# Latest Sarah Palin idiocy: Oh noes, I have neighbors! How awful!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 26, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810 "2010-05-26T13:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/81 "2010-05-26T19:55:33Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > This Tea Party Libertarian thing gets more fascinating by the hour, when a person who owns property can’t rent to another person without clearing the resume of the renter with the neighbors. The guy has the right to live wherever he wants - that’s not at issue. I’m just saying he’s probably an asshole. An asshole I am likely to agree with when his book comes out, but still an asshole for being needlessly provocative in this manner. PLEEEEEEAAAASSSSEEE can we get past this so I can stop being on Sarah Palin’s side? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/82 "2010-05-26T20:02:47Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Do either of you have any evidence to show that McGinniss is actually writing a book about her? > > Or are you just jumping to conclusions without actually knowing what in hell’s going on? This why I’m wondering why I ignored my personal rule on staying out of these political bullshit arguments. I make a statement about the obvious and some shit-for-brains political bulldog starts jumping my ass about “jumping to conclusions”. Do me a favor **Snowboarder Bo** and indulge ol’ **Bubbadog** just one time in your life. When the bus is bearing down on you and it’s about 20 feet away and you decide not to jump to the conclusion that it’s going to hit you? Please just run as fast as you can in a perpendicular direction. Do it for me and my crazy ass “jumping to conclusion” mind. I’ll feel a bit better knowing I saved a life even though that feeling will be tempered by my interference in Darwin’s process. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/83 "2010-05-26T20:09:48Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Dear Ms. Palin, > It’s called a fence. Look it up. > Sincerely, > P-bun Already been done. They’ve turned the place into a gated estate and built a 6,000 sqft structure on the grounds for reasons unknown. Speculation is that its uses will be multi-purpose, including a TV studio set (probably so she won’t have to fly south for those vapid FOX pronouncements), a hangar for Todd’s plane, etc. There are worse things to use your money for, and given her notoriety, I’m sure she doesn’t want random people wandering around her property. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/84 "2010-05-26T20:16:27Z")
However lame or not lame it is for this guy to move next door to SP, I cannot believe this line has gone unremarked: [QUOTE=Sarah Palin, from OP] Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole? [/QUOTE] She accuses him of looking into her 9-yo daughter’s bedroom. Wow - why not just come out and accuse him of being a pedophile? Could she possibly be more slimy? I don’t see how. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/85 "2010-05-26T20:17:01Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Already been done. They’ve turned the place into a gated estate and built a 6,000 sqft structure on the grounds for reasons unknown. And yet, according to Sarah, the tenant of the rental property next door can get “about 15 feet away on the neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window.” Her bad. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/86 "2010-05-26T20:18:27Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Sorry, but posting this so hot on the heels of Palin’s Facebook posting is just too suspect for me to give it any credence without a cite. It appears that the Wiki quote, while ridiculous sounding has some truth to it. He is writing a book about her and it is going to be published next year. > **[Access Restricted](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/7766319/Sarah-Palins-unauthorised-biographer-moves-in-next-door.html)** "However, his publishing house, Broadway Books, released a statement. It reads, in part: "McGinniss is the author of Going to Extremes, a classic book about Alaska, and his work-in-progress returns him to the 49th state to examine Sarah Palin’s significance as both a political and cultural phenomenon and as an embodiment of the contradictory forces that shaped Alaska as it moved into its second half-century of statehood. “Well regarded for his in-depth, up-close reporting, Mr. McGinniss will be highly respectful of his subject’s privacy as he investigates her public activities,” the statement says." ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/87 "2010-05-26T20:21:15Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > This why I’m wondering why I ignored my personal rule on staying out of these political bullshit arguments. > > I make a statement about the obvious and some shit-for-brains political bulldog starts jumping my ass about “jumping to conclusions”. > > Do me a favor **Snowboarder Bo** and indulge ol’ **Bubbadog** just one time in your life. When the bus is bearing down on you and it’s about 20 feet away and you decide not to jump to the conclusion that it’s going to hit you? Please just run as fast as you can in a perpendicular direction. Do it for me and my crazy ass “jumping to conclusion” mind. I’ll feel a bit better knowing I saved a life even though that feeling will be tempered by my interference in Darwin’s process. Nice. I ask for evidence, and you come back with insults. Still not convincing me you know what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/88 "2010-05-26T20:37:03Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Nice. I ask for evidence, and you come back with insults. Still not convincing me you know what you’re talking about. You still don’t get it. Here let me help you. When the bus is moving at 50 miles an hour and its ten feet away from you and coming right at you - YOU ARE GOING TO BE HIT. I most definably could be wrong about that. It might miss you. But any person that thinks this scenario requires further proof as to the possible outcome has such a narrow viewpoint of the situation that I would feel very comfortable labeling them as a shit-for-brains example. If Jennifer Anniston finds a nice quiet little cabin in a somewhat sparsely populated area and a writer who writes about Hollywood celebrities rents the place next to her ------- Whaddaya think? — he’s on vacation? ----- he stumbled upon the place?—just a reeeely biggoroony coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/89 "2010-05-26T20:47:41Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > And yet, according to Sarah, the tenant of the rental property next door can get “about 15 feet away on the neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window.” > > Her bad. It’s not like this is the first time she’s ever made [such spurious accusations](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/12/2009-06-12_alaska_gov_sarah_palin_wont_over_david_letterman.html). > [@](#): > > In a sharply worded response to the off-color remarks, a Palin spokesperson said earlier this week that “it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman,” a veiled suggestion that he couldn’t be trusted around teen girls. > > Asked Friday to explain the statement, Palin dug her claws in. > > “Hey, take it however you want to take it,” she shot back. “It is a comment that came from the heart that Willow, no doubt, would want to stay away from David Letterman after he made such a comment. And you can interpret that however you want to interpret it.” She’s the very definition of a loopy cunt. (I can call non-users cunts, no? If I’m out of line, please let me know, mods.