Right on the nose. Wasilla has zero zoning restrictions. For $5 you can get a permit to build any damn thing you want. If you saw the main road through town, that fact would be instantly apparent: it’s one of the ugliest towns in America with one of the best views.
But instead she has managed to give the guy extra publicity. No one who thought her wonderful was going to buy the book anyway. The people who were going to buy his book - as a respected author - were going to buy it anyway. Now the people who want to read dirt will buy it, even if the author puts no dirt in it because Sarah is off implying it will be full of gossipy goodness.
This seems typical of her publicity smarts. She goes for the reaction in her base - who she already has. But convinces no one in the middle that they should be moving more to her side.
Pussy cat?
She’s gonna need a mirror to see around the bristols.
Okay, I just thought of this, and I’m posting it here to see if I’m right eventually.
I think it would be fucking HILARIOUS if McGinniss moved to Alaska to write a book about Palin, but the book was actually only about what it was like to live next to her for these 5 months.
So the book would start out with Palin writing about him on Facebook, implying he is a pedophile, etc. Then McGinniss could document the reactions he gets from people for being her neighbor, how the Palin’s treat him when they actually interact (if at all), etc.
I mean, think about how brilliant it would be to simply create a situation you know will inflame a seriously deranged and unbalanced person, and then just watch them (and their deranged and unbalanced friends, family, supporters, whatever) react to it. It’ll be a whole new form of literature: Reality Books.
If she thought that would reduce sales of his book, she’s dumber than I thought she was – and that’s saying something.
You know, that would actually be great, as long as it was funny without being snarky … I might even buy it [I would have to read a sample chapter to make sure it isnt snarky though.]
Scenario C: Palin screwed the neighbor who owns the property, so she intentionally sought out the author as a tenant.
BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAaaaaaaa omfg that’s hilarious! 
Hell, she’s giving him a whole 'nother book to write. If I were him, I would build a 15 foot high platform—and put a deck on top of that. Have a war of dueling spite fences and write about it.
Jeezopete, I’m sure nobody else in the history of the world has stood on a back deck that OVERLOOKS ANOTHER YARD ZOMG and actually, you know, LOOKED into that yard.
o_O
She’s a moron.
That’s what I was thinking – build a giant tower with a crow’s nest. Whatever they do, just keep making something higher. Drive them crazy.
We have a deck that overlooks neighbors’ yards. One of them is paranoid about it and mentions it everytime we’re in the same room. If I want to look at someone’s wrinkled old ass, I’ll look over my shoulder at the mirror in the bathroom.
Well, yeah, maybe, but you don’t have “Property of Hells Angels, San Berdoo Chapter” tattooed on yours. I’m assuming.
Word dat. See it here: the strip mall and the wilderness.
Wait, you have neighbors actually going around with bare asses in the YARD? In Alaska?!? My, you northerners must be a hardy bunch.
Eh, the too-brief northern summer sun? I’m not sure exactly where she lives, but they should have at least 18 hours of sunlight every day this time of year.
No, we live in Oregon now. We got tired of freezing our asses off. That photo is of the more attractive end of the town. The rest of it is truly hideous.
Apparently the neighbor sought out the author:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Palin_neighbor_sought_McGinniss_as_tenant.html?showall
From the story it seems that Palin had the neighbor do some renovations but then failed to pay up.
Joe needs one of these. Let’s see Sarah try to build a tall enough fence.
Hmmmm…I’m not sure I’d use the term “hardy”. Crazy comes to mind, especially for those that ride their bikes to work mid-winter. But in the summer, the Anchorage bowl and the Valley are actually really nice and hot (unless it’s one of those rainy summers).
And yes, Wasilla is ugly. If you think the main strip is ugly, you should see some of the subdivisions. As chefguy said, there are almost no zoning regulations, so someone can live in a connex if they want (and I know someone who really does live in a connex, don’t laugh) and no one, even the folks with really nice houses nearby, can do anything about it.
Palmer now…cute little town.