizing a journalist who has written critical things about her. I don’t see anything in this story to indicate that McGuinness has done one thing to her that crosss any legal or ethical line, but, as far as her fans are concerned, he is now going to be a creepy pervert whose reporting they can all disregard.
What she’s doing to him is far more unethical and disgusting than him having the nerve to rent a house next door to her.
