Well I never knew you could not buy or rent a house near Sarah Palin. I never knew that it was illegal to research Sarah Palin - one of the most interesting political figures to hit the Continental USA in a very long while.
I’ve gotta wonder though; if Sarah Palin did not know who Joe McGinniss was before he moved next door to her home, would she be complaining so hard about him. And what about the poor neighbors of Sarah Palin who have had to tolerate her family and all the press and attention her politics has brought to their neighborhood. How many of them are complaining about her being in their neighborhood. Has it even occurred to Sarah that the reason that house was available for rent at $1500 could be because prospective renters probably shied away from renting a home next to her.
What better place to observe and study a figure you want to write about than to rent a cheap house next door. I wonder why Sarah didn’t buy the property with all the money she made giving speeches and on her book. That way, she can control who gets to live in it. Bet she’s cursing herself for not think about that.
I’m not fan of Palin, but if you can’t understand why someone might be a little creeped out by a person renting a house next door to you to facilitate writing a book about you, then I don’t think there’s anything to debate here.
If you just want to bitch about Palin, there’s been a thread about this in the Pit for over a week.
He found a cheap house that no one else rented with 6-bedrooms overlooking a lake and rented it. Exactly what is wrong about that? What is creepy about that? What is disgusting and dishonest in my opinion is trying to make a very well known author into this creep and evil person because he moved into a great deal of a house next door to her.
Why did she not buy the house to control who moves in next door? Since when did it become a crime to move next door to the subject of your book?
There’s nothing creepy about it. McGuinness was offered the place by the owner, who was pissed because the Palins owed her money and wouldn’t pay her. McGuinness didn’t go looking for the place, and took it not to spy on the palins, but because he could get it a lot cheaper than paying for a hotel.
The owner also turned down better paying offers from tabloids that really did want to use the vantage point for surveillance and photography of the Palin residence.
The only people who have performed in a creepy manner have been the Palins who took it upon themselves to trespass on McGunness’ property, verbally assault him and take pictures of him standing on his own deck (looking away from them, by the way).
It’s also creepy and insidious that this woman is so cavalier in dropping completely groundless insinuations about McGuinness trying to spy on her (especially with her suggestions that he’s perving on her children), and that her fans so easily slop it all up as Gospel truth.
Incidentally, before McGuinness, the property was a halfway house for convicts and addicts. Sarah didn’t seem to have a problem mowing the lawn and shaking her ass for convicts, nor did it appear to bother her that they might be looking at her kids.
The guy is writing a book about her. It would creep me out if I had a guy living next door to me who was writing a book about me. YMMV.
But like I said, if all you guys want to do is bitch about Palin, there’s a Pit thread wide open for that purpose. We’re only a half dozen posts in, and we’ve already got two strawman statements about the legality of the situation.
She’s addicted to the spotlight and needs it always on her. Seems like so far she’s spying on him, not the other way around. Anyway, Our Lady Of Perpetual Victimhood will not forgive, forget, or not broadcast any slight, be it real or imagined.
I don’t really understand why you seem to be whining worse than she is. Why would it creep you out that someone writing a book about you was living next door to you? If available, what better place could there be? Is the purpose of her whining so loudly to get him to move out? What exactly is the reasoning for her loud complaints on facebook and fauxnews?
On that note, I’ll let you and your fellow Palin bashers have all the fun you want. And, of course, you’re giving her exactly what she wants-- more attention. Buh-bye.
John, I’m really asking, since you seem to be so bothered about it; what would be so wrong about living next door to a person you are writing about? If you could write a book about Sarah Palin and a house was available next door to her, would you not rent it?
She’s also a control freak and a narcissist, so she can’t abide not having control of who lives next door to her, or might even dare to gaze at a lake she has decided is her personal property.
She also REALLY can’t abide people saying or writing critical things about her, especially if they’re true.
Want to talk about “creepy?” Check out the last line of this editorial in the local Wasilla newspaper.
McGuinness should really take some precautions for his own safety. These are some very sick people he’s messing with.
He should probably get a restraing order to keep the Palins off his property, and stop them from trying to spy on him.
In a popular blog about Palin and the whole politics issue (was it Mudflats?) there were some comments about the Palins and their family life. Not the tabloid crap, but suggestions that the reason there was a “problem” was simple - when Sarah went off to the state capital for governor business, during her frequent absences the kids were farmed out to various relatives and friends. (Presumably now she can afford a nanny? Who knows).
As a result, the kids go minimal supervision, and did what kids do. I don’t want to suggest they are horrible kids - I lived in a small town, and drunk partying, drugs, sex, and little 9-month oops, annoying low class boyfriends who post “I’m a red-neck!” on their facebook, or joining the military to get “cleaned up” are pretty much a standard part of most modern teen life.
If you were a strong spokesperson for “core family values” it would be annoying and a little intimidating to realize the guy planning to write a book about you might be able to suveil your family life and compile a travelogue of how often you are home, how often you take the kids with you for “family values” quality time, etc. You can’t even have a quiet time in the backyard without imagining the guy on the deck next door noting “she played frisbee but couldn’t throw straight…” or “the baby cries all night”.
OTOH, all in all her kids turned out as good as most kids in the country; if she weren’t pushing the wrong (IMHO) politics, I would have a lot of sympathy for her. It’s not easy running a family and doing something important like governor or VIP. Most such people have a wife at home to take care of things, but her hubby does not seem interested in the stay-home-and-bake-cookies job.
I’d want to see a credible cite for that claim before accepting it as the gospel truth. So far, all I’ve found are a bunch of undocumented claims on the 'net. Additionally, even if the owner genuinely does believe that the Palins owe her money, I’d want to know the precise circumstances before concluding that there is any malfeasance involved. Why not take this matter to court, for example, where it can be adjudicated more fairly?
Moreover, even if the Palins do indeed owe money, it’d still be creepy to have a next door neighbor scrutinizing you for the sake of writing a book (assuming that this is indeed the author’s intent).
That’d be a good argument if the person in question didn’t really want to get paid – or if this person didn’t believe he had a case.
Of course, it’s entirely possible that the neighbor in question is just being spiteful – IF this story has any merit to it. Like I said, I’d rather withhold judgment until the details have been confirmed by some reliable source.
From her point of view, it’s pretty invasive of her privacy. Would you want some asshole writing yet another character assassination about you and/or your family to move in next door? Want them to see you going out to get the paper in your robe? Keeping notes on who visits your home? Watching you drink a beer after mowing the grass?
John Mace is right. This thread is just more Palin bashing.
Actually, this thread seems to be about the baseless Mcginniss bashing done by Palin and her family. Do you have anything at all to say about the way she has invaded his privacy, what with the spying photography and nasty accusatory blogging?
No it isn’t. At all. Not unless you think the per se act of living next door to somebody is a de facto invasion of their privacy.
So far, the ony ones that have crossed any lines seem to be the Palins themselves(well, that and the local paper suggesting that the Palins should kill him).