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/90 "2010-05-26T20:56:28Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > You still don’t get it. Here let me help you. When the bus is moving at 50 miles an hour and its ten feet away from you and coming right at you - YOU ARE GOING TO BE HIT. I most definably could be wrong about that. It might miss you. But any person that thinks this scenario requires further proof as to the possible outcome has such a narrow viewpoint of the situation that I would feel very comfortable labeling them as a shit-for-brains example. > > If Jennifer Anniston finds a nice quiet little cabin in a somewhat sparsely populated area and a writer who writes about Hollywood celebrities rents the place next to her ------- Whaddaya think? — he’s on vacation? ----- he stumbled upon the place?—just a reeeely biggoroony coincidence? FAIL I can see the bus. It IS coming at me. Those are facts. We can see that McGinniss lives next door to Palin. That’s the only fact in evidence. Here, I’ll use your own bus analogy, but this time I’ll keep it parallel to the actual events under discussion: I’m in the middle of the road. A bus is parked 50 feet away, pointed straight at me. You start screaming at me to get out of the road before I get hit by the bus. I ask you if the bus is moving. You scream “IT DOESN’T MATTER YOU FOOL, IT’S HEADED RIGHT AT YOU! WHERE ELSE COULD IT POSSIBLY GO???” I ask you again if the bus is moving. You begin to rant about how stupid I am for not seeing the obvious. There’s your accurate analogy. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/91 "2010-05-26T21:00:16Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > It’s not like this is the first time she’s ever made [such spurious accusations](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/12/2009-06-12_alaska_gov_sarah_palin_wont_over_david_letterman.html). What’s funny though is that little Willow really is a teenage hellraiser. So making jokes about her less than pure life might be a reality the next time Palin makes a run at the presidency. [http://gawker.com/5506959/how-small-town-high-school-drama-could-destroy-sarah-palin](http://gawker.com/5506959/how-small-town-high-school-drama-could-destroy-sarah-palin) ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/92 "2010-05-26T21:07:01Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I ask you again if the bus is moving. You begin to rant about how stupid I am for not seeing the obvious. SHIT DUDE IT’S GONNA JUMP THE CURB GOGOGOGOGOGOGO Stupid caps filter; from hell’s heart I spit at thee. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/93 "2010-05-26T21:36:09Z")
So which of the two, McGinniss or Palin, has posted a picture of the other on their FB page? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/94 "2010-05-26T21:36:40Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > SHIT DUDE IT’S GONNA JUMP THE CURB GOGOGOGOGOGOGO > > Stupid caps filter; from hell’s heart I spit at thee. Pfft. Like I care; I’m out in the street. Good luck, sidewalkers! ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/95 "2010-05-26T22:17:07Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > The guy has the right to live wherever he wants - that’s not at issue. I’m just saying he’s probably an asshole. An asshole I am likely to agree with when his book comes out, but still an asshole for being needlessly provocative in this manner. > > PLEEEEEEAAAASSSSEEE can we get past this so I can stop being on Sarah Palin’s side? Yeah, ASSUMING he wants to spy on her, he’s an asshole. But what in the hell does your neighbor see that’s worth writing a book about. Welcome, Sarah Palin, to the world where not everyone likes their neighbor. Until he peeks in Piper’s bedroom, just chill. Even I respect my batshit crazy neighbor enough not to bitch about him on my facebook page - and I have maybe 40 friends. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/96 "2010-05-26T22:19:50Z")
Wait wait wait… She’s outside mowing the lawn in shorts and a tank top? And the creepy neighbor guys is hanging out on his patio checkin’ her out? This is news? Hell, I’d set up a keg and call my buddies over… ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/97 "2010-05-26T23:07:36Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > FAIL > > I can see the bus. It IS coming at me. Those are facts. > > We can see that McGinniss lives next door to Palin. That’s the only fact in evidence. > > Here, I’ll use your own bus analogy, but this time I’ll keep it parallel to the actual events under discussion: I’m in the middle of the road. A bus is parked 50 feet away, pointed straight at me. You start screaming at me to get out of the road before I get hit by the bus. I ask you if the bus is moving. You scream “IT DOESN’T MATTER YOU FOOL, IT’S HEADED RIGHT AT YOU! WHERE ELSE COULD IT POSSIBLY GO???” I ask you again if the bus is moving. You begin to rant about how stupid I am for not seeing the obvious. > > There’s your accurate analogy. SCORE But only if - 1 - the bus runs over people for a living 2 - the bus is usually parked over a 1000 miles away 3 - the bus has been identified as one that wants to run over you 4 - the bus driver’s name is Opal ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/98 "2010-05-27T00:47:07Z")
The thing is, moving next door, even while writing a book, is not creepy unless he actually does something to violate the Palins’ privacy. From what **Chefguy** says, it sounds like she also might be exaggerating (suprise surprise) the proximity of the two properties and the ability of the neighbors to actually see anything. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/99 "2010-05-27T00:50:16Z")
I just went to Palin’s FB page and checked out the photo and I gotta ask: that’s 15 feet away? Are you fucking kidding me? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810/100 "2010-05-27T01:06:34Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The thing is, moving next door, even while writing a book, is not creepy unless he actually does something to violate the Palins’ privacy. > > From what **Chefguy** says, it sounds like she also might be exaggerating (suprise surprise) the proximity of the two properties and the ability of the neighbors to actually see anything. It seems she put in a gate across the driveway, so I may have misspoke about a fence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sarah-palin-idiocy-oh-noes-i-have-neighbors-how-awful/540810.md?page=6